This world is a bit like a stand-alone Warcraft game in the previous life, treasure hunting, monster killing, mining, and ruins exploration... Before exploring all the fog, no one knows what secrets the continent has and how vast it is.

The fog is full of endless unknowns.

Humans call the barren black earth beneath their feet the Ice Ridge Wasteland.

The Ice Ridge Heath is huge, and the proven area is larger than the total land area of the Earth in previous lifetimes.

Countless steam mechanical cities move across the Ice Ridge Wasteland, exploring, preying, treasure hunting, competing for resources... The map is also updated at all times.

Humanity is divided into two empires, the Omar Empire to the north and the Sid Empire to the south.

There were also some local frictions between the two empires over large mineral deposits, but large-scale wars rarely occurred.

After all, the wasteland is huge, and the areas to explore are endless... Humanity's worst enemy is the Wasteland Monster in the Mist, not the Civil War.

The Omar Empire is divided into seventy-two administrative provinces, each of which is headed by a hereditary duke's high nobles, with a main mechanical city of the lord of Beamon and countless secondary mechanical cities.

The system of hereditary aristocracy has led to the concentration of most of the resources in the hands of the old nobles, the class has been solidified, and the seventy-two grand ducal families have not changed much in hundreds of years.

The aristocracy has lost its adventurous spirit, and they can be nourished by keeping the inheritance of their ancestors.

And the path of the common class to the upper class has almost been blocked, and the descendants of the common people are destined to be exploited and oppressed as soon as they are born.

The only hope is to become a wilderness hunter and go to the wasteland to hunt for treasure. Like Baron Morin, if he can find a shocking treasure, he can exchange some minced meat scraps from the mouths of high nobles for a small low-ranking noble title.

Social contradictions are getting bigger and bigger, and the progress of the Omar Empire's exploration of the unknown fog zone is getting slower and slower. These old aristocrats have lost the enterprising spirit of their ancestors, and have gradually become a stumbling block to the progress of civilization.

And Sputin XV is now the Emperor of Omar.

The ambitious emperor intended to carry out a "reform and change".

For example, he intends to reduce the price of potions monopolized by the old nobles, so that everyone can advance to the extraordinary; He also intends to open the Royal Academy to civilians and create more basic academies so that all civilians in the empire can learn the basics for free...

The price of potions has decreased, and more civilians can advance to the advanced Transcendental, and more and more dangerous areas of the Fog will be explored, and human civilization will make great strides...

And all the people learn knowledge, then a large number of civilian geniuses can be scooped up, there will be more and more potions, scientists, and polymaths, and the bottleneck that restricts the progress of mankind will be broken, and the empire will definitely become stronger and stronger...

But the resistance, you can imagine.

Genetic potions are the most valuable business in this world, and they are the "necessities" for human beings to survive in this world.

But ninety percent of the potions sales industry on the market is monopolized by the high aristocracy, which is also the best way for the people at the top of the pyramid to exploit the people at the bottom for hundreds of years.

Killing this chicken that lays golden eggs is equivalent to cutting off the "milk" of most of the old nobles.

What does it matter to me that the empire is strong? What does human progress have to do with me?

Why are aristocrats expensive?

If there are no hundreds of thousands of untouchables who can't afford to eat in the aristocratic territory, why should they be superior?

Let everyone in the common people be able to advance to the transcendental, and they can enter the academy to learn knowledge, isn't this encroaching on the rights that only their nobles have?

In the long run, what is the difference between nobles and commoners?

Fight for talent and hard work?

Hehe... Fuck the talent!

Lao Tzu was born a nobleman, and he can be rich and wealthy by inheriting the family business, so why fight with a group of untouchables on the same starting line?

Therefore, after the reform, the upper echelons of the Omar Empire were divided into two factions, a small number of "reformists" who supported the emperor's reforms; There are also the majority of "conservatives" who secretly obstruct and want to maintain the status quo.

The eldest princess, Yumir, is the most hard-line royal family in support of his brother Sprin XV's reform plan!

Now the emperor's physical condition is deteriorating, and there is a high probability that he will not live for a few years.

And the eldest princess Ymir is known as the most talented royal family of the Sprin family for hundreds of years, and her prestige in the country is even higher than that of many princes!

If there are no accidents, there is a good chance that Sprin XV will pass the throne to his sister Ymir, instead of the idle princes!

And this time Ymir's assassination was actually a collision between the empress and the "conservatives" and "reformists" who represented the interests of the old aristocracy.

Even, the premature aging of Spugreen XV's body has the shadow of the conspiracy of those guys.

......

The steam train runs smoothly across the wasteland.

Shortly after Wren and Ymir used the communication radio.

Tuk, tuk, tuk!

There was a knock on the door.

"President."

"Enter."

In a car at the head of the train, a man who looked like a butler knocked on the door and walked in.

The carriage was unusually warm, and the beautiful crystal chandeliers illuminated the huge room.

The decoration of the room is very luxurious, with antique wooden furniture, exquisite handmade cashmere carpets from Nyère, and oil painting ornaments that look like the master's hand, and even the wine vessels on the table are made of sterling silver, which exudes a luxurious atmosphere everywhere.

It's as if this wasn't a carriage, but a palace.

There was only one person in the room.

This is a beautiful woman wearing a high-slit lace cheongsam.

At this moment, she was lazily half-lying in her chair, looking through a thick stack of ledgers. With her feet crossed over on the edge of the table, the cheongsam slit to the base of her legs gave her slender legs at a glance.

"President Canossa, someone borrowed the communication radio in the car just now to transmit ten encrypted messages."

Even if he looked up, he could see the boundless spring, and the housekeeper kept his head down the whole time after entering the house, as if there was a fear from the bottom of his heart, which made him dare not look directly.

If there are business people here, they will definitely be able to recognize this charming woman as the legendary vice president of the [Black Gold Chamber of Commerce], Canossa Brown. J. Clofeller.

It's the name of a formidably intimidatingly vast empire of money.

Almost all the business of the high nobles of the two empires had dealings with this "black gold chamber of commerce".

And the "Thorn Bird Chamber of Commerce" to which this train belongs, one of the largest chambers of commerce in the southern provinces of Omar, is just an inconspicuous small chamber of commerce under the command of the "Black Gold Chamber of Commerce".

Hearing this,

The cheongsam beauty didn't raise her eyebrows, and asked lightly: "Is it cracked?" ”

The butler shook his head and said, "It's impossible for a short time. Looking at the skillful encryption method she operates, she is a bit like an intelligence informant of the 'Blackwater Channel' of the Omar Royal Intelligence Group. ”

"Oh."

Cheongsam beauty: "Then don't worry about it." Now there is great turmoil within the Omar royal family, and the political situation is very sensitive... No matter who the messenger is, we don't mix. ”

"Yes, President."

The housekeeper nodded, and said, "President, you said that the secret message from the headquarters wants to confirm whether the news of the assassination of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is accurate, so that you can make a follow-up plan..."

When the cheongsam beauty heard the news, her charming face was a little moved.

"Let's just think she's dead."

She added, "It doesn't matter if it's true or not. Now that Baron Askepa has been labelled as a rebel, the 'reformists' greatest reliance is gone. Without the right to war, there is no right to speak. No matter who comes, it will be impossible to turn the tide. ”

The news channels of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce are all over the world, which makes her know what is going on.

After a pause, she added: "Forcing General Baron to rebel, Queen Omar made a very good move. Even if the eldest princess didn't die, the situation of returning to the imperial capital would not be better. ”

A merchant broke through the situation in the upper echelons of the entire Omar royal family at this time in a few words, and it was extremely thorough.

If someone who understands politics is here, his jaw will definitely drop.

"That..."

The butler said, "Lord Lord, General Baron has taken away some of the most elite mechanic legions in the empire this time, so what about the supply agreement we signed with them before...?" ”

The cheongsam beauty looked disapproving, and said, "Business is as usual, according to the contract." Anyway, there are investments on both sides, and no matter who sits on the throne, it will not have much impact on our Chamber of Commerce. ”

After a pause, she seemed to lose much interest in this matter, and instead asked, "By the way, how is the situation in the 'Forest of Ashes'?" ”

The housekeeper said: "The mineral deposits on the periphery over there have been preliminarily explored, and they are a top-level rich mine, and the reserves of 'high-burning coal' in the shallow layer alone will be very large." However, the savage tribe over there is very troublesome, and there is no good way to solve it for the time being..."

The cheongsam beauty asked again, "What about the temple?" ”

Butler: "Deep in the forest, it was confirmed that there was someone who should be one of the seventy-two gods and knights of the 'Black Emperor' back then. However, where there are savage priests stationed, it is impossible to approach them unless a large army forcibly exterminates them. ”

The beautiful woman in the cheongsam had a sparkle in her beautiful eyes, and said, "Then spread the news and attract more hunters to open up the wasteland." The inheritance of the relics, our Chamber of Commerce must get it! ”

"Got it, President. I'm going to do it..."

The butler bowed lower and lower, and turned to go out.