When Thales finally stepped into Longxiao City, the first thing that caught his attention was not the rough and bold architectural style of this ancient city.

In fact, unlike the buildings in Yongxing City that relied on urban areas and city walls, Longxiao City was built on a gentle slope of a mountain peak. The layout of the city stretches all the way up according to the mountain topography, making it appear natural and smooth.

Similar to the experience in the Lomba military camp, what left a deep impression on Thales was the people of Exeter in Longxiao City who crowded around the city gate to watch the excitement and watch the Star Prince.

"A prince of an imperial people!" A rough shout rang out from the crowd, immediately triggering a noisy and chaotic response.

According to Putilai, this place should be full of civilians who are busy preparing for the winter and preparing to enter the city for the last time to exchange, sell, and purchase.

It happened that he caught up.

Thales could only lower his head and lament.

He hasn't been so "popular" for a long time.

Although the mood of the civilians is much better than that of the soldiers, and the people of Longxiao City are not as disgusted with the stars as the Black Sand Leader, the news that the heir of Longxiao City was assassinated in the stars has obviously spread long ago.

This caused Thales and others to encounter another round of discussion, abuse, and even flying debris - the Exeter people were much more "enthusiastic" than the Star people.

"If that king has any guts, don't send him..." An angry voice rang out from the crowd. Thales couldn't see it clearly, and he was hurriedly escorted away by his entourage before he heard the rest of it.

I could only vaguely hear voices like "Let that coward do it himself", as well as countless responses of approval or refutation, ringing behind him.

"Maintain order and isolate the crowd! We need to get to the Palace of Heroes as soon as possible!" Nicolai reprimanded his subordinates and soldiers loudly and unceremoniously: "You know what to do to those who trespass without permission!"

Fortunately, there were White Blade Guards and soldiers from Longxiao City who separated the crowd, otherwise the Star Prince would have fled into Longxiao City in embarrassment.

Although it's not much different now.

"Their unhappy expressions," Thales looked at Wyatt and Rolf, who were facing a formidable enemy, and sighed helplessly on his horse: "It's as if I killed their prince."

"Think about it," Putilai said loudly in the noisy environment: "If you died in the Northland today, and then Exeter sent someone to Yongxing City tomorrow to apologize... I think I would also have an unhappy expression.

."

Thales rolled his eyes at Putilai, who seemed not to care about the prophecy he had just made for His Highness the Prince.

"Thank you for your kind words, Mr. Deputy Envoy." Thales replied angrily: "If you are unemployed in the future, I suggest you try your luck in the Western Wilderness. Duke Falkenhauser will definitely be able to talk to you."

"The head of the family with the four-eyed skull, the 'undesirable' Guardian Duke of the Western Wilderness?" Putilai snorted and said, "Thank you for your recommendation."

Thales could only snort coldly.

But both of them knew that the real test was far from here, not on these simple people.

"Are you ready? Imperial people?" Nicolai's voice came from the front, with disdain in his words: "This will be very tiring."

"What?" Thales looked up in shock.

Soon he knew why.

Longxiao City is built in layers along the mountain and slope, spiraling upward.

They had to climb all the way in the city and pass through layers of barriers separated by thick inner city gates - there were seven or eight such inner city gates between each area.

"I have heard about the layout of Longxiao City," Huaiya gritted his teeth and observed the surroundings vigilantly. "It is said that such an inner city structure is easier to defend. Even if the enemy breaks through the gate of Longxiao City, the walls and gates will remain intact.

The shooters could also turn around and strike at the enemies rushing in, and the soldiers were able to block the enemy's attacks one after another behind the city gates."

"And because of the slope, the invaders also have to face the disadvantage of a huge overhead attack."

"I dare say that this pattern helped a lot when we faced the siege of the Eastern Continent Army in the Third Continental War."

"So, this city is not much better than Broken Dragon Fortress," Thales helplessly looked at the panting horse sitting down. He was also upset by the noisy onlookers outside the guard line.

Luan: "Citizens still have to climb all the way to take a walk - not to mention the attacking enemies."

"And the nobles also had excuses and reasons to hide in the city and tremble." Ada stepped on the stone bricks under her feet, her body was light, but she still hummed dissatisfied: "Let their people outside the city suffer.

."

"I think the first people built this city purely for military purposes, but no one thought that it would one day become the capital of Exeter." Thales glanced at the pedestrians passing by and said: "

Don’t the people who live here feel tired?”

"To a certain extent, this city also naturally excludes merchants. This layout is neither suitable for merchants nor shops, whether it is transporting goods or expanding business - can you imagine the cost of transporting a load of firewood to the inner city?

Is it enough to carry three loads of firewood?" Marquis Slys of Camus seemed to be used to this kind of road, but he still shook his head and said: "Of course, this is the time for us Camas people to come on stage."

"So the higher up the inner city is, the more powerful people can live, right?" Thales sighed: "It's really a clear and easy-to-understand class differentiation."

Under Putilai's introduction ("There should be no big changes compared to a few years ago. In fact, I suspect that Longxiao City has not changed much in more than a hundred years" - Putilai), they passed through many places on the way.

There are distinct areas: the Shield District, which looks like a slum, the Hammer District, where civilians live, the Sword District, where the market and square are located, the Bow District, which has a miscellany of everything, the Arrow District, where temples and religious sites are gathered, courts, prisons and other departments

The Spear District where it is located, the Armor District where workshops and shops are gathered, the Ax District where the nobles are located, etc.

"Why don't they just build an area called the 'Magic Gun Area'?" Thales complained angrily about all the areas in the city named after types of weapons.

"I think that when Nekaru renamed and renovated Longxiao City, the magic gun had probably not been invented yet." Putilai replied nonchalantly.

"When was the magic gun invented?" Thales rolled his eyes: "Who invented it? Why is it named like that?"

"The magic gun has been around for almost three hundred years, and other parts are easy to obtain," Putilai said with a smile, as if he knew what he was going to ask, but deliberately opposed him: "Only the core part

Parts are strategic resources, and its source... you will know sooner or later."

"As for the naming...no one knows."

Thales curled his lips.

Magic gun...

Magician.

Magical energy.

magic.

He suppressed the doubts in his heart and tried to shift his attention to the current matter.

"Well... the people of Exeter have such an unimaginative name for their town."

"If they don't have enough material to name the city area, I have another suggestion." Seeing the mount climbing hard, even Thales couldn't help but feel a little tired, and let out a long breath: "Legendary Anti-Magic Armed Area."

"If you ask me, you have been chattering non-stop from just now," Putilai finally took out his pipe again, looked at Thales with a deep look, took a deep breath and said the truth smoothly: "It's because of the upcoming

The situation faced..."

"And are you nervous?"

Taylor was speechless for a moment.

Damn it.

Under the gazes of the rest of the mission, Thales closed his mouth in disbelief.

They finally "climbed" out of the last section of the Ax Zone.

No matter where he goes, the sky-blue background cross and two-star flag held by Gennard behind Thales is the biggest target of everyone's attention. People crowding to watch him are everywhere along the way. Longxiao City

The soldiers maintaining order were simply overwhelmed, and the Northlanders' naturally loud voices and fiery personalities made the scene even more chaotic.

This gave Thales no chance to carefully observe the appearance of Longxiao City, and he was escorted all the way into the highest inner city by the White Blade Guards. The city gate was closed to isolate the surging crowd.

Thales frowned and took a deep breath.

With the help of Huai Ya, he dismounted, stepped on the rough and hard black stone tiles of the Northland, and slowly raised his head.

In front of you is a palace.

So, that's it... Thales thought in a daze.

"Allow me to say goodbye to you here, my dear His Highness Thales." Before he had time to observe the palace carefully, Marquis Slais from the Camus Alliance came to him, bowed his head humbly, and spoke in a low voice.

The voice said: "You have to be mentally prepared."

"According to the plan……"

The Marquis of Camus chuckled:

"Your Majesty Nuen, you may have some feelings for you..."

"rough."

Thales smiled awkwardly, then took a deep breath of cold air and nodded.

rough?

certainly.

Thales rolled his eyes secretly in his heart.

Since coming to this world.

Has anyone ever been gentle to themselves?

You almost thought this was an article about abusing the main character, okay?

Marquis Slys and Nicolai looked at each other, led Conmas's men and left in another direction.

Just when Thales was about to raise his head and take a good look at this palace, which might be the Exeter Palace, the palace door slowly opened.

A group of northerners who were more gorgeously and neatly dressed, but still fully armed, filed out of the palace gate.
To be continued...