Struggle in the Steam Age

After being urged by his old father to marry, Lawrence also realized the inadequacy of his previous thinking. Therefore, after the Earl's Mansion was completed two weeks later, the wedding was naturally put on the schedule.

According to the original plan, the Earl's Mansion should not be completed until a year later. But because of the recent wave of immigrants and the influx of wealth, with sufficient manpower and equipment, the mansion was naturally completed ahead of schedule.

More importantly, after this period of construction, the entire island has changed from a remote and wild island to a pearl in the southeast of the Sea of ​​Stars, making the entire sea area appear prosperous.

Although from the perspective of the nobility, it is indeed a big problem that Lawrence does not have a legal heir now. But considering Lawrence's religious status and relationship with Nora, this situation is not too much of a problem.

Because even if he doesn't have his own children now, with the backing of a formal church, he can naturally maintain the continuity of all policies on the island without any problems.

Although according to the tradition, this kind of wedding is not suitable for inviting too many outsiders, but Lawrence, who wants to give Safir a grand wedding to make up for the lack of engagement, naturally has a compromise.

So at the wedding, not only did Nora show up in person and create some miraculous audio-visual effects to send her blessings, but at the same time, those islanders who got a holiday because of Lawrence's marriage also stood by the roadside and cheered. Congratulations to them.

For Lawrence, life after marriage is not much different from before marriage. As for the issue of heirs, he is not in a hurry for the time being. After all, the higher the extraordinary level in this world, the harder it is for a creature to reproduce, especially for a warlock like Lawrence whose power comes from blood.

For example, in some warlock families with a long heritage, there are many cases where no children can be born after more than ten or twenty years of marriage.

Therefore, the retainers who were well aware of this situation did not urge Lawrence overtly or secretly in this regard.

After all, this matter is not something that can be urged, and more importantly, with Lawrence's religious power, even if there is really no heir, he can turn this territory into a church territory, and then everything will continue as usual.

So under this premise, Lawrence finally stopped his busy pace temporarily and ushered in the first long vacation that he could completely relax after coming to this world.

Although it is not suitable for him as a lord and head of the church to leave the island too far alone, there are many places where people can relax around New Sauer.

So Lawrence made a very good vacation plan, and planned to take this opportunity to spend a quiet honeymoon with Safir.

As a result, the honeymoon was only halfway through, and Nora came out of her divine kingdom with a nervous expression on her face, and then found Lawrence and asked him to do something.

"Please, I'm only resting for a month. What's the urgent matter that requires all the people to mobilize?" Lawrence looked at her helplessly and asked after finding out that it was the doll who came to the door.

"I'm sorry, my lord, it's really embarrassing to interrupt your honeymoon, but what happened to me now is likely that the two of us have a very close relationship."

After hearing what Nora said, Lawrence also realized the importance of the current situation, so he quickly greeted Safir and left the beautiful golden beach on New Sauer Island.

When Lawrence changed his clothes and got on the carriage to the Earl's Mansion. In this way, Nora explained to Lawrence what she had encountered this time while floating across his seat.

"A while ago, jackals that I had never seen appeared in my kingdom of God. After questioning, I realized that those jackals came from the central part of Yanzhou, the main plane."

"Central Yanzhou!?" Lawrence showed a shocked expression. Because of his life experience since he was a child, he will prepare in advance and summarize afterwards as long as he is able to do things.

For example, after Lawrence and the others found the astral plane, he specifically mobilized the resources at hand to inquire about a series of knowledge about jackals, and gained an understanding of this race.

Jackals are an intelligent race with a small population, and they experienced the dawn of civilization almost at the same time as humans. In the era of the ancient Nile civilization, they, together with humans and dwarves, constituted the core race of that civilization.

However, after the invasion of the lower planes induced by large-scale natural disasters in the later period of the ancient Nile civilization completely destroyed this civilization, the jackals who grew up with this civilization also suffered a fatal blow in the disaster.

Moreover, unlike the humans and dwarves of the Nile civilization, the jackals mainly settled near Amarna, the capital of the Nile civilization. And the center of this catastrophe is Amarna.

In the conspiracy that destroyed the entire Nile civilization, the power from the lower space colluded with the fallen nobles and used a cruel and evil blood sacrifice to completely destroy the core of this civilization.

After losing the ruling core, a civil war broke out in the decayed Nile civilization at that time. In turn, the blood and souls of the dead summoned more evil beings.

In the end, the entire civilization was destroyed in the flames of war and civilization, and at the same time most of the living land was also destroyed by various evil and death forces.

Naturally, the intelligent creatures living on this land have to migrate to other places in order to continue to thrive, instead of completely disappearing in the long river of history.

Unlike humans, dwarves or other minorities. At that time, the jackal villages, which were the core of the warrior class of the Nile civilization, were basically all distributed in the core area of ​​the disaster, so they lost seven or eight layers of strength in the first place.

In the ensuing civil war, as the main force of the war, it was difficult for them to stay out of the matter, and then they were further severely weakened in the bloody civil war.

So when the power of evil and death began to expand, eroding the fertile and peaceful land little by little and forcing the previous settlers to leave, the overall power of the jackals was no longer less than 5% of the original.

To make matters worse, the jackals who had lost their leadership core due to the fall of the capital at this time were distributed throughout the Nile River Basin in a very fragmented state, so their escape route was naturally fragmented and independent.

According to the information that Lawrence can find now, the jackals at that time had two main choices. One of them was to go east into the emerging civilization of Nineveh and survive as a minority.

The other is scattered all the way west along the series of fertile coastal plains on the southern shore of the Earthsea. The state of one small tribe after another in the early days was restored.

These two jackal groups still exist today, but they have basically forgotten everything about their ancestors and are no different from the local people.

Especially after the god Habi was hit hard and fell in that accident, they quickly gave up their original beliefs and chose the same beliefs as the people around them after they found that their prayers were no longer answered.

That's why Nora didn't pay too much attention to it after she got the job of the jackal, because according to tradition, race gods can't do whatever they want with their own race, and are also bound by various rules.

Although because of the polytheistic belief, Nora can also spread her belief to the group of jackals. But in the case that the other party has the main belief, her belief is at most an auxiliary belief.

Moreover, Nora can also be sure that apart from the two groups of jackals who were scattered on both sides of the Nile River Basin back then, she has not actively contacted jackals in other areas.

Therefore, even she was baffled by the existence of these jackals that suddenly appeared from the central area of ​​Yanzhou.