The Arrogant Heroine Was Too Overbearing, So I Immediately Switched Sides to Become the Traitor-Chapter 39 - The Eternal City

Sylvie’s driving style was the complete opposite of Isabella’s. Compared to the beautiful girl’s “wildness,” flooring the accelerator and feeling the rush of extreme speed. Sylvie drove slower than a grandmother, carefully and cautiously moving forward slowly on the road, causing impatient honking sounds from behind from time to time.

Even. It gave Evan the illusion that walking would be faster than riding in Sylvie’s car.

Seven Gods Academy was located directly north of the United Empire’s imperial capital—the Eternal City—echoing the pure white royal castle in the distance. At this moment, sitting in the passenger seat, Evan could still see in the rearview mirror. The seven-colored high tower soaring into the sky within Seven Gods Academy, and the brilliant Seven Gods Church.

And after leaving the academy. They entered the “Castle District,” the core of the Eternal City.

The buildings here were mostly classical, without tall buildings. Instead, there were three to four-story manors, castles, and continuous villas and churches. Between each building, there were considerable courtyard spaces. They were mostly mottled, filled with traces left by the years.

But. The housing prices here were the highest in the entire Eternal City. Evan remembered that an ordinary office worker in the United Empire earned about three thousand gold dragons per month. Even if they saved for ten years without eating or drinking, it would be difficult to buy a toilet in the Castle District.

Hmm... And it was the conventional kind, a small toilet less than ten square meters. Because in reality, the toilets inside these manors, villas, and actual small castles in the Castle District started at least several tens of square meters. Many extravagant nobles would even use pure gold to cast their toilets. Or inlay them with various precious gems, etc.

That wasn’t a matter of ten years’ salary for an office worker, but probably ten lifetimes.

Along both sides of the roads throughout the Castle District. Trees like plane trees, hackberries, and locust trees were planted. The shadows of their branches and leaves scattered.

There was almost no public transportation on the streets, neither buses nor subways or anything else, not even taxis. Because those living in the Castle District were basically nobles of distinguished status or major merchants of the imperial capital. They naturally had private cars for travel and didn’t need public transportation.

There were few pedestrians on the streets. Only occasionally would elegant nobles, surrounded by numerous servants, stroll or walk their dogs on the street—of course, not limited to dogs. At least Evan saw lions, bears, leopards, pythons, and even some strange and bizarre monsters.

Some nobles were accustomed to riding horses adorned with colorful heraldic armor through the streets. Shops could only be seen occasionally along the long streets. Most were high-end restaurants and cafes, as well as large theaters performing symphonies and operas. In the distance, there was also a circular “Colosseum.”

If Evan had been born two hundred years earlier, he could have watched slaves fighting to the death against each other inside. However, with the development of the Empire, such uncivilized performances had been abandoned. Now the Colosseum had become the only “commoner attraction” open to the public in the Castle District.

Evan also saw. Almost every time the car passed a block, at the street corner, he could see knights on motorcycles or armored vehicles, fully armed, wearing magnificent armor from head to toe. These members of the knightly orders usually painted their order’s emblem on their motorcycles or armored vehicles and patrolled the Castle District day and night. They were responsible for protecting the safety of this area and expelling any other people who came to the Castle District.

Hmm. The kind that could directly use the long swords or pistols at their waists for armed expulsion. These knightly orders were mostly funded directly by the major nobles or merchants of the Castle District, so they could also be regarded as private armed forces guarding the Castle District. They even operated outside the laws of the Empire.

And when Sylvie continued to drive her little supercar slowly through countless long streets. Gradually. Tall buildings in the distance began to come into Evan’s view. The two were about to reach the “Urban District” of the Eternal City.

Compared to the Castle District just now. This place was countless times more prosperous. Amidst the heavy traffic, the surging crowds stretched as far as the eye could see.

Once here, Sylvie couldn’t drive fast even if she wanted to, because the traffic was simply too congested. Through the car window, Evan could see crowded buses on the side, as well as countless pedestrian overpasses and underpasses. The underpasses were connected to the entire city’s subway network.

It could be said. The Urban District was the true center of the Eternal City. Occupying roughly the same area as the entire Castle District, it housed hundreds of times more citizens than the Castle District.

When Sylvie finally managed to drive out of the most prosperous commercial area of the Urban District and proceed onto a less crowded road, the tall buildings on both sides were gradually left behind the car.

Evan noticed that Sylvie showed no signs of stopping, but continued driving forward until the surrounding pedestrians became fewer and fewer, and the houses changed from technologically advanced tall buildings to low-slung bungalows and clearly self-built, crudely made single-story brick houses.

At a certain traffic light intersection, Evan noticed two black armored vehicles parked on the left and right sides of Sylvie’s little supercar. A stout middle-aged knight got out of one of the vehicles.

He wore a blue and white breastplate, a felt hat with the knightly order’s emblem, and had no long sword symbolizing status at his waist, replaced instead by a shotgun slung behind his back. Clearly, despite being a knightly order, their equipment was far inferior to their “colleagues” in the Castle District.

Evan knew the other party was from one of the knightly orders in the Urban District. Unlike their colleagues in the Castle District, they belonged to the Empire and were funded by the imperial treasury, responsible for maintaining safety and stability within the Urban District.

The middle-aged knight was visibly very nervous. After getting out of the car, he proactively came forward, knocked on Sylvie’s side window glass, waiting until the girl rolled down the window.

“Good afternoon, ma’am.” Trying hard to put on a standard smile, the middle-aged knight spoke softly in a gentle and appropriate tone. “Are you planning to continue driving forward?”

“Yes.” Sylvie nodded.

And Evan, at this moment, could clearly feel the middle-aged knight’s tension.

“The Outer Street is just ahead. It’s very unsafe for a lady like you to go to such a place. It’s full of sons of bitches... sorry, it’s a place where unemployed vagrants and delinquents gather.”

“It’s alright, I’m just going to take a look.”

“Alright, if you insist.” Rubbing his hands. The middle-aged knight politely stepped back and saluted Sylvie.

Then Evan noticed that when the girl’s car actually drove into the area ahead called the “Outer Street,” the two armored vehicles carrying knights always maintained a certain distance, following far behind them. It seemed they planned to protect him and Sylvie’s safety, ready to respond to any possible accidents.

Tsk tsk tsk. It’s really good to be rich. Evan lamented inwardly. It was obvious that they were being so diligent only because they noticed the girl’s little supercar was expensive, and its owner must be of noble status.