"It's more stable than a normal Flame Seed, and it doesn't need to be protected so tightly when the Knight carries it into the Dark Forest. More importantly, it can change the surrounding environment at any time before it's ignited. Although it's only less than three hundred meters in diameter, it's enough to protect the explorers in the chaotic regions."
"It's exactly as the Lord described, Your Highness. This is an epoch-making product, and I believe it will profoundly change Erouine, no — even the entire human world."
The hall was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, and only Tamar's voice echoed in the hall. Amandina and Princess Gryphine listened attentively.
Before the Era of the Return of Light, the mortals figured out how to use the Fragments of Order in Martha's Blessed Land.
The term 'Flame Seed' was thus born.
After that was the most magnificent and glorious era of Wohnde, and the mortals' empire rapidly expanded in all four directions, almost reestablishing the territories of Wohnde that had been shattered and buried in darkness since the last era.
Erouine, Antoburo, the Ten Cities, and a series of small countries on the border were born in this era. The Wilderness of the Four Realms, the Great Plains, and the White Mountains were barren lands during the War of the Holy Saints, but from then on, they became territories of civilization and order.
Thanks to the sages of that era, the modern humans no longer needed to use the phrase 'cut through thorns' when crossing the Wilderness of the Four Realms and the Great Plains. In history, when the Flame King led the people across the Great Plains, several mortal clans lost almost half of their population.
In the most prosperous period of the Year of the Return of the Light, the vast new territories that were constantly expanding, and the endless wealth of products and resources from the newly developed lands supported the most peaceful and glorious era of the civilized world for hundreds of years after the War of the Holy Saints.
An endless supply of resources and an ever-increasing standard of living gradually created an era where the spiritual world was sublimated, art flourished, and people pursued an exquisite aristocratic lifestyle. All of this could be found in the flashy architectural style and the exquisite carvings on the armor of that era that were like works of art.
It was an era of endless glory, and the people were full of hope for the future. Even the wizards and astrologers thought that the mortals had the key to the ultimate mystery of the world.
After the death of the Twilight Dragon, the World of Order was finally able to defeat the power of Chaos. Thus, a world with unlimited land and products could be built on the land.
In this world, the living space of humans would be wider than any previous era, so even if the gods had left, the mortals could still create a golden era with their own strength.
However, just like all dreams had a beginning and an end, the dream of the Year of the Return of Glory also crashed into the cold wall of reality during the most prosperous period of this era, cruelly shattering into pieces.
It was around the time when Erouine explored the Southern Realm for the last time, and the mortals first discovered the existence of the Wall of the Past.
In the year 1435 of the Chaos Era, the Mist Elves and the Undead of Saint-Ausol ended the famous Battle of Sparks. In the same year, an expedition team from White City was advancing north of the Great Glacier in Wohnde. After they set up a forward base at the Icebreak Fjord, they spent six years trying to ignite the Seed of Prometheus, but all of them failed.
At that time, not many people knew that this insignificant event, which was overshadowed by the continental war, would become the fuse that changed the history of the entire continent.
Before and after the Year of the Purslane, there was a series of unpredictable failures. In the Gray Valley to the east of White Mountain, the Leroth Peninsula to the north of Hazel, the Perpetual Sea to the north of the Ring of the World, the Eagle Forest to the east of the Ten Cities, and the Loop of Trade Winds to the south of Erouine, all of the Pioneer Knights failed.
After the Year of the Dead Moon, a large number of Pioneer Knights and adventurers went missing. In the next five years, humans began to run into obstacles in all four directions.
An invisible line, the Wall of the Past, stopped the rapid expansion of the mortals since the Year of the Return of Light.
The Pioneer Knights found that once they crossed the invisible line on the map, the Seed of Fire would become extremely unstable, and it would be difficult to ignite it, or even impossible to ignite it at all. It was not until 20 years later, in the Year of the Lush, that scholars came to a conclusion:
The so-called Wall of the Past was actually the most prosperous era of Vaunte since the previous era — that is, the era when the divine people were still walking on the earth, the border of the territory where Marsha's blessed land was at its peak. The territory that humans developed in the Year of the Return of Light was actually just restoring the homeland.
The establishment of this academic point of view also sounded the horn of war in that era.
In the same year, the Druids went into seclusion, and then in the Year of the Radiant, the Silver People went into seclusion.
Half a century later, the Second Holy War broke out.
In the following five centuries, the history of the mortal world was dominated by each other's expeditions, battles, conspiracies, and tricks, as well as the decadence and decadence of the ancient nobles.
Once upon a time, the heroic Pioneer Knights who held the swallowtail flag and led their followers and like-minded companions through the dark forest gradually faded from people's sight. Instead, they were replaced by cold metal, gleaming swords, marching troops in the forest, flowing blood, and blazing flames.
As everyone knew, since the end of the Year of the Return of Light, the Seed of Fire would become extremely unstable after entering the Dark Forest (actually, it was crossing the Wall of the Past, because humans had almost expanded the Land of Order to the limit around the Year of Moss during the Chaos Era). Therefore, it needed to be heavily protected, and it could not withstand almost any turbulence, or it might be permanently extinguished.
And even if it was well protected, the Seed of Fire would still have a series of problems such as being difficult to ignite, or even extinguishing after igniting. Therefore, after the end of the Year of the Return of Light, the expansion of human territory on the frontier of civilization was extremely limited. (It was not that there was no expansion, because around the Year of the Separation, there was a second wave of expansion in areas such as Erouine south of Cruz, and a series of areas such as Bucce and Tónigel were established during this era.)
And after the second wave of expansion, humans' use of the Seed of Fire was actually limited to mining veins in the Dark Forest. After igniting the Seed of Fire, even if it was just a short period of time to open up a Land of Order in the Dark Forest, mining or selling the ownership of the mineral was enough to make these people a lot of money.
But it was actually a gamble, because the high price and the rare quantity of the Seed of Fire meant that a large number of people would go bankrupt if they failed to ignite it. Therefore, in this era, the Pioneer Knight was actually no longer a glorious term, but was related to desperadoes, gamblers, robbers, and even bandits.
Since the Year of the Summer, just the exploration activities in the Dark Forest within Erouine alone had led to the birth of the Bandit Knight class who were penniless and burdened with huge debts.
And the orderly and successful development of the Dark Forest like Tónigel could be said to be one of a kind after the Year of the Separation. But Brando borrowed the power of the ancient Seed of Fire in the Loop of Trade Winds. Ever since the Seed of Fire was ignited in the Loop of Trade Winds, the powerful power of Order had actually begun to permeate and transform the environment from Tónigel to the Karanga Mountains. That was why the Pioneer Knight from Abies could establish himself in the Dark Forest.
However, Amandina had sealed all information about the Dark Forest and listed it as the top secret of the Tónigel. Many people believed that Brando's success was due to luck, just like those gamblers who were lucky enough to ignite a rich Magic Crystal Mine and obtain the favor of the Goddess of Fortune. That was why he was able to achieve his current status.
It wasn't just the nobles in the North who had such thoughts, but even the Royal Faction who were waiting to see Brando's downfall after he emptied out all his money.
Amandina was naturally dismissive of these people's thoughts, but that didn't stop her from understanding the value of the resplendent crystal in the hands of Tamar's youngest son.
She knew that for a long time, this Master Alchemist had been studying the ancient Seed of Fire in the depths of the Loop of Trade Winds under Brando's instructions. He wanted to find out why it could ignore the 'Wall of the Past' and display such a strong and stable power of Order.
The progress of the research was not fast. Although the laboratory did produce some Fire Seeds, most of Tónigel's Fire Seeds were obtained from places like Ampere Seale, Braggs, and Kurkel. The cost was not cheap, and if it wasn't for Brando's insistence, she would have ordered the research to stop.
The profits from the Dark Forest were actually not as high as people imagined. While the few mineral veins supported the consumption of Valhalla, most of the income was actually used to subsidize the development of the Dark Forest.
And this was under the influence of the Fire Seed of the Loop of Trade Winds in the vicinity of Tónigel. If they continued to go deeper into the Loop of Trade Winds, the subsequent investment and personnel losses would be astronomical.
But all of this might have to be rewritten today.
Amandina subconsciously exchanged glances with the princess beside her, and they saw the excitement in each other's eyes.
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