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Act 1: Overture to the Phantom Forest Chapter 84: The Floating City of Brass

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    "I'm really full!" Lesatos snapped his fingers with a sullen face, and the overwhelming missile storm drowned the incoming "bandit".  Before leaving, Zaman casually said that there was a small caravan asking him to escort it, and Lesatos responded casually.  After landing, he stood on the shore and looked at the "small" caravan, which was three miles long from beginning to end and composed of five hundred beasts of burden. The thunder in his eyes shot out far away.  Looking back, Burning Chain City rushed into the aurora fire curtain at the speed of running for its life, and it was too late to catch up.  This is a lesson, never underestimate the "casual remarks" of a reckless man.  It is impossible to expect a furious dragon to work obediently. According to the rules of the metal dragon, this is an unclear contract and suspected of fraud. He can confiscate all the goods as compensation.  But, confiscate the property of your own city?  Thinking of this, a mouthful of blood caught in his throat.  When the caravan set out on the road, he discovered that Zaman was not a bad learner after hundreds of years.  The goods include high-grade collodion, aromatherapy materials, works of art and fire dragon blood, as well as several sets of magical equipment for filtering magma and sifting ore. The total value of the goods is nearly ten million gold coins, not counting beasts of burden.  Such a huge team is crossing the Zhuomeng Plain, passing through more than a dozen territories of the Pamirs and the Little Sultans. It is simply shouting: I am a fat sheep, come and grab it!  No one dared to disobey the oracle of Cassius, and the army could not be dispatched during the truce.  So dozens of emerging "robber groups" were temporarily listed, and Lesatos simply fought his way through.  So he asked how he had traveled such a dangerous trade route before.  "Before? By Allah, this is the first time!" The answer for him was Said, a typical local efreet, tall and with red skin.  Wearing a pointed felt hat, pointed boots and a pointed beard, he always holds a sheathed scimitar on his waist when speaking.  "You know, when liberating enslaved people, we can always seize some goods. But we lack sales channels, so we accumulated so much in one trip. Later, the devil in the City of Brass proposed a purchase intention and estimated the danger on the road. We  Give up the idea. But when you come, the city lord will be all confused" That day, thousands of bandits disappeared from the fire elemental world.  Two volcanoes and a furnace city were destroyed.  Yaqin made a backhand, and the six-edged hammer fell on the lizard man's flat face, opening three bloody grooves. Then he jumped up using the force, twisted his ankles around the attacker's neck, and broke it with a bang.  It's about to land.  The other flail was about to fall.  She uttered three words, and the monster immobilization technique was instantly activated, making the enemy stiff. Then she fluttered her wings and turned over, raising her hammer to kill the enemy.  "Another scratch," Yaqin frowned. Each elemental apostle had one forged by himself.  The war hammer that accompanies you for life is the most reliable partner, but the high temperature environment of the fire elemental world destroys the internal structure of the hexagonal hammer.  "We need to find a way to repair it." She shook her head, shook the blood off her feathers, stepped over the body and returned to the caravan.  She heard that Lesatos was going to escort the caravan to the City of Brass, and immediately took the initiative to participate, viewing it as an opportunity to repay the Golden Dragon.  Lesatos only discovered this familiar face in the team the next day. Although he just nodded, Yaqin was still encouraged.  They have crossed the Burning Dream Plains and are within easy reach of the City of Brass.  There were also fewer attacks.  But Lesatos still looked unhappy. He sat on the roof of a car and took a big spoonful of the golden liquid in the crucible to take a sip every time he cast a spell, as if he wanted to get his capital back - in fact, he had already found it.  came back.  One-seventh of the caravan carried gold, all of which was Lesatos' reward.  Yaqin pulled Said and asked in a low voice: "Why do you want to drink the melted gold? Is it some kind of magic?" The fire element twirled the tip of his beard. He was a smart guy and could see that although Lesatos  He didn't say anything, but took care of the young elemental apostle during the battle.  "Haha, friends from the wind elemental world, don't you know that this is a giant dragon - to be precise, is it the custom of a metal dragon?" Yaqin shook his head.  "The dragon's stomach is a huge reactor, capable of digesting everything it eats. The scales of the chromatic dragon are leather, and the scales of the metal dragon are armor, but the color and hardness of the metal above need to be replenished frequently. They swallow the corresponding  The metal dragon is made of material and injected into the scales through the capillaries after digestion. This is also related to the accumulation of wealth. This is a big expense. The wealth status of a dragon can be seen through the color of the scales.  , the deputy city leader was scratched by thousands of flying creatures, and his scales were greatly damaged, and he needs to be replenished. " "In other words, he drank gold for beauty? " " Well, it can be understood that way." "  The boundary is a large fire pool, and the road is hidden in the light and shadow.  After walking hard for two days, they finally saw their destination, the capital of the Fire Elemental Realm - the City of Brass.  In ?In the middle of the sea is a vast obsidian wilderness, with millions of residents densely distributed. Thousands of large and small furnaces are the center of the settlement, with smoke rising into the sky day and night.  Countless toxic gases and waste gases produced by smelting gather into the sky, and are introduced into the wind elemental world through a stable boundary vortex.  Because of this, the fire djinn and the air djinn have been at war with each other all year round.  If you look carefully, the furnaces are arranged in a huge magic circle on the obsidian field. A hemispherical brass city with a diameter of 80 sari floats in the sky. Twenty-four basalt stairs connect the upper and lower parts, and the guards are separated by towers and magma.  Even if the flying units are not shot to death by the numerous magic towers and arrow towers, they will be sucked into the smoke and sent into the wind elemental world.  This fortified city has never been captured.  The caravan entered the Lower City, and there were soldiers everywhere who were heavily armed and holding hellhounds or flaming snakes. Everyone looked like they were about to take a bite.  Both sides of the road were bustling with people, and they were all workers in ragged clothes. Their expressions were numb and their steps were stiff.  They were driven to the embankment, driven by whips to fish out the less viscous magma. From time to time, someone fell down and lost their bones with a grunt.  The magma is sent out of large equipment to be screened, and a small amount of minerals and elemental crystals are extracted. Then workers send the semi-finished products to the furnace for further refinement.  Every process is accompanied by death and disability, and it is not that no one resists.  But there are thousands of iron cages on both sides of the road, and inside they are the mummies of rebels of all races.  A Githyanki, who was burnt black and had cloudy eyes, stretched out his withered palms towards Lesatos and the others.  The parched throat could no longer make any sound.  The team was shrouded in shock, anger and fear. Yaqin, who had experienced the true nature of cruelty for the first time, was so angry that she was shaking all over. But she was not a fool, and she did not act excessively when biting her lips until they bled.  Close your eyes and can't bear to look directly.  Lesatos returned to his unsmiling expression and whispered: "Slavery will not disappear because of your escape. Look carefully and listen carefully. This scene is the driving force of the struggle." The Elemental Apostle took several deep breaths and his eyes returned to clarity.  But he couldn't hide his anger.  She was helpless in the face of habitual evil.  "Humans, dwarves, halflings, demons, dwarfswhere did they collect so much labor?" Said was dealing with a half-devil tax collector.  Lesatos continued to explain to Yaqin like a good teacher.  "The City of Brass has a long history of development. Do you know what the main products here are?" Yaqin shook his head.  Lesatos spread his hands, revealing a piece of semi-soft gold.  "That's it. The texture of gold is too soft and has low practicality. In the Fire Elemental Realm, it is mainly used as goods rather than currency. Volcanic magma brings minerals hidden deep underground to the surface in endless amounts. The Fire Elemental Realm is the second largest in the multiverse.  The golden exit plane is second only to the earth elemental realm. The sifting of minerals requires a huge amount of slaves, and they are consumed very quickly. ""Prince Poisonous Fire is a fierce and decisive hero. At first, he and the Abyss Flame Lord Buffy.  Mente cooperated and gained population through war and plunder, but he was disgusted with the fickleness and disorder of the devil, so he turned around and cooperated with the devil. The Baatezu proposed a series of reforms: opening fixed-dimensional trade routes, wooing the earth giants, and abolishing the demons.  Slavery, formulate a new labor system. There are currently three million workers in the lower city of the City of Brass. "Three million!" Yaqin took a breath, "Why are they actually workers?  Not leaving?" she said, pointing to the iron cage.  "Contract. A person who comes to the Fire Elemental Realm to pursue wealth, as long as he accepts the labor contract, can get half of the fruits of his labor, which is equivalent to two hundred gold coins per year, and the work is low-risk at the beginning. The amount of labor is small, and the treatment is good.  "High." "Ah, it sounds very generous. Two hundred gold coins is money that many migrant workers will never earn in a few lifetimes." "Indeed, but to stay here, you need the fire immunity granted by the fire giant.  Magic, as well as food and water, are all tightly controlled. Labor must be purchased at a high price. Coupled with gambling, brothels and other facilities that lure people to throw away money, no one can make money and leave in the first year.  Slightly less than the expenditure, I have to continue working in order to pay off the debt. In the second year, I will be dragged into the pit of serial loan sharks. In the third year, I will be reduced to a slave labor without freedom. The devil has a sophisticated system. The only result of coming here is to work.  Death. Then the income goes to the fire djinn, and the souls of the workers who died in pain and regret go to hell. " Yaqin opened his eyes and was speechless. "No wonder Prince Zhan Yan wants to free the slaves" She asked another question, "  No matter how secret it is, in a hundred or two hundred years, the outside world will know the truth here sooner or later. How can anyone continue to come? "Lesatos pointed to the upper city area above, "We will go up in a while, you can see for yourself?  As a result, Lesatos didn't have to worry about trivial matters such as the sale of goods. After a few hours, they said goodbye to the depressing wails and whips.??, climb the basalt stairs.  The guards simply checked the documents and let them go. No one blackmailed them, nor did they make any bad remarks because they came from the Burning Chain City. The harmony was so harmonious that Yaqin couldn't adapt to it.  Lesatos told her the reason: "Because they knew I was coming!" A simple sentence, full of domineering power.  On the way, Yaqin asked Said about the close combat against slavery. The efreeti looked helpless, "Every year, the number of liberated slaves increases, but the number of workers in the City of Brass increases three times!"  The city built of brass is magnificent, the streets are wide and clean, and the soot is kept out of the city by mysterious locks.  Most of the buildings have towering domes, as well as the worship tower of Allah of All Flames.  They stood at the gate of the city. Lesatos said to Saiyi: "Finish the deal, and then find a safe trade route to send her back to the wind elemental world." "I don't need to go out of my way" Saiyi  De turned around and said: "But we need it. This is a city full of lies and conspiracies. You don't want to be sold to work in the lower city." Yaqin finally solemnly thanked Lesatos and Said. She knew this  The journey is almost over.  The fire djinn went to the trading area, leaving only the elemental apostle and the golden dragon mage.  The young girl asked: "Sir, where are we going now?" "I need to find someone to do something and take you around. But you don't have to look for it, someone will naturally come to us." As soon as he finished speaking, a man with a handsome face said,  The reddish-skinned human walked up to him and bowed politely.  "Welcome, Lord Yanyan." "I feel uncomfortable hearing this in the City of Brass. Who do you represent?" "My lord, the affairs officer of this city, if you need anything, you can tell me." "Okay then.  , you will lead us around as a tour guide, and by the way, I want to see your latest 'Success Learning' class." The tour guide was surprised, but still bowed and led the way.
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