What was considered a big city in Verenti? First of all the walls were as tall as tens of thousands of meters which could still be easily bypassed by an average Soldier Realm Cultivators in a single jump.
** Not on Verenti though, since it has thousands of time the gravity of a top Tier-1 World and hundreds of time more stable and fixed Space.
The very reason such high level Cultivators can even fight freely here and are restricted to descend down to lower worlds.**
But a Soldier Realm Cultivator can certainly cross the wall if he uses even 20% of his Qi. But the very reason it's nearly impossible for anyone below Emperor Realm Cultivator to so is the Suppressive Formation above the city which is also the second defensive mechanism.
The main defense being the Axis Node Formation which covers the whole city and along with 6 other cities they make a Grand Formation with the center being a tower which is the Headquarters of Verenti camp. The tower of 'Cait'.
The tower itself is made of Regal Gold which is sturdy enough to stop attacks from Ancestor Realm Cultivators. And inside that is a channel connecting Verenti to the Upper Sanctum and the Divine plane.
Entering through the gates, the city was in full view , even though it was a battlefield oriented world, that was only minority after all. Most of the citizens were normal Cultivators who would occasionally volunteer for getting the War token and maybe sometimes resources.
Only the desperate ones who lack resources or the ones wanting fame and authority would be permanently war mongrels.
The Yoric city was a dyed in a shade of Scarlet. Well most people say it's because of their Commander, Priscilla.
It's said that her hair are a bloody scarlet like the blood she draws from her enemies.
Even though she's a Commander, there are rumours that she is currently the strongest Commander among the six and has even forced the High Commander to a draw even though she is only a high-grade Demon Emperor whereas the Commander is a mid-grade Demon Monarch !!
Doing so at Mortal Realms might be easy but crossing a realm after ascending Mortal limits makes you genius among geniuses!!
Everyone in Yoric city felt proud of their Commander and even the High Commander George had only praises for her.
While Ryu zen was strolling around the city searching for a good place to a stay , a commotion had begun just because of him somewhere.
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The City Hall was a strictly guarded place where no one ordinary citizens were allowed, by ordinary it literally means your rank should be atleast Captain level to even ask for an audience.
Captain level figures were all atleast high-grade Demon Venerable and low-mid grade Venerables were only Vice-Captains, even the Company leaders were atleast peak-grade Kings.
Mid-High grade Kings were squad leaders and vice leaders. Anything below were just Soldiers. Mahayana Realm Cultivators were just Cannon fodders here literally.
Even the guards at the City Hall Gates were low-grade Demon Venerable .
That's not counting the ten inner guards all mid-high grade supervised by a peak Demon Venerable!!
The very reason for a strict minimum rank requirement for entry.
The guards here were just for any small disturbance even though no one would dare to do anything stupid here when Scarlet Princess, Priscilla was residing here herself. Even though the City Hall was an official building, her private quarters were also here so no one was brave enough to pull any stunts.
Sebastian , who was the Chief-guard and also a peak Demon Venerable was drinking his tea leisurely in his usual break.
He was unlike the typical looking Cultivators, underneath his heavy armor he used to wear a butler uniform!! He was ready 24×7 to serve his lady, Priscilla.
He had a middle aged face, short white hair with proper trimmed bear and a neat moustache.
Since he always begged Priscilla to take him with her to battlefield he had to bear with the heavy and ugly armor, but he would still be in butler shoes!!
This guy was born to be one. He even had a scar over his right side of neck which he proudly shows everyone.
Just when he was thinking that it was time to wake up his lady, one of his subordinates came rushing to his side making him frown.
"Marcus, how many times I have told you to follow proper etiquettes and always maintain a calm. We are the subordinates of My lady Priscilla, we must not embarrass her."
"But sir it's an important news! The High Commander-" Sebastian cut short his word, visibly irritated, " He's here again? Didn't he learn his lesson last time ? He's not a decent Cultivator. "
"It's not him sir." the guard was already used to his superior talking trash about the High Commander, but naturally no one should know about this.
"Huh, not him? Then who is it?"
" I just got a report from the city guard, he said a High Commander from Upper Sanctum has arrived in our city! " Marcus said with a heavy caution and fear, anyone from Upper Sanctum was a big shot for him!!
" From there? Why has he come , did he say anything?" even Sebastian didn't take this lightly. George, their High Commander was a different thing but someone from Upper Sanctum should be handled carefully.
" He said his trip down is a secret one and only the Commander can know of this. "
" Does he know Lady Priscilla? But she's from the Mortal Realm, how can they know each other? Anyway, I'll report this to my lady. You can go back to your duty." he didn't forget to adjust his dress neatly before leaving though.
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" Not much has changed, the outer circle of city has only ordinary citizens , Soldiers and Squad leaders.
The inner circle for Captains and retired high rank members and market which has many merchants and alchemists.
The core region has the city palace and residents for Vice-commanders and the Commander.
Is it still a city or just a big camp? I should go and get a nice place to stay. "
Even though King Realm Cultivators are city guards in almost all big cities in top worlds, that doesn't mean that every passerby would be one.
They were still uncommon here, more than ninety percent of the populace were Mahayana Realm and below Cultivators.
There were only one in every hundred thousand people, King Realm Cultivators. Though it was still a big number if we take the full population in hand which would be more than hundred billions.
So there would be a million of King Realm Cultivators here, but most of them were all low-grade.
And it gets narrower towards peak-grade. There might not be more than thousand in total, including both the City guards.
That just shows how much tough Cultivation becomes as one gets stronger, even a minor Realm gets ten times more difficult than any previous major Realm for the Cultivator.
And we're talking about one of the top ten Infernal worlds in lower Sanctum, not just any random world.
Most of the Cultivators does not associate with wars and that includes even Venerables and Emperors also. Even if the Core region has ten Emperors, you can easily find more than that outside.
** The core region is strictly for military officers and only highest ranks.**
Some are part of associations and different sects and some are rogues.
But still , the highest authority is still the Commander Priscilla and her batallion 'Lascare' in Yoric city.
Soon, Ryu zen arrived in the inner region. People here all walked with a purpose, since flying was not permitted.
The rich travelled in enchanted carriages which were basically King-grade artifacts whereas the poor, well there were no poor living inside inner region.
While passing through the streets he saw a peculiar shop, a small rundown place selling some old antiques managed by a young man.
Young for a Cultivator to say, he might very well be thousands year old in real.
He was just sitting leisurely and drinking wine not bothered by the weird looks he receives from everyone.
" A Heavenly Monarch in disguise selling some leftovers, when would I see something new? ...sigh " even though Ryu said that he still went towards the little fella because he was less than ten thousand years old.
Most of the Monarchs were hundreds of thousand year old monsters if not more.
So he was definitely not a nobody since he was not just an ordinary Monarch but a Heavenly Monarch!
' Some eccentric genius from above or some Son of Heavens from below. Which one? Hmm...'
The young man saw Ryu zen arriving in front of him and was a surprised a little as he couldn't see his Cultivation. That certainly got him interested.
" Sir what you like to buy? I have many Heavenly treasures here, look. " his words made many to laugh and thought he was some youngster who didn't know much about world.
Not any treasure could be named Heavenly, even a single one would be hundred times more valuable than any treasure of the same grade.
Ryu zen, unlike others could easily see some Heavenly Emperor grade mixed with a few Heavenly Monarch grade treasures, there was even one Heavenly Ancestor grade treasure!! It was a simple looking wooden flute. But certainly it was more than just a flute.
But none of them interested Ryu, seeing that made the boy think that maybe he couldn't recognize the treasures like others which made him a disappointment as he thought that he might be some hidden expert.
" I don't want such scraps if that's all you have." his words confirmed the boy's guess. He could only give a depressed sigh to his expectations.
" Sir, these are all the treasures I have, if you like anything please tell me and it'll be yours. "
" Anything you say?" Seeing Ryu zen smiling sent a shiver down the boy's body. But he could only nod helplessly.
" Then give me the best wine you have, all I care is for is some good wine and nothing else. " this small request almost gave the boy a heart attack.
" Th-this.. my wine is not that good sir, it's like horse urine. It would ruin your mouth." he could only politely decline with a forced smile.
" Little Monarch don't play games with me. Si keng would surely skin you alive if he knew you refused me wine. " This time the boy was really frightened, his cool demeanor was all gone.
He stood up and gave a deep bow, "Sir, I didn't know you had ties with our ancestor. I apologize deeply for offending you." his heart was almost inside his throat, he wanted to kick his previous self who wanted to see the hidden experts of the world.
But now that he got to know one, he didn't even dare lift his head.
" It's alright, it's not like we are good friends." ...he extended his arms in front of him shamelessly. The poor guy could only give a wry smile, he took out out a cyan jade bottle from inside his Spatial ring.
The bottle had a small array over it to keep the wine inside fresh and suppress it from leaking.
Ryu didn't bother any courtesy and grabbed the bottle , " As expected from your clan, never disappoints me." those words made the boy swell with pride. Ryu tossed a small key towards the boy and disappeared not saying anything more.
He was confused first as to what he would do with a key but soon he got the fright of his life after inspecting it and quickly stored it inside his ring.
"Is this for real?! But there are only 9 keys, who was that person?!! .. I must inform the ancestor. "
Not wanting to waste another second, he packed his things and took out a talisman, tearing it made space fluctuate and he disappeared too.
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