Chapter 6: A new hope emerges from the ashes



There are five major districts in Dawn City.

Whether it is the Dawn Castle, the Mages Guild Residence, or the Mentor's Azure Manor, they all belong to the aristocratic district. They are located at the highest point of the city and are the most beautiful, cleanest, and most closed urban areas.

Further down are the four major civilian areas.

They are the old city area in the west of the city, the market area in the east of the city, the harbor area in the south of the city, and the temple area in the north of the city.

Selena, who used ordinary transformation to disguise herself as an ordinary citizen, followed Rosen all the way from the Blue Manor, walking along the clean and tidy cobblestone road.

When they reached the triumphal gate leading from the noble area to the civilian area, Selena couldn't help but ask.

"Rosen, where are we going now? The harbor area?"

Rosen did not answer with his mouth, but whispered in his mind: "Yes."

Then he reminded: "From now on, all our conversations must be conducted in whispers of the mind."

As he spoke, he leaned against the thick stone wall of the gate, with his right hand behind his back, and he clasped the tips of his thumb, index finger and middle finger together, and lightly tapped the hidden corner.

A seal suddenly appeared on the wall. It was extremely secretive. Not only ordinary people, but even the high-level wizard Selena was unaware of it.

This is Rosen's original spell "Detection Guard". It may seem inconspicuous, but it is very powerful and is one of his greatest reliances in traveling the world.

As the name suggests, it is inspired by the Earth MOBA game and its function is exactly the same, which is to open the map.

With the assistance of Lai Fu in his mind, there can be 50 detection guards at the same time, and the spell signal transmission distance is 30 kilometers, just covering the entire Dawn City.

The effective time lasts for five days, and all situations within a 50-meter radius can be detected 24 hours a day.

The storm is coming, intelligence comes first.

He quietly placed a seal on all necessary areas.

On the other hand, Threson didn't understand why Rosen asked for this, but he obeyed anyway.

"Oh, okay, but that feels weird."

"Your Highness, it will take some time to get used to it."

The two continued to move forward, and when they had walked less than a hundred meters, Selena's whisper was heard.

"Rosen, why don't we hire a carriage?"

Rosen turned his head to look at her, and saw that she was frowning and looking at him with a negotiating expression.

Just at this moment, a strong wind blew, making the soft silk skirt stick tightly to her body.

The outline of her body was clearly visible, and for a moment, she could even see the shape of her belly button, as if she was wearing nothing at all.

Rosen took a glance and his blood boiled uncontrollably, and he sighed inwardly.

"It is indeed the most beautiful rose under the morning light."

Of course, although roses are beautiful, the thorns on them are not something that most people can bear.

If it were any other place, Rosen wouldn't dare to have any extra thoughts, but it was different in Dawn City.

He has lived here for ten years and is extremely familiar with everything in the city.

In this city, he has the ability to pick flowers and also the ability to get away with it.

Of course, even if you try your best to avoid it, the sequelae will still be serious.

He will try his best to control the sequelae to a level that does not erupt in the short term.

As long as he is given a year to relax and concentrate on his work on the island, he will not be afraid of anyone.

In order to prevent the delicate princess from being scared away by the hard life of ordinary people, he immediately said: "Your Highness, how about I carry you on my back?"

In order to avoid rejection, he immediately added: "In the folk, it is very natural for a husband to carry his wife on his back when traveling."

Selena bit her lower lip lightly: "Okay, thank you for your help."

Rosen continued on his journey with the princess on his back.

When we arrived at the harbor area, we encountered new problems.

Selena was stunned as she looked at the dark mud puddle in front of her which was filled with a lot of excrement and colorful oil spots.

"Rosen, normally, in this situation, what should we do? Should we just wade through it?"

Rosen smiled and said, "Usually we wade across."

At the same time, he whispered: "Remember, use the whispering of your heart to communicate."

"Will this be too dirty?"

Although she didn't leave on her own, it was hard for her to accept seeing Rosen leave.

Rosen smiled slightly: "Madam, we are mages, of course there is no need to wade across, we can just use levitation to float over."

Before he finished speaking, Rosen kicked his feet slightly, and his body naturally floated two centimeters above the water, like a goose feather floating on the water.

Afterwards, the "goose feather" seemed to be blown by a light breeze, floating along the water surface without causing any ripples along the way, and people could not even feel that he was using the levitation technique.

He naturally jumped over the muddy puddle that was more than five meters wide and stepped onto the muddy ground on the opposite side.

Selena was immediately surprised.

"Uh~~uh~~Your levitation technique is very good."

Because even if she had a magic wand, she couldn't do what Rosen did, not to mention that the other party was carrying someone on his back.

“It’s just practice.”

Rosen continued to move forward carrying it on his back.

Selena asked curiously again: "Where is your staff? I remember you had one before."

"Your Highness, if you knew more, you would know that my staff was rented to me by my instructor. Now that I have graduated and have no money to buy it out, of course I returned it."

"Oh, I remember now. That's exactly what happened."

Walking with someone carrying her on her back was much easier than walking by herself, and it made her feel like observing the street scene.

Although the streets in the harbor area are dirty, they are much more lively than the aristocratic area, and are filled with people as far as the eye can see.

They looked all different, some were pretentious, some were poor, some were rude and barbaric, and so on, all of whom she had never had close contact with before.

When Rosen carried her around a corner, she suddenly saw a young girl wrapped in a cloak smiling at her.

Just when she was feeling puzzled, she saw the girl suddenly open her cloak, revealing a dry, pale body.

Selena was startled and subconsciously shrank back.

Immediately afterwards, she saw an equally skinny middle-aged man walk past them and towards the girl. After a few words, the two began to have sex in the corner.

"They are simply shameless beasts!"

A frightened Serena commented angrily.

Rosen said calmly: "Your Highness, the girls traded on the street are the most pitiful."

"Most of them come from poor rural areas in the interior of Weilan. They dream of changing their fate and were deceived by human traffickers to come to Dawn City. In the end, they became money-making tools for the gangs in the Harbor District."

Selena was stunned when she heard it. She turned around and observed carefully, and found that Rosen was right.

This surprised her: "The Trade Union Law was promulgated ten years ago. Even prostitutes have the Nightingale Union to protect their rights."

"If the members of the Nightingale Union are also members of the Mafia, then the so-called Union Law is just a piece of fancy paper, isn't it?"

"But everyone says Dawn City is a paradise on earth."

Seeing her shocked look with shattered faith, Rosen had a hunch that the bird of fortune was about to fly back to the tree of heaven.

This is absolutely not possible. This is the Duke election declaration he had planned for. He finally got it and he can't let it fly away.

"Madam, how can there be a paradise on earth? Under the morning light, only half of the city is bathed in light."

"Isn't there darkness in the Castle of Dawn?"

Selena sighed softly: "You are absolutely right."

The wings that had just spread out were folded up again.

At this point, Rosen arrived at the dock.

In the late autumn and early winter weather, the cool breeze is blowing.

The dock workers, with their upper bodies all naked, gritted their teeth, bent over, and carried the heavy cargo with all their might.

The princess looked at them in silence for a long time, and then asked: "Rosen, they look very hard-working, how much do they earn a day?"

Rosen looked at them and narrated the facts in a calm tone.

"A dock worker who is responsible for unloading a ship can earn three copper coins for unloading one ton of cargo from a ship. A strong dock worker can unload about 50 tons of cargo a day and earn 1.5 kroner."

"The union takes another fifth, the dock management takes another fifth, and usually a tenth goes to the church, leaving less than a kroner."

Having said that, Rosen lowered Serena to the ground, allowing her to get a better look at the situation on the dock.

Seeing the other person's expression gradually change from shock to silence, Rosen felt that the other person's passion aroused by the so-called love should have almost cooled down, and it was almost time to add fuel to the fire again.

Selena remained silent.

She stood motionless on the dock, letting the sea breeze blow her thick hair, like a solidified sculpture.

No one knows what she is thinking at this moment.

A full three minutes passed before she turned her head and stared at Rosen with her imperial green eyes.

"Rosen, I'm conflicted now."

"There are two paths before me, neither of which is a good path."

"One is that we both die, and then the fate of countless Weilan people will be changed because of us."

"The other is that I return to Dawn Castle and marry Dange."

As she spoke, the princess' eyes were filled with tears, but the tears were dried by the sea breeze and did not roll down her face.

"You should know that I am obsessed with cleanliness and tidiness. I hate to see someone slovenly. If someone hasn't showered for more than 30 years, in my eyes, he is simply a demon from hell!"

Rosen did know this. Selena was a person with mild mysophobia, so marrying Danger was indeed difficult for her.

Selena's voice continued.

"I am in so much pain now!"

Having said that, she turned to look at Rosen and sniffed softly.

"But I can't really kill you, so I'll give you a kiss and let this crazy journey end."

Rosen looked at the incredibly beautiful Princess Chenxi standing in the rustling sea breeze, and couldn't help but think of his past ten years.

After traveling through time and space, he gained the blessing of the system, and he was full of ambition to do something big to change the world.

In order to achieve this goal, he has been practicing day after day to accumulate magical powers and studying techniques day after day for the past ten years.

But as his skills became more advanced, his understanding of this world became clearer.

The world is simply too big, there are too many wise and powerful people, and magic is not as powerful as he imagined.

Even though his magical power has almost reached the limit of the known field, his spells are still far from perfect.

As far as he knew, even if one's magic power and spells reached the highest level, it was only the highest level of personal practice, and was far from the power to change the world.

Because this is a world above kingship!

The fire in my heart was extinguished into ashes by the cold water of reality, and the original plan was also shelved.

So I developed the mentality of taking advantage of every opportunity and lying down if there is no opportunity.

But now, the opportunity has really come!

Looking at Princess Chenxi standing in the wind, the ashes that were once thought to be extinguished began to burn brightly again.

A thought popped out of the flames.

"The noble phoenix has already landed in my arms, how can I let her fly away?"

In this world, if one only has achievements in magic but does not have a noble status, one will not be able to achieve anything great. At most, one can be a high-level worker for a big shot.

But if you have a noble status and have achieved some accomplishments in magic, it would be like adding wings to a tiger. You may be able to soar into the sky in the future!

As soon as this thought came to mind, Rosen's mind, which had become calm due to his long-term practice, began to produce uncontrollable waves.

Therefore, the princess must be married! Rosen grabbed Serena's hand and said, "Madam, what if I can successfully bring you back to the White Sturgeon Island?"

In fact, if he used magic, he could easily get the princess to go back to the island with him.

As the princess is also a high-level wizard, the best way to minimize future troubles is to make her go back with him willingly and cooperate with his escape plan.

Therefore, he had to spend some time and effort to train the princess.

Serena was stunned: "How is it possible? And even if it succeeds, the Storm Fleet of Dawn City and Aaron's Lion Fleet are not just for show."

Rosen smiled: "Madam, what if I can get rid of these hidden dangers and let King Danger recognize our marriage?"

"I don't believe it!" Selena shook her head repeatedly, but there was a hint of expectation in her eyes.

Rosen stood straight, staring at the princess with dark eyes, like a knight who was about to sacrifice his life to protect the princess.

He said solemnly: "Your Highness, please give me a chance to prove myself."

"If I die because of this, I will be nothing more than an arrogant little baron who overestimates his own capabilities, and you will not be affected in any way. If we succeed, then I will have a happy future, and I will do my best to make sure you have a happy future as well!"

He thought to himself, "I will fight with King Dange for this Princess Chenxi."

The passion that had just been extinguished in Selena's eyes was ignited again. Tears welled up in her eyes and rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

"Oh, Rosen, you are such a fool. I am a fool too, and I just like fools like you."

"Okay, I'll give you a chance, but don't worry, I will never let you die unless I die!"

(End of this chapter)


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