Chapter 52 The Great Library of Lisbon
The core of Lisbon is the floating city, so there is no emphasis on the control and management of the outer city area.
In the outer city area, the five-meter-high city wall looks very majestic, enough to withstand the attacks of some scattered monsters and sub-people, but the actual defense effect in large-scale wars is still to be discussed. This is just an ordinary city wall and cannot resist fossils into mud spells like obsidian. An extraordinary mage has countless ways to make a big hole in such a city wall.
The function of ordinary city walls is more to restrict the entry and exit of business travelers and prevent tax evasion.
As a magical capital, the mage naturally enjoys certain privileges. In addition, the monitoring and prevention of people entering and leaving the city in the outer city is not as strict as that of Jinshuilong City. Therefore, after paying the entry tax, Green and his group entered the city.
The spacious streets, three-story red-tiled residential houses, busy residents, and the city view in front of them is similar to that of most cities.
"This is too easy, right? When I was in Dragon City, the guards at the door would examine the identity of the incoming and outgoing people, but the city gates here didn't even review it?" As for her easy entry into the city, Jason, a young lady-controlled boy, felt a little incredible.
"Did you see that?" Green pointed to a tower building in the middle of the city.
It was a slender tower building with a huge sphere at the top.
"That's the Mage Tower?"
"No, that is [Eye of All-Sight], a surveillance eye that can monitor the whole city."
Hearing Green's words, Jason, a young lady in charge, couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning: "Supervising the whole city?"
"If a crime occurs in the city, it will be discovered in an instant, and the security team will lead the team to the scene within five minutes."
The young man who was sister-in-law couldn't help but frowned: "This kind of thing... can we be peeped at when we go to the toilet?"
"This is not. [Eye of Full Vision] can only monitor the situation on the street, and you can't see the situation in the house. As long as you don't urinate and defecate in the street." Simply put, it is just a satellite surveillance dedicated to the city.
Although there are surveillance in the sky, due to the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Lisbon, the public security in Lisbon can only be said that although there are not many robberies, there are many stolen ones.
After entering the city, Green found a hotel near the administrative district with relatively good security.
Since it was already very late, everyone rested after settling down.
The next morning, Green ordered the rest to move freely, and then Green took a carriage full of books to a small castle not far from the hotel. It was a stronghold of the "Big Library" of the wizard organization.
Lisbon adopts the mage parliament system. The mage parliament is the supreme authority in Lisbon, and all administrative officials are appointed by the mage parliament.
The parliamentary system makes it difficult for Lisbon to produce dictators, but it also makes Lisbon breed many magical organizations of all sizes, which are somewhat similar to those "political parties" on the earth.
The "big library" is a large organization with the top three influences in Lisbon. The organizational philosophy of the "big library" is "price of knowledge". As long as anyone can provide a "value" new book for the "big library", he can enter the library within the organization to read the internal collection.
The higher the value of the book, the longer you can stay in the library, and the specific value will be evaluated by the gatekeeper of the "big library".
The "Big Library" has two libraries, one in the floating city, and the other is the place where Green is now heading a building that looks like a castle.
Green drove the carriage to the big library.
"Knock, knock, knock~" Green knocked on the castle gate.
After a while, with a "click", a window appeared on the castle gate. An old man with white hair appeared in the window.
Green: "Hello, I am a study tour magician. I come here with knowledge, hoping to communicate with you about knowledge."
The old wizard looked up and down at Greene, and glanced at the maid behind Greene.
Green looks very young, which is a bit deductible among mages of knowledge = age, but the strength of extraordinary mages is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
"What book?" the old master spoke in an old voice.
"Many books from Anriel, the Lost Civilization." Greenton paused, "I packed the entire library of a wizard tower."
Green's words successfully aroused the interest of the gatekeeper.
"Ancient books?"
"Yes." Green nodded, "Many ancient books."
"Please wait a moment."
The old mage closed the window.
After a while, a "squeak" sound was heard, and the gate of the castle opened and the old wizard walked out of it.
"Where is the book?"
"In the carriage." Green pointed to the carriage behind him, "There are many books."
The old master walked to the carriage and looked through the books inside.
Civilizations will develop, and both spells and technology are the more powerful they go backwards. Therefore, the spells in ancient books have no advantages over modern spells, but books from "Lost Civilization Anriel" are an exception. There is no direct connection between the magic of Lost Civilization Anriel and modern magic. Although there are similarities, there are many completely different thinking from modern magic.
The so-called "stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade" is that for modern magicians, Anriel, the lost civilization, is a "stone from other mountains".
After the old mage read one of the spell books of "The Burning Hand", he couldn't help but read it.
The Burning Hand is not a big spell, and now there are the same spells, but the magic theory of the lost civilization, Anriel, is very different from that of modern magic. Therefore, after seeing the "Anriel" version of the Burning Hand, the old mage immediately became interested.
"It's almost done." Green suddenly reached out and covered the spell book, "I don't think there is any need to doubt the value of these books?"
The old mage raised his head and looked at Green: "Well... yes. You can go in."
"I still have some useful books, so I can't give them to you. You can send someone to copy them." Green pointed to the books in the carriage. "I think this amount should allow me to enjoy such privileges."
When entering a large library, you need to provide books. If you let the large library copy it by itself, it will affect the value of the books. However, Green's number of books is too many.
The old mage glanced at the book in the carriage: "Yes."
After negotiating with the gatekeeper and determining the time he could stay in the library, Green walked into the library.
Chapter completed!