Several centuries ago, Duke Guillaume, the founding grand duke of Fars, led a great army across the sea, completed the seventh conquest and third unification of the Inglima Three Islands, and established the Red Dragon Dynasty. Thus, the governmental system of the Empire of Inglima was eighty or ninety percent similar to that of the Empire of Fars.
These two naval captains of the Empire of Inglima were both fifth-grade warrant officers of the twentieth rank. The older one was around thirty-five and was called James Cook, while the younger was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight and was called Francis Drake.
Both were High-Order Transcendents. The Ocean Battle Qi surging through their bodies was scarcely inferior to that of Anne's cousin, Kreil Brittany.
Their flagships were also large warships of the Empire of Inglima's latest design, built only in recent years, with fierce firepower and superior performance.
Although the Old Continent's overall technological level resembled that of Earth during World War I, science had never developed there. Instead, alchemy had risen, and this was a world of Transcendence. Thus, just as land transportation still relied on horse-drawn carriages, warships at sea had become sharply polarized.
Most merchant ships and ordinary warships were still wooden sailing vessels, and their cannons were relatively outdated, with ranges of only a few thousand Pimi.
However, the five major empires of the Old Continent spared no expense in their struggle for dominance over the seas, and the large warships they built with the finest alchemy were another matter altogether.
These Alchemical Warships already somewhat resembled the heavily armed, heavily armored vessels of World War I. Most of their hulls were covered in steel armor, they had at least two or three Transcendent-level Magical Alchemical Cannons, and their power came from Magical Power Sources that Charlotte still