Free City, also known as Long River Town, stands on the ruins of the broken Elf King's Court.
Those elven obelisks entangled with vines still stand in the city square, and Noldor-style pointed arch buildings are intertwined with human stone houses, glowing with warm colors under the setting sun.
As the largest and richest city in the Panda Continent, its underground drainage system still uses the elves' star track formation.
Dick Before he entered the city, someone came to 'greet' him.
On the left side of the road, in addition to a group of dwarves carrying Cleaver on their backs, there was also a slightly fat middle-aged man with two thugs, and a man in rags wearing a beggar's outfit.
On the right side of the road, there are all Church of the Eternal Fire priests and Witch Hunters.
Dick dismounted and stood on the green brick road in the middle.
Opposite, a tall and thin figure wearing a bishop's clothing slowly walked over. It was Church of the Eternal Fire's Archbishop Duncan.
When Duncan got closer and closer to him, Dick felt his heart begin to beat unnaturally. He just felt that there was a wonderful connection between the two.
Dick suppressed the throbbing forcefully and placed his right hand on the hilt of the sword Dawn Sword on his left waist.
"No need to be nervous." Duncan stood five meters in front of him, "We are just here to greet you."
Without waiting for Dick to speak, he pointed to the group of dwarves carrying Cleaver. One of them was extremely tall for the dwarves, with a height of one and a half meters and his body was about the same width as Tyson.
He has a hammer on his left waist and an ax on his right waist.
"He is Free City, who is responsible for civilian patrols. Cleaver Gang, nicknamed Cleaver, is Thor."
Thor has a loud voice. "I once heard my cousin Odin mention your name. Dick the Godslayer."
After saying hello, Duncan pointed to the other bald head.
Before he opened his mouth, the bald head greeted Dick: "Long time no see, Dick. I didn't expect you to come here."
Free City is a good place, convenient for me to do my job. I am engaged in intelligence search."
It turned out that this man was West, the partner of Barbara. After the Northern Kingdoms incident, he actually fled to Free City to develop.
Dick looked at the third man who was wearing coarse clothes and covered in stains and asked, "Who are you?"
Duncan replied, "He is the gang leader of Beggar Gang, known as King of Beggars, and all the beggars in the city are under his control. Nowadays, the world is in chaos, and there are naturally a lot of beggars."
The man just nodded indifferently and said nothing.
Dick looked directly into Duncan's eyes, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
"Did you know?" Duncan pointed at the towering city wall behind him, "I spent a full 10 years building this place.
The people inside respect me and fear me, and every order will be strictly implemented.
Within the city walls, except for me and the people of the church, there are no extraordinary beings, and no warlock, witch, or even monster can escape the purification of the Eternal Fire holy fire."
Dick's scabbard suddenly burst out with sparks, which was the suppressed Sword Qi screaming:
"When you burned Itinerant School Warlock in public a year ago, were those crying apprentices considered dissenters?
When Eternal Fire nailed the cross through the alchemist's spine, which canon did the human baby she protected in her arms violate?"
"Dick, you don't understand. If you want to unite the entire Panda Continent, you must have a unified command to deal with [them]."
Duncan said in a deep voice at the end, "And I have already expected that you will come to me and there will be a battle between us. But I don't want the war between you and me to destroy Free City."
Dick was surprised, but after thinking about it, judging from what Gabriel said, Duncan was unpredictable. Even if we could calculate that he would come, or deduce it through the information collected by his subordinates, it would not be surprising.
"I thought I would stay in Free City for a few more days before fighting you. Yes, I am here to take your life, Duncan. Don't forget how you persecuted Xiya."
"Dick, you still don't understand, you still don't know what Xiya stands for?"
"So what if she is from Nine Hells?"
Dick narrowed his eyes slightly and instantly pulled out the sword from his waist.
He shook the sword, followed by a long roar, and the cold Sword Qi covered the sword.
And Duncan paused the staff in his hand, and the entire staff was immediately covered with sparkling white Sword Qi.
"I said, don't fight near Free City." When he spoke, Dick noticed that the five elements in his irises were the same as Dean Mary's, rotating rapidly, and finally transformed into a bloody vortex.
After this moment of trance, when Dick looked carefully, he saw the sky filled with fire in the distance, and he was stepping on the slightly hot blue brick floor.
Except for Duncan, no one else was around.
"Welcome to my realm, Dick the Godslayer."
"You have touched the divine throne, and I have reached the [Demigod] level. I have known for a long time that our ideas are different.
To me, the people are just a tool to implement administrative decrees. Many years ago, Geralt adopted me as his adopted son, but in the end he abandoned me.
At that time, I saw that the people were living in hardship, thieves were rampant, and the nobles did not help.
So I feel that if I implement the executive order and unify the entire Panda Continent, then..."
He pointed his staff into the sky and said, "Let the people offer their faith to me. Only in this way can we deal a fatal blow to them."
Dick's pupils shrank, and he keenly captured two pieces of information from his words:
Duncan is actually the adopted son of Geralt?
How is this possible?
Judging from his age, it doesn't seem right.
He suddenly remembered that when he was drinking with Leofu, Geralt mentioned that he had an adopted son named Puck, and Puck had the ability to blink.
It is said that [Blood of the Source], who is said to be miraculous, has cultivated to an advanced level and can not only master the flickering skill, but also control time. Could it be...
Secondly, he pointed to the sky. It seems that he also knows the existence of those Deity, but what does the people's faith mean?
Duncan gently tapped the staff on the ground, and with a crisp sound, he actually smiled and explained:
"I am Puck.
When I was in crisis, I traveled through time and learned the entire history of the Panda Continent.
I traveled several decades later and returned to the current timeline. When I came back, I had become an adult.
As for those guys from [The Other Side of Deep Space], they have always coveted this main world because this is the land of Ragnarok."
As Duncan walked slowly, the staff outlined a burning World Tree projection in the air:
"Heavenly Realm's silver branches, Human Realm's green stems, Nine Hells's scorched roots..."
When the juice of the Three Realms stops flowing, the World Devourerss from outside deep space will crawl in along the withered annual rings..."
Dick was about to ask again, but Duncan said something that shocked him even more, "You must have felt your heart beat faster when you saw me, right? Do you know why?"
Then he actually closed his eyes and smiled.
When he opened his eyes again, Duncan's eyes were as red as magma, with satin-like blood mist floating in the corners of his eyes;
The corners of his mouth were grinned to the base of his ears, revealing sharp double rows of parallel teeth.