The Grand Knight's Domain / Let Him Wait

Skadi nodded as well.

She didn't want Bai Ye and the swordfish to clash.

"By the way, Bai Ye, didn't we agree that you would leave this morning?" she changed the subject.

Speaking of this, Bai Ye is no longer sleepy!

"If I hadn't been tricked into drinking yesterday and was still a little dizzy, I would have come to pick you up long ago. I could even fly away on my own," Bai Ye couldn't help but complain.

I forgot to mention earlier that he and three other Abyssal Hunter have already left Lungmen and are heading towards Kazimierz.

They had originally planned to leave in the morning, but last night, Talulah had specially arranged a bonfire party for Bai Ye —yes, the Reunion Movement still retains this tradition brought from the snowy lands, and it's not just an ordinary banquet. Even the high-ranking members of the Reunion Movement are no exception.

At the banquet, Bai Ye was forced to drink quite a bit of alcohol by Yelena, Talulah, and Alina. After just one glass of wine, Bai Ye was basically in a daze and forgot everything that happened in between— Bai Ye only remembered that his Big Daddy had taken him back in the end.

Because of these troublemakers, Bai Ye slept until almost noon before returning to Lungmen and then flying towards his original destination with three Abyssal Hunter.

In fact, Bai Ye struggled for a long time before finally deciding to resist the temptation to go to Victoria.

After all, he now holds the key to the Resting Place of Kings.

All you need to do is use the key to unlock the sealed treasure trove and you can obtain the legendary Victoria national treasure, "Breath of Kings".

As Players, Bai Ye's obsession with collecting top-tier legendary treasures has kicked in again—I may not use them, but I can't be without them.

However, Bai Ye ultimately held back and did not go immediately.

It's not the right time yet.

Before his transmigration, Bai Ye had experienced the Victoria version once, and he knew that the current Resting Place of Kings was not a place that could be entered casually.

That's not a treasure vault where you can easily enter and take the treasures just by having a key. There seems to be a Gundam guarding the treasures inside, and anyone who trespasses may be hunted down by the Gundam.

Bai Ye wasn't afraid of Gundam, but he was worried that the noise it would cause would alert the others in Victoria. Bai Ye's original plan was to sneak into the tomb where the kings were buried and then take the treasure without anyone noticing, but making too much noise would be inconvenient.

Now is not the time to enter.

Finally, after the situation in Londinium became unstable and everyone's attention was drawn to other things, they went inside to steal the treasures.

Bai Ye was very patient. Now that he had the key, he wasn't in a hurry. He could go sooner or later, and he wasn't worried about others getting there first.

After all, anyone who recklessly enters the cemetery will be punished by the Steam Gundam. He is not afraid of Gundam, but that does not mean that Gundam is weak. On the contrary, that thing is quite terrifying to ordinary people.

It's like he's guarding the door for Bai Ye.

Chapter Two: The Grand Knight Territory

Currently, the only reliably usable aircraft on Terra are low-altitude aircraft, and they are not very common. Rhodes Island has two, which is considered extremely rare; even Lungmen doesn't see many of these aircraft.

Columbia's cutting-edge laboratory is reportedly developing an aircraft capable of high-altitude, high-speed flight, but there is currently no mature product ready for practical use.

Bai Ye's aircraft is quite special, as it is custom-made. He himself is a semi-aviation expert and has also added a lot of advanced technologies related to his powers, so its speed is much higher than the two aircraft from Rhodes Island.

Moreover, Bai Ye wasn't in a particular hurry. Before heading to Kazimierz, he sent his own messenger from "Northern Cross Logistics" to inform the Kazimierz Commercial Union in advance, so he wasn't smuggling himself in like before, and was quite relaxed.

Before nightfall, Bai Ye landed the aircraft in the wilderness and began setting up camp.

Even rice cookers have human rights, and electronic life is life too. It's good to stop and let Hane 2 rest to avoid excessive fatigue from driving at night—of course, this reason is pure nonsense.

Bai Ye's legs were so numb from sitting that she wanted to get up and rest.

"Where are we?" Gladiia sat by the campfire, watching Bai Ye cook soup. She still couldn't understand how Bai Ye could pull out so many strange things from his pocket, including a whole set of spice jars.

This technology is absolutely impossible for the technologically advanced Sargos, and Gladiia had always wanted to study Bai Ye's space technology herself.

Before fighting as Abyssal Hunter, she was a Technology Executor.

Seeing such high technology, she was naturally eager to try it.

Bai Ye was unaware that the hunter beside him was truly preparing to study him closely. He opened his terminal:

"We have entered Kazimierz territory and have even been able to connect to the intercity network here through signal amplifiers."

The Bai Ye's aircraft was equipped with an amplifier that could amplify the power of received and transmitted signals, and even penetrate a portion of the Originium shielding zone. This was a strange technology that was found in Rhodes Island's warehouse and installed on the aircraft by the Bai Ye.

Besides encountering a group of thugs with Rust Hammer, Bai Ye and his friends also encountered other problems during their night camping trip, and in the morning, they packed up their belongings and set off again.

As for that group of thugs?

They were just unlucky to run into a Bai Ye Abyssal Hunter. They probably never understood why four powerful people suddenly appeared in the wilderness until their deaths.

They died without pain, contributing a meager amount of fertilizer to the land.

The wilderness near the city's shipping lanes is infertile. The wilderness here has been crushed by the massive Mobile City, making the land so solid that even the most resilient seeds cannot sprout.

Moreover, the industrial wastewater generated by the Originium Engine is also polluting the environment here.

However, apart from the thugs, there is no need to worry about dangers from nature now. In fact, in the wilderness surrounding the city, even the bandits and thugs are nowhere to be seen.

For travelers, it is indeed much safer now.

The root cause of this situation is naturally the Players.

In their quest to level up by defeating monsters, these terrifying creatures swept through the wasteland surrounding the city like locusts.

Originium Slug, infected animals, wild beasts, thugs' lairs...

All living creatures that could be included in the monster-hunting range suffered a brutal fate, and the Players liked to eliminate everything completely, so they would burrow into the underground nests of Originium Slug and wipe out everything in one fell swoop.

These insects also have a habit of collecting ores and rare treasures, and the things that the insects collect unconsciously become the Players' spoils of war, which is probably what is called opening treasure chests after completing a dungeon.

Unfortunately, these "treasure chests" are one-time only. The insect hives that are wiped out will be abandoned, and because they are eliminated early, no monsters will probably ever respawn.

It may be a very long time before new Originium Slug migrate from other places.

However, Players will not give them that opportunity.

In any city with a large Players base, the surrounding area will inevitably be thoroughly looted. That's why Luna and Bai Ye limit the number of cities that can be opened directly, and only increase the number of Awakening Temple before each version update. This way, at least the rate at which Players encroach on this land can be slowed down.

However, as the game updates and Players become stronger, this restriction is gradually weakening.

Fortunately, this land is vast enough, with countless wildernesses waiting for Players to explore. They can even venture alone into the icy plains or the Burning Wind Wasteland to seek death without worrying about a lack of resources.

Before Bai Ye transmigrated, he didn't dare go to that kind of place.

He dared not do it now; it was too bizarre. The more he learned, the more cautious he became, fearing that his reckless actions might lead him to make the same mistake as the Aegir.

Yes, first and foremost, it was the Aegir committed the sin of arrogance!

Lost in thought, Bai Ye piloted his aircraft over the wilderness near the city of Kazimierz.

It was the morning of the second day, and they had arrived near the Grand Knight Territory, the central city of Kazimierz.

"It's so... big!"

Skadi, who had only ever been to the small village of Waterdrop in Kazimierz, was awestruck by the sight below the aircraft.

Yes, while Lungmen and Talulah's Chernobog Core City are already quite large, they still pale in comparison to the Kazimierz Grand Knight Territory. In fact, they seem rather small.

However, this is understandable, because the composition of the Grand Knight Territory is not uniform.

Besides the core Grand Knight Territory of Kawalerielki, each Major tournament selects three cities from the fastest-growing commercial cities to merge into the current Grand Knight Territory.

In other words, the Grand Knight Territory during the Major was a colossal Mobile City formed by merging and piecing together four cities.

In the months following the Major, Mobile City except for the Grand Knight Territory will return to their original routes within a month, according to the route engineers' design.

No wonder the Mobile City presented to the public today are so enormous.

Even from an aerial viewpoint, the boundaries of the Mobile City blocks are not visible.

Each merger of the four cities presents an opportunity: a considerable flow of people, seamless trade, and—well, an opportunity to address certain issues. If the combined size of the four cities weren't so enormous, hindering effective movement, evasion of Catastrophe, and the management of resource distribution and extraction, the Kazimierz Commercial Union would probably prefer the union to never dissolve.

Chapter Three: Let him wait.

Bai Ye, oh no, it's Hanai-2 piloting the aircraft slowly approaching the port area of Kazimierz.

Because they had little experience receiving aircraft into the port area, and this type of transportation was not the kind commonly seen on the ground, Kazimierz did not have a dedicated aircraft parking apron. They simply cleared out an open space in the port area after Bai Ye informed them of their arrival so that Bai Ye could park his aircraft.

This is a necessary step, just like having to go through a checkpoint and register before entering the Lungmen.

Only Bai Ye is used to privileges, and he always swaggeres into Lungmen, and the Guards Bureau never bothers him.

Unfortunately, Bai Ye doesn't have any special privileges in Kazimierz.

There are none at the moment.

"What a strange country..." Gladiia looked down at the city through the porthole, slightly surprised.

The prosperity here even surpasses that of Lungmen, and its style is completely different from Lungmen's, filled with an atmosphere of extravagance and debauchery.

"It will probably be even more spectacular at night." Bai Ye stretched. Although he didn't have to pilot the aircraft or do anything, he still felt bad for himself.

Under Bai Ye's instructions, Hanai-2 activated its communicator, connected to the port's communication frequency band in the Grand Knight Territory, and established a stable communication connection. Under the command of ground personnel, the aircraft slowly landed at the designated location.

Bai Ye opened the hatch and stepped out of the aircraft, handing over his application for entry into the Grand Knight Territory, which he had previously processed in Lungmen, and his identity documents, which he had obtained in the Core City of Chernobog, to the staff responsible for the handover.

The Kazimierz Commercial Union showed great respect to Bai Ye, a renowned scholar and the president of the Adventurers' Association, by opening a green channel for him and expediting the entry review process.

However, even the senior employees who were specially transferred here were stunned when they saw the identity documents of the three Abyssal Hunter.

"Ursus Talulah Marquisate Certification? Infected Core City?"

The staff looked at the three Abyssal Hunter with some suspicion.

Yes, Skadi, Laurentina, and Gladiia all obtained their legal identification on land in the Core City.

Well, Bai Ye didn't choose to do this in Lungmen, after all, the three hunters' identities were quite special, and even in Lungmen, Bai Ye wasn't entirely at ease. But in the Core City, there weren't so many worries; this was Bai Ye's own territory, so of course he was in charge.

"Is there anything wrong with this? Does your Kazimierz not recognize the authority of the noble lord personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ursus Empire and the credentials she provided?" Bai Ye narrowed his eyes.

"No, no, it's just that it's quite rare, I need to... check it out."

The staff member quickly bowed and apologized. This was a distinguished guest recognized by the Commercial Federation. If there was any mishap in the reception, his career would be over. Moreover, in this city controlled by the Commercial Federation, his life afterward would definitely not be easy. On the contrary, if he satisfied the guests in the reception, he would definitely receive plenty of benefits.

So when he received the order from his superiors to come and receive them, he was both nervous and excited, with extremely complicated feelings.

Bai Ye had no interest in the staff member's petty thoughts, nor did he intend to make things difficult for him. He waved his hand to tell the staff member to hurry up and complete the procedural process, Bai Ye said nothing more.

The guy returned quickly, and they clearly didn't intend to make things difficult for Bai Ye; they completed the entry procedures in no time.

"Mr. Bai Ye, Mr. Charnay, the spokesperson for the Commercial Federation stationed in the competition area, is waiting for you. You can hand over this... vehicle to us for safekeeping, and we will do our best to maintain and care for it for you..."

Bai Ye waved his hand:

"No need, I have my own arrangements. If that spokesperson wants to see me, let him wait. I'll meet with him when I have time."

Bai Ye said as he walked back to the aircraft with the completed documents and then closed the hatch.

Bai Ye opened the porthole and leaned out to ask:

"Is there a rule in the Grand Knight Territory that vehicles cannot be flown over the city?"

"No... no..." The receptionist's eyes widened, still reeling from Bai Ye ignoring the spokesperson. He opened his mouth wide and subconsciously answered Bai Ye's question.

"Oh, that's fine then."

Bai Ye patted Hane 2 on the head, causing the rice cooker to start the aircraft engine.

Then, Bai Ye closed the porthole and gave a location.

Hanai-2 is already connected to the intercity network of the Grand Knight Territory, so it can directly navigate to the location that Bai Ye has booked.

"Are you just going to keep that spokesperson waiting like this?" Gladiia asked.

Bai Ye nodded:

"Let them be. We need to have our own rhythm and not let them lead us by the nose. Besides, how could I let them touch this thing? Isn't there an old saying in the Great Yan Dynasty, 'The host follows the guest's lead'?"

"It's only natural to follow the host's lead," said Gladiia from the Lungmen Library.

"It doesn't matter, don't worry about so many details. We need to have the ability to use words and sentences flexibly. That's the charm of Da Yan language, it's freedom."

Bai Ye rolled her eyes.