Angel opened the first page of the book and, to his surprise, saw a map of the Eternal Night Kingdom.
In the Golden Sparrow Empire, maps of any kind were absolute military secrets. Anyone outside the military who obtained one, even by accident, would be severely punished. Yet on the very first page of this book, the map had been laid out openly and generously. From elevations to basins, even the figures were recorded in exhaustive detail.
So was the Eternal Night Kingdom's military strength so formidable that it feared no challenge, or had the Prosperous Continent become so peaceful that nations could exchange what they had without war ever breaking out?
The Eternal Night Kingdom's territory resembled a turtle turning over. Judging by the scale marked in the lower-left corner of the map, Angel was astonished to discover that the small Eternal Night Kingdom was several times larger than the Old Earth Continent! Angel continued reading. What followed was an introduction to the Eternal Night Kingdom. It was one of the nations in the Southern Region of the Prosperous Continent, and among the various great powers, its territory was not considered large.
Not even large among the many great powers of the Southern Region?! Angel suddenly felt that the people of the Prosperous Continent had good reason to call the "Old Earth Continent" Edge Island. Compared with the "small nation" of the Eternal Night Kingdom, wasn't the Old Earth Continent merely a modest island?
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Angel also noticed that the map of the Eternal Night Kingdom contained transportation routes stretching in all directions. At first, he thought they were official roads, but after reading the labels to the right, he realized that a large portion of them were railway lines for steam trains.
The emergence of steam trains meant