552: Wuluan Ancient City

Chapter 551 Wu Luan Ancient City

Inside the carriage, Dick and Adela sat facing each other.

The urban construction of Wu Luan Ancient City seemed rather poor, with rough roads and bumpy rides, as if they were on a dirt road in the countryside.

The layout of the houses was also incredibly messy, like untrimmed bushes growing wildly, sometimes encountering a house right in the middle of the road.

Moreover, strangely, Dick didn't see any trace of magic-guided civilization; the only means of transportation were beast-drawn carts.

But the most outrageous were some passers-by, strangers who would approach the carriage window and reach out, shouting for money.

Such a vulgar side instantly lowered the status of Wu Luan Ancient City.

Dick even felt that some fifth-tier cities in Amyria were probably better than here, at least sitting in a carriage wouldn't make his buttocks hurt.

"Perhaps you should change to a... more modest carriage."

Dick believed that it was mainly because Adela was too ostentatious; the carriage they were currently riding in was like a moving palace, resplendent and magnificent.

Compared to their surroundings, it looked like a slum, making it hard not to attract attention.

Hearing Dick's suggestion, Adela smiled sweetly, "I'm sorry, but this is already the Holy Master's cheapest carriage."

Adela's tone was full of pride; whenever she talked about Master Alice, she always looked like a fangirl.

"This is the poorest and most chaotic area of Wu Luan Ancient City, called Chaoxing District, where the streets are full of swindlers and evildoers."

"Chaoxing District..."

Muttering, Dick couldn't help but ask again, "How many districts are there in total in Wu Luan Ancient City?"

"There are a total of four areas, ranked from bottom to top in terms of wealth, namely Chaoxing District, Chaoyun District, Chaoyue District, and..."

Before Adela could finish, Dick quickly answered, "Chaoyang District?"

"No," Adela shook her head in confusion and corrected, "It's Ancient God District."

Hearing this, Dick felt speechless. Why was the name of the last district so abrupt, not following the pattern of the previous ones?

"So Master Alice lives in the Ancient God District?"

From Adela's conversation, Dick speculated that Master Alice should be very rich and thriving in Wu Luan Ancient City, so she should naturally live in the highest-grade Ancient God District.

However, Adela was a little flustered and whispered, "The Holy Master's manor is in... Chaoyue District, but I believe She will be able to move into the Ancient God District soon!"

In the following few minutes, through Adela's explanation, Dick understood some of the rules of Wu Luan Ancient City.

There is a very strict hierarchical system here. People of different levels live in different areas, and there is only one factor that determines the level - strength.

Some high-level professionals can only live in the lowest-level Chaoxing District, belonging to the bottom poor people of Wu Luan Ancient City.

Max-level professionals or max-level Beasts can obtain the qualification to live in Chaoyun District and receive preferential treatment in all aspects.

And Chaoyue District is obviously the area where the Lords are active. The streets there are deserted, but any passerby might be a Lord.

As for the highest-level Ancient God District, it is inhabited by ancient Lords from the upper reaches of the long river, whose strength is terrifying.

If that's the case, then Dick felt that Adela must have been wrong before; Master Alice would not be able to move into the Ancient God District anytime soon.

Dick already had a rough understanding of the strength of the Lords.

If a newly promoted ordinary Lord is set as the basic unit of strength, abbreviated as "Ordinary Lord".

Master Alice has amazing talent and previously revealed that she could fight more than ten. Dick conservatively estimated that her strength is ten Ordinary Lords.

Master Mina before "Yin-Yang Harvesting" had her strength increased because she killed herself in the seventh life, and her strength was one hundred Ordinary Lords.

And Master Mina after "Yin-Yang Harvesting" had her strength soared. Referring to the previous battle, her strength reached at least one thousand Ordinary Lords!

Dick remembered that Master Mina said that the Beast Lords in the upper reaches of time and space had similar strength to Mina before "Yin-Yang Harvesting", and their strength was also around one hundred Ordinary Lords.

In summary, only those with a strength of one hundred Ordinary Lords can move into the Ancient God District, and Alice, who only has ten Ordinary Lords, is still far from it!

Of course, if Master Alice also had a "Yin-Yang Harvesting", that would be a matter of minutes.

"Speaking of which, what is your strength?"

Dick was actually very curious about the Dragon maid in front of him, because "Know Yourself and Your Enemy II" was not working again.

Looking at Adela's identity information in front of him, Dick felt helpless, because every column was a question mark.

"Name": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV")

"Race": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV")

"Age": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV")

"Profession": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV")

"Talent": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV")

"Recent Encounters": ? (Viewable after upgrading to "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV" and activating System VIP)

"Current Status": System permission insufficient.

"Emotion": System permission insufficient.

"My talent is very poor. With Master Alice's guidance, I barely have the strength of an ordinary Lord..."

When saying this, Adela looked ashamed, obviously she was not being humble, which made Dick's mouth twitch.

Good heavens, she's already a Lord and her talent is still poor. Then wouldn't he, who has never been a Lord, be the most useless of the useless?

However, this also confirmed Dick's guess that the Know Yourself and Your Enemy Blessing series allows viewing information of higher life forms with each level up.

"Know Yourself and Your Enemy" can only view magic professionals below level 70, which includes all species, and even ghosts and Demons...

"Know Yourself and Your Enemy II" can view all levels and added the "Current Status" column.

Dick does not yet know the specifics of "Know Yourself and Your Enemy III", but he speculates that it should be able to see the identity information of gods, just like when he saw Trundle before.

As for the highest "Know Yourself and Your Enemy IV", Dick believes it should be able to see the identity information of the Lords, and then it will be truly "everything I see, I know".

"Speaking of which, why is your surname Byson? Could it be..."

Lords also have desires. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and Master Alice may have married and had children, and Adela in front of her is her daughter.

Of course, there is a more outrageous speculation: Master Alice may have awakened a "mirror-grinding" Hobbies, and Adela is her favorite concubine.

"It was over ten thousand years ago, when the Sub-Timespace I was in was invaded..."

Adela's Sub-Timespace was a world unified by the Dragon race, where all intelligent races were vassals, and the nine Heroes were all Dragons.

Precisely because there were too many Dragons, they naturally attracted the attention of flesh slave merchants. After all, among all races, the flesh of Demonic Dragons is the strongest, with vigorous vitality.

Whether used for sacrifice or as food, they are all top-grade materials and are absolutely hot commodities in Wu Luan Ancient City, with an excellent market.

Because there was no Lord to support them, Adela's world was soon destroyed, countless Dragons became flesh slaves, and all races suffered heavy casualties.

And Adela was the Mage Hero of that era, and coupled with being a top-notch beauty, she was brought to the auction house and sold as a high-grade flesh slave at auction.

"The Holy Master spent a lot of money to buy me. She didn't eat my flesh, nor did She play with my body. She just let me be a maid and even spent resources to cultivate me..."

Speaking of this, Adela couldn't help but tear up. She was genuinely grateful to Master Alice from the bottom of her heart.

However, in Dick's opinion, Master Alice must have done these things because there was profit to be made. She could never have selfless kindness.