When the Royal Library opened, Charles said goodbye to Amiya with a burp and went to the library together.

Then, the two of them stood stupidly in the arc-shaped hall at the entrance to the library, waiting left and right, waiting for Zlatkin's arrival.

After more than twenty minutes, a middle-aged human with extremely intelligent intelligence ran in breathlessly.

When the visitor saw Charles and Amiya, he hurriedly walked over and asked, "Is it Charles?"

At Charles's request, he had everyone call him by his first name and not by his last name.

"It's me. Charles said to the visitor, "Are you Professor Zlatkin?"

"I'm Zlatkin. He replied, "I'm sorry, but there were too many people watching the excitement in front of the building at the intersection in front of me, and the road was blocked, so I managed to get through." ”

"It doesn't matter. Charles replied, "We were almost stuck there." ”

After the pleasantries, Zlatkin led Charles to the front desk in the hall, where a luxurious reading room was opened.

Zlatkin explained to Charles: "Because sometimes a lot of scholars need to discuss problems and research problems here, and they don't want to be disturbed by others, and at the same time, they don't want to disturb others, so there are a lot of separate lounges in the library. Sometimes, His Royal Highness the Demon King will also come here to gather his wisdom to discuss some issues. ”

With the letter of proof from the school and the VIP card in hand, Zlatkin quickly opened the reading room, and then he led Charles and Amiya to the stairs in the center of the library.

As he walked, he introduced to Charles: "The Royal Library is more than 2,000 years old, and it is a circle, more than 100 meters in diameter, and in the center is a central garden with a diameter of 30 meters. The library has six floors and houses a myriad of books from a variety of disciplines. This is a key protection unit of our country, and it has been established for so many years, even if the palace has been breached several times, it has never fallen. ”

Charles was led by Zlatkin to a reading room on the sixth floor, where a human girl in the library's trousers, shirt, and waistcoat uniform was already waiting.

Next to the doorway of this reading room are two shelves full of catalogs, as well as three empty shelves with greenery in the middle. In the middle of the room is a sofa and coffee table, and a map hangs on the wall next door. From the window facing the outside, you can see a small half of Abyss City.

After Charles and Zlatkin were seated, Amiya and the waiter went to prepare tea.

Zlatkin asked Charles, "What aspect of history would you like to know?"

Charles saw that there were only the two of them in the reading room at this time, so he said, "Professor Zlatkin, I guess you also know that my surname is McCaden, and I came to Abyss City from Dongtu to travel for a few days. ”

Zlatkin nodded.

Charles continued: "In the East, there is a blank record in the history books of my ancestor Philip for more than a decade on this land, so I wonder what he did here. ”

Zlatkin nodded, spoke to Charles, and went to the catalog shelves by the door to look for useful books.

At this time, Amiya and the waiter came back with tea and snacks, and Amiya said while pouring tea for Charles: "Young master, this is the tea made by the paladin fruit, this tea can quench thirst, can prevent and treat sore throat, and is especially suitable for drinking today." ”

"Thank you. Charles said to Amiya.

After pouring the tea, Amiya originally planned to stand next to Charles, but Charles didn't feel used to it, so he asked her to sit on the sofa next to her.

At this time, Zlatkin handed over a copy of the bibliography of the books needed and handed it to the waiter, asking her to bring them.

The luxury of the luxury reading room is not only reflected in the hardware facilities, but also in the service.

Taking advantage of the fact that the waiter had not yet returned, Charles asked Zlatkin a question that had been bothering him for a while.

"Professor Zlatkin, it is recorded that this is the Rurik Empire, and the supreme leader is the emperor, but why did I come here to find that the country has been changed to the Rurik Kingdom, and my uncle's self-proclaimed king, and now you still call Catherine the empress. And the title of 'royal' is still used in many places. In the more than 300 years since the last war, has something happened in it?"

"Alas......" Zlatkin sighed deeply, "this is a national shame!"

Then he said: "The war fought more than 300 years ago was very tragic, and if it were not for the two immortal geniuses of Empress Catherine and Philip, we would have become slaves to the country by now. ”

"Although at the end of the war we drove out the invaders, Empress Catherine and Philip also died, and a large number of young men died on the battlefield, which caused our national strength to plummet. ”

"At this time, our original allies, the demon clan living in the western island country, took advantage of the exhaustion of our national strength to suddenly send troops to occupy nearly half of the western part of our country, and countless people became slaves. ”

"If it weren't for the large number of reinforcements sent by the Elven Royal Court, coupled with the terrain of the western plateau, we would have become slaves of the country. ”

Then Zlatkin walked up to the map hanging on the wall, pointed to the vast land marked in red on the west side of the map, and said: "After losing this land, the emperor of that time, the younger brother of Empress Catherine, was deeply humiliated, so he proclaimed himself king, and demanded that future generations should return to the throne only after recovering the lost land. ”

"Unfortunately, for the next three hundred years, we were on the defensive, facing the attacks of the demon armies almost every year in several passes in the Blanc Mountains. ”

At this time, Charles realized the "vastness" of this continent for the first time.

In the east, the kingdoms of Fringen, Biberach and Ryric in the north were all slightly smaller than France, and the kingdoms of Bisberg and Rebach along the great river in the south were also about the same size as Italy. The east-west width of the entire northern region of the Great River in the human domination area south of the prairie is about the straight-line distance from Shanghai to Kunming, and the north-south width is about the distance from the capital to the capital of Anhui Province.

The area south of the Great River is slightly smaller, because its coastline is similar to that of China, and the further south it goes, the more westward it becomes, making the area south of the Great River about the same size as the area south of the Yangtze River in China, and the Elven Court occupies the southernmost part of the land slightly larger than the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The entire area under human control is almost as densely populated as the eastern part of China.

And how big the northern prairie area is, no one can say at present, it is estimated that only Weilong Mountain knows.

The forest sea that divides the east and west sides of the continent extends from the sea in the south to the north to the ice crown mountain range, which is almost equal to the length of half of the three-north shelter forest, but the forest sea is much wider than the three-north shelter forest, nearly 100 kilometers in the narrow place and nearly 200 kilometers in the wide area.

The area controlled by the demons to the west of the forest sea is much larger than the area controlled by humans.

The eastern part of the Rurik Kingdom is about the same size as the area controlled by humans and elves.

The central part is a plateau area with a length of more than 1,000 kilometers from north to south and a width of 2 to 300 kilometers, which is similar to that of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The east and west sides of this plateau are two towering mountain ranges, low in the east and high in the west. The screen mountain range on the east side blocks the water vapor blowing from the west, so the east side of the mountain range is the death sand sea in the north and the grassland at the end of the west.

The western side of the plateau is the Blanc Mountains, and to the west of the mountains is a land similar to that of Western Europe. More than 90 kilometers to the west of the Blanc Mountains is a rugged mountain range with an altitude of more than a thousand meters, and the mountain range that has now fallen into the hands of the enemy is called the Sad Heart Mountains.

It was these three mountains that ran through the continent from north to south that connected the eastern and western parts of the Rurik Kingdom, making it impossible for the western region to transfer the only elite troops deployed in the east to resist the invasion of human armies after the invasion, causing the western region to fall completely.

Although this continent is also vast, because of the large number of ferocious demonic beasts in this world, it is impossible for various intelligent races to reclaim enough land.

Charles has always believed that the land under his feet is only a part of the continent on this planet, and it is only because the demonic beasts in the ocean are as fierce as Kaihang, so they have trapped various intelligent races on this continent.

After introducing this part of the national humiliation of the Rurik Kingdom, Zlatkin returned to the couch and sat down, and then drank some paladin fruit tea to moisten his throat.