After half an hour of traveling west along the docks, a vast river more than five kilometers wide appeared in front of them.
The river flowed endlessly into the bay like thousands of galloping horses.
The Rohn River, the mother river of the Loynars.
After leaving the coast, the carriage took a turn and followed the river north into the east city of Volantis.
Even though the sky was dark and she was several kilometers away, Danny could still see the tall black wall in the north.
Volantis was the eldest daughter of Valleglia. It was the first colonial city outside of the Land of Long Summer. In other words, it was an outpost.
At that time, the Rohn River had its own master, the Loynars, who dominated the western continent of Ursus.
Therefore, this outpost was especially sturdy. It was built using the same construction method as the Tower of Babel and Valleglia Avenue, which was what Orloss called "Immortal Stone."
Immortal Stone did not refer to any kind of stone. Instead, it was used to melt rocks, add magic runes, and pour them into molds to create an entire structure. The entire stone building was immortal.
For example, the thousand-kilometer-long Valleglia Avenue was a whole. The 300-meter-tall, complicated Tower of Babel was also a whole.
The oval-shaped wall in the east city was the same. It was 60 meters tall and 15 meters wide. It was prepared for the Dragon King's landing.
Volantis had a natural harbor. After the Dragon King rode his dragon into the plains of the Rohn River, the city began to expand rapidly.
The black wall on the east side of the river was inhabited by the old nobles whose bloodlines could be traced back to Valleglia. The newly expanded city outside the wall was filled with the houses, shops, and hotels of the wealthy Valleglia.
The west side was a chaotic cesspool. The main population consisted of foreign tourists, sea merchants, poor free people, mercenaries, escaped criminals, eunuchs, pirates, and pickpockets.
Even the Shadow Binders and Necromancers from Asha were mixed in.
A long bridge connected the east and west city.
Danny was a foreign tourist. She went north from the docks and entered the east city along the Rohn River. Then, she crossed the bridge and went to the Merchant's Inn in the west city.
Dusk had passed, and night had covered the land. The shops, hotels, and stalls on both sides of the street hung parchment lanterns and colored glass oil lamps. Many colored circles of light lit up the gray stone pavement.
The pedestrians under the lights were shrouded in a green halo, then a red halo, then purple, orange …
The surrounding noises and the strange smell of barbecued meat coming from the stall gave Danny the illusion that she had returned to the night market of modern times.
As they approached the long bridge that connected the east and west city districts, the traffic became more and more congested. The streets were filled with wagons, carts, and elephant carts.
Most of these cars were heading towards the long bridge or had just come over from the bridge.
There were as many slaves as cockroaches in the garbage dump, running around for their masters' errands.
The Cadillac on the elephant's back dared not yell for pedestrians to get out of the way as it had done at the docklands.
This was because the people who entered the bridge were not to be trifled with. In addition to the Blackwall nobles who rode elephants, there were also merchants, rich people, and the most expensive tourists who rode elephant carts and public carriages.
There was a black stone arch at the entrance of the long bridge. The arch was carved with sphinx, lion body, scorpion tail, dragon, and other strange animals.
The long arch bridge behind the door was the same as the Blackwall and the Tower of Babel. It was made of melted stone and supported by giant pillars. It was as stable as Mount Tai and as solid as a rock at the mouth of the turbulent river. It spanned across the two-kilometer-wide river.
In the works of "Long Legs" Lomas, this long bridge, together with the Great Wall of the Northern Region and the old Great Pyramid of Gith, were called the Nine Architectural Wonders of the World of Ice and Fire.
It was an architectural masterpiece during the heyday of Valleglia.
The road on the bridge just allowed two cars to travel side by side. When the cars from the east and west met, they had to slow down. The two young men's elephant carts were separated by the crowd when they crossed the bridge.
The fat man riding the elephant had an extraordinary identity. With a superior expression, he leisurely continued to travel north. He wanted to return to the Blackwall.
Well, before they parted at the entrance of the long bridge, he looked at Danny lecherously and invited her, "Miss, although your bloodline is not as noble as mine, you also have the obvious characteristics of Valleglia. The dirty and messy West City is not suitable for you. Why don't you come to my house and stay for a while?"
In the end, he raised his fat double chin and proudly added, "I come from the great Krolis family in the Blackwall. You have to know that without the invitation of the people in the city, ordinary people can never enter the Blackwall in their lifetime."
He looked like a rich second generation. He stopped a red Ferrari in front of Danny, rolled down the window, took off his sunglasses, raised his chin and asked, "Do you want to come together?"
"Thank you for your invitation. I will enter the Blackwall, but not tonight." Danny smiled and declined.
The fat man did not say anything. He nodded and left on the elephant.
The long bridge was crowded with people and the air was dirty. Danny had been covering her nose with her hand. She was not in the mood to look at the nearby scenery. After half an hour, they crossed the long bridge and arrived at the West City.
After passing through the crowded road near the long bridge with great difficulty, the elephant car turned into a wide street in the West, and the speed increased again. The blonde coachman turned his head and smiled at Danny: "Guest, don't worry. We will enter the fishmonger square soon."
Before the voice fell, there was a sudden noise at the crossroad in front of them. Soon, two rows of twelve Unsullied holding spears rushed out from the corner.
"Move, move, make way for the consul!" The Unsullied shouted.
Cadillac hurriedly drove the white elephant to the roadside. He also climbed down from the elephant's back and obediently knelt under the elephant's belly.
Danny tiptoed and found that except for the spiked helmet, the equipment on the Unsullied had completely changed.
He wore a dazzling golden armor and a brightly colored tiger fur cape.
In terms of pretentiousness, they were more than a level higher than her gray underlings.
The Unsullied opened the way in front. Then, forty to fifty Tiger Cloak Army soldiers surrounded a gray behemoth and turned around.
The colossus was three meters tall and wore exquisite colorful armor. With every step it took, the armor would reflect colorful lights like ripples of water.
On the elephant's back was a tall castle. The castle was so tall that when it passed through the carved stone arch at the intersection, the wooden roof rubbed against the stone surface and made an ear-piercing creaking sound.
"I heard that the consul's status is honorable. During the year in office, their feet can't touch the ground. No matter where they go, they have to ride the elephant." Barristan explained to Danny in a low voice.
"Hehe, from birth to death, the Dragon King of Valleglia, who lived high in the Tower of Babel, never touched the ground once. Without dragons, their descendants can only ride elephants. "Danny mocked.
"Moo —" The colossus let out a long and loud cry.
"Almost half of the city heard it, right? Walking around every day, everyone in the city knows that the consul is patrolling the streets. "Danny bared her teeth and picked her ears.
"Consul Dofas has arrived!" A tall Tiger Cloak Army soldier in front shouted.
After the apocalypse, the people of Volantis naturally regarded themselves as the successors of the Freedom Fortress, which meant that they were the masters of the world.
But they didn't agree on how to rule the world. The old nobles believed in force, while the merchants and moneylenders advocated trade.
Around these two tendencies, in order to fight for the leadership of the city, two parties gradually formed, namely the Tiger Party and the Elephant Party.
The Tiger Cloak Army came from the radical Tiger Party. They wore tiger helmets and had green beard stripes tattooed on their cheeks. They were all slave soldiers.
"Do you think they will come to me anyway? There are thirty to forty thousand Tiger Cloak Army soldiers in Volantis and the towns near the Lohn River! "Danny said with an inexplicable expression.
"Look," the old man pointed at the tall soldier who shouted every few steps and said in a low voice, "their spirit is completely different from the slave soldiers in Slave Bay. Instead, they are very similar to the Golden Cloak Army in King's Landing. Their faces are full of pride and confidence."
Danny sighed and didn't say anything.
When the consul's team left, Cadillac pulled the belt tied to the elephant's belly and jumped on the elephant's back like a monkey.
Just then, an elephant car came behind Danny, and she heard a person sneered and spat. "Hehe, Dofas can only be powerful for six more days."
The companion next to him nodded in agreement. "The alliance is a foregone conclusion. Out of the three consul, two have publicly expressed strong hostility to that woman. He has always said that he should be cautious. Of course, the people in the black wall won't choose him again."
The two cars quickly staggered and entered different streets at the crossroads. Danny said thoughtfully, "It was right to come this time. If I didn't come and see for myself, I wouldn't have known that Volantis is united and determined to fight with me."
"Not only Volantis, I guess the situation is similar in Queers, Xingis, Reis, and other cities. But you don't have to worry too much. The enemies of the Mother Of Dragons will always be the people at the top. The ordinary people … the people's hearts are like water, and they change with the wind and waves. "The old man comforted her in a low voice.
"Dang dang dang …"
"Dong dong dong …"
Rhythmic sounds of gongs and drums came from the street ahead, accompanied by a melodious flute and a mellow harp, combined into a happy and loud but not noisy music.
Danny tilted her head and looked past the elephant's butt, and saw a long line of torchbearers slowly walking towards them.
Most of the people who were surrounded by the torchbearers were acrobats. There were two midgets who were doing acrobatics of throwing balls, a freakish clown with strange cow legs and cow hooves, a garland girl who was standing on stilts and singing loudly, a man who was wearing a golden leather coat and whose face was also smeared with gold, riding a white lion and holding a golden banner to show off his prowess, and there was also someone …
These acrobats and the torchbearers had one thing in common, and that was a distinct family emblem of two dragons holding a crown on the back of their clothes.
Someone on the street said, "Masijoso hired a circus troupe."
"Moo!" Behind the acrobats and the torchbearers, there was a huge elephant car.
In front of the elephant, a huge name was written with strange fluorescent powder on the side of the elephant, "Civilian Hero Masijoso". On the soft seat of the car behind stood a silver-haired young noble of Valleglia.
He raised a shiny brass horn and shouted, "Freedmen of the West City, just like you, my father Masijoso is also a freedman, and only he can represent the ordinary freedmen.
For you, for you, for the common interests of all of us, please vote for Masijoso. "
Danny's mouth twitched, and she had the illusion that she was back in the modern world, watching the twisted news.
A golden-haired fat man behind a barbecued sausage stall shouted, "Little Darke, your father Masijoso is very good, but most of the freedmen on our street are not qualified to vote! You should walk around the black wall, don't disturb us from doing business. "
Only the freedmen of Volantis who had reached the standard of wealth were qualified to vote, and not many people on the west side of the river could vote. Even on the east side, it was difficult for the commoners to get the right to vote.
The election of Volantis Consul seemed democratic, but in the end, it was just a game for the rich and the nobles.
A burly middle-aged woman walked out of a small building with a sign saying 'Megalosaurus Grocery Store'. Her voice was louder than the barbecued sausage fatty, "What are you walking around for, Little Darke, tell your father to give up. Without noble blood, who would choose you?"
"Haha, Aunt Chloe, you should have the right to vote, right? Give my father a vote! "The silver-haired youth on the elephant car laughed.
"Come down," The woman, who was about the same size as the fat eunuch Bevos, waved at the youth, "Accompany me for a night, and I'll give the vote in my hand to your father!"
"Hahaha …" The surrounding people laughed together. Under the yellow light of the torch, Little Darke's face turned red, and he stopped asking for votes, and only urged the driver on the elephant to move faster.
"Chloe, you should have told him secretly. On the street, even if that kid is willing, he can't let go!" The barbecued fat man said loudly.
Then there was another burst of laughter.
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