I knew that I was on a path from which there was no turning back, so I was not surprised that before dawn Ludwig sent someone to take me to the Holy Seminary. Spirit, please bless the man who was knocked down by the butler's punch.

The steam locomotive for this trip is still Mr. Jeffrey's, so does Ludwig have any touch on my false identity?

But what I didn't expect was that I wasn't just a test subject.

Dr. Hagel personally explained to me the knowledge of the unification knights. Not only that, but Ludwig also hired a tutor to teach me how to handle government affairs and even how to recognize the family emblems of the nobles.

It felt like he wanted to make me a real Eldridge family. As the only one who supported my small family in this Sanctuary City, I had to begin to delve into the historical events of the Holy Kingdom, which was mixed with a large number of theological events and the summaries of countless historians. After a few lessons, he told me that he would take me to meet my mother as long as he made a difference in actual combat.

I was stunned, is this my relative? Sure enough, close relatives are not as good as housekeepers.

Sure enough, I still can't give him too much life.

I really wonder if aristocratic people treat their relatives like this?

Perhaps countless members of the Eldridge family are watching my actions right now.

Why does it make me feel a chill when I have the same blood?

So, for Ludwig's reward, I almost couldn't resist sticking the quill on the table into his eye after finishing my thoughts. Could it be that the next reward is to come and see you, my uncle? I responded.

No, your next reward will be your fiancée. He responded.

Come to think of it, we are not living on a parallel line, and this is no longer the realm of answering the question.

I turned and left, leaving my sadness here. I don't care about the Eldridges. In the huge Sanctuary City, only the small Derain Mansion is my accommodation.

Well, I'm starting to be sad again. Damn it!

I took a special train to the Holy Convent, which was in full swing because it had received sufficient materials and financial resources, and the Esoteric Institute was fully operational.

The cave it was in was as majestic as a holy crown, and the patterns on the huge orb were emitting a faint blue light, as if it had been activated by something. The huge amount of steam that began to be emitted from the surrounding facilities reflected the place as if it were a heavenly god.

The cave is surrounded by a huge ventilation system, Typhon. It was able to replace all the air in such a large cavern space every six hours, and the roar caused by it required three layers of reflective walls to barely allow its noise to escape. In order to prevent its roar from destroying the geological structure here, engineers also reinforced the walls of the cave near it.

As its name suggests, Typhon is the god of wind in ancient sayings. It's a marvel of modern architecture, and it's fair to say that in all of Middle-earth, only Sanctuary City's plumbing and drainage system can match.

This also made me understand that the restart of the Unified Knights Project is not just a reconstruction of the Armored Knights, but a restart of the entire system related to the Unified Knights Project, which represents the imminent diversion of countless resources to the Secret Institute of the Holy Seminary, and also means a huge amount of consumption.

I think it may have been that I couldn't bear this kind of consumption, which led to the decline of the secret research institute. After all, just a ventilation system felt like it would consume enough electricity for an hour of operation to drain all of my family's money.

However, it is said that the electricity here is provided by that mysterious sphere.

But that doesn't seem to explain why, after a few days of serious work, Dr. Heigl went back to his old business, stealing council funds to make his little inventions.

"Where's stealing? This is called the necessary expense to relieve stress and fatigue among researchers. Besides, am I a gizmo? Have you ever seen a locomotive loaded with artillery on a locomotive? Have you ever seen a heavy load armor rate that frontal armor can even ricochet machine gun bullets? It's something that crosses the ages, and you're too young to understand my whimsy. Dr. Heigl said.

"Isn't it a tank, my father told me before. The Southern Luoya Empire has had such a thing for a long time, and it still appeared in the Western Expedition that year. I said.

"What is not is not what it is, how simple do you think? You haven't seen a tank captured by the Western Expedition, that's a must, our steam armor even needs to pay three sieges and two sacrifices to destroy a tank. If I could research it and make it mass-produced, think about how much money those miserly apostles would give to the Institute alone. Dr. Heigl said earnestly.

Indeed, the tank is different from the steam tank, it has more powerful firepower and thicker defensive armor, its role and performance are completely above the steam tank, it is a cross-era invention like steam armor.

But that doesn't explain why Dr. Heigl specializes in this stuff. Do you want a separate source of funding, not subject to the nominal superior unit of the Holy Convent? It is no wonder that when the Institute of Secret Studies fell, few people from the Holy Convent came forward to support.

The South Loya Empire, which has such land weapons, is a very mysterious country, it does not communicate much with the outside world, and people still know about it in the era of the Western Expedition. Science and technology are extremely advanced, and it is said that the technology of the internal combustion engine was stolen from the South Loya Empire in Middle-earth.

The appearance of various weapons of war indirectly made Middle-earth begin a fanatical study of science and technology, and some major countries even did not hesitate to empty their treasury to win in this scientific and technological race. Of course, it also contributed to a brief period of peace in Middle-earth.

After all, the situation at that time did not allow any country to start a foreign war, and many countries formed alliances and stole scientific research results from each other, which turned the whole of Middle-earth into a place of spy warfare for a while.

The Western Expedition made all rulers understand that those who get science and technology will win the world. As for why the Southern Loya Empire did not use its technological superiority to conquer Middle-earth in one fell swoop, only a few people know.

Of course, only Middle-earth possesses the substance known as red mercury, and only with this can we have some decent surrender after the failure of the Western Expedition. The first use of steam armor powered by red mercury allowed the Middle-earth coalition to withstand the counterattack of the Southern Loya Empire.

As for what red mercury is, it is as mysterious as black water, and scholars only know that its body is highly toxic when it is first excavated and when it is preserved, but after combustion, it can release a large amount of energy and decompose into harmless gases.

Because when it was first mined, it looked like red mercury, so it was named red mercury, but it was not mercury at all. This miracle substance is even more convenient to use and has a higher calorific value than rock oil. Of course, the price cost is not low.

The mining technology is very demanding, and only a few large countries have it, so the mining and management rights of red mercury are in the hands of the big countries.

I no longer have a daily repertoire with Dr. Heigl. I put the card in the verifier, and the differential machine started working, recognizing the information on the card, and comparing it in a database where the microcurrent generated by the electromagnetic effect was being stored. With a click, tick, tick, the valve opened.

I walked into the rotunda.