For people living in the Old World, there has never been a conclusion about how big the Old World is. There have been a large number of adventurers, geologists, and cartographers who have adventured around the continent more than once, surveyed and mapped the continent, and calculated the area of ​​the continent.

, but what is puzzling is that each of them has different mapping results, some are larger and some are smaller. This situation even happened to two scholars in the same adventure team. It feels like they have different perceptions of the size of the continent.

There were problems.

This is not only true for the entire Old Continent, but also for the land area, border locations, etc. of each country in the continent. There are also deviations. There is no unified and accurate answer. Therefore, so many conflicts have broken out in the Old Continent.

Half of the wars and wars originate from issues of land area and borders.

However, the so-called territorial issues are generally not a problem in front of powerful countries. For a regional power such as the Kingdom of Teresa, its national boundaries are completely designated according to its standards, and the surrounding countries are only eligible to obey.

But the vast majority of such powerful countries come from the east and west sides of the continent, close to the coastal areas. However, in the mountainous north of the continent and the densely forested south, no one has appeared in so many years that has influence on the entire northern region.

There are not even powerful countries in small regions.

The southern continent is relatively better, because the barrier of the primitive jungle has separated most of the southern countries. The so-called national border is an entire stretch of uninhabited primitive jungle where wild beasts are rampant. A little less or a little more does not matter.

the difference.

But most of the northern continent is mountainous. Although these mountainous areas have barren land, dangerous roads, and are not suitable for human habitation, there are a large number of mineral deposits in these mountains, and most of these mineral deposits are open-pit mines that are easy to mine.

The initial political structure of the northern continent was an alliance established by individual mine owners. Only after countless collapses and reorganizations, countries were finally formed. Regardless of what kind of beliefs these northern countries have or what ethnic groups their citizens are.

, the economic pillars supporting these countries are without exception various metals, gems and various raw material mines.

Because of this, these countries attach great importance to the mineral deposits they control. In order to occupy newly discovered mineral deposits, it is not uncommon for them to deliberately modify their national borders and then go to war with other countries. It has almost become the norm for various northern countries.

The behavior of these countries has also caused other countries in the Old Continent to ridicule these countries with mocking words such as "Any agreement signed by these countries can be thrown away like toilet paper" when referring to the mountainous countries in the north of the continent.

Behavior.

After Leo left the Middle Kingdom, he entered the countries in the northern continent. Although he had a clear understanding of the mountain countries in the northern continent from various materials, it was only after he actually entered these mountain countries that he

I learned that the descriptions of these countries in those materials were not exaggerated at all, let alone discriminatory, and were even suspected of beautification.

If the Old Continent is divided according to the level of civilization, the countries on the east and west continents are the most enlightened and have the highest level of civilization, followed by the Middle Kingdom and surrounding countries, which are equivalent to feudal kingdoms. The countries on the southern continent are more like primitive societies and state systems.

It is still established according to the oldest lord system, and the overall thing is more like a tribal civilization.

The countries in the northern part of the continent are completely like uncivilized barbarians. There are only two things they love to do every day, robbery and drinking.

Leo saw more than fifty robberies along the way, seven of which were led by local noble lords to rob passing caravans. The caravans traveling to the northern continent seemed to be used to this.

When they encounter robbers, they are either killed by the robbers, or they kill all the robbers, and the robbers disguised as noble lords are no exception.

If a noble lord in other places is captured, he can redeem it through ransom and other methods. But if a noble lord here is captured, his position will be immediately replaced by his direct descendants. If there are no direct descendants, he will be directly replaced by his direct descendants.

A successor was selected from among the strongest nobles in the territory, so no one would be willing to redeem a former lord. Even if they redeemed him, they would kill him on the spot and use it as a sacrifice to the gods.

The robbers that can be seen everywhere are one of the characteristics of the mountainous country in the northern continent, and another characteristic is also very special, which is the underground evil god church.

Along the way, although the big cities in the northern mountainous countries all have temples and churches of the True God Church, outside the big cities, in the mountains and villages, the Evil God Church has an absolute advantage, which is different from other places.

, the evil churches in these villages and towns preach openly, and often the entire town is a believer.

Leo once secretly observed the process of a sacrificial ceremony performed by the Evil God Church in one of the towns. This Evil God calls himself the God of the Earth, and its church power is not small among the many underground Evil God churches in the Old Continent. It is considered one of the primitive religions in the Old Continent.

one.

The sacrifice ceremony in that town was mainly to pray for a good harvest in the coming year, and their sacrifice was not to sacrifice animals, but to sacrifice living people. The person selected as the sacrifice was a death row prisoner, and while they were making sacrifices,

, and also engaged in some passionate activities that were considered extremely evil, which is one of the main reasons why the Church of the God of the Earth is considered a cult.

What's interesting is that during this sacrifice, the so-called God of the Earth did appear at the sacrifice site, and even possessed one of his followers to perform certain celestial movements.

At that time, Leo almost couldn't help but want to catch the incarnation of the God of the Earth alive with his tentacles, and keep it by his side to study the mysteries of the god. Because the power of the God of the Earth was not strong, Leo was completely sure that he would be able to capture it.

capture.

But in the end, he resisted this impulse because he discovered that the God of the Earth might be inextricably linked to the Earth Mother in the Shadow World, because the fluctuations of divine power emitted by the God of Earth were the same as the fluctuations of the Divine Power of the Earth Mother in the Shadow World.

They are so similar that they can almost be regarded as the same divine power.

After giving up on capturing the incarnation of the Earth God, Leo also discovered that the evil god's sacrifice ceremony in front of him seemed extremely evil even if it used human sacrifice and carried out some passionate activities.

Compared with the evil rituals performed by believers of the evil god, they seem so insignificant, and even judging from the casualties caused by the ritual, they are even better than some religious rituals of the true god church.

It is not difficult to see from some of the sacrificial rituals performed by the God of the Earth that these underground evil gods also know the importance of believers’ tribes. Almost most religious rituals are related to livelihood and fertility. In this way, they help believers to establish themselves in the northern community.

Surviving the harsh environment of the mountains and multiplying and preparing believers in large numbers is completely different from the evil events that are full of destruction, death, and destruction led by these evil churches in other parts of the mainland.

Leo suddenly became curious about the underground cults in the northern mountainous countries, so he delayed for a few days and secretly observed the activities of several Evil God churches. In the end, he could not distinguish between the True God Church and the Evil God Church.

The difference is huge because there are so many similarities between the two.

It was precisely because of Leo's delay for these few days that his original plan to follow the snowfield caravan to Movit Road was cancelled, because when he passed through the northern mountains and entered the snowfield boundary, all the snowfield caravans were waiting.

Having already set off, in the end Leo had to go alone.

Leo did not know the exact location of the Belmont family's migration place. When he was in his territory, Duke Belmont did not tell him. The reason why he determined that the Belmont family's migration place was among the extremely low mountains north of the snowfield

, because he sensed that Sylvia's position was here.

However, I don’t know if it is because of the interference of some mysterious forces hidden in the extremely low mountains in the north, or because there is a problem with the spiritual mark he left in Sylvia’s body. In short, he has no idea about Sylvia’s position.

After entering the snowfield, his induction became a little unclear. He could only sense a rough direction, and it was also a little erratic, as if Sylvia was moving. This also made him feel confused several times after entering the snowfield.

I got lost every time and wasted a lot of time. In the end, I didn't even get out of the snowfield before the black storm that ravaged the snowfield arrived.

After encountering the black storm, Leo originally had no intention of finding a suitable refuge to avoid the black storm. After all, this kind of black storm, which is extremely dangerous to ordinary people, has no great lethality in Leo's place, and is about the same as a breeze.

But while he was on the road, memorizing the books scanned in the universal recorder, the universal recorder suddenly received a signal. This signal should have originated from an alien spacecraft, and Leo did not recognize the message displayed on the universal recorder.

Signal text.

To this end, Leo tracked the signal position through a universal recorder, and finally came to Palm Rock, a signal that is quite famous in the snowfield.

Through the mental network scan, Leo discovered that the hill that looked like a huge palm was actually a fallen subspace interstellar spacecraft. What was even more amazing was that the entire spacecraft was still intact, even the spacecraft's subspace engine.

It is not broken and is still running normally. This is why there is heat underground in Palm Rock. The geothermal heat that melts ice and snow all comes from the subspace engine.

This spaceship is very advanced in Leo's opinion. It is many times more advanced than the best spaceships in the Earth Federation. Moreover, the spacecraft is also equipped with interference devices for psykers. With Leo's powerful side as an eighth-level psyker,

There was still nothing he could do to interfere with this device. In the end, his scanning only scanned the outermost layer of the spacecraft.

Different from the initial judgment, after scanning the surface of the spacecraft and analyzing it, it was found that the spacecraft did not fall to the ground, so there was no damage to the spacecraft as a whole due to the impact, and the spacecraft can still remain intact after so many years, at least Leo

No obvious damage was seen in the scanned areas, which surprised Leo.

What was even more surprising was that he had no idea what the material used to make the spaceship was. On the surface, it looked like rock, but if you really thought that the spacecraft was made of rock, you would be a fool.

In any case, this spacecraft cannot be manufactured by a medium-sized cosmic civilization, so there may be some secrets from advanced cosmic civilizations hidden in this spacecraft.

While Leo was curious about the spaceship, he also felt a little hesitant to explore the spacecraft because he could feel that there was something threatening him in the spacecraft, and the intensity of this threat was not much worse than that of the wizard tower.

At that time, he was thinking about finding someone to make a pathfinder. As a result, his bonfire was seen by bandits who were also avoiding the black storm, and they rushed over to take over the bonfire. As for Leo, he tried to use what he had just learned.

His witchcraft hides his sense of existence, as if he has disappeared in front of these people.

After that, Leo thought about finding a suitable opportunity to let these bandits know that the Palm Rock behind him contained a treasure, and leaked the entrance to them, so that they could become his pathfinder.

As a result, before Leo could take action, he felt a powerful presence coming from the outskirts of the woods, and then he saw Philoria riding an ice bear.

Leo felt a little curious about Filoria. This curiosity was not because of her status as a war bear priest, nor because of her companion beast ice bear, but because Leo felt a trace of whiteness in Filoria.

The scent of deer.

Leo is no stranger to the War Bear Priest. On his way into the snowfield, he accidentally encountered a tribe living in the snowfield, and that tribe also had a War Bear Priest. However, because of his age, this War Bear

The priest's companion beast, the ice bear, was already very old, and the aura of power that Leo felt from this war bear priest was more of an ice-like energy fluctuation.

Now, in addition to feeling the flow of ice energy in Filoria, Leo also felt the special natural force from the white deer operating in her body, and this natural force he only felt in the tree demon.

I've felt it in my body.

It was precisely because of the curiosity and doubts caused by the natural power in Philoria that Leo was not able to stop Philoria in time to eliminate all the bandits he planned to use as a pathfinder.

However, it doesn't matter even if there is no pathfinder stone, Leo has found a better substitute. This substitute is the Philoria in front of him, or more accurately, the natural force in Philoria's body.

force.

So after introducing himself, Leo asked directly: "This palm rock contains the treasure of an ancient civilization. Are you interested in exploring it together? Priest Philoria."

"What did you say? Treasure?" Upon hearing Leo's question, Philoria was stunned. She looked at Leo dumbfounded, as if Leo's question just now was some shocking question.

After returning to normal, he couldn't help but wonder: "Mr. Leo Dodd, are you sure you know what you are talking about?"
Chapter completed!