"Clatter~~Clatter~~"

There was a sound similar to waves in my ears and a flash of white light in front of my eyes.

When all the noise disappeared, the white light gradually dissipated, and Rosen found himself standing in a spacious, bright and sophisticated room.

Although the room should not be described as 'precise', the size of the surrounding walls, the magical patterns on the walls, the teleportation array on the floor, and even the two owl sculptures placed at the exit of the room are all filled with a high-tech and sophisticated magical industrial style.

Rosen secretly sighed: "It is worthy of being a highly developed high-energy empire."

Rupert's memory told him that this was the teleportation room of Maple Leaf Manor, located in the northwest corner of the manor's courtyard garden.

Maple Leaf Manor is the residence of the Eternal Earl Gauntkin, covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 acres. At the same time, the average living area of ​​Moon City civilians is 20 square meters.

Coming out of the teleportation room, there is another long corridor. On both sides of the corridor stand a row of Eternal Guardians, twenty in number.

The Eternal Guardian, who was closest to the door of the transport room, let out a gentle and deep voice.

"Welcome back, first-class citizen Rupert."

Rosen nodded in response, then used the magician's hand to take off his clothes: "I'm ready, start purifying my body."

The so-called body purification is to conduct a deep cleansing of the body, which not only kills the viruses and bacteria brought back from the mortal world, but also removes the high-energy radioactive dust contaminated in every corner of the body. At the same time, it also further confirms the identity.

"Purification is starting~~~"

"Buzz~~~Buzz~~~"

Waves of warm magical power surged towards Rosen, gently wrapping around his body.

Rosen walked slowly along the corridor.

When he reached the end of the corridor, an exquisite black robe floated beside him. It was made of an alchemical material as soft as water and had a light and elegant fragrance.

After the robe wrapped around his body, Rosen stepped out of the corridor.

Outside the corridor is a huge open-air garden, full of vitality and planted with many beautiful flowers that Rosen cannot name.

The flowers are arranged neatly and sway in the breeze, looking like rows of dancing girls lined up in an orderly procession.

Rosen looked up and saw a clear, dark blue night sky with a bright silver moon.

If you don't feel it carefully, or if you look at it from the perspective of a mortal, this is a beautiful world.

But Rosen could find it if he concentrated a little.

'The entire Moon City is in the shape of a ring and is slowly rotating. The inner wall of the ring is the main city area. The axisymmetric rotation is used to create gravity, and the unbalanced inertial force of physical rotation is eliminated with sophisticated space-time magic.'

'The moon and stars in the sky, including the sun that will rise tomorrow, are all the result of magic simulation.'

With the Eternal Empire's space-time magic ability, it would certainly not be difficult to create a demiplane, but it still uses this more primitive space city structure, probably to save energy.

In any case, this Moon City is very beautiful, countless times more beautiful than the earth full of ruins, monsters, corpses and excrement.

Rupert was a retainer of Earl of Gauntkin and had his own residence at Maple Leaf Manor.

It was late at night, and Rosen walked along the garden path towards his room, reciting to himself.

'Juliet, I have successfully returned to Moon City. I will upload my work report in an hour.'

"The information has been reported. Your room has been activated and adjusted to rest mode."

Soon, Rosen arrived at his room. He raised his hand and pressed the corresponding rune on the door. The door lit up slightly, then slid silently to the side, revealing a room filled with warm white light.

The room is quite spacious, about 100 square meters, and all the supporting facilities are also top-notch, which is the treatment that Rupert, a commoner, has earned after years of hard work.

When Rosen entered the room, the door behind him slid closed silently, and soothing music of "ding ding dong dong" began to sound in the air. The temperature, humidity and brightness of the air were all adjusted to Rupert's favorite mode.

When he took three steps forward and walked out of the entrance of the room, a young and beautiful woman wearing an extremely revealing maid outfit came up to him, saluted respectfully, and said in a charming voice:

"Welcome back, Master."

Rosen could tell at a glance that this was a living person.

At the same time, Rupert's memory told him that although this was a living person, he was a so-called "high-level servant" who used life magic to create a body and implanted a virtual soul.

In Moon City, there are three types of "servants": high, middle, and low. The common point is that they have no citizenship rights and are the subordinate property of their masters. Everything revolves around their masters.

When the master is away, the servant will be enveloped by a high-intensity time lag spell, which not only minimizes the loss of use, but also ensures that the servant's life memory only has the master.

According to Imperial law, a first-class citizen can have five high-level servants, but the price of customizing and maintaining high-level servants is very expensive.

In order to reduce the cost of living, Rupert only had two senior servants.

One is for personal use and the other is for entertaining guests.

The beauty who was coming towards him was Rupert's own high-ranking servant, named Trini. Her appearance and figure were all created by Rupert with great care.

Rosen took a look and thought to himself: "Rupert really likes young girls."

No wonder he would torment Gwenevere's daughter in the mortal world.

Rosen, however, had no interest in her at all, thinking she was too thin and young, without any charm and unable to withstand any hard work.

Of course, in order to prevent Juliet from noticing anything unusual, he imitated Rupert in all his actions.

About five minutes later, he was already lying in a bathtub filled with warm water and began uploading his work report from the mortal world.

The first half of the report was about Rupert's experience. It was not until Rupert was imprisoned that Rosen began to compile it, changing the torture and killing into a clever jailbreak that took a lot of effort.

He was not worried about being discovered by Juliet because he had already filled in the relevant details when he was in the Gray City.

The upload will be completed soon, and the report will be sent to Count Gauntkin, waiting for his reading.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Earl will summon me tomorrow.

"Master, do you need me to help you relax your body?" the servant Trini asked in a soft voice behind him.

Rosen had no interest in the little girl, and responded in Rupert's style: "Leave me alone for a while and go warm my bed."

"Yes, Master."

After getting Rosen's permission, a young woman's voice came from outside the door: "Rupert, why didn't you notify me as soon as you came back?!"

The voice was angry, containing a sense of superiority and arrogance.

Rosen immediately searched Rupert's memory and quickly figured out his identity.

"Patricia, the third daughter of Earl Gauntkin, an eternal noble, and the lover of the previous Earl's envoy, Alex."

"After Alex was killed, Patricia was furious and threatened to make Gray City pay a heavy price."

In Moon City, the Eternal Nobles were the people with the highest status, so she had reason to be arrogant.

Rupert was a retainer of the Earl, so of course he couldn't afford to offend the Earl's daughter, so he immediately responded, "Miss Patricia, wait for me, I'll open the door when I'm dressed."

"hurry up!"

There was an impatient response from outside the door.

Rosen quickly climbed out of the bathtub, put on his clothes in a hurry, opened the door and welcomed people into the living room.

The visitor was a young lady, about 1.7 meters tall, very beautiful, with a very good figure and snow-white skin. Of course, beautiful traits are not valuable in Moon City because they are everywhere.

In Moon City, as long as you are a citizen, you can enjoy the appearance customization spell provided by Juliet for free.

Ordinary citizens enjoyed it once every three years, nobles once a month, or even once every ten days.

Juliet's transformation technique is very advanced, and many body templates are provided, so it is hard not to be beautiful.

The countess looked very arrogant. After entering the room, she was not polite at all. As if she was back at home, she sat down on the largest and softest chair in the living room and said, "Rupert, I heard that you are dead."

Rosen immediately said, "It is true that I almost died at the hands of the rebels, but I luckily escaped."

"I'm curious, how did you escape? I saw you being hanged on the gallows by those mobs."

Rosen knew that as long as he had enough authority, Moon City would be able to see many scenes of the mortal world, especially open-air scenes, which he could see particularly clearly.

As the daughter of a count, Patricia naturally has this authority.

So he immediately explained: "I used the soul substitute method to forge a hapless jailer into my perfect substitute. You know, those mobs have very poor eyesight."

"Oh~ You are quite clever."

Patricia's tone softened a little, and she asked, "Have you found out the cause of Alex's death?"

"I have found out. Miss, do you want to listen now?"

"Go ahead."

Patricia's eyes were slightly red and her tone was sad, obviously she still remembered the old love.

Rosen told the story in detail about what happened in the mortal world.

When he was done, he concluded: "I don't mean to discredit the deceased, but Alex obviously performed very badly."

Patricia collapsed and yelled, "You're lying! I don't believe it! He clearly said he only loves me!"

Rosen spread his hands and said, "Miss, you already believe it, but you just don't want to believe it. But I want to say that he is not worth your sadness."

Patricia took a deep breath and tried her best to calm herself down.

"Rupert, thank you for telling me the truth anyway."

"Although the truth is a bit stinging, after all, you risked your life to get it back, so I owe you a favor."

"Tell me, how do you want me to repay you?"

Rosen was not surprised by this reaction, because in Rupert's memory, although Patricia, the third daughter of the Earl, was arrogant, compared to most noble ladies, she was bold in love, hate and responsibility.

He came here to investigate Juliet. Since Patricia said so, he immediately said:

"Miss, this time when I entered the mortal world, I deeply felt the insufficiency of the power of magic."

“I’d like to get some free reading time in a big library if I can.”

This reaction is also consistent with Rupert's character.

In Moon City, although the treatment varies, everyone has enough food and drink. And because the classes are basically fixed, the vast majority of Moon City citizens lie down and live a life of drunkenness and dreams all day long.

But Rupert, as a commoner, obtained 18 rings of magic power and was promoted from a ninth-class citizen to a first-class citizen, not only because of his great talent, but also because of his diligence that far exceeded others.

In the past, whenever he received a reward from the Earl, he would find a way to exchange it for reading time in the Great Library.

Therefore, Patricia was not surprised: "No problem, you can study in the library as you like in the next year."

After saying this, she sighed again: "I have to say, it's rare to find a wizard as diligent and studious as you these days."

"Although this is not very useful, a down-to-earth mage like you is at least more reliable than those guys who only know how to flatter."

She stood up and patted Rosen on the shoulder gently: "I hope you can always maintain the virtue of diligence."

After saying that, she sighed sadly, turned and left.

Rosen could understand her last few words because the Abyss War destroyed a large amount of precious magical knowledge.

No matter how diligent and studious a wizard is, he cannot break through the threshold of 20 rings, and even the 19th ring is very rare.

In fact, 300 years have passed since the end of the war, and no new strong man with a level higher than 19 has appeared in Moon City.

It is also because of this that Rupert, who was promoted to the 18th ring, was favored by the Earl of Eternity and became his trusted retainer.

This made Rosen's mind move slightly: "Rupert is an 18th-ring mage. If I use the reason that I have gained some insights from wandering around life and death as an excuse to 'break through' to the 19th ring, it should greatly improve my status and gain more authority."

The most important thing in Moon City is actually Juliet's authority.

(End of this chapter)