Chapter 458 – The City of Archester
Chapter 458 – Archester City
Sol had originally wanted to continue to take free rides on the airships in the name of Mentor Golza.
But while he was waiting at the station, he suddenly heard some sorcerers discussing the collapse of the Sorcerer Tower and Golza’s promotion to the Third Order and his departure from the Staat Continent after his killing spree at the border of Khema and Knaas.
Thor considered for a moment, but still asked Marsh, the driver of the cart, to turn the cart around and leave the airship platform.
Luckily, it didn’t take as long as a month to travel from here to Archaeust City, where Baidon Academy was located, and with the speed of Marsh’s driving, he arrived in about ten days.
Archester was also a seaside city, and the area between it and Bluewater City was not as prosperous. It was mostly wasteland and high mountains and wild forests.
There were a few places that even had abnormal smoke rising outwards.
It was unknown if there were wizards conducting environmentally destructive experiments there.
This world didn’t talk about environmental protection, and the special pollution produced by sorcerers would often turn a wilderness into a dead land. The only thing that could restrict them was some large sorcerer forces. If one conducts extremely destructive experiments within the area belonging to these forces, they need to be fined or even have the results of their experiments confiscated.
But as far as Saul knew, there was one place that had no restrictions, and that was the Masterless Land.
No one would care if you damaged the environment in the Masterless Land, but if your experiments were hindered by others, the other party might just come over and kill them.
It was also because of this kind of reckless experimentation, coupled with the subsequent pollution, that caused the Masterless Land to be a dangerous place everywhere, and one could encounter a death crisis at any time.
However, such a place is very suitable for Saul’s kind of external party to travel to.
Precisely because he had already made the decision to travel to the Valley of the Draped Hand to cultivate his own Sorcerer’s Tower, Saul had recently been learning about the information about the Valley of the Draped Hand.
But this information was all intermittent and very one-sided. The recorder of one of the notes wrote at the end of the page:
[Actually, I know it’s useless to make these statistics. No Man’s Land is a place that changes all the time. It is possible that the Gogo Manor, which was relatively safe for me to visit this time, will turn into a place of death full of monsters the next time].
[But I still choose to record it.]
[After all, before one dies, it’s better to leave something behind in this world.]
The last page of this notebook is also stained with something dark brown.
Saul did a composition analysis experiment and found that it was just ordinary blood.
It was getting a bit dark, Saul closed the notes and took out the broken wine glass and the rusty silver pocket watch.
These two items were the biggest physical harvest of Saul’s trip to Blue Water Bay.
Among them, the silver pocket watch was even more rare than Nefret’s well-known sorcery props.
After all, the diary only hinted at the silver pocket watch.
Saul had spent the past few days studying these two items in addition to learning basic sorcery knowledge.
He put different spirit and soul fragments in the shattered wine glass to study what the spirit would be shattered into and whether there would be any byproducts produced.
However, I don’t know if the dosage was not enough, the time was too short, or the means of initiation was wrong, but anyway, the spirit body in the cup was still floating leisurely, with no sign of being crushed at all.
Saul put the shattered wine glass away and took out his silver pocket watch to continue his examination.
The diary mentioned the word “chaotic realm” in the prompt, which made Saul suspect that the silver pocket watch might also be the key to a certain side of the world.
But to activate the silver pocket watch, a key was also needed.
The diary also told Saul that he had the key on him, so Saul took out some of his belongings to analyze it.
Just analyzing, not really trying to open the silver pocket watch, after all, he didn’t want to take a trip to the other world right now.
Today he rummaged through his traveling bag and suddenly saw something.
Saul reached in and took out the Crying and Smiling Gold Coin.
When Mochimochi had lent him this gold coin to use, he had said that it was a sorcery prop from the last era. It could perform short-range summoning.
But its real use was to exchange the spatial orientation where the two holders of the gold coin were located.
It was a very rare spatial prop.
It is very useful for both self-help and harm.
Saul gently tossed the two gold coins, and they made a crisp, clashing sound as they collided in the air.
And when the two gold coins collided, a closer look would reveal a slight distortion in the space around them.
“The efficacy of these two gold coins is related to space, so isn’t it also possible to activate a world-side key?”
Sol caught the gold coins steadily, then looked at the silver pocket watch held by Agu. The pocket watch was in an open state, and the hour and minute hands on it were still rotating at an irregular speed.
Saul held the gold coin, and no matter if he was close to it or far away from it, or if he knocked on it, it didn’t make the hands of the watch change in any other way.
Nonetheless, Saul did not immediately change the props as he did in the previous experiments, but instead began to seriously record the results.
He intuitively believed that he had guessed correctly this time.
Now it was a matter of considering how to be sure.
There would be no rush on this one, it was perfectly fine to wait until he found a place to settle down for a while and leave it to a few other consciousnesses to experiment with.
With a clear direction, Saul put away the Crying Face Smiley Gold Coin with satisfaction and continued to let Agu hold the Silver Pocket Watch.
He closed his eyes and began to meditate, and determined once again that when he waited until he reached the bustling city of Kaukoust, he was going to go first to find out if there were any meditation methods suitable for him.
Several consciousnesses had their own meditation ideas in their lifetime, but none of them suited Saul better than the erosion chart.
Therefore he was still using the meditation method applicable to second level apprentices.
The efficiency of recovering magic power was really low.
Luckily, he usually relied on his spiritual power to fight, and battles were also quick, so the recovery speed of his magic power was not important.
The genus was really different.
Three days later, Saul’s group finally left the deserted seaside avenue. Villages and small towns without walls began to appear nearby.
It was just that all of these places had a common feature, which was that they were sparsely populated.
Obviously, the number of houses looked quite a lot, but when it came to the time to eat, there was no smoke rising from a few places.
Based on his experience of going out often, Marsh found a town with decent conditions and drove in.
Saul looked around and noticed that many of the houses along the street had locks on them. The locks were also dusty, and it was obvious that the owners of the houses hadn’t been back for a long time.
The carriage finally stopped in front of a tavern.
The signboard of the tavern read Traveler’s House.
Saul and Agu get out of the carriage and both walk up to the door and no one comes out to greet them.
He pushed open the half-open door to see that the entire hall was empty, not a single guest.
An older boy, obviously dressed as a waiter, was sitting on a stool in the corner of the hall with a book in his hand, absorbed in his reading.
At the bar in the innermost part of the hall, there was a slightly blond middle aged man …… who was surprisingly also holding a book and reading.
The sound of pushing the door surprisingly did not wake them up.
Do people here like to study so much?
Saul noiselessly appeared beside the attendant boy and looked down at the book in his hands.
Little John the Farmer: city life is hard, and noble ladies are too clingy
Saul: ?
For the first time, Saul had the urge to rub his eyes.
What did he see?
A YA novel of the wizard world?
It wasn’t right either, this book didn’t dare rub the edge of wizards.
“Oh, sorry about the two guests.”
At this time, the owner located inside the bar finally saw Saul’s two men, and as soon as he snapped the book onto the tabletop, he jogged over around the bar.
Saul swept a glance and realized that the boss was reading the same book as the squire.
With the boss having run out, the squire was naturally awakened, and he carefully clipped a page into the book before standing up.
“Would you like to dine or stay?”
Agu took the initiative to answer, “A night’s stay, do you have a courtyard here?”
“Yes.” The boy replied, “The yard next door is available, that family just moved out not a month ago, I can pack it up for you in an hour.”
“Just moved out?” Saul’s eyes twinkled, and he wasn’t in a hurry to move in, he sat directly across from the boy and looked at both the owner and the boy.
“The people in your town …… won’t all move to Archester City, right?”
(End of chapter)