And the Duchy of Castilipa and the Free State of Capetian Merchants were also members of the Hanseatic League. The Lufthansa Trade Alliance is a free-trade national trade organization. It is composed of several countries with the largest trade volume in the Strypa continent, and its trade volume accounts for about 40% of the entire Strypa continent. The most important country in the Lufthansa Trade League, and one of the largest trade volumes, was the Duchy of Castilipa.

Therefore, the Opperon Empire's invasion of the Capetian Merchant Free State was actually to invade the Duchy of Castilipa. Because in the port of Epalai belonged to the Free State of Capetian Merchants, which in turn was a subject state of the Principality of Casdilipa. Almost all of the trade goods of the Capetian Merchant Free State and the Principality of Casdilipa were shipped from the port of Epalai. Thus, the port of Epalai, alone accounted for 20 percent of the trade of the Hanseatic League, 89 percent of the trade of the Capetian Merchant Free State, and about 36 percent of the trade of the Principality of Castilipa......

Thus, the intention of the Opperon Empire to occupy the port of Epalai is self-evident. And the second clause in the contract is that the Duchy of Casdilipa needs to pay more than 66 million gold coins to the Opperon Empire. This was undoubtedly the plundering of a great deal of wealth from the Principality of Casdilipa......

This was the first factor in the invasion of the Duchy of Casdilipa by the Operon Empire, and the second was historical.

Alberta learned from studying history that the Capetian Merchant Free State and the Duchy of Casdilipa were both Epacleea, and that the Epaclea and the Opperon Empire had a strong historical grudge.

Alberta opened the history books of the Epaclea people, which probably read:

In the first year of the Akachid era, miracles awakened and magic reigned! Extraterrestrial meteorite, falling on the continent. And so on, the magic flowed......

In the second year of Akacid, the Wizards' Guild was formed to study extraterrestrial meteorites.

In the 31st year of Akached, the first magical war began, and the two opposing forces of fire and frost that magicians used in large quantities for war can also kill people!

In the 50th year of Akaqid, the Industrial Guild was founded, the great scientist Chekad Mayome discovered the power of coal, and this year was the end of Akaqid, and the next year was the first year of the birth of the Omega Dragon Era!

In the first year of Omeilong, in order to commemorate the great scientist Chekad Mayomy's discovery of the power of coal and steam, Mayomey's hometown, Omeron was named the first year of the new era.

In the 9th year of Omelon, the ancestors of the Epacleans, using powerful magical powers, established a series of states on the southwest coast of the continent of Strepa, including the Kingdom of Cape, the Kingdom of Florida, the Kingdom of Apelle and the Kingdom of Casria......

In the 11th year of Omeron, the ancient legends and ancestral hadiths of the Epacleans, he waged a 33-year war against the Opalon Empire...... In order to compete for the magical holy city of the Opperon Empire: Yadeslene. Legend has it that the magic meteorite from outside the sky fell on Adeslene, and Elon Ya, a magical radiant, studied the power of the Philosopher's Stone and brought magic to the whole world...... History called: Thirty-three years of war!

In the 32nd year of the Omearon and the 20th year of the Thirty-Three Years' War, the Epacleas suffered one defeat after another...... Among them, the kingdom of the powerful Epacleas: the kingdom of Florida and the kingdom of Apelé were destroyed one after another by the Opperon Empire, which possessed the magical holy land of Adeslenu, and the empire that could breed a large number of magicians......

In 39 Omelon, the Kasria kingdom of the Epacleans, used the power of steam for military purposes, and improved the arquebus to rifled firing pistols...... The Epacleans have achieved an absolute war advantage!

In the 42nd year of Omelon, the Casria Kingdom of the Epaclayans not only occupied the magical holy city of Adeslenu, but also destroyed the Opperon Empire! The Opperon Empire, which covered an area of 4.5 million square kilometers, was wiped out by the Epacleans, who occupied less than 1 million square kilometers......

In the 50th year of Omeron, the Epaclayan kingdom of Casria occupied the magical holy city of Adeslene in Opperon and destroyed the Opperon Empire, and the Epacleans gained the right to claim the throne! Since then, the Kingdom of Castleia has become the Empire of Castle, and the empire has adopted a two-monarch system, and the original Aoperon Empire's single-headed eagle has also been changed to an imperial double-headed eagle! Representing the Empire's Twin Kings! The Kasria Empire adopted the era of emperor and emperor co-rule! The double-headed eagle of the empire also represents the emperor and the emperor, and the rose grasped by the eagle's left claw and the sword grasped by the right claw have become the imperial emblem of the empire! And the 50th year of Ossilon has also become the last year of the Ometry Era, and the whole world has entered a new era name because of the establishment of the Castleian Empire: the Castle Era! The year of this era, founded by the Castleian Empire!

In the 49th year of the Kasriya era, the Epacleas of the Capetian kingdom established an empire due to their dissatisfaction with the Epacleas of the Casria Empire, and they overrode it! Instead of waging war, the Capetian Kingdom united eleven kingdoms to fight the Casrian Empire! Historically known as the "War of the Twelve Kingdoms"

In the 53rd year of the Kasrian era, the war of the Twelve Kingdoms, which lasted for four years, ended. It ended with the complete victory of the Castleian Empire, which annexed the kingdom of Capet, and all the Epaclayans were united under one empire!

In the 100th year of the Kasriya era, at the turn of the century, the entire continent lasted for almost 47 years of peace, and although there were large-scale wars in individual places, most of the region remained peaceful, and the Kasriya Empire prospered. But...... Recently! Within three months of the last year of the turn of the era, the emperor of the Castleian Empire died violently. The emperor changed the dual monarchy to a monarchy. Within a month, rebellion broke out all over the Castle Empire! In the second month, the territory of the original Capetian Kingdom took advantage of the turmoil in the empire and re-established itself from the empire to the Capetian Kingdom! In the last month of the year, the emperor was assassinated, and due to the violent death of the emperor's two sons one after another, the mighty Kasriya Empire collapsed within a month! The world has entered an old era......

The Old Era was a turbulent era, the twenty-year-long Old Era, due to the collapse of the Kasrian Empire, which led to the various kingdoms of the world, entering a situation of chaos! Originally, under the maintenance of the Kasria Empire, the continent of Stripa remained basically stable, but after the empire collapsed, the entire continent fell into chaos......

In the 20th year of the Old Era, that is, in the 220th year of the fall of the Philosopher's Stone on the continent of Strepa...... All the kingdoms on the continent of Stripa have been discussed, and in the past 220 years, almost all kingdoms have been engaged in wars, large and small...... On the continent of Streipa there is hardly a day that is not going on at war! As a result, the population of the Strypa continent was 200 million before the arrival of the Philosopher's Stone, but after 220 years, the population is only 70 million...... People realize that if the war is not stopped, then the continent of Streipa and the whole world will be destroyed!

As a result, the nine kingdoms with the largest geographical area consulted and never fought any wars again...... This year, the world has entered a new era!

In the first year of the new era, the most important thing was that the former royal nobles of the Castleian Empire established a state called the Principality of Casdilipa in the southwest of Strypa, the land of the Epaclayans who had reclaimed their ancestral land according to the Hadith of their ancestors. The wealthy merchants of the former Capetian kingdom, also in the southwest of Strepa, bought three port cities with huge sums of money: Epale, Karapeyan and New Carloa......

Epale developed into a trading city, and Carapeyan gradually became an administrative center, where a large number of administrative documents were handled by the merchants of the former Capetian kingdom, and a large number of diplomatic affairs were settled here. The city of New Carloa developed into a military port city.

In the 50th year of the new era, the three cities of Carapeyan, Epale, and New Kaloa formed the Capetian Merchant Free State, which received the military protection of the Principality of Castilipa, and in the following year, the two sides signed a mutual defense treaty, and in three years, the Capetian Merchant Free State became the protectorate of the Principality of Castilipa.

What followed was a long period of relative peace that lasted for 821 years! During this period, although there were wars, most of them were sporadic wars, and the navigation industry was greatly developed. The world has proven to be ellipsoidal, and there are individual kingdoms that want to establish a hegemon-level civilization, and even countries with backward civilizations overseas, and weak countries that have not developed steam and magic civilizations, trying to establish colonies, but they are all attacked by the kingdoms of the Strypa continent! The final plan was destroyed...... During these 821 years, not a single kingdom was annexed, and there were more than 70 countries on the continent of Strepa, which were largely uneventful...... During these 821 years, there was almost no technological development in the continent of Strepa, but the culture and scholarship were extremely developed. 821 years ago, people used horse-drawn carriages, steam, and magic as power and energy, and they still do......

In 872 A.D., the Parliament of Elotin, together with the non-princely princes of Pat, launched an army of 120,000 troops against the Duchy of Casdilipa, and the war lasted only one year, and the Duchy of Casdilipa was victorious the following year, and in the war it gained 360,000 square kilometers of territory. As a result of this battle, the Principality of Casdilipa has become one of the most powerful countries in the southwest of the continent of Streipa!

Autumn of the New Era 902! Thirty years later...... To be exact, it was 10:10 p.m. on September 13, 902 A.D. An almost behemothic steel ship of unknown origin, armed with epoch-making weapons and epoch-making technology, has arrived at the Epale trading port of the Capetian Merchant Free State, the capital of the Capetian Merchant Free State...... The night-long assault began for almost several days...... The latter, the Capetian Merchant Free State, was a protectorate of the Principality of Castilipa......

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