The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Even though two years have passed, the residents of City of Hope still remember the grand occasion of the coronation day of Toland I, free food, free wine, jugglers from all over the world, endless carnival that lasted ten days, and even the Royal Academy of Sciences Take out the newly developed mobile video and show the video recorded during the coronation of King Tolan I to all the citizens on the Hope Plaza before the end of the carnival.

The influence of this incident at that time has not weakened until today. Although the vast majority of civilians in the Bodo Kingdom are very proud of the coronation of Tolan I and the establishment of the Bodo Kingdom, they always feel that things like the king's coronation are in harmony with the Bodo Kingdom. I don't have much to do with myself, those are just games for the upper class.

However, when the live video of the coronation ceremony was played, and everyone saw the lady in the lake appearing and putting the crown on their king's head, all the civilians of the Bodo Kingdom in Hope Plaza all felt that they were The feeling at the scene gave rise to an inexplicable sense of pride. They felt that their relationship with the Bodo royal family was no longer so far away. An invisible bond connected them to the royal family, so that when the royal guard recruited members , a large number of civilians in the Kingdom enthusiastically signed up, and in less than a day, the 5,000 places were all filled.

In addition, among these people who were caught in the carnival, some careful people discovered some abnormalities that make the City of Hope different from other places.

Although during the coronation ceremony of King Toland I and the subsequent ten-day carnival, the number of people gathered in Hope City may have reached more than one million people, and may even double, but it is strange that Hope City There was not even a wave of mutated monsters in the surrounding area, and even the mutated monsters did not appear. It was as if the wave of mutated monsters disappeared at that moment. Everyone had an extremely easy life, especially those who had life experience before the Year of Fog Disaster. Even more, there is an illusion that they seem to have returned to the past.

After that, even if Hope City returned to normal conditions, some mutated monsters could still be seen outside the city, but hordes of mutated monsters were very rare. For two full years, there was only one wave of mutated monsters around Hope City, and The wave of mutated monsters had just formed before it was wiped out by the First Legion stationed around Hope City.

Now the safety and stability of Hope City is almost the same as that of the city before the Year of Fog, and even because it is a new city, the security situation is even better.

And some people even discovered that as the Bodo Kingdom has deployed some legions on its borders in the past two years, built some churches of the White Hart Church and the Lady of the Lake Church, and also erected some that looked like shaman totems. After the metal pillar, the mutant monsters in the entire Bodo Kingdom seemed to be decreasing rapidly.

In a big city like Audorin, whose population density exceeds City of Hope, there will be a wave of mutated monsters almost every two to three months, and there will be a larger-scale siege of mutated monsters in more than half a year, but since Bodo After the Kingdom made so many arrangements on the border, the frequency of the mutated monster wave has been delayed to once every six months, and the large-scale mutated monster siege battle has also been extended to about ten months.

And because of the existence of the wizard tower in the city, the battle process became very easy. Except for a few unlucky guys who accidentally fell off the city wall and were submerged by mutant monsters, the guards on the city wall basically did not suffer any serious casualties, most of them were just minor injuries. hurt.

Those who discovered this could not help guessing that the Bodo Kingdom may have mastered the method of controlling the generation of mutated monsters. Even if the Bodo Kingdom denied it, this kind of speculation is still not over, but intensified. Pressure, forcing the Bodo Kingdom to share methods.

But this proposal has not been passed by the governments of all countries, because if it was two years ago, this proposal might still be effective, but now the Bodo Kingdom has grown to a level where it can sit on an equal footing with the United Kingdom, even in terms of overall military strength. A little beyond the Kingdom of America and California, the countries of the entire Mozambique continent will not take the risk of offending such a powerful country.

Not only did they dare not take the risk of offending them, but they would also take the initiative to join this powerful emerging country and become a part of it. For example, the Panier Kingdom recently considered whether to join the Bodo Kingdom. This is also the hottest topic in the Bodo Kingdom recently.

As early as two years ago, some knowledgeable people could have judged that it would be a matter of time before the Kingdom of Panier joined the Kingdom of Bodo, because as the Kingdom of Bodo completed its control of the Sackett Plain and Audorin, then Panier The kingdom was completely cut off from the countries west of the Mozambique continent, and was completely sandwiched between the northern tribal alliance and the Bodo kingdom.

All their necessities now depend on the Northern Tribal Alliance and the Bodo Kingdom. However, since the Northern Tribal Alliance began to implement a closed-door policy, it is difficult for the Panier Kingdom to receive more assistance from the Northern Tribal Alliance.

If they did not choose to join the Bodo Kingdom, then they would have to join the Northern Tribal Alliance. For the Panier people who were already accustomed to urban life, returning to tribal status was simply unimaginable.

Therefore, as the envoys of the Kingdom of Panier came to City of Hope to discuss with the Bodo government a few days ago, it is considered that Panier's incorporation into the Kingdom of Bodo is a certainty.

The only thing that needs to be discussed is how to merge into the Bodo Kingdom. Judging from some gossip, the Panier Kingdom hopes to merge into the Bodo Kingdom in a common way as a subordinate country, and the Bodo Kingdom is obviously very interested in this way of merging Not interested, the method of incorporation required by the royal family and the government is complete incorporation, while the Parnell royal family is downgraded to a duke and retains a certain territory.

The merger of the Panier Kingdom into the Bodo Kingdom not only attracted the attention of the people of the Bodo Kingdom, but even other countries in the Mosang Continent also paid attention to this, and sent their own eyes and ears and spies to sneak into the Bodo Kingdom. City of Hope, I want to get the latest news so that I can formulate countermeasures.

Among the countries that send out spies, the Kingdom of America is naturally the most nervous, so it also sends the largest number of spies and eyes and ears. In less than half a month, the security department of the Bodo Kingdom has already arrested more than 30 people. The spies of the Kingdom of America completely destroyed a secret spy stronghold, but everyone knows that the spies of the Kingdom of America have not been completely found out, and there are more hidden among ordinary people.

The Kingdom of Megalica may look down on the Panier Kingdom, which has declined to the extreme, but it still attaches great importance to the land of the Panier Kingdom. Although nearly 90% of the land of the Panier Kingdom is mountainous areas and virgin forests, in these lands There are a lot of mineral deposits underneath.

Due to technical limitations, it was very difficult to enter the deep mountains to mine in the past. Not only was it difficult to mine, but it was even more difficult to transport the excavated ore. After the year of the fog disaster, the reason for the difficulty has added a mutant monster, so For so many years, all the financial revenue of the Paneer Kingdom can only rely on less than 10% of the land, and this less than 10% of the land is not completely owned by the Paneer Kingdom government, and 70% of it is in the hands of local tribes , so not only the people of the Panier Kingdom are poor, but even the royal family is not much better. Someone once digested that the difference between the royal family of Panier and the common people is just an extra fish on the table.

For all countries on the Mozambique continent except the Bodo Kingdom, annexing the Panier Kingdom is equivalent to swallowing a huge burden, or even a slow poison, but only for the Bodo Kingdom, annexing the Panier Kingdom is like It was swallowing a tonic with extremely high nutritional value. This tonic is enough to make its overall strength, from land area, to resource reserves, to national combat power, all leapfrogly improve, and surpass the Kingdom of America.

The reason why the Bodo Kingdom will have different effects from other countries in the Mozambique continent is not only because the Bodo Kingdom has mastered effective methods against mutant monsters and the Bodo Kingdom itself has a strong military force, but more importantly, the Bodo Kingdom’s Academy of Sciences has a year-long Previously developed a giant machine called Titan.

According to people who have seen this giant machine, it is like a small castle that can move, and its function is not just to move. In addition to the most basic war capabilities, it also has the ability to open up roads, It has the functions of digging ore, dredging rivers, etc., and the Bodo Kingdom has built three Titans like this so far.

If the Panier Kingdom is merged into the Bodo Kingdom, then the Bodo Kingdom can use this giant machine to easily open a road in the mountains of the Panier Kingdom, and then lay rails, and then select mining sites. It only takes a month at most to dig out the initial mine pit, and all kinds of ores stored in the mountains of the Panier Kingdom can be continuously transported to the Bodo Kingdom after such a wave of operations.

When the Titan appeared, all countries in the Vinylon world were shocked by this giant machine that could move freely. They wanted to obtain the manufacturing method of this machine, so they sent elites from their secret departments to sneak into Hope City. As a result, these people Not only did they not even find the mysterious kingdom laboratory in the Bodo Kingdom, let alone the Titan-related manufacturing technical documents stored in the laboratory.

Therefore, various theories have been circulated among the people. One is that the Bodo Kingdom has obtained some technology left over from prehistoric civilization, so that it can create this almost magical behemoth. Another is that this giant machine is Leo and others. The supernatural beings of the old era were created through the joint efforts of supernatural powers such as wizards, witchcraft, and witch power.

As for the last statement, it is that this thing is an artifact to protect the country given to them by the lady in the lake. Compared with the first two statements, this kind of statement is easier to be accepted by the people of the Bodo Kingdom, because only those who have seen the Titan with their own eyes Only people can be sure that things like Titans are absolutely not something humans can create, only gods can do it.

Also because of the appearance of the Titans, the overall combat power of the Bodo Kingdom began to be far away from other kingdoms in the Mosang Continent. The country began to establish a relatively close paramilitary alliance, and the northern tribal alliance began to implement a closed-door policy, which was more or less related to it.

Although the outside world is afraid and worried about the appearance of Titans, for the people of Bodo Kingdom, Titans are something they are proud of. They are confident that with the protection of Titans, the territory of Bodo Kingdom will become unprecedentedly safe. Under its influence, the loyalty and sense of belonging of the whole people have also been rapidly improved.

In contrast, the people of Bodo are eagerly looking forward to seeing the Kingdom of Panier merged into it, and the kingdom's territory is expanding peacefully, but the government of the Kingdom of Bodo is not too interested in annexing the Kingdom of Panier.

This is not because the Bodo Kingdom is worried that the annexation of the Panier Kingdom will cause a series of adverse reactions in the surrounding kingdoms, or even lead to a war, but because government officials can see from the latest government financial reports, personnel transfers, etc. Until today, the government of the Kingdom of Bodo is still slowly absorbing and reorganizing its own territory, arranging the appointment and training of civil servants at all levels, etc. According to estimates, it will take at least one year to completely integrate the Kingdom of Bodo, especially the Sakt Plain. And Audoryn's complete control in their own hands.

If the Panier Kingdom is merged into the Bodo Kingdom at this time, then the Bodo Kingdom will definitely have a shortage of manpower, and in order to feed the merged Panier people, it may also need to use food reserves, which may affect A series of plans to the follow-up of the Bodo Kingdom.

But an exquisite tonic with high nutritional value that can complement the kingdom's shortcomings has been placed in front of them. If they don't take the opportunity to annex the Panier Kingdom, then it is very likely that they will not have such good luck next time If you want to annex the Panier Kingdom, you may have to pay more.

In the end, officials and members of the Bodo Kingdom government discussed for several days, but failed to find a suitable solution. In the end, the matter could only be handed over to Tolan I, and the king would decide the final result of the matter.

It's a pity that facing such a dilemma, even Tolan I couldn't find a suitable solution to solve it, so he made the same decision as his subordinate officials, and continued to submit this matter to the couple. The couple who no longer manage their affairs and stay in the deer park all day long.

However, what Tolan did not expect was that after these documents were sent to Deer Park, according to the description of the sender, the two men returned the documents intact without even opening the documents, and told Tolan , He is already the supreme ruler of this country, he should learn to make his own decisions and bear the consequences by himself, instead of always relying on them and his wife.

It seemed that the couple had done what they had to do when they handed over the First Witch Squad and the Wizard Tower to the right people, and the next thing had nothing to do with them.