Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 149 147. Under the Great City
On the morning of February 997, 2, Rand led Ben and 4 cavalrymen to the ruins of Yeqi City first, and joined Neil's scouting force.

A few months ago, Rand was also stationed under the city's western wall. At that time, Rand had no concept of cities in this world. He only thought that the city wall was very high and there was a mountain in the city.Now that I have returned to Yeqi City, I have a new understanding of this former pearl of the Benma Plain.

Yeqi City has a kind of squareness like the northern plain city of Rand's hometown. Even compared with Longya City in terms of scale, it is not inferior at all.

The huge city wall presents a rectangle that is slightly longer from east to west and slightly shorter from north to south. The towering mountains in the east are more than ten kilometers long from north to south. There is a huge flat top on the mountain, and a palace-style building in the period.

There are traces of artificial carvings around the mountains, and it looks like the acropolis of some cities in Rand's hometown of Europa from a distance.

During lunch, Neil began to report to Rand about his experiences these days, such as the 2-3 small tribes that arrived one after another, for example, 3 or 4 tribes sent envoys to ask if they could really join .

For another example, when Neil sent people into the city to investigate, he encountered a small gang of thieves in the city square. These people entered from the Rocky Love Mountain Pass in the east of the Benma Plain after hearing about the treasures in Yeqi City. .

"The bandits are very cunning. We didn't show up when we came in. We only attacked when the cavalry split up," Neil said, becoming angrier. "They wanted to scare us away. If the blue frog and I didn't notice , surrounded them, and they must have run away."

"Scare away?"

"Yes, there are legends in other tribes that there is a ghost queen in the city, and she doesn't like barbarians entering." Neil said seriously, "The tribes on the whole plain know that if I am not from the Galloping Horse tribe, I would not dare Come in!"

"Well, this is the city of our Benma family. Even if there are ghosts, they are my ancestors, and they will not attack us." Lante was very calm on the surface, but he was extremely guilty in his heart.

The gang of thieves consisted of a junior knight, 2 knight apprentices and 2 demon possessors. They took some dry food and a vague map of Yeqi City and stole some decorations from the palace.

"What do you think of these guys?" Neil knew that selling this group to other tribes as slaves would definitely be a bad idea, but there was really no other way to deal with them on the grassland.

"Lock it up first, and then think of a way." Lante didn't think about what to do for a while.

"My lord? Can you leave it to me?" Pete Maned Wolf on the side became interested. "When I was in Maned Wolf City, I was responsible for several interrogations. Shall I chat with them?"

Seeing that Pete was so interested, Rand was naturally happy to let go.

In the afternoon, Rant took Ben Kaur around the city of Yeqi. According to his estimation, the city is about 17 kilometers long from north to south and 20 kilometers long from east to west. Such a city would be too fast even if it was riding on fire at full speed. It took a long time to turn around.

The cold wind on the horse's back was blowing on Rand like a knife. If it wasn't for the cheerful pace of the fire with a certain fire element, which made Rand feel the heat of the saddle under his body, he would have been frozen. At this moment, Rand really regretted leaving The carriage was left to Wendy and the others.

After a lap, the super scale of Yeqi City surprised Lante even more. Lante couldn't imagine why humans could build a huge city almost 1000 years ago, which was comparable to the super city in his previous life.

After building such a big city, it is still in a feudal society after 1000 years, and it is a pure feudal feudal society, without even the feeling of a central empire.

Recalling the highest mountain in the imperial capital that I visited when I was studying in my own imperial capital, it is said that it is only more than 40 meters high, and the city wall here is more than 40 meters. You have the ability to build an underground fortification , Isn't it good to build a high-rise concrete building?It had to be piled up into a city wall.

When I was studying in my hometown, the imperial capital, the Fourth Ring Road was less than 20 kilometers from east to west, and the east-to-west distance of the central magic capital in my hometown was about the same distance. Can such a large area really be managed by an earl?

Of course, the huge city wall is not full of ruins. Except for the top of the royal palace like the Acropolis, if you are farther away from the city wall, you can see the roofs of many high-rise buildings in the city. Some are the remains of magic towers, and some are like arenas. , temples, or huge palace-like roofs are looming.

Why did the city of such a scale be built, but it still ended up destroying the country? Did the orcs really use mechas to attack the city?
And what makes Lante the most incomprehensible is that it is not difficult to sweep the entire southern part of the Benma Plain. Why has the human race never recovered the entire Benma Plain after so many years?

With doubts, Rand asked Ben Kaul during dinner at night.

"You have a lot of questions. First of all, I can answer you that there used to be more than a hundred magic towers in Yeqi City at its peak. These magic towers were all built in the city. The tallest is the legendary magic tower, and then the big Magister's."

The red flames of the bonfire on the ground can jump up to 2-3 meters. Following the mage's silent recitation, several sparks burst out, forming a square flame pattern. Rand can see that this square is a miniature night sky. Qicheng map.

"In addition to these magic towers, the royal family below the royal family, nobles and magister families all have large courtyards in the city. In addition, this place used to be the front line of the battle between the human race and the orc race. A large area of ​​the city is full of commercial streets, magic towers, magic schools, knight schools and other buildings." Ben said as he spoke, and there were also dots of twinkling stars in the square, as if reflecting his words.

"The rest of the area has to be reserved for the many people directly under the Benma family, court nobles, family knights, jazz, etc., so the city is much more crowded than you think. For this reason, a special building was built in the north of the city. A group of towns designed to accommodate the inhabitants who come into town every day."

"That town is called Tiantongyuan?"

"Where did you find this word?" Ben was baffled by the sudden question. "They are usually called affiliated counties. In the northwest of Yeqi City, the largest affiliated county had a population of 20."

"With so many people, what do they eat? What do they do? It's not easy for them to go to the toilet every day, right?" Lante couldn't imagine that under the feudal system, a huge city with a million people could appear.

"Yeqi City back then could manufacture a lot of alchemy equipment. These equipment were purchased from the orc king's court to the imperial capital, and then to the elf tribes in the south. Magic Tower is engaged in the production of alchemy equipment."

"In addition, you also know now that there are iron mines and salt mines on the Benma Plain. In addition to salt and iron, there are also some small-scale guide metal mines. These ores are continuously sent to the affiliated counties east of Yeqi City. It is roughly processed and then transported to the market in the city for sale.

According to records, there were traces of magic in the sky in Yeqi City back then. Outside the tall city walls, there were magic circles for city defense, but inside the city walls there were magic circles to improve the magic environment. Every night, in the workshops, markets, The lights on the middle and street will illuminate the night sky. "Speaking of the prosperity of Daqi City at that time, I couldn't help but look up at the sky, as if recalling the grand scene of that year.

"So, Yeqi City was originally an industrial city, and there were hundreds of magisters? It collapsed overnight because of a demon tide?" Lante was a little puzzled, wondering whether the orcs summoned Godzilla Still making hairy mechs.

(End of this chapter)