novelRoyal City
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The resurrection tower was built indoors. The roof was built with special, transparent gems. There was also a statue of a god, and surrounding him were various stone platforms. The resurrections here were all completed on the stone platform.
As Xiao Lin was accessing things, the stone platform next to him started to glow a faint blue light. He immediately went on alert, but when he realized it was the sign of resurrection, he guessed that the other class monitors had followed him.
He was quite interested in the mechanics behind the resurrection towers. Based on his prior understanding, the towers would absorb the dispersed souls of any colonists, and would use a special law to reassemble them before giving a flesh-and-blood body.
However, it was the first time he had seen someone else resurrect. The blue orbs were probably soul fragments. Those orbs persistently came out of the silver resurrection tower, and quickly condensed. It got more and more condensed, and after a few minutes, the soul started to fade in and out until it turned completely transparent.
Regretfully, the one who was resurrected was not the other monitors, but rather a young East Asian, man. He rubbed his shoulders when he got up, muttering a few words before he looked at Xiao Lin, who was staring at him. The man immediately put up a defense, causing Xiao Lin to remark to himself that the man's reactions were quick; he was definitely not weak.
After a few seconds, the man relaxed, smiling as he said, "I overreacted. Anyone who can resurrect here would be a friend. Brother, which department are you from? I've never seen you before."
Xiao Lin hesitated for a little, but when the man in front of him showed the Dawn Academy emblem, he relaxed. The emblem was like their national emblem; no one would put that on in the colonial territories. The only ones who would have them were government officials working in foreign lands. It was obvious that the man was a government official of Dawn Academy.
"I'm a first-year student from Dawn Academy. I came to the Rosa Kingdom for an assignment." Xiao Lin deliberately withheld the monthly examination.
The man paused before slapping his forehead."So you're the ones who came over for the monthly examination. I know about it. I was supposed to be the one in charge of you once you got to the royal city."
The man immediately mentioned the monthly examination, proving that his status was definitely real, causing Xiao Lin's worries to disappear.
The man called himself Liang Taibai. He was a foreign official within the Rosa Kingdom. He was supposed to be in charge of the examinees when they arrived. However, he was unlucky, and had been ambushed and killed when he went out on business.
"Where are the others? How did you die? Were you attacked on the way? Was it a wild beast or the rebels?" Liang Taibai was not surprised at Xiao Lin's death; the Rosa Kingdom was quite chaotic.
"I killed myself."
The man was speechless.
Following that, Xiao Lin spent half an hour talking about their story. He had wanted to find out from Liang Taibai if it was arranged by the academy, but the official's changing expressions gave him the answer.
"The griffins were definitely arranged by the academy. Ah, I should not have told you that before the end of the examination." Liang Taibai regretted it after he said it, but his expression turned serious."However, the kidnapping was definitely not arranged, based on my information."
Pausing, he continued, "Furthermore, those griffins were to test your reactions. We arranged for the attack to disperse after an hour or two; it's not possible for it to last an entire night."
Xiao Lin panicked."Then you need to immediately send people to rescue them. I'm worried as to what will happen if we're too late."
"Where are they?"
Xiao Lin paused before asking, "Where are we now?"
"The royal city."
Xiao Lin fell silent.
The royal city's resurrection tower was a large model, but the effective radius was the entire city, and maybe the neighbouring areas at most. That meant that they had been brought so close by. Based on Xiao Lin and everyone else's estimates, they had been kidnapped not one whole day after they fell asleep before being sent into the prison cells.
In just half a day, how could they have arrived at the royal city?
Griffins!
Xiao Lin immediately found the answer. If the griffins were the mode of transport, then it was not strange for the journey to take only half a day. It was obvious that the griffins that attacked them that night had broken free of the academy's control.
"We should head to the embassy. I need to report this immediately and save the rest of them."
Liang Taibai's face was sweating. He immediately brought Xiao Lin out of the resurrection tower. After leaving, Xiao Lin saw an immense number of troops patrolling nearby, about a thousand strong.
"These are all the troops of the Rosa Kingdom's royalty. Don't just look at the numbers–their combat abilities aren't too high. This is only because we warned them repeatedly that if the resurrection towers were destroyed, our relationship with the royalty would go the same way, including our rescue efforts, " Liang Taibai explained to Xiao Lin.
It was the first time Xiao Lin was at a royal city of Normese natives. Compared to Dawn City and New Washington, the relatively young city was not inferior in its prosperity, or maybe luxury was the more accurate term. Most of Planet Norma's countries were monarchies. The royalty always ensured their cities were majestic and prosperous, but there was no use to it other than looks. Comparatively, the colonists had built their buildings with modern ideals–few buildings were without a practical purpose.
It was a pity that the streets and the houses were comparatively in worse shape, and were scarcely populated as well. Liang Taibai mentioned that, since the rebels were approaching, most of them had fled. The ones remaining either had no choice but to flee or had things they could not leave behind.
"Are they not willing to part with their riches?" Xiao Lin asked.
"That's right, and they're still hoping we'll extend a helping hand." Liang Taibai sighed.
"Surely it's not good for us if the Rosa Kingdom falls to the rebels." Xiao Lin might not be clear on the political situation, but he knew a little. If the rebels did not maintain the Rosa Kingdom's subservience, then Dawn Academy would first lose all the resurrection towers in the kingdom. That would be quite a great loss.
"The military is refusing to send any troops. We have no other choice. The results of the negotiations were only to help the main royal family members escape to Dawn City before using our name to garner support and money, allowing them to reclaim the country."
"It feels a bit like we're leaving them to struggle by themselves." Thanks to what had happened before, Xiao Lin did not have any good will toward the military.
"That's basically it. The military's focus is not here, and they're not willing to send any troops for this. Furthermore, it looks like they've already sent men over to negotiate with the rebels. As long as the resurrection towers are safe, they do not care about anything else."
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