Chapter 5: (Self Edited) First Excursion
On that day, I went to the capital city with a long distance flight by riding the Eagle King brought by Father. Across mountains, rivers and villages, and we saw a castle that was clearly different from other cities.
This country was called as the Kingdom of Shaalta, and the capital city was Shibyak.
While Rook reigned the Eagle King, we made one full round the city of Shibyak in midair. I was imagining something like a big fortress city on a flat land or a hill, but my imagination was greatly betrayed. Far from being a fortified city, there were no walls around the city.
Shibyak was a city that stick to a large river where there were several islands rose on its surface. There wasn’t much open space between one island to another, and they were connected by not so long bridges. And the city easily spread on both banks of the large river.
As a person who longed for a medieval cityscape, I was fascinated by the beauty at first sight. It was a beautiful cityscape.
After that, the Eagle King went around the Shibyak for one turn. There was no wall on the outline of the city, but the islands were surrounded by walls at the entire of the water’s edge.
The island in the middle of others had a huge castle on it. It was the royal castle of Shibyak that I heard in the story.
It was called the kingdom. I wondered if there was a king in this castle.
It was a really good castle. There was no unrefined ambience, and it was white as whole. Was it decorated with decorative stone or something? Far from being intimidating, it make the castle looked rather elegant.