The First Magic World War-Chapter 661 - 626, The Rejuvenated Strasbourg

Chapter 661: 626, The Rejuvenated Strasbourg Chapter 661: 626, The Rejuvenated Strasbourg Charles Meklen brought people with him, and before they arrived at the foot of Strasbourg City, just after passing Machu Picchu, he saw that his cousin Antonio Brittany was leading a team to welcome them.

As the Crown Prince of the Fars, Antonio’s personal welcome of Duke Mecklen greatly highlighted the friendship between the two men.

The current situation was that no matter whether Charles had thought much about it, or whether the old Emperor or Antonio had, every noble of the Fars Empire, and even the commoners, were lost in wild and fanciful thoughts.

Duke Mecklen boasted formidable strength and truly possessed the potential of a powerful minister…

People around Antonio continually advised him that he must appear extremely affectionate towards Charles, making everyone believe that Charles was his supporter, which would be greatly beneficial to his future ascension to the throne.

Although Antonio didn’t quite agree, he couldn’t withstand being persuaded repeatedly and could only follow their advice, arriving early at Machu Picchu to welcome their arrival.

Charles felt a warmth in his heart when he saw Antonio, having spent years in incessant warfare with hardly any rest.

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Even now, the entire Old Continent couldn’t be considered peaceful, but each time he returned to Strasbourg, he would feel at ease, especially at the thought of seeing Anne.

Well, it was also quite pleasant to see Antonio.

He even presented Antonio with ten Chiliarchs and fifty Centurions.

As for the Land Battleships, which were too cumbersome and not majestic enough, he did not gift any – besides, he feared that Antonio’s subordinates might not have enough Low-Level Transcendents to operate such weaponry.

The news of Charles’s development of Land Battleships, Centurions, and Chiliarchs had spread wide and far across the Old Continent, if not universally known.

Charles had once considered selling these to various empires, but since he himself needed them for the ongoing wars, he had never actually put them on sale.

Now that he had returned to Strasbourg, he gave a batch to Antonio, which really cheered Antonio’s supporters.

This represented the support of Duke Mecklen, as well as a boost in the Crown Prince’s power.

Almost everyone knew that operating a Centurion only required a Low-Level Transcendent but could unleash combat power comparable to an Intermediate-Ranked Transcendent.

Operating a Chiliarch required at least an Intermediate-Ranked Transcendent, but could match a High-Level Transcendent, and even encounter a Sacred Level while being able to hold on for a while with its defensive force field.

Low-Level Transcendents were already rare talents, Intermediate-Ranked Transcendents were extremely scarce, and there were not many High-Level Transcendents in the entire Old Continent, let alone the New Continent.

With these weapons, Antonio’s private Knighthood could even leap to challenge the Fars Empire’s Royal Knights.

The gift could be said to be very generous indeed.

Although Antonio didn’t care about gifts, he was still very delighted, and embraced Charles Mecklen, saying, “Fars is about to enjoy peace; you can stay longer this time when you come back.”

Charles smiled and said, “I will.” Although Mecklenburg was nice, he indeed preferred Strasbourg, especially Number 58, Elysian Pastoral Avenue.

The two set off side by side toward Strasbourg, followed by each of their respective Knight groups.

However, the party Charles brought with him this time comprised more than a hundred people, with over twenty of the Sacred Level, while Antonio’s group only had three Sacred Level members, far inferior in strength.

Antonio, after all, was at the peak of the Sacred level, with extraordinary spirituality.

He quickly noticed the spirituality emanating from Charles, profound as the sea, surging yet submerged, and exclaimed in surprise, “Have you advanced again?”

Charles shrugged his shoulders and replied, “While battling the Evil God in Inglima, I unknowingly improved a bit.”

Antonio asked with some disbelief, “23rd rank?

Or have you reached the 24th rank already?”

Charles answered, “How could I advance that fast!

I’ve only reached the 23rd rank.”

Antonio remembered that when they first met, Charles was just a common Transcendent, far from the Sacred level.

Yet, with every update he received on him, he found that Charles had advanced once again.

Now the gap between the two of them probably was only a rank on paper.

In actual combat, Antonio really didn’t feel confident that he could defeat Charles.

Antonio casually mentioned, “If you reach the 24th rank, our house would have three at the peak Sacred level.”

Charles casually asked, “When Princess Akso advances to the 24th rank, that would make four of us.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, then both suddenly remembered something, “Only Anne is not at the Sacred level…”

That was somewhat awkward.

Neither of them brought it up, both skillfully changing the subject.

With the old Emperor and Crown Prince of Fars constantly campaigning, Strasbourg City had been under the control of Duchess Anne.

Consequently, under Anne’s governance, the city had developed a subtly different atmosphere.

Firstly, there were noticeably more bookstores, and the Patrolling Army was more responsible than before.

During the Axel Dynasty, the Patrolling Army was nominally under the Crown Prince and had a lot of ghost soldiers, being only somewhat responsible in the upper seven districts while ghost soldiers were rampant in the fifteen outer districts.

However, under the Brittany Dynasty, the Patrolling Army gradually came under Princess Anne’s control.

Anne herself was quite talented and had been trained in Mecklenburg, so taking cue from Charles, she reorganized the entire Patrolling Army of Strasbourg and now it was rejuvenated, making a significant contribution to the commercial environment of the entire city.

Next was the status of the residents of Strasbourg.

In recent years, the city had been breached repeatedly and had gone through several rebellions, even experiencing a dynasty change from the Axel Clan to the House Brittany ruling.

But since Anne took office, the economic environment of Strasbourg improved greatly, with stable prices and abundant life supplies.

Therefore, the people of Strasbourg felt a stronger sense of belonging to the Brittany Dynasty than they had during the Axel Dynasty era.

Thirdly, the sanitation, security, commerce, streets, public carriages, culture, among many other aspects of the entire city, had seen significant improvements.

Having seen Charles establish trash bins in Mecklenburg, Anne followed suit and also installed trash bins all around the Strasbourg City while constructing sewage ditches, which transformed the sanitary environment to be notably clean and tidy.

Moreover, almost all criminals, gangs, habitual fighters, and thieves were sent by Anne to Cappadocia, with many ending up in the Agres Archipelago.

These two measures alone had brought about revolutionary changes in the city.

Not to mention that Anne had other governance measures.

Even Charles felt like he didn’t recognize Strasbourg anymore.

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This place was even better than his own Mecklenburg, or any of the other cities he managed.

After all, Strasbourg’s resources, the quality of its residents, and even enforcement were far superior to the cities under Charles’s rule, given that his domains were emerging cities.

Although developing rapidly, they could not yet match the capital of the Fars Empire.