Above the mage

Chapter 144 Northern Territory

"Geography of Nolan Continent and Geography of War" is a sub-course under the compulsory course "Basic Culture Course".

This course will be offered four times a year.

Gaode enrolled in the first course taught by instructor Mo Sen.

Classes are held on the afternoons of the days ending in 2 during the three months of Frost Moon, Fog Moon, and Frozen Moon.

The classroom for this course is very large.

One reason is that this course has always been one of the most "easy" courses in the college, with a large number of students each term, so more seats are needed.

The course "Geography of Nolan Continent and Geography of War" has relatively simple content and the assessment is easy to pass, yet it can earn up to two credits.

Almost all students will take this course at some point in their lives.

Some students struggling with academic credits even use this course as their "insurance":

If you can't accumulate enough credits in a year, quickly enroll in this course and use those two precious credits to get through the year.

Secondly, as a "geography class," although it is an indoor course, a sand table to simulate the terrain is needed to make the teaching more intuitive.

Each student is provided with a sand table, and each sand table occupies several square meters, so the required classroom space is naturally large.

Gaode entered the classroom 15 minutes before the class started.

By this time, there were already quite a few students in the classroom.

The class schedule alone is enough to distinguish students with different personalities.

Some people like to arrive at the classroom early, some like to arrive a little earlier, some like to arrive right on time, and a very small number of people like to be late.

Gaode, on the other hand, belongs to the type of college that prefers to arrive at the classroom a little early.

Arriving too early is unnecessary and a waste of time, while arriving right on time is not a guarantee of safety and you might end up being late.

Being late is considered bad behavior by Gaode Maps.

Sure enough, after Gaode, more than a dozen students came one after another.

Of course, without exception, they were all returning students.

Gaode is the only "first-year" student here.

—The other freshmen are still mining at the bottom of Coolie Cliff.

At the appointed time, a thin old man with curly brown hair, wearing a robe with the college crest, walked in through the main entrance carrying a roll of parchment.

The skinny old man was their instructor, Professor Mosen.

As soon as Professor Mo Sen entered the room, the faint whispers that had been there disappeared instantly, and the room fell silent.

Without introducing himself, Professor Mo Sen went straight to the point as soon as he entered the classroom.

At the very front of the classroom is a very large whiteboard.

Strangely, the whiteboard was not hung up, but laid flat, supported by a platform underneath.

At least when Gaode first saw this whiteboard, they couldn't imagine what it was used for.

However, his doubts have now been answered.

Professor Mo Sen stood in front of the whiteboard, raised one hand, and moved his fingers lightly.

A subtle magical fluctuation immediately filled the air.

Guided by his gestures, a light gradually appeared on the huge whiteboard.

A three-dimensional map model began to coalesce within the light.

"The Nolan Continent is the name of the continent where this land beneath our feet is located." As soon as the map was completed, Instructor Morsen began to speak on his own.

"If viewed from the sky, the Nolan continent is an irregular pentagon, or like a bird about to take flight, long but narrow at the bottom and short but wide at the top."

"As an aside, this world is not just the Nolan Continent. Below and to the right of the Nolan Continent, there are two other continents, namely Terra and Midgard."

"The three continents together form the map of our world."

"Of course, the Nolan Continent ranks first among the three continents in terms of both area and overall strength."

"Okay, let's get back to the main topic."

Instructor Morsen only briefly mentioned the other two continents, after all, the course was titled: Geography of the Nolan Continent and Geography of War.

Then, he made a rotating gesture.

In the three-dimensional map model formed by the condensation of light, the whitish area at the top began to highlight and became exceptionally conspicuous.

What an "advanced" teaching method.

Looking at these 3D projected maps, Gaode couldn't help but sigh.

Magic can sometimes do things even better than technology.

"This region is the northernmost part of the Nolan continent, which we call the North."

"The North is a land of ice and snow storms, with an extremely harsh environment, bitter cold all year round, and constant ice and snow storms."

"The land in the North is known as the permafrost tundra, where it is almost impossible to grow food."

"Therefore, the people living on this land are all nomadic hunter-gatherer people who live by hunting."

Instructor Morsen snapped his fingers, marking the edge of the northern region with a bright red light.

"The northern border is the Erwinray Mountains, the highest mountain range on the Nolan continent, with an average elevation of over 8,000 meters."

"It is this mountain range that isolates the northern icy storms, resulting in completely different landscapes and climates on both sides of the Irwinaya Mountains."

"It is also because of the existence of the Erwin Laya Mountains that the Northern Region, although it belongs to the Nolan Continent along with the Southern Region where we are, has almost no communication with the other side, just like an independent continent."

"Of course, crossing the Erwinaya Mountains isn't the only way to enter the North." Mosen drew his finger in the air, and soon two blue lines appeared on the map around the Nolan continent.

"Taking the sea route into the north is a more reasonable choice."

"However, due to early internal strife and their location on the frontier, the northern peoples disliked interacting with the outside world and were extremely hostile to outsiders."

"Furthermore, due to the nature of nomadic peoples, they need to migrate with the changing seasons and the migration of their prey, leading a nomadic life without fixed settlements. Therefore, there are no large ports in the North."

"Due to these limitations, there has been very little communication between the outside world and the North, with only occasional groups of mages traveling by boat into the North."

"Due to its isolation and environment, the Northern Territory is home to many high-level magical plants and leyline resources that are rarely seen outside the region. It can be described as a treasure trove that has never been developed."

Instructor Morsen explained, "That's why these mages risked entering the North."

"In addition, the Vikings in the North would also sail south in their self-built wolf ships to raid and plunder resources when the ports thawed in the summer."

"However, this is a matter for countries along the coast to worry about, and has nothing to do with our Principality of Sien." Instructor Morsen shrugged and simply ended his introduction to the Northern Territory.

The lights in the northern region of the 3D map also dimmed.

The eastern part of the map then lit up.

This time, the illuminated area was so vast that it occupied almost half of the remaining territory of the Nolan continent, excluding the northern border.

Instructor Mo Sen paused for a moment, waiting for the students to memorize the entire area and gain a general understanding before asking, "Do you know what this area is?"

Could it be the "Eastern Wilderness"? This slightly mischievous thought popped into Gao De's mind unconsciously.

According to the classic settings in online novels from my previous life, the corresponding regions to the North should be the "Eastern Wilderness", "Western Desert" and "Southern Sea".

Some of the trainees have already raised their hands.

He is a student from a noble family.

They already knew this knowledge and didn't need to learn it from class, so they were naturally able to answer Professor Morsen's question at this moment.

At Instructor Morsen's prompting, the student who raised his hand revealed the answer: "This is the territory of the Holy Empire."

(End of this chapter)