Chapter 326 The City of Holy Consecration
The luxurious carriage slowly left the port under the escort of the Royal Knights, and the wheels made a steady and brisk sound on the stone road.
The lance covered with brocade satin is like a hedge standing outside the car window, making the delicate golden roses and scripture badges more vivid.
Luo Yan was sitting in the carriage, fingering the little female dragon lying on his lap with his index finger. The latter purred in her throat like a sleeping cat.
At this moment, they were riding in the carriage of Cassit Hilfin, the head of the Hilfen family, heading to the temporary residence prepared by the Hilfen family for Prince Roxsay Colin.
This is an invitation from the Sylfen family.
As the most distinguished guest of the Holy City, Prince Colin can stay here forever. In exchange, he only needs to leave a portrait in the gallery... The Sylfen family will arrange for him to have the best painter in the Holy City to paint a classic that can be passed down forever.
I have to say that this is the cleverness of the Hilfin family. Over the thousands of years, they have accumulated a large number of excellent celebrity paintings through this kind of generous behavior... and the value of those oil paintings alone has exceeded the manor itself.
And the guests who can be invited by the Sylfen family will certainly not be shameless and stay here forever, so there is no need to worry about the problem of "it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send away".
In fact, Luo Yan did not intend to disturb him all the time.
Before disembarking, he had arranged for Lumil to contact a few of his "poor relatives" who suddenly appeared to see if their genealogy was valuable and if there were any loopholes that needed to be filled. At the same time, he could help him find a property in the local area that matched his status.
Meanwhile, Baron Tichy Kosia disembarked with Lumil. Although the great nobles of the Holy City were not interested in him, numerous knights and knights were very interested in him.
What he has to do now is to publish a book, accept interviews, and then return home in glory! Let’s pretend that we haven’t pretended in the past ten years again, and pretend enough at once!
As for Sarah, after all, she has the blood of a demon. She is still on the ship and will have to wait for a while before there are fewer people on the port before she can get off.
Although the Holy City does not reject impure blood like the Thunder City, the bloodline of the demon is still not visible on the stage. It can only hide the characteristics of the demon and quietly active in the shadow of the master.
She will join him later.
Luo Yan looked through the hollow windows and looked at the streets of the Holy City with great interest.
Hands of gorgeous and solemn buildings stand on both sides of the spacious streets. Crowded citizens cast curious glances at the motorcade from time to time, or whisper to each other.
To be honest, this was completely different from what he saw in the library of Demon King Academy. Theoretically, the residents of the Holy City should be ascetics wearing monastic robes and chanting sutras. Muscles wearing gorgeous armors cluster around the mummy-like emperor. There is no way there would be so many colorful colors.
However, Luo Yan can also understand. After all, he understands that everyone has vested interests. Naturally, what he says behind closed doors cannot be said when the door is open.
The library in the Holy City will not objectively describe what the Magic City is like. The eldest brother and the second brother should not laugh at each other on this matter.
While Luo Yan was observing the street scene outside the car window, Count Cassit Hilfen was also looking at him carefully.
It was an elegant middle-aged gentleman, wearing a well-tailored black dress, with the emblem of the Hilfen family's golden rose and scroll embroidered on the chest. His golden temple hair was slightly frosted if you looked closely, but his elegant and easy-going demeanor was not reduced at all.
"It's so rare... Is this the dragon's cub?" After getting on the carriage, his eyes were fixed on the dragon between Prince Colin's legs without ever moving away. Until he heard the comfortable purring sound, he finally couldn't help but exclaimed.
He thought he was well-informed, but this was the first time he saw this legendary species.
And it is a giant dragon cub that is even rarer than the legendary species!
"Yes, a little guy who has just hatched. I met it near the Sun Staircase Mountains. In the ancient fables of the Janna continent, that is where the dragon was born." Looking away from the window, Luo Yan had a gentle smile on his face.
Tafu opened half of her eyes and glanced at Luo Yan. She was about to argue, but because of her master's order, she only snored.
Before arriving at the port, Luo Yan specifically told her two things.
One is not allowed to utter words when there are other people around, and the other is not allowed to suddenly lay eggs when there are people around...unless you really can't hold it in any longer.
In fact, these two things are nothing. Some smart dragons are not only able to speak dragon language, but they just find it troublesome and don't want to cause trouble.
"What a cute little guy." Cassit said enviously, and then added after a moment, "It's a pity that it's too small. I heard that it takes more than a century for a dragon to grow..."
"Yes," Luo Yan lightly shrugged his shoulders and said with regret, "I plan to go to the empire's academy this time. In addition to learning the empire's advanced magic knowledge, I also have the idea of searching for a "magic potion that can accelerate the growth of a dragon."
The empire's research on magical creatures cannot be compared to the hell of playing with monsters. Luo Yan just said this casually.
However, the moment Taph heard these words, she couldn't help but tremble, and almost fell out something small again.
Kassite touched his chin and thought seriously, then said after a moment.
"Giant dragons are beyond my knowledge, but I do know a few magicians who are quite accomplished in magic... Maybe they can provide you with some help."
Luo Yan did not refuse his kindness and said with a smile.
"If you could introduce me to me, I would really appreciate it."
"It's just a little effort. It's my honor to be able to help such a noble person like you." Cassit smiled slightly, as if he had just done an insignificant thing.
The two continued to chat along the way. Luo Yan, who noticed that Tafu was about to lose control, calmly changed the topic to the Holy City itself.
When the topic turned to the Holy City, Kassite immediately showed his erudite side. From cultural customs to religious philosophy, it can be said that he knew everything about the situation here.
At this moment, the scene outside the car window also reflects his talkativeness - this is indeed a great and prosperous city.
The prosperity of the Principality of Campbell can only support one Queen Street, and almost every street here is not inferior to it.
There are many slender towers, the streets are wide and clean, the pedestrians passing by are all well-dressed citizens, and the carriages are pulled by tall horses instead of short goblins.
· Roadside cafes are filled with gentlemen and ladies chatting elegantly, bookstore windows are filled with hardcover books, and in the street corner square, a group of young students are sketching intently, and the model is a girl with delicate features.
She was sitting by the fountain, as quiet as a statue, bathed in the morning light, just like the statue of the Virgin in front of St. Clement's Church.
At this time, noisy drumming suddenly came from not far away.
The carriage slowed down, and the accompanying royal knights also tightened their reins to prevent the horses from being frightened and causing accidents.
Luo Yan looked with interest in the direction from which the drumming sound came, and saw a wedding procession slowly approaching from the other end of the street.
The two newlyweds were sitting in a carriage decorated with flowers and ribbons, with rosy cheeks and bright smiles. They were dressed simply and neatly, and they seemed to be citizens of the Holy City.
Musicians in festive costumes gathered around them, playing bagpipes and accordions, and a few lively children scattered flower petals. Passers-by stopped to applaud and whistle with blessings.
"It seems like there is something happy today." Kassite smiled gracefully, then reached out and tapped the car window twice, signaling the knights outside to stop and wait.
The leading knight nodded slightly, and then the royal knights stopped neatly, waiting for the parade to pass by.
The sound of drum music was getting closer and closer. A short and fat man saw the badge of the Royal Knights. His face flushed with excitement. He took off his hat and waved enthusiastically to the knights: "Thank you, sir! May the glory be with you always! May Saint Sith bless you!"
The leading knight had a serious face, but was not indifferent. He nodded slightly in response to the citizen's gratitude and respect.
Kassite looked at Luo Yan with a gentle smile and said softly: "After all, they are the children of Saint Sith. We can't ruin their happiness. Please forgive us."
"Of course," Luo Yan nodded with a smile and said happily, "We still have a long time, so we are not in a hurry."
To be honest, Luo Yan was quite surprised by the Holy City's openness and tolerance. After all, they are also bathed in the glory of Saint Sith, and the nobles of Thunder City will never give way to the common people.
As for hell——
Hell will not be so hypocritical. If there are goblins that get in the way, the true-hearted demons will of course kick them in the butt.
But this is actually nothing. After all, although the goblin does not admit it with his mouth and has tears on his face, his body actually enjoys being treated like this.
"I didn't expect that this city would change so much in five hundred years." Luo Yan sighed sincerely and gave a comment that was in line with his character.
Mr. Cassit, who was sitting opposite, showed a gentle smile.
“Your family has been away from the center of civilization for too long and is not familiar with the situation here. In the last hundred years, the development of the Holy City has been even more amazing than in the past thousand years. Not just magic and religion, we have made amazing achievements in literature, painting, music, philosophy, mathematics, geometry and many other fields... ...What you see now is just the tip of the iceberg. I think you will see more places that will make you feel both friendly and surprised in the future."
Luo Yan nodded slowly, his happy expression was like witnessing a miracle in the holy light, and like a drowning man who had been drifting on the sea for five hundred years and finally saw his hometown.
"This city is indeed extraordinary... Saint Sis is above, I can see my hometown so prosperous in my lifetime, I just feel that I have no regrets in this life."
Cassit nodded slightly and said gracefully.
"It's an honor for you to have such thoughts, which shows that we have lived up to our fathers' expectations for us."
Hence said this, there was a little pride in his eyes, and he added another sentence.
"By the way, the square you are seeing was designed by our professor from the Imperial Academy of Art...although he was still a recent graduate at that time."
"Oh?" Luo Yan's eyes showed just the right amount of interest, and he followed his words and said, "I heard that you are the principal of the Art Academy, so you must be very knowledgeable, right?"
Cassit smiled and waved his hand humbly: "I am just following the trend of the times and providing some guidance. It is the young scholars of the academy, they are the real protagonists... By the way, speaking of a recent study in the academy, perhaps His Highness the Prince will be interested."
Luo Yan: "Oh? What is the subject?"
Cassit's expression suddenly became mysterious, as if he was ready to shock the other party. Luo Yan also moved closer as he wished, waiting with interest.
After all, Kassite said seriously.
"Recently, our scholars have made a bold conjecture... They believe that the earth under our feet is not flat, but a huge sphere!"
"Ball... Sphere?!"
Luo Yan was slightly startled, and a trace of surprise flashed across his face.
He was indeed shocked, but not because of the idea itself, but because this sentence actually came from the mouth of the red man next to the Pope!
If it were in Leiming City, absolutely no one would dare to talk like this. Maybe before it reached the ears of the priests, they would be poked with hoes by the old farmers in Leiming County.
Seeing Luo Yan's surprise, Cassit seemed quite satisfied and further explained: "Yes, or to be more accurate, it is an elliptical star, which we call a planet. What supports this speculation is the continent you just returned from, the Janna continent - it is like a puzzle piece that has been lost for thousands of years, and it just falls on our confusion."
Luo Yan was silent for a moment, looking at the towers and churches outside the car window, and tentatively mentioned: "This view seems to conflict with the teachings of the Book of Holy Words..."
Kassite's eyes flashed, expressing appreciation for the prince's honesty and piety, and then continued with a smile.
"Five hundred years ago, this was indeed a taboo topic, but the last two hundred years have been slightly different. Especially when Gregory IX, our great Pope, wrote a book to supplement the content not mentioned in the Book of Holy Words, everything revolves around the Holy Light. The theory is no longer taboo. As we all know, the holy light has the same origin as the sun, and the fact that demons are afraid of the sun just proves this."
Devils are not actually afraid of the sun, they just don't like it, just like humans hate dark places and too hot magma.
However, Luo Yan did not interrupt him, but listened to him continue with interest.
"Of course, the heliocentric theory is not our only theory. In addition, there is the double arc theory, but there are fewer researchers. That is, our world is a bowl, the surface of the earth is the convex side, and hell is the concave side. The sun Rotating along the edge of the bowl, the daylight on the earth rotates, the days are long and the nights are short, while the hell is dusk, the days are short and the nights are long. "
"What an incredible idea." Although Tafu couldn't help snorting in ridicule, Luo Yan still praised it sincerely.
·From a modern perspective, these ideas are of course fanciful, but the so-called science has never been the standard answer in the exercise book, but a method and idea to explore the truth.
Bold imagination and careful verification are the way to delve into the truth. They have given birth to the seeds of science, but everything is still very crude.
Besides...
He actually has no reason to say that they must be wrong.
First of all, the universe is different.
Although many of the physical rules of this world are similar to those on Earth, due to the existence of subspace, the space of the universe here is obviously discontinuous, and the information that people can access is obviously more than that of people in other universes.
Looking at Prince Colin who seemed to be shocked, Count Cassit continued with a smile.
"...Your Highness, as you can see, we are entering an unprecedented golden age. And I think your return is one of the signs of the unveiling of this beautiful era! Please allow me to welcome you home on behalf of my family, my honor and my faith!"
Luo Yan listened quietly, with a happy smile on his face.
His eyes crossed the bustling streets outside the car window and landed on the majestic palace in the distance and the church steeple that was already parallel to the palace as it went further and further away.
Dantès's family lives on 11th Road, Zhongcheng Street. The name suggests that it is not a place where rich people live, but a place where high-ranking people from the empire live.
And this is also true.
Dense three-storey townhouses are located on both sides of the stone road. Occasionally, a loading carriage runs past on the relatively spacious street.
Judging from the arch at the door, it is remarkable that Dantès and his family own a single house, but unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his neighbor.
The ground floor next door is a shoemaker's shop, and the sound of tinkling bells will probably last from morning until dusk. A resident not far away was pouring a basin of vegetable washing water in front of the door, as if to dilute the bad smell emanating from the drain.
The only thing that is better about Thunder City than here is that the drainage system was built by Lint Isaac. Even in summer, you will not be bothered by the smell of manure. But if you live in a community where "the housing prices used to be expensive, but now the old money has moved away," you don't have to rely too much on the quality of the neighborhood.
But Lumir did not look down on them snobbishly. After all, his background was not very noble. Even speaking about it would make the other party subconsciously confused "What is that?"
However, although Lumil didn't care, Edmund standing next to him was sensitive and suspicious, fearing that the servant of this distinguished distant relative would doubt the quality of his family crest.
"We also have a farm in the suburbs called Dantès Manor...it was left to us by Mr. Fernando Colin five hundred years ago!"
Before Lumil could speak, the eldest son Lucian standing next to him hurriedly echoed.
"That's right! I've been there several times. Every summer I practice equestrianism there, in order to become a glorious royal knight... The pasture there is so big!"
Sofia is more reserved and knows the art of euphemism. She walked quietly behind her mother and spoke softly.
"Mom...it's time for me to practice the piano. Can you allow me to stay with you for a while?"
"Anna's eyes rolled and she nodded quickly.
"Of course... go ahead and play the flower under the moon you just learned... Hua... Hua Qian Yuexia?"
Sophia said quickly.
"The Moonlight Concerto is a piece composed by Mr. von Erstadt to commemorate the summer of 668 in the Holy Calendar, dedicated to the girl he met in the garden..."
Looking at his sister who suddenly started to recite the text, the sixteen-year-old second son Francois stood beside him and scratched his head blankly. As a nerd, his eyes were full of confusion, and he didn't understand what was happening to his family.
Is this Mr. Lumil an examiner at the Imperial Academy of Art?
Six-year-old Emily didn't understand even more. She excitedly raised her little hands covered in frosting to show that she was just as awesome as her brothers and sisters.
"Oh! Emily should go to class with Teacher Agnes. She wants to teach us arithmetic——"
Anna covered little Emily's mouth, ignored the latter's twittering protests, looked at Lumil with a smile on her face and said.
"Little Emily means that Mrs. Agnes will come to teach her. That lady is the tutor we hired for her. But she remembered wrongly. Mrs. Agnes is ill and is taking leave today..."
Lumir pressed his eyebrows with a headache, and even began to doubt whether choosing this family was the right choice.
But soon he thought of Teach and even himself——
Turning decay into magic is what is incredible about Lord Demon King, especially when he watched with his own eyes that Lord trained a pirate into a real baron, and then turned a real captain into a pirate in the skin of a governor.
This family still has potential.
At least have the ambition to become stronger.
"I'm sorry to disturb your schedule today——"
Looking at Lumil who took the initiative to apologize, Edmund said with fear.
"No! Mr. Lumil! You did not disturb us, we are happy to accompany you for a walk around the neighborhood, or we will go to the manor in the suburbs now——"
Lumir shook his head and interrupted him.
"No, no need, I mean you don't have to be so polite. Of course I will disturb the manor, but not now..."
He didn't care at all about the poor acting skills of the Dantès family. The only thing that really caught his attention was the sentence Edmond mentioned - "Five hundred years ago, the ancestral home left to Marguerite Dantès by Mr. Fernando Colin."
The Demon King doesn't care about the authenticity of his bloodline at all, because it is inherently false, and the authenticity is not important at all.
He only needs an identity that he can change at will, and this will determine what kind of play will be performed next.
After a pause, Lumil looked past the nervous and sweating family, took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, and then his eyes fell upstairs.
"We will sit upstairs for a while, and then you will tell me all the stories you know about Mr. Fernando and Miss Margaret, including showing me the relics they left behind."
“Then I will convey what I heard and saw to His Majesty the Prince, and everything will be decided by the gentleman himself.”