[Second Update]
Great Liang City had three layers of city walls. Passageways were set up in the middle of the walls, each more than a hundred meters wide. The southern part of the city was low. In the southeast, there was a sewage treatment plant to refine poisons for the army. The clean sewage would be drained along the underground river.
In order to maintain the fertility of the land and harvest, the Qin people would spend a lot of effort to treat the city's drainage. However, they couldn't do it for free. They had to extract the poisons in the sewage and use them as weapons of war.
Great Liang City's Kushui Prefecture was no exception. All the weapons had poisons. When the enemy was injured, they would have to spend many times more money or resources to cure them. It was a huge challenge for the enemy's logistics.
Great Liang City had been expanded in a hurry. The drainage system didn't have many magic arrays to defend it. This passageway led directly from the city to the outside, just enough for an adult to pass through.
Rex received the report and didn't dare to delay. He immediately led a large group of people to the passageway to investigate.
Even the duke and Salin went down. The others naturally had to follow. Luckily, there were many mages. After using the cleaning spell, the smell in the sewers was all removed.
The passageway leading to the outside of the city was more than two meters wide. There were twelve iron bars at the front and back. These bars were all equipped with magic alarms. Every week, apprentices would come down to check. However, there was an opening in the bars. The magic alarms weren't triggered. Even the magic array to detect vibrations didn't react.
After Rex arrived, he raised his hand and used the Ganluo Ring to sense. Salin, on the other hand, used the Elemental Eye to observe. When the Elemental Eye was fully open, Salin saw a faint line of footprints.
"It's an adult male. He's close to two meters tall. He's at least an advanced swordsman. Maybe even a swordsman to be." Salin slowly reported the calculated data. Then he said, "Trish, go check outside of the city. See if there are any clues left."
Demons were stronger than humans in tracking down clues. Mages couldn't run around in the sewers. They had to be intermediate mages to have enough magic strings to use and use magic to check at any time.
After Trish went far away, Salin and the others returned to the surface.
Salin said worriedly, "This facility is already strong enough. There are twelve iron bars, but the person who destroyed them isn't a mage. Great Liang City's underground has to be rebuilt. If such people sneak in, it'll be too troublesome.
"Salin, could the person who left the city be the one who tried to assassinate you?" Rex asked worriedly.
"I don't think so. The person who tried to assassinate me was a dwarf. He was only a meter tall, but this person was close to two meters tall. The size of the footprint can't be faked. Because when humans walk … "
"I know." Rex felt that Salin was too long-winded. She was also a level-six sorcerer who had dissected human bodies and knew the structure of bones very well. She just didn't have the Elemental Eyes, so she couldn't use the most intuitive way to see the traces.
"Hehe." Salin laughed dryly and didn't continue. He was only saying it for the people around Rex to hear. What Salin didn't know was that the person who escaped from this tunnel was the Tyrant who tried to assassinate him. This was because Salin would never have imagined that a person could grow from the size of a child to an adult.
Although Nelis knew the Ultimate Transformation Spell, under Salin's long-term observation, he realized that Nelis' footprints were different from those of humans. That was the habit of the original body, and no matter how hard he tried to change it, there were still differences. In his Elemental Eyes, these details were very obvious.
If Eleanor went down to observe, she would definitely be able to smell the ghost's scent. Tyrant hadn't changed his body for long, and this scent was very obvious to elves. But Eleanor was an elf, and the smell of the sewers could only be described as fear. Even if she had a spell to block scent, she didn't want to go down to that kind of place.
"This tunnel is only to prevent people from the outside from coming in. It's much easier for people inside to go out. We can just redesign it. Salin, let's go back. " As Rex spoke, she ordered the sorcerers under her to do their respective work, and then returned to the palace with Salin.
"Lace, what did you find?" Salin asked Rex when there were no outsiders around.
"Hmm, this fellow who left the city isn't a creature from the Myers Continent plane. These defensive magic arrays are against humans, I neglected it. Just spend some money to redesign and change the tunnel. If not for this fellow who sneaked out of the city, we might really have encountered trouble. We have to thank that person. "
The words "not a creature from this plane" made Salin even more vigilant. He could have demons and revenants, so why couldn't others have them? He recalled carefully. His Metatlin City didn't seem to have such a flaw. That was because the city walls of Metatlin City were connected to the ground and were even stronger than steel.
More importantly, the city walls of Metatlin City were built according to Dante's sequence. They themselves were a huge magic array, or rather, an existence that surpassed magic arrays. Once the number of Magic Towers in the city reached six, it could form an anti-magic area. All spells that weren't their sorcerers would be weakened.
Also, the drainage system of Metatlin City was connected to the sea. The harbor was filled with defensive magic arrays underwater, and revenants frequently appeared. It was impossible for people to infiltrate that kind of place.
After doing the calculations, Salin was slightly relieved. Metatlin City was his foundation, and the city blueprint was provided by his teacher. In the future, he would use it to open up a space tunnel and occupy the Hell of God's Punishment. Rafael's Magic Tower was the most precious treasure.
"Lace, more than a hundred necromancers will arrive here soon. I will set up a horde of revenants underground. No matter who it is, they won't be able to sneak in and out." Salin reassured Rex. In Rex's Great Liang City, the facilities on the ground were almost perfect. What was lacking was the underground.
In the palace of the Cloud Flow Empire, His Majesty Agares lay on a soft cushion and watched the singing and dancing with slanted eyes. The people serving him were all stunning beauties. Agares's eyes, however, were on the singers as he ate the fruits that the palace maids had cut for him.
The fruit plate was made of bone porcelain. It looked elegant and simple, but those who knew their stuff knew that this bone porcelain was made from the bone powder of high-level magical beasts, not clay. Even an alchemy arrow couldn't penetrate this plate at close range.
The Cloud Flow Empire had always been extravagant. From top to bottom, there wasn't a single simple noble in the empire.
On the side of the reclining chair, a curtain hung low. Behind the curtain were the palace swordsmen, and behind them was a small door. This was where His Majesty Agares handled government affairs. He ate fruits, watched the singing and dancing, and listened to the reports of his ministers.
There was a hint of blood behind the curtain now. When a low-level noble reported just now, Agares was in a bad mood and cut off one of the unlucky noble's fingers. The magician was using the cleaning spell to dispel the smell, and the palace maids were also burning incense so that the next noble who came in could report with peace of mind.
"Your Majesty." A middle-aged man in white came in and knelt down on the side of the reclining chair. Waiting for Agares to respond.
This middle-aged man in white didn't wear an official uniform or a noble's dress, just ordinary home clothes. When His Majesty Agares saw this middle-aged man coming, he immediately sat up and was in a much better mood.
"Aroin, why are you here!"
This white-robed middle-aged man was the only prince in Cloudstream who had real power. He was Agares' older brother, and the two had been close since they were young. After the old emperor died, Agares inherited the throne because Arroyn was pushed aside. Who would have thought that the young Agares was not only smart, but also cruel and powerful. In just a few years, he slaughtered all the ministers who tried to control the court. Then, Aroin was brought back to the imperial capital and made a prince, the first heir to the empire.
"Your Majesty …"
"Aroin!" Agares shouted.
"Hey, my brother, it's just a name. Why bother?"
"You're different from them." Agares pulled Prince Aroin up and forced him to sit with him by his sleeve. Only then did he say, "Duke Bailey is really incompetent. You let 400,000 of your million-strong army die in the water, and you still have to send more troops. But that Rex is interesting. He dares to talk back to me. I heard she's getting married, and her husband is some king. "
Speaking of the 400,000 casualties, the emperor didn't feel any pain at all. Since they weren't his direct subordinates, he had long wanted to find a chance to weaken those disobedient nobles.
"Your Majesty, I'm not here for that. The Tanggulas Empire sent a secret envoy here to talk about an alliance. Since Your Majesty wants to attack Bitter Water Prefecture, why don't you let the Tanggulas people attack from the west? We can attack from both sides, and we can take the opportunity to enter Jialoulan. "
"What good is that? I just want to marry a woman, not for the Tanggulas Empire. That emperor is ambitious, but unfortunately, he's just a figurehead. If we form an alliance with him, our empire will be annexed by the Holy See sooner or later. "
Aroin smiled bitterly. His brother was very smart, but he was too much of a jerk when doing things. No one could guess what he was thinking. Sometimes, Agares acted willfully just to see the disappointed expressions of others.
"But, Your Majesty, Rex is going to marry. Even if Your Majesty goes personally, it's too late."
"Marry? Kill her man, and I'll take over. I don't care if she's a widow or not, "Agares said disapprovingly.
"Your Majesty, widows can't be empress."
"Then change the laws of the empire. If we can't change them, I won't be the emperor. You can be."
If it were any other royal family, hearing Agares say this, they would definitely be scared out of their wits. Aroin just continued to smile bitterly. He didn't want to be the emperor. The political struggle in Yunliu was a hundred times more complicated than in the Qinyin Empire. Only someone like my younger brother can deter everyone.
"But Rex announced that she's going to marry that king because she doesn't want to marry you. Your Majesty, if we form an alliance with the Tanggulas Empire, we can enter Jialoulan rightfully. You can announce the establishment of a duchy there, and the laws of that duchy will be up to you.
Agares was very tempted, but then he frowned and said, "What's the point of a landlocked duchy? Look at those big families along the coast. They don't care about the orders of the imperial capital anymore. According to the information my men received, those bastards at the seaside have already started to raise dragons. Listen carefully, it's raising dragons! Damn it, I worked hard to raise some low-level magical beasts, and they actually … "
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