Mercenaries and Adventurers

The closer you get to the Whitestone City Wall level in the distance, the brighter the surroundings feel.

There are continuous white clouds in the sky, and it seems that those strangely shaped clouds reflect the light from the ground.

Just when Keir was thinking about whether the surrounding brightness was related to the clouds in the sky, Blood Fang frowned and glanced at the few decadent travelers who passed by the three of them.

It is said that there is something wrong with the travelers. From the moment they get close to the Baishi City Wall checkpoint, they can occasionally encounter people who seem to be fleeing on the main road they are walking at this time. They pushed old and slightly damaged trolleys, carried more or less weapons on their bodies, and led the whole family to stop and go, occasionally wanting to beg some food from the local farmers working in the fields, but they couldn't lose face When I went to ask for it, I had to stand stupidly by the edge of the field, which made the farmer's family quite nervous.

There are also some young people walking together with a few people. Although they are carrying bags with luggage and are in good health, the hesitation and confusion on their faces are too obvious. When Xueyasite looked over, several young people made eye contact with him, but they all looked dull.

"Why are they all like this?"

Bloodyaster muttered in a low voice, but Keir couldn't hear clearly, so he asked.

"You see, although there are still caravans on the road, they all set off from Montoka City to the east, and not many come back. And there are so many fleeing people, and I don't know where they will end up in the future."

Keir shrugged: "It should be the same as before. Just find a local village that you can see to settle down, build some shacks outside the village that can barely accommodate people, and then those who can work will find work, just barely Day. Nothing else but waiting."

"Waiting for what?"

Priest Batar leaned over and asked.

Kiel glanced at him: "When the war on the border of the southern province is over, no matter whether it is victory or defeat, after the end, the law and order will return, and they will go back. Where did they come from, and where do they go back. There is the land they cultivated, the crops , the house, and lost relatives and friends.”

"These are things that the western provinces cannot provide to them. Of course, not everyone will flee. I also guessed from seeing the situation here."

But Batar priest laughed at himself: "You guessed it right, many places were terrible along the way I came here. Towns kept a large number of people out, while rural areas were left to be ravaged by people from all walks of life. If you have the ability to hold The village is still tenaciously defending against any outsiders, and those who are incapable will either disperse or run away."

"There used to be many villages in many places, but now they are deserted. Only half a year after the defeat in the war last year, it has become like this. What is the reason?"

While talking, Priest Batar, who was quite happy just now, became silent and gloomy again.

The joys and sorrows of people cannot be connected, so Keir could only shrug his shoulders and verbally bless him. Although he had some guesses about this, it was just a guess.

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The more you advance to the ancient level ahead, the brighter the surrounding area will be.

At this time, there were fewer fields and villages around, but some tall stone buildings with many floors were frequently built not far from the road. Keel was curious about the tall buildings far away from the road, because from a distance, they were not built in the wild anyway.

He lowered his head slightly, and murmured in a low voice: "I long for a pair of eyes that can see far and wide, like an eagle. I long for it, please grant it to me."

After chanting, Keel vomited. This prayer was taught to him by the big bird **** in the wood carving as a reward for the previous sacrifice ceremony.

As long as he recites the above prayers while wearing this wood carving pendant, he can gain the strengthening of his eyesight for a certain period of time. The maintenance time of this ability is limited, not very long, and it can only be used a few times a day, and then the ability will enter the cooling down, and it cannot be used again until one day and one night later.

After reading in a low voice, the black light of the bird wood carving on Kiel's chest fluctuated for a moment, and then black divine power flowed through Kiel's eyes, and in a blink of an eye, it seemed like nothing happened.

But Keir's vision changed drastically at this moment.

Vision, the most commonly used sense for humans, has been enhanced.

This is a special feeling that will never be forgotten for a lifetime after using it. Keel looked up at the buildings in the distance.

When the field of vision skipped over the neck of the blood licking grass, Kiel saw every hair clearly, and when skipping the main road sprinkled with stones, whether it was the dust on the ground or the countless stones rolling in the mud, Kiel saw them all. It's crystal clear.

Glancing over the tree trunk beside the road, Keel even noticed several furry caterpillars crawling towards the tree trunk.

They are running for their lives!

Because following them, a few big ants swinging their tentacles are following the smell of bugs after the caterpillars have crawled. For the big ants, the fluffy and slightly poisonous caterpillars are delicious food for the queen and young ants.

His eyes crossed the small fields and grass, every crop and flower in the grass, he felt that as long as he wanted to look carefully, he could see clearly.

When his sight finally fell on a stone building not far away that shouldn't have appeared here, Kiel saw many details that he had to get closer to discover.

The tall buildings are surrounded by several-meter-high fences to show their identity and stop thieves, and beyond the fence, you can see some delicate and beautiful foreign tree species that nobles would only plant for garden decoration.

This place is for the use of local nobles.

There are other similar-looking buildings around. From this point of view, they should all be the property of the nobles.

After scanning the surroundings of the tall building, Keir made a slight discovery, and then he looked at the building itself.

Only after looking at it did I find that the building itself is very strange, because it is an architectural style similar to an inverted trapezoid. The wide side faces the glowing whitestone city wall level in the distance.

The side facing away from the checkpoint is much smaller, and the doors and windows are small, unlike the style of normal buildings.

After everyone walked for a while, Keir finally came to the front of the building not far away, and then he could see what the front of it looked like.

As expected by Kiel, the tall and spacious building has many extravagances that the public can't imagine. The large glass doors and windows are only for nobles who occasionally come here to relax and play, so that they can see the ancient and bright light from the white stone city wall not far away all day long.

"Pfft. How can those who eat the products of laborers enjoy the light shining."

Taking the initiative to turn off the ability of bird sculptures that enhance eyesight, Kiel knows without guessing that other tall and strange buildings with similar shapes should be built by local nobles to appreciate the local wonders.

Those buildings are all gorgeously decorated, and the walls are specially carved with plots from some legends, and one of them even has a stone sculpture of a gargoyle-like monster standing on the top of the building. But it was not built for drainage. The drainage has its own function of drainage stone sculptures connected with the building. The few stone sculptures squatting on the roof were obviously added to show financial resources and intimidate the civilians who came over.

Unbeknownst to Keir, the building with the gargoyle stone carvings on the roof was the property of the local lord, Viscount Montoka.

And those stone carvings weren't just scaring things, they were actually very expensive magical stone puppets bought from magicians to defend important buildings owned by nobles.

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The number of similar luxury buildings on both sides of the road leading to the Baishi City Wall checkpoint gradually increased, but there were also more people wandering and fleeing on the road.

Kiel is not a hard-hearted person. He knows that a small amount of help can't solve anything. Only when the border war in the southern provinces is over, whether it is won or lost, can these refugees return to their hometowns and live in the ruins again. Rebuild your hometown from the ruins.

When the people passing by on the road saw the Batar priest, most of them would wave friendlyly, even if they were quite embarrassed at this time. Some daring refugees would come over and ask Priest Batar about the situation in Montoka City.

But after communicating with Kiel, the Batar priest knows that the city of Montoka looks prosperous and rich, but it is actually not suitable for these people who have to return home sooner or later, because there is no extra land there, and the raging wealth will swallow everyone. An ignorant person who approached them carelessly.

"Don't go to Montoka City, everything needs money there. If the situation is not good, I suggest you first settle in the surrounding villages. Most of the villages have people from our southern provinces settling outside the village. Although it is a bit chaotic , and will be looked down upon by the locals, but at least they are all from our own family, and there are job opportunities in the village, and the things there are cheap, which can fill the stomachs of the family.”

Priest Batar repeatedly spoke to the help-seeking people he met on the road.

"If it is confirmed that the situation is good, then try to go further north. There is Cavan Territory, with a large area of ​​grassland and cultivated land. Although there is no extra land, there are more job opportunities and food is easy to obtain. You can settle there, but you have to worry that some young people from the southern provinces who also came here seem to have gone astray, not only robbing our own food, but also attacking the locals."

These are what Kiir has seen and heard along the way, and he told Priest Batar, and Priest Batar also told the people of the southern provinces who had fled here.

After hearing what he said, everyone was not afraid, because compared with the southern provinces that were gradually becoming chaotic and the law and order was bad, the local situation was already very good.

Wealthy trading cities made the boys with bad stomachs give up the banditry of pinning their heads on their waistbands, and switched careers to deceiving people and stealing.

More income, less fatal to get caught.

Compared with the large number of bandits and the defeated army fleeing in the southern provinces today, there is really a big gap.

Just like that, Kiel's party of three was slowed down, and Kiel didn't care about it, because all his energy was absorbed by the ancient dwarf creature in the distance.

"That's it, that's it! The spectacular fantasy scenery of another world! It's great!"

Kiel muttered, but neither Bloodfangster nor Priest Batar found it strange, because when most people saw the Whitestone City Wall level for the first time, most of them had the same reaction as Kiel.

Because this ancient, epic and magnificent building that was built by dwarves for no one knows when it was built, and what it was built for, it just appeared in front of people's eyes.

And with bright but not glaring light, it fills every mortal's mind.

Unlike the refugees from the southern provinces who were full of concerns, Kiel's eyes were wide open at the moment, sitting on the back of a tall horse, he was watching the wonders in the distance with all his heart.

"No wonder those nobles specially built manors to appreciate them. It's really, really spectacular."

Kiel muttered to himself, and Bloodfang Stotter snorted next to him: "I just feel that those dwarves did the right thing. I can't forget the first time I came here with my caravan companions." , I look stupid. Heh, it’s almost like a goose that was beaten with a stick.”

Priest Batar also nodded: "The ancient dwarf city wall can only be so shocking when you look in the direction of the Montorka collar. When I came here for the first time a few days ago, I knelt on the side of the road alone , and even pray to this city wall, haha, I hope this pile of stones will bless the believers and villagers in our village."

The priest shook his head, as if laughing at himself who was out of his wits before.

Although Keir listened to his companions, his whole mind was actually focused on appreciating the beautiful scenery in front of him.

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The north-south mountains rise from the earth, and the mountains close to the surface are lush and green. The spring breeze blows past, and the plants have occupied all the places suitable for their growth before the arrival of summer, covering the originally cold mountain with a layer of greenery. A gentle coat.

And in the high mountains, the white color has pushed back the green that represents life, and it is not known whether the white color is real snow, or the characteristic white stone produced by this mountain range.

Of course, the large area of ​​pure white further up the mountain, and the snow-capped mountains stretching into the blue sky, are of course covered with white snow.

But even the snow-capped mountain that bravely raised its sword to the sky is much, much inferior to the seemingly low city wall at the foot of the mountain that was built by intelligent life.

Originally, the white stones sporadically protruding from the surface of the mountain range were collected by the dwarves. Some ancient magic was cast, and they gathered together forever, emitting a soft white light that can illuminate the world.

The thick pure white city wall, at least thirty meters high, connects one end to the south of the mountain pass and the other to the north of the mountain pass. It seems to connect the sunken mountains together, but in fact it has taken away all living things. Mountains of admiration and amazement.

Compared with the white stone city wall, the magnificence of nature seems to be less pure and more mediocre.

Kiel felt that every time he took a step closer, his breathing became longer than before, and the chatter of his companions beside him felt a lot lighter.

It's not an illusion. In front of such a magnificent creation, no one dared to speak loudly. Everyone held their breath and concentrated, for fear of waking up the souls living in the ancient city walls and awakening the rock giants lying here.

Not only Kiel, but the people who walked out from under the city wall, many of them saw such a creation for the first time, all lay limp on the ground. As for the few caravans approaching the city wall, people often opened their mouths and raised their heads with shocked expressions.

Keir didn't know if he was the same at this time, but he didn't care, he greedily stared at everything in front of him.

As we approached the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint, the soft light no longer shines from the sun in the sky, but is completely provided by the creation in front of us.

It seems that it is the sun here, providing all living beings with all the bright blessings needed for reproduction.

Kiel looked around, there were no trees, ponds, etc. in front of the city wall checkpoint. There are only hundreds of meters of spacious flat ground and soft lawns.

In the huge and spacious environment, human beings are extremely small.

There are many people gathered near the road leading to the checkpoint gate.

They seemed to be led by several priests of the Church of the Sun God, and bowed down to the ancient white stone city wall ~www.readwn.com~ The only noise present was probably the words of those priests.

"The great creation is the feat of the sun god! He guided the dwarves who lived here, and guided them to mine the white stone in the mountain to build such a spectacle. And after the completion of the white stone city wall, he performed the great ancient magic, so that the sun's The light shines on the earth, so that people in the world can enjoy the blessings from the light no matter day or night! Let us face the sun! Let us face the white stone city wall! Let us worship the statue of the sun god!"

As he said that, a priest took out a wooden board painting several meters high from his sleeve. On the wooden board facing the public believers, a faceless human being covered in light and with a starry sky above his head was painted on the board.

It's hard to tell if it's a man or a woman, and the height is fat or thin, because this painting of the image of a **** is constantly changing.

The image of the sun **** in the painting can be anyone imagined by the observer.

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For the rhetoric of these priests of the Church of the Sun God, Priest Batar dismissed and even felt very disgusted.

"Everyone in the area knows that the White Stone City Wall was built by the dwarves themselves a long time ago. It has nothing to do with that god. They are deceiving believers. Huh, I know what they are thinking."

"oh?"

Keir rode close to the priest and asked in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter to other gods to be able to compete with the sun, but it is unacceptable to that one. Especially it is unlikely that the local nobles will tear down this ancient white stone city wall. This is the junction of the two provinces Place! Naturally, there must be a checkpoint, city wall, or other things to separate the two places. Therefore, this method can only be used, hum, you understand."

Kiel nodded, feeling that Priest Batar was right.