Chapter 165 Border Area
Although East Nar and West Nar are two close areas, communication between the two sides is not convenient.
Between Eastnar and Westnar, there is a long border area.
As the Silver Empire prospered and expanded under Littorio's rule, the newly established powerful empire naturally turned its attention to the increasingly weak Central Kingdom next door.
Not surprisingly, war broke out between these two neighboring empires.
Although the Silver Empire, as an emerging country, has a large number of powerful and active spellcasters, the Central Kingdom is not to be bullied. Powerful knights from various knight kingdoms within it have responded to the call.
Subsequently, a bloody war broke out between the two sides along the long border that lasted for three years.
And the final result of the war was this border area.
After being ravaged by countless extraordinary beings, this area was filled with all kinds of chaotic elements, turning into a land of death that was completely unsuitable for any living thing to survive.
Although it was not impossible for both sides to deal with this area, both sides tacitly did not deal with the border area, and instead made it a buffer zone between the two empires.
The danger level in the border area has now increased dozens of times compared to the initial level.
This tacit understanding lasted for more than a thousand years until it was broken in recent years.
The Central Kingdom collapsed in the green tide, and the Silver Empire no longer needed the buffer zone.
At the same time, since the Silver Empire's Rose War ended in peace talks, neither side was able to gain any benefits from the other. In order to appease the soldiers who rose in the war and provide the agreed rewards, they only had to promote a small number of soldiers to pioneer nobles and grant them border areas.
In this way, not only the problem of military merit is solved, but also the territory is expanded. At the same time, a front line can be built to fight against the green tide.
At that time, if the military nobles died on the front line against the Green Tide, they could still take back the land developed by the military nobles into their own hands, and then they would win.
Although these military nobles were not very satisfied with the result, something was better than nothing, so they gritted their teeth and headed for the border area.
If it is based on the plot of the game in the previous life, the ideas of the Silver Family were realized, but not completely.
They did rely on the Green Tide to reclaim some of the border nobles' territories, but under the combined pressure of the Green Tide and the Silver Family, more border nobles chose to unite and resist together. Taking advantage of the internal instability of the Silver Empire, they formed a kingdom called the Blade Border, resisted the malice from the Silver Family, and later even stabbed the Silver Family in the back.
Roland looked at the bustling town in front of him and silently recalled the story of his previous life. Although the future development of this world would definitely not be the same as the story of his previous life, it still had a certain reference value.
Although future development is uncertain, local resources will not fly away. Based on the plot of his previous life, Roland knows that this buffer zone is very worth developing. In his previous life, a lot of mineral veins were dug out in the control area of the Blade Edge, and there was even a large mithril vein.
Therefore, if Roland succeeds in Donnar, he will also have to join in the division of the border areas.
While Roland was thinking, the chaotic elements in the border area in front of the town gradually subsided with shouting and cursing. Caravans, adventure groups, mercenary groups, or small groups like Roland's, began to rush forward.
The carriage that Roland was riding in also started to move slowly.
Although the border area is a buffer zone, the exchanges between the two empires have not been completely cut off.
Driven by the desire for profit, some spellcasters tried every means to calm the chaos in the border area and opened trade routes. The passage that Roland was passing through was one of them. Although it was only allowed to pass once every ten days, it was stable and safe.
Roland looked at the dense crowds of people around him, then glanced at the chaotic elemental vortex not far away, and calmly closed the window.
This road also has a disadvantage, which is that there are always a lot of people passing through it every time.
Although there was the logo of the Spellcaster Association on Roland's carriage, the road was so narrow that the most they could do was to give Roland more space.
After closing the window, Roland looked at Hela beside him.
Hela sat beside him, meditating silently with her eyes closed. She held the Crown of Domination in her right hand, and thick dark elements were constantly flowing between her and the Crown of Domination.
After confirming that she was fine, Roland also took out the magic book from the space bracelet, flipped open the book of wisdom.
The maximum distance of the Book of Wisdom is at the border area. After Roland enters Donnar, the Book of Wisdom will basically be useless.
After opening the Book of Wisdom, Roland entered the official public forum and posted the post he had been preparing since leaving Ginza.
This was Roland's summary of all the Q&A posts he had answered before, listing various common problems faced by spellcasters and their solutions, and providing some common knowledge for low-level spellcasters. At the bottom of the post, Roland also explained that he was going to Donnar and could no longer speak on the forum.
Although Roland initially answered questions on the forum just to recall his memories of surfing the forum in his previous life, he didn't need to waste time making this summary. However, the various thanks from the posters under each Q&A post, as well as the various rewards they sent out, made Roland feel that perhaps he should respond.
So Roland did just that.
There is no benefit or reason, I just want to do it.
After successfully sending the post and seeing that someone had read and responded to it, Roland closed the Book of Wisdom, removed it from the Grimoire, and threw it into the space bracelet.
It's no longer useful.
After walking in the border area for more than ten days, Roland and Hela finally crossed the border area and arrived in Donnar.
Roland led the carriage and looked up at the dilapidated walls and gate in front of him.
This border gate is not as good as that of the Northern Kingdom. It can only be used to intercept ordinary people. Any extraordinary person can pass through it directly.
Roland shook his head, said nothing, and followed the crowd towards the gate.
Since there were no goods on Roland's carriage, Roland and Hela did not need to pay a large amount of commodity tax like other people. After paying the basic head fee, the two of them passed through the gate smoothly.
On November 1444, 11 of the Silver Calendar, an ordinary day, Roland and Hela walked through the border gate and officially stepped into Donnar.
(End of this chapter)