On February 5, the day after Lant arrived, Lant and Ben Call, led by Neil, came to the palace area of Yeqi City, which was the camp selected by Neil for Lant.
From outside the city, it seemed that Padmila Hill, where the palace is located, was only about 300 meters high, and the main building was elevated by less than 100 meters. But when he arrived at the palace square, Lant realized that the entire palace and the mountain were one and the same. overall.
After entering the palace wall from the bottom of the mountain, after passing some dilapidated palaces, you can see the mountain of Padmila. 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 mountainside, and you can see the palace on the top of the mountain if you go up.
Neil led Lant into a building and walked down a few meters of gentle slope to the camp. Looking at the many tents in front of him, Lant also understood that this was the most suitable place to camp.
"We asked this mage and it is estimated that these spaces were also used as wine cellars or storage rooms in the past. They are very dry." Neil pointed to the huge space.
"The door outside connects to such a big cave, it's no problem to move our entire camp in!"
"Of course, your tent is arranged in another room, which is slightly smaller than here and has an independent exit." Neil has already arranged the core tent area of Lant, and Nila has already taken people there to set up the tent. .
"How to make a fire for cooking and place the livestock?" Lant followed Neil touring the camp, asking questions from time to time.
"There is a special fire room nearby. Master Wendy has repaired part of the magic circle. Before, we lived and cooked outside and came back to sleep at night." Neil quickly answered. Lant emphasized fire safety more than once.
"In addition, there is a special animal pen area around the palace, and we have arranged manpower."
"Okay, have you entered the other rooms?"
"No, according to the requirements of Consul Laniya, everyone is repairing the buildings outside the palace. No one is allowed to enter the palace, so I found someone to seal the north and south stair halls." The space where the citizens are currently stationed is only the palace's warehouse. The real palace rooms need to go through several stair halls on the mountain to enter.
"Ben?" Lant watched Ben Kaur pass by in a hurry without even having time to say hello. He knew that this guy must have seen an incredible magic circle.
Lant didn't want to disturb Ben's enjoyment, nor did he want to continue patrolling, so he simply took Neil to the nearby south stair hall of the palace, preparing to explore the palace.
The south stair hall is a huge cylindrical room, surrounded by circular stairs, and in the middle is a huge black sculpture. A series of openings at the top allow natural light to shine in.
Going up the circular staircase, the half-open doors on each floor were like black holes. Lant did not dare to enter rashly, so he could only take Neil up to the top of the connecting stair hall.
After several searches, Lant finally found a terrace where he could overlook the entire Yeqi City. More than a month ago, Lant also went up to Longtai Mountain, but the mountains in the royal capital were densely covered with vegetation. Looking out, he could only see the surrounding mountains, not the city at all.
Now the scenery at the top of the palace in Yeqi City was completely different. The sun was rising, and the ruins of the city and Lant's vanguard troops entering the city were all visible to Lant.
It was a feeling that was difficult to explain. Looking at the vast tracts of ruins, Lant kept trying to restore the city's former prosperity and bustling traffic. He imagined the original boats of salt from the east and the trucks of salt transported from the west. Car iron ore.
"This is my city!" Lant, who seemed calm, was filled with excitement.
"Neil, let's go take a look at the rooms in each palace later to see which items are better preserved, so we can make preparations for the future."
"Ah?...Okay, sir!" Neil didn't understand what Lant meant for a moment, but he still subconsciously accepted the order.
Throughout the day, Lant took Neil and explored various rooms of the palace using the lighting sticks made by Wendy.
What Lant 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 all there, but the bedding was covered in dust; it was huge. The banquet hall cannot see the entire space clearly even with a light stick.
After walking around the palace, Lant didn't see the treasure house and treasury he wanted to find most, nor did he see any room related to the Magister.
From any point of view, Lant returned to the Yeqi City Palace instead of occupying Yeqi City. This castle is his home, so Lant cannot do what he did in the salt mine before.
"Let your hands go" and take whatever you can find, and you can only ask your subordinates to start cleaning some rooms and halls at night.
. . The next day, Lant persuaded Ben to walk around the city first. There will be a lot of time and opportunities to copy the magic circle in the future, but now he should have an overall impression of the city.
So Lant took Ben, Peter and a few knights around the city.
"I want to build some new workshops in that area." Lant and his party first arrived at the east gate of the city closest to the palace area. Lant pointed to the open space outside the east gate.
"This area is close to the tributaries of the Benma River to the north, and future transportation will be very convenient." There are two tributaries of the Benma River near Yeqi City. One runs from west to east, flows north of Yeqi City, and splits in the northeast. A branch road leads to the southeast, and the main river flows east.
The other one runs from west to south, turns northwest to south in Yeqi City, runs parallel to the west wall of Yeqi City and goes south to Cornico Pass. It has been the main waterway from Yeqi City to the Dragon Kingdom since ancient times.
Ben told Lant yesterday that about 20 kilometers east of the city, there used to be the industrial county of Yeqi City. There used to be dozens of workshops in that place. The salt mines on the plains could be disembarked directly from the dock of the industrial county by boat. It is refined in the workshop and then sent back to the alchemy workshop in Yeqi City via waterway to make alchemical products.
Rand didn't quite understand why the industrial zone was built 20 kilometers east of the city, but Ben couldn't tell.
During today's field trip, Lant discovered that although there is no natural channel of the Benma River in the east of the city, there is an artificially dug canal that extends from the northern branch of the Benma River and passes through a pond east of Benma City. It is the fork of the Benma River tributary mentioned earlier.
As Lant continues to explore the city, he is also making plans for the future Yeqi City. A large tent will be built outside the north wall of the city to carry the livestock of the barbarians who come here to spend the winter every winter.
Since the barbarians are located outside the north wall, a large number of forage warehouses, slaughterhouses, meat processing workshops, meat warehouses, etc. need to be set up at the same time.
The northwest will serve as the gathering place for Yeqi City's future magic academies. Lant has made up his mind to set up a magic tower here in the future so that every talented magic apprentice can enter and study.
Then there is the south. A large number of farms will be set up outside the south gate, as well as mills and grain warehouses.
