"Hey! Master Leo, do you think we will die?" In the cage, a naval soldier swallowed the last bite of beans in his basin, then looked at the unfinished lunch in Leo's hand with greed, and swallowed

He took a sip and asked.

"No," Leo swallowed the unpalatable beans slowly and replied calmly: "If they wanted to kill us, they wouldn't have pulled us on board in the first place and let us die in the sea to feed the fish.

That’s enough, let alone provide us with food every day to maintain our lives.”

Another navy soldier also came over and asked in a low voice: "Will we become slaves?"

"No." Leo put the tub and spoon outside the cage, waiting for the guarding soldiers to collect them, and said firmly: "If they want to sell us as slaves, they don't have to provide us with two meals a day.

, and there is no need to give us fresh beans to eat." As he said that, he gestured towards the cage where the slave soldiers were held not far away, and said: "They can treat us according to the treatment of those slave soldiers, but they don't, so

We certainly won’t be sold into slavery.”

"Will we be ransomed?" A naval officer who was dressed obviously differently couldn't help but asked with concern.

Leo looked at the officer, sighed, shook his head slightly, and said, "Do you think the money in your hands is more important in the eyes of those guys, or are you free soldiers who can be recruited at any time more important?"

"Lord Leo, what do you think they will do with us in the end?" the naval officer asked.

Leo was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about the problem, and finally answered: "We should be included in the pioneering group of the New World to clear their territories in the New World."

After hearing Leo's words, everyone fell silent, their faces became a little ugly, and they also lost interest in talking.

More than 20 days have passed since the day I woke up. In these 20 days, except for a stop on an island to transfer a group of slave soldiers, the ship has never stopped again.

Since then, I have been drifting on the sea.

By listening to the conversations between these naval soldiers and slave soldiers, Leo quickly mastered their language and several dialects. Later, he collected a large amount of information about the world through insinuations and even hypnotic induction, and thus had a better understanding of the world.

A general understanding.

This world is called Novat, which is clearly named after the continent of Novat, because in the past, people in this world thought that there was only this continent in the whole world. It was not until recently that sailing adventurers discovered a new continent more than ten years ago.

Only then did they realize that there is a new continent in this world.

The reason why traces of the New World were discovered so late is not because the navigation technology of this world is poor. In fact, a few decades ago, the ships in this world could only sail inland, and there were almost zero ships sailing at sea. The reason

It's because a few decades ago, the world's oceans were shrouded in gray fog, and any ship that broke into the gray fog would be swallowed up without exception.

When Leo heard about the gray fog at sea from a naval navigator, the shadow of the world of Velen immediately appeared in his mind, and he thought of the gray fog that enveloped the world of Velen.

In fact, not only did the gray mist remind Leo of the world of Velen, but even the countries on the continent of Novat gave Leo a sense of familiarity with the world of Velen.

For example, there used to be a knight empire in the Novat continent, and this empire was also the most powerful country at that time. It once unified the entire Novat continent. However, it was slightly different from the French Empire that lasted for thousands of years. This empire soon followed.

After the death of the Knight King, it fell apart and turned into countless small kingdoms. Later, these small kingdoms regarded themselves as imperial orthodoxy, conquered each other, and annexed each other, eventually forming the one hundred and seventy-three large and small kingdoms on the Nowat continent.

Leo was very surprised when he heard that there were more than 170 kingdoms in the Novat continent, and subconsciously thought that most of these kingdoms were the so-called kingdoms with only one village or one castle.

But after a follow-up conversation, he realized that his perception was wrong. The kingdom here was a real kingdom. Even the smallest kingdom would need to ride horses for several months to complete the land. So in this way, this

The continent of Novat may be the largest of all the worlds he has ever experienced.

It is precisely because of the huge area of ​​the Novat continent that the civilization levels of the various kingdoms on the continent vary greatly. For example, most of the kingdoms deep in the interior are still feudal civilization, slave civilization, and even primitive tribal civilization, but those in the coastal areas of the continent are

However, the kingdom has reached the level of primary industrial civilization. For example, the kingdom of Behrend, where these naval soldiers in the cage are now located, is an industrial kingdom that already possesses primary mechanical technology and has built a large number of factories in the country.

If according to normal circumstances, kingdoms that have entered preliminary industry and developed gunpowder weapons have the advantage of military crushing over those cold weapon kingdoms that are still in a feudal state, a war of civilizational erosion and territorial expansion is inevitable, but in reality

The situation is completely different. Those coastal primary industrial civilization kingdoms only had some border conflicts with surrounding kingdoms, and did not invade these kingdoms on a large scale. After that, they focused all their experiences on ocean exploration.

The main reason for this is that the gray fog that shrouded the entire ocean has dissipated, and the ocean containing endless resources has become an ownerless thing that can be explored at will. Compared with the outbreak of war with other kingdoms, which consumes a lot of financial resources and manpower, exploration

Ocean, it is obviously more cost-effective to obtain resources from the ocean.

Secondly, the inland kingdoms have much deeper foundations than the coastal kingdoms, and they have been married to each other's royal families for countless years, and have already established a very stable offensive and defensive alliance. Small-scale border conflicts will not trigger the alliance's kingdoms to join, but once

If a large-scale invasion occurs, it will inevitably trigger an alliance agreement among the inland kingdoms. At that time, a coastal kingdom will need to face the siege of several or even a dozen inland kingdoms. In this case, even if the weapons are more advanced,

Some, but it is absolutely impossible to withstand such a profound offensive and defensive force.

Finally, although the coastal kingdom invented gunpowder weapons, these gunpowder weapons are still at a very low level. The firing device is similar to a flintlock gun. Once the military power ratio between the enemy and ourselves exceeds a certain level, the advantages of gunpowder weapons will disappear.

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Therefore, under the influence of various factors, even if the coastal kingdom surpassed the inland kingdom in terms of civilization, it still had no way to conquer the inland kingdom and could only turn its attention to the ocean.

Precisely because all the coastal kingdoms focused their attention on the ocean, there were more conflicts and wars between the coastal kingdoms. For example, the naval battle in which Leo was mistakenly taken as a prisoner was between the Kingdom of Berent and the Kingdom of Root.

part of the daily war between kingdoms.

Berent and Lut were originally a kingdom. The people who formed this kingdom were scholars who suffered religious persecution in the inland kingdoms. Later, they settled in the coastal areas, established academies, cultivated talents, and through marriage, buying and selling, and fraud

By other means, they acquired the ownership of land along the coast from another kingdom, and then established a unified kingdom.

However, a few years after the establishment of this kingdom, due to ideological conflicts among scholars, the kingdom split into the two kingdoms of Berent and Lut, which remain until now.

Before the fog on the sea disappeared, the two kingdoms had already reached the level of primary industrial civilization. After the fog disappeared, the two kingdoms also focused on the sea and began to systematically seize marine resources.

Because the goals were the same, maritime frictions between the two countries gradually increased, eventually evolving into naval battles that often occur now. The reasons for naval battles have also become diverse. At first, it was to maintain fishing grounds, and later it became a fight for islands.

Now it is purely to interfere with the opponent's route.

According to Behrendt's navy soldiers' account, their fleet consisted of a total of seven warships, which were specially used for cruise maintenance of New World routes and to assist cargo ships filled with the wealth of the New World to sail smoothly. Originally, they thought this was just a daily cruise.

Thinking of encountering an ambush by the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Root on the way and annihilating the entire army, now that I think about it, the goal of the Royal Navy may be to target the wealth of the New World loaded on those cargo ships.

Since the discovery of the New World more than ten years ago, the Berent Kingdom has set its sights on the New World, like other coastal kingdoms that have the conditions to go to sea. However, the geographical location of the Berent Kingdom is not advantageous, and its navigation technology and shipbuilding capabilities

It is also much worse than some coastal kingdoms, so the income gained by the Berent Kingdom from the New World has been very low for a long time in the past, and it can be said that it has been unable to make ends meet. Until recently, the Berent Kingdom successfully opened up a territory in the New World.

He also established contact with the indigenous tribes in the New World, and was able to exchange various cheap daily necessities for precious resources such as gold and gems, making a fortune and increasing the national power a lot in a short period of time.

The luck of the Kingdom of Lute is much worse. Although it opened up a territory in the New World earlier than the Kingdom of Berent, the geographical location of this territory is not very good and there are not many resources around it. On the contrary, there are several powerful and powerful

In the several battles with the indigenous tribes, the Lut Kingdom suffered a lot and could not make ends meet financially. Therefore, when they saw that the Berent Kingdom had obtained a large amount of wealth from the New World, they could not help but change their minds.

In the case of the Kingdom of Berent, they plundered directly from the ocean-going ships of the Kingdom of Berent, and it is not difficult to find from the narrative of the naval officers that it seems that not only the navy of the Kingdom of Root was involved in the plunder, but also ships from other countries.

It seems that the wealth gained by the Berent Kingdom has aroused the jealousy of many kingdoms.

In addition to knowing the social situation and other aspects of this world, Leo also knew that this world does not have extraordinary beings or gods, but it does have religion. However, this religion does not believe in any gods, but believes in being suspended in the Holy Spirit.

A suspended land mass 10,000 meters above the top of the mountain.

According to this classic record called Origin Religion, the people on the Novat Continent originally lived on that suspended land. Later, they were expelled from the suspended land because they violated taboos. What they had to do was to return to the suspended land. This

It is also the wish of all humans on the Novat continent, but the methods of realizing the wish are different. The religious method is to pray or repent to the land of origin suspended in the air, so as to be forgiven and be taken back to the land of origin, while the method of scholars is

Directly create a tool that can fly and fly back to the land of origin. Therefore, this world's navigation technology is not developed, but the flight technology is extremely powerful. It is said that a glider that can stay in the air for a long time has been built, and it is on an ocean-going ship.

Equipped with this kind of glider, its main function is to help the fleet find land on the endless ocean.

After hearing this, Leo naturally understood that the so-called land of origin suspended in the air should be a colonial spaceship. As for why the spacecraft did not land on the ground, he felt that it might have something to do with the special environment of this world. Perhaps this world

The power of law that greatly weakens the effect of extraordinary power is not only used for extraordinary power, but may also be used for special energy. Therefore, if the spacecraft lands, it will most likely be unable to fly.

Leo also induced these naval soldiers to talk about some things about the National Academy of the Kingdom of Berent. He did this mainly because he wanted to know what the level of knowledge in this world had reached. It was a pity that these naval soldiers were not alone.

All of them are fishermen, and it is difficult to write their own names, let alone the knowledge of scholars.

However, in the content of their conversation, Leo did get a useful piece of information, that is, when setting off from the kingdom, there was a ship full of scholars from the National Academy heading to the New World with their cruising fleet. Those scholars originally

They wanted to use the deterrence of the kingdom's ocean fleet to avoid encountering pirates and the like, but unexpectedly they got involved in a well-planned naval battle and were sunk by the enemy's warship's artillery right after the war started.

, no one on board survived.

After getting this information, Leo happened to disguise himself as an oceanographer on the ship, because the scholar on the ship only had contact with the fleet commander, and the lower-level sailors and officers had never seen anyone on the ship, and the fleet commander and commander

None of the layers surrendered and sank to the bottom of the sea with the flagship, so no one could reveal his identity. In addition, he deliberately revealed some profound ocean knowledge during the conversation, which made his identity disguise more real.

According to the system of the Behrend Kingdom, everyone who becomes a scholar automatically obtains the lowest knighthood among the kingdom's aristocracy, so Leo became the highest-status among the captives in the cabin, and under his conscious guidance,

He gradually became the backbone of these people.

People from the Root Kingdom also seemed to know about Leo's existence. Perhaps they thought Leo could be of some use, so they gave him some extra treatment in terms of prisoner treatment, such as moving him from the cage on the bottom to
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