Episode 8: A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles Chapter 12: Black Stone City

Keane had been in a small country town since he was six years old and was very innocent indeed. Let’s not even talk about this Keane. Linley had a feeling that that Jenny was also very simple.

In a few words, Linley had fooled this little guy Keane.

At the same time, Linley probably understood what was going on with Keane and his sister.

“Inheriting the position of County City Lord, it’s not that simple.”

Linley could see much deeper than this simple sibling. The level of cities in the O’Brien Empire, the highest was naturally the imperial capital, however it was the provincial cities of the seven provinces. Below the provincial cities are the county towns, and then the ordinary small towns. Below that, there are small towns in the countryside.

The status of the county city’s city lord was still very high.

The position of the city lord, how can it be so easy to let a simple boy from the countryside sit up? Opening his eyes it was already dawn.

“Lord Lei, we should arrive at the Imperial Border City by evening today.”

Lanz said smilingly, “Lord Lei, let’s eat some breakfast together.”

“Good.”

Linley took Bebe and walked over, and as for Blackru …… those eats simply weren’t enough for it to eat. Late yesterday night, Heilu had made a trip into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and had had a good full meal.

On the carriage not far from Linley.

“Sister, I ll go down first.”

Keane cheerfully jumped off the carriage.

Lambert looked at Keane’s untroubled appearance and mentally shook his head before looking at Jenny. Lambert knew it very well. Jenny was kind and innocent at the same time.

“Miss, don’t be too busy to go down.”

Lambert squeezed out a smile.

“Grandpa Lambert, is there something wrong?”

Jenny looked at Lambert with her eyes wide open in confusion.

Lambert said, “As you can see, miss, we’ve encountered bandits and robbers on this road, and when we reach the border city, we’ll have to separate from this caravan. By then, I will be an old man with you two, Miss and Young Master. If we meet robbers on the road. I may not be able to defeat them.”

Jenny also couldn’t help but recall the scene last night when the bandits came to kill.

“Right, what should we do then?”

Jenny was a little nervous.

Lambert laughed, “Miss, didn’t you notice that Lord Lei? Even that bandit leader was killed by Lord Lei’s sword. As long as Lord Lei protects you, there will definitely be no danger.”

Jenny was eighteen years old after all, unlike Keane who was so unintelligent.

“Grandpa Lambert, a strong person like that, if I invite people, will they say yes?”

Jenny looked at Lambert.

Lambert smiled and encouraged, “Don’t worry, just say that you and Keane are the sons and daughters of the Chill County City Lord. This time when we go back, Keane is going to inherit the City Lord’s position. As long as he protects you guys to go back, when you return to Chil County City, you will definitely thank him heavily. Remember …… not to say much about other things. Don’t tell him that you used to live in the countryside town land. Just say so.”

Lambert knew very well. If he told the other party all his bottom line, the other party was afraid that he would not agree.

“Oh.”

Jenny, however, did not realize the astonishing difference between the few sentences Lambert said and the truth.

“Go on, remember, be sincere.”

Lambert encouraged.

“Uh-huh.”

Jenny nodded, and taking a deep breath, Jenny gathered enough courage to get out of the carriage.

Watching Jenny get off the carriage, Lambert secretly sighed, “Alas, ma’am, can’t you swallow that breath until you die. You have to let Jenny, Keane and the others to inherit the position of the city lord. Lord Weed is dead. But I’m afraid that the First Lady and the others won’t easily let Keane inherit the position of City Lord.”

“If there is a ninth level powerhouse protecting them, it would be a good bet.”

Lambert had heard others say last night that that McKinley had reached the eighth level powerhouse realm. And yet, Linley had easily killed McKinley with a single sword strike. In Lambert’s opinion. Linley should be a rank nine powerhouse. Lei ate his fill and then rested comfortably for a while, waiting for a while to depart.

“O’Brien Empire, ah, we’ll be there tonight.”

Linley lay down on the flatbed carriage and waited comfortably for the departure. But at this time, Linley noticed a silhouette walking towards him out of the corner of his eye.

“Jenny?”

Linley straightened up suspiciously. Jenny walked over somewhat restrainedly, and when she saw Linley sit up straight and look over, she hurriedly squeezed out a smile, “Lord Lei, hello.”

“Ms. Jenny, hello.”

Linley was a little puzzled, what was this Miss Jenny doing here?

Jenny stood in place for a moment hesitating, surprisingly not knowing how to open up “Miss Jenny, is there something wrong?”

Linley asked.

Jenny’s face was a little red and she looked a little nervous: “Lord Lei, it’s like this, my brother and I are going to my father’s county this time, and my brother is going to inherit the position of city lord. But on this road I am worried about the danger, so, want to ask Lord Lei you …… Lord Lei you, protect us.”

Saying this in one breath, Jenny began to stutter a little.

Linley still knew the general topography of the O’Brien Empire, and his own brother, Walden, was in the O’Brien Province, the southernmost province of the O’Brien Empire.

What he had reached now should be the northwestern province of the O’Brien Empire.

I’m afraid it would take a year and a half to travel from the Northwest Province to the southernmost province of O’Brien. Of course, if Linley rode the Black Striped Cloud Leopard to catch up, he could cross a thousand miles in a day and be there within ten days.

It was just that Linley was in no hurry.

His younger brother was studying at the O’Brien Academy, so what was the point of rushing there himself? The most important thing right now was to cultivate and improve his strength as much as possible.

“Protecting you all, for how long?”

Linley asked with a smile.

“It won’t be long.”

Zhanni said hurriedly, “Chill County City is in the Northwest Province, from here to there, it’s estimated that we’ll be there in ten days and a half months. At that time, we will definitely thank you properly.”

“Thank you?”

Linley sighed in his heart. With Linley’s insights, he could see that the position of a county city’s city lord would be so easy for two simple siblings with no backing to get their hands on?

“We’ll give you a lot of gold coins.”

Jenny looked at Linley expectantly.

Linley said jokingly, “How many gold coins?”

Jenny gritted her teeth and said, “Ten thousand gold coins, how about it?”

Jenny had stayed in the countryside towns since she was ten years old, and it usually took her a long time to use one or two gold coins. She also knew that the County City Lord was very rich, and she thought that the astronomical figure of ten thousand gold coins. It should be enough to satisfy Linley.

“Ten thousand gold coins?”

Last night, the leader of that mercenary group had wanted to give Linley 10,000 gold coins in order to thank him. In fact, not to mention the wealth in Linley’s spatial ring, just Linley’s status as a stone carving master, a single piece of artwork was now over 100,000 gold coins.

“Not enough?”

Jenny said apprehensively. Linley looked at Jenny and said, “Ms. Jenny, how much do you and Keane spend a year in a country town?”

“Countryside town?”

Jenny was stunned, Lambert had just instructed her not to say that she had lived in a country town in the past, but Linley obviously knew.

Jenny replied honestly, “I spend dozens of gold coins a year, after all, I still have to cure my mother. ”En, Lord Lei, I don’t have that many gold coins right now. I’ll have it later. What a simple girl, Linley had to admit.

“En, then, actually, the interior of the empire should be very safe. Grandpa Lambert must be imagining things. En. Then I’ll leave first.”

Jenny was a little embarrassed, her speech garbled.

“No, I wanted to ask, how many gold coins can you take out right now?”

Linley spoke out.

Just now, when he heard that the other county was in the Northwestern Province, Linley decided to help out in passing. He was going to travel from the Northwest Province to the O’Brien Province himself anyway.

“Me now? I have ten gold coins with me.”

Jenny took out the small pouch from her pocket, “There are also some gold coins at Grandpa Lambert’s.”

Linley took the pouch and removed a gold coin from it.

“Alright.”

Linley put the piece of gold coin into his own pocket, “From now on, you are under my protection. Of course. This piece of gold coin is just a deposit. When your brother becomes the city lord, I’ll still have to collect the 9,999 gold coins of the land behind it.”

Jenny couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

“Thank you, thank you.”

Jenny’s little face was red with excitement.

The caravan moved forward once again. The black-striped clouded leopard ran beside the flatbed carriage and growled lowly to Bebe in confusion, “Bebe, 10,000 gold coins and the master accepts the hire Wanting to invite an expert of Linley’s caliber, 100,000 gold coins wouldn’t be enough.

Lin Lei killed a level eight magical beast, that level eight magical crystal core alone is worth half a million gold coins. Generally, it would be difficult for a level 8 warrior to kill a level 8 magical beast, only a level 9 powerhouse would be able to kill a level 8 magical beast with complete certainty.

“Heilu, what do you know, boss this is called kindness, understand?”

Bei Bei also growled lowly at the Black Striped Cloud Leopard.

The two magical beasts just talked in the language of magical beasts in low voices, and when Linley saw the two of them talking, he smiled and lay still on the flatbed carriage.

“Rattling, rattling the carriage rattled rhythmically, constantly moving forward. When the sun went down, in the evening, this caravan finally arrived outside the border city of the O’Brien Empire.

Linley sat on the carriage and looked distantly at the city in front of him.

This city was black in color, like a giant magical beast perched there. The walls of the entire city were thirty meters high, a height that was difficult for non-strong people to climb up.

“Blackstone City, the northwestern barrier of the O’Brien Empire.”

Linley had long since heard of the great name of Blackstone City.

Historically, there were still many large battles that had taken place in Blackstone City, and even after many years had passed, when approaching Blackstone City, one could see a layer of dark red on top of the dark boulders of the walls of Blackstone City. That was the color of blood stained red over the years.

“Everyone split up right here.”

Malone shouted loudly just outside the city.

According to the mission, their mercenary group only needed to send the caravan here to complete the mission, and at once, one by one, merchants, or ordinary pedestrians in groups of three or two each brought their own packages and carriages towards the city gates.

“Big brother Lei.”

Keane on the carriage called out.

At the halfway point, Keane knew that Linley was going to protect them and immediately became close to Linley. Linley also told Keane to just call him big brother. After all, Linley was only twenty-one years old this year as well.

“Let’s go together.”

Linley led the two-meter tall, four-meter long black panther directly towards the city gates, and when the originally lazy city gate guards saw the black panther next to Lin Lei each and every one of them were so frightened that they all immediately stepped back a few meters. Panther-type magical beasts, lion-type magical beasts, and tiger-type magical beasts were all high-level magical beasts, and even the weakest panther-type magical beasts and lion-type magical beasts were feared to be level seven.

It wasn’t a time of war either, and the inspections at the city gates were very loose.

Even for Linley, those city gate guards didn’t inspect at all and directly let Linley in.

“Goodness, what level magical beast is that black panther, that panther just looks at me and I’m scared like my heart stopped.”

The city gate guard exclaimed.

An older city gate guard next to him lowered his voice and said, “Keep your voice down, as far as I know, the lowest of the panther-type magical beasts is the golden-striped panther, which is a level seven magical beast. This black panther, at the very least, is a rank eight magical beast.”

The city is so prosperous.”

Keane looked around with glowing eyes.

On the streets of Blackstone City, Linley, Keane, and Jenny were walking side by side. Jenny had a duck-tongued hat on her head, pressing the brim down low, and a veil on the brim. After all, Jenny’s looks were something that would invite trouble.

“You call this prosperity?”

Bebe muttered over Linley’s shoulder.

Blackstone City was a city of war, although it was a little more prosperous because of trade. However, it couldn’t be compared to the holy capital of Finlay City back then, or the royal capital of a kingdom, Hess City. “Careful.”

Linley’s figure transformed into a phantom, flashing directly in front of Keane and Jenny.

“Poof.”

“Poof.”

With a wave of his right hand, Linley grabbed two arrows.

“Want to go?”

With a wave of Linley’s flipped hand, the two arrows shot back in the opposite direction, directly piercing the throats of the two men in the distance who were already preparing to escape.

“Uh…”

Those two men covered their throats in horror before they directly fell to the ground and died.

“Ah.”

The originally quiet and peaceful street suddenly resounded with screams, and many people ran in panic.

“Go.”

Linley said to the dumbfounded Keane and Jenny.