"Rex, what does Alchemy City look like?" Salin asked Rex when they were 50 miles away from Alchemy City. They could move at full speed now. Shika's injuries had completely healed. It only took them a little more than an hour to cover the distance of fifty kilometers.
"I don't know." Rex's answer made Salin feel strange. In his heart, there was very little that Rex didn't know about the Qinyin Empire.
"The route we took was too rushed. I haven't had a chance to contact my own people," Rex explained to Salin. Seeing Salin's confused expression, Rex smiled. "Alchemy City isn't like other cities. There are frequent changes. Even the Magic Towers outside the city are like that.
Rex's words made Salin even more confused, but he didn't ask anymore. Everything would be clear once they reached Alchemy City.
Salin had never been to Alchemy City, but his teacher, Jason Statham, was from there. He had a strange liking for the city.
Salin thought that he wouldn't be shocked by other cities after seeing Holy Rock City. But when he was about 10 miles away from Alchemy City, he could clearly see the outline of Alchemy City.
What he saw weren't city walls or Magic Towers. What he saw was a city complex formed by the tall buildings inside the city.
He only saw the tall Magic Towers outside the city when he was five miles away. But compared to the buildings inside the city, the difference in height was too great.
What were those buildings? They were taller than a 10-story Magic Tower! Salin didn't need to use his Cold Vision to know that most of the buildings were taller than the Qinyin Empire's palace. He'd read in books that Glory City's Holy Cathedral was the tallest building on the Myers Continent. But when he saw the buildings in Alchemy City, he didn't think the Holy Cathedral could be taller than these buildings.
Alchemy City wasn't without city walls. It was just that the city walls were connected by castles of different styles. The walls were uneven. For the sake of artistic beauty, there were also many reliefs. With these reliefs, trained swordsmen could easily climb up without the need of ladders.
The materials used to build these castles were mostly low-level magic materials. But no matter how low level they were, they were qualified to build Magic Towers. All the reliefs and patterns on the castle walls weren't dyed. They were determined by the natural color and texture of the stone itself.
The main gate of Alchemy City did not look like the gate of a city no matter how one looked at it.
At the end of the road, there were two tall statues. The statues were more than 80 meters tall. When people got close to them, they would feel dizzy. The two human-shaped statues had lifelike animal skin patterns on their bodies. Looking up, the eyes of the statues were looking down. One of them held a long sword in his hand.
Salin saw that there was a third eye on the statue's forehead. The statue's original form was that of a three-eyed giant.
The Giant Plane had long been lost, unlike the Undead Plane, where necromancers could summon some creatures. The Giant Plane only existed in legends.
Under the sword was a huge dragon head. This sculpture that was carved in the shape of a dragon's head was the main gate of Alchemy City. Salin felt a sense of awe-inspiring majesty.
He had seen giant dragons before, and the majesty emitted from this dragon's head was extremely similar to the Dragon Might of a living giant dragon.
The main gate of Alchemy City was based on the only Legendary System Myth on the Myers Continent. It was a story from 30,000 years ago.
The gods coveted the fertility of the Myers Continent and started a war between planes. The flames of war spread across countless planes. Humans led the creatures of nearly a hundred planes and fought with the gods for the right to rule the Myers Continent.
The three most ferocious races under the command of humans were the demons, the dragons, and the giants. The gods retreated in defeat. They were about to lose the divine territory's passage to various planes and be imprisoned in the boundless void. A weak god tempted a powerful being among the giant dragons, causing at least half of them to betray humans.
At this time, rumors spread everywhere. Most of the creatures in the planes believed one thing: the planes where humans lived would destroy all living creatures. The war turned for the worse, and there were many different opinions about what happened next. In the end, the gods still failed, and the humans lost their best friend, the Giants.
The giants expressed their disappointment at such a war. After helping humans kill the traitorous giant dragons, they disappeared from the planes. It was said that they broke the restraints of the planes and went to another, larger world.
Then came the Age of Chaos. A new god appeared on the continent — Myers.
Goddess Myers never needed faith. Whether you were her follower or not, she would give you gifts. Her godly palace was mostly dealing with the troubles after the war.
No matter how unreal the Age of Chaos 30,000 years ago was, Salin knew that such a legend couldn't be recorded in history books. Especially when the Holy Church once conquered three-quarters of the continent. Many books were burned as forbidden books.
In the past 1,000 years, other than in the notes of mages, this story was only spread by the wandering poets of the Qinyin Empire.
Recording such words on paper was blasphemy to the God of Light. Gods loved humans. Why would they start a war? Also, history had been buried for so long that many people didn't even believe that humans had such a glorious era.
The gate of Alchemy City was designed based on this legend. The Holy Church couldn't have been unaware of such a design. Even if Alchemy City didn't build a ten-story Magic Tower, it was the same as telling the Holy Church that mages would never believe in their gods.
The dragon's head was more than 20 meters tall. When it opened its huge mouth, six pairs of teeth of different lengths were engraved with huge magic arrays. There was no need to open the gate. Anyone who entered the city could be attacked by the magic arrays on the dragon teeth. Salin felt dizzy again. He did a simple calculation of the 12 magic arrays. His Mental Energy decreased uncontrollably, as if it was being sucked away from the outside.
Salin even suspected that the two giant statues were also weapons of attack. But he couldn't think of what would be needed to move such huge puppets.
Before he entered the city, Salin was struck by something deep in his heart by this group of statues. Humans used to be so glorious. Why did most people choose to forget now? Only mages were still pursuing the truth and moving forward with difficulty.
Many people felt that mages were unsociable and unapproachable. Even mages who served the royal family or nobles had difficulty communicating with the people around them. But Salin knew very well that it wasn't because mages had power. It was because the way they saw the world was too different from ordinary people.
Who would think about what would happen a hundred years later? When they ate, would they think about what their food was made of? They didn't even want to understand how many bones were in their bodies. They didn't want to understand why mages were so powerful and always stood at the top.
More and more people only cared about what was in front of them and lost the desire to know. Many mages felt sad when they saw ordinary people. Even if some wanted to become a mage apprentice, it was just to learn a skill to survive.
There were too many jobs that a mage apprentice could do. They wouldn't starve to death. Some people just wanted to learn a memory spell, recognize more words, and manage the accounts for businesses.
There were more than a billion people on the continent. The number of mages didn't even reach one percent, and most of them were concentrated in Qin Yin. Rex used favorable conditions to attract low-level mages and apprentices. In ten years, there were only tens of thousands of people in Qin Yin who went to Gushui Prefecture.
Of these tens of thousands, most were apprentices. If only low-level mages were counted, there might barely be more than a thousand? These thousand low-level mages made up less than one in a million of the human population on the continent.
Salin suddenly understood why Alchemy City existed. This city was the hope that mages created themselves. Every mage who entered the city would see the statues and remember the glory that humans once had.
There were no guards in Alchemy City. The city gates were never closed, and no one collected taxes. The streets looked much narrower than in Holy Rock City. It wasn't that the mages in Alchemy City respected the Glücos royal family, but that the carriages going in and out of Alchemy City were much smaller.
There were many great mages here. Although spatial equipment was still expensive, it wasn't rare. There was no need for the huge carriages of the empire to carry those low-level wooden boxes.
The streets in the city weren't straight. Mages didn't need cavalry either. They had all kinds of puppets. Moreover, no one dared to attack Alchemy City. Salin saw hundreds of Mage Towers outside the city, but he hadn't seen the legendary nine nine-story Mage Towers. The nine towers were to the east of Alchemy City, facing the sea.
Alchemy City had a thousand years of history. Other than Level Nine Magic Shooters, ordinary mages didn't live that long. At least half of the hundreds of Mage Towers had lost their owners. No one would touch these Mage Towers. They became the final resting places of mages.
There were no gaps in the streets of Alchemy City. All the stones laid down were tightly connected by alchemy. It was seamless. The damaged parts would be repaired every year. There were too many apprentices and low-level mages here.
What surprised Salin was that there were huge buildings everywhere. Salin saw a tall tower with a metal skeleton. It was inlaid with crystals. Even if it was a used crystal, it couldn't be measured with gold coins. Everything in Alchemy City seemed to have this characteristic. Here, you could only buy the lowest level items with gold coins, such as low-level magic cores.
Salin even saw puppet horses pulling carriages through the streets. Other than crystals, the windows of the houses were transparent glass. The broken crystals wouldn't be too big. But the glass was made very big. Salin even saw a shop on the street. The glass window on the first floor was more than five meters tall. That was almost the entire height of the whole floor.
This was a city that could rival a country's wealth! Salin's Scottinyan bloodline jumped out. He felt that even with a magic counter, he couldn't calculate how much Alchemy City was worth.
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