Chapter 112: The Study Group Arrives
Lolandal, located in the southern part of the Ogordon Empire, is the holy city of the Radiant Church and the most prosperous city in the southern part of the Ogordon Empire.
It was the most prosperous city in the entire Assatom world, with the exception of 'Moro', the capital of the Ogordon Empire, and 'Gordon', the city of commerce.
This is the 'Glorious Holy City', this is the most undesecrated place in the hearts of pilgrims, this is the place where the main gods of the human gods reside, countless traders trade here, countless adventurers work here, and countless artists find inspiration here......
The city is home to nearly five million people, with four-fifths of the population living in permanent use and the remaining one-fifth being migrants, something that is unimaginable elsewhere.
Since the fall of the gods, the city has expanded several times, but with the prosperity of the world, there are many fewer wars due to the suppression of the gods, and now, the city is on the verge of expansion.
Unlike the rough division of Wynde City, each district in the city has its own name.
Each district has its own 'bishop', who is in charge of that area.
Unlike many cities, the city's supreme administrator is the 'God of Light', but many times he does not directly govern Lolandal, whose real administrator is the 'College of Cardinals' made up of cardinals.
However, with the development and expansion of Lolandal, the management system has become more and more bloated, and it takes at least half a day for the orders from the top to be passed down to the lowest level.
However, in the eyes of the Cardinals, many administrative organs are necessary, and they cannot find fault with them themselves.
Until one day, an edict came out of the 'sanctuary'!
After receiving the edict, they did not even have time to question, and set up a study group consisting of 'one bishop, fifteen priests, and twenty paladins'...... It took three days.
After all, it was a handover of work, and it took three days to speed it was already very fast.
It took five days to mobilize the idle airships, which means that after the order was issued, it took them five days to set off, which is already 'efficient' in the 'Shining City'.
The airship sails eastward, bypasses the Inland Sea through the Severed Finger Strait, passes through the edge of the Forest of Stars and the Moon, passes through the Elven Kingdom, passes through the Duchy of Apprups, and sails for another day or two to reach the Kingdom of Kolo.
The airship sailed day and night, and the sailors were tired, but after nearly twenty days of sailing, they finally reached the Storm Territory.
From the sky, there are no grand buildings here, and in the eyes of these people, even Wende City is no different from a small village in the countryside.
One is the miracle of carrying five million people in this era, and the other is only about 50,000 people until now, compared to Lolandal, Wende City is indeed no different from the countryside.
These clergy don't know exactly why their 'Lord' sent them here, and there's nothing to learn from here, right?
With a sense of superiority peculiar to the Moro people, the people on the airship are pointing at the city below the airship.
It was the captain, who frowned, and said to the bishop beside him, "There is no berth below, and we can't dock." ”
The bishop raised an eyebrow, "The people of the Sorrowful Wind Leader should help us prepare...... But it's also possible that they think we're coming by sea, after all, we're countrymen, and maybe they've never seen an airship. ”
The captain sighed, "In that case, we'll have to find a lake to dock on our own...... Really, this is the first time I've been a captain in all my years that I've encountered such a situation. ”
No matter how good his cultivation is, he can't help but complain at this time, and it is the first time he has encountered this kind of thing since he became the captain of the airship.
The protagonist also sighed: "It was also our mistake to not have prior notice, and we didn't expect the Sad Wind Leader to be such a backward place, originally thought that the 'Mage Country' might be similar to Moro, at most it was a little behind, but I didn't expect that there was not even a berth for the airship...... No, it's better to say that the Mendez continent is pretty much the same. ”
Naturally, there is no airship trade in the world of Asartom, after all, a flight requires a lot of energy, without the support of leyline energy, each airship needs to build a small elemental pool, although it is cheap compared to building a mage tower, but the construction cost is by no means cheap.
The manufacturing methods of the former 'Magic Energy Furnace' and 'Elemental Furnace' have long been lost, and the airship is completely different from the 'Floatship' invented by the Arcane Empire, the floatship consumes less energy, is faster, and can float for a long time.
However, compared to most of the current means of transportation on the mainland, airships are advanced enough.
The gods are concerned with the restoration of the Arcane Empire, not the progress of magic, although the progress of magic can represent a certain increase in the likelihood of the restoration of the Arcane Empire.
Even the narrow-minded gods would not fiddle with such things, because there is really nothing to fear, and the development of magic technology has a positive effect on their development of the church in some ways.
To the south of the Mendez continent, beyond the Cold Hell Wilderness, there is also a continent.
The continent didn't have a specific name, it was just called the 'Southern Continent', and it was still an unexplored continent, but for some reason, the gods and the people of the Ogordon Empire didn't explore it.
Then again, the maid really didn't prepare a berth for them outside of Wende City, and wanted to build a berth dedicated to airships in just four days, which was too difficult, not only was it difficult to implement, but the maid didn't want to spend a lot of money just to build a berth that would not be used in the future.
"Dragon! Black Dragon!"
Suddenly there was a commotion behind the captain and the bishop, and the bishop turned back in displeasure, wanting them not to make such a joke, how could such a place be ......
There really is a black dragon!
The bishop and the captain froze in stare at the black dragon that seemed to have suddenly appeared next to the airship.
Not an illusion, not a wurm, but a real black dragon!
But, but why didn't ...... 'it' attack them directly?
"You're from Lolandal?" the black dragon asked suddenly.
The black dragon spoke, startling all the paladins and sailors to draw their swords.
They knew very well in their hearts that fighting a real dragon in the air would be a self-defeating one.
They don't have wings, and they don't have a mage to bless them with [Levitation Technique] or [Flying Technique], even if this black dragon is not half the size of the airship under their feet, but as long as this black dragon breathes down, the airship under their feet will definitely explode, and in this way, they will definitely not survive.
But after a while, they realized that the black dragon was asking them, and it was still asking ...... Are they from Lorandal?
Several priests glanced at each other, and they all found that each other's eyes flickered, and they couldn't help but be glad that they didn't bring a holy warrior with them, if it was a holy warrior, I'm afraid they would be dead now, right?
Because the black dragon gives the world the impression that it is often sinister and cunning, always chaotic and evil, they naturally think that the black dragon in front of them is also chaotic and evil.
"I'm Cervantes, lord of the Wind, if you're here from Lolandal, then come with me, we don't have an empty berth for you, but we do have a lake for you to dock for a while. What are your intentions?"
Cervantes' words made these clerics fall into a stupor, and even some of them thought that if they talked about it with others after they returned, others would definitely think they were lying, because a black dragon and the clerics of the Church of Radiance talked calmly or something, wasn't that a fool's dream?
The captain and the bishop looked at each other, they had all heard about it—the lord of the Tempest was a black dragon—but they hadn't reacted before.
After a moment's hesitation, the bishop said, "If, yes...... Please lead the way. ”