Starfall 834, October 15th.
On the outskirts of the main city of Moldavia, a floating airship loaded with gifts slowly landed in an empty lift field built using magic. The turbulent airflow, accompanied by the sound of the wind element's magic hearth running, mixed the scattered dust on the ground with The frost blows away.
Since the arrival of the magic tide, the small problems such as the "insufficient pressure of the magic furnace's heart energy" that plagued the Imperial Technical Association's popularization of airships have disappeared. In the concentration of elements that are several times higher than before, even the magic power made of the cheapest materials has disappeared. The heart of the furnace can also provide enough power for a huge airship, so within half a year, not only birds can fly freely in the sky, but also steel creations belonging to humans.
The airship that had just landed had docked stably in the lift field under the instructions of the ground guides. White air columns were discharged from the pod area near the heart of the furnace, and the exquisite magic equipment inside could be heard. It gradually stops operating and discharges excess magic elements. Anyone who knows the goods will know from the smooth and noiseless sound of pressure release that this small airship, which is less than a hundred meters long, is made of the most advanced and expensive [Glorious Class] third-class aircraft without any cutting corners. generation booster furnace.
Albert Warner stepped out of the airship with the support of his servants. The wind blew the corners of his coat and swayed. The old nobleman with some gray hair held his chest, where there was a golden streak. Exquisite coat of arms.
Means the coat of arms of the Royal Ambassador of the Empire.
The seemingly old imperial ambassador refused the servant's continued support. He walked down the stairs of the airship. Albert looked around the landing field. In this empty and flat landing place, there were several other magical creations of different shapes. .
—The starlight ship of the elves in the far south, the flying fortress of the dwarves, and the ring of holy light on the holy mountain in the far sea.
It seems that I am not too late. Irrelevant thoughts flashed through the ambassador's mind. He looked at these special magical energy creations of various major forces with curiosity. Because of the coming of the magic wave, almost all forces' magical energy technology has broken through several technical barriers. and bottlenecks. The empire was also collecting information on these creations that were similar to floating airships. But before Albert could see it for long, the envoy team had been prepared. Under the guidance of the Moldavia leaders, , walking towards the main city not far away.
"Do you need a carriage for transportation, dear Ambassador?"
Before setting off, a young guide in black uniform asked respectfully: "We have already prepared, no need to mind."
"No, no need. I want to see the scenery of Moldavia along the way."
Albert politely declined the other party's kindness. He really wanted to see with his own eyes what this city that had become the center of public opinion was like. As a nobleman known for his carefulness and prudence, he clearly understood that from the details of a territory, The character of its lord can be seen in it.
Joshua Van Radcliffe, this is the target he is going to visit this time, and before meeting the young legendary powerhouse, Mr. Ambassador wants to know more information about him.
A brand new rock avenue was built between the airship lift and the main city of Moldavia. The solid rock smoothed and solidified by magic is enough to support an armored mountain dragon running wildly on it, and the small envoys are like this Walking slowly on the avenue allowed Albert to clearly observe the current situation around the main city.
—Cities are expanding.
With just a brief glance, the experienced ambassador could tell that the city was undergoing a large-scale expansion. In the open spaces around the city, many workers in strange work clothes were busy leveling the land. The ground, excavation foundations, and prototypes of roads have been specially planned by magic, which will be the prototypes of future main roads. It could be seen that one or two buildings that were constructed quickly had already repaired their skeletons. Noticing Albert's eyes, the young guide explained with a smile: "That is the knight branch of Winterfort Academy, Lord." It is said that the expansion of the city was centered on colleges, hospitals, and magic energy factories, so they were completed relatively early."
Nodding to show his understanding, Albert couldn't help but take another look at the building whose skeleton had been repaired.
How could he not know about Winterhold College, a college where Nostradamus, the president of the Imperial Royal Mage Association, serves as its president? But when will this civilian mage college also have a branch of the knight department? No, since there is a knight department, there will naturally be warriors, alchemy, theology... There may not be so many, but this definitely means that the scale of this academy, which is not favored by the nobles of the imperial capital, is much larger than that.
Is there really enough money, or is it some kind of compromise
With this news in mind, Mr. Ambassador narrowed his eyes, and not long after, he arrived at the city gate.
"hiss-"
A sudden chill swept across, and Albert shuddered and couldn't help but take a step back. Behind him, the accompanying personnel and servants were even more unbearable, and their feet seemed a little weak. The well-informed old nobleman glanced at the seemingly ordinary steel city gate in surprise. He observed the surrounding tall and solid city walls that seemed to have been renovated not long ago, and seemed to sense something.
"Our negligence, Mr. Ambassador, because this will become the inner city of the new main city, the generous lord used the keel as a beam a few days ago and asked the engineers to renovate this city wall." The young leader hurriedly sent someone He went to help the entourage who were a little unsteady, and said with a hint of apology: "I'm really sorry, because it happened recently, and we locals are used to Longwei, so I really didn't think of it..."
"...It's okay, I just lost my temper."
He took the Xingshen nose bottle from the entourage and sniffed it to calm down his shock. Albert was shocked in his heart. Although he had long known the name of the lord for slaying dragons, he never expected that he would be so extravagant as to use dragon bones to reinforce the city wall. Qiao How many dragons did Xiuya kill to have so many dragon bones
What is even more surprising is what the guide said - what does it mean that the locals are used to Longwei? Can Longwei still get used to it? ! This is the pressure released by a powerful creature at the top of the biological chain. Unless you can see giant dragons every day, how can you get used to it!
Albert Warner is one of the powerful figures in the Warner family. He has represented many forces and countries on behalf of the Northern Empire. Compared with the Mother Tree of Life of the elves in the Far South, the lava fortress of the dwarves, and the Lord of Moldavia, In fact, the city is not that impressive. Even if the city walls are reinforced with dragon bones, he can only evaluate it as luxury. But he also knows that this city used to be just the main city of an earldom.
Almost twenty years ago, when the previous generation of Northland Earls was still there, Albert also came to Moldavia once. Although the main city at that time could not be said to be dilapidated, it was definitely prosperous. The old nobles were true Unexpectedly, in just twenty years and one generation of lords, the entire city would undergo such a big change.
With emotion in his heart, Albert entered the city.
The noisy voices instantly entered the ears of everyone in the mission. The footsteps of the crowds proved the prosperity of the city. The many adventurers and newly immigrated local residents made the main city gradually become lifeless because of the approaching winter. It is full of vitality, not to mention that there are engineers renovating old buildings everywhere.
“Comprehensive renovations are underway in the main city.”
The guide took the initiative to explain, and he looked very proud of it: "Old sewers, damaged streets, Akashi lamps, and old buildings that were built more than three hundred years ago, we are renovating in an uncertain order, but the speed is very fast. If Mr. Ambassador comes back to see us in a few months, we will definitely have completed the renovation."
"It's really good."
Nodding slightly, Albert felt that the enchanted ring on his left hand was warning him - this meant that one or several magic circles were monitoring him at this time, but it was not surprising to the old nobles who had lived in the imperial capital for a long time. In this matter, as the residence of a legendary powerful man, it is normal that the main city of Moldavia is always shrouded in a magic circle.
"Then continue leading the way."
After saying this, Albert smiled: "Slow down, I want to slowly observe this city."
"Yes, my lord."
The envoy continued to move forward. Due to the very low profile, no crowd noticed this slow team of people walking on a solid granite stone path. Albert couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
How much money does it cost to expand a city? That is an astronomical figure that is enough to make even the great nobles dizzy. This kind of project will take more than ten years, or even decades, to be carried out slowly, unless the noble family that rules the city has hundreds of years of savings.
Do the Radcliffe family have this savings? Of course not, but its current ruler, Joshua, is a legendary strongman.
This beats everything.
As early as in the imperial capital, the old nobles had heard that this famous young legend had reduced a large black forest around the Great Ajax Mountains to ashes, and relocated his family cemetery on a mountain there as a moor. The new pinnacle of Davia overlooks the entire Northland, and if this kind of project is done by ordinary knights, just wiping out the monsters in the Black Forest will require hundreds or even more lives and money. There are countless more.
But it only took Joshua ten minutes to complete all the tedious work. With such great power, expanding the city was probably just a piece of cake for him.
With this thought in mind, Albert and others arrived at the surroundings of the Lord's Mansion as they walked along the way.
A large group of clergy seemed to have known the news that the envoy was coming and were waiting here.
Before Albert could ask in confusion why the church personnel were here, hundreds of amplitude magic spells fell on him.
Righteousness like a rainbow, inexhaustible heart, blessing of courage, iron will, fearless glory—such buff spells were brushed on his body, turning Albert and others into big light bulbs surrounded by various haloes in an instant.
Why
Being suddenly attacked, the somewhat bewildered Ambassador thought with great confusion.
But there is no answer.
The problem is serious, and the second half has to wait until tomorrow... This chapter will be revised later.
As a reminder, October 15th is the protagonist’s birthday.
(End of chapter)