Miranda opened her merchant diary and recorded her life in this land that was still quite primitive and uncultivated for half a month.

"Although it is called the Sunrise Plateau, the sunrise time is not as early as in some cities in the eastern part of the Oguna Empire. If I were to give this continent a new name, it would probably be called the Hipcourt Plateau, after all, the person who discovered this continent across the sea from the Winter Country was the great navigator Hackot, and he was also the person I admired the most."

At this point, Miranda's cheeks began to flush slightly. When she first arrived at the first and only port of the Sunrise Plateau half a month ago, Port Trey, she had rubbed shoulders with the greatest navigator of that continent. Since she was a child, Miranda has heard many stories about Hecott and his first mate, Tray, who is now in his fifties, learned to swim at the age of three, learned to drive a boat at the age of seven, became a port boatman at the age of eleven, and had his own boat at the age of fourteen and his good friend Tre, who had a hobby of traveling with and knew how to draw nautical charts.

Thanks to the efforts of himself and his friend Trey, the two embarked on a voyage around the continent at the age of eighteen and seventeen, and this time it took them ten years to set off. Finally, the coast map of the entire continent was drawn. When the kings of various countries heard the news, they spent a lot of money to buy this important maritime map. It's just that Hecot didn't take a penny from all the kings, and made countless copies of the map and sent them to ordinary lords and bookstores, and the world was shocked.

From this map, the entire continent appears as a square from east to west. The map of the continent is divided into four main parts, from the kingdom of Kosai and the Empire of Oguna in the east to the kingdom of Salins and the Republic of Marvil in the west, each of which occupies the four corners of the continent. The Republic of Marveil is the most special, it is a small country, and it is separated from the Kingdom of Salins by a sea on three sides. But what makes it special is that there is a large land area to the west, which very few people have visited, and it is also a desert area where foreign peoples are rumored to have appeared. Heccott and Trey claim that they had walked a long way along the coast before they got around the continent, proving with their own eyes that the entire continent was a huge "island" surrounded by the sea.

As the young Hecot and Trey successfully walked the ocean coast around the continent, the countries with coasts on the mainland began to pay attention to shipbuilding and navigation, and many young people were influenced by the two to join the overseas exploration.

The subsequent seafaring movement did not last long, for many shipbuilders found that the only place that the galleons could reach was a small island or a large expanse of the ocean with no end in sight, except for their own continent. As a result, the enthusiasm for ocean adventures faded after just five years. Some small islands rich in resources and relatively close to the mainland have also been developed by those neighboring countries, but there are too few such places, and some ambitious coastal city lords want to spend money to build a fleet of voyages, find another continent, and then start expanding their power.

At that time, the mainland was already tense, in the case of constant disputes and disputes in various countries, the rise of local forces, and the weakness of the central forces, the mainland entered the era of mercenaries, and various mercenary groups began to rise, and the nobles everywhere must also be combined with mercenaries to protect their rights and interests.

After disappearing for a few years, Hecott and Trey began to receive some money to build larger, more capable galleons. They set sail at once, and based on their more than twenty years of sailing experience, they intended to look for possible continents from the east, but after several years of sailing, they finally returned in vain.

When they returned, half of the crew was also lost - some said that the food on the ship had dried up, and the remaining crew had eaten the other half of the crew, others said that they were swept away by a storm at sea, and others said that they had encountered sea monsters, krakens, and sea ghosts, but they did not give up because of this failure, and Hecot and Trey only rested for three months, and then went to sea again, but this time they chose the right route, and finally found this relatively high altitude continent from the northeast direction of the Kosai Kingdom - the Sunrise Plateau.

In the year 932 of the Old Kingdom, the year after Josephine met Russell, the continent was officially known as the "Sunrise Plateau." The land in this place is relatively soft, the daily sunshine is abundant, and there is a lot of rain, and the overall feeling is warm and habitable, which is completely different from the winter country across the sea, which makes Hecot, who has a certain understanding of geography, suspect that this continent has its own complete ecological system, and there may be other civilizations in the unexplored places on the plateau.

Due to the relatively primitive and harsh environment here, the immigrants who came here did not encounter any aborigines, and there were few creatures different from the mainland, so all countries did not plan to immigrate here, and wanted to let some spontaneous pioneers open up this land first. Cities were built very slowly, and adventurers, criminals, and ambitious little aristocrats were the first to arrive, and they were the masters of the most humble cities on the Sunrise Plateau. After more than ten years of pioneering and development, the population here began to increase, and there were also some people who wanted to escape the strife on the mainland and came here to hide and live in peace.

There were no castles or estates, so some wealthy aristocrats used the city as their garden, paying for the poor to cross the sea to work. With the arrival of the lords of several countries, disputes and contradictions also surged, which also attracted some unpopular mercenary groups to make a living here, so the four initial cities on the plateau also became hostile to other cities because of the arrival of mercenaries. There is both cooperative trade and competition between the four cities.

After Miranda followed her father Charrick to Sunrise Plateau, she settled in the port city of Port Trey. Miranda never dreamed that on her first day she arrived at Port Trey City, she would meet Hecot, who was dressed in a women's blue-and-white sailor suit, with a headscarf around her head, and long blonde ponytail, looking very smart and energetic. As soon as she jumped off the deck of her ship to the harbor, she felt like she was about to embrace a new world, and she was finally able to stand on land again after a month as a trainee sailor. She couldn't help but look around and sniff around, and even the dogs in the harbor were very fresh and different.

At that moment, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked past Miranda and stepped onto the boat that had brought them here. Miranda only learned later when her father told her about it that the man who could no longer remember his face was the famous navigator Hecot. Charlik hadn't gotten off the ship yet, and when he saw Hecot on board, he politely greeted him.

Miranda didn't blame her father, she just regretted it! Why was she so unsharp-eyed at the time? Now sitting in her room, writing in her diary, she regretted it, but I heard that Hecot had gone back to the mainland. Miranda picked up the pen she had just stopped and continued to write in her travel diary:

"I passed by the Great Navigator, and Hecot will definitely continue to set out for the unknown, and I have also arrived in an unknown world. It's been fifteen days here, and I haven't left Port Tre, and I don't know what fun and interesting things are waiting for me here, and I don't know what dangerous and terrifying things are waiting for me!"

When Miranda heard that Hecot and Trey had discovered the Sunrise Plateau, they stopped sailing because Hecot was suffering from a rare disease. This pause lasted for seven or eight years, and it was only a few years ago that exploration of the land extending beyond the Sunrise Plateau was resumed.

"The weather here is relatively hot, and there are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants, although I am not afraid of these, but I know that there is one person who hates these things very much--it's Avi the dumb cat! I wonder how he is doing now?" Miranda wrote down the things in her heart to her diary, she slowly raised her head, held her cheek with the hand holding the pen, stared blankly at the roof, and gradually fell into deep thought, imagining how exciting and interesting Avi's current mercenary life was.

After a certain amount of adaptation, Miranda gradually learned to work and live in this humid and stuffy environment. Together with her father, she sold small items brought from the Oguna Empire, and contacted a small local chamber of commerce, which allowed her to do business in three other cities.

The four cities of Sunrise Plateau are mainly developed by handicrafts and raw material extraction and transportation, among which Port Trey is famous for its shipbuilding industry, and each city is slightly different in terms of economic development. So Charlik and Miranda plan to start with Port Trey, find a suitable city, and then stay in this plateau area for a year or two, write down the good things of this New World, and then be able to bring them back to the Oguna Empire to sell.

However, after a month in Port Trey, Miranda, who had always been unable to sit still and had fresh pictures, couldn't help but ask Charlik to visit other cities. With the exception of Port Trey, only one of the other three cities is an inland city, while the other Fog Harbor and Ocean Port are both port cities. The inland city is called Rat Town, and it has been heard that it is particularly infestation, but people who have immigrated there for more than a decade say that they have become accustomed to eating rats and have invented various dishes to cook rats.

This peculiar customs made Miranda very curious, although she had never eaten mice, but what would taste like those rats that only beggars and owls would eat? This also made Miranda, who had never been afraid of heaven and earth, feel very fresh and interesting, so she pulled her father Charrick all day long, asking the other party to take her to the rat city quickly.

Charrick couldn't stand the soft grinding of his baby daughter, so he had to take the license of the Chamber of Commerce, ride two horses, and take some hired mercenary guards to set off for Rat City.

On this journey, Charlik and Miranda also meet an interesting person - a bard named Escor. This Esco is a bard who can't tell his real age, and looks like a young man in his thirties, but he can see from the conversation that the other party has a lot of experience. Charric had seen a lot of people who were a little older, but younger-looking, so he didn't dare to underestimate each other.

Escor's eyebrows are straight and thick. The eyes are large and sharp, the bridge of the nose is high, and the mouth is narrow, which is quite handsome. His short black hair was crisp and not greasy, which was not easy to live in such a hot and humid environment. Even the well-informed Miranda can't help but admire the other party's handsomeness, which will definitely attract many girls - except for herself.

"Since we have the fate to travel together, then I will sing a song for free!" Escoli has a clear voice, and his singing voice is also very melodious and soft, singing the praise of the navigator Hecot "The End of the Sky and the Sea" very well. Miranda commented on the phrase "The sky will sail with Trey and Trey to the end of the sea, and the sea will sail with Trey and Trey to the end of the sky." The bard, the bard then explains, is because Hecot later built a ship of his own, which was named the Sky, and not many people know about it.

Miranda is intrigued by the Bard's rich experience, but the other person only responds with a faint smile, saying that he is going to the Rat City because he is visiting an old friend who lives there in seclusion. And this is the third time he has come to Sunrise Plateau, which shows that his old friend has lived here for a short time.

Escor sang and played the lute at the same time, and he used his songs and poems to make this otherwise boring journey interesting and wonderful. Miranda knew that bards were usually present at the court, and that they often sang poems at banquets for nobles of all countries, especially noblewomen, and that occasionally talented bards would write good poems, add their own compositions, and compose them into musical scores. A beautiful voice is of course a must for a bard, but a handsome appearance can also add a lot of points, and even some aristocratic girls who have nothing to do will be fascinated by romantic bards and want to elope with these wandering poets.

Charlik looked at the other party for a long time, and it seemed that this handsome Escorli was still very different from those prodigal sons, at least in terms of temperament and attitude towards people, it seemed much more polite and calm. His daughter is also a Peugeot, but the other party never stares at Miranda head-on, which shows that she is a cautious and cautious person.

"Since this is the third time you've come to Rat City, do you have any suggestions?" Charrick touched his beard, although he was well-informed, he still felt a little difficult to swallow about rat meat or something.

"Food!" Escorri closed his eyes and shook his head slightly, "barbecue rat skewers, fried rat heads, stinky rat and stinky bird meat pies" The bard began to talk about the foods he thought were gourmet foods, Charlik immediately felt a wave of nausea, and some of the mercenary guards frowned. But Miranda listened to it with relish, as if the delicacies had been laid out in front of her, and the aroma was overflowing.

"What is stinky rat and stinky bird meat?" asked Charlik, frowning.

"It smells bad, but a kind of mixed meat pie tastes even better if it is accompanied by a glass of special limoncello!" Escor still closed his eyes, believing that he had fallen into a pile of delicacies, and could not help himself.

"It smells stinky, it tastes good, I want to taste it!" Miranda's eyes lit up, she didn't know what a stinky bird was, but she knew that a shit bird stinks, and a bird that loves to lick its feathers doesn't!

Charlik wanted to remind his daughter not to be too curious about these weird things, after all, it was not a hobby and interest that everyone should have! But as a father, he clearly knew that many of his previous hopes had been shattered by his daughter's independent personality, and it was difficult to stop the other party from eating those strange meat this time. I can only let it go, just don't get sick from eating.

The journey of the bard became interesting and joyful, and after more than four hours of travel, finally through the forests and fields of the plateau, the rat city was seen. From the outside, Rat City looks like a large primitive tribe, and even the city walls are fragmented, wood-based fortifications, which shows that there are very few construction workers on the Sunrise Plateau, and there are no decent construction tools here. Charlik felt that this was a good business opportunity, and quickly wrote down the matter in his small notebook.

After entering the Rat City, the bard Escor separated from the two. After paying half of the honorarium, the mercenary guards also temporarily moved into a place they had arranged for themselves, waiting for a few days to protect the father and daughter on their return journey.

But as soon as he arrived in the city of rats, a messenger with a letter ran into the city with a shout.

"The East Oguna Empire has broken through the Golden Hoof City! Keep heading towards Doret City, the capital of the West Oguna Empire!

The courier shouted as he ran, but most of the residents of Rat City were dazed, and they didn't seem very interested in the news. After all, the people who fled to the interior of the New World wanted to stay away from the old continent where there was constant strife, although there were some people from the former empire who showed embarrassed and sad expressions, but that was only a minority.

Charlik and Miranda exchanged a look, they had already asked Miranda's mother to temporarily go to live with a relative in the Duchy of Magini, because they were afraid that one day the city of Golden Hoof would also be affected by the flames of war. I didn't expect that the Western Oguna Empire would be completely defeated, and the Eastern Oguna Empire, which had been suppressed and beaten, would be able to counterattack the Western Frontier! You must know that when Charlik and Miranda left the mainland, there were already rumors that the Eastern Oguna Empire was going to continue to split, but I didn't expect it

At this time, the running messenger bumped into a person, and the man immediately lifted the courier's collar, and then threw the small messenger to the ground, "Uncle Ben, you dare to bump into it?! Don't have long eyes?" This person looked like a mercenary, and both Charlik and Miranda immediately hid away.

One of the local residents said to another, "It's the mercenary of the mercenary union called 'Emily's Cry', and they seem to be getting more and more powerful."

"Be quiet"

When Charrick saw this, he shook his head and took his daughter to the Chamber of Commerce in Rat City.

After parting ways with Miranda, the Bard went around the outskirts of the Rat City to a small blacksmith outside the city. In the vegetable garden outside the small blacksmith's shop, there was also a white-haired old man.

"Old man, I've come to see you, have you made any mysterious weapons, but look at what I brought first!" Escor conjured some pickled food from his hand and walked in the direction of the white-haired old man with a smile.