Arcane Age

In the former Kingdom of France, almost 90% of the population lived in the countryside. Goblins, beasts, and bandits were everywhere in the wilderness. Nobles set up cards and collected taxes everywhere. The city was almost synonymous with mess.

However, with the gradual development of human civilization, especially in the past two hundred years, which has ushered in the era of population explosion, almost all wilderness in the wild has been developed into fields, and almost all goblins and beasts have completely disappeared. Roads between cities were gradually built, commercial trade became more and more developed, and more and more people changed their fate of digging in the soil, began to read and write, and entered urban life.

As one of the largest ports on the southern coast of the Kingdom of France, the Port of Toulon is home to more than 300,000 people, almost all of whom rely on commercial trade. Ships from dozens of countries and city-states pass through the Golden Sea here. dock.

The ground transportation from the Port of Toulon to other cities in the Kingdom of France is also very prosperous. Among them, the flat road leading north to the royal capital Paali is the Toulon United Chamber of Commerce, which was formed by seven large chambers of commerce and the Lord Roux of the Toulon region. A road built together by Earl Nod.

The Bonaparte Chamber of Commerce is one of these seven large chambers of commerce and has its own seat on the Toulon Port Municipal Council. Xi Wei chose to take the carriage provided by the Carriage and Horse Company under the Alfonso Chamber of Commerce, which is a professional chamber of commerce mainly engaged in transportation business.

The weather in May was gradually getting hotter. Xi Wei was wearing a light navy blue suit and a pair of black-rimmed glasses. His blond hair was neatly combed. He was holding a brown suitcase in his right hand and a suitcase in his left hand. A huge black umbrella.

Although he is now in human form, Xi Wei's appearance is still handsome and dazzling. Just standing quietly at the door of the carriage house, many people also looked at him from the flow of people coming and going on Oswell Street.

After waiting in a long queue for nearly a quarter of an hour, Xiwei finally came to the ticket window. When reshaping his body, he set his height at 1.8 meters. The ticket window was a bit too low, so he had to bend down and get closer: A carriage ticket to the royal capital Paali!

The ticket seller was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. He had begun to put on weight and his skin was very saggy. He glanced at the young and handsome Xi Wei, and he pointed impatiently at the price list hanging outside the small window.

Xi Wei gently adjusted his glasses and found the information he needed in the third row of the price list: Toulon-Paali, second-class ticket, one gold franc and seven silver soles.

Although there are several major gold coins in the Orient continent, their values ​​are almost the same, and the exchange price of gold and silver coins is basically fixed at a ratio of 1:10.

The price of a second-class ticket is obviously relatively expensive, while a third-class ticket only costs five silver soles.

Although Xi Wei wanted to experience life, he did not intend to wrong himself too much, so he bought a second-class ticket departing at the tenth magic hour in the morning and walked outside Toulon.

The north gate of Toulon is the headquarters of Alfonso Carriage Company. There are a large number of carriages parked here, and there is an unpleasant fishy smell in the air.

The earliest rise of mankind mainly relied on the extraordinary power of blood knights, and for knights, the importance of mounts is naturally self-evident.

Every bloodline knight family that has existed for hundreds of years has its own secret recipe for cultivating war horses, and the Alfonso family is no exception.

Although the horses used by Alfonso Carriage and Horse Racing are all defective products that have been selected and eliminated within the family, they still look very powerful. The carriages are very spacious, and a second-class carriage can accommodate about eight passengers.

It was already a quarter past nine when Xi Wei arrived. He handed over his ticket and was led to a carriage at the back of the convoy by a teenage servant.

There are two rows of seats in the carriage, each row can accommodate four people. Now there are only two seats in the second row. Xi Wei chose the one by the window and put the suitcase under the seat.

As soon as Xi Wei sat down, an old man next to him smiled and asked, Young man, are you going to Paali, the royal capital?

That's right! Xi Wei nodded.

The old man wore a small black bowler hat and well-fitting clothes. He looked like a gentleman at first sight.

Looking at your age, you should be a college student going to the royal capital? As early as 1456 in the Holy Calendar, the then French King Charles III built a university city on the outskirts of the royal capital Paali to cultivate various literature, commerce, art, and Talents in construction and other industries.

No, in fact, I am a writer! Xi Wei showed a kind smile: I like traveling and writing. This is my hobby and my profession!

Writer! What an elegant and cultured profession! The old man praised: Can I take the liberty to pay tribute to your masterpiece?

At this moment, a hurried figure suddenly rushed over. This was a young man with long brown hair and a sad mustache. He was thin and had sunken eyes. He looked a little depressed.

This is my ticket! After handing the green ticket to the attendant, the young man opened the curtain and stepped onto the carriage, squeezing in between Xi Wei and the old man.

He was breathing rapidly. It was obvious that the rush just now wasted a lot of his energy, but the effort was well worth it, because soon the carriage started, moved along the flat and wide avenue, passed through the North City Gate, and paid the necessary fee. Taxes and then left the port of Toulon.

This is a very large convoy, with about fifty carriages, most of which bear the sign of Alfonso's horse and carriage, and a small group of Alfonso family cavalry as escorts.

In the middle of the convoy, there are three white luxury carriages, which are so conspicuous in the convoy of almost all black carriages.

The communication between Xi Wei and the old man was interrupted. There was one more person between the two, so there was no interest in continuing the communication. The road outside Toulon was relatively flat. Xi Wei took out a book and read it with relish. got up.

The young man who got on the bus last was a bit unruly. He was very handsome, but compared to Xi Wei, he was a little lacking. He was wearing a woolen sweater and his luggage was bulging.

Somewhat curious about what book Xi Wei was reading, the young man came over, only to find that the books were full of small words, and he immediately felt dizzy.

I mean, buddy, what are you reading? The young man finally couldn't help but ask.

Xi Wei pointed the cover of the book at the questioner: Encyclopedia of French Noble Coat of Arms—Teaching You How to Identify Nobles.