Chapter 167 (1/2)

Arlex, the capital of the Ilus Empire, is known as the city of glory. The permanent population here is as high as one million. Even if you look at the whole prandal, it is one of the super cities.

what? Say millions of people are not super cities? Are you kidding me?

Don't forget that this is prandal, not the earth.

Although prandar's high-level combat effectiveness is comparable to the nuclear bomb on earth, and the life of the upper society is even more convenient than that on earth, because the power is monopolized by the upper society, it is difficult for knowledge and culture to circulate to the lower people. Therefore, the thinking and creativity of ordinary people are completely imprisoned, so their life is still in a very primitive stage.

Because of the guidance of the upper class, they subconsciously yearn for magic and talent, place their hopes on magic and talent, and think that it is the only way out. Therefore, no one has ever studied physical chemistry and other disciplines, which is why Donne is tangled.

Yes, it's clear that the civilization here has lasted for thousands of years, but it hasn't even invented some very basic things. Isn't it strange?

One of the reasons is that because the world has magic, people see hope, so they are lazy.

The second reason is that the nobility has absolute control over the people at the bottom.

incomprehension? It's simple.

If the civilians have any good inventions, the upper class nobles will immediately and violently take them as their own. If they are harmless inventions, they may see the sun again. If the invention touches the foundation of the nobles' interests, it will be completely hidden.

In this case, can civilians really spark their thinking? Do you really dare to bloom?

Donne shook his head to himself.

Is it really happy to live here?

Looking at the pedestrians in the street outside, he was filled with emotion.

They have no magic, no strength of blood and gas, and no talent. They live here with their own hands and strength. It can be seen how hard it is.

Don't you understand?

Let's make another analogy. It's like a man who can't do anything but move bricks living in Beijing... Is this metaphor very vivid?

In Donne's opinion, alinks can already be called prandal's super city. It is crowded, prosperous and full of vitality.

It is quite different from the cities we have seen before. As the imperial capital, alinks is not reluctant to use the power of magicians to complete various architectural miracles.

One of them is the 100 meter high wall that I passed when I first entered the city.

Yes, Donne saw that the wall was at least 100 meters high. What's the concept? The first floor on the earth is about three meters, that is, the city wall alone is as high as 33 floors.

The walls of arlinks compete with the main gate of hammerforge.

This city wall can stop any conventional army here, and can only accept the reality of despair, not to mention that the city wall has two layers

Yes, it's two floors.

Between the outer city wall and the inner city wall are the outer city area, civilian area, military area, market area, outer city municipal area, Holy See area, etc. the main residents here are ordinary residents and 10000 permanent troops. They are the pro guards of the Ilus royal family and the fundamental force to maintain law and order in arlex. When necessary, The 10000 Pro guards will not hesitate to kill all targets that threaten the king.

The second layer of the city wall is the inner city area, which is commonly known as the noble area. Being able to enter the inner city area itself represents a unique honor. Those who struggle in the outer city area will look inside eagerly and hope to become a member of the inner city when they pass through the gate to the inner city many times.

However, that hope is too slim.

Donne noticed that five floating islands were suspended over the Alex.

”A mage tower is built on each of the five floating islands. The five mage towers resonate with each other. In case of an emergency, they can immediately open a super shield. It is said that this shield can even resist the fierce attack of legendary strong men!”

Hilton explained with a sigh to Donne that she didn't know the specific situation. She had heard it before.

In addition to these, it is said that the overall planning of yarinks is designed by the star moon tower Secret Law Association. The ground here is leveled by magic, and the water used in the city is also attracted by magic. Here, permanent residents even need to apply for a magic crystal card to deal with all kinds of things

Compared with other cities, the application of magic has indeed penetrated into all aspects of residents here in arlinks.

”If only other cities could popularize the application of magic like Alex.”

Donne sighed. Although the popularization of magic here is not the kind of magic civilization he imagined, it is a good start.

”That's impossible.”

Hilton smiled: ”in order to hire these magicians, the Empire has to spend tens of millions of gold coins every year. This is still the price in peacetime. If it is war time, if you want them to participate in the battle, you have to pay a higher price.”

”Sounds weird...”

Donne said awkwardly, ”it's like a mercenary.”