quicksilver blood

Chapter 54 City of Fortune
The city of wealth, the city of crime.

No one remembers what the name of the city is, they only know that this is a land beyond the reach of the law.

This is not to say that they do not follow any laws - on the contrary, people who live here need to memorize various complicated rules and integrate them into every detail of their lives.

For in this city the laws of Caral and Fararo are void.Correspondingly, each area of ​​the city and even each street has its own independent prohibition.

The more this lawless place, the more authoritative the few remaining prohibitions.

If someone does not understand why the City of Fortune can maintain an ingenious balance in such a chaotic state, so that it has not been destroyed for decades or even nearly a hundred years, then he had better listen to the City of Fortune The three first and last laws at the beginning of its founding:

If you don't get caught, it's not a crime;

No investigation is allowed without prosecution;

If you cannot prove your innocence, you are automatically considered guilty.

Basically, anyone in the city of wealth can find reasons for his guilt, and he can also be regarded as innocent.There is even a saying that "the devil will be arrested when he comes here".

Of course, this kind of law that can be called a brain disease also has a basis for its birth.

At that time, Karal had just become independent from Bansa, and his background was as thin as paper.It is a principality in name, but it has no arable land, no citizens, no laws, and an empty treasury. It has only one armed force that can be called an army, and even officials hold several positions.

Even with the protection of those druids, Karal's independence is still not favored by others, and it is not even recognized by other countries.Because Karal is a vassal state of Bansa, if Bansa suddenly refuses to recognize Karal's independent status one day, he can directly send troops to attack Karal - it is almost certain that Bansa will turn his face sooner or later.And if Bantha really wanted to turn his back on him, Karal would be powerless to resist even with the druids protecting him.

In fact, as early as during the War of the Gods, the Druids who were the defeated party were expelled by the Allied Forces of the Gods, and were forced to make an oath that they would fail if they confronted the army of the Gods head-on.

Generally speaking, the intelligence departments of various countries believe that the reason why the Druids can participate in the war is mainly because Bantha did not send the Templar Army to the front line at all.After all, no one expected that a druid who had been expelled for more than 100 years would suddenly appear.

Because the profession of templar knights is very hypocritical, they must fight near the temple of their gods to have the strongest combat effectiveness, and unlike priests who can communicate with their gods anytime and anywhere, they have slightly worse perception attributes. You can only contact the gods at a fixed time every day to restore your divine power.Moreover, different gods have different perception moments, which is extremely inconvenient when marching.

So if it is not the last moment, they are all responsible for defensive tasks, especially the defense of important areas such as the capital.

It is precisely because Druids cannot face the established Temple Army head-on that Karal must expel all priests so that Druids can protect the country normally; it is also because Druids cannot face the Temple Army directly, so in After the army of ordinary people was destroyed, Caral would be so easily destroyed by the Lord of Violence.

Everyone, even Karal's own people, believed that allowing Karal to establish a state was just a way for Bantha to delay the attack.Once Bantha's intelligence organization learned that the only defensive force in Karal was a group of druids, as long as Bantha let the Templars go out, the newly established Karal would be torn up like paper.

To put it bluntly, those who were burned by the flames of war have cooled down their passionate brains but still resolutely choose to stay in Karal, and the rest other than opportunists who go out are true love.

But when it comes to opportunists, we have to talk about such a group of people.

When everyone was not optimistic about Kalal's independence, a strange brigade saw a great opportunity from the crumbling Kalal.

This brigade consists of a liar, a murderer, a human trafficker, a gangster, a cultist and a madman.They donated a large sum of money to Kalal and bought permanent control of the most marginal and barren land in Kalal for nearly three times the normal price.

Then, to everyone's surprise, Su Ze declared war on Bansa.In this war, Bantha consumed a lot of power, so that for a long time, he had no time to take care of Karal, who had been silent and looked good.But when Bantha regained his strength, Karal also survived the most difficult period and got on the right track - so Bantha still couldn't attack Karal.

And that land would later become known—or notorious— as the City of Fortune.Attracted by those three laws, conspirators from countless other countries, wanted criminals, heretics enough to be sentenced to ten times of death, and nobles who temporarily failed in political struggles joined here one after another.Instead, the original six died under the laws they made.

Since then, this place has become a completely deserted land.

Because of the entanglement of various forces—even involving members of the ruling family of multiple countries, Karal was afraid to take back this land easily.

This is a paradise for liars, a hunting ground for murderers, and a holy place for missionaries of heretics.Thieves and arms dealers are as harmless as sheep here.

As long as you have the money, spending some time here will be the most luxurious and dangerous experience of your life.

Generally speaking, some big forces give their heirs a sum of money, and then send them to the City of Fortune for a period of time to gain experience when they reach adulthood.

During these days, they do not have any protection from the family, nor will they enjoy any support from the family.Those who couldn't bear the temptation, spent all their money early or were cheated or robbed—in short, those who couldn't live to the given day, basically even if they could get out alive, they would have no chance of inheritance.Those trash who can't bear the temptation, or don't have enough intelligence and force to protect themselves, even if they get the inheritance right by luck, they will only lose their family property.

And those who not only didn't spend all the money they brought, but were able to make money from the city of wealth, were undoubtedly powerful.This means that they already have the ability to survive in the city of wealth, and even if there is a difference in the ability of their parents, it will not be much different——

"I don't know why Uncle Marcus wants us to come here all of a sudden."

Loud whining came from the front.

"Look out, Sister Niya, Uncle Marcus won't harm us," followed by an energetic voice, "At least there are quite a few jokers here, aren't there?"

"Don't compare me with you brainless stinking men," the first voice reprimanded meanly, "I asked Uncle Marcus, and he said it's very dangerous here, and he told us to be careful. It's best to go in The city went to him immediately."

"No matter how dangerous it is, can you pass the battlefield dangerously?" The energetic voice obviously disagreed, "The heavy cavalry formation of the Titans didn't kill me, so I don't believe that this group of scum can do anything to me."

Attracted by these two voices, everyone around them turned their attention.

That is unabashedly malicious.If the malice in their eyes had warmth, not even a single ashes of these two people would be left at this moment.

"...Anyway, it's better to be careful."

Probably feeling some bad atmosphere, he hesitated a little, and the harsh voice weakened.

"Coward," the energetic voice snorted disdainfully, "I'm going out to have a good time tonight, sister, just tell me if you're coming or not."

"Who's a coward? I'm just worried that you don't have enough money to pay for my share, and then someone will detain you and chop your fingers off!"

The sharp female voice responded immediately not to be outdone.

"Oh, two chicks."

Croween and Roland sat face to face in the carriage.Hearing the undisguised loud noise coming from behind him, he couldn't help but chuckled.

The City of Wealth is a place where personal force is almost useless, unless you can reach the gold rank.What's more, just by hearing Kluveen's voice, he can tell that the two people behind him are definitely not over 20 years old.

It is not bad for a person of this age to have the strength of the black iron rank.A certain elder of their family seemed to have no good intentions and didn't tell them the specialness of this place...

Probably a struggle for power.

Kluvien can almost conclude that the two little guys behind him will definitely not survive tonight.

The group of people who stared at the two children with vulture-like eyes were doing exactly what vultures were doing.

But when he turned his attention back, he suddenly found that his "female companion" was holding out a letter and looking at the light with her head bent.

"Hellan, what are you doing?"

he asked puzzled.

The black-haired girl turned her head back, showing an incomparably innocent smile, but her voice was hoarse and extremely magnetic: "It's just some preliminary preparations."

"That's the letter of introduction that Farina prepared for you?"

Kluvien frowned: "I'm not good at saying something, that woman's things..."

"It's better not to touch it, right." Roland interrupted him unceremoniously, "Of course I know about it. So I took out this letter to do another thing."

"Another thing?"

"That's right. I'm just checking to see if this letter mentions whether it was sent by one person or two people." Roland concentrated on pointing the letter at the light and carefully looked at it. "Falina must have set There is no doubt about the magic circle that will automatically burn after reading it once. More importantly, in order to ensure that the spontaneous combustion of this letter will not be stopped by others, and then traced to herself through the wreckage of this letter, Farina Only oil-impregnated paper, which burns out instantly, should be used as a medium."

"However, she obviously overlooked that the oil-impregnated paper is permeable—no, it's not so much that she ignored it, it's better to say that she is confident that through the encryption of the code words she wrote, even if I can think of this and use the beam Even if you just read the whole letter, you won’t find the trap she hides in code words. You will only see her sincerity and kindness.”

"Well, if I hand this letter to the guard when I can't get into town, or deliver it to her property as she says, I'll die without knowing how I died—oh Yes, the greater possibility is that life is worse than death."

Having said that, Roland sneered and put down the letter.

"But she doesn't know that not only do I know people from Fortune City who can take me into the city, but I also know the code words designed by her." Roland put on a black windbreaker, put the letter in his arms, and then Wei Wei straightened up and was about to get off the carriage, "Let me tell her that it's okay to pretend to assassinate, and the planning is thousands of miles away——she's really not the material."

"Wait! Herlan! Where are you going?!"

Kruveen subconsciously clenched the door handle: "You can easily cause trouble when you appear outside like this!"

Roland turned around and showed a malicious smile.But that smile became as sweet as a flower in an instant, without even a trace of gloom: "I'm just going to give someone's letter of introduction to someone who needs it more."

…Besides, I’m really just here to cause trouble.

Roland added a sentence silently in his heart narrowly.

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First ask for recommendations on Monday...

Also, the achievement of going up to the next level is finally finished... In this way, we don't have to worry about how to cut the plot every day to make up 2 words. It only needs [-]k or more every day, and we can do as much as we want. What a blessing!
...Ahem, aren't we trying to be lazy?We are going to start working on the second achievement...the achievement of breaking out ten times.Time is conserved, less updates are for the next outbreak...

If nothing else, there will be two [-]D outbreaks in October.Stay tuned.

(End of this chapter)