The Knight's Journey to the Empire

"Uh!" Fisher's expression froze and became a little unnatural.

He laughed awkwardly and then slowly said, "Baron Soran, I haven't found out any detailed information about the exact origin of sulfur and saltpeter!"

As he spoke, he lowered his head slightly, as if he didn't dare to look Soran in the eye: "But Baron, I have heard some relevant news."

"According to the sellers, this package of sulfur comes from the Kormia Plateau in the central part of the Knight Continent. It is one of the goods that the Kormia barbarian tribes use to exchange materials with mainland merchants! As for the package of saltpeter, it came from the Kingdom of Ross in the southern part of the continent!"

"The Kormia Plateau and the Kingdom of Ross?" Soran couldn't help but mutter to himself and fell into deep thought.

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The vast central region of the Knight Continent is a vast plateau terrain named the Kormia Plateau.

The Kormia Plateau is vast and has a high altitude. It is covered with towering snow-capped mountains, vast grasslands, barren Gobi deserts, and barren deserts.

These different natural environments are interspersed and scattered among each other, creating the extremely unique natural landscape of the Kormia Plateau.

At the same time, the Kormia Plateau is also one of the most dangerous places on the continent of Knights, with the largest area, the highest risk factor, and the widest reputation.

However, what made the Kormia Plateau so famous was not natural factors such as the harsh environment, powerful monsters, mysterious phenomena, etc., but man-made disasters!

Because now living on the Kormia Plateau are a group of uncivilized indigenous people.

In order to distinguish themselves from the indigenous humans, the human civilization living below the plateau gave these indigenous people a special name - "barbarians", also known as "Kormia barbarians".

Today, the Kormia barbarians still follow a primitive tribal lifestyle, living on grazing and hunting, and barter is their daily means of transaction.

Moreover, the tribes of the Kormia barbarians are almost all very xenophobic and closed, and some are even full of hostility towards the outside world. They strictly prohibit humans from the mainland below the plateau from entering their tribes and territories.

This also led to almost no contact and transaction between the two human groups.

However, it is worth mentioning that some slave-hunting teams often ventured into the Cormia Plateau to capture young and middle-aged Cormia barbarians, and then reduced them to slaves and sold them as commodities to various parts of the Knight Continent.

These Cormian barbarian slaves became "hot commodities" in the slave trade of the Knight Continent because of their strong physique and low risk of disease.

The market price of a Kormian barbarian slave is more than three times higher than that of other ordinary slaves.

However, the Kormian barbarian slaves are generally unruly. To buy them, you just need to pay money, but to tame them is not so easy!

Therefore, it is not uncommon to hear news from time to time that one or two nobles were killed by the purchased Cormia barbarian slaves on the continent!

But despite this, the nobles are still eager to get the slaves of the Cormia barbarians!

Especially in some bloody fighting arenas, Kormia barbarian slaves are more popular!

But it was precisely because the slave-hunting teams often entered the Kormia Plateau to hunt barbarians that the barbarian tribes living on the Kormia Plateau were full of hostility and hatred towards other humans on the Knight Continent!

Therefore, if any human beings from the mainland dare to set foot on the land of the Kormia Plateau and are unfortunately discovered by the barbarians, then they will basically have little chance of survival!

Some tribes of the Cormia barbarians would even organize large barbarian armies to rush down the Cormia Plateau and enter the civilized human country to plunder in order to retaliate against the humans living below the plateau!

Therefore, this is also the reason why the Kingdom of Essex left a [Western Great Swordsman Legion] in the western border of the kingdom to guard against the attack of the Kormia barbarians after declaring war on the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Glia.

Because to the west of the western border of the Kingdom of Essex is the towering and vast Cormia Plateau.

The western part of the Kingdom of Essex was also brutally plundered by the barbarian army from Cormia.

However, despite the hostile relationship between the two sides, there are still several tribes scattered around the Kormia Plateau that are strong enough to protect themselves.

Occasionally, they would take out some specialties unique to the Kormia Plateau and engage in barter trade with merchants from the outside human society.

After all, the various goods produced by the human civilization society under the plateau using advanced production technology are really "too delicious"!

For example, sophisticated swords and armor, exquisite cloth and pottery, etc.!

These are real "luxury items" on the Kormia Plateau.

Of course, none of this matters to Soran. What matters is that he knows that sulfur comes from the Kormia Plateau!

As for the Kingdom of Ross, it is a country located in the southeast of the Knight Continent.

But don’t underestimate it just because it has the suffix “Kingdom”!

In fact, the comprehensive national strength of the Kingdom of Russia is not inferior to that of the general "empire"!

Because the Kingdom of Ross is a country with a history of more than a thousand years on the Knight Continent, and it is one of the undisputed powerful countries on the continent!

Not only that, the Kingdom of Ross also formed an alliance with some small kingdoms, principalities and autonomous city-states in the surrounding areas to establish a national alliance organization called the Holy Fire Alliance.

The overall strength of the Holy Fire Alliance is strong enough to easily rank among the top three forces in the Knight Continent.

Therefore, in the entire Knight Continent, almost no force dares to easily provoke the Kingdom of Ross and the [Holy Fire Alliance] under its leadership. It is no exaggeration to say that it dominates the entire southeastern region of the Knight Continent.

Therefore, this is actually the reason why Sauron planned to use the Kingdom of Ross as one of his fallbacks after realizing that the idea of ​​going out to sea to find a place to build a country was unreliable in the future.

After all, with the technology and resources in his hands, only on a large platform like the Kingdom of Ross can he maximize their value and obtain more substantial benefits.

But generally speaking, unless it is absolutely necessary, Sauron will not easily set foot here!

Because for a country like the Kingdom of Russia, which has a long history and a huge scale, the various forces within it must be intertwined and complicated like a spider web.

As an outsider, if Sauron does not have sufficient strength to support him, then he will be in trouble if he dares to show any weakness!

Then the only fate that awaits him is to be eaten up!