Jialan was a little embarrassed. Alan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered him "pretending to sleep" on the bench before, and immediately understood something. She looked at Jialan's wrinkled robe with sympathy, and said gently: "You haven't found a place to live yet? How about I take you to the hotel where I live? Although it's a little small and a little old, it only costs two silver jims a day. There is still a week before school starts. You will get sick if you sleep on the bench all the time!" "Don't worry! I can lend you a gold talan and five silver jims first, and you can pay me back after school starts. By then, we can be assigned to dormitories and apply for student loans, so we don't have to worry about having no place to live!" Seeing that Jialan was a little surprised, the kind Alan smiled and continued: "I can also introduce you to the tavern where I work part-time. You can earn three silver jims a day, and there are two meals! It can save a lot of money and it will be no problem to make it until school starts!" Jialan smiled bitterly. In fact, he lacked more than just accommodation fees. He rolled his eyes and suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, let's go to the magic market and have a look!"

Since it's a "magic market", spell materials can definitely be bought there, right? Maybe he can use his skills to earn tuition fees in seven days!

Although there is a saying in the world of arcane magic that "poor people should not touch magic", because learning magic costs a lot of money and resources.

But in Jialan's era, although the profession of wizard is always short of money, it is also one of the richest people in the world. After all, things related to spells are always associated with "expensive".

The two decided to go to the market and walked along the avenue of paulownia trees in the college, leaving the classmates who were busy arranging "Komag University" and walked towards the "magic market" outside the college.

[Kolanbang] is a peninsula with an area of about 26,000 square kilometers, about 100 kilometers away from [Kolanburg] in Jialan's era.

However, Alan told Jialan that [Kolanburg] had become a ruin in the great earthquake more than 1,700 years ago, and the oldest city in the [Kingdom of Zilargo] no longer exists. The Cape Forest, which was originally just a mangrove forest, has now become a new center of civilization.

Although the earthquake buried the previous civilization underground, the survivors still inherited some of the legacy of the previous civilization, so [Kolanbang] has become one of the famous academic centers in the "New World".

[Kolan City], with "Kolanbang Public Magic University" as its core, is a typical college city. There is no government army here, but because there are many magicians, it is very safe and no one dares to make trouble.

[Kolan City] has two management systems, one in the college and one outside the college, both of which want to use the resources of "Kolan University".

[Kolan City] is in the middle of [Cape Peninsula], close to the sea, so there are many private research laboratories and commercial institutions. Although [Kolanbang] is not as good as [Tolanbang] in business and its resources are not as good as [Zoranbang], it has many magic specialties, so it has attracted many professional guilds and mercenary groups to build branches here.

There are more than 1.7 million people here, most of whom live near [Kolan City] and [Kolan Port] as "outer cities". Because there are many races here and there is no government control, the public security is a bit chaotic. But because there are magicians from "Magic University", everyone still dare not be too arrogant.

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Jialan and Alan are "outsiders" and dare not go to the outer city with poor public security, so they only went to the magic business district outside the academy where public security is relatively good.

"Oh my god! What are these smoking things?"

As soon as he left the quiet college area and entered the market, Jia Lan was stunned by the endless flow of vehicles on the streets of [Kolan City].

Various strange machines were driving around on the streets, "Bagu! Bagu!", with noisy voices, and the air was filled with white steam and thick smoke, as well as the smell of coal ash, which made Jia Lan unable to adapt to it all of a sudden.

Alan saw Jia Lan looking at the cars curiously, and said with a smile: "These steam locomotives made by the Goblin Chamber of Commerce are amazing, right? I was also shocked when I saw them for the first time! I heard that only rich people can afford this kind of horseless car."

"Goblin steam locomotive? Is the high goblin civilization revived again?"

Jia Lan remembered that [Kingdom of Zirago] was the site of the ancient high goblin civilization [Dakkan Goblin Empire], and perhaps the high goblin civilization really revived on this land.

Before Jia Lan recovered from his surprise, a round aircraft like a huge olive suddenly appeared in the sky, which stunned him again. Looking at the ship dock at Kolan Port in the distance, you can still see many aircrafts slowly rising and landing.

Alan walked for a long time before she found that Jialan had not caught up. She turned back to look for it, then jumped back, looked up at the aircraft in the sky, and asked Jialan curiously: "Jialan, haven't you seen the dwarf airship? This is the most famous flying tool in our Zirako Continent... Oh, yes, you said you are from Donglu, don't you have this in the Eastern Islands?"

Jialan retracted her dazed eyes and smiled awkwardly, but didn't know how to answer. The "Eastern Land" he said was not the same as the Eastern Islands she said. He could only say: "In my hometown, such aircraft are indeed rare..."

Can they not be rare?

The only aircrafts that Jialan has seen are floating towers and floating cities. However, those huge floating buildings are not as flexible and convenient as these aircrafts.

Jialan tried to stop thinking about these novel things and walked into the bustling market with Alan. He was deeply shocked by the new technology of this era.

It turned out that although the great destruction and civilization rupture had occurred, this era was not as backward as he thought. People developed new magical technologies on the basis of the original ones and had their own unique civilization characteristics.

In some aspects, some technologies of this era even surpassed the previous ones. In Jia Lan's era, except for the ancient teleportation arrays left over from the ancient times, there were no convenient means of transportation such as "Goblin Steam Locomotive" and "Dwarf Airship".

While chatting with Alan, Jia Lan observed the environment of this era. There were still "old-fashioned" means of transportation such as carriages and various beasts of burden on the road, and most people still walked or rode horses.

In other words, those magical "Goblin Steam Locomotive" and "Dwarf Airship" were only luxury goods for the rich, and ordinary people had not used them yet. This shows that the new technology of this era is still in its infancy and has not yet been popularized in the lives of ordinary people.

Judging from the current situation, the civilization rupture caused by the great destruction has prevented the knowledge of people in this era from recovering to the previous level. However, on the basis of existing knowledge, they have developed new things by themselves, and they are getting more and more powerful. In the future, maybe a knowledge system with its own characteristics that is different from the past can be formed.

Jia Lan, who originally looked down on the fact that Komo University only taught those incomplete and error-ridden elemental sub-schools, no longer dared to look down on them. He began to respect the mages, scholars, and researchers of this era.