Chapter Eleven, Confirming the Direction
Ryan's hand first walked east along the capital of Nord, Winter City, and walked along a road and through a large number of towns. After the forest, his fingers came to a place covered by white deserts on the map: "The first road is to go east to the Kiss Avenue, and at the end is the giant snow-plane desert left by the original wizard empire - the Tazier Desert. Then he passed through the Roof of the World ruled by the dwarves and headed to the Dark Realm, where is the huge wasteland ruled by the Chaos Ogre who worships chaos. Belt can find his own home there... But he did not take that road, because the distance is too far,
It is more than two thousand kilometers, and Tazier is a barren land. There are only three cities and no towns or villages in the area of two-thirds of Nord. Most of the land is severely polluted and cannot be cultivated. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to obtain supplies. Then even if Belt passes through Tazier, it is difficult for him to pass through the ridge of the world guarded by the dwarves. The countless complex mountain paths and underground tunnels are enough to drive Belt crazy, so we can basically rule out the possibility of him taking this path. As we imagined, Belt chose to go west."
Everyone nodded, no one would choose to leave Tazier.
"The second one, go west, go north, go to Chaos Wasteland through the port of Lapland to join the northern barbarians entrenched there." Ryan touched his chin and shook his head: "This is a choice, but every port in the north is dominated by the Nord Kingdom army. Every ship heading to Chaos Wasteland will encounter severe investigations. With Belt's rich experience, he will never choose to take such a big risk. The will of the evil god will make him violent, but it will not make him stupid."
"Then the remaining choice is..." Ryan's hand continued to move west along the Mean Forest, and everyone's eyes also moved. Ryan's finger pointed on the Adal River, a river that penetrated the Mian Forest, and down the Adal River. After passing by several villages, Ryan's fingers came to a port city.
"Karcen Haven?" Theresa's beautiful silver pupils opened slightly, her red lips exhaled, and she whispered.
"Well, this is the third way for Belt, that is, go to sea from Nord's western port and find ways to go to the south. The fairy-loving Brittania and the powerful empire in the lake are naturally not within Belt's considerations. The faith is chaotic, and the southern country where the evil gods of Chaos are worshipped as gods, or the largest port and trading center of the continent where people come and go, and fish and dragons are mixed, is where Belt wants to go."
"Mr. Ryan said it well, but this does not mean that Belt will definitely go out to sea at Karcenhevin?" Wilt raised his own question.
"It's true, if it weren't." Ryan took out a piece of blood from his arms.
That was the death message written in blood by the dead old witch hunter: "Belt X Beauty Club."
"Aesthetic Club?! That's not...Isn't that an organization established by a group of scholars and socialites who are famous for their efforts to spread beauty in Marinburg?" Theresa opened her mouth in surprise, and she couldn't believe it.
Meimeihui is a well-known organization on the mainland. This organization is composed of a large number of high-ranking people who are very particular in their behavior and are attractive to follow fashion trends. It advocates the pursuit of "beauty" and leads people to "love and harmony".
"Yes, it seems that because of Belt's defection, there are more and more profound secrets. No one expected to hold salons regularly. Over the past ten years, art groups sponsored more than a dozen cities, and gave countless art youth training opportunities to be related to chaos." Ryan's brow frowned even more: "We can't be sure that Belt will go to Carlcenhevin, but I can be sure that he will definitely go to the port west and take a boat to Marinburg!"
"And our opponent is almost a day away. As long as he travels starry night to the port to the west and then hides at the Marinburgh and the Meimei Club joint, then we will find it difficult to find his trace."
Everyone was frowning.
Marinburg was originally part of the empire, or it is now part of the empire. This port is located at the sea entrance of the river after the intersection of the empire's three great rivers. It is the number one port in the world. Marinburg has unique geographical conditions. It is a plain with a pleasant climate and suitable for living, and a dangerous terrain. The deep-water port that can bear the throughput of tens of thousands of tons is surrounded by two peninsulas, and the mountains on one side are natural barriers.
Every year, tens of thousands of caravans continue to travel to Marinburg, and amazing gold continues to flow into this huge port city with oily oil, but rarely comes out. The Iris family ruled by Marinburg. The Grand Duke of Marinburg is very likely to be the richest man in the world, because very few forces can give orders to him. After the second Chaos Invasion ended 150 years ago, the new empire after being restructured was in ruins. At this time, the previous Grand Duke of Marinburg suddenly found Ludwig and he took out an amazing amount of wealth. It is reported that for at least ten years of the empire's fiscal revenue, the Grand Duke of Marinburg used this money to exchange for autonomy from Ludwig and wrote it into the founding ceremony. Since then, the empire can only collect a defense fee from Marinburg every year and must not interfere with any internal affairs of Marinburg.
Many people have objections to Ludwig's behavior, believing that he was splitting the country, but Ludwig said meaningfully: "The reconstruction of the empire urgently requires an amazing amount of wealth, and chaos in the north will eventually return again. Too comfortable and greedy for pleasure will not be beneficial to fighting chaos."
Therefore, Marinburg is in a "three-no-control" area. In addition to paying a considerable amount of defense fees to the empire, all the amazing taxes flow into the pockets of the upper nobles of Marinburg. Every year, countless refugees and mercenaries come in and out of the city to find opportunities to find the land of the people. There are also huge and extremely complex underground tunnels under the city for smuggling and hiding goods. If Belt escapes to Marinburg, it will be difficult to catch him again!
"It's hard for us to catch up with Belte now, so what we have to do now is to go to Carlcenhewen, because Carlcenhewen is closest to here. After arriving at Carlcenhewen, the Justice Church will help us check the nearest sea trip record, and we will continue to chase Belte." Ryan made a plan, and his remarks were recognized by everyone. Now, the journey of the night is useless. On the contrary, if it is too loud and it is easy to be noticed by Belte, so Ryan's plan is to go to Carlcenhewen at normal progress, hide, and wait for Belte's next appearance.
With the clue of the aesthetic meeting, finding Belt is not going to be able to find a needle in a haystack. There are several ports along the western coast of Nord. With the strength of the fallen hunter, it is impossible to send so many people to see them one by one. The distance is much longer, so I can only choose this way.
"Okay, then we will go to Kalzenhewen tomorrow. At our speed, we will set off at 7 a.m. tomorrow and we will arrive at Kalzenhewen at about noon. At that time, Ryan and I will go to the Church of Justice to ask for their news." Teresa nodded and said, Boris and Wilt agreed. There was so much happening today, and the sorcerer was very tired. After everyone made up their specific action plans, they said goodbye.
It was already late at night, and the camping place was surrounded by a hill of stones. When Ryan saw Teresa walking with a stick, she took the initiative to reach out to support her jade arm wrapped in white lace gloves: "I'll help you, my dear Ms. Trovik."
The sorcerer glanced at him and felt a strong sense of support from his arms. She did not refuse, but just sighed in a low voice: "Are you considering my body if you take the initiative to ask not to rush? Then you don't have to worry too much. My situation is much better than you imagined, and I will recover tomorrow."
"Oh? Is that right? Don't lie to me, don't mean it's day, you can't recover within three days, right?" Ryan directly exposed the lie of the sorcerer.
"Tsk, you will be responsible for my safety during this period." Teresa's lie was exposed, her pretty face turned red, like a mature peach, beautiful and charming. Her face was not so beautiful. No matter which arrogant female spellcaster becomes such a situation at slaughter, she will feel uncomfortable.
It can only be said that Ryan knows too much about the caster.
The caster is roughly divided into three systems, namely wizard, shaman, and warlock.
Wizards use their rich knowledge and exquisite magic control abilities to cast spells. They can theoretically learn all known spells. They use their magic power to build spells and then complete casting. Therefore, a spell is released. In addition to understanding spells, wizards also need to know how to build spells. Therefore, a wizard is trained to be a great wizard who can stand alone from an apprentice. The manpower and material resources required are very amazing. Their early combat power is very poor, but they have to spend a lot of money to support them, to experiment, learn, and even grow up in repeated failures. Most of the money is wasted, which makes many farmers' homes with magical talents appear in their homes but have no money to train them. They can only send them to the magic church to other wizards as apprentices. Many children's magical talents are abandoned in their apprenticeship work year after year.
Unlike wizards, shamans cast more than spell casting. The magic power of shamans comes from magic elements wandering between heaven and earth. They communicate with the power of element through totem and meditation, and use their own magic power to guide the magic elements between heaven and earth to complete the casting. Shamans cast quickly and consume less magic power. However, the casting is severely restricted by the environment. For example, in the ice and snow of Nord, shamans cannot release fire magic. If they encounter a chaotic area of magic elements, the shaman may release a water cannon technique and may hit the enemy. Instead, it will help the enemy heal. In some areas, magic elements are rare, so shamans are no different from normal people.
Finally, there are warlocks. Warlocks are known as the "high, rich, handsome, white, beautiful" among spellcasters because they are born to cast spells. The source of sorcerers is strange. Some people suddenly have the ability to cast spells after experiencing a storm, and some people also have the ability to cast spells after having some adventures in mines or beast nests. However, most warlocks appear because of bloodlines, that is, some of his or her parents are spellcasters. The magical bloodline of the spellcaster will be passed to the next generation and will automatically learn to cast spells as they grow older. They often don't need to know how this spell is constructed and what the principle of spells is, because those things are engraved into their bloodlines. They only need to chant spells according to the script to cast spells.
Because of their natural ability to cast spells, warlocks often feel superior. They disdain for those who farm in the mud all day long. Therefore, warlocks will not have people in a kind camp, that is, there is no "Holy Mother" and "Fraternity". According to Ryan, if necessary, Teresa can sacrifice these mercenaries without hesitation to give herself a chance to escape.
Without a perfect profession, the sorcerer's spell casting ability is also limited. For example, if the sorcerer's bloodline is the bloodline of a great thunder wizard, then he may not be able to learn one or two healing spells in his entire life, even the simplest small spell with one or two rings. Similarly, a sorcerer with a fire bloodline may take several years to master a simple water magic.
The warlock's casting relies on the power of bloodline, so when the magic power was exhausted at that time, Teresa forced the bloodline power to cast the spell. The ending was that her body was seriously overdrawn. Not to mention magic power, even her physical strength was at a serious trough within a few days.
"Don't worry, just look forward to Ms. Aurora's face, and I will protect you." Ryan smiled at first, and then his eyes quickly raised: "But I am not your servant, I hope you can understand."
"I know, no one will regard a kingdom knight as a servant." Theresa nodded, and when the woman was reminded by the man, she realized that her tone was a bit like the tone of the family to the servant.
Aurora Trovik, the elder of the Garland Council, saved Ryan's adoptive father Norman's life. Before Ryan was adopted, the specific situation was only when he was fighting against the barbarians on the battlefield. The young knight Norman was knocked down and almost died in battle. Aurora's spell saved his life. Although Aurora did not take it seriously, Norman always remembered it. For this reason, Ryan was willing to give in to Teresa a little and be willing to take good care of her.
But this does not mean that he is willing to give her current human and bodyguards. He and the sorcerer are originally complementary, they are companions, not superiors and subordinates.
As the sorcerer lifted the curtains of the tent, Ryan smiled and said, "Good night, Theresa, I wish you a good dream."
Chapter completed!