"Just as I thought?"
Meng Chao rubbed the bridge of his nose with a headache.
Ice Storm's conclusion was more or less the same as his own.
Although, in the memories of his previous life, the social landscape of the Holy Light Land was virtually indistinguishable from the Middle Ages of the Earth Era.
It looked as though it would be easily crushed beneath the Iron Torrent of the post-industrial age.
But one must not forget that this was a world with Superhuman Power.
Neither the Holy Light Civilization nor the Turan Civilization was the first civilization on this planet known as the Otherworld.
As early as the primordial era billions of years ago, the "Ancients" had created a magnificent and brilliant super-civilization here.
They had even engineered primordial ferocious beasts like the "Mother," which stood at the very pinnacle of Carbon-Based Intelligent Life.
Although the "Ancients" and the "Mother" seemed to have perished together.
Their legacy still nourished all living beings born upon or arriving on this planet over the billions of years since.
The humanoid Carbon-Based Intelligent Life currently active in the Holy Light Land might already have belonged to the third, fourth, or even the umpteenth generation of civilizations born over billions of years.
Even if the Holy Light Civilization itself had only developed to a historical stage resembling Earth's Middle Ages.
The Holy Light Land surely retained a vast number of ruins from previous and even earlier civilizations.
Just as Planetary Surface Short-Range Warp Devices—Teleportation Arrays—could occasionally be discovered in the seemingly barbaric Turanze.
With the blessings of preceding civilizations, the Holy Light Faction could very well possess a technological advantage of several centuries over Earthlings in certain fields.
Right, there were also mages.
From fragments of his memories of his previous life, Meng Chao had