I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 90 Labyrinth Adventurers and the Dragon King
The place where Sua was interrogated by the Crossed Knights was not in the capital.

To be precise, it is a vast, empty area between the two, behind the Golden Iron Curtain.

The white chalk wall he saw, resembling a crawling dragon, was the Golden Iron Curtain. It was a single-sided giant wall, 50 meters high and stretching for more than ten kilometers. It appeared white from the inside, but from the outside, it reflected light and had a golden hue.

Judging from the scale of the walls, which is comparable to those in Attack on Titan, this is clearly not the style of walls in the normal world.
But considering that in the world, as Lukan and others call it, there are creatures called 'giant beasts,' Suya could roughly understand why the wall was built so high.

And then,
Sua, Melly, Lucan, and Dagonet reunited and bid farewell to the saintess 'Elizabeth' who came to rescue Sua.
They were now sitting in a horse-drawn carriage, having left the military camp behind the Golden Iron Curtain and embarked on the highway leading directly to the capital—a road paved with huge bluestone slabs.

Suya was looking thoughtfully at the red dragon emblem ring in her hand.
Just now, when he gave himself the ring,
Saint Elizabeth playfully hooked her little finger across her palm, then gave herself a rather 'ambiguous' look that only she could see.

This left him somewhat bewildered.

At this moment, Lukan saw Sua's pensive expression and assumed he was worried about the threat left behind by the Conqueror King, so he took the initiative to explain:
"The three great iron walls guarding the capital are, of course, just flattering King Mark and the Grand Duke of Cornwall. Exeter is hardly an iron wall; at most, it can only be used to defend against the invasion of giant beasts."

"The three true iron walls protecting the British capital are Plymouth, the Golden Iron Curtain, and the Sixth Ring of Abundance of the capital itself."

"With the limited forces under the Conqueror's command, it's impossible to breach the two remaining fortresses. Her claim of conquering the capital within 40 days is nothing but a bluff."

Hearing this, Suya's thoughts were brought back, but after thinking about it, she felt something was amiss, and she looked up in surprise and asked:
"But Plymouth has already been breached, hasn't it?"

Lucan shook his head and said, "Now that we have the battle report from that time, Britain will naturally take corresponding measures."

"It was magic, not an army, that breached Plymouth; it was the embodiment of the contradictory law that the legendary Aristotle and the King of Conquerors forcibly imposed upon the iron wall."

"They used their superior magical power to suppress the enemy's magic, and used logic magic that was similar to magic to nullify all the alchemical cannons on the wall. Otherwise, a single volley would have killed or wounded more than half of the 50,000-strong army led by the Conqueror King."

"Essentially, it was a surprise attack."

"They seized the opportunity presented by the lack of top-tier combat power on the defending side to launch a surprise attack. It won't be so easy for them to continue their conquest of Britain."

At that moment, Meryl pointed to a convoy approaching from the road ahead and nodded.
“Those are magicians from the Clock Tower’s basic department.”

"It seems she was forcibly pulled up from the underground labyrinth. In addition, the Golden Iron Curtain already has a magician band, so it's impossible for that woman to continue to achieve results through magic."

"Hmm, a clock tower? An underground labyrinth?"

Suya instantly caught two special words.

He could roughly understand the clock tower, just as the Lyceum was a magician's institution in Greece, so the clock tower was probably a local magician's institution in Britain. He just didn't know if this clock tower was the one he was thinking of.

And the underground labyrinth—

In the Fate/Zero universe, there is an underground labyrinth called Albion, which should be located underground in London (the Clock Tower headquarters is also in the suburbs of London). Deep underground in Albion, there are even dragon corpses and hearts, which are incredibly powerful things.

Suya wanted to detour to London to see if this labyrinth existed beneath London in this seemingly paradoxical world; to him, it was practically a natural training ground for martial arts.

He instinctively sensed that if he could truly unearth a dragon's corpse, he might be able to rapidly grow stronger by seizing its mysteries. And now,
Is there a similar labyrinth beneath the royal capital of Winchester?

At this moment, hearing Suya's question, Meryl offered an explanation:

"The Clock Tower is a magician's institution similar to Lucien's."

"Because mystery is no longer in danger of disappearing, the secret principles followed by magicians have been abandoned. Magicians of this era are sages who walk on the surface of the earth with dignity, analyzing and utilizing various phenomena."

"And the underground labyrinth, we'll probably be spending most of our time there going forward, whether it's fighting, making money, improving our strength, or participating in the power struggles on the surface."

At this point, Meryl paused, then began to explain the intricacies of the situation on Suya's behalf.
"In an environment where the mystery persists and an inexhaustible tide of magic continues to spread from the center of the continent,"

“Every human being is a node where magic resides,”

"Cities, as densely populated areas of human activity, can be understood as enormous sources of magic."

"Corresponding to the source of magic are the ancient monsters that are constantly revived by the catalysis of the source of magic; the more powerful the monster, the deeper it is buried."

"In this way, something like an underground city came into being. The larger the city, the larger the underground labyrinth beneath it. The size of the labyrinth itself is even much larger than the size of the city."

"In the underground labyrinth, you can find a large number of materials from the Age of Gods that do not exist on the surface, such as dragon scales, teeth, and the young corpses of Hydra."

"The kingdom needs to constantly eliminate the monsters that are reviving in the shallow underground, as well as the wealth obtained from these monsters and the treasures that exist underground."

"As a result, a rather large industrial chain has emerged."

Suya understood immediately.
So there's an industry called adventurers in this world?
So next, this guy will become an adventurer, explore underground labyrinths, grow stronger, defeat the demon king who has come back to life from the depths of the earth, save the kingdom, marry the princess, become king, and reach the pinnacle of life.

At this point, Meryl looked thoughtfully at Suya.

"However, the underground labyrinth is also full of all sorts of unbelievable dangers."

"Fifteen years ago, shortly after the continental shift, a red dragon was resurrected on the first level of the underground labyrinth in the royal capital of Winchester. King Uther led his army to fight it. In the battle, most of the royal capital was destroyed, and a fire that spread throughout the capital burned for half a month, killing nearly a million people."

Mary blinked and asked tentatively:

"Suya, are you aware of this?"

Suya shook her head decisively.

He's only been in this world for a week, how could he possibly know what happened fifteen years ago?
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The horse-drawn carriage moved slowly forward in the afternoon sun.
We passed through vast fertile fields, villages, and villages nestled between the Golden Iron Curtain and the Wall of Abundance; we passed lakes shimmering in the sunlight; and we passed weary pedestrians and travelers on the cobblestone roads.

finally,
It merged into a long, dragon-like convoy that was slowly making its way into the capital.
Suya finally arrived at the capital, at the foot of the Wall of Abundance, a formidable fortress that was said to be impenetrable.

(End of this chapter)