Chapter 424 (1/2)

Hao Ren and the rest of them did not spend too much time in the outer city because the daytime of Cadeceus would be ended in eight hours, so they sped off to the inner town of Cadessar after they got some news.

Compared with the bustling but slightly chaotic outer city, the inner city of Cadessar appeared orderly. The buildings here were more beautiful and upscale. Most of the houses were multi-storey buildings built of white stones. The glimmering magic towers spread out between neat streets to support the giant shield that enveloped the entire city. This city had a wide variety of functional facilities. There were not only municipal facilities to maintain the functioning of the city, but also the various sectors that were unique to the ‘Throat of the World’, including the largest registry of mercenaries, the largest diplomatic building, and the largest library, ‘Court of Scholars’, which was said to have all knowledge of the entire world.

The inner city was inhabited by local residents of Cadessar. Although it was open to the outside, it would close the gate after nightfall.

“The little old man had a wish that his research manuscript could be included in the library of Cadessar,” Y’zaks said, looked at the distant golden roof of the ‘Court of Scholars’ and sighed. “Unfortunately, until he died, the theory of space bubble zone was still classified as a fallacy. Even the knowledge-opening Cadeceus also just began to study the space vesicle model based on mathematics not long ago. Before that, their understanding of space vesicles was based on fantasy and philosophy.”

“How does the world accept the theory of space bubble zone and macrocosm?” Hao Ren asked curiously.

Y’zaks gave him a sarcastic smile and said, “Because they were beaten badly. They did not believe that the ‘world’ they had always known was just a small part of the universe, so they had to deny the little old man’s claim, that was, denying that the law of teleportation between space vesicles could be calculated by mathematical formulas. Because this formula is the key to the calculation of the boundary of the bubble zone, this foolish insistence on tradition lead them to lag far behind my legions in exploring new planes. The efficiency of exploration of all realms of the human world was not as good as my empire. This is the secret of why the demon king’s legions are so strong, and this is an open secret.”

“An open secret?” Hao Ren was surprised.

“The manuscripts left by the scholars were scattered in the human world. He had many students. And those students had already passed the formula for calculating space vesicles to different countries,” Lanina explained, “but over hundreds of years no one believed in the manuscripts, even though there would be a wise man once in a while guessed that the secret reason of why the demon king’s legions were so strong was that they mastered the method of calculating space vesicles, the man would immediately be denounced as heresy, even as a dangerous man who studied the demonic knowledge. The human race has been restricting themselves in this way and beaten by us. They didn’t accept this fact until recently.”

“And they don’t completely understand it,” Y’zaks laughed and said, “There are still people believe that the power of demon king comes from something magical. Knowledge is power. How can they not understand such a simple truth?”

Hao Ren did not know what to say. He understood that what Y’zaks said was reasonable but how could a normal person believe that the demon king’s power really just came from exercising, eating well, reading more books…

They reached the destination of the trip. It was a square, large building with white facades and neat stained-glass windows. The three-storey wall was covered with various kinds of signboards written by different languages, most of which were the names of some offices, and some were small signboards such as ‘XX Mercenary Agency, ‘XX Real Estate Agency’ and ‘XX Marriage Counseling Center’. Hao Ren found it interesting and said, “Your world also has this kind of old office building…”

“This is the distribution hall,” Lanina said and laughed, “In the beginning, this place is actually only a place for mercenaries to exchange intelligence and for the intelligence dealers to do business, but in Cadessar this kind of special place, it greatly developed and became such a messy intelligence, personnel, and authorization distribution center. When the coalition force was established, it was also focused on supporting this facility. Here was an important platform for the early recruitment of soldiers for the seven heroes. A few of the most famous folk heroes of the ten years of war, such as Saintess of Light and Gordon, the Dragon Slayer, came out from here. The information we are looking for is readily available here: The information from the Demonic Plane is free to circulate here. The intelligence dealers are righteous only at this point.”

“You know the world very well.” Hao Ren glanced at Lanina in surprise.

“Don’t forget what I used to be,” Lanina said and wagged her tail proudly. “I heard that there’s a clever man in your world who knows everything under the sun without stepping out of the house. It’s too bad I can’t compete with him…”

Hao Ren remembered that he seemed to have said this before…

“Lanina, don’t talk much when you’re inside, just stay behind Hao Ren and pretend to be a low-level demon. There are all sorts of people inside, a magician with a low-level demon will not attract attention as long as not deliberately high-profile. But we also have to be careful not to be targeted by the Holy See,” Y’zaks reminded them and then walked into the distribution hall.

As soon as Hao Ren walked into the building, he felt a rush of blast– a real blast of ‘noise’!

The first floor of the three-storey building was a super hall supported by a few rows of square columns. The hall was strewn with small partitions that looked like counters or reception points but was mostly decorated with desks and chairs and open spaces that allowed people to communicate. Countless adventurers and businessmen made this place so noisy. There were all sorts of people there including ordinary man, military personnel, and uniformed staff.