My Own Path: The Red Phoenix

Ch 04 – Sir Richard

Behemoth City's.

Not far from the Green Lantern Forest was a town called Behemoth City, which stood under the auspices of the Mountain Sage Kingdom.

Behemoth City was not the royal capital but was included in the ranks of a stable and prosperous city, the nobles in charge were able to manage the city well so the risk of crime in this city was very low.

Like the city in general, every day Behemoth City is always busy with various activities from its citizens.

If you are a city warrior then every day will be heard shouting – shouts of spirit training from the warrior barracks.

For the merchants every morning they will be ready – ready to open their respective store –, but for the bar owners, when the morning before they are busy calculating their income last night.

In addition to the merchants who live in the city, many also merchants who come from the city of – other cities, they are commonly called caravans, caravans, this – caravan caravan carries various materials from neighboring cities for later sale in their destination city, and they will buy resources from their layover city for sale in – city another city again.

For the nobles, only the servants in the noble mansion know their –-day activities, because of the tight guard around the mansion not just anyone can enter the neighborhood of the mansion.

For the farmers, the majority of them live in the suburbs, every morning, they prepare to leave the city to work on their farm – each.

Not only were the farmers preparing to leave the city, but the herb seekers were preparing to leave the city about to head for the forest, hoping that they would get something valuable for them to exchange for the alchemists in the city.

The production field in Behemoth City relied on the Alchemy and Forging fields, although not many Alchemists and Forgers were settled, at least the pill, weapons, and so on were still able to supply the Behemoth City's needs.

For the supply of basic materials the Alchemists usually rely on the seekers of herbal plants while the Forgers rely on the miners to look for ore – quality ore.

While the main ingredient ingredients from Wild Beasts, alchemists and Forgers relied on adventurers who often hunted monsters in the forest.

Green Lantern Forest is a large forest that stretches wide with various contours of land that complement it, there are various kinds of herbal plants, and various Wild Beasts that inhabit the forest.

Green Lantern Forest is divided into 2 areas, namely the outer area and the inner area.

The outside area is a safe area, there are many roads that connect between cities, which are usually passed by caravans and messengers between cities.

The outside area is also where herbal plant seekers harvest plants for the basic ingredients of Alchemy, which is the, even so the outside area was also a place for novice hunters looking for low-level Wild Beasts to sell their meat to restaurants or butchers.

The point is that the outside area is a harmless area, so farmers do not have to worry when they grow crops along the edges of the forest.

Unlike the outside area, the inner area of the forest is famous for being very dangerous, there are many dangerous Wild Beasts living in the depths of the forest, not only are Wild Beasts plants – plants equally dangerous.

Although dangerous but the inner area hides its own charm, in addition to – rare materials from Wild Beasts and plants, in this inner area is also often found cave – goa, in addition to the cave, underground tombs, sites of old sites that hold a wide variety of treasures.

Given the risks and benefits that overshadowed it, therefore not a few adventurers and explorers from the city dared to enter this inner area.

The boundary separating the outer and inner areas is not known for certain but each city stipulates that the outer area of the forest is 40 km from the city wall.

This agreement was taken because with the distance that for hundreds of years of human history has never been found the danger that occurs, meka any city that borders the Green Lantern Forest always marks the boundary.

If the beginning of the area in the forest is confirmed, but for the other end no one knows, because no one has ever managed to pass and return after passing through the forest.

Many believe that the area behind the forest is a new land with a more prosperous life, usually – people who believe it is those who are not satisfied with the power of the nobles.

Not a few also think that behind the forest, there are different types of life, whether it is good or bad. All these kinds of speculations gathered together into a mystery, hope and fear for all humans on the mainland of Grand Middle Earth.

“What happened?”

“What's with the Forest outer Area?”

“Who is fighting in the forest?”

Some panicked cries rang out from the people especially for those who were residing near the city walls, they were afraid that there would be a battle as there had never been a commotion before in the outer area of the forest.

Meanwhile, at the town hall, a head soldier was facing the city leader, reporting the latest conditions and asking for instructions on what to do immediately.

“Sir Richard, what should we do now? Should I contact the adventurer guild and check the area with the city army?” the chief asked.

“No need Coda” Sir Richard shook his head at the head of the soldier, “You can simply bring the parjurit to the city boundary wall, let them stand by there now, and also ask the adventurers to help”

“if there has indeed been a battle it is better we wait inside the city with our defenses, than we have to go there without knowing who we are fighting.” Sir Richard gave his direction to Coda.

“Siap carry out”

“you observe in advance the situation there, if there is a suspicious person or team do not let them enter the city, pay attention to them and immediately report to me,”

“If there is nothing strange 3 days later we will go there, and for the citizens, for their safety, they are prohibited from leaving the city until the next three days”

“Good Tuan” Coda understand the order of the leader, “Then I say retreat”

“Ya”

After Coda's departure, Sir Richard sighed softly, actually Sir Richard knew what was happening in the forest, without doing any investigation he understood that the person who made the Grand Intermediate magic array was Grand Wizard Anna, and of course the target was the imperial soldiers who were chasing him and his highness the prince.

“It seems, my residence will be a little crowded in the next few days” Sir Richard knew that the imperial party would definitely send its representatives to investigate its troops.

“May you congratulations, especially your noble prince, please forgive your uncle for not being able to help what – is currently” Sir Richard mused, thinking about his position now.

On one side Sir Richard as an imperial nobleman and the leader of a city had to obey and submit to all imperial decrees.

Sir Richard, on the other hand, knew that the current emperor was not the real emperor, but an emperor who had stolen his throne from the previous emperor, in addition, some of the emperor's policies also contradicted the principles of Sir Richard.

Coupled with his identity which was the younger sister of the previous emperor's empress, therefore Sir Richard was in a complicated situation.

The only – Sir Richard can do is to take care of the crown prince, which only – has just revealed its existence, Sir Richard was about to hide and care for him in silence –, silent, until the prince matures and is able to take back his throne.

Now, however, it seemed like Sir Richard could not take care of the prince because of what Anna had done in the Green Lantern Forest.

Like the domino effect, Sir Richard suspected that after this incident the empire would pay attention to Behemoth City and himself, because it was no secret that Sir Richard was indeed against the emperor.

“Hah, hang on for a few days prince, after the imperial troops are gone I will look for you” Sir Richard remains determined to take care of the prince even though the risk is increasing.

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