Cynthia pondered her emotions for a moment and continued to explain: "A few hundred years ago, the northern realm was still a forbidden area for humans to set foot in, and after crossing the Orras Mountains into the plateau, the harsh climate, the powerful demonic beasts that grew in the bitter cold land, and the elusive demons made the human beings who stepped in it rashly dead. However, according to legend, in the unreachable depths of the north, there is a wealth left by the creator god, and if you master this wealth, you can obtain invincible power in the world. Such legends attract adventurers to rush to their deaths. None of them were able to return, but that made the lore of the North even more fatally appealing. ”

"Until more than three hundred years ago, there was a special emperor in the Sauron Empire in the north, Dias III. He had a rough fate, because of the concubine and court infighting, he spent his youth and youth wandering and adventuring, and gradually grew into a famous adventurer. I didn't expect people to come to work when he was middle-aged, because the emperor was the heir, and Dias was lucky to return to China to be crowned and become the emperor. ”

As an adventurer, Dias III was clearly uninterested in the affairs of the Empire, and was obsessed with the legends of the nearby north. With the backing of an empire, he has the means to organize an epic adventure. ”

"Díaz III contacted his companions on the adventure, and in two years, he assembled a luxurious expedition. The expedition of nearly 1,000 men included not only famous warriors, erudite and wise mages, but also top masters in all fields. His Majesty the Emperor also used the power of the Empire to prepare the most advanced weapons, armor, scrolls, spellcasting materials, and various supplies for the expedition. It can be said that with such an expedition, it is easy to destroy a small kingdom. ”

"However, this is not all, when the expedition set out and crossed the Oreras Mountains, the ministers of the Sauron Empire were horrified to find that their Emperor Majesty was actually mixed with the expedition and conquered the country! All that remains is the helpless Empress Highness to preside over the empire. ”

Hao Yun and Xiaobai listened with relish, this emperor can be said to be quite individual. There have been similar emperors in the Celestial Empire before, and it is not noble traditions that flow in the veins, but the spirit of adventure. It's a pity that the emperor's end is very bleak, after all, the Celestial Empire is a traditional Confucian society, and the scholar class will never allow the emperor who is a model in the world to be so deviant. However, this does not mean that the common people do not like such an emperor.

"This is really an emperor with a personality, isn't he worried that after the adventure returns, the country and the empress will become someone else's?" Xiaobai asked seriously, because it is often written like this in novels. And what follows is often a plot such as the Prince's Revenge, which usually involves the fiancée of the childhood sweetheart pretending to be B and slapping her face, the mysterious and kind old man rescuing in danger, and a lot of various glamorous adventures and so on.

Cynthia chuckled and explained, "No, Dias III is very much loved by the people. He had no imperial style at all, and often crowded into taverns with commoners to drink. Moreover, he is a famous adventurer on the continent, not only in the Sauron Empire, but also in the southern countries, people are proud to have 'once walked with Dias'. Especially his romantic affairs, how many confidantes he has, to this day is still the most talked about topic in the world. ”

"Idols?" Hao Yun asked.

"Yes, idols." Cynthia thinks it sums up very well.

"I think it's a bit scum, but if Yan is good, I'll take back my words." This is Xiaobai's attitude.

Hao Yun was not happy, and decided to refute: "Please, this is the classical world, which emperor is not three wives and four concubines, the inheritance of the royal bloodline is the most important thing." Even if the emperor himself is very single-minded, the entire empire will not agree. And Xiaobai, let me tell you, the ministers will all kneel in front of the emperor, shouting that the rain and dew are all wet, the emperor. It's so realistic, because it's not only about inheritance, but also about the family power represented behind each concubine. Therefore, it is normal and noble for the emperor to have many wives, all for the country! ”

"Humph! Just talk a lot! Split the fork, split the fork, and split the truth? In the novels I read, which emperor is not only good to the heroine! It's called 'only one scoop of weak water for 3,000 drinks', Cynthia, let's ignore this stinky man. ”

"Huh." Hao Yun looked contemptuous and pointed out sharply, "But in your novel, the heroines are all octopuses, and each has a harem." ”

Xiaobai received a critical hit of 10,000 points, gave up resistance in despair, and had a favorability of -1 for Hao Yun.

"I don't want to quarrel with you, Cynthia continued, what happened to this Majesty Dias later."

The female mage looked at Hao Yun and Xiaobai funny, but she liked these two living treasures very much. They are passionate and soft, in stark contrast to the gloom of this world.

"For more than two years, the expedition has not been heard from. Just when everyone was giving up, they returned. But unlike the mighty army that set out, only five of Dias III and his early adventure companions, including the Emperor himself, survived. They were covered in scars and looked bitter. ”

"His Majesty the Emperor then declared that there is no wealth in the North, only a curse that will destroy the entire world. This is the prophecy of Dias, or the curse of Dias. He then sealed the border to the North, allowing no one to enter the North. But what the expedition encountered, what it discovered, what kind of curse, and why only five people were able to return, the five survivors did not say a word. ”

Decades passed, and Díaz and his fellow adventurers died. Just when it was thought that the secrets of the North would follow them to be buried forever, the descendants of one of the female adventurers, while sorting through the relics, found a map in a large mess of weaving. ”

"He was a scholar-type adventurer, and in his later years served as the director of the Royal Geographical Academy in the Kingdom of Robert. Legend has it that she was one of Dias's lovers in her youth, playing the role of exploration, drawing, identification in her adventures.

She kept her promise to Dias and never revealed information about her adventures in the North to anyone else in her life. But perhaps for academic reasons, or perhaps for deeper reasons, she kept the maps she had drawn by hand during her expeditions to the North. ”

"The whole world has become a sensation because of this map, not because this map is detailed with the area of Warcraft activity, dangerous areas, passable paths, supply areas and methods. It's because of the dense crowd of small symbols on the entire map with one horizontal and three radial lines. This symbol has only one meaning on any map: gold mine. ”

Pinching this map, the expedition team set off again, aiming for the north. And the Sauron Empire, the descendants of Dias, obviously prefer real gold to the previous emperor's unknown prophecy. They opened the way to the north and even organized even larger expeditions themselves. ”

"The first expeditions all failed, and even with the map, the North was too bad for humans. But how can the power of nature fight against human greed. There are more and more human strongholds outside the northern borders, and the number of adventurers who specialize in hunting magical beasts is increasing, and humans are constantly infiltrating the depths of the northern realm. Finally, in the tenth year, the first expedition returned with a full load. Following the location on the map, they found the nearest gold mine and brought back a full five wagons of gold. The expedition members boasted that there were dogs' heads all over the ground, and they could pick them up at will. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few carriages, they could bring back gold from a kingdom's treasury. ”

"People are crazy. It turns out that the gold mines on the map are all real. Dias's curse is seen as proof that his brain is crazy. More merchants, more adventurers, more expeditions all rushed to the north. The world is boiling, teachers are throwing their students, soldiers are throwing their camps, farmers are throwing their fields, and they are all caught in the gold rush of the north. ”

Hearing this, Hao Yun thought for a while and asked Xiaobai: "It sounds very similar to the westward expansion of the United States, but the gold mines in the United States do not seem to be as exaggerated as the northern border." ”

Xiaobai pointed to his face: "Huh? Ask me? ”

Hao Yun looked helpless: "...... Never mind. He turned to Cynthia, "There have been similar situations in our world, and I guess the rest of the North must be very chaotic." ”

Cynthia's eyes lit up, her ongoing top-secret mission was related to this, and it would be great if she could get the history of other worlds as a reference.

"Yes, much more serious than chaos. Greed is the original sin, and in a lawless zone like the North, this original sin is magnified a thousand times over. Countless people from all over the continent flocked to the north, first gold diggers, fighting between gold digging gangs, then developing into bandit gangs that specialized in robbing gold diggers, and finally becoming an attack between mercenary groups, while grabbing land and gold mines, while killing people and goods. The North has become a place of melee. ”

"These mercenary groups hold huge amounts of gold in their hands, and they are even richer than the Empire. More than a hundred years ago, the mercenaries were dissatisfied with the high transit taxes charged by the Sauron Empire for many years, and under the cooperation of traitors and traitors, the mercenaries from the north united to capture and sack the imperial capital, and all the descendants of Dias were slaughtered. At this time, people realized that there was nothing that could restrain these brave and ruthless and rich guys in the north. Having lost the barrier of the Sauron Empire, this group of lawless creatures continued to spread to the southern regions for more than a hundred years, bringing war and disaster to the entire continent. The lords and kings with their own evil intentions naively wanted to take advantage of them, but they didn't expect them to continue to grow bigger. ”

It was only then that people remembered the curse of Dias, which actually came true. The mercenary rebellion became a disaster for the whole world. ”

Hao Yun blinked suspiciously: "This sounds like the ransacking of the Roman Empire by Germanic mercenaries, but it seems to be a little different." Didn't these mercenaries think about creating a nation? Hao Yun saw that the female mage was listening carefully, carefully recalling her knowledge of world history, "In my world, there was also a group of mercenaries who destroyed a great empire. But the descendants of these mercenaries have also established a reasonably reasonable kingdom from the ruins. ”

The female mage shook her head: "My world is not so lucky, in the years when the Sauron Empire was just destroyed, there were indeed some large mercenary organizations that established countries, but they all collapsed in a short period of time. In recent decades, there have been no mercenary groups with such illusions anymore, they have a sword in one hand and gold in the other, and they are unimpeded in the whole world, so why do those thankless things. ”

Hao Yun felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, he looked at Rigwo, who was drinking and eating meat with his good brother not far away, and asked, "But I don't think the back mercenary group looks like a disaster." ”

"Haha, they." Cynthia laughed, apparently she had a good sense of Rigwo as well, "They're all bankrupt farmers and hunters, and they went to the north to pan for gold in a daze, and they became mercenaries in a daze. I can't get along and have to wander around begging for a living. They can't compare to the big mercenary groups. The white-haired hyena who ambushed us today is only a minor player in the northern mercenary group. ”

"And what kind of character is this?" Xiaobai interrupted the conversation between Hao Yun and Cynthia about history, holding the novel in one hand and holding it to her side in the other. With a muffled snort, a black figure was pulled out of the depths of the night.