Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

In this land, which is called the Holy Continent, in the center of the continent, there is a peak with an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, the Holy Peak.

There is no record of anyone being able to reach the top, perhaps, but no one survived to come down again, no one knows what it was like on it, only that at the top of the sacred peak, there was a holy tower, which was the source of magic.

According to the record of "The Story of the Holy Continent", it was the Holy Lord Goddess who created the human race and turned herself into a holy tower, so that the 'Dharma Source' continued to float to the entire Holy Continent and feed the people on the earth.

All kinds of creatures are blessed by her brilliance, and there are all kinds of strange beasts living on this continent, including the fire-breathing wyvern!

However, the radiation range of the Holy Tower is limited, and the farther away from the Holy Tower, the less magic sources there are.

In the western part of the continent, because there is a super mountain range that stretches for thousands of kilometers from north to south, it makes transportation inconvenient, and it also blocks the spread of the Dharma source, making the Dharma source in the west extremely barren.

Therefore, this mountain range was used as the boundary, with Xizhou to the west and Central Continent to the east.

Unlike Middle-earth, except for a very small number of magicians, all of them are mortals, and it is not like Middle-earth, where everyone can awaken magic when they reach their age.

Only a very small number of people in the West Continent can awaken themselves or be sent to Central Continent to awaken magic, and those who awaken magic almost all choose to stay in Central Continent.

In short, the West Continent is the world of mortals, and the Middle Continent is the world of magic.

The most surprising thing about Su Zheng in this world is the cultural customs here.

It does not resemble the West or the East alone, but is equivalent to a blend of the East and West of the earth, and then there are some "local specialties".

For example, the script here is a hieroglyphic script, the script is not much different from the ancient Chinese characters, and the main grammar is almost the same as that of Chinese.

However, the architectural style is biased towards the West....... Including people, they are mostly mixed-race, but there are also some Western or Eastern faces. The same is true for names and the like.

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The Xinqiong Empire, a medium-sized mortal empire located in the middle of the western side of the Western Continent.

The ruling system of this world has some similarities and some differences from the earth.

The ranks of the factions and their corresponding titles are as follows

: Empire: Emperor's Kingdom (Duchy): Duchess (Duke)

Marquis: Marquis

, State City: Earl

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In this world, dukes and kings are of the same rank, and dukes and kingdoms are also of the same rank.

However, the difference is that the kingdom is divided and has a high degree of autonomy, while the duchy is precisely the province of the empire, and the duke is equivalent to an official position.

The Xinqiong Empire has a total of 11 princes, and the hereditary thrones of the 11 kingdoms of the Xinqiong Empire. There are more than 100 duke families, and there are more than a dozen life dukes who cannot be hereditary.

The count is generally the lord of a city-state, and is also the lowest part of the self-government.

Between the king and the city lord, there is also a marquis, the marquis, the status of the marquis fluctuates relatively largely, and the scale of the power of the marquis is also between the city-state and the kingdom, and it can also be understood as the lord of several city-states.

Institutionally, the empire can directly remove any title, including the king. But there is no valid reason..... No, even if there is a valid reason, of course, the king who has military power does not do it, and there are many cases of confrontation with the Imperial Division.

In this case, the various empires fought each other and checked and balanced each other.

Within empires, kingdoms and city-states also formed alliances and annexed each other.

The whole world has developed a stable and fluctuating situation.

Coupled with some inviolable unspoken rules, such as the nobles seizing cities but not destroying households, the contradictions in the whole world are in a tense and slowly relaxed situation.

So this order lasted for thousands of years, in history, the empires on the Holy Continent changed and blended with each other, the old empires expanded and fell, the new empires rose and weakened, and the vicissitudes of thousands of years made the world of culture and system integrated although there has never been a truly unified world.

(Emperors and princes are generally addressed to His Majesty, and the rest of the official positions and titles are addressed to adults, but some local customs refer to earls and marquis as His Royal Highness.) ）

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Su Xincheng, located in the southwestern border of the Xinqiong Empire in Xizhou, has experienced three generations of lords, 80 years ago, Su Zheng's grandfather Su Xin was named an earl, and divided a territory and a small city with a population of only about 1,000 at that time.

There are no resources at your disposal in the territory, and the remote location and mountains are crisscrossed, so it is difficult to develop, but it is relatively peaceful and stable.

After Grandpa Su Zheng became the lord of the city, he actively participated in the construction of the territory, and was diligent and benevolent in his governance.

This caused the slaves of the black and freedmen of the surrounding fiefdoms to flee here, and the population soon grew to two or three thousand.

(The imperial law of the Xinqiong Empire does not prohibit but does not protect the freedmen from owning slaves, so the slaves purchased by the freedmen are actually black households, and if they escape or are robbed, the freedmen can only consider themselves unlucky.) ）

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It has been more than a month since Su Zheng came to this world, and after finding out that he had crossed over, Su Zheng was directly stunned for a whole day.

Until you accept the fact that you have crossed over, and then you begin to understand the world.

After getting to know the world preliminarily, Su Zheng's heart became restless.

This is a world where the level of technology is very backward except for magic.

And the knowledge about earth technology in this strange bracelet in his hand can completely make Su Zheng's magical world set off a revolution

! Su Zheng immediately started the first step: make guns and cannons!

Combined with the current situation, Su Zheng designed a red-clothed cannon.

It's still very simple to make cannons, no matter what, Su Zheng, as a city lord, has no problem solving the materials and craftsmen needed to make cannons.

But gunpowder is not so simple.

There is no gunpowder in this world, which means that it is difficult for Su Zheng to get gunpowder materials in the early stage.

Saltpeter is also relatively easy to obtain, for example, as mentioned on the Internet, the dung heap can obtain some soil nitrate.

There are also many ways to get nitrate, but sulfur is troublesome.

Brimstone doesn't have anything to do with magic and magic weapons, or no one has discovered how these things have anything to do with magic weapons for the time being. No one cared about their function, so Su Zheng didn't know where the mines were for the time being, let alone buy them in the market.

Fortunately, Su Zheng has the "Encyclopedia of the Otherworld", which analyzes most of the things in the Holy Continent from the perspective of the earth and technology, for example, the ore called 'Holy Iron' in this world is actually similar to the magnetic ore of the earth, which is the core material for building basic magic weapons.

Su Zheng accidentally discovered through the Atlas Encyclopedia that the burrow of the yellow poison lizard is rich in sulfur ore.

The yellow poison lizard is just an ordinary beast, and it exists in a wide range, even in the Western Continent, but few people fight it.

They generally only move around the cave, as long as they don't provoke it, they won't take the initiative to attack, and they have no useful value all over it, so there is no need to attack it.

In addition, there are mages who use fire magic in its caverns when they fight them, which emit poisonous gases, so no one provokes them.

Coincidentally, in Su Zheng's territory, there happened to be a cave of yellow poisonous lizards!