Chapter 458: Officially participating in the Emerald Event part 1 (1/2)
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
Surprisingly, the location of Commander Vargas' palace was actually just a few kilometers away from the castle of the Evergreen royal family, specifically located in the middle area of the Emerald City, a place that residents in the Emerald City called as, Noble Zone.
From the north wall of Commander Vargas' palace, they needed to ride a carriage twice, first in the Civilian Zone where they used a Public Carriage for transportation, then they were stopped in the Noble Zone by some guards, where they then decided to ride a Private Carriage of Commander Vargas.
The reason why they didn't simply fly to the sky so as to arrive quickly at their destination was because of the 'No-Flying' policy targeted towards the people in the Emerald City. Aside from the Evergreen royal family and their forces in the Emerald Tree Kingdom, everyone else is forbidden to fly. Of course, excluding the Flyingboats and Flyingships, since those were considered as transportation, not people, still there are areas in the Emerald Tree Kingdom that forbid flying transportation as well.
Although Commander Vargas wasn't included in that 'No-Flying' policy, considering that he's a Commander of the Evergreen Magical Knight Division, specifically a division under the Evergreen royal family itself, but since he was with Mister Loki and his group, he could only choose to travel using the carriages. After all, as the host, he of course can't just ditch them and then tell them that he will meet them at his palace. That's outright disrespectful and not to mention undeserving for people with Mister Loki's status. If he indeed does that, he won't be able to blame them if they actually choose to completely ignore his invitation to his palace. Even though he isn't clear on Mister Loki's exact status yet, for someone to have a person with a 9 Star level cultivation under his command, he's definitely someone with power or commendable status.
Along the way, Leo and the others slowly got to know more about Commander Vargas, including his 8 Star Magical Knight cultivation and the exact reason why he was smiling delightfully while watching Chief Lago and Sebastian slaughtering the Goblins of the Hunter Goblin Guild.
”Oh, interesting, I didn't expect that your hate for the Goblins is actually not because of a race-bias, but rather because they have almost killed all the participants in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition in the past,” Leo said, a bit surprised of the main reason why Commander Vargas hates the Goblin race.
”What do you mean?” Commander Vargas asked, a bit intrigued by what Mister Loki had thought about in the beginning.
”Well, at first I thought that you only hated the Hunter Goblin Guild in particular, not generally the Goblin race. And that the main reason is because they owned plenty of Pleasure Houses full of slaves. You know, slaves, Elves, there's this common relation between the two,” Leo explained.
”Oh, you mean to say that because the natural enemy of the Elves are Slave Hunters, which is to say those Pleasure Houses should also have a lot of female Elves within them, right?” Commander Vargas quickly understood what Leo meant with his words.
Leo nodded his head in confirmation.
Commander Vargas replied, ”To be honest with you, I don't really care about those Pleasure Houses of the Hunter Goblin Guild nor the fact that there are indeed a lot of female Elves within them. After all, I also buy slaves from time to time, the majority of them are for war purposes in order to reduce the casualties of my army, but sometimes I also use them to satisfy my carnal desires, especially when I am on the battlefield where all my wives are far away from me. And besides, that's not surprising for us males, right? In my opinion, almost all of us would resort to doing such things. Though there indeed exist some men who don't do that, but I'm not included in that, so I would just look like a big hypocrite if I say that the reason I hate Goblins is because of those Pleasure Houses, hahaha!”
”Indeed,” Leo nodded his head in understanding. Although he still doesn't have that much of an experience when it comes to those kinds of things yet, he can still understand.
Aside from that, Commander Vargas also talked about the history of the Emerald Tree Kingdom with Leo and his group, mostly about the Emerald Event and Emerald Elven Battle Competition.