Chapter 33: 33 The history of the Mingao Empire
When all the students in the classroom arrived and sat down, Rowling, as the instructor, stepped onto the platform.
"Good morning everyone. Today we are going to talk about..."
"Instructor, instructor!"
The little Orc girl Nemituia suddenly raised her hand and interrupted Rowling's words:
"Isn't it Instructor Lane's class today?"
Rowling was stunned for a moment, then replied: "Mr. Lane only taught that one class. From now on, the classes will still be normally taught by me."
"Oh..."
Hearing this, Nemituia, who was originally full of energy, suddenly yawned and then lay down on the table and started to sleep.
After all, she couldn't understand the class of the magic instructor in the first place. Moreover, according to Lane, her talent should not be on the path of a magic instructor either.
So Nemituia slept soundly.
The little Knight girl Ivette, who originally planned to concentrate on the class, also lowered her head and began to wipe her Knight's long sword upon hearing this.
Rowling: "..."
Although these students were usually like this and Rowling didn't force anything, somehow, Rowling felt a very strong sense of frustration.
I have taught you for almost two years! But in your hearts, Lane, who only gave you one class, is more important than me?!
Although feeling sad and indignant in her heart, Rowling still fulfilled her duty as an instructor and began to teach everyone.
On the other side, after Nanali entered the classroom, sat down, and the class began, Lane walked towards the large library of Orcutt Academy.
However, this time, Lane wasn't the only one going to the large library.
After walking for a while, Lane sighed, turned around helplessly: "What exactly do you want?"
"..."
Octaville remained silent, her dark purple eyes staring straight at Lane.
After a silent confrontation for a moment, Lane still gave in and continued walking towards the large library, allowing Octaville to follow.
Anyway, he wasn't going to do anything sneaky. A clean hand wants no washing. Now that Lane had eaten his fill, he naturally wasn't afraid of Octaville.
When they arrived at the large library, Lane pushed the door open forcefully. Seeing that it was still as quiet as ever inside.
The petite figure with white hair was still sitting in the corner, reading a book quietly.
Hearing the noise, Amiya raised her head, waved at Lane, and pointed to the seat beside her.
Lane stepped forward, first pulled out the newspaper box he was going to read, and then sat beside Amiya.
Octaville, with a stern face, stood beside Lane.
"Mr. Butler, who is this... a Demon?"
Seeing Octaville, Amiya couldn't help but be puzzled.
Octaville silently glanced at Amiya, then withdrew her gaze.
"Don't worry about her. Just pretend she doesn't exist."
Finding the newspaper he hadn't finished reading last time, Lane began to flip through it while answering.
"Oh..."
Hearing this, Amiya also shifted her attention away from Octaville and continued reading the book in her hand.
"By the way, Amiya, didn't you have a question to ask me? What is it?"
At this time, Lane asked Amiya.
Amiya nodded, flipped the book in her hand to a page marked with a bookmark, and handed it to Lane.
Lane put down the newspaper, took the book handed by Amiya, and began to read it.
In this section, it tells about the development history of an empire - Mingao, which is not too far from Hedley.
Mingao is an empire famous for its magic potions. Although the total area of the empire is not large, it is the world's largest exporter of magic potions.
On the page marked by the bookmark, what is mainly described is something that is already common knowledge for people nowadays.
This tells that due to the environmental problems around the empire, Mingao has always been surrounded by all kinds of terrifying magical beasts on its periphery. As a result, Mingao has been constantly fighting against magical beasts for years, and most of its military forces have also been invested in the fight against magical beasts.
This also makes the entire population of Mingao advocate martial arts. However, the drawback is that the infrastructure construction of Mingao has been greatly affected and developed extremely slowly.
At the same time, these magical beasts often harass the empires around Mingao, and the Hedley Empire is among them.
After reading the content of this page, Lane turned his gaze to Amiya: "Do you have any questions?"
"Where did those magical beasts come from?"
Amiya's amber eyes were filled with intense confusion. Apparently, this question had troubled her for a long time:
"I once asked my father and the teachers of Orcutt Academy. Everyone's answer was the geographical environment of Mingao. But in my opinion, Mingao is a neighboring country of Hedley and its land area is not large. Even if the environment around Mingao is worse, it shouldn't be much worse than Hedley."
Hearing this, Lane raised his eyebrows slightly and then actually laughed.
For so many years, this was the first time he had seen someone express confusion about this matter.
And this person was an eight-year-old little girl.
"Mr. Butler, do you know?"
Seeing Lane laugh, Amiya couldn't help but ask, her eyes full of the desire for knowledge.
"I know, and..." Lane pointed to Octaville behind him: "She knows too."
"Hmph."
Octaville sneered: "Humans always dare not admit the mistakes they have made."
Amiya became confused.
At this time, Lane began to explain to Amiya: "A long time ago, the environment around Mingao was actually the same as that of Hedley."
Amiya stared straight at Lane, tightly closed her mouth and didn't dare to speak, for fear of interrupting Lane.
"At that time, the magic potions of Mingao were still in the early stage of development. After many years of changes, the magic potions of Mingao became famous. At the same time, Mingao also accumulated a large number of failed and deteriorated magic potions in this process.
It is said that at that time, such magic potions had already piled up like mountains and had to be disposed of quickly.
In fact, Mingao had a more stable treatment method. But in order to save expenses and time, Mingao directly chose to bury those failed and deteriorated magic potions on the periphery of the empire or simply dump them into the rivers outside the empire."
At this point, Lane shrugged:
"At first, there was naturally no problem. But after a few years, the magical beast disasters occurred frequently around Mingao. Eventually, it even led to the emergence of a beast tide. At this time, the high-level officials of Mingao realized that it was the magic potions they discarded that caused the disaster of creatures.
At that time, the magic potion industry of Mingao was at its peak. No matter what, it couldn't be affected by this matter. Anyway, later, no one knew how much price Mingao paid. All the high-level officials of the neighboring countries of Mingao who knew the truth kept silent about this matter and finally took this secret to the grave."
After listening to Lane's explanation, Amiya was stunned, and Octaville kept sneering.
This matter was not a secret for the Demons. After all, the public relations expenses of Mingao couldn't affect the Demons.