Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 151 149. Entering the palace. . .cellar

On February 2th, the second day after Lant arrived, led by Neil, Lant and Ben Kaur came to the palace area of ​​Yeqi City, which was the camp that Neil had chosen for Lant.

From the outside of the city, Padmira Hill, where the palace is located, is only about 300 meters high, and the main building is raised by less than 100 meters. overall.

After entering the palace wall from the bottom of the mountain, after passing some dilapidated palace rooms, you can see the mountain of Padmira. The foot of the mountain is covered with various tall buildings. The largest one is hundreds of meters long including the foundation and roof. , the roof is directly connected to the halfway up the mountain, and you can see the palace on the top of the mountain along the way.

Neil led Rand into a building, and walked down a gentle slope for a few meters to the camp. Looking at the many tents in front of him, Rand understood that this was the most suitable place to camp.

"We asked Master Ben, and it is estimated that these spaces were used as wine cellars or storage rooms in the past, and they were very dry." Neil pointed to the huge space, "The outer door is connected to such a large cave, and it is not easy to move our entire camp in." no problem!"

"Of course, your tent is arranged in another room, which is slightly smaller than this side and has an independent exit." Neil had already arranged the core tent area of ​​Rand, and Nila had already brought people there to set up the tent. .

"How to make a fire for cooking and house the livestock?" Rant followed Neil as he toured the camp, asking questions from time to time.

"There is a special fire-making room next to it. Master Wendy has repaired part of the magic circle. Before that, we also lived and cooked outside, and came back to sleep at night." Neil quickly replied, and Lante emphasized fire safety more than once, "In addition, the palace There is a dedicated animal pen area around, and we have arranged manpower.”

"Okay, have you gone in the other rooms?"

"No, according to the request of the consul of Laniya, everyone repairs the outer houses of the palace, and no one is allowed to enter the palace, so I asked someone to seal off the north and south stair halls."

The space where the citizens are currently stationed is only the warehouse of the palace. The real palace rooms need to pass through several stair halls on the mountain to enter.

"Ben?" Rand watched Ben Kaur pass by, and before he had time to say hello, he knew that this guy must have seen the incredible magic circle.

Rant didn't want to disturb Ben's mood, and didn't want to continue his patrol, so he simply took Neil to the nearby south staircase hall of the palace, planning to explore the palace.

The south stair hall is a huge cylindrical room surrounded by circular staircases and a huge black sculpture in the middle with a series of openings at the top to let in natural light.

Going up the circular staircase, the half-open doors on each floor were like black holes, so that Rand didn't dare to enter rashly, so he could only lead Neil to climb all the way up to the top floor connected by the stair hall.

After several searches, Rand finally found a terrace where he could overlook the entire Yeqi City.

More than a month ago, Rand also went up to Longtai Mountain, but the alpine vegetation in Wangdu was dense, and he could only see the surrounding mountains when looking outside, not the city at all.

Now the scenery at the top of the palace in Yeqi City is very different. The two suns are gradually rising, and the ruins of the city and the Lant vanguard troops entering the city can be seen by Lant at a glance.

It was an indescribable feeling. Looking at the vast ruins, Rand kept trying to restore the city's former prosperity. The traffic was busy, imagining the original shiploads of salt from the east and the cartloads from the west. Car iron ore.

"This is my city!" Rand, who seemed to be calm, was agitated in his heart, "Neil, let's go to the rooms of the various palaces and take a look to see which ones are better preserved, and make preparations in the future. .”

"Ah? Good sir!" Neil didn't understand Rand's meaning for a while, but still subconsciously accepted the order.

Throughout the day, Rand took Neil to explore various rooms of the palace with the lighting stick made by Wendy.

What Lante didn't expect was that the interior of the palace was surprisingly well preserved. Most of the decorations, ornaments, sculptures, and books in the room were still in place. The furniture in the bedroom was basically there, but the bedding was dusty; the huge Even with a light stick, the entire space of the banquet hall cannot be seen clearly.

The palace turned around, but the treasure house and treasury that Rand wanted to find the most were missing, and there was no room related to the magister.

From any point of view, Rand returned to the royal palace of Yeqi City instead of occupying Yeqi City. This castle is his home, so Rand cannot "let go of his hands and feet" like he did in the salt mine before. Take whatever you want, and you can only ask your subordinates to start cleaning some rooms and halls at night.

. . .

On the second day, Lante persuaded Ben to go around the city first. There will be a lot of time and opportunities to imitate the magic circle in the future. Now he should have a general impression of the city.

So Rand took Ben, Pete and a few knights around the city.

"I want to build some workshops in that area." Rand and his party first arrived at the east gate of the city closest to the palace area. Rand pointed to the open space outside the east gate. "This area is close to the tributary of the Benma River in the north. Very convenient"

There are two tributaries of the Benma River near Yeqi City, one runs from west to east, flows north of Yeqi City, diverges from a fork in the northeast and flows southeast, and the main river flows eastward.

The other one runs from west to south, turns south at the northwest of Yeqi City, runs parallel to the west wall of Yeqi City, and goes south to the Cornico Pass. It has been the main waterway from Yeqi City to the Dragon Kingdom since ancient times.

Ben told Rand yesterday that about 20 kilometers east of the city, it used to be the industrial county of Yeqi City. There used to be dozens of workshops in that place. The salt mines on the plain can be directly disembarked at the pier of the industrial county. Refined in the workshop, and then sent back to the alchemy workshop in Yeqi City through the waterway to make alchemy products.

Rand didn't quite understand why the industrial zone was established 20 kilometers east of the city, but Ben couldn't explain it either.

During the field investigation today, Rand found that although there is no natural channel of the Benma River in the east of the city, there is a man-made canal extending from a tributary on the north side of the Benma River and passing through a pond east of the Benma City. It is the fork of the tributary of the Benma River mentioned earlier.

As Rand continues to explore the city, he is also planning for the future Yeqi City. Outside the north wall of the city, a large tent will be built to carry the barbarians and their livestock that come here every winter.

Since the barbarians were placed outside the north wall, a large number of forage warehouses, slaughterhouses, meat processing workshops, meat warehouses, etc. had to be set up at the same time.

The northwest will be the gathering place for the future magic academy of Yeqi City. Lante made up his mind to set up a magic tower here so that every talented magic apprentice can go in and learn.

Then to the south, a large number of farms will be set up outside the south gate, as well as mills and grain warehouses.

(End of this chapter)