If Lu Xi is a masculine pure man, he will definitely like this northern land.

Just over half a year ago, he first came to the continent hegemon in the south of the high mountains of Hegalus, a historic city with thousands of glorious years. The great city, named after the goddess of radiance, was a perfect combination of majesty and elegance, with the Solmis and Grona rivers flowing around the city, as if to bring the harvest and life of the vast land of the plain of the two rivers into the city, and the air that was breathed at every moment seemed to carry the fragrance of flowers and wheat fields.

It's not so much the City of Radiance as it is the City of Harvest.

Carmelo, the capital of Virginia, is a different story.

The only great river in the entire Skyrim Plateau, the Hishan River, runs through half of the plateau, and finally flows westward into Cold Bay, surrounded by the Umman Kingdom, the Frozen Valley Dominion, and the Hyjal Hills, and the city of Carmellot lies right in the middle of this great river.

It's a peculiar city, and it's not even a city walled compared to the Shining City's massive walls, which combine artistic qualities and defensive capabilities. Houses of various heights are scattered on both sides of the Xishan River in a rugged and careless manner, forming an irregular structure of rings and rings, and also forming dense and complex alleys and paths in the city, like a dizzying labyrinth. The black tiles that cover the eaves of the Nord buildings are stacked on top of each other, like dragon scales.

The Nords love to wrestle with the white bears on the snowy mountains and dance with the walruses in the glaciers, a people who are very nature-loving and love trees as much as the elves. It is especially suitable for growing in cold regions. A sentinel tree as strong and strong as the Nords, the oak tree. And once planted, it is called "three thousand years of life without dying, three thousand years of death without withering." 3,000 years of withering but not falling". The thick-nerved Nord descendants could not decorate their city with delicate flower beds, so they chose the same thick-nerved and hardy-resistant trees. So, in the midst of this chaotic city, thick black tree poles crowded each other, and branches spread between the houses, covering the thick tree tops of the adjacent lanes.

In the center of a large circle of houses and trees, stands a hill. The three-story walls are built at the foot of the mountain, on the mountainside, and on the top of the mountain, with stone buildings of various sizes scattered in the middle of each wall. Almost the entire hill was transformed into a huge castle. In addition to the above-ground road, each of the separated buildings can be walked, and there are suspended rope bridges and elevated stone bridges that can be passed.

That was Skyrim Castle, the ruling center of the Virginia Empire. A palace that doesn't look elegant at all, not beautiful at all, but once you accept it, it's still a strange feeling.

Of course, it's more of a giant military fortress than a royal palace.

Lu Xi thinks that although he is a little handsome, he is still a pure man at heart. So this chaotic and rough city, as well as the murderous palace, although they were also startled at the beginning, they quickly accepted it with the mentality of being at ease, and tried to find a lot of cute points from it.

After all. At least for at least the next month, I will be living in the city.

Although the Nords are rough, they are not so brain-free that they are not out of line, although the urban planning is very chaotic. But at least they knew that they had built an avenue that could accommodate a dozen horses side by side, passing through the city and paving in front of the gates of Skyrim Fort, called the "Imperial Road". So Lu Xi is here for the first time. But don't get lost in the labyrinthine city of Carmelo.

All in all, it's a very pure city. It complements the country of this pure muscular brother and nobleman.

In such a pure country, there is such a prince whose discipline and virtue are problematic. The pressure on the Nord people must be a lot, right?

"Why? If it's all a bunch of big men with muscles in their heads, how boring would such a country be? I'm clearly trying to add a little bit of brightness to my monotonous motherland! How can little Lucy, a best friend with brotherly affection, not understand me! ”

The man who spoke had blonde hair that was so bright that it was about to melt, a handsome face that was almost a standard template for Prince Charming, and a tall, slender figure. In that sense, it's a perfect image to be the girl's dream lover, of course, only when she doesn't speak.

"Oops, Brother Olivier, aren't you a knight? How could he even be so powerful as mind-reading? I didn't say anything just now. ”

"You didn't say anything, but that sentence was clearly written on your face."

"Oh? I see......"

"Is that all right? Is it a 'so it is' forgotten? What about apologies? "The full name should be Olivier? Leeser? Nord? Arnoor's blonde youth let out an aria-like sad exclamation: "Alas, beauty is indeed a fickle creature, and every time we meet again, I feel that I can recognize a new face from Lucy and my friend." First the gentle healing goddess of Ringu, then the tsundere elf friend, then the dark-bellied and glamorous magic genius, and now I can see such a ghostly side from you. ”

"Well, let's just assume I didn't hear the previous comments. At least the title of ghost animal is quite emotional for pure masters. ”

"However, fickleness is also a kind of beauty!" Olivier slurped, and a suspicious glint flashed in his eyes: "Every time I can feel a new experience from Lucy and my friend, this kind of mystery that makes people linger happily should also be the charm of little Lucy." ”

knows that this guy can always distort normal conversations into very weird dimensions, and to be honest, Lu Xi doesn't even have the desire to complain now.

The present time is April 19, 531 in the Federation. Luci left Elichar at the end of January, crossed the Falling Star Sea in a floating boat, disembarked in the port of Riga in the kingdom of Uman, and then rode along the Hishan River to the east, finally arriving in late April to reach the capital of Virginia.

Lu Xi came to visit as a friend of His Royal Highness Artoria and His Royal Highness Olivier. It has nothing to do with politics and diplomacy and other things that have no love and no burning at all. It's true!

In addition, Lu Xi is only an eighteen-year-old captain. At a young age, the official position is not high, and it is absolutely impossible to come into contact with high-level politicians. This is also true!

"Artoria sued me. April is also the Dawn Festival, the biggest festival of the Virginians. What does this festival mean? ”

"Vigia is in the northernmost part of the land, and winters are longer than in any other region. It's only in late April or even May that spring begins. In every city of the Nords, and even in the center of every village, there is a huge iron tree that has a lifespan of more than a thousand years. When this iron tree bears its first shoots of the year, it represents the arrival of spring and the beginning of celebration. Spring represents the dawn of the year, so we call this festival the Dawn Festival. ”

Lu Xi blinked his eyes, and after a while, he said helplessly: "Why don't you just call it the Spring Festival?" I can at least find a subtle sense of belonging. It's called the Day of Dawn. Others still think you Nords have anything to do with the Knights of the Dawn. ”

"I don't know about this, anyway, that's what the ancestors called it." Olivier spread his hands: "In addition, we Nords have been celebrating the Dawn Festival for more than three thousand years, but it is much earlier than His Excellency the Dawn Knight. ”

"The common people don't care about history, they only judge by their images." Lu Xi raised his head while facing Olivier like this, looking at the two ten-meter-high black stone statues at the end of the royal road. The one on the right is a bearded middle-aged man wearing armor and carrying a shield and a sword, and the one on the left is a sword with both hands on his chest. Relatively speaking, young people are more delicate. Of course, both statues are typical of the muscular brother with thick lines, and the typical Nord look.

Olivier sues Sù Luxi, and on the right is one of the Twelve Heroes of Qiming. Richard, the barbarian king who briefly unified the Nord tribes during the Great War, and on the left is the real founder of the Virginian Empire, Arthur? Pendragon.

Thanks to Arthur? Pendragon is building the castle of Skyrim. When the army was bought to start the war of unification of the plateau, the banner claiming to be a descendant of the barbarian king Richard was also raised. I still fooled a lot of people. Thus, after the establishment of the Nord dynasty. Don't put Richard in the position of the ancestor of the royal family, even ahead of the founding emperor Arthur.

After passing through the portico formed by these two statues, the royal road merges with a huge square in front of the palace, which is hundreds of meters long and wide, like a river that flows into the sea. Walking briskly through Guò Square, Lu Xi was faced with the first wall of the ten-meter-high Sky Castle and the thick bronze gate. The door panels are also decorated with some carvings, but unfortunately they are not very ornate, and they cannot bring any artistic temperament to this solemn palace, which is like a military fortress.

With Olivier accompanied, naturally there would be no guards to stop Lu Xi. They followed the winding path that encircled the hill, and soon passed through the second wall, and then stopped in front of a tower about twenty meters high.

"These tower-like buildings were prepared by the royal family for visiting dignitaries, and the higher the tower, the more important the guest's status is."

Lu Xi glanced around and found that there were at least thirty tower-like buildings on the second floor of the Skyrim Palace, the short ones were only five or six meters, and the highest ones were more than thirty meters, and there were only two in total. His own twenty-meter building should be regarded as second-grade, but it is enough to flatter himself.

"Don't care, don't care, you're my friend with Artoria, that is, a friend of our family. Aside from the fact that the towers are not usable to entertain foreign royal families, you can afford our highest hospitality. Olivier smiled and said, "You have a good rest first, and I will come back at seven o'clock in the evening to pick you up for dinner." ”

"Well, then I'll be disrespectful." Lu Xi was not a hypocritical person, so he naturally accepted it without hesitation. He thought for a moment and asked, "Then again, it's you guy who has been running around in front of the saddle and behind the horse since just now." Where did Artoria go? ”

"Oh, little Lucy, you really don't understand a woman's heart." Olivier showed an expression of hatred for iron and steel, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Girls, you always need to be a little reserved. If you don't make a finale at the last moment, how can you make people feel impressive? (To be continued.) )