Suldak took Andrew and Gulitem from the Chaos Fortress and rode along the mountain road southwest for five days before arriving at the Blue Bridge Fortress sandwiched between the mountains.
As its name describes, the Blue Bridge Fortress spans between these two mountains, and the entire fortress is about two hundred meters long.
Surdak stood on the mountain road outside the fortress. He could see that the fortress was built on an existing natural stone arch bridge. The craftsmen of the Green Empire built a long and narrow fortification on the stone arch bridge. It was tall and straight.
The entire city wall is surrounded by stone bridges.
It looks like a long and narrow floating castle built between the mountains. There are tall watchtowers on both sides of the castle, which can be as high as the ridges of the mountains on both sides.
These two mountains are very close to each other, and the valley between the mountains does not have an endless river, but a valley filled with countless sharp stone pillars. These sharp stone pillars are almost three to five meters high, and the tops are extremely sharp and blue.
Below the bridge fortress is a desperate valley.
Blue Bridge Fortress is the only passage connecting two nearby mountains.
In addition to the imperial flag, there are two different flags flying on the top of the watchtowers on the east and west sides of the fortress, one of which is the flag representing the province of Bena.
Surdak and his party came to the gate of the fortress and submitted a transfer order for the Chaos Fortress to the guards in front of the fortress gate. At the same time, Surdak wrote the Speaker of the Bena City House of Representatives, Marquis Fred Dunstan, to Ah
I took out Commander Dauphin Dunstan's personal letter.
Surdak didn't have much luggage on him. Andrew was holding two horses beside him. The two-headed ogre squatted by the low wall at the entrance of Blue Bridge Fortress, looking curiously at the Thousand Needles Forest at the bottom of the valley below the bridge.
, the two brothers seemed to be muttering something.
The guard at the entrance of the fortress asked Surdak and his party to wait a moment.
The door in front of you is a double door with a height of almost five meters. The door is covered with a thick layer of iron and looks quite heavy. There are no iron nails on the door, but it has some Bennet style.
of painted.
If the two gates are fully opened, two four-wheeled carriages can pass through in parallel.
…
The door of the office was pushed open from the outside, and a close confidant walked into the room holding Suldak's letter and said:
"Commander Adolphus, there is a letter for you outside. It was brought to you by one of the three new recruits who were newly recruited to our fortress. Among the three new recruits sent from the Chaos Fortress this time,
, there is actually a two-headed ogre.”
Commander Adolphus put down the quill in his hand and reached out to take the letter. When he saw the family emblem drawn on the envelope and the stamp on the seal, he raised his eyebrows slightly and quickly pulled out an exquisite gold dagger.
, cut the letterhead open.
The traces of origami inside were also the family's special origami method. He didn't even look at the contents, but looked directly at the signature 'Fred Dunstan' at the signature.
His face softened a little, with a faint smile on his lips, and he said: "I don't have time to see him now. You go and settle them down first. Don't assign tasks to them yet. I will take the time to meet with them."
"Yes, Commander." The confidant took the order and left.
Then Adolphus gently unfolded the parchment letter and saw that the lines were filled with family trivia and some new changes. He stood up from his seat with the letter in hand, leaned against the window and looked at the foggy sky outside the window.
, sighing softly, thinking to himself: Among the Dunstan family, the only relative that he can still recognize may be Fred.
"Lord Commander, the meeting is almost over!"
Adolphus put the letter into his pocket, pulled on the magic pattern construct, and walked out of the office.
…
Commander Adolphus' cronies quickly walked through the fortress corridor and strode to the fortress gate. When they saw three humans and a two-headed ogre sitting by the low wall at the door, they immediately nodded to the guard at the door.
, stepped up and said:
"Hello, Deputy Commander of Blue Bridge Fortress Command, Bart Nehem!"
Surdak quickly stood up and said to him: "Suldak, this is Andrew, Gulitem and his good brother Naohua'er."
Bart looked at the two-headed ogre in surprise, and asked Suldak curiously: "Which city in the Bena Province are you from?"
"Helanza City."
Bart's eyes lit up slightly and he said, "I've heard about your city, on the north side of the tower. When did you have a clan of ogres there?"
Surdak stood up straight, patted Gulitem's arm, and introduced: "He and Andrew are both my followers. I met them in the Maca plane. This time I got the recruitment order to enter the big army."
On the battlefield, they all happened to have reached level two strength, so they came with me."
"It turns out to be the Maca plane... No wonder!" Bart said and led three people into the Blue Bridge Fortress from the side door. Then Bart said to Suldak: "Your family is really powerful, even entering the big battlefield
I can still have followers by my side!”
When you walk into the Blue Bridge Fortress, you will see a straight and narrow passage with round arched stone windows between the stone pillars on both sides of the passage.
All buildings in Blue Bridge Fortress are built above this passage.
After entering the passage, Bart climbed the stone steps from the side, glanced at the two-headed ogre, and then said:
"Come in with me. I will help you arrange three rooms first. You big guy can only live in the room on the second floor. This floor is mostly occupied by warehouses and the rooms are more spacious."
Climb to the second floor of the fortress. As expected, the corridors on this floor are also very spacious. You can also see some flatbed trailers on both sides. There are two corridors in the east and west of the fortress on the second floor. There are rows of beds in each corridor. Each bed
The crossbows were placed next to the window, and the shooting angle was just right to cover the needle forest below the fortress.
Opposite the bed crossbow are warehouses.
As Bart said, the doors of these warehouses are very high, and Gulitem can walk into the room without bending down.
Bart chose a clean room, which actually contained two large beds. He put the two beds together and found a large sheet to spread on top, so that the two-headed ogre had a large bed of his own.
bed.
Bart introduced Suldak:
"There are not many people in the fortress now. The main reason is that there is a war going on in the Dalan Fortress. Our fortress has also dispatched manpower to support there. It seems that there are many empty rooms. When they all return, you will find that these rooms are almost empty.
They’re all already occupied.”
After arranging a room for Gulitem, Bart continued to walk upstairs and climbed the stairs. He said to Suldak:
"The specific tasks you will be assigned will be arranged by the two commanders of the fortress."
There are many rooms on the third floor of the fortress, but Surdak discovered that a wall was built in the middle of the third floor of the fortress, completely separating it from the other side.
Bart walked through a row of room doors. Each door was numbered and empty inside.
"These rooms are occupied, and they happen to be out on duty."
When he reached the end, Bart pointed to the two rooms with 525 and 527 written on the door and said, "You two can choose these two rooms. The facilities in the rooms are very good."
As he said that, he took out a bunch of keys from his waist, picked out two copper keys from it, and opened the wooden doors of the two rooms respectively. Sure enough, there was a single bed against the wall in the room, and a single bed on the other side.
There was only a table and a chair. There was no toilet or bathroom in the room, and there were no windows. It was like the cheapest standard room in a hotel in the county town.
However, the room was very clean and there was even a bookshelf in the corner.
Surdak walked into one of the rooms, put the backpack in his hand on the table, looked around, and thought it was pretty good.
Bart stood at the door waiting for them to confirm that they lived here, then gave them two bronze keys with numbers on them, and then returned downstairs.
He took Gulitem, who was looking at the needle forest under the bridge by the window, to the independent hall on the second floor of the fortress, pointed to the canteen hall that was completely divided into two areas and said:
"Our fortress provides breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Regular meals are free, and breakfast and dinner are provided, so you can come here to eat if you are hungry at any time before going to bed. There are soups and barbecues, and the staple food is roasted wheat.
Cake and white bread, no limit.”
The two-headed ogre let out a low roar of joy.
Perhaps because it was not meal time, there were not many people dining in the restaurant.
Bart very patiently led Suldak to hold the dinner plate at one end, and there was no need to queue, and he could just receive the meal next to the kitchen window.
Bart pointed to the dining area opposite and continued: "Opposite is the ordering area. If you feel that the free meal is not to your liking, and you want to add more food, you need to use your merit to order food opposite. Gold coins and magic crystals are not circulated here, only recognized
There is this unidentified magic crystal..."
As he spoke, Bart took one out of his pocket and handed it to Suldak to look at.
Surdak knew this kind of magic crystal, and he still remembered that during the investiture ceremony, almost all the other eleven young nobles except himself used these merit magic crystals to obtain title promotions.
"These unidentified black magic crystals can be taken to the Chaos Fortress to exchange for merits on the battlefield. There is also the largest trading hall there. You can use your merits to exchange for many things that you are interested in, such as epic weapons, advanced magic pattern structures, magic potions, etc.
Advanced scrolls, magic gems, etc. It is worth noting that the value of this unidentified black magic crystal is at least double that of normal magic crystal. This is our currency here."
"Of course, if you have money, you can find someone to trade this kind of unidentified black magic crystal privately, but you must be careful when trading." Bart said to Suldak, he thought Surdak should
He is a noble boy who is not short of money, otherwise it would be impossible for him to wear out his Isenhard suit as soon as he came in from outside.
But Bart still reminded Surdak:
"So the extra meals in the fortress canteen are also very expensive, but when you try it yourself, you may find that the extra meals are really worth the money."
The two-headed ogre was carrying two dinner plates, and his lunch was actually barbecue steak, mashed potatoes, and baked wheat cakes.
Gulitem almost asked the cook to pile up the two dinner plates like a hill. Then when he went to get the baked wheat cakes from the basket, he took a whole pile of wheat cakes directly from the basket. It was initially estimated that these wheat cakes were almost
Serves ten people.
Surdak asked curiously: "Where did these unidentified magic crystals come from?"
He knew that the soldiers in the Dark Legion produced this unidentified black magic crystal, and that the demon warriors probably also produced this kind of black magic crystal, but he did not think that everyone in the fortress had the opportunity to kill the demons every day.
Bart patiently explained: "There are some rewards for performing various tasks in the fortress. The accumulation of several tasks can be exchanged for black magic crystals. In addition, if you kill demon warriors on the battlefield, you will get them from their heads.
What's wrong with these? You've never seen this before?"
Surdak scratched his head and said: "I thought I could only get this by killing the Dark Legion soldiers..."
The group of people found a corner in the restaurant to sit down, where they could avoid the sight of many people.
Surdak and Andrew finished their lunch quickly.
Bart had probably already had lunch, so he didn't eat at all.
Only the two-headed ogre kept eating.
"If there is anyone else you want to introduce to us, you can leave him here. After he eats, he can find his room." Suldak said.
"Then let's go and take you to see the blacksmith shop in the fortress. The blacksmith shop here can also help you repair some magic weapons. But if it is Isenhard's shield, you want to repair it, but you need to come up with some
Here comes the unidentified black magic crystal." After saying that, Bart led Suldak through the cafeteria and walked to the hall in the center of the second floor.
In this area, Surdak saw many second-level warriors, some of whom greeted Bart familiarly, while others ignored Bart's existence with indifferent expressions.
"There are strong men from two provinces stationed in the Blue Bridge Fortress. Our Bena Province occupies the East Blue Bridge, while the Ababa Province occupies the West Blue Bridge. Our two provinces share a fortress, except
The public areas and canteen here are completely separate from the rest.”
"Normally, we are only responsible for the defense of the eastern mountains, while they are responsible for the western mountains, and we are jointly responsible for the coniferous forest below."
"Some things happened before, which led to several unknown conflicts, so the relationship between our two provincial powerhouses has always been tense." When Bart introduced these, his voice was much lowered.
"The master blacksmith in the blacksmith shop in the fortress is from Bena, and his charges are always the normal price, so if you ask him to repair your weapons, you must identify yourself, otherwise you will pay more. The magician in the apothecary shop
The pharmacist is a magician from Ababa Province, so you don’t need to take the initiative to identify yourself, unless they insist on confirming your identity... Also, be careful not to embarrass our Bena Province!"
Bart then introduced Suldak.
This made Surdak a little stunned. He didn't expect that a small military fortress would actually be divided into two factions.
"As for the magic pattern structure, it has to be sent to the Chaos Fortress to find the Archmage to repair it." After Bart finished speaking, he stopped, glanced at the group of warriors waving at him, stopped and said: "You guys are here first.
You can take a stroll here, or you can go back to your room to take a rest. If you have anything you don’t understand, you are welcome to come to me at any time."