Chapter 184 ["Good News"]

It was noon at this time, and the dazzling sun was standing above the sky. From a distance, a majestic city wall was on the south bank of the Lancang Canal.

The tall and majestic city walls made of blue stones are like a long dragon, showing their majestic and domineeringness. The closer they get to the imperial capital, the wider the river becomes. The endless stream of ships passing by on the river are like crucian carp and sails. Chen Daolin seemed to be almost in a trance, and he almost misunderstood this inland city to a certain harbor city.

Such a prosperous atmosphere is even a little inferior to the port of Hirok Island, the capital of Newhofen, the East China Sea!

Most merchant ships moored at the riverside pier outside the city. However, there is a tributary of the Lancang Canal, which splits from the main river and directly penetrates into the imperial capital.

A water city gate stands above the river channel. The city gate is wide, with iron fences hanging on it, and there are small boats for patrolling on both sides. The tall and mighty city defense soldiers patrol back and forth, and the awe-inspiring crossbows are arranged on the city tower.

On both sides of the city tower, along the city wall, each hundred meters, there is a tall tower, with heights and lows, forming nearly perfect defensive fortifications.

Chen Daolin was dazzled and admired the giant buildings of the Cold Weapon Age from the bottom of his heart. It is conceivable that in this era, how human and financial resources were invested in building such a memorable city defense. The strength of an empire can be clearly revealed from the walls of this imperial capital!

"The city defense of the imperial capital is the most perfect fortification in the world." Panning stood beside Chen Daolin, as if he had expected Chen Daolin's surprise and emotion. He smiled softly and said slowly: "The giant city of the imperial capital was built a thousand years ago. When the Roland Empire was founded, it built this giant city at any cost. The water gate you see is just the smallest among the gates of the imperial capital."

"The smallest one?" Chen Daolin glared.

"Of course!" Panning said slowly: "There are nine gates in the imperial capital, and there are six hundred and sixty-three towers, one hundred and thirty arrow towers, thousands of crossbows, and..." Speaking of this, he glanced at Chen Daolin and laughed in a low voice: "I think this thing is very familiar to Master Daling: the magic cannon."

"Magic Cannon?" Chen Daolin's eyes lit up.

In this world of cold weapons, magic cannons are undoubtedly the most sharp and powerful weapon in the military formation!

"Those magic cannons were left behind in the founding era. The manufacturing drawings of today have long been lost and later generations cannot create them again, but there are still more than 160 remaining. These magic cannons are fired with magic power, sounding like thunder, and their power is amazing... Unfortunately, I have never seen them with my own eyes. I just read from the literature when I was studying in the Military Academy. The city defense magic cannons in the imperial capital are never allowed to be used on weekdays, and... even if I want to use them, they cannot be turned on."

"Why?" Chen Daolin said curiously.

Panin smiled slightly.

At this moment, the ship slowly drove into the water gate. The patrol guards saw the flag of the Luolin family, so they naturally let it go. Earl Berion, the patriarch of the Luolin family, is the current Imperial Military Minister. How could the defenders stop his ship?

The boat entered the city gate and arrived at the inner dock of the port area of ​​the imperial capital.

Panin stood at the bow of the boat, pointed to the sky in the distance, and smiled and said, "Is the reason? It's naturally there!"

Looking into the distance, there are two tall towers standing there in the distance of the imperial capital, one on the left and the other on the right, echoing each other from a distance.

A little shorter is a round tower with huge blue stones piled up, with a simple shape. When Chen Daolin looked at it, he could vaguely feel a powerful magic fluctuation around the tower.

"The green tower is the headquarters of the Magic Union. The elders in the Magic Union all live on the tower, and there are magic circles around the tower. The birds are sad above the tower! Anyone or object who dares to fly over the Magic Union headquarters will be bombarded by the magic circle."

Panin smiled: "This is also the privilege given to the magic union by the Empire."

Chen Daolin nodded.

This is indeed a privilege!

In any country, air supremacy is owned by the state. Where can other organizations be allowed to get involved? The empire actually handed over the air supremacy of this area above the imperial capital to the magic union. This is not a privilege, so what is a privilege?

Thinking of this, Chen Daolin moved his eyes away and looked at another tower...

The tower is silver-white and is built with white giant stones. From a height, it is nearly twice as tall as the magic tower at the Magic Union headquarters! From a distance, it almost towers into the clouds!

Chen Daolin has seen high-rise buildings. In the real world, he has seen many world-famous Del tall buildings, such as the Jinmao Building in the Great Demon City, etc.

In terms of height, this white tower is naturally inferior to the skyscrapers in the real world.

But after all, it is Roland! With the technological level and civilization of this world, it is enough to build a building of this height that is amazing!

"That...is the legendary 'white tower'!"

Chen Daolin couldn't help but sigh.

...

White Tower!

This is a name with extremely special significance in the Roland Empire!!

During the Luolin family, there was also a tall tower in the Luolin family castle, which belonged to Semer's stargazing tower. It was also called the White Tower because it was built with white stone - but that was just the name of the Luolin family.

And the real "white tower" that is recognized by the entire Roland Empire and praised by the world is the one in front of Chen Daolin at this moment!

The exact location of this white tower is the center of the imperial palace in the imperial capital!

This white tower was built in the founding period thousands of years ago. The financial and manpower invested by the founding emperor was almost a terrifying number!

This is a magic tower!

When the founding emperor built this white tower, he left a powerful magic circle under the palace, and this white tower was the hub of the magic circle.

On the top of the white tower is a horseshoe-shaped metal base, which is said to be made of the hardest black iron stone, and a large amount of precious mitril silver is added to maintain its magical agreement. The top of the tower is even more recognized as the largest magic crystal - a height of three meters, weighing more than one ton!

Only such a huge magic crystal can meet such a huge magic array!

Once a war breaks out, as long as the magic hub of the White Tower is opened in the palace, this huge magic array will be immediately activated.

This is a powerful magic array that combines attack and defense. After the formation is activated, powerful defensive magic will cover the entire imperial capital!

Because when it was built, the towers of all sizes on the walls of the imperial capital were part of the entire magic array and were the fulcrum of the magic array. Once the hub of the white tower and the magic array was operated, it would trigger the response of hundreds of towers on the walls, and a giant defensive formation would completely envelop the entire imperial capital.

What's even more amazing is that this magic circle has strong defense and attack power is not inferior at all!

With the activation of the magic circle, the magic cannon on the city defense can get enough magic power and become a powerful firepower point on the city tower!!

It can be said that once this magic circle is activated, the entire imperial capital will immediately become a powerful fortress that makes all attackers desperate!

"When I was studying in the Imperial Military Academy, I learned various offensive and defensive strategies. The subjects in the academy have taught us countless times to use the imperial capital as an imaginary example to conduct offensive and defensive deduction." Panning also looked at the White Tower from afar and said slowly: "There are four acropolis around the imperial capital, occupying important roads from south to north. If you want to attack the imperial capital, you should first remove the four acropolis. The acropolis was built according to the standards of permanent military fortresses, and its defense should not be underestimated. The royal city guards army is recognized by the empire.

The most elite army with the best equipment. The four acropolis and the perfect city defense of the imperial capital have formed an extremely perfect defense system. With tens of thousands of elite royal guards, the royal guards in the city, the security forces in the city, and the private guards of all sizes of the wealthy and noble families in the city - once a war breaks out, the imperial capital can mobilize more than 100,000 troops. With an elite army of 100,000, and such a perfect city defense system, it is enough to give all attackers a headache.

The magic array of the White Tower is the core of the defense power of the imperial capital and the most powerful link. Once the magic array is opened... When the founding emperor built this magic array, he built it according to extremely amazing standards. The strong defense level of this magic array is probably unbelievable if he said it - the founding emperor once said that even a powerful person of the holy level can never break the defense of this magic array! Of course, in the past thousand years, no holy level power has challenged this magic array. But I still choose to believe the words of His Majesty the founding emperor - that His Majesty is the world's recognized strongest man, and even he said so, the defensive power of this magic array should be absolutely trustworthy.

It has a complete defense system, the protection of a powerful magic array that is the best in the world, and the magic cannon supplemented by magic as a counterattack method... When we deduced such a giant city in the Military Academy, we all thought that it would be almost impossible to conquer this city!

Even if I give me millions of soldiers, I am not sure to break this heroic city!"

When Chen Daolin heard this, he suddenly said, "I have always been curious about a question."

"What?"

"Although this is my first time in the imperial capital, I have seen a lot of legends about this white tower magic array in books." Chen Daolin smiled and said, "This legendary 'strongest magic array' has never been used once since it was built more than a thousand years ago, right?"

Panning looked at Chen Daolin strangely, as if frowned, then he looked around and said slowly: "Mr. Darling, although the magician enjoys some privileges in the empire, you'd better understand that some words should not be said casually."

"Isn't this a fact?" Chen Daolin curled his lips: "I have read historical documents and materials. This magic circle, which is known as the most powerful, has never really been used. When the founding emperor of the Roland Empire built this white tower, the empire had already unified the entire continent. Looking around, the empire had no opponents anymore. Without any opponents, he spent national efforts to build such a "most powerful magic circle". Wouldn't it be puzzling? Not only that, the emperors of the empire must follow the ancestral teachings and invest a lot of financial resources to maintain and repair the white tower and magic circle for thousands of years. This approach..."

Panin was silent for a while and whispered: "This involves the secret of the royal family. How can anyone else know?"

He shook his head and said, "Such a powerful magic circle has never been used. My Roland Empire has a whole continent. Looking around, no matter how invincible the opponents of the country, the alien races on the grassland are just nomadic robbers and cannot become a climate. The natives in the South China Sea can only row small boats and beg for mercy... And the magic circle has never been used for several civil strife in the empire."

Speaking of this, he seemed to have paused on purpose, then looked around and lowered his voice: "This question has indeed troubled all historians more than a hundred years ago. Why did His Majesty the Founding Emperor create such a huge but unusable magic circle? No one knows why. But until more than a hundred years ago..."

Chen Daolin's expression also became strange, he laughed softly, stretched out his finger and pointed north: "You mean, they?"

"good."

Panning's voice was low and said with a wry smile: "The Empire was founded for thousands of years, and there were never any strong enemies in the past thousand years, so this 'strongest magic array' has been criticized as a useless decoration, especially every emperor has to spend a huge amount of financial resources to repair it. This practice has naturally been criticized. But more than a hundred years ago, those aliens suddenly rushed in from the north of the frozen forest. Since then, there has been no more criticism of the magic array of the White Tower of the Imperial Capital."

Chen Daolin laughed, but then he frowned: "Did... the founding emperor a thousand years ago had long expected that foreign races would come to fight in the future? So he built this magic circle early a thousand years ago?"

"This... is really only the old genius knows." Panning spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "The founding emperor is a powerful man of a generation. Perhaps he can really see through the secrets of heaven and leave some magical prophecies. However, after those alien races entered, no one criticized the White Tower Magic Formation in the imperial capital. Especially in the years when the war was at its peak, there were even people who took the initiative to ask the royal family to repair the magic Formation."

"Well... But even so, the orcs have never really hit the Imperial Capital City." Chen Daolin shook his head.

"If Tulip Duke had not emerged, who would have guaranteed that the orcs would not drink Malan Canghe? You should know that in the wars of the past, the fortresses in the north were once broken by those alien races. If Tulip Duke had not turned the tide, the scene of the orcs drinking Malan Canghe would have really appeared in history books."

After hearing this, Chen Daolin suddenly felt a move in his heart and looked back at the wide Lancang Grand Canal... on both sides of the river, the prosperous scenery...

For a moment, there was no idea where the strange thought came from, Chen Daolin casually said: "If the founding emperor, if the white tower magic circle was built because of the prediction that a foreign race would invade a thousand years later - then, I wonder if he had seen these foreign races drink Malan Canghe in his prophecy?"

After saying this, Panning's face changed slightly!

He looked at Chen Daolin deeply, Panning's eyes shrank, took a deep breath, looked at the riverside, and suddenly raised his head and shouted: "If those dirty aliens really appeared to drink Malan Cang River... that would be the shame of every soldier in my Roland Empire!! I, Panning, will never let this happen in my lifetime!"

This is a decisive sentence, and his tone is full of strong confidence.

But Chen Daolin was quite surprised. He didn't expect that Panning was so arrogant. Although this man was not in line with him, he obviously valued his military status very much.

Although Chen Daolin felt emotion in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little worried...

If the founding emperor, a thousand years ago, really had the ability to predict and built such a white tower magic circle, then... if he hadn't really foreseeed that the day when foreign soldiers would come to the city, why would he spend so much effort to build this magic circle?

Just afraid...

Thinking of this, he slowly shook his head.

...

The ship finally landed and landed. This port is the private dock of the major wealthy families in the imperial capital. The dock of Luolin's family occupies a very good location. After this fleet was parked, the sailors on the ship naturally became busy.

Chen Daolin and others stayed on the boat for many days, and finally arrived at their destination. They could not wait to get off the boat.

Although Lucius looked a little depressed, he still insisted on staying with Jill. Although the Rollin lady's attitude towards Lucius was still so faint, it seemed that because of Chen Daolin, her attitude was slightly less stiff and cold, and she even said a few words to Lucius with a smile.

Panning left as soon as the boat was docked. He got off the boat with his servants and elders. Before leaving, he just nodded to Chen Daolin from afar, even if he had said hello.

Chen Daolin saw this guy go away and felt a strange feeling in his heart: in this imperial capital, I am afraid that he will have to deal with this guy in the future.

The people around him were quite strange, especially Captain Hook. He stood beside Chen Daolin and frowned, "Master Darling, when did you actually have such an affair with this guy?"

Chen Daolin smiled faintly: "Who said I was speculating with him? Although this person... well, forget it, it's better not to say it."
To be continued...