Chapter 43 Leyline
During this period, every time Gaode went out to sell medicine, he would take a stroll around Hogan City.
First, you need to get familiar with Hogan City, and at the same time, you can relax and experience the "different world" style.
The second is to understand local customs and even prices, and deepen our understanding of the world.
It was this action that made him discover that there were many people in the city recently who were obviously not local residents of Hogan City.
This made Gothe vigilant.
He had an inexplicable feeling that a storm was coming.
In addition, there was an unexpected gain that Gaode himself did not expect.
In this world, books are a rare and expensive commodity.
In some larger cities, there are libraries that specialize in selling books.
In small cities, that would be unthinkable. Only nobles, scholars, and wealthy businessmen would have some private collections of books in their homes.
This is caused by the monopoly of knowledge by the class that holds power in this world.
After learning about this situation, Goldburn no longer thought about what books he could buy in Hogan City.
Unexpectedly, while wandering around, I discovered a small studio selling books in a civilian area.
The owner of the studio is called Dairich, who was once a monk in the Bremen monastery.
Most monasteries will have their own libraries for monks to study doctrine.
At the same time, the books in their collection will be copied and sold to scholars in need and even wealthy patrons.
When Dairich was in the monastery, he was responsible for copying and making books.
Later, due to high maintenance costs and depleted funding sources, the monastery could no longer maintain operations and had to close down.
The group of monks were sent home individually.
When the monastery closed, the monks divided up the contents of the monastery and moved everything they could.
Dai Ruiqi was already quite old and couldn't get any good things. He could only pack some books collected by the monastery and returned to Hogan City, where he was born.
He is already old and cannot keep up with physical strength. He cannot do any physical work. Even if he can read, few people are willing to hire him for work because of his age.
But people always have to eat.
As soon as the old monk got it together, he rented a small house in a civilian area and opened a small studio.
He eked out a living in his old age by producing scribal books in his studio and selling them directly to customers.
The books sold by this old monk are not very valuable, mainly religious texts.
Including religious liturgical guides, church doctrine manuals, church history books, and even church literature including hymns.
In addition, there are a small number of heroic epics reflecting heroes and historical events, as well as a few sparse chronicles, travel notes, geography and humanities books.
There are no knowledge books or practical manuals.
Of course, even if you have Gaode, you can't afford it.
Here, the prices of books involving knowledge can reach sky high.
Those "miscellaneous books" in the traditional sense will be much cheaper.
But this is cheap, only in relative terms.
Although the types and quantities of books are small, they are exactly what high moral needs are.
He bought several travel notes and geography and humanities books, four in total, and bought two gold coins.
This price is simply shocking - in the previous life, it was not uncommon to get a pound of books for 50 yuan.
Gaode's heartache is heartache, but he still pays obediently, and the main character is to do as the Romans do.
As soon as he returned to the medicine garden with the four books that he had spent a lot of money to acquire, Gothe couldn't wait to pick up a copy of "Bremen Geography" and begin to understand the world.
Having said this, I have to thank Master Seda.
If he hadn't taken him back to the medicine garden and taken him as an apprentice, how could Gao De, who was once a beggar, learn to read?
Here, after turning a few pages, Gothe showed a look of extreme surprise on his face. "Is it very different from what I thought?"
The entire Bremen area is located in the west of the Principality of Sien. The vastness of the area far exceeds Gothe's imagination.
Because the overall appearance of this world is too similar to that of medieval Europe, and Hogan City is indeed not big, productivity is extremely low in his opinion.
This made Gothe subconsciously regard the Principality of Xi'en as a small country with an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, or at most one hundred thousand square kilometers.
From the fact that Bremen, the big city most widely known to the people of Hogan City, is actually less than two hundred kilometers away from Hogan City, it further supports his conjecture.
The result is that the Bremen area alone is actually larger than the area of the Principality of Sien that he imagined.
The entire Bremen area is more than 400 kilometers long from east to west and 800 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of more than 300,000 square kilometers!
This is already the size of Guangdong and Fujian.
In addition, there are nine major rivers in the Bremen region.
Seven remarkable mountains.
The mountains, forests, swamps and lakes are dotted with stars.
This is only the western region of the Principality of Xien.
One can imagine how big the Principality of Xien is.
"Is it possible to manage such a huge territory with the level of science and technology in this world? Isn't it beyond our reach?"
This question instinctively popped up in Gothe's head and he muttered: "This is unscientific. Ah!”
The next moment, he smiled and found that he was subconsciously thinking about the problem with fixed thinking.
Although the technological level of this world is not high, equivalent to that of medieval Europe, it possesses extraordinary powers such as magic.
The reason why extraordinary power can be called extraordinary is not because it is unscientific?
Shaking his head, Gaode turned the page and continued reading.
Such a vast area in Bremen is actually very desolate.
With the city of Bremen as the center and eight small cities including Hogan City, a development area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers is formed in a ring.
The remaining 300,000 square kilometers are unexplored wilderness, full of beasts and dangerous earth-line creatures.
Further down, Gothe finally learned a little bit of information about the earth-line creatures.
Although he often hears the term earth-line creatures and often talks about earth-line creatures, Gothe actually does not know much about earth-line creatures.
It was rare to see information about earth-line creatures, and he suddenly felt like he had found a treasure.
“After the planes converged, earth veins appeared frequently, and the number increased day by day. Earth vein creatures emerged. However, no new earth veins were born in the Bremen area for two hundred years. King Geros XII once praised Bremen is a blessed place."
The article only has a few words of description about the earth-line creatures, and then moves on to other geographical introductions.
However, in just this short sentence, the amount of information is already large enough.
"The intersection of planes, does this mean that there is more than one plane in this world? Or is the plane here different from the plane I know?"
"Earth veins are occurring frequently, and earth vein creatures are emerging. "This sentence is easy to understand. Earth line creatures come from the earth line, and the earth line is continuously generated, and the number continues to increase.
The same should be true for the number of leyline creatures.
Sure enough, a world with extraordinary power is definitely extremely complex and strange, and contains countless secrets.
And the sentence "No new earth veins have been born in the Bremen area for a hundred years" really made Gothe feel a little relieved.
Gothe had already seen the horror of earth-line creatures once in the medicine garden.
You don’t need to think about it to know that the appearance of earth veins is a natural disaster for humans.
Once a natural disaster occurs, there are too many uncontrollable factors. How can he, a weak first-class mage apprentice, not be affected?
Gaode doesn’t want to see his current peaceful life broken.
He is still young and not strong enough, but he has endless potential.
It's better to "grow" quietly and wait until you become much stronger.
(End of this chapter)