The Emperor planned to send three people out in different directions with the hope of finding sothing. One would be Skynder, who had proven on multiple occasions that he was capable of it.
The other two would be decided after a bit more review.
While they did that, the Emperor briefed Skynder.
"You will move directly northeast until you find sothing. It doesn't matter if it is a city or a town, but once you find it, you will use whatever you can gather to make your way towards the most populated place within a reasonable traveling distance. Gather as much information as possible, and return." The Emperor explained.
The only other person present was Sword Grandmaster Shang. This was a top secret mission, and even taking the slightest chance of information leaking was unacceptable.
Before long, Skynder departed. He rode a horse and carried a backpack as he traveled. Although the horse looked completely ordinary, it was the breed that had been created by feeding horses the at of the Mountain Serpent.
It was able to travel extrely fast, taking Skynder more than a thousand miles everyday, assuming he rarely slept. It took three days before he spotted smoke rising in the distance.
He moved towards it without hesitation. In the distance were no city walls, but an extrely large city. Different from the Continent of Wu, in which every major city had a wall surrounding it, it seed that this continent was different.
Perhaps walls were even seen as a sign of weakness. It was impossible to guess from just this alone, though he felt he was probably right.
He could quickly see the general layout of the city as he got closer.
In the center was an elegant palace, which was connected to the rest of the city via a bridge over a large body of water.
Although there were no city walls, there were clear markings. At each of the four directions, there were arches, representing entrances to the city.
There were guards there, just like on the Continent of Wu.
Skynder approached on his horse, slowing it down to the movent of a normal horse.
As he approached the gates, the guards looked at him, but did not move to stop him or say a single word.
Skynder was able to enter the city without so much as a single question.
Despite entering the most outer part of the city, it already seed quite prosperous. The people here were dressed in incredibly nice clothing, so much so that Skynder, in his average attire that even a wealthy commoner of the Faceless Empire may wear, felt like a lower class civilian.
He received a few glances, but nothing exceedingly disdainful. He also noticed that everyone else was walking on their feet, he was the only one on a horse. Despite this, nobody said a single thing.
In fact, their lack of response was quite confusing, and Skynder beca inwardly wary.
As he continued down the path, and the people got wealthier and wealthier looking, soone finally seed to pay attention to him. He was walking alongside another person, who, like the rest of the city, didn't pay much attention to him.
The person paying attention to him walked up to him and spoke.
"Get to the Scholar Capital much? Oh, who am I kidding. Of course not." The man said with a chuckle.
As if that was all he wanted to say, he turned around to leave, when the person next to him gave him a quick smack on the back of the head.
The man instantly grabbed the back of his head confused.
"You're an idiot, but even you should be able to tell that this man is a scholar." The man said.
The man holding his head took a deeper glance at Skynder before seemingly understanding.
"Oh." He said, losing all interest.
Skynder couldn't be more confused. There was clearly so sort of culture shift.
Without any understanding of what to do, he simply continued down the road.
Finally, he reached a large wall. Calling it a wall would be slightly inaccurate, as it was more like the beginning of a foundation with buildings high up on it, but it functioned as a wall.
There was a stairway up, but as his horse began to step on it, the guards guarding the stairway stopped him.
"Don't step further. Without proper identification, none can enter the inner city."
Skynder asked him a question. "I just got here. I don't understand what all of this ans."
The guard on the right spoke disdainfully. "You must be from another region. Did they send you to infiltrate the capital? No, they should know that such a thing would fail. Hmmm..." The guard said.
Eventually giving up, he spoke again. "Alright, here's the deal, punk. If you don't have a Scholar region ID, you need to go get one from the governnt building. If you want to reach the second level of the city, you need to have an adequate status. Since you seem to have no clue what is going on here, I'll explain it to you like you're five. The smarter you are, the more valued you are here in the Scholar region."
"I get that the Spear region, Sword region, and Bow region base everything on strength, but don't go starting fights here. You'll get killed before you can understand why. Anything else?"
Skynder shook his head, and the guards went back to ignoring his existence.
To say that Skynder was confused about this place and the people here would be a vast understatent, but he eventually just turned off his brain and began to walk around what he assud was known as the outer city.
He eventually stumbled upon a large building with a sign in front of it. The sign read Governnt Building.
It was literally called "Governnt Building".
He entered and walked to a person at a front desk.
She looked up, not speaking, but asking what he wanted with her look.
"I need an ID."
The woman nodded and took out paper and a quill.
"Na."
"Skynder."
"Birthplace."
Skynder hesitated before speaking. "Sword Region."
The lady looked at him like he was an idiot. "Wanna be more specific than a fifth of the continent, maybe?"
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