“…”
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A bad little girl was asleep in the dragon car, and the vehicle was parked steadily on a spacious stone bridge. Her maid seemed to be negotiating with some people, and no one wanted to wake her up at this time.
“…”
Of course, Amilia didn't want to wake up the little girl who was sleeping in a straight shape, so she withdrew her gaze and turned toward the huge tower gate and towering walls.
At this time, after a few days of travel, they finally arrived at this destination.
This is the natural border between the Dragon-pro-Dragon Kingdom Lugnika and the Kararaki Free Trade Urban Country. The river that flows into this vast sea-like lake is a tributary of Tigurasi, which stretches across the entire continent, and the magical city in front of you, called "Pristella", is built in the center of this huge lake.
Now Amilia can see that the city of Priestra is built with towering walls that are enough to surround the entire city, and it looks very imposing!
There are four huge castle-like water gates in the four directions of the city wall, southeast, west and north, and four bridges connecting the city gates and built on the lake. If you want to enter the city in front of you, you must pass through the four gates that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.
If Emilia could now look at the city with a view from the sky, it would not be difficult for her to find that Priestra, the city of Watergate, was more like a huge basin of water!
That's right, it's just a basin, and it's the kind that's sunken in!
The buildings and roads of this city are located in this huge ‘big water basin’.
At the same time, the four directions of the "basin", that is, the fortress tower at the entrance of the four gates, are water gates or valves. The four towers that are like castles are used as power sources to control the water source valves, and are mainly used to adjust the water level. The name of "water gate city" comes from this.
Looking towards the city, the four straight waterways gathered together neatly divided the city into four-class blocks of equal size. People in this city live in such a "bath basin" divided into four, and their living environment is generally lower than the level of the lake outside. I don't know which one is stupid enough to design a city like this.
But no matter what, today, because he was one of the five kingly elected candidates of Lugnika, the Dragon Kingdom and the invitation of Annatasia Hesin, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Emilia, Frandelka, Rem, Ram's twin sisters, and a sad little girl who wanted to find something to do when she was full and was idle, finally came here together.
"Have the master woke up yet?"
At this time, Ram, who had just gone to negotiate with Falandelica, came back, and was holding a piece of paper in his hand that he didn't know what it was.
"that……"
"Mr. Amilia!"
"Now the information has been registered, the supervisor of Dazhengmen did not make things difficult for us. He quickly helped us pass the registration procedure."
After lit his toes and glanced at the carriage of the dragon car, he found that his master Anne seemed to be about to wake up yet. Ram had to report to Emilia, who was sitting next to the car door.
"What is that?"
"What, do you still need to register when entering the city?"
Amilia said it was a little strange, because when they went to Lugnica's capital, they seemed to be as troublesome as they are now.
"Yes."
“This is the registration form…”
"The content is almost like an oath or a letter of guarantee. Only those who sign this form and express their willingness to comply with relevant laws and regulations of Watermen City can enter."
"in particular……"
"A king-selected participant like you, Lord Emiliya?"
Ram didn't say much, but directly handed over the copy of the information registration form that roughly registered the names, quantity, and items they needed to enter the city on this trip to Emilya, who looked curious.
"like me?"
"ah!"
"Ram, you mean..."
"It's not just us who invited Annatasia?"
After looking at the registration form, Amilia, who didn't find any problem, quickly came to her senses and exclaimed and reached out to cover her own lips, because she could hear the implicit sound of Ram.
"Yes."
"I just heard the supervisor at the gate say something like 'Why are these kings again? It seems Priestra is going to be in trouble'."
"It is not difficult to infer from this that the king's chosen person who came to Shuimen City these days should be more than Lord Amilia, you?"
"As for how many people came, I didn't dare to ask more."
Ram did not hide it, and directly told what she heard, nodded in agreement with Amilia's guess, and also felt that the thing that everyone had to do this time might not go too smoothly?
"So that's how it is."
"Oh well……"
After nodding and returning the registration form to Ram for proper storage, Amilia planned to retract back into the dragon car.
However, when she turned around, she was shocked to see: a careless little girl who was supposed to be sleeping in a dragon car, but was nowhere to be seen. When she hurriedly turned around and glanced around outside, she was shocked to find that the other party had been sitting in a water dragon boat near the city gate in the distance, and was waving to them excitedly?
"Hello!"
ヾ(^▽^*)))
"Emilya, Ram! Come here quickly. It will be more fun if we go into the city to take a boat!"
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The careless little girl in the distance shouted loudly and successfully attracted the attention of many people around who were also waiting to register and enter the city.
"ah!"
"When did she get there?"
"never mind……"
"Falandelica, can we really change the boat?"
After opening his mouth, Amilia finally didn't plan to argue with Anne, but instead looked back to ask for some big maid who seemed to be very experienced and was sorting out the vehicle, and had also accompanied that guy Rozvar to various places in the world.
"Yes, absolutely OK!"
"Lord Amilia, after all, Shuimen City is built on a lake. Of course, the roads here are mainly water routes. Although you can also go by land, the passage..."
"Maybe it's a bit detour and complex, and it's a bit narrower than the waterway?"
He stretched out his finger and pointed his chin. Falandelica frowned for a while, and finally grinned awkwardly and showed her mouth full of fangs.
"Anyway!"
"Since you have come here, Lord Amilia, you can take a water dragon boat to the inn 'Water Feather Pavilion' with Master Anne, and you can also enjoy the scenery along the way. As for the dragon car and the gifts and items on the car, I will drive slowly to meet you by myself."
"There will definitely be no problem!"
"Ha ha……"
After saying that, Falandelica couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.
Anyway, she would definitely not say that she actually didn't know the way to the "Water Feather Elephant Pavilion", nor did she know the specific location of the place, and she was not familiar with the roads here in Shuimen City at all!
However, she felt that it was not a big problem. If she was the only one, she would just ask while looking for the way. If you look for it slowly, you would always reach that destination.
"Is this OK?"
"Oh well!"
"Then please Falandelica!"
Originally, Amilia wanted to decline, but when she saw Ram and Rem were walking towards the dragon boat together, she saw a little miserable girl who had begun to wave and urge them again impatiently, she was also a little ready to move. So after thinking about it, she agreed, accepted Falandelica's kindness, and jumped directly from the dragon car door.
They have been riding the dragon car for several days, and now they change to take a boat or something, which is really a very novel experience for her.
"Remember!"
"Be careful on the road?"
With just a time to remind him, Falanderica waved her hand without looking back and drove a dragon car along the bridge's land route into the main entrance.
As a last resort, Amilia had to turn awkwardly and walk quickly towards Annie and the three of them.
"Go off!"
?*.?(ˊωˋ*)??*.
"Let's go find something delicious!!"
ヾ(⌒?⌒*)~?
Soon, with Anne's cheers, the water dragon began to twist its snake-like body under the command of the "captain", swam quickly in the water, and then pulled the water dragon boat to officially enter this green city along the magic valve, the water city - Pulistera, the water city!
Soon, Anne, Emilia, Ram and Rem were surprised to see that this place was indeed the same as the legendary one, a huge city in a circular shape, and the more you go to the center of the city, the more outrageous height difference there is?
Anyway, they could clearly tell with their naked eyes that the city center was really much lower than the water surface outside. If the city had not had magic and the water gate was controlling the water level, I guess this large bathtub, which was built on the lake and was even depressed, would have been completely submerged by the surging lake water?
“Wow!”
|?˙?˙)
"It seems to be very fun!"
?(????)?
Annie doesn’t care whether the city is a bathtub or a grave bun. Anyway, she only knows that there must be fun and delicious things here!
“…”
“What a strange city.”
"I kind of don't understand, since it's a city, why not build it on the water surface, but instead waste magic to control the water level and then build the city under the water surface?"
"If we only aim to defend against the enemy, the four bridges, towers, and the surrounding lakes are enough, right?"
“But now…”
The more I look at Amilia, the more I feel something is wrong, and the more I think about it, the more I feel terrified!
"It's so crazy!"
"They actually designed the city in the water. In such a big city and so many people, what should they do if something unexpected happens?"
"Even if there are a large number of dragon boats, once a large amount of lake water flows in, everything here will definitely be rolled under the lake!"
Originally, Amilia would not care about such things, but since she is now one of the five kings of the Lugnika Kingdom, she must consider more things than ordinary people based on the principle of planning her own politics.
“…”
"Rem thinks they should have designed this on purpose. Maybe the city itself is part of the trap?"
"Mr. Amilia, think about it..."
"Once the enemy breaks through here and enters the city, and the defensive side suddenly opens four water gates when they are unable to reverse the situation, so that the entire city is completely submerged under the lake, wouldn't the enemy be wiped out?"
Rem didn't know why this city was designed like this, but anyway, she only knew that if the enemy attacked this city, she would definitely pay a heavy price?
Even if you finally capture this place, it will be a situation where both sides suffer losses!
In that case, many potential external threats will definitely be frightened by this terrible design that can die with the enemy, so it becomes safer?
“!!”
"I mean? How could they do this?"
Amilia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
In fact, she did not object to taking special measures to defend against the enemy or certain threats, but she strongly opposed the destruction of a city in order to deal with the enemy and the detention of the tens of thousands of people living in the city!
That is a very inhuman and evil thing!
If she really succeeds in becoming the queen of the Lugnica Kingdom one day in the future, she will definitely work hard to change this cruel status quo?
"Ram thinks this method is good."
"This way to flood the entire city is the best way to deal with some cruel enemies!"
The twin maid sister Ram, who had red hair and red eyes, also spoke at this time and supported his sister Rem's guess just now, thinking that such a method is very practical, especially when dealing with enemies like the Witch Cult.
"Some enemies will not leave any living slaughter and die with them. Instead, they are the most effective way to stop and eliminate them!"
"Only that..."
At this time, Ram seemed to remember the incident when their village was slaughtered by the Witch Cult and caused her to lose the horns of the ghost clan, so that her face began to look a little ugly.
Perhaps that is why she agrees with the design plan of this Shuimen City?
"Can't!"
"That's terrible!"
"Don't you think it's a bit contradictory to protect the city by destroying it?"
"By the way!"
"Annie, what do you think?"
Seeing that the two twin sisters did not see the terrible, tragic and evil design of this Watergate City, Amilia had to look at a careless little girl who was lying on the side of the boat and playing with water, hoping to get a little recognition from the other party.
However...
“??”
(???.???)??????
"What? Are you just discussing something delicious?"
!?(?''??)?
"Where is it? Where?!"
(?Д?≡?д?)!?
After saying that, a bad little girl began to look around.
Obviously, Annie must have not paid attention to the topics between the three of them just now, nor even more so the beautiful city scenery on both sides of the waterway. As for what she was doing just now, I am afraid that only a bear who was pressed under the water by her will know.
(…)
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"never mind!"
"Let's put aside the topic just now!"
"Let's talk about it when you have time in the evening!"
Now, Amilia was very angry, so she had to hold her arms and close her eyes and sit in her own position with resentment, not planning to continue discussing the topic.
"look!"
"Sister, that house is so beautiful!"
"Um!"
"Rem, the fountain over there is so big..."
"Ah~?"
“That water park is so beautiful!”
“Eh?”
"It's amazing. The waterway behind us looks so dangerous. How did the water dragons pull the boat out?"
"Maybe there is magic?"
"Too……"
"Tsk~!"
(ˉ▽￣￞￞)~~
"What's so good about it? Why not look at the big fish under the water!"
(??????)
“!!”
"ah!"
"Ann, Annie, what are you doing?"
"don't want!"
"I don't want to play with you, stop now!"
At this time, the entire water dragon boat shook violently. It turned out that it was a bad little girl who felt bored, so she reached out to pick up the water from the side of the boat, and then poured it directly towards Amilia and the two maids?
Soon, under the worried gaze of the "captain", the four women started to make a fuss on the boat.
(…)
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And while four women of all sizes on the dragon boat that was traveling through the spacious waterway were playing, a man in a tall building on the shore in the distance was secretly locking them through the window with his eyes.
But in the end, the person who peeped at them still did not dare to do anything. He just looked at the dragon boat for a while before sneering contemptuously, and then waved his hand proudly and pulled up the curtains.
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Chapter completed!