Chen Xuyuan swiped his finger across the entire map and said, "What is the current development of human civilization on these continents?"

Hamlet couldn't stand his "ignorance" anymore, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "How can there be so many human civilizations, most of which are ruled by alien races." In those countries, human beings are only three or four races. ”

Chen Xuyuan was taken aback, but listened to Hamlet continue: "Don't you know? Only part of the continent and coastal island chain in the eastern and northern stormy seas are under human control! In the coastal areas of the Eternal Continent, we only occupy a small part of the area. In the deep part of the continent, in addition to the continuous and steep snow-capped mountains that reach into the sky, the fierce and dead desert that stretches for tens of thousands of miles, and the rancid and poisonous miasma swamps and wetlands that cannot be seen when you fly into the sky, there are scattered and suitable places for living along the way, and bandits of various races are everywhere rampant in the mountains and fields, blocking roads. “

He smiled again and half-jokingly said: "Even if a country wants to open up its territory, it can't gain a foothold under the harassment of foreign races, and there are even people from civilized countries who join forces to rob it." You also know that the environment in the center of the continent is treacherous, the roads are impassable, and the distance from human forces is too far to transport large quantities of food to the past. The spell materials and other things that we wizards consume every year are sold and transported by merchants, and there are no people there, so how can there be merchants? What do wizards do in that kind of place?"

Chen Xuyuan was dumbfounded when he heard this.

Then Hamlet Wizard pointed to a large number of white humanoid signs on the map with his right finger, and said clearly: "From the northwest side here~~ to the southeast here~~ are the main areas of human activity."

He saw that there were a large number of human kingdoms in the coastal areas of the Eternal Continent, and some places were particularly dense and almost connected!

Moreover, the closer you get to the sea on the map, the denser it becomes, and the more you tend to go inland, the more sparse it becomes.

However, according to the scale estimate, the area of human activities only exists within 2,000 kilometers of the coast, and there is no trace of human civilization further inland!

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is our city of Saen?"

Hamlet moved to the southeast side of the Eternal Continent, a place marked "Palmers" - a land that looked like a top hat with a feather trim on his left arm outstretched.

The old wizard's gesture crossed the continent slightly, and he said to a piece of land no bigger than the size of a marble between the "thumb sockets" of the left arm in the southeast corner of Palmers, "This is it." The ~ green short line connecting the three continents of Wraeclast, Palmers and Eternal is the greatest Sikawang Maritime Corridor of mankind, known as the Lifeline of the Eastern Sea, the Water Corridor and the Golden Route. ”

Chen Xuyuan carefully compared, Wraeclast on the map is only one percent the size of Palmers, and there is a very small strait gap between the two!

I thought that Sarn City was already a rich and civilized area, but who knew that the entire continent was just a small remote island country!

Chen Xuyuan, who was slightly shocked in his heart, pointed to the large blank space between the many humanoid signs on the mainland and asked, "Are there robbers here?"

Hamlet is amazed at his ignorance, but when he asks for help, he patiently replies: "Not only robbers, but also many unhuman kingdoms that are more ruthless than robbers." It's really helpless to say, the human witchcraft civilization is the highest, and it can completely suppress or even destroy those non-human kingdoms. However, any witchcraft consumes a lot of raw materials and wealth, and only in the places where humans gather can a high level of witchcraft ability be developed, and human civilization can be protected and developed. “

"But there are many species of stubborn weeds on land that are difficult to eradicate, and they all produce some of the strange oxalic acid that pollutes the arable land, making it difficult for the whole grains to grow, and their seeds are scattered all year round with the climate. During the fallow period every year, expensive oxalic acid alchemy agents are used to make it clear that there is heterogeneous oxalic acid in the field. “

"So everywhere else, it's just for those murderous races to take over. Alas~~ If all the land in this world could be cultivated for food, we human beings would have dominated all the continents a long time ago! How could we be angry with those dragon kingdoms, giant kingdoms, and snake kingdoms all day long?"

His face was full of regret, and Chen Xuyuan suddenly understood - although human witchcraft is developed, it is unable to conquer those areas where there is no arable land due to the harsh productivity conditions!

Just like the farming people in the Han and Tang dynasties, they could expel or even slaughter the nomads, but they could not gain a foothold in the grassland, as long as the national strength weakened slightly, they were immediately invaded by the nomads in turn.

Under the conditions of productivity at that time, this was an unsolvable dead end!

In the same way, human civilization has achieved much more in witchcraft than other intelligent races, but the number of people is limited by the productivity of "food"!

Just as the living standards of thousands of wizards and nobles in Sarn City do not represent the productivity level of hundreds of thousands of commoners in Wraeclast.

No matter how strong a wizard is, he can't make the whole human race strong!

And.

The number of casters is greatly affected by population factors, but there is not enough arable land to expand the human base.

Mankind.

In fact, it is trapped in a "regional island" composed of broken arable land, mountains and forests that produce edible animals and plants, and coastal rivers with abundant aquatic resources.

......

In the next few days, Chen Xuyuan had time to pretend to go to the academy's library to borrow books during the day, and secretly observe the energy fluctuations of the rune arrays on the "ghost guards" in the library.

After coming back.

Experiments on the "thumb" of the demon pet, secretly using spells to transform its soul, so that it slowly has a special connection with the external natural energy source!

Fortunately, he studied the interaction between runes, spells, and human souls more and more seriously.

It's also a small gain.

Because the energy of the rune circle can only come directly from the universe between heaven and earth, not special things such as supernatural forces, observing the operation mode of these energies, you can deduce the basic principle and operation mode of the solidified magic circle.

On the other hand, the rune array is also a method of manipulating the energy of heaven and earth, which can solidify the energy of heaven and earth on the physical object in different ways, forming complex functions.

In addition to the more common aura effect-like exorcism, trapping enemies, healing, and protection, there are many other functions.

For example, use runes to engrave into the golem's body, program the golem and give it a set of behavior patterns.

Like many wizard towers, there are some cheap puppet minions, although it is useless to fight, but it can recognize the simple language commands of the master, at least there is no problem in serving tea and water.

And some of the more advanced puppets were even beaten into the soul and molded into new puppet lifeforms, and they could also give some spell-like spells, supernatural abilities and special abilities, and at that time they were already equivalent to an elemental-like creature.