The next day, after breakfast, the four members of Team 86 got on the Duke's Palace carriage and headed for Maple City.
In the early morning sunlight, smoky purple peach blossoms dotted the majestic castle complex. The gardening blended vegetation and architecture like a brightly colored oil painting. No matter where you look in the manor, you can feel the delicate, exquisite and natural design thoughts.
Vaults, friezes, columns... the buildings in Ortiz do not blindly pursue lavishness, but give people a strong sense of classical beauty. The castles and buildings are well-proportioned. Each mansion is laid out in a three-section classical style like the Palace of Versailles, with left-right symmetry and a strong sense of geometric logic. Each building has distinctive design features. Although they are obviously different in design, they have a unified and regular sense of order, just like the palaces of the ancient Greek gods, which interpret the elegance and nobility, solemnity and seriousness to the extreme.
Peter opened the car window and the spring breeze blew in his face.
The maids passing by along the way would gracefully salute the carriage, whether the people inside saw it or not.
"In the past month and a half, I have understood one thing." Peter said with emotion: "You cannot have a luxury house and have low self-esteem at the same time. If I grew up in this kind of environment, I would also become a bitch."
Even the interior of the carriage is decorated with more than a dozen types of mahogany. It has a spacious space, leather recliners, and a magic circle engraved on the chassis for heating and shock absorption. It is incredibly comfortable to sit on.
"Some things are just born with—"
Philosopher Kai propped up his chin, his blond bangs covered the burn scar on his left eye, and gave the maids one handsome smile after another, while saying: "No one can take the public exam."
"8 is so spicy!" Peter said anxiously.
"Not even Kao Gong. This is not the wealth that one or two generations can accumulate."
Harry sat next to Peter with a book on his lap, turning the pages and saying:
"Edmund is the richest man in Bavaria, and his family wealth can match that of ordinary royal families. After all, very few countries will allow a noble to dominate to this extent... If you leave aside the royal family, there are few in the entire southern continent. Someone richer than him."
The carriage drove out of Ortiz territory. As the gate of the manor, it was a tall building like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Both sides of the arch were carved with hymns in praise of Ortiz's ancestors.
Soldiers in silver armor were stationed at the door. The flamingo emblem of the Ortiz family was printed on the chest of the armor. They held their heads high and looked majestic.
Peter had participated in the war and instinctively felt that these people were far more difficult to deal with than the old soldiers in the Western Continent.
"Du Da? Why do you say that?"
"Among the four most prominent families in the Southern Continent today, only the Ortiz family has been active in politics... This is also related to Bavaria's national conditions."
Harry continued: "During the first magical industrial revolution, there was a rebellion in Bavaria. The duke who controlled the lifeline of industry raised the flag of rebellion against the king... Later, the duke was quelled by others, and his surname changed from Erased from history. It was Baron Ortiz who led the army to put down the rebellion."
"He also has another identity - a brave partner of the generation that defeated the devil, a crowned priest. In order to thank him, the king asked him to replace the duke, and later married the king's daughter as his wife. So strictly In a sense, going back hundreds of years, the two families are blood relatives... Of course, this is normal. Any country here has some crossbreeding, which may allow Ortiz's descendants to have this status. , or the oath of our ancestors.”
"oath?"
"I swear to the sun that I, and my descendants, will always be loyal to the king, loyal to the royal blood of the Leonhard family, and loyal to Bavaria..."
Harry closed the book and pointed to the "Ortiz Family History" on the cover, "That's what it says on it."
Peter was amused: "What's the difference between this and a scumbag swearing to God that he only loves one person?"
"The oath of a crowned priest can reach God. Isn't this more reliable than Kai's oath?"
Kai, who was slandered for no reason, angrily said: "Brother, you only play with your body, not your emotions. Don't be embarrassed."
"Since then, Ortiz's descendants have had a strong relationship with Leonhard, the Bavarian royal family, almost from generation to generation, even better than relatives and loved ones. The family property created by this relationship is passed down from generation to generation, and no one can Imagine how rich the Ortiz family is. If they were more prosperous, they wouldn't have anything to do with other nobles in Bavaria."
"Damn it, whoever marries his daughter wouldn't..."
"Yes." Harry smiled, "Would you like to give it a try? I think the eldest lady treats you quite...differently. This is a huge amount of wealth."
"Me? I'd better forget it, I don't have Hawking's ability."
Peter had no interest in lolita girls like little ghosts, and he couldn't spend all the money in his pocket, so he decided to follow his heart and pursue his sister's xp.
The fat man who was woken up muttered: "Who is Hawking?"
"The physicist who had to toast when eating in my hometown likes to sit at the same table with children."
"Small girls are actually pretty good."
Kai, a veteran of many battles, praised: "The beauty of small breasts lies in the delicate and smooth shape, restrained and expressive at the same time. The fluid texture enhances its delicate expression and lovely state, so it makes people fascinated without lust. It is the most precious treasure in this world." .”
"What kind of lolita tiger?" Peter laughed angrily, "Am I like the kind of lolita control? Fatty obviously likes this kind of talk, right?"
"Him?" Kai shook his head after hearing this, "He can't do it."
"Why? Withered?"
"He is a two-dimensional creature that invaded our Terra. He cannot be hard on three-dimensional women."
"...."
Peter looked at the fat man with a smug smile on his face and thought that he was really awesome.
Maple City is very close to Ortiz Territory, separated only by a neither wide nor narrow river, passing through lush forests and a bridge across the river, which is the urban area.
As the capital of the industrial province of Volvo, Maple City does not have any secondary industry facilities. Instead, it relies on agriculture and commerce as the basis for urban operation. It is bustling with people coming and going, and its style is somewhat similar to that of an ancient European town.
I don't know if it is to highlight the tall castle of the dukedom, but the buildings in Maple City are generally not high, just like French-style residential buildings, and the planning is quite orderly. Comfortable residential areas coexist with churches, commercial streets and city parks, and the citizens seem to be leisurely and unhurried.
Carefully trimmed trees, flower beds, ornate street lamps and phone booths line the streets, making the roads very spacious.
Unlike the Western Continent, horse-drawn carriages can be seen everywhere on the city roads here, and there is also a unique operating vehicle - the Chocobo Car.
Chocobos look like Earth's ostriches, but are much larger, with slender necks and wider beaks. Although like an ostrich, its wings are degraded and unable to fly, its legs are thicker than those of a horse, and its speed is not inferior to that of ordinary horses.
Although its endurance is not as good as that of a horse, it is better than a horse because it is not picky about food and has a docile temperament. With these advantages, the bird carriage pulled by chocobos has defeated the horse-drawn carriage in short and medium-distance urban transportation, and its popularity rate is even better, becoming people's first choice for travel.
"Yes, the trees on both sides of the street are maple trees. It is said that when the lord first arrived in the Vol Province a thousand years ago, there was a maple forest here. Later it gradually developed into a city, and the trees were preserved. There are still maple trees found in the park thousands of years ago. The old tree. Those branches... Hey, they are thicker than my legs..."
The coachman was introducing the origin of Maple City to everyone. Peter and others had been here on foot and were no strangers to the street scene. But these two days, the maple trees have been blooming, and the bright yellow buds are dotted on the branches, giving the city a special feeling of spring.
"The flowering period in spring lasts for more than a month. The maple trees in Maple City are like a calendar. The flowers bloom and fade, and the spring in Maple City is over. Come and see it again in autumn. It is the most beautiful, and the streets are full of fire. With the same red color, even artists from Philippe would travel thousands of miles to paint portraits, and the art exhibition was extremely lively..."
Not long after the carriage bearing the Ortiz family crest drove into the city, two police officers wearing high-hat police helmets and dark blue uniforms with lapels followed on horseback. One after another, they opened the way for the carriage like bodyguards.
"Is this the police?" Peter asked curiously.
Harry glanced out the window. When the police noticed him, he smiled and took off his hat to them.
"Looking at the epaulettes, he should be a senior police officer..." Harry knocked on the small window and asked the coachman: "Did the housekeeper notify the Maple City police in advance? We just strolled around casually, and there was no need for the police to follow us. It was too grand. ”
People on the street cast curious glances at the carriage, wondering who the big shot was in the carriage.
"Oh, there shouldn't be. It's just that this carriage is for the Duke's guests only. The police officers all recognized the sign and followed it themselves..."
The coachman said respectfully: "Although the police station in Maple City is under the control of the state, the salary is paid by the duke, so it has always been a tradition to clear the way for guests of the dukedom... Do you need me to let them leave?"
"It's not convenient to follow them. If possible, let them return to their posts."
The driver smiled and nodded. After saying something to the leading mounted police officer, the other party saluted the carriage and immediately turned around and left with his colleagues.
"He said that the Maple City Police wish you a happy stay in Maple City." The driver conveyed: "If necessary, you can call 911 from the phone box on the roadside, and the police officers will arrive to serve you as soon as possible."
"Turtle, the presidential treatment reminds me of the spotless streets of San Francisco."
Peter clapped his hands and sighed that the Duke was awesome.
"Why did you let them leave?" The fat man asked doubtfully: "With the police following us, it will be much easier to enter the auction in the afternoon, right?"
"I do want to..."
Harry sighed quietly and pointed at Kai, who looked innocent: "This guy was arrested by the police last week when he led someone in front of the church. It was all in the newspapers. He was released after paying a bail of 10 pounds. Let's There is no need to embarrass the Duke too..."
Kai said innocently: "I just want to be together when the hymn reaches its climax..."
Harry instantly transformed into a husky and pointed at people——
"Shut up."
St. Pauli District is the most prosperous neighborhood in Maple City.
But unlike other cities where the CBD is located in the city center, the St. Pauli District is on the side of the city, next to the Duchy. Villa areas, theaters, shopping malls, churches, shopping malls, high-end restaurants, magic prop shops, entertainment venues...
All kinds of places are readily available, just like shopping for the convenience of the duke’s family.
After a while, the carriage stopped at the entrance of a bookstore. The decoration was quite elegant, and the melodious jazz music from the record player came from the store.
The coachman said that this was the largest bookstore in Maple City, and even some professional books on advanced science subjects were sold.
In a different world without the Internet, bookstores are still quite popular.
This store occupies the most central store on a street full of luxury goods. Although there are not many customers in the store, everyone looks like a suit and leather shoes.
As soon as you enter the store, you are greeted by a store clerk who acts as a shopping guide.
"Hello sir, what book do you need to buy?"
Peter said he wanted to find out the story of the brave man's life, so the clerk took him and Harry to the second floor.
As for Kai and Fatty, as soon as they entered the store, they went straight to the place where the 18-year-old ban sign was posted. There are roads and birds as paths in the mountains of books, and there is no limit to the sea of learning and hard work.
On the second floor, there is a whole row of bookshelves with books about brave men, placed in the most conspicuous place, and the sales volume seems to be quite good.
"Sir, are you buying this for your children? There are everything from fairy tales to biographical novels. You can take a look~"
Harry shook his head and bypassed the brave-themed children's storybook placed at the front.
"There are too many artistic processes in biographical novels. If you want to find books about brave men..."
He glanced at Peter, a smile of unknown meaning flashed in his eyes, "You can come and take a look at these academic research topics."
Peter came around after hearing this. Sure enough, compared to the flashy cover in front, the book cover here was much simpler, and the content was much thicker.
"Is there any autobiography of a brave man?"
"Autobiography?" The shopping guide on the side thought for a while, "It seems that only Link, the second brave man, has written an autobiography. Let me see... it's this one——"
He took out a book. The cover had a black and white portrait of a character, with the title of the book printed diagonally in white on a red background.
"...Link?"
Peter took a look and saw that he was a young man with a square face and a standard East Asian appearance, which made him feel very friendly.
Fellow! ! !
He asked excitedly:
"What is this? "The Second Legend of Link"? "The Legend of Zelda"? Or "We did borrow from Breath of the Wild"?"
The shopping guide was dumbfounded. I wonder if you can't read and buy books?
Harry shook his head and pointed to the title of the book:
"Mein Kampf."
"?"
He opened the autobiography, and on the first page was a painted portrait of a brave man.
Surprisingly, not tall.
The brave Link in the portrait is just like the classic game cg, standing on a cliff covered with green grass, looking at the wilderness in the distance.
This is just a back view. There is a huge sword as tall as a person stuck beside him, but because the area occupied is too small in the painting, the specific appearance cannot be seen.
This painting has a sense of bravery, adventure, world, sword and epic.
Rather, this is what Peter's stereotypical brave man should look like.
The shopping guide introduced: "There are photos of the brave man and the second-generation brave team members at the back. You can take a look. This is one of the few portraits left by the second brave man. It is very valuable for collection~"
Peter opened it, looked at it, and laughed angrily.
"Damn it, 91 Mr. Lin."
This is not the Brave Team, this is the Victoria's Secret Model Team and the Brave Lance.
"This is a brave team? Are they all women?"
"Yes~"
The shopping guide pointed to the beautiful girls with different styles and scantily clad clothes in the photos and introduced them one by one:
"Alissa, the priest of the Church of Light, this is Leticia, the queen of the elves, and Heather, the inheritor of the Flame Glory Sword... As for this, the famous silver dragon-Selena."
The beauty of the members of the Brave Team shocked Peter even in their portraits.
Harry added: "The team included all the most famous beauties on the continent at that time. After defeating the Demon King, the brave man held a grand wedding of five people and married all the members of the brave team... this This led to the much-criticized polygamy in Rowan Kingdom that continues to this day.”
Peter laughed angrily: "What a harem plot."
Apart from the second hero's autobiography, Peter didn't want much introduction to the hero's life, and he couldn't even find all eleven of them.
The clerk said it was not that the bookstore had not stocked the book, but that this kind of book was rarely circulated in the market.
The life story of the brave man belongs to the "Sacred Scripture" of the Church of Light. If you want to know more about it, you have to go to the church, which is where everything is found.
Peter fell into deep thought. After chatting with the old professor that day, he wondered whether his time travel had anything to do with gods.
Now it seems that there is a high probability that some god saved him from the dump truck.
Am I really a brave man called by God?
Damn it, the normal development of the plot should not be that he is picked up by a mentally retarded goddess, tricked her into traveling through another world with her, and then encounters a flat-chested pretty magician, a big-breasted knight, forms a team of heroes, and in the future is secretly loved by the goddess, and Will magicians fall in love, raise a demon as a cat, and then live a happy life in an extremely happy novice town?
Is it too bad fun to be picked up as a deserter at the beginning and sent to fight against drug addicts?
