Ninth Era, Covenant Era The spring of 2153--Fourth Continent, Gale Season The sixth year.
After two years of war against the west, Mage Alliance had cleaned up all the forces, large and small, in this treacherous mountainous area. Some of them had been killed, surrendered, or directly conquered and absorbed. Since then, there was no force in this area to hinder Mage Alliance. They also expanded their sphere of influence and began to develop this area that had been barren for thousands of years.
From the perspective of the entire Fourth Continent geography, the vast plains in the east are suitable for living. The climate there is mild and there are Cloud Sea Great Port connections to other continents.
Although Mage Alliance is currently the strongest force in the Fourth Continent the Alliance, in the history of the Fourth Continent, the eastern region was more often stronger and richer.
The north of the continent is the windward area, because the entire continent is carried forward on the back of a giant snake, and under the Cloud Sea, the head of the giant snake is in the north, so a large amount of airflow also comes from the north, and a large amount of moisture in the airflow will also form heavy rain or hail, and finally accumulate into many, forming Ice Sea on the north side of the continent.
Compared with the west, the living environment in the north is more dangerous. If there are many primitive tribal races on the south side of the Ice Sea, then only Blood Clan can stay on the north side of the Ice Sea.
Across Meteor Lake is the vast southern forest and grassland. The terrain here is varied, with mountains and valleys as well as hilly plains. The complex terrain divides the southern part of the continent into many countries of different sizes, and has also given birth to many factions and organizations with different styles and characteristics.
In the early days of Ninth Era, Fourth Continent did not have a large force the Alliance. If there was one, it should be Trade Federation in the eastern region. It was an organizational framework used by many factions in the eastern region to trade resources and negotiate issues, and it did not have strong integration capabilities.
The predecessor of the Mage Alliance, that is, some scholar organizations in the central part of the mainland, gradually gained development in the process of disseminating and exchanging knowledge and doctrines.
At first, like the current Candlekeep School", they existed as aides or technical advisors to the nobles. However, a group of schools focused on archeology, the predecessors of the Origin Hourglass" faction, gradually excavated and interpreted the past history, and gradually mastered the powerful Secret Speech"Aspect Power" rules in the process.
This makes them no longer have to rely on the power of Castle" laws shared or given by the kingdom's nobles, and they have gained strong independent abilities. Moreover, Secret Speech"Aspect Power's advantage lies in inheritance and education. They can completely pass on all kinds of secret knowledge, as well as the complete understanding and details of the advancement process, and make corrections and improvements from generation to generation.
With the accumulation of such experience and advantages, the strength of this school has accumulated over time and continued to increase, becoming enough to rival powerful kingdoms and able to influence and control many surrounding countries.
Inspired by this school of thought, many scholar organizations gradually imitated and learned, and also expanded and became powerful.
Finally, at a suitable opportunity, the group of scholars with archeology background gathered together many factions similar to themselves and established the original Mage Alliance.
After the establishment of the Mage Alliance, the exchanges between various internal factions became more frequent. Because they have similar learning and inheritance methods, many of their theories and secret methods can be used and learned from each other. This allowed Mage Alliance's advanced practice system to be quickly improved and gradually catch up with those ancient factions and organizations across the continent.
Faced with the rise of the Mage Alliance, other factions of the Fourth Continent also imitated it, and then came the establishment of Harp Flower Union in the east and Woodland Alliance in the south.
By Ninth Era 1156, Fourth Continent's various large forces the Alliance had been initially established, and in the following hundreds of years, they continued to expand and spread, absorbing and integrating many small forces.
As for why the western region has not been cleaned up by the Mage Alliance until now, that is because in the past, most of the people living in this area were uncivilized races. Many barbarians and Orc in the mountains could not even read and believed in primitive doctrines. It was extremely difficult to communicate without speaking. The local resources were also scarce, and there was really nothing to be greedy and envious of.
It is also now that Mage Alliance has developed many internal areas, so it has free time and spare energy to deal with this extraterritorial land.
As the western region was cleared and controlled, Mage Alliance began to send more manpower to develop and construct this area. Not only the surface part of the continent, World of Shadows in this area is also the focus of current exploration and development.
"So, this time Academy has arranged your training location in the western region that has just been under control." Standing on the podium, the teacher Thetis Academy introduced to the students below where he would like to go in the next few months.
"There, a group of teachers and I will lead you to learn about the various Magic Creature unique to the local area, see the fighting methods of local factions, and interpret and analyze them. Finally, we will lead you into the World of Shadows Exploration below the area to accumulate valuable experience for you."
The new semester has begun. During this semester, Sylutia and other second-year students will step out of the Academy and begin to come into contact with actual combat and World of Shadows Exploration.
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For adolescent students, this is much more exciting than staying in the Academy and repeatedly learning complex theoretical knowledge. Although they are all rare geniuses, they are now a little tired of those obscure knowledge theories.
"Are you really going there?" Some students couldn't believe it.
"This is simply awesome!"
"I can finally breathe some air."
"What you said is that we have just finished our winter vacation."
"I heard there are a lot of Orc and monsters in the west."
"The senior who came back from there last year also brought me a bird-man skull. That skull is just like a bird, completely different from a human being."
"They are all called birdmen. Isn't this normal?"
"That's what I say, but I'm still surprised when I see it for the first time."
Everyone was chattering and discussing. Sylutia was sitting by the classroom window and was distracted, thinking about how to apply the "Dense Rune" he had recently mastered to the work of Alchemy.
Then the teacher began to list the things that needed to be prepared for this trip, including several sets of clothing, blankets, toiletries, weapons for self-defense, mosquito repellent and medicine to treat infectious diseases, etc.
"As for the tents, food, and water needed for the journey, the Alliance officials will provide them locally."
After the enumeration and explanation, the teacher announced that get out of class was over, and the students were free to move around for the next two days to prepare the necessary supplies.
At this moment, Sylutia is still sitting in his seat, constantly calculating and writing formulas on the notebook with a pen, and also sketching the mechanical structure sketches filling the side.
Most of the students had already left, but two people came to Sylutia, watching her sketch and waiting patiently.
About ten minutes later, Sylutia finished writing down the sudden inspiration, then put down the pen and raised her gaze to look at the two people. One of them was Perin, who often assisted her in dealing with matters related to the chief. She had long gray-blue hair; the other was Imei, who wore a dark maroon single ponytail today.
"Why are you waiting for me?" She remembered that she never said anything about waiting for her or made an agreement.
"Chief Sir, let's go shopping together in the afternoon to buy the things we need. Are you free?" Perin took the initiative.
Thinking that she really needed to buy some additional things, the girl nodded and agreed.
Perin often takes the initiative to approach her. She is not surprised that Perin is waiting for her today, but it is Imei. They were just ordinary classmates before and did not communicate much.
"Me too, I hope I can go with you." Imei said slightly awkwardly.
In fact, she is usually the kind of cheerful and outgoing girl, but when facing Sylutia, she can't let go. Maybe it's because of awe. After all, she saw this girl showing off her power in Blanur with her own eyes last year.
The black hair was draped gently on her shoulders. Sylutia's beautiful eyes turned around and nodded to Imei.
"Well, let's go together." She didn't pay attention to such trivial matters. At this moment, some thoughts in her mind were still stuck on the idea just now.