The Witcher: My backyard leads to London

The lobby of the Transportation Ticket Center is quite spacious and has multiple ticket windows, but there are not many people queuing at the moment.

Ricardo had learned that this transportation ticketing center belonged to the 'White Rose Family', the owner of the manor behind it.

Although this family is named after White Rose.

But the surname is Paran.

Yes... Ricardo has discovered that there are many more living members of the Palan clan in Linxue Province than he imagined.

The original number of people in the Paran clan is enough to establish a country on its own, and although there are many peripheral branches, the overall strength is definitely stronger than the average civilians in the Wizarding Continent, as well as the Storm clan, which has not yet fallen. So many clan members fell in In Linxue Province, the death rate is at a normal level.

Ricardo had already thought that the few batches of Paran clan members rescued by Binghu Leader were not descendants of these ordinary branches of the Paran clan in Snowy Night City, but might be the Paran clan members related to Vera's hometown.

The White Rose Family probably got the news of the return of Linxue Province and built such a large ticketing center.

They also announced in Snow Night City that they would unite multiple forces to build a steam railway in the next fifty years. However, this news did not make the public aware of the changes in Linxue Province.

Many people just think that in recent years, the evil situation in Xueye City has been cleared a lot, and the same should be true for the Xueyuan Ancient Road. Therefore, in order to facilitate the trade routes across the province, these forces want to build railways.

Many of the people who bought tickets here were dressed similarly to the residents of the settlement that Ricardo saw when he was in the Gray Mist Towers.

It is naturally much more refined than the countryside of Knight Continent, but it is still generally in the style of the steam industrial era.

Ricardo walked to the ticket window.

He saw a brown board standing next to it.

There is a continuous piece of white paper stuck on the wooden board. The white paper describes the information on the way to and from the ancient snowfield road in the past week: there are caravans and hitchhikers, there are separate horse-drawn carriages... and the most popular one is a method called icebreaker...

"icebreaker?"

Ricardo read aloud in confusion.

At this time, the staff at the ticket window sighed.

"There used to be a river on the ancient snowfield road, where the river flowed out of the inner sea of ​​floating ice in the center of the Wizarding Continent. After the catastrophe decades ago, the river almost dried up, but due to the infiltration of the nearby snow mountain landforms, a special ice and snow swamp was formed. "

"Even though many of them are horse-drawn carriage convoys, if you really want to pass through those ice and snow swamp areas in a straight line, the icebreaker of the White Rose family must be the fastest. The icebreaker is amphibious and can be channeled by hundreds of years of wizards, driving in the ice and snow swamp. It has to be fast, but there is no need to be slow on the prairie land.”

"However, recently, in order to save costs, the icebreaker ships have been driven to the back of the last ice and snow swamp, which is nearly two-thirds of the ancient snowfield road. They still have to transfer to the receiving carriage at the back."

Ricardo looked at the staff member. The staff member was a middle-aged man. He was wearing a black soft hat, a black and white checkered uniform, and a white rose badge on his chest.

"Thank you, a full set of tickets to Rand City at the end of the Snowfield Trail. If you want to get there as quickly as possible, I think the fastest way is to take the icebreaker you mentioned."

Ricardo looked at the brown sign again, and then took out more than a hundred gold coins from the storage bag.

None of the various transportation channel tolls listed on the sign is lower than dozens of gold coins.

Really expensive…

Ricardo thought that in Shagang County, Knight Continent, an ordinary resident would not be able to save such a cross-province travel ticket in his lifetime.

Of course...this is the price of goods in the Wizarding Continent.

Ricardo had lived in the Wizarding Continent, so he was naturally used to it, and he knew that in some places, magic stones were even required to pay.

"You're lucky. The largest icebreaker will leave in the evening."

"It takes three weeks on the ship, and then another three and a half weeks after landing and changing carriages. The whole journey takes almost seven weeks. The icebreaker will include four meals a day, but the latter part of the carriage journey will not be included, so you have to buy a ticket. In addition to money, you also need to prepare food for the rest of the carriage journey."

"I suggest you prepare food in advance, otherwise it will be very expensive to buy it temporarily in the transit town."

The staff member wearing a black soft hat reminded him that he accepted more than a hundred gold coins handed over by Ricardo.

Although the wizarding continent is very expensive, those who can afford more than a hundred gold coins and are willing to trek across provinces alone must be adventurers of a high level.

It's even possible that a noble wizard hid his identity in order to travel far away to handle a certain task.

"Give."

The staff processed a ticket, stamped it, and handed the ticket to Ricardo from the window.

There is a specially made badge embedded on the ticket, and it would be very costly to imitate it.

The staff also told Ricardo that if he wanted to take the icebreaker, he had to go to another building near the outer edge of the manor.

That building is called ‘White Rose Pier’.

However, if Ricardo is willing to wait here, a special afternoon carriage will come to pick him up in two quarters of an hour.

It was still a while before evening.

There are some seats in the hall, but it says that seats are only available to people who have purchased tickets.

Ricardo planned to take the shuttle carriage, so he found a seat and sat down.

He saw that when he was buying a ticket, there was a middle-aged man behind him, buying a ticket right behind him.

The middle-aged man wears a black top hat on his head, but also wears a black knight's uniform, and around his waist is a short sword with a white rose pattern on the hilt, and a cane.

Judging from his gait, the opponent has a certain level of transcendence.

Witcher?

Ricardo sensed it and found that he could feel several familiar witcher seals from the other party.

At this moment, after buying the ticket, the other party walked directly towards Ricardo.

The other person sat down on a seat across from Ricardo.

He easily lifted the cane on his waist, pointed it diagonally to the side, and said comfortably:

"Good afternoon, my destined companions?"

His voice sounded like he was greeting an old friend.

Ricardo will spend a lot of time on this journey. He cannot form an additional teleport point in the Snowy Province, which is also considered a part of the wizarding world. Therefore, unless he puts down the Storm Beacon room, he can only choose between the modern world and the evil world. territory.

You cannot choose other places in the wizarding world.

If he chooses to teleport back to the Mirror Shop and then walks out, his teleport coordinate point in the Wizarding World will be changed from the Snowy Province to outside the Mirror Shop.

He also tested it before, asking Teresa to use purple leaves to open a space channel and use the purple leaves to walk out to see if it would be a teleportation point that would change the wizarding world. It turned out that it would still change.

Therefore, before he placed the Storm Beacon room, he could not teleport randomly in the wizarding world.

However, to deal with the territory's government affairs, he could just send the information back to the Pai Dou Cafe and ask Teresa to bring the information to the cafe.

"good afternoon."

Ricardo also decided to experience more of the journey life on an icebreaker that he had never experienced before during this journey.

Of course, if the journey is boring, he will still run back to the modern world to do other things.

"Patrick, a witcher adventurer."

There was a greeting and an exchange of canes.

Ricardo didn't want to shake hands with the other party. He just said in a casual tone, "Ricardo, a knight, can also order witcher stuff?"

He did not mention that he was a wizard apprentice, and he was still almost a quasi-wizard.

After all, Linxue Province originated from the Wizarding Continent, and the probability of encountering a formal wizard is much higher than that in the Knights Continent. Once one is revealed to be a wizard apprentice among ordinary people in the Wizarding Continent, it will attract a lot of troublesome attention.

Although there are many wizards in the Wizarding Continent, they are not so numerous that they can be seen everywhere.

Therefore, before arriving in the wizard's territory, Ricardo did not intend to reveal his identity as a wizard's apprentice at will.

If he wanted to intimidate his enemies, it would be enough for him to show off some of the methods of a legendary knight or a legendary demon hunter.

"Well, in the past few decades, in Linxue Province, many knights have indeed learned the methods of demon hunters, in order to deal with the damn evil spirits..."

Patrick said with a smile, "We are very lucky on this trip this time. I know the staff. On this trip, the White Rose Family will send some children who have recently been tested for wizard qualifications in Snowy Night City to Rand City. This is I don’t know how many times they have done this in the past few months. God knows why they are so crazy and want to send them so far away..."

"There are not many demon hunters or knights these days who can spend more than a hundred gold coins to build icebreakers. If their children have wizard qualifications and want to travel far, some noble elders will often accompany them. They are willing to spend money to hire experts on the journey. Become an escort..."

When Ricardo heard this, he understood that the reason why the White Rose family was willing to send their children across the province to Rand City was naturally to allow these children to leave the province and return to the Wizarding Continent to join a better wizarding organization.

"Actually, if there is danger on the way, if it interferes with the journey, we will take action."

Ricardo chatted.

"But often when encountering big dangers and involving their own safety, some masters will ask for exorbitant prices. Therefore, among the nobles, some people are willing to sign a contract in advance. They are willing to use precious resources for such important matters. The wizard's contract scroll, as long as they sign the contract, is equivalent to an insurance in their hearts. And this kind of contract can be signed by multiple people at one time, so the cost to them is not high when all is considered."

Patrick introduced.

At this time, the carriage arriving to pick up and drop off arrived.

Ricardo and Patrick both got on the carriage and headed to the building where the 'White Rose Pier' was located.

"This is quite interesting. However, although I am short of currency, I am not short of gold coins. Haha, I just want to enjoy this journey now."

Ricardo saw that Patrick seemed to want to introduce some business to him.

He still expressed his thoughts in advance.

Patrick was obviously choked by Ricardo's words, "There is no shortage of gold coins."

He didn't even realize what Ricardo meant by lack of money.

The carriage arrived at its destination soon.

Ricardo and Patrick both got out of the carriage.

He found that there was a small cliff next to the building he came to.

He took a few steps closer to the cliff and found that under the cliff was a pool with a large number of ice cubes floating on the surface.

A huge icebreaker is docked on the edge of the cliff.

Ricardo looked behind the icebreaker and saw that behind the pool was not a glacier, but a swamp covered with a lot of snow and ice.

From the icebreaker came the force field aura of a small amount of energy crystals operating.

Ricardo understood that this was an icebreaker with wizard technology.

"This... wizard technology icebreaker does not require magic stones, but only gold coins to get on board... The White Rose family has really spent a lot of money to open up this trade route."

Although, Ricardo judged that the icebreaker would not use much wizard technology.

But gold coins are not easily exchanged for magic stones.

The White Rose family's icebreaker trip will not be cheap.

However, Ricardo thought that in recent months, the White Rose Family might have mainly used icebreakers to transport aristocratic children with wizard qualifications, sending them out of the Linxue Province.

It is very likely that this family mainly charges the parents of those noble children, or may also receive compensation from some wizarding organizations.