"It is more stable than ordinary fire, it does not need to be so tightly protected when it is carried by knights deep into the Black Forest, and more importantly, it will also change the surrounding environment anytime and anywhere before it is ignited, although it is only less than three hundred meters in diameter, but it is enough to protect explorers in the chaotic and unknown area."

"Just as your lord described, Your Highness the Princess, this is an epoch-making product, and I believe it will profoundly change Eruin, not - even the entire human world."

The hall was so quiet that only Tamar's voice echoed, and Antitina and Princess Griffiin listened with fascination.

Before the Age of Radiance returned, mortals figured out how to harness the abilities of the Order Fragments of Martha's Blessed Land.

Hence the term 'tinder'.

That was followed by Vaynd's greatest and most glorious age, as the mortal empire expanded rapidly into the wilderness in all four directions, almost reopening Vawend's shattered and obliterated territory in darkness from the previous era.

It was during this era that a series of small frontier states such as Eruin, Antobro, and Ten Cities were born, and the Wilderness of the Four Realms, the Great Plains, and the White Mountains, which were still barbaric territories in the era of the Battle of the Sages, also became the territory of civilization and order from this time.

Thanks to the sages of that era, modern humans no longer need to use words like overcoming thorns when passing through the regions of the Four Realms and the Great Plains, and when the King of Flame led the people through the Great Plains in history, several mortal clans lost almost half of their population.

At the height of the glorious return year. The vast new frontiers that were growing all the time, and the endless abundance of goods and resources from the lands that had been carved out, sustained one of the most peaceful and glorious epochs in the civilized world for hundreds of years after the War of the Sages.

Endless supplies. The increasing standard of living gradually created an era of sublimation of the spiritual world, flourishing art, and the pursuit of a refined aristocratic life, all of which can now be traced to the flashy architectural style of that era and the exquisite carvings on the armor like works of art.

It was a time of endless glory, and people were full of hope for the future, and even wizards and astrologers believed that mortals had the key to the ultimate mystery of the world.

After the death of the Dragon of Dusk. The world of order can finally defeat the forces of chaos and establish a world with an infinite amount of land and an infinite number of goods on the earth.

In this world, the living space of human beings will be wider than in any previous era. Therefore, even though the gods are gone, mortals can still create a golden age on their own.

However, like all illusions have a beginning and an end, the dream of the glorious return year also crashed headlong into the cold wall of reality at the height of this era. Thus cruelly fragmented.

It was around the time of the Eruin's last expedition to the south. For the first time, mortals discover the existence of the 'Wall of the Past'.

In the year 1435 of the Chaos Era, in which the fog elves and the undead of St. Osor ended the famous War of Starfire, an expedition north of Vaynd was heading north of the Great Glacier at Caps, and after establishing a forward base in the Cracked Ice Fjord, they spent up to six years trying to light a fire called the 'Prometheus Seed', but all failed.

At this time, few people knew about this trivial event that had been overshadowed by the continental war. In the future, it will be the fuse that will change the history of the entire continent.

Around the time of purslane, a series of unpredictable failures followed. In the Ashen Valley region east of the White Mountains, the Nalerus Peninsula north of Hazel, the Sea of Eternal Hope north of the Ring of Worlds, the Eagle Forest to the east of the Ten Cities, and the Ring of Trade Winds south of Eruin, none of the Pioneer Knights' attempts that year failed.

This was followed by the disappearance of a large number of pioneer knights and adventurers after the year of the dead moon, and in the course of five years, humanity began to hit walls everywhere in the four directions of east, east, west, and west.

An 'invisible line', the wall of the past, has stopped the rapid expansion of mortals since the year of their glorious return.

The Pioneer Knights found that once they crossed this invisible line on the map, the 'Tinder' began to become extremely unstable, making it difficult to ignite or even impossible to ignite. And it was not until twenty years later, in the year of prosperity, that scholars concluded that the coffin was closed:

The so-called wall of the past is in fact the heyday of Vagond since the last era, that is, the time when the gods were still walking on the earth, the frontier of the heyday of Martha's blessed land. And the territory that mankind has opened up in the glorious return year is really just repairing the homeland.

The establishment of this academic viewpoint also sounded the clarion call for war in that era.

In the same year, the druids died, and then in the year of glory, the people of silver died.

Half a century later, the Second Holy War broke out.

For the next five centuries, the history of the mortal world was dominated by conquests, battles, intrigues and intrigues, as well as the depravity and decay of the ancient aristocracy.

At some point, the image of the glorious and heroic pioneer knights who carried the swallowtail flag and carried their retinue and like-minded companions through the dark forest gradually faded from view, and was replaced by cold metal, flickering swords, marching armies in the forest, flowing blood and blazing flames.

It is well known that since the end of the Year of Radiance, the Tinder has become extremely unstable after entering the Black Forest (in fact, crossing the Wall of the Past, because humanity has almost expanded the Land of Order to its limits around the time of Chaos, Moss) and therefore needs to be heavily protected and cannot withstand almost any bumps, otherwise it may be extinguished permanently.

And even if it is well protected, the 'tinder' can also have a series of problems, such as it is difficult to ignite, and even extinguished after ignition, so after the end of the glorious return year, the territory of human expansion along the borders of civilization is extremely limited (not for nothing, because around the time of the partition, a second exploration fever emerged in regions such as Cruz South Eruin, and a series of regions such as Buch and Tonigel were established in this era).

After the second exploration, the use of fire was actually limited to mining veins in the Black Forest - after lighting the fire, even if it was only a temporary place of order in the Black Forest, mining or selling the ownership of minerals was enough to make these people a lot of money.

But this has become a kind of gambling, because the high price and rare quantity of 'tinder' can mean the bankruptcy of a large number of people. Therefore, in this era, pioneer knights are no longer a glorious inherent noun, but have been associated with outlaws, gamblers, robbers and even bandits.

Since the beginning of the summer, the expeditions in the Black Forest in Eruin alone have led to the creation of a penniless and even heavily indebted 'bandit knight class'.

The orderly and successful exploitation of the Black Forest by Tonigel can be said to be unique after the year of separation. But Brando relied on the power of the ancient spark of the Ring of Trade Winds, and since the spark of the Ring of the Trade Winds was ignited, the powerful power of order has actually begun to infiltrate and transform the environment of order from Tonigel to the Kalanga Mountains, so the pioneer knights from the fir realm can gain a foothold in the dark forest.

However, Antitina blocked all information about the Black Forest and classified it as Tonigel's top secret, so many people generally believed that Brando's success was due to luck - just like the gamblers who gambled in the Black Forest, he was lucky enough to ignite a magical crystal mine, and he was lucky enough to win the favor of Lady Luck, which is why he is where he is today.

The people who had this idea were not only the nobles of the north, but even those who were waiting in the royal party to see that Brando had eaten his old book and had a lot of bad luck.

Antitina was naturally dismissive of these people's thoughts, but that didn't prevent her from understanding the value of the brilliant crystal that was being held in the hands of Tamar's youngest son at the moment.

She knew that the master alchemist had been studying the ancient flame in the depths of the Ring of Trade Winds for a long time, at Brando's behest, to see why it was able to ignore the 'Wall of the Past' and show such a solid and powerful power of order.

The research did not progress quickly, and although some sparks were produced in the lab, most of Tonigel's sparks were obtained from places like Ampesel, Braggs, and Kurke, and they cost so much that if Brando hadn't insisted, she would have almost ordered the work to stop.

The Black Forest is far less profitable than one might think, with the few veins supporting Valhalla's consumption while most of the revenue is actually subsidized by the work that is being used to develop it.

This is still under the influence of the Ring of Trade Winds in the area around Tonigel, and once it continues to go deeper, the subsequent investment and loss of personnel are astronomical.

But all of that might have to be rewritten today.

Antitina subconsciously glanced at each other with Her Royal Highness the princess beside her, and each saw the excitement in each other's eyes.

…… (To be continued......)