Zero no Tsukaima:Volume14 Chapter6
Chapter 6: Tiger Highway
Being called ‘Gallia’s spine’ of the Fire Dragon Mountain, the eastern end of the location is extremely interesting. In the north-south direction from the watershed, Gallia and Romalia's border is divided into two.
At the bottom of the Fire Dragon Mountain, on a piece of the land facing the sea lays Akeleiya Street (艾克蕾亚之街).
It exists as a street, north-south of the Fire Dragon Mountain.
That is known as the 'tiger highway', a narrow street located in the valley that is up to more than 10 leagues long in a straight line.
Thousands of years ago, mages created it by taking advantage of the ground crack (地层断裂), (up to ten leagues long).
Eastern Romalia is the only way to get to Gallia so the streets are often crowded with merchants and travelers.
Left and right of this street are huge cliffs; there is no difference even at night.
When this street was built, there are tigers even in the darkest of days……man-eating tigers coming and going. The crusade team had to be organized again and again. When there were no more tigers to be seen in this street, rumours of bandits running amok was spread.
People who cross this street, see bandits and the former man-eating tiger as the same, giving ‘tiger highway’ its name.
However, there is stability in the border now, even robbers rarely appear. Only occasionally some very hungry bandits with no choice will patronise with no gloomy impression of the past.
Spots on both side of the street lighted up a long line of fire, TBA
‘Tiger Highway’ is one of Hal Genia main roads, a symbol of Romalia’s prosperity. On this street around Gallia’s customs, there seems to be some sort of dispute.
“What? Closed? Mr. (Chaiyi), what’s happening?”
In front of crowds of merchants and travellers, the big door was closed tightly.
“Cannot cross means cannot cross, just wait obediently for the release command”
A merchant squeezed out.
“Hey, wait, if the shipment cannot be shipped to Romalia tomorrow night, then I may suffer a loss, are you going to compensate me?”
“Don’t talk nonsense”
(街道的利用者们把差役层层围住。)
“The Third Annual Enthronement Ceremony of the pope is coming to an end. Do you know how long I have waited for this day?”
"My fiancée is sick, I want to see her!"
A staff officer said.
“We don’t care so much. We just listen to the orders passed to us from the higher ups. For this reason, please understand”
The crowd looked at each other; at that moment……a knight came so fast that the horse could not stop in time, got surrounded by the customs people.
“Emergency report. Emergency report.”
“What happened?”
“Two(栖舰队) has rebel and are currently entering ‘tiger highway’”
Rebel? Enter?
“Don’t joke about rebellion, that kind of thing”
The knight did not reply. Instead, he looked to the sky. From the northwest corner…there were some black spots, getting bigger.
“T-two(栖舰队)!”
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