Chapter 22 Neville City
It was already the fourth night when the group arrived in Neville City. Now the gate of Neville City was already in sight. You can see the bright lights in the city from afar. However, the group did not rush to enter the city, but stopped at the side of the road from afar and began to sort out their clothes. If it were just an ordinary adventure, the girls would not pay special attention to their image as they are now, but this time it was not ordinary. After all, there was an elf queen around them, and everyone's image no longer represented individuals, but the adventurers' guild and mage guild behind them. Even Vivian, who cared about the least, had to pay attention to it.
Starting from the Holy Capital, even if there is a magic motorcycle as a means of transportation, it took nearly four days to travel through the entire Neville territory. Fortunately, the route choice is very reasonable. You can find a suitable village to rest every night, and it is not too tired to walk along the way. The only thing that surprised the girls was Fraer, who had been following him after joining the streets. In their imagination, the elf queen, as the spiritual leader of the elves clan, should be a person who is used to living a comfortable life and cannot bear the pain of long-distance running. But unexpectedly, during the four-day journey, the girls could still drive and rest each other, and Fraer could only ride the black panther mount himself. Even so, after walking for four consecutive days, Fraer still looked relaxed and leisurely, without any fatigue. Even if he was already an enemy, the girls had to admire him secretly.
"No matter what I am now, I was also a professional adventurer in the Elf Forest back then." Fraer smiled and explained the girls' doubts: "You can ask the person who pretended to see the scenery. Among the wild survival skills he knew, who had learned the strong Elf-style skills. Although I don't need to do many things myself now, more than a hundred years ago, I would never do it slower than you in setting up camps to deal with prey, especially in a few forest adventures. Hey, if I hadn't taught him, the person who started counting ants there would probably not be able to distinguish between minaret mushrooms and black tree mushrooms. Hey, Kyle, you will never pick minaret mushrooms for dinner now."
"Ahem, it's quite cool tonight." Panis coughed a few times, and suddenly said in surprise: "Hey. Look, it's so strange that Neville City has opened its gates after playing like this."
"It's been seven years since the city gates were closed." Catherine rolled her eyes and said, "You guy, even the method of changing the topic is so unprofessional. Forget it. Let's go. It's already time. If you delay it, you may not find a place to live. I don't want to have a place to live all the way, but I have to sleep on the street when I arrive at my destination."
"Don't worry, sister." Freya lazily lay on the rudder of the motorcycle and said weakly: "Even if the hotel is full, it doesn't matter. We have the Elf Queen's flag. If we don't have a place to live, we will ask the people in the city hall to arrange their residence on the grounds that our Queen is here to attend the meeting. For such a convenient reason, I really don't understand why you don't use it, and it can save the hotel's expenses. Wow, that's gold coins. You are willing to waste it. Are you still the eldest sister? Are you controlled by a mage? Return my eldest sister back quickly. Oh, don't knock my head. Sister, why do you learn Vivian's bad habits? Oops. I did nothing this time, and you knocked me again."
"You are a fool." Catherine snorted, but did not explain anything. Everyone knew her thoughts. The girls' thoughts were actually similar to her. They were not as unscrupulous as they had to do so. They were determined not to rely on the enemy's identity to obtain convenience. Although this idea seemed childish and immature, it was indeed the persistence of several girls.
Obviously, Fraer also knew what Catherine was thinking. He just smiled very interestingly and thoughtfully did not comment on it. Instead, he leaned under the tall trees on the side of the road and looked at the city gate in the distance, and said leisurely: "I haven't entered Neville City for more than a hundred years. I wonder if this city has changed in recent years."
"There is no change at all." Panis shrugged, with a little mockery in his tone: "Same decadence, same indulgence, same self-ansthesia, and still this is more than a hundred years later."
"Is it so exaggerated?" Lina, who had been worried all the time, suddenly said: "Why don't I feel this way?"
"Because you were too young when you left Neville City." Panis shook his head, "so you won't feel too deep. Catherine, you have never entered the East Side of Neville City, you will understand after you enter."
"It's like the City of Innocence?" Catherine seemed to understand something and asked tentatively: "It should be similar to the City of Innocence, those blocks that regard night as daytime."
"Well... it can be said that there are similarities, but not exactly the same." Panis pondered for a moment and said, "City of Innocence is depravity, while Neville is decadent and indulgent, and it is difficult to explain clearly in words. If you are interested, you can go around the East District together tonight, and you will definitely have a very intuitive understanding."
"Well, that's fine." The girls looked at each other and saw curiosity in each other's eyes. Catherine nodded and said seriously with a stern face: "After all, I just heard that I had never seen the prosperity of Neville City. Even if I passed by several times, I had never been to the East District at night. It would be a good thing to go to see it this time. At least I can deepen my understanding of Neville Federation."
"Puchi." Fraer couldn't help laughing, and reached out to knock on the trunk behind her. She didn't know what skills she used, but a branch hangs down like a living, and the green fruit on the branch grew and matured at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her Majesty the Queen picked the fruit and took a bite, and said teasingly: "Everyone can have this mentality of curiosity, why bother to make excuses for her curiosity."
"This is not curiosity, this is reconnaissance of the enemy." Catherine was unable to keep calm when facing the enemy Fraer. She turned her head red and said in a panic: "Everything is fast, hurry up, prepare to set off. We have to find a hotel to arrange our luggage first, and stop being too slow."
"Haha, what a cute girl, she's even more adorable than Neli." Fraer turned his eyes to Panis and said with a smile: "You're right, Kyle."
Panis didn't talk, but just looked at Neville City in the distance. The lights in the city were dazzling, illuminating the dark night sky.
Chapter completed!