Transcendent Journey

Autumn is high and fresh, which is the most favorable season for navigation on the Black Sea.

On the endless blue sea, snow-white waves bloom.

A huge fleet with a total of 31 ships and a long flame flag floating on the mainmast, one after another, driven by the cold Canary current and the warm current of Benin, it travels along the west coast of the south continent. south.

Huh—

The snow-white sails are full of sprawling white clouds, and the mighty imposing manner seems to be able to crush everything in front of you!

Among the huge fleet, the lowest rank is at least Fifth Level cruiser. Even the Level 3 battleships rarely seen elsewhere are not uncommon among them.

The most eye-catching thing is that the bowsprit is covered with generals, nobles, fleets, and commander flags, which is the flagship of the fleet leading the entire fleet.

The brightly colored red sails on the battleship are like flaming maple leaves. It is Sirius’ quasi-Legendary battleship “Red Maple”.

The shrewd and capable adjutant pushed the door into the captain’s room.

“Reporting Commander! Just now the chief of the navigator reported that the fleet is about to leave the direct Beninian warm current zone and enter the retrograde Benguela cold current. It is estimated that it will take three days to reach the destination.”

Lieutenant General Doyle Griffits, Peak Great Knight, who is maintaining his beloved long sword with sword oil and fine flannel, stared at Guang Ke Jian Ren’s long sword without raising his head, and replied:

“I see.”

Seeing the inattention of his immediate boss, the loyal adjutant was hesitant to speak:

“Your Excellency, we.. .”

The worries in my heart are a little sensitive, and it is difficult to declare.

In this military operation in the southern continent, the original colonial garrison was not used at all, but all troops were increased from the country. The purpose is to be by surprise, taking advantage of the weak links within the opponent to expel their forces from the south continent in one fell swoop.

While shifting the focus of domestic conflicts, gaining huge economic benefits to supplement the country’s growing deficit body can relieve Sirius fiercely.

Lieutenant General Griffizi, who was directly responsible for the loss of the entire treasure fleet not long ago, served as the commander-in-chief of this fleet. This was the opportunity for the kingdom to give him guilt and meritorious service.

Even if there was a force majeure factor like Calebdis, the son of the wild Poseidon, causing heavy losses to the kingdom, Lieutenant General Griffizi has now walked away from the military court. .

Even if there is no penalty for the time being, if this war fails, one can imagine what he will end up after returning to China. Even more how, from the personnel who participated in the war this time, we can see that there is another unknown war hidden in it.

Because Qicheng in the fleet is a staunch ecclesiastical faction, and the deputy commander is another Great Knight of the royal party.

Of course, they knew well what idea the senior officials of the kingdom made. It is more appropriate to say that it is a support than to supervise the team.

Seeing the adjutant’s concern, Great Knight slightly smiled:

“Don’t worry, with the great’Fire of Eternal’ blessing, victory will ultimately belong to us!

Besides enjoying the light given by God, the secular kingdom should serve God.

In any case, I will not let this fleet suffer unnecessary loss, because they are God’s most loyal fighters.

This is the promise of a’Fire of Eternal’ Knight once to Pope Your Majesty!”

Raising the long sword in his hand, Griffizi stared at him The straight spine of the sword, the quality of “it would rather break but cannot be bend” seems to be displayed in him as well, and nothing can make his faith slightly shaken.

Even if the king’s order is on the other end of the scale, or…his own life!

……

Across the treacherous sea of ​​treasures, the southern continent and the source continent, where civilizations stand side by side, are facing each other.

The overall shape is like an animal tooth with a wide top and a pointed bottom, extending to Cape Hafon in the east, Cape Agulhas in the south, Cape Verde in the west, and Cape Gilan in the north.

Before the first group of adventurers crossed the treasure sea to arrive here two hundred years ago, the southern continent was the hometown of the Anuma people only.

However, with the arrival of the forerunner Sirius Kingdom, the desert kingdom Heymar, and the colonists of a number of countries on the northern shore of the treasure sea. The Anuma natives gradually fell into the abyss of second-class citizens and even slaves of blood and tears, slowly and irresistibly.

The sign is the destruction of the last empire of the Anuma people near Cape Verde, the “Sanghai Empire”!

However.

At that time, the main force who really destroyed the “Sanghai Empire” was not Sirius as the forerunner, but Heymar, the desert kingdom.

Two hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Heymar, because it controlled the only road trade channel with the Eastern Peacock Islands, for tea, spices and other necessities of life, many more western continent countries have to rely on it. .

They accumulated huge wealth by virtue of this unique geographical advantage, and they were one of the most prosperous and prosperous countries on the continent at that time.

As for Sirius, who just started to explore the ocean, he was simply a younger brother at the time, and he was a younger brother who didn’t even have a unified Alfonso Peninsula.

However.

In the era two hundred years ago, the development of firearms was far from the current level. Although the original form of the matchlock musket has been invented, the musket and the lance are still used in a mixed manner, and the reliability, range, and formidable power of the musket are lacking.

So in the battle with the indigenous people, the advantages of the so-called “civilized man” relying on technology are not obvious.

And it is very easy for the younger brother to mess with others.

Sirius, who was ahead of everyone to reach the southern continent, saw that he was unable to eat the powerful “Sanghai Empire”, and instead started a business with them, providing sophisticated swords, gunpowder, bronze cannons, etc. Waiting for war supplies, desperately dragged Heymar.

I have also exchanged countless gold, diamonds, ivory… and deeply tasted the sweetness of it.

In the end, military advisors were even sent to instruct these indigenous people with backward art of war how to fight, so that the mighty Heymar also suffered several times.

But it was also after the end of this really long war.

In view of the overly discordant situation, the popes of the “Fire of Eternal” Church and the “Bright Starry Night” Church jointly came forward, and several major churches of interest among the nations and the Seven Gods finally established a history. A peace treaty called the “Papal Pact”.

In the face of an unpredictable land overseas, put aside the contradictions between civilized nations, reduce internal friction and unify the external world, and the land of the believers of the gods will be the people of the seven gods.

It can be regarded as an act of aggression by the colonists, laying the necessary legal basis and rules of the game.

So far ushered in the colonial frenzy of civilized countries and the nightmare of colonized areas!

Until now, two hundred years later.

South continent is already an important producing area and one of the main export areas of tropical cash crops, including cotton, sisal, peanuts, oil palm, cashews, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar cane, as well as tobacco and rubber (For steam engine), pyrethrum, cloves, coconut, banana, etc.

Here is also the favorite source of rum raw materials for seamen of the tulip countries.

Another thing that must be mentioned is the current status quo of the colonies of various countries.

Because most of the southern continent is in the tropics, it is very unfriendly to the Nemansters from the northern continent. Unless there is a special medicine, the tropical infectious diseases in these places are very deadly to the Neimanste people who have lived in the temperate regions for a long time.

For them, the environment is harsh as hell. It is difficult to survive, let alone work and production.

Even explorers with the transcendent rank are not willing to go deep into this terrifying continent to search for unknown treasures.

Some pioneers among the explorers even commented that:

South continent is the real Demon King—the main bastion of the natural reactionary force against the prosperity of mankind. Here, the King of the Flies assembles a worm-like, beast-like army composed of Insect, ticks and nematodes, and transmits the disease to the skin, blood vessels, intestines and spinal cord of humans and other vertebrates. .

Several powerful countries.

The northern part of the southern continent is the largest desert in the world, occupying 30% of the entire continent. And a small part of the livable area has completely become the territory of Heymar, even the faith is firmly controlled by the “Starry Night Cult”.

True God “Bright Starry Night” is the only god here.

Further south is the largest area of ​​this continent, a tropical grassland climate that is not conducive to farming, and the extremely differentiated rainy and dry seasons can make people crazy.

The other countries, large and small, after repeated weighings, they concentrated on the most suitable economic crops like soft persimmons, which is called the Zaire Basin, the largest basin in the world.

The other colonies are broken and scattered.

For them, only land that has proven its economic value has the meaning of occupation.

After discovering the new continent, they turned their heads to the vast fertile land on the other side of the Black Sea.

The climate factor, which is far inferior to the new continent, has actually become a natural barrier for the Anuma natives. Even now, there are still a large number of powerful monarchs still living in the vast inland areas.

Even in the coastal zone on the western edge of the Zaire Basin, there are many indigenous countries mainly including the Kingdom of Dahomey in Benin.

The Kingdom of Dahomey has also been immersed in the development of the new continent. It is currently the largest slave supplier in the Slave Gulf, and it is also a rich and powerful country.

So Sirius certainly has the first mover advantage in the southern continent, but there are not many solid occupation areas. Most of them exist in the form of independent mineral and cash crop resource points, and other vast wastelands are of no value to them.

That is to say, in this era, a large area of ​​the southern continent is still shrouded in the fog of war “Dark Continent.”

Sirius, after occupying some agricultural areas that can produce cash crops and easy-to-mine minerals, has already turned east and crossed the Eritrean Sea again, killing the Peacock Islands, which were more prosperous in this era.

There is an opportunity for Sirius to truly emerge as the overlord of sea power.

As for Ivan’s class at the Naval Academy, the professor believes that after two hundred years of continuous development, the South Continent has been thoroughly developed and matured.

It has indeed been developed, but it is based on the current scientific technology and medical level.

When the medicine in the hands of Ivan is successively listed, perhaps this situation will be completely subverted.