Chapter 001 the Locomotive town
The hot sun had risen above his head when Fate set his first foot into the Locomotive town, he straightened his black magic robes that were torn by branches and thorns, and looked somewhat nervously at this small town that was very famous in the continent of Aran, and dawdled for a long time without daring to go in.
Seeing all kinds of people wandering around the Locomotive town, the sweaty Fate was too apprehensive to go in.
"I, a noble magician, the official examination of the Magic Guild passed by the Honorable Fate Magician, have ended up in this situation!"
Fate's eyes moistened a little.
Baron Hank, a low class nobleman in Folo City on the western border of the Lance Empire, three years ago, Fate just passed the examination in the Magic Guild, and Baron Hank handed out the olive branch to him. Fate is very smart, how far he can go in the field of magic, he is naturally clear in his own heart, rather than follow a count marquis slowly be despised or even abandoned, it is better to follow a lower baron, at least the status will not be affected.
The same as he expected, Baron Hank did not expect his mind a moment of fever, but also really invited a young magical squire, treating Fate's attitude, Hank more than his own son, hated to take out all their own things to share with him. But the honorable baron soon regretted, his own eyes noble magician for three years in the field of magic and then not a little progress, still hovering in the primary.
As a matter of fact Fate didn't go easy on Baron Hank, one night, after Baron Hank woke up in the middle of the night drunk and pissing himself, a certain organ of his body had so much as a male pull, when he suddenly remembered that the little mistress he bought back half a year ago hadn't yet been deflowered, and ran over there on a whim, and as a result of which he found that his own magical squire was in the bed of his little mistress, faithfully fulfilling the obligations and duties he himself had forgotten on Baron Hank's behalf.
No lack of blood Baron Hank on the spot burst into anger, he did not want to execute a magician who passed the magic guild test, but he had the power to expel his own retinue, just like this, Fate grayed out and brought up his pants and was driven out of the baronial palace overnight.
As the first wizard on the continent to be banished, and by a lowly baron at that, Fate has no face left in the Reims Empire and wants to take his chances in THE Locomotive town.
The Locomotive town's unique geographic location makes it special. To the north is an endless desert, where winds and sandstorms howl all year round, and the desert is inhabited by the infamous Geryon giants and the eccentric dwarves. No matter which of these two races, they definitely do not belong to the category of friendly and hospitable compared to humans, which can be seen from the occasional human skull receptacle used by the Geryon giants to drink from, which has been rumored to have come out from the desert.
To the south was the boundless Moonfall Mountain Range, from the edge to the center, hiding many magical beasts, dangerous and incomparable, even the Golden Lion Knights of the Baolong Empire, which was known as the strongest regiment in the Aramaic Continent, didn't dare to say that they could go deep into the Moonfall Mountain Range. On the east and west sides of the Locomotive town, the strongest empires of the Aramaic continent, the Bao Long Empire and the Lance Empire, stood on the left and right sides, firmly clamping this town in the middle of the wilderness.
The area from the edge of the desert to the middle of the Lunar Mountain Range is called the Wind and Fire Plain, and the Locomotive town is the only human settlement of some scale on this plain. In addition to the abundant magical beasts in the Lunar Mountains and the many gold mines in the desert, which are enough to attract human adventurers to come to the Locomotive town, there are also large and small abnormal human tribes all over the place, which refused to evolve and still live a primitive life of drinking blood, and they stubbornly believe that this can bring them more power. power.
It is this unique geographic location that makes the Locomotive town free from the power of the two empires, but not subject to the jurisdiction of either side, coupled with the fact that the two empires have not gone to war in the last hundred years, the Locomotive town has borne the brunt of the development of the Locomotive town has developed into a larger scale townships.
Thieves, mercenaries, wanted criminals, adventurers, civilians, merchants, gathered in this small the Locomotive town, no legal constraints, no officers and soldiers jurisdiction and governance, the Locomotive town has become the most complex area in the continent of Yalan.
The two empires had always turned a blind eye to this area, largely because the Locomotive town was a trade hub connecting the Bao Long Empire and the Lance Empire. Stretching over thousands of miles of deserted roads, even the most well-prepared merchant groups would have to stop in this town to rest and recuperate, replenishing the supplies they needed in the meantime. the people living in the Locomotive town obviously understood this, so they didn't dare to think anything of the large merchant groups that belonged to the Higher Powers in the past.
The unlucky ones are the small merchant groups, most of them will be robbed empty, the Locomotive town on the wandering around the unkempt or even naked beggars, basically these unlucky merchants.
However, driven by profit, these small merchant groups still continue to come forward, together with the adventurous teams hunting magical beasts, resulting in the prosperity of the Locomotive town and the business of the town's several major mercenary corps and labor unions is booming.
Of course, the living conditions here were far from being comparable to upper scale cities, so most of the people who lived here were forced to do so, and naturally, not many strong people were willing to stay in such a small place.
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After half a day of probing his head and standing outside the town, Fate was getting a little dizzy with hunger, so he finally couldn't help but walk in.
"Fuckin' hell, lookin' for death."
Fate had just entered THE Locomotive town along the avenue where three carriages could travel side by side, when an angry shout came from the side of the road, startling him so much that he was busy following the sound.
Roadside a tall waist round bladder thick big man full of anger, embracing a thickly made-up woman, his mouth toward the side of a skinny slant-eyed man cursed, a flash of cold light in his hand, the skinny man's arm and shoulder separated, a miserable scream planted on the ground.
"Where did that come from, tired of living, dare to steal grandpa's wallet." The big man put away the knife grinned and cursed, the woman in his arms in his chest in a circle eating and laughing, face of fat and powder fluttering down, eyes are full of excitement.
The big man put away his sword and looked mightily down the street for a few moments, spat out a mouthful of spit, and put his arm around the woman and went into the tavern beside him.
Looked at the thief crawling on the ground groaning, wounds constantly have blood gushing out, Fate heart some sympathy, but also in his hesitation to go over to see when the roadside squatting against the wall of a group of beggars whooshing leap over to surround the thief, a turn of the eye and ran back to the root of the wall, lazily basking in the sun.
The thief lay where he was, without a stitch on his body, and those beggars surprisingly didn't even leave him with close-fitting shorts.
Fate winced, how dare he meddle, and lowered his head towards the front.
The bustling crowd, most of them are not very decent appearance, flat by virtue of a fierce evil spirit. On both sides of the road there are all kinds of stores, iron selling medicine, taverns and green houses, large and small mercenary unions, there are also some stalls on the roadside, selling magical beasts fur and bones, vigorously rejuvenation pills, magical secret incense and so on, the other city should have, the same here is not bad, or even more complete.
As Fate catwalked past the door of a small mercenary union, he saw a notice hanging over the door offering a reward of two gold coins for breaking one of Johnsan's legs on West Street.
A lot of people passed by the entrance of the mercenary union, but no one took a look at this notice, Fate was going to ask for details, but after half a day of speculation, he sighed and walked away.
If these two gold coins were good money, they wouldn't have been hanging around for so long, and the notices were yellowing.
The smell of wine and food came from all over the town, Fate was hungry, feeling his dry pockets, walking back and forth along the center street of the Locomotive town seven or eight times, and not having the slightest idea in his mind.
"Eating bully food?"
The thought just flooded Fateh's mind, then dismissed it.
In these seven or eight trips down, he saw two group fights, three single fights and a murder, in which there were several fighters of different ranks, and even a mid-level magician. Looking at the speed and power of other people's magic casting, borrowing Fate's two guts, he wouldn't dare to make trouble here.
Walking blankly to the edge of town, Fate saw a group of small children crouching under a giant tree on the side of the road and unconsciously leaned over.
"When Risa saw the Alien coming after her, she was so frightened that she hurriedly fled along a passage formed by the coercive bones of a huge magical beast skeleton, with the Alien following closely behind. At this time, a bottomless abyss suddenly appeared in front of her, Risa had no way to escape, and hurriedly drilled into the cliff side under a huge iron. The iron is so big wow, foot tens of thousands of pounds, at this time the alien also chased, it used its mouth and iron tail to bite Risa, but unfortunately can not reach, at this time the alien madness, while going to the body to hit, and at the same time, stretch out the powerful front claws want to block it to push the iron out of the way. The alien was so powerful and strong that within a few moments it looked like it was going to push the huge iron over and Risa was going to be finished."
"Huh. ..."
The group of children's eyes widened and they exclaimed out in unison, their timid faces going white.
Fate looked over curiously, and saw a teenager of about thirteen or fourteen years old sitting in the center, with a very clean-cut look and extraordinarily soulful eyes, and at this time, full of high spirits, he was telling a story.
"At that moment, the Iron Blood Warrior appeared, only to see him jump up a dozen meters high, make a sharp turn in the air, and the spear in his hand violently pierced the alien's head. The alien jumped to the side with a loud cry of pain, and Risa was finally out of danger."
"Long live the Ironborn!"
The dozen or so small children listening to the story next to him cheered out in unison, their little faces filled with joy.
"Don't be too happy." The black-haired teenager had a mysterious look on his face as he continued to speak, "How could the alien die so easily, it used its sharp claws to claw off the spear on its head and struggled to charge again. Risa's cleverness played a role at this time, she saw that the huge iron creaking about to fall into the abyss, a bright idea, the thick iron chain on the alien body towards the top of the iron. Which she has what strength, also can not drag the alien, at this time Iron Blood Warrior also understand her meaning, busy up to help, the two people together finally chained to the top of the iron. Huge iron eyes will pull the alien to the bottom of the abyss, Risa only then put down her heart, suddenly, she saw the alien's sharp tailbone from the Iron Blood Warrior's chest stabbed out ..."
"Ah ..." exclaimed the small children listening to the story.
The storyteller continued, "The alien didn't stop when it pierced the iron warrior, and opened its bloody mouth to the front of the iron warrior's head, and tried to pierce the iron warrior's skull with its powerful tongue. Surprised and anxious, Risa grabbed the shovel and pried at the pillar connecting the iron. Before the alien's tongue could pierce out, it was yanked down into the abyss by the huge iron that had lost its strut and collapsed. By the time Risa went to check on the ironworker, he was dead before he could say anything."
"How could the Ironborn not be able to dodge it, he can do magic?"
"Yeah, he still has a lot of powerful weapons, and how did he end up dead after killing all those aliens."
"Idiot, didn't you listen to your brother, this isn't just any alien, this is the Queen."
"It's a shame the Ironborn are dead."
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A group of kids were excited and sorry, debating vehemently in seven different ways.
"Johnsan, don't come back and do something."
Explosive thunderous voices came out from the roadside diner, followed by a woman whose size was comparable to that of a tyrannical bear stepping out and scolding, "A bunch of little bastards, why don't you go home."
The gang of small children, obviously terrified of the fat woman, dispersed with a buzz.
The storytelling teen then stood up and looked at Fate curiously, asking, "Why haven't I seen you before, are you new here?"
Fate was still thinking about what kind of magical beasts he said "Alien" belonged to, and what was that magic "Iron Blood Warrior", when he heard the teenager ask him, he didn't dare to be slow, and put on his spirit and said: "Yes, I just came to the Locomotive town. I just came to the Locomotive town, you can call me the honorable magician Mr. Fate."
"Wizard?" The teenager raised an eyebrow, his soulful eyes sizing up Fate for a few moments, and laughed, "Honorable I didn't see."
The Locomotive town on no good kind, even if the other party is just a child, Fate heart upset, but did not dare to be angry, only to awkwardly dry laugh a few times, shrinking his neck and want to walk away.
"Come with me, noble Mr. Wizard, I'll buy you dinner and ask you some questions along the way."
Upon hearing this, Fate instantly came to life and turned to follow the teenager towards the tavern that gave off a strong aroma.