Chapter 151: Countryman enters the city (Ⅰ)

The Port of Leiden is located on the Leiden Peninsula near the estuary of the Eifen River, facing Pike Bay. It is the second largest city among all the colonial cities established by the Holy Asan Empire in the New World after "Midgard City".
As the industrial and commercial center and maritime trading hub of the Alfheim region, the market of Leiden has a wide range of fashionable goods from countries of the old continent. However, when it comes to local souvenirs, both the residents of this city and foreign tourists first think of "tomatoes", so the Port of Leiden has won the nickname "Great Tomato City".
The prosperity of a city is often directly proportional to its price, and this rule is particularly evident in the Port of Leiden.
When Joanne first entered the city last winter, he deeply realized that life in a metropolis was not easy, and that he couldn't move without money in his pocket. At that time, in order to save a little travel expenses, he did not dare to live in a hotel. He slept under the bridge hole in the slums of the port area and slept overnight.
Returning to Leiden City tonight, Joan no longer has Jamie as a companion. Recalling the experience of being robbed by a homeless man under the bridge hole, considering that he carried a large amount of tuition with him, and there was no mixed-blood winter wolf vigil on guard. An Ke didn't dare to go to sleep in the slums again. He had to daringly walk into a hotel near the city gate. He went in and asked about it, and learned that it would cost him 3 Jinduga to stay one night. He was scared to say anything more. He escaped in disgrace.
Street lights illuminate the streets of Port Leiden’s main city. Joan walks under the soft light, and can’t help recalling the rumors about street lights in Port Leiden.
The main roads of Port Leiden have been equipped with street lamps as early as this century. The old street lamps originally used whale oil as fuel. Since there are always homeless people who break the glass lampshade and steal lamp oil, after a discussion in the city council, a groundbreaking decision was made to use magic instead of the "whale oil" street lamp that had been used for many years.
As a mage, Joan certainly knows that the most suitable spell for lighting city streets is "Indestructible Bright Flame." This two-ring spell is as its name suggests. Once blessed on the surface of the object, it will emit a long-lasting light. It does not need to add any fuel to last forever. It can also automatically set a start password. When the light in the city is below a certain level, bless The street lamp that does not extinguish Mingyan will automatically light up, and when the sun rises, the magic street lamp will temporarily go to sleep, and the light is almost extinguished. In addition, there are two major benefits of "Indestructible Bright Flame"-the light it produces does not have heat, the magic cold light completely eliminates the hidden danger of fire, and it can also illuminate passersby in the bad weather that winds and rain.
The above benefits are enough to prove that the magic street lamp has an overwhelming advantage over traditional street lamps, but it also experienced many obstacles at the beginning of its implementation. The obvious reason for the opponents is that the cost of magic street lights is too high. If you only look at the manufacturing cost of magic street lamps, it is indeed more than ten times more expensive than traditional street lamps. However, considering the lamp oil and maintenance costs that are saved after being put into use, magic street lamps are more cost-effective than traditional street lamps. The longer they are used, the better their beauty. The advantage of cheap is more prominent, so if you think a little, you will find that the opponents' reasons are untenable, it is nothing more than an excuse. Most of the opponents are closely related to the Whaling Industry Association in Leiden, the Marine Crafts Association and even the lamp oil and lamp manufacturers’ guilds. The real reason for opposing the use of magic street lamps is that this policy will seriously affect whaling owners, sailors, lamp oil and traditional lamps. Manufacturer's interest.
At Port Leiden, there are no fewer than 10,000 citizens relying on these industries to make a living. These people form a huge interest group, and they also have their agents in the Parliament. The influence is not too small. The call to obstruct street lamp reforms was once very loud. This interest group centered around the whaling industry ultimately failed to succeed, mainly because their opponents-the Leiden Harbour Master Association, the Enchanter’s Guild, and the new luminaire manufacturers that promoted new street lamps were even more powerful. Powerful, and finally won the final victory with a slight advantage in the parliamentary vote, successfully brought the fearless storm and more convenient magic street lamp to Leiden Port.
Joan stopped under a street lamp, looked away, and confirmed that no one was paying attention to him, he untied his backpack, took out the quill pen and ink bottle, and secretly depicted the No. 4 Rune rune Ansuz on the lamp post. Through this representative " The runes of "Prophecy and Reveal" analyze the constant "indestructible flame" on the magic street lamp.
Passers-by saw his sneaky move, all cast contempt, and thought that this rustic-looking country gangster scribbled on the street lamp and wrote smug words like "Something came here". Fortunately, Joan's movements were quick enough to rush to pass the police and the sheriff waved a big stick to stop him from destroying the public. He completed the spell analysis process, wiped the runes with his sleeves, and ran to the roadside lawn.
Qiao Anman remembered the spell spell of "Indestructible Bright Flame". He didn't pay attention to the notice sign erected next to the lawn, which read "No trampling". Instead, he saw a long sign beside the wooden sign for passers-by to sit down and rest The chair ran across the lawn to the bench happily, leaving a string of dazzling footprints on the grass, which once again drew contempt from the city.
Joan, unaware of people's strange eyes, took out the spell book from the bag and laid it flat on the bench. When a newspaper was found on the back of the chair, he opened the newspaper stand on the ground, knelt down on the newspaper, and lay down on the chair to transcribe 2 spells of "Indestructible Bright Flame". It took more than an hour to write two large pages of dense elf text. Joan sighed with satisfaction, closed the spell book, and returned to the backpack with pen and ink.
Standing up to move his sore joints, Joan found that the night was dark and the streets were quiet and no one was alone. Only the street lights above him still exuded a soft glow, and countless flying insects circled around the lampshade.
Qiao An seriously considered the feasibility of lying on a bench wrapped in a blanket to make up for a night, and finally gave up the idea, not only because the night at the end of March was quite cold, the street may be infected with wind and cold, but the main thing is that he found himself alone The man in the uniform of the policeman and the big stick was walking towards this side, looking at him with a hostile look.
Although Joan was a dirt bun from the country, he was not stupid. He immediately realized that street sleeping was prohibited here. The patrol gentleman across the road mostly regarded him as a tramp, and quickly picked up his backpack and ran away.
The patrol officer had a black face, waving a big stick and following him slowly, and his leather boots stepped on the stone pavement to make Joan's fearful foot sound. I had to harden my scalp and drilled into a hotel on the roadside, forced myself to count three gold coins and opened a room.
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