The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The small town in the mountains is not very big, there are only about a hundred households in the whole town, and the population is less than a thousand people. Although the people in the small town are puzzled by the visit of two foreigners, Leo and Sylvia, There is not too much conflict, because even if the clothes of the two look a little weird, they are not something ordinary people can wear, and they speak different languages, so they are only regarded as foreign tourists who come to travel. people.

Although Leo and Sylvia did not have the country's currency, they did have the common precious metal gold, so they didn't need to worry about their expenses in the small town.

The two stayed in the small town for about three months. During these three months, Leo mastered the language of this country through the teachers of the local school and passed it on to Sylvia.

At the same time, the two also learned some information about the country and the world where they are now through the books in the school and the small town library.

This is a world that amazes Sylvia, but is very normal to Leo. This world does not have a formal unified name. Basically, every country uses a different name to call this world, but The most commonly used name is Eta, which is a name left over from a powerful ancient empire, meaning the land of gods.

Although the world does not have a unified title, people in this world have explored the entire world to a very high level. This is where Sylvia was shocked by this world, because this world is a sphere.

You know, no matter how open-minded the people deep in the world of Vinylon are, their understanding of the world is flat, and the world is surrounded by endless fog. The endless abyss.

They couldn't imagine that the world would be a sphere, just like after Sylvia learned about the geography of the world, what she asked the most was wouldn't the people living under the sphere fall?

Although Leo used scientific rhetoric such as gravity to explain why people live on the surface of a sphere and will not fall, but the obvious deep-rooted thoughts and lack of basic common sense prevented Sylvia from understanding Lei Ou's explanation, in the end, Leo could only explain that there is a world power beyond the gods in this world, which binds people to the surface. On the contrary, Sylvia quickly accepted the recognition that people can live on the surface of the sphere. Know.

Just like the world of Vinylon, this world also experienced a great age of exploration hundreds of years ago, which was also the era of great geographical discovery in this world, and almost all the current geographic knowledge was discovered at that time.

For example, this world has two continents, a new continent and an old road. Each continent is very huge. It takes six years to travel around the coastline of the old continent at the fastest speed, while the new continent is even bigger. There is no way to go around in a circle without more than ten years.

The other two continents are not connected, and there are densely populated islands in the middle, that is, these islands allow people from the old land to migrate to the new continent. Otherwise, according to normal navigation, even the fastest ship would take about five years. , to be able to sail from the old road to the new continent. If there are no islands in the middle for resupply, they will not be able to reach it at all.

From this point of view, the area of ​​this world is probably much larger than the world of Velen surrounded by fog.

Perhaps it is because the world is much larger than Vinylon World, so the number of countries in this world also shocked Sylvia. According to statistics, there are more than 5,000 countries that have joined the New World Covenant and the Old Great Road Covenant. Not counting those island countries, there are also many countries deep in the mainland that don't like contact with outsiders, so people estimate that the total number of countries in the world may reach more than 6,000.

The country where Leo and Sylvia are located is a small country in the inland mountains of the New World. There are more than 30 provinces in total, and each province is divided into more than a dozen urban areas, with a population of tens of millions. If In the world of Vinylon, it is already a very strong country, but in this world, it can't even rank among the top 1,000 in the New World.

The countries in the New World were almost all established by people who migrated here from the old land for hundreds of years. Since the discovery of the New World by explorers during the great voyage period at that time, a large number of people who escaped the war on the Old Road have moved to the New World.

The original settlers also had some conflicts over land, but later they found that the land in the New World was so large that they could not fully occupy it in their lifetime, so they stopped the disputes. Once you settle down at the landing point, you can settle down and join the country established at the landing point. If you don’t want to, you can also leave, go deep into the mainland, find a land without owner, and establish a country by yourself.

In this way, the number of countries in the New World continued to increase like mushrooms after a spring rain for hundreds of years, and soon surpassed the Old World, reaching more than 3,000. But even so, people here still have less than half the area of ​​the New World to explore the New World. No, the center of the continent is still blank on the map, just like the blank areas in the center of the old continent.

Although this world has a large population and endless resources, the level of technology and civilization of this world is not much higher than that of Velen World. The civilization of this world is still dominated by the three systems of monarchy, democracy, and empire. Parliament The system is the auxiliary of the three core systems, and there is no more advanced political system.

For example, the country they live in is a constitutional monarchy, which is somewhat similar to the former United Kingdom of France.

As for the level of technology, this world also has mechanical devices such as trains, but they are not driven by steam, but by firepower generated by gas.

Due to the different environment of the world, the trees in this world will not decay quickly after death like the world of Velen, and will turn into rotten soil in just one or two months, completely integrated into the earth. It takes a long time for the trees in this world to grow Complete decay, and in the process of decay, most of the decayed wood will be fossilized, and only a few decayed trees will turn into charcoal.

I don't know why the fossils and charcoal that the trees turned into can't be burned directly, but if soaked in a special formula of water, it will produce a gas that can be easily burned, and this gas is this The source of power for all mechanical devices in the world.

Although the mechanical devices in this world use gas with higher energy efficiency, but also because of the environmental restrictions of this world, the mechanical devices manufactured by this world through gas are far from being able to compare with the Vinylon world in terms of energy efficiency output.

For example, Leo can use a steam engine to create a war fortress in the world of Velen that is comparable to a hill and can move freely. Even if it is reduced to one tenth, it cannot be operated by a gas engine, so the civilian machinery in this world is very common.

Compared with the ordinary civilian mechanical devices, this world may have a lot of wars, so the weapons and equipment are far beyond the world of Velen.

The mainstream weapons in this world are gunpowder weapons. The difference from the world of Vinylon is that the explosion of gunpowder in this world is very stable and does not require the use of special substances as stabilizers. Therefore, gunpowder firearms in this world are very developed, not only pistols, rifles, and even guns. There are special firearms such as rotary machine guns and sniper rifles.

In addition, this world has manufactured medium-sized weapons such as chariots and tanks, all of which are equipped with large cannons. In addition, warships are also equipped with various types of cannons. If such warships are placed in the world of Vinylon, perhaps one battleship is enough against a fleet.

However, compared to the vast and diverse types of sea and land weapons, the air weapons in this world are blank. There are air weapons such as airships in the world of Velen, but this world has no air weapons at all.

This world has manufactured flying devices in the past, but after countless experiments, they found that except for birds and other creatures that can fly naturally, any man-made flying device cannot fly into the air, even if it is powered by a powerful gas engine. It will also fall down soon, as if the world has an invisible force that restricts people's exploration of the sky.

Compared with these technology, civilization, etc., Leo and Silvia are more concerned about the history and religion of the countries in the world.

It's a pity that there are too many countries in this world, each country has its own national history and world history, and the history recorded in each country is different. Except for the scholars who specialize in history in universities in various countries, ordinary people have no idea about history. The understanding of history is also half-understood, and the books are even without any reference.

The same situation also includes religion. There are even more religions in this world than countries in this world. Unless they are scholars who specialize in religious studies, ordinary people only know their own national religion and the church around them.

For example, the country the two are in now uses a church named Gata as the state religion. This Gata is said to be a god related to death and decay, and is in charge of the death of this country. Although Gata Church is the state religion of this country, there are several churches of other gods that also have some fixed parishes here, and of course the Church of the Evil God is naturally indispensable.

It's just that, unlike the Vinylon world, the church of evil gods in this world will not encounter such strong suppression. They even allow their own missionary sites, but they must be supervised by the government and the local state religion. Things, such as the sacrifice of living people, will be suppressed by the government, and the name of the suppression is not for religious reasons, but for arresting, interrogating, and sentencing according to the government's laws.

Leo and Sylvia don't know whether there is supernatural power in this world, because all the records related to supernatural power are church myths and folklore, and according to Leo's estimation of the energy structure of this world, those church myths and The power described in folklore is logically impossible to exert normally, unless the world has a unique set of methods suitable for this world.

After a preliminary understanding of the world, both Leo and Sylvia decided to leave this small town and this country, and go to another country, the Otter Federation, to see if they could find a suitable place for Sylvia to break through.

The reason why the two did not intend to stay here is because the country is too stable. From the day of the founding of the country to now, more than two hundred years have passed, and no major events worth paying attention to have happened in the whole country. The political situation is stable and the situation is stable. This kind of environment also makes the people here have a comfortable temperament and don't care about everything in the outside world. It is impossible to collect enough information here.

Another more important point is that although the two of them didn't find any traces of extraordinary power here, they could feel that the rotten smell of dead fish surrounding them was increasing, as if an unknown existence was paying attention to the two of them. One, thinking of the theocracy of Gata, the state religion of this country, the two have reason to believe that they should have been targeted by Gata, but Gata did not do anything to them because of some scruples or other reasons.

Although, Leo and Sylvia don't know how powerful this Gata God is, whether it is a real god, a demigod, or an extraordinary creature with some extraordinary power, but they are not in a good state now , until they find a way to fully exert their power, they are not suitable for conflicts with unknown existences in this world.

That's why they decided to leave this country immediately and go to the Otter Federation, a country that is a bit far away for the locals.

Leo didn't choose the Oeter Federation at random. After careful consideration, he felt that the Oeter Federation was suitable for them.

First of all, the Otter Federation is a very large country. This size is not only the size of the country, but also its national strength. If ranked according to the total strength, the strength of the Otter Federation is enough to rank among the top ten countries in the New World.

In addition, the Otter Federation is also one of the few anti-church countries in the world. Although they do not prohibit some churches from preaching in their own country, they have very strict control over these churches, and the power of appointment, removal, finance, and personnel is in the hands of the federal government. Well, the members of the church only have the right to preach, so the Otter Federation has not established a state religion. In this way, the troubles the two are encountering now may not be encountered there.

The last point is that the Otter Federation is the only country in the entire New World that has experienced religious wars. According to records, more than 30 churches fought there for a war that lasted only one month, but the casualties were huge. There are millions of people, and the specific reason is unknown. In Leo and Sylvia's view, this war will definitely not be because of land, religious power and believers, but more like a fight for something, so Otto Federation is well worth a visit.