The Strongest Knight's

Ch. 127 - Lockdown City

Lockdown is a large city that has its own territory without any royal intervention or it can be said that this city is an independent city with its own authority. This city was also a city of witches, where all the inhabitants of the city were witches, from humans to other races who settled and lived within the city.

Witches are those who can manipulate the empire into a real form so that it can be used to attack, defend and so forth. Not all humans or other races are witches, only those who can control the empire are called witches.

Being a magician was destiny from birth and could not be achieved with hard training, in contrast to knights. Being a knight yourself can be done with practice until the potential to remove the empire begins to be seen. As for those witches, the potential they unleashed even manipulating the empire was already visible when they were little.

The town of Lockdown is ruled by the Chancellery of magic, its position is the same as that of the king. The magic chancellor is the absolute ruler of the town of Lockdown along with the councils of the magic consulates. They become the higher-ups of the witches in this world, as well as the protectors of the witches and are the highest authority holders of the city of Lockdown.

As a city that focuses on magic, any Witch can enter the city of Lockdown, it makes a lot of witches in this world choose to come and live in the city of Lockdown. Not only setting but also to inflate the magic they have.

One of the things that made Lockdown an attractive destination for witches was the city's extremely powerful defenses, what else amid the chaos created by the demon clan. How not, the town of Lockdown has an army and an army called magic knights. An army on pilgrimage complete with above average magic abilities and also all its soldiers are magicians.

There is not a single human or race that cannot use magic in this city. All who live in this city can use magic, from ordinary magic to extraordinary magic.

Other than defense, the thing that made this city attractive to witches was the quality of its magic education. There was one magic academy whose reputation was excellent all over the land. Hogward Academy, a huge magic school and also the heart of Lockdown. Even so famous, there are many magicians from various kingdoms who studied magic in the academy.

No wonder, Hogward academy graduates are spread to all kingdoms and on average almost certainly Hogward academy graduates hold important positions when they become royal troops. The most obvious example is the Parthe de Angele, a gifted witch who obtained the spell of the goddess Marlin.

The Parthe de Angele was a Celestial kingdom mage, that was why she settled down and stayed in the Celestial kingdom. Even so, at the beginning of his career as a witch. Noted if Parthe studied at the Hogward academy until finally in his old age he managed to become a witch who carried out the task of starting to call the holy knights.

Lockdown does not restrict anyone from learning magic, so witches from outside Lockdown are free to enter and study at Hogward's academy.

Not only that, the city of Lockdown also did a lot of development and research on magic. This made the magic technology in this city more advanced and the settlement was also much more sophisticated than any royal territory on the mainland of Neverland. One of the magical developments they have discovered is a monster-controlling magic item, like the one used by Gerald while chasing Anne.

Everything about magic can be found in the town of Lockdown, only.. It is a city that is closed off from the outside world. Although any witch could enter but those who were not witches were strictly forbidden to enter the city.

Man or any race is not allowed into the city, whatever his title and rank. The king, the minister, the knight or whatever as long as it is not a witch then it will never be able to enter the city of Lockdown.

As said before, the defense of Lockdown city was extremely strong. Not only because of its defense forces but because the city was also covered by a magic dome, the vast area of the city did not make a single corner of the city not covered by a very thick and powerful magic dome.

The magic dome looked transparent but was extremely powerful, so the sky was still clearly visible. In addition to the magic dome that covers the entire city, there is also a large wall made of steel concrete 5 meters thick and a wall height of 30 meters towering from the ground to the sky, not until there. It turned out that underground, the wall was planted deep enough to a depth of 20 meters, it was to prevent intruders who entered the city through underground roads or streams of land.

There was no gap, considering that every time the patrols of warriors and magic knights filled the guarding fortresses in all corners of the great wall that stood around the city of Lockdown.

And there was only one entrance to the city, a gate that was almost 5 meters high in the eastern part of the city of Lockdown. The gate was the only way through which Lockdown could enter the city.

With super tight guard, not just anyone who can go through the gate. Only witches were allowed to enter after the hundreds of guards made strict checks and made sure the status of the incoming guests was magician or not.

If it is not a witch then the person will be stopped and dragged out. That strict rule has been going on for a long time, almost a century ago the city of Lockdown became a very closed city to this day.

The defensive power made the city of Lockdown highly respected by other kingdoms even though the city of Lockdown never participated in the war against the Devil clan but his contribution created a cadre of great witches for the kingdom was felt it's been enough.

The defensive power was also what made the victims of the invasion of the demon clan choose to go and settle into the city of Lockdown rather than having to survive in the territory of the kingdom with open defense. Yep.. The vast territory of the kingdom made the royal authority unable to protect all the villages, towns or resident settlements in its territory so often the territory without protection became the moons of the demon clan.

But unfortunately, not all can get protection when they come to the town of Lockdown. Only witches, while those who are not, will not be able to enter the city.

As explained earlier.. Those who were not witches would then not be able to pass through the tightness of the City gate guards. Almost every day, there are people who are not witches force into the city and end up being kicked out of the gate or worse if they still force the gatekeeper does not hesitate to hurt them.

Like today..

By mid-morning, as in the usual days, the only city gate to the east had been crowded with a queue of entourage wanting to enter the town of Lockdown. There are many goals and reasons from all of them who want to enter.. Want to learn magic, want to settle down, want to pit fate and so on.

After being noticed again, quite a number of people were refused to go inside, of course because they were not witches. I don't know what it looks like but the system built by the Lockdown city authorities so that it can accurately make anyone other than a witch unable to pass through the guard at the gate. It was impossible if anyone other than a witch could enter the city given the tightness of the guard.

Lucky for the woman who had currently passed the guard at the city gate. The woman was of course Oana Lamiete, a witch and student of the Parthe de Angele.

Oana is still with her goal, which is to find clues about the knight Ignis who she suspects is still alive due to statements from Parthe. He also holds the ignis seal given by Parthe, which he will then give to Ignis when they have met.

Although Parthe said that, but Oana herself was not sure because she had explored and sought clues about the knight Ignis. The result was nil, almost desperate and also had made him so hated with Ignis because of the rumors he heard while in the Inggram kingdom. However, his encounter with the young werewolf made him look forward to returning, until he remembered something about a powerful magic item that could find items or missing people owned by a great magician named Aliyah Justifina.

Oana met Aliyah in the Celestial kingdom when she was a child, the brief encounter was quite suggestive as he could get close to Aliyah and know a little bit of information about Aliyah including items owned by Aliyah, she said, it is a magic glass ball that can find the location of an item or person accurately. The magic item that there is only one in the world, the item is owned by Aliyah Justifina a witch who is currently a teacher at Hogward academy.

If outside the city looks barren and full of queues of people who want to enter the city. So in the interior of the city looks very magnificent, luxurious and tall buildings and magic vehicles that float are seen everywhere.

Some are on foot, some are floating with magic and some are riding strange animals. Most of them wore a long pointy hat and a robe that towered down. It is certain that the witch wearing the clothes was a witch registered as a member of the magic consulate.

Being a member of a magic consulate means the magic power of that person has been recognized by the magic chancellor and the magic consulate council. There are many advantages when a witch can become a member of a magic consulate, including the privilege of participating in the development of magic, get permission to experiment and create new magic and get free entry status without passing through the strict inspection gate located in the east.

Those who were members of the magic consulate had a magic item given directly by the Lockdown city authority, an item that could open a portal directly towards the city of Lockdown. The item could not be used just any magician so even if the item was stolen then it would still not be usable.

In addition to the magic consulate members, also seen ordinary people passing by using a broomstick. There is also a train that floats carrying goods from one building to another. Wherever Oana looked, what she saw was a miracle that only witches could create. Oana had been in the city for two days, the day before she had managed to enter and pass through the tight guard at the entrance gate.

The city was large enough to make it difficult to find the location of the Hogward academy, where Aliyah is currently located. What's more, this is the first time he came to the city of Lockdown after previously he only heard rumors and beauty of the city of Lockdown from his teacher Parthe. Oana is also quite difficult to ask people she meets on the street, it is because the behavior of people in the city is quite individualistic that makes them reluctant to talk to strangers like Oana.

Currently, Oana was in one of the densely packed areas of floating magic vehicles named Sitrus. A territory of the highways of the witches, a dense road that connected various other regions. Not a stone path but a floating air path.. Oana with her magic is currently drifting and trying to find a clue to the path that leads to Hogward's academy.

Simultaneously the magic warrior approached due to the panic that was occurring, after the magic warrior saw a man in their magic robes instantly horn and respect.

The man they saw was Gerald Grifindor, a member of the magic consulate as well as the magic knight of the city of Lockdown. Together with the holy knights, Smits and Anne are still attached to his arm. Ivy, Rebecca, Gildarts and Pege.

They had arrived after only traveling a few days, even though the distance between the city of Lockdown and Gres where they were previously quite far.

The soldiers who knew of Gerald's arrival immediately opened a barricade of ranks and escorted Gerald along with the holy knights to the gate. They certainly did not go directly through the gate but they were led into a room that was in the large wall of the entrance gate.

Before they land, though, Gerald had previously reminded the holy knights that his identity would not be told to the many people who were waiting in line to enter because if the people knew their identity then a commotion would ensue, you could say the holy knights were like artists. If their existence is known, it will make people approach them and will jostle each other to damage the queue that has been neatly arranged.

That was why the holy knights did not speak much as they were led into the room next to the gate, a room that was still part of the giant wall of the city of Lockdown.

While walking, the holy knights saw that there were many people who wanted to enter the city of Lockdown, not far from where they were walking. They also saw a fairly dense settlement to the west of the city of Lockdown.

Ivy who was curious about it asked Gerald who was in front of him. "Does the settlement belong to the Lockdown area of the city?" Show Ivy.

Gerald looked, he shook his head. "No, it's a settlement of people who want to get inside the town of Lockdown, but can't enter because they're not witches. They insisted and built settlements around this town."

"Ah.. That's how they want to get into this town." Rebecca's Sahut.

Then Smits who was still hugged by her arm by Anne added. "That's so.. It turns out the rules in this place are strict as well."

"Of course, the magic chancellor actually kept this city as the city of the witches. He was very strict about it." Firm Gerald.

"Hm.. To be honest, I actually didn't believe you when you said that you were a member of the magic consulate, but it looks like you're a member of the consulate considering that the guard soldiers are bowing to you." Said Smits holding his chin.

"I told you, sir.. What I said about that woman and myself is true." Gerald pointed to Anne.

Meanwhile, Anne who had since stepped towards the gate became even more trembling. He clutches Smits' arm, hiding his face. It was as if something bad would happen to him after coming to this place.

Smits who felt that was getting curious but on the other hand he had started to trust Gerald since the moment of their arrival. It makes him worry, what else Smits is not the type of person who likes to think hard.

"So Mr. Smits, if you've believed me what if you let Anne be taken by the soldiers." Gerald.

"Hhuhhh is troublesome, but wait until we get into the city... Anyway I told you, I want to meet the magic chancellor and talk to him directly." Smits finally made a troublesome decision after seeing Anne's terrified expression. He felt sorry at the same time still feeling anxious about something.

After walking, they finally arrived at one room. In the room they were all welcomed. The room was quite luxurious despite being inside the outer walls of Lockdown city. It was the room of the magic warriors, they were purposely herded into the room to check, whether they were worthy of entering the Lockdown city or not.

Yep.. Although they were holy knights they had to still pass through the examination to be able to enter the city. The difference is, they do not pass the examination like many people who are outside. They were treated like guests of honor because of the holy knight title they had.

It seemed like, the Lockdown city authorities really did not loosen the system they had built, they were still conducting checks even to the holy knights.

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