Chapter 431: Emerald Tree Kingdom (1/2)
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
Later the next day, Leo and the others finally saw in front of them the silhouette of the Emerald City, the capital of the Emerald Tree Kingdom.
It was very surprising to see the capital of the Emerald Tree Kingdom on the border of their territory, but they soon understood the reason why as Ethan explained to them the information he had gotten during the time he was buying their supplies from the village they have visited prior to entering Emerald Forest.
It was said that the Evergreen royal family doesn't want the capital of their Emerald Tree Kingdom to be situated at the center of their territory because of many reasons. Two of those reasons are; first, because the center of their territory is the most peaceful place, away from fight and such, hence it isn't really a good place to train and grow more powerful people, especially Magical Beast Tamers as they need to be in constant contact with the Magical Beasts. And second, they don't want the Ruler of the Emerald Tree Kingdom to be protected by their people, but instead, they want to be the ones to protect their people.
This very reason alone really reflects why Elves are one of the most respected and admired race amongst all the Foreign races in the entire Celestial World. They have honor and principles that other Foreign races rarely have amongst them.
Even Leo can't help himself from admiring the Evergreen royal family just from those words alone.
However, those thoughts only lasted for a bit as he remembered what Elvin had once said, ”The second prince controls the Underground World of the Emerald Tree Kingdom.”
He immediately understood that despite that heroic and honorable front of the Evergreen royal family, they still can't escape the darkness in their hearts, which honestly speaking, he doesn't mind at all, because he and the Mischievous Lion organization always believes that it is only through embracing both white and dark would one be able to survive in this cruel world called the Celestial World.
Controlling the light and dark of their Emerald Tree Kingdom is really a wise thing to do. In such a way, there won't be any risk of one of the two falling into the hands of someone with bad intention to their territory.
In fact, this was also the goal of Queen Olivia, that's why the Mischievous Lion organization continued existing despite already defeating the Silver royal family and taking over the Silver Kingdom.
Once Queen Olivia achieves such a thing, then Lionheart Kingdom would be bound to become prosperous in the near future, since there won't be anyone that can threaten her throne from the inside, thus allowing her to focus all of her attention on the outside.
Soon, the three Green Eagle Flyingboats finally landed at the airport of the Emerald City.
As soon as they opened their doors, they were immediately greeted by an Elf wearing a green-colored uniform.
”Greetings, Foreign friends. I am Emor, a receptionist at this airport. I would like to ask, how many days would you like to stay at our airport?”
Hearing this, Leo thought for a bit, as this was really his first time using an airport.
Quickly noticing Leo's inexperience, Captain Marcus stepped forward and asked, ”How much is the rate of the stay, Foreign friend?”
”It would be 50 silver coins a day for each Flyingboats for the first month. But if you still decide to stay for the next month, then it would become 1 gold coin a day until the day you finally decide to leave.” Emor replied.
Leo was a bit surprised after hearing this, so he asked, ”Why did the price rose by 50 silver coins?”
”The first 15 days are considered as our promo and the latter 15 days are the benefits that our ally Foreign races could receive from us.” Emor replied.
Leo nodded his head in understanding after hearing this. Half a second later, he waved his hand and took out 45 gold coins from his Storage Ring and gave it to Emor.
”I'll pay for the first month first,” Leo said with a smile.
”Okay! Have a great stay, Foreign friend.” Emor received the payment before leaving to return back to their office and record the stay of Leo's group in their airport.
”Now then,” Leo turned to look at the others behind him.
Leo moved his eyes to Ethan and Elaine before saying, ”Ethan and Elaine, bring with you 10 people and look for land outside the Emerald City that we can buy for below 100 gold coins. After that, return here to bring the rest with you and start constructing our base of operation.”
”Okay!” Ethan and Elaine nodded their heads in affirmation. They quickly took with them 10 people and 100 gold coins from Leo and excused themselves to begin.
Leo then turned to look at Edward and Sele before saying, ”Edward and Sele, bring with you another 10 people to gather information about the Emerald Tree Kingdom. Here are 100 gold coins to buy information from Information Dealers, if you needed one.”
”Roger that!” Edward and Sele nodded their heads. They quickly took 10 people and the 100 gold coins before excusing themselves.
”Lex and Virgil, go to the Adventurers Association and register our Guild temporarily.” Leo said while looking at Lex and Virgil as he again handed 100 gold coins to them.
”What would our Guild be called?” Lex can't help asking while receiving the 100 gold coins from Leo.
”Indeed, I've long been curious about what our Guild name would be.” Virgil added.
”What else would it be called? Of course, our Guild would be called the Mischievous Lion Guild.” Leo replied seemingly as if he's stating the obvious.