On the morning of February 4, 1997, Landen took Ben and 10 cavalry to arrive at the Night-Kirin City site first, and joined Neil's reconnaissance force.
A few months ago, Landen was stationed under the west wall of the city. At that time, Landen had no idea about cities in this world. He only thought that the city wall was very high and there was a mountain in the city. Now that he is back under Night-Kirin City, he has a new understanding of this former Gallop Plains pearl.
Night-Kirin City has the squareness of Landen's home city in the northern plains. Even in terms of scale, it is not inferior at all to Dragon Tooth City.
The huge city wall is a rectangle that is slightly longer from east to west and slightly shorter from north to south. The height of the city wall is about 40-50 meters. Under the snow on the current city wall are brown rattans and huge cracks. From outside the city wall, you can see the towering mountains in the east of the city. The mountains are more than ten kilometers long from north to south. There is a huge flat roof on the mountain, and a palace-style building on it.
There are traces of artificial carvings around the mountains, which look particularly like the acropolis of some cities in Landen's hometown of Europe from a distance.
During lunch, Neil began to report to Landen his experiences these days, such as the 2-3 small tribes that arrived one after another, and 3 or 4 tribes that sent envoys to ask if they could really be allowed to join.
For another example, when Neil sent people into the city for investigation, they encountered a small theft gang in the city square. These people heard about Night-Kirin City's treasure and entered from Lokirav Pass of Gallop Plains Eastern Region.
"This group of bandits is very cunning. We didn't even show up when we came in. We only attacked the cavalry alone when they split up," Neil said, getting angrier and angrier. "They wanted to scare us away. If Lan Wa and I hadn't noticed and surrounded them, they would have definitely run away."
"Scared away?"
"Yes, there are legends among other tribes that there is Ghost Queen in the city, and they don't like Barbarian entering." Neil said seriously, "All the tribes on the plain know that, if I am not Gallop Tribe, I would not dare to come in!"
"Well, this is our Gallop Family's city. Even if there are ghosts, they are my ancestors and will not attack us." Landen looked very calm on the surface, but felt extremely guilty in his heart.
The theft gang consisted of one Junior Knight, 2 Knight Apprentice and 2 Mana-Wielder. They carried some dry food and a vague Night-Kirin City map, and stole some decorations from the Royal Palace.
"What do you think of these guys?" Neil knew that selling this gang to other tribes as slaves as usual would definitely not work, but Grassland really had no other way to deal with it.
"Lock him up first and think of a solution later." Landen didn't think of what to do for a while.
"Sir? Can you leave it to me?" Pete·Bristle-Wolf on the side became interested, "I was in charge of several interrogations when I was at Bristle-Wolf City. Can I talk to them?"
Seeing how interested Pete is, Landen is naturally happy to let go.
In the afternoon, Landen took Ben Kaul to circle around the outside of Night-Kirin City. According to his estimation, the city is about 17 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers long from east to west. Even if Blaze rode Blaze at full speed, it would take him a long time to complete a circle.
The cold wind on the horseback was blowing Landen like a knife. If Blaze's cheerful pace was not carrying a certain Fire Element, which made Landen feel like the saddle was heating under him, he would have been frozen. At this moment, Landen did regret leaving the carriage to Wendy and the others.
After going around, Night-Kirin City's super scale surprised Landen even more. Landen couldn't imagine why humans could build a huge city nearly 1,000 years ago that was comparable to the super city in their previous life.
Such a huge city was built, but 1,000 years later, it is still in a feudal society, and it is a pure feudal feudal society, without even the slightest feeling of a central empire.
I recall that when I was studying in my hometown Imperial Capital, I went to the highest mountain in Imperial Capital city. It is said that it is only more than 40 meters high, and the city wall here is more than 40 meters high. If you have the civil construction ability, wouldn't it be good to build underground fortifications and a high-ceiling concrete building? It has to be piled up to form a city wall.
When I was studying in my hometown Imperial Capital, the Fourth Ring Road was only less than 20 kilometers from east to west, and the distance between the east and west of the central city in my hometown was almost the same. Can such a large area really be managed by one Count?
Of course, the huge city wall is not full of ruins. In addition to the acropolis-like Royal Palace Mountain roofs, if you are further away from the city wall, you can still see the roofs of many high-rise buildings in the city, some of which are Magic Tower and Ruins. There are also some huge roofs like arenas, temples, or similar palaces that are vaguely visible.
Why did he build a city of such a large scale but still end up destroying the country? Did the beast Human Race really use a mecha to attack the city?
What Landen doesn't understand the most is that it was not difficult to conquer the entire Southern Gallop Plains by himself. Why, after so many years, has Human Race never recovered the entire Gallop Plains?
With doubts, Landen asked Ben·Kaul during dinner in the evening.
"You really have a lot of questions. The first thing I can answer you is that the peak of Yeqi City once had more than a hundred magic towers. These magic towers were all built in the city. The tallest one is the legendary magic tower, and then the Great Magister's."
The red flames of the bonfire on the ground could reach 2-3 meters. As Mage silently chanted, several sparks burst out, forming a square flame pattern. Landen could see that this square was a miniature Night-Kirin City map.
"In addition to these Magic Tower, the royal family, nobles and Archmage families below the royal family all have large courtyards in the city. In addition, this was once the front line of the battle between Human Race and the beast Human Race. After peace, it was also the place for trade between the two families. It is an important hub, so a large area in the city is filled with Commercial Street, Magic Tower, Magic School, Knight School and other buildings." As he stood, stars in the square were twinkling, as if to reflect his words.
"The remaining area has to be reserved for the numerous Gallop Family directly subordinate Territory Residents, palace nobles, family Knight, knights, etc., so the city is much more crowded than you think. For this reason, a number of towns have been specially built in the north of the city to accommodate the residents who come into the city every day."
"That town is called Tiantong Garden?"
"Where did you find this word?" Ben asked, confused by the sudden joke, "It is usually called Affiliated County. Back then, Night-Kirin City was in the northwest, and the largest Affiliated County had a population of 200,000."
"With so many people, what do they eat? What do they do? Isn't it easy for them to go to the toilet every day?" Landen It is difficult to imagine that under the feudal system, huge cities with millions of people could appear.
"Night-Kirin City back then could make a lot of alchemy equipment. These equipments started from Beastmen Royal Court to Imperial Capital, and then to the Elf tribe in the south will buy it. Every day, a large number of Mana-Wielder and Mana-Less enter the city and go to Alchemy Workshop or Magic Tower to engage in the production of alchemy equipment."
"In addition, you also know now that there are Iron Mine and Salt Mine on Gallop Plains. In addition to salt and iron, there are also some small-scale Mana-Conductive Metal mines. These ores are continuously sent to Affiliated County east of Night-Kirin City for rough processing, and then transported to the market in the city for sale.
Back then, Night-Kirin City, according to records, there were traces of magic reflected in the sky. The outside of the tall city wall had Magic Array for city defense, but the inside of the city wall had Magic Array to improve the magic environment., every night, the lights in the workshops, markets, and streets will illuminate the night sky." Speaking of the prosperity of Night-Kirin City back then, I couldn't help but look to the sky, as if recalling the grand scene of that year.
"So, Night-Kirin City was originally an industrial city, and there were hundreds of Archmage? Just because of a Magic Tide, it collapsed overnight?" Landen was a little confused, not knowing whether Beastmen summoned Godzilla or made a hairy mecha.