honor me as god

Chapter 133 Entering the Royal City
(Happy New Year! Two chapters combined into one chapter today)

Dusk City was far away from Cold Valley, and Kino reserved plenty of time.

After entrusting the daily affairs to his subordinates, he boarded the carriage and set off.

Along the way, the temperature gets colder the further north you go, and the scenery becomes more frosty and white.

There is a brazier in the carriage to keep warm, but the coachman outside is suffering, adding clothes one after another, until the back is wrapped like a bear, and even the eyelashes start to freeze.

In the early morning of Huixue on the 29th, following the sound of the docile horse, the carriage stopped steadily at the outpost of Lengliegu. .”

Chino's voice came from behind the curtain door: "Can you take me to the gate of the Governor's Mansion?"

The coachman smiled wryly, "My lord, it's not that I don't want to send it off. It may be your first time in Lenglie Valley, so you might as well take a look for yourself."

Kino opened the curtain door and took a look, and understood the meaning.

The surrounding area of ​​the post station is cold and windy, and there is only wind and snow in the sky. Frost hits the face as painful as a knife cut, and the visibility is very low. You can only vaguely see the double image of the valley, and the soft snow can bury a person. People, where hard ice forms, can't even walk without special snow footwear.

The coachman explained: "It is impossible to enter the Lenglie Valley from the ground. You either fall in the rugged valley, or lose your way, and freeze to death in the snow. There is only one way to reach the Governor's Mansion, and that is the sky."

Kino looked towards the post station. There were a large number of animal pens here. Looking through the gate, there were various large winged beasts inhabiting it, and even the legendary griffin.

This kind of large winged beast is owned by the Regnome family. It is kept in a post station at ordinary times, and its function is similar to that of a horse. In wartime, it is dispatched in a unified manner. It is ridden by the superhumans under its command, and forms an air force together with the dragon knight, which can quickly break into the enemy's hinterland. , to attack the enemy from high altitude.

If you want to enter Lenglie Valley, unless you are a dragon knight, or a winged cavalry who tamed a winged beast, you can only ride a station winged beast obediently.

Kino didn't make things difficult for the groom, and gave him 5 silver moons as an extra tip: "Thanks for your hard work, let's go south to avoid the cold."

"It's my honor to work for you!" The groom was flattered and took Yinyue, nodding and bowing, "My lord, you can keep warm in the car. I'll help you contact the station and find the cephalopod."

"No need." Kino looked towards the snow-covered cold valley ahead, "I can go in by myself."

The giant dragon in Lenglie Valley lives on the platform.

Sting, Resakhar, 6 dragon knights who returned to Lenglie Valley, and more than 60 hussars with pterosaurs have all arrived one after another. They are checking their riding gear and are ready to leave at any time.

Among the eight dragon knights, Sting has the highest sequence, the sixth sequence of "natural disaster".

Resakhar and another dragon knight are the "Sunstriders" of the fifth sequence.

The rest are two "Qionyin" of the 4th sequence, and three "Longxiao" of the 3rd sequence.

In the cold of minus 70 degrees, Sting was wearing a single shirt, and was grinding his golden dragon's teeth with ice cubes.

Resakhar looked around: "Where did Lorna and her dragon go, why didn't they come with us?"

Sting said helplessly: "She said she didn't want to fly with me, so she set off by herself first."

"Based on the child's directionality, she will get lost."

"So it's better for her to leave early, there is enough time for her to be delayed in the sky."

When the two were talking, the golden dragon who was enjoying teeth grinding service opened his eyes and looked towards the sky. He let out a low and threatening roar from his throat, and the dragon's power almost shook the surrounding wind and snow.

Everyone noticed the dark shadow in the distant sky one after another, and a winged cavalryman said suspiciously: "This size is not a winged beast."

"It's him." Resakhal narrowed his eyes. "Kino Van Helsing."

A few minutes later, in the invisible turmoil of telekinetic power, Kino landed on the giant dragon's resting platform: "Hi everyone, I hope I'm not late."

Sting glanced at the thin clothes on Kino's body, and continued to grind the dragon's teeth: "Aren't you cold?"

Ordinary people dressed like Kino would have died in the cold a long time ago, but Kino can use telekinesis to control the air to rub against it at a high speed to achieve the effect of heating up.

So don't look at how little he is wearing, the telekinetic barrier is actually as warm as a small stove, not cold at all.

"Fortunately, I can bear it." Chino said.

"When outsiders come to Lenglie Valley, they are usually wrapped up in bears. You are really special." Sting threw away the broken ice after grinding his teeth, looked at Kino and said lightly, "Everyone is here. How do you want to go?" , Let Resakhar take you?"

Although Kino's telekinetic power allows him to fly and the speed is very fast, it is not enough to support high-intensity long-distance flight, otherwise he would have flown directly from Twilight City, so why would he use a carriage.

Kino originally wanted to ride Rezakhal's dragon, but suddenly had another idea: "Can you give me a winged beast? I want to try riding it."

Sting would never give such a long flying distance to anyone else. Although all the winged beasts in the family have been domesticated, if outsiders ride and touch the riding equipment with their hands, they will fly away from the sky. Falling, that is not a small trouble.

But seeing that Kino can fly by himself, it doesn't matter if he falls from the sky, Sting granted him his wish: "Find a griffin for Administrator Kino, be gentle."

The hussars quickly went and brought back a griffin.

The Griffon is a very large winged beast, with a body length of about 4 meters and a wingspan of more than 9 meters. The back half of the lion-like body is covered with yellow-brown fur, and the eagle-like head to forelegs are covered with golden eagle feathers. , the forelimbs are extremely majestic, and the hook claws are shining with a sharp and cold light, which makes people have no doubt that they are sharp weapons for tearing flesh and blood.

The hussars took Kino to sit on the griffin, put on the harness for him, and warned: "Don't touch the buckle of the harness in the air, and you don't need to grab the reins. It is very smart and will fly with us without controlling the wind. If it is too big, lower your body. When ascending or descending, if you feel that your body is out of balance, you can grab the rein and remember not to grab the feathers, or it will get angry."

Chino: "Understood, thank you."

After everyone put on their riding gear, Sting stepped on his dragon: "Let's go."

"Boom boom boom boom." The dragon and the winged beast flew into the sky one after another, tearing through the wind and snow, and galloped towards the sky.

When it was the turn of the griffin, Kino, he only felt a strong sense of overweight. His whole body was pressed tightly on the back of the griffin, and there was a raging cold current everywhere around him. If the riding equipment was not fixed, he might have fallen. Into the valley.

After the initial acceleration, it rose to the flying height, and the speed began to stabilize. The team, led by Sting's golden dragon, presented an inverted V-shaped flying array.

Looking from a high altitude, the dense clouds rolled under him, like a giant dragon coiling, and occasionally the snow-capped land could be glimpsed through the gaps in the clouds, a vast expanse.

Lengliegu is far away from the Royal City. Fortunately, the flying creatures are very fast. They first flew for 8 hours, landed and found a place to rest for 4 hours, and flew for another 8 hours before arriving at the airspace of the Cardinal Province Royal City.

They set off on the morning of Huixue on the 29th, and their arrival time was the early morning of Huixue's 30th.

The climate here is warmer than that of Twilight City. The morning sun has risen to the sky, and the sun shines through the water vapor and mist in the air, casting some Tyndall effect beams.

The Wangcheng is so big that even if you look at it from a high altitude, you can't see the end at a glance. There are row upon row of houses everywhere, and the traffic routes cover every corner of the city like a spider web.

There are a total of two walls in the royal city.

The outer city wall is about 40 meters high, and the wall is covered with mottled battle scars, revealing its illustrious military exploits.

Afterwards, a large area is a civilian area, with taverns, markets, private houses, hospitals and other facilities.

Of course, if you say "common people", those who can live in the royal city must be nobles with status. If you meet a grandfather who sells potatoes on the side of the road, it is likely to be the father of a minister, or you yourself have abdicated Minister, in his later years, he wanted to live a simple life, so he grew potatoes at home and ran out to sell them.

In the central area of ​​the royal city, there is also a solid wall with a height of [-] meters. It is called the "Great Wall of the Royal City", and what is protected by it is the royal palace.

On the top of the giant wall, heavy ballistas are lined up like sentinels. Unlike the wooden structure ballistas used by ordinary troops, the giant wall ballistas are all made of metal. The pitch-black giant crossbows look like demon minions, exuding a heavy air. Fighting spirit, the shooting strength it can support is more than ten times or even nearly a hundred times that of wooden ballistas.

Even in the air, the huge wall of the [-]-meter-high royal city still gives people a sense of oppression, which makes people wonder, is there really an army in the mortal world that can capture such a huge wall?
After crossing the outer city wall, the flying team began to land.

According to the regulations, any flying creatures are not allowed to pass through the huge wall of the royal city. If they want to enter the palace, they can only be interrogated after landing and enter on foot, otherwise they will be hit indiscriminately by ballistas.

The flying team landed on the perch specially built for the Regnome family in the palace. They locked up the dragon and the pterosaurs, and walked to the entrance of the giant wall under the leadership of Sting.

There is only one entrance to the huge wall of Wangcheng, which is connected to a spacious suspension bridge.

Next to the palace gate behind the suspension bridge stands a mysterious colossus, which is half the height of the huge wall of the royal city. It is not made of stone, but some kind of metal. Through the gap, you can vaguely see the complex internal structure, bearings, hubs, pipes Intertwined together, forming a dazzling but highly sequenced chain device, suddenly there is an industrial atmosphere.

The colossus didn't move, but for some reason, when Kino looked into its eyes, he always felt that it was not an ornament, but like some kind of living thing.

Seeing Kino staring at the colossus, Resakhar came over and whispered: "This colossus was built by the Hetch family 20 years ago. It is said that if the royal city is violated, it will wake up and destroy any intruders. "

Kino narrowed his eyes: "Have you ever seen it wake up?"

Resakhar shook his head: "No. In the past 20 years, Wangcheng has not been invaded by foreign countries. It was 12 years ago."

Sting suddenly took a look at Rezakhal. The latter knew that he had made another mistake with his big mouth. He coughed lightly and said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, there are some things you'd better not know."

Curiosity killed the cat, and Kino didn't continue to ask, after all, Wangcheng was far away from him, even if he knew some secrets, it wouldn't do him any good.

After a body search and bloodworm quarantine, everyone was allowed to enter the palace.

On the way, Sting asked a palace guard, "Is my daughter here?"

The guard nodded and said, "Sorry, Mrs. Sting, I didn't see Miss Lorna."

"By God, she's lost again." Sting shook her head helplessly. "In a few months, she'll be 16 and ready to join the army, but she can't even find her way. I'm really worried for her."

Resakhar comforted: "She has only been a dragon knight for two years, and she is not yet familiar with flying in the air. She will get better in the future."

At this time, a royal guard wearing exquisite armor strode forward and looked at everyone: "Which one is the administrator of Twilight City, Kino Van Helsing?"

Kino stepped forward: "It's me."

The imperial guard said calmly, "The king has summoned you."

Everyone couldn't help whispering, Kino had the least official position among all the guests attending the banquet, yet the king had to summon him before the banquet, which was really unusual treatment.

Sting raised his chin to Chino: "You go."

Kino nodded, and left with the imperial guards.

The imperial guards brought Kino to the main hall, and made a "please" gesture.

Kino walked to the frontmost step. Two tall guards held the doorknob and opened the carved door with a heavy creaking sound.

The main hall of the royal palace is very grand. The carvings inside and outside are all made of polished marble. The tall stone pillars lined up are magnificent. The surrounding murals are themed with the sun symbol of the royal family of Dogoland, which is magnificent.

The elite imperial guards are lined up on both sides of the red carpet, and the glow from the colored windows of the dome is scattered on their armors, constantly refracting, as if they are wearing the bright sun, all of which are the "burning lights" of the fifth sequence.

Sitting on the throne was a middle-aged man in his 50s, wearing a royal robe, and his facial features were as deep as a knife and an axe. It can be seen that he was an out-and-out handsome man when he was young.

Perseus Van Dogorand, also known as the "24th Dogorand" in the world, is the "Day Lord" of the sixth sequence.

Beside Perseus, besides the imperial guards, there was another person standing. Chino had seen him before. It was Batty who came to Dusk City to investigate last time, the judge of Fengyun Pass.

Just as Kino was about to salute, Perseus raised his hand as a gesture of pardon, and said to the guard, "Bring him a chair."

As soon as Kino sat down firmly, Perseus said directly: "I won't say anything extra. There is only one reason why you can see me by leapfrogging - you have wiped out the aliens three times. And I want to learn from you Information, I hope you will tell me the truth."

Chino nodded: "Anything you know."

Perseus held a report and said slowly: "The report given to me by Marquis Batty stated that after the Twilight City bombing, you once said a word—maybe, I am the next Sun King—you Don't rush to explain, I don't intend to pursue this blasphemous statement, I just have a question, are you really sure that you have attracted aliens? Just like they hunted the Sun King 2700 years ago?"

This question hit the nail on the head, directly asking the key to the reincarnation invasion.

Kino had already thought about how to answer before, so he didn't hesitate, and replied directly: "I can't guarantee this, I just think that the three invasions of aliens are all for me, and they must be inseparable from me. As for the specific reasons, I don’t know much more than you.”

Chino's answer was evasive, revealing a small part of the truth, but covering up the most important part.

Perseus looked into Kino's eyes and said meaningfully: "After the death of the Sun King, the aliens have not appeared for 2700 years. Then I can also understand that if you die, the aliens will also disappear. This Another 2700 years of peace in the world?"

(End of this chapter)