When the team really reached under the high wall, Loren was able to really spy on the whole picture of the imperial capital.
Although Golovin is obviously a capital built after niederhogg, with magnificent white stone walls and towering towers, it is not as magnificent and sacred as the Dragon King City, but more magnificent.
Niederhogg is a city in the clouds isolated from the glacier, and the magnificent Golovin hovers between the hills and fertile soil.
After the high wall, the team marched nearly ten miles before reaching the north gate of the imperial capital; All along the way are large and small fairs and pedestrians in all kinds of clothes. Shops next to each other are almost close to the city wall, and large and small signboards are hung on the trunk and walls on both sides of the road.
Taverns, hostels, shops, fairs, buildings, casinos... The dense crowd slowly surged, crowded by everyone. The little wizard and Isaac sitting in the carriage were stunned and looked at the scene in front of them.
"I think we haven''t entered the city gate yet?" Isaac, with a puzzling face, swallowed his saliva and twitched his eyebrows: "how do you feel that there are more people I see today... Than I have seen in my life!"
"Worthy of being the imperial capital... Is it so prosperous just outside the city?" Ai Yin looked forward to it. She looked at the endless flow of carriages loaded with goods and couldn''t help sighing:
"It''s hard to imagine how many people live in the whole Golovin?"
"If you want to count the whole Royal territory, that is, West Saxony... Almost three million people; if it''s just the city of Golovin, it should be between 500000 and 800000, which is not fixed."
The grey pupil boy sitting beside them answered absently, wiping his bright sword in his hand: "and Isaac just said wrong - strictly speaking, we have now reached Golovin."
"Huh?" the unhappy Isaac hugged his shoulder.
Lucian suddenly smiled sarcastically: "in the words of those aristocrats, the empire is Golovin, and Golovin is the Empire - the order of Golovin is the order of the Empire."
"The poorest tenants, poor people, small traders and outsiders in various manors are not qualified to have a place in the high wall, so they can only live near the suburbs of the imperial capital;"
"Then there are ordinary citizens, most of whom have a stable job - the owner of a tavern, the priest of the church, the grass-roots officials of the house of Lords, the wizard apprentice, the blacksmith, the mercenary... And so on. They can live within the high wall."
"There are also differences in the city... Various guild bases, large and small churches, wizard colleges, little aristocrats... These are the ''mainstays'' of the Empire, which can be regarded as the relationship between the aristocracy and the civilian class?"
"Finally... The luxurious houses and palaces around the core hills of Golovin live the most powerful and richest nobles in the land of West Saxony - only comparing financial resources and power, and some of them are not even under the dukes and consuls of eboden!"
Shaking his head, the grey pupil boy sighed softly: "this is the ''order'' of the imperial capital, a huge, obviously hierarchical pyramid!"
"Wait... What you said is making me dizzy." Isaac turned his eyes impatiently:
"Make it simple. Where are we going?"
The grey pupil boy, who had long been used to this guy, just tilted his head and pointed behind him: "his highness Brandon de sallion must go to the sky Palace on the Golovin hill."
"As attendants, we should be arranged in the Royal Palace - this is usually the treatment of envoys and royal confidants sent by each Duke; or in the courtyard of the heavenly palace city like foreign envoys; but it is generally impossible."
The voice fell, and the little wizard who vaguely seemed to notice something turned his head: "why do you... Seem to be familiar with here?"
"I came here once when I was very young." Lucian, with his head down, suddenly darkened his eyes, but managed to squeeze out a smile:
"And... A place like Golovin can''t be forgotten once, can it?"
Isaac just shrugged his shoulders... Having seen the Dragon King City, he is not surprised at such a magnificent city; Ayn was very curious and even had a faint expectation:
"When I was in eboden, I heard that the alchemy of the Royal wizard college in gloven is the top in the whole empire, and even the nine pointed star wizard tower is much inferior... Can you visit it when his highness Brandon''s audience is over?"
The little wizard still remembers that the alchemist of the furnace college said that it was more advanced than the "earth shaker". The pride of imperial alchemy, the world''s top forging hammer, is in the College of the imperial capital!
The melting furnace Academy in melting furnace town has stunned her, so what will happen to the Royal wizard Academy in Golovin, which is even higher than there?
Visit? The grey pupil boy frowned slightly: "it''s hard to say. Although it is nominally a subordinate college of the wizard tower, in fact, the Wizards in this college are only responsible for the royal family, and most of them are also the research and work arranged by the Legion and royal affairs."
"It''s not impossible to have his highness Brandon, but... It shouldn''t be easy."
"Yes, besides, it''s just alchemy," Isaac said.
The expressionless little wizard pouted and looked at him: "... What do you mean?"
"Trivial, irrelevant, boring, trivial... How many more are you going to let me say?" Isaac almost laughed:
"The ''wizard'' college composed of a group of alchemists is boring to think about... And I seriously doubt whether they can really spell the word ''wizard'' with their intelligence!"
"Isaac Grantham..." the gnashing Ayn burst out word by word: "you may not find it, but I''m also an alchemist!"
"And I admire that! Ayn Rand, you are my friend. I will never deliberately slander my friend."
Isaac looked at her very seriously: "what''s more, being able to make achievements in such a boring, troublesome and trivial business proves that you are very great!"
“……”
No matter how the stars change and the times change, this guy can always make others want to kill him!
The grey pupil boy sighed, leaned against the carriage with the back of his head in his hands, and immersed in the scene when he came to Golovin with his father and brother as a child.
Along the thoroughfare through the city gate, the party followed the "Great Pyramid" to the core of the imperial capital; Along the way, I passed the old and new aristocratic mansions, large and small theatres, fairs, churches, baths, arenas and so on.
It was not until the west of yaori and the evening approached that the whole team crowded through countless surging crowds and finished the last part of the journey.
The sky palace, isolated from the hills, is close at hand.
... stepping on the hard stone floor under his feet, the prince who came down from the carriage took a long and deep breath and looked at the magnificent palace. His expression should be twitching and twitching:
"Well... The sky palace."
"Still... Back."
Walking in front of the little priest Weber dismounted and stood respectfully in front of Brandon: "Your Highness Brandon, your majesty Eckhart II, your father, has been waiting for you in the main hall all day."
"Your Majesty, he... Is looking forward to your arrival."
On the long steps not far away, you can already see the fully armed guards coming out from above, holding shields and halberds on both sides of the steps to "welcome" the prince who has returned from a long distance.
"Well... I''ve felt it." suddenly, Brandon''s face showed a childlike smile and smiled at his wizard adviser behind him:
"Wait a minute, I should be back soon!"
The little priest on one side didn''t say anything, but stood with Loren and watched the prince, who was "surrounded" by the bodyguard in the center, step by step towards the heavenly palace that looked like the Dragon King City.