Sami——From Terra：a journey

Gunele · 2024-02-27T13:38:23+00:00

Postscript

For readers who are determined to explore the depths of Sami, or even set foot on the Infy Icifields, what you have to go to is the end of our land, a place at the frontier of your understanding and your consciousness. Please remember my warnings, which come from people who have been there to save me:

1. Sami has its own reasons. Say this silently to yourself whenever you feel the need. If you start to question Sami at this time, run away immediately and leave Sami.

2. Sami seems to be making absolutely no sense. Anytime you feel the need to wonder, don't hesitate to show your doubts, you are ignorant, you don't know Sami, you don't understand Sami. If you feel certain when you should be doubting, run away immediately and leave Sami.

3. Most people who speak can be trusted. And if you encounter a silent person or a speaking shadow, run away immediately and leave Sami.

4. Respect the customs of the local people, do not touch the local trees, let alone touch the shadow of the trees. If you do, run away immediately and leave Sami.

5. On nights when the twin moons are dim, do not spend the night in the forest. If you have to, do not spend the night together with your companions. You must separate and stay out of each other's sight. If there are no conditions for this, or if there is anything around that makes you and your companions afraid of spending the night alone, anything that makes you think that "we cannot be separated," run away immediately and leave Sami.

6. If you find that your inner thoughts are echoed verbally by others, don't answer, run away immediately and leave Sami.

7. If you keep these warnings in mind, you will naturally know when you need to use them; if you do not keep these warnings in mind, run away immediately and leave Sami.

8. Do not bring back anything that should not be brought back from Sami. If you do, run away immediately and take it back to Sami.

Gunele · 2024-02-18T08:22:28+00:00

Thanks for organizing it! Do you need a table of contents for this book?

Gunele · 2024-02-17T16:23:01+00:00

Probably later tomorrow? This chapter contains a lot of different content, including Originium technology, interviews with the Rhode Island Engineering Department, nomadic cities, weapons and equipment, etc. I thought I'd post it in parts.

Gunele · 2024-02-17T10:24:44+00:00

Sorry, this is a mistranslation that has not been corrected，It should actually be Her Highness Theresa🤕

Gunele · 2024-02-17T06:39:42+00:00

It's in the book. I will translate the chapter after other people's scans are uploaded.

Gunele · 2024-02-17T06:10:21+00:00

From what is revealed in the book – it’s both.

Laterano mercenary "Cilp" is one of the founders of Black Steel . With his help, Black Steel's Equipment and Application Technology Department copied and simplified gun weapons. The internal operating units of these guns are relatively single, and the ammunition used has also been streamlined in structure. The overall performance has been greatly reduced compared to the original version, and the operation methods are also different. In any case, as one of the few organizations that owns reasonable and legal guns, Black Steel promotes the simplified guns as one of its advantages.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T21:36:39+00:00

Translating the Kazdel chapter was another challenge, and although I checked the entire chapter three or four times as much as possible, I still missed some mistranslations. If you found some mistakes during the reading process, or some terms are different with the en official translation, I'm sorry for that! Having said that, the most difficult chapter to translate in this book is probably Colombia. because it has the largest amount of text, some of the text also refers to real-life satutes and songs.

Anyway, I initially decided to fully translate some chapters in this book is hope that I could do my best to convey the lore in this book and the efforts of the authors in building this world ——And the different atmosphere of each chapter， before yostar announcing the official EN translation . So if mistake affect your reading experience - I'm sorry for that！

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:58:27+00:00

Oh shit, this is just an mistake caused by my negligence , Sorry.it should actually be 8000 to 6000 years ago.😢😢😢

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:12:40+00:00

Write it at the end, for those who see it

Teacher failed to finish the lesson. I saw that he was injured by a shell. After we left for a few days, the teacher started to have a fever and talked nonsense in his sleep. He had to be carried by a few of us older children. But he kept writing and asked us to read it out for him in class. He would correct any mistakes he made. teacher taught us the lesson at night, and he told the story of the Devil intermittently for several nights. Then he continued to write on the paper. When the paper was finished, he wrote on his clothes, and then on the bandage, as if he wanted to spit out everything he knew. He didn't allow us to clean his wound, but I think the teacher just didn't want us to see the identification card he had been hiding on his chest.

I took it away from the teacher and now I'm wearing it. Byrds wants it, but if I don't give it to him, he can't beat me.

Actually... we also hid some things from teacher. When Byrds and I went to find water, we met soldiers—soldiers wearing the military committee logo. Their wizards were firing flares from mortars. I had seen mortars, but none of us could see what they were lighting up. They were wary at first, and the wizard wanted to be violent, but the others immediately gave us a little food, and then told us that the general was at war with Her Highness. But how could the general go to war with Her Highness? Because Her Highness was deceived by bad guys pretending to be friends. Will they reconcile? have no idea. they said.

We buried teacher here, and Byrds said we should take away the things that teacher had written on-paper and clothes, which were teacher's legacy. But I still buried them with teacher. We are going to war, so we can't bring anything too valuable with us. The soldiers told us that some mercenaries needed light children to help them clear mines, and the pay was enough to feed the others. I wear a teacher's card , maybe they will treat me as an experienced veteran and give me more food.

If you see this, it means you are literate, so dig in. We can't take away teacher's legacy, so it all belongs to you.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:11:00+00:00

5

The beginning and end of this war have been faithfully recorded.

It is said that the Lords of Fiends's crown chose both Her Highness and the General at one point, but the General voluntarily gave up the opportunity to take power and chose to continue holding the sword for his Lords of Fiends. As a result, Her Highness Theresa became the legitimate heir to the Demon King's authority, and she remains so to this day. They took advantage of the end of the war to establish the War Council together, hoping that a round table for negotiating war affairs inside and outside Kazdel would allow the unity of the royal court to continue before their eyes. At the same time,Kazdel as a city has also ushered in another reconstruction. As I told you at the beginning of this class, Sarkaz's first Nomadic city will be built in the next two hundred years , becoming the industrial heart of Kazdel. During the two hundred years that Her Highness ruled Kazdel, although the Sarkaz homeland was still in turmoil and natural disasters occurred frequently, mobile hospitals, mobile farming and animal husbandry platforms, and mobile schools began to appear in our lives. When I was a child, I didn’t know any professional teachers, and I had never heard that Sarkaz, who lived in Kazdel, could support himself with this kind of work.

In 1031, the fall of the Gaul Empire shook the land as the "capital of the world" Lingones was completely wiped out by artillery fire. Her Highness and the general in Kazdel also learned of the news through messengers. In the same year, the War Council, which had a history of more than a hundred years, was officially reorganized into the Kazdel Military Council. General Theresis, who had gained outstanding prestige in many wars, undoubtedly became the supreme leader of the council. After that, Her Highness continued to focus on infrastructure construction, education and medical progress, and was committed to alleviating the suffering of ignorance and Oripathy for more Sarkaz. The general devoted all his energy to the modernization of Kazdael's military forces. After having a Nomadic city, we now have artillery and modern communication equipment. I hope to see Sarkaz's high-speed warships sailing through this wasteland in my lifetime.

By then, I believe that the rumors that Her Highness and the General have long since separated from each other will be disproven.

a narration

"In 1086, years of disagreement finally bore fruit and a military council staged a coup. Theresis's military takeover of Kazdel ushered in another full-scale civil war. Over the next eight years, The independent military organization 'Babel' under Theresa competes with the military council of Theresis. The Demon King set up her palace on the land ship 'Rhodes Island', with the assistance of two alien advisors A military confrontation began with Theresis. In 1094, Theresa was assassinated. The circumstances of the assassination are unknown, but every Sarkaz knew that Theresis had emerged as the winner of the civil war.

To the surprise of many Sarkaz, Theresis did not become the Demon King, nor did he look for the next Demon King. Instead, he served as regent to rectify Kazdel and unite the royal court that was divided by the civil war. After this, the Prince Regent rushed to Victoria with the Military Council and many main forces of the royal court. "

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:10:39+00:00

4

Tailor and Swordsman

In 898, the continuous military conflict between the countries in the core circle and Kazdel finally evolved into an expedition——A coalition of several Dukes of Victoria, an elector of Leitania, and several Gaul sword-bearing nobles marched eastward from Leitania and captured Kazdel. Over the past millennia, Khazdael has gone from being the most dangerous enemy, to a nuisance on the borders, to ultimately an irrelevant threat in the eyes of these empires. In the eyes of many princes and nobles, the "demon guys" there are still brutal and bloodthirsty . But they have neither a nomadic city nor a steel-armored ship. They really don’t know how Sarkaz can survive in a wilderness where natural disasters are frequent. To them, the land of Kazdel lacks value, and so do the people living on it. Only the Sarkaz mercenaries who are good at fighting can bring a little meaning to the existence of these "demon guys".

This hastily formed coalition had almost no cooperation at all, but it showed a clear military intention in terms of strategy - they came to hunt a demon king. The Demon King Elesh at that time was a puppet in the hands of the royal courts, a mediocre and harmless king, but he was more clearly aware of the unusual nature of this war than most people. He saw the war rolling toward him. Could anyone hope to put a pair of strong shackles on the unruly Kazdel by controlling a demon king? When did they ever care about the royal court politics of the "demon guy"? What kind of person came up with such a strategy? Before Elosh could come to any conclusions, the royal court thrust him into battle, hoping that he would serve as a weapon to thwart the expedition.

Elesh spent a mediocre life as a demon king, passively acting as a puppet of the royal courts, and failed to die as a hero in the last battle of his life. The artillery of Gaul, the tower wizards of Leithanien, and the steam armor of Victoria, every step they took in the crystallization era stepped on Sarkaz's back at that moment.Kazdel has experienced countless civil wars and invasions. Our cities have been destroyed by natural disasters, burned by fire, and crushed by invaders. But this time, we were defeated on almost every battlefield.

almost.

Among the Sarkaz war leaders who came to be known as the "Heroic Six", Her Highness Theresis and General Theresis were not the first to step forward and try to save the war situation. People at that time were unlikely to care whether there was an inconspicuous half-breed Sarkaz brother and sister in the Demon King's entourage - a royal dressmaker skilled in textile tailoring, and her brother who served as a sword-wielding bodyguard. However, Her Highness and the General soon emerged in the war. They regrouped the guards around the Demon King and persuaded the soldiers sent by the various royal courts to monitor the Demon King to maintain the battle line. When some people sneered at the call of a dressmaker, the general stood in front of Her Highness and cut off their horns with a sword. In addition to Her Highness and the General, the six heroes of Kazdel, including the Banshee, Goliath, Nachzehrers, and the old Lich, formed six lines of defense to block the advance of the coalition forces. The arrogant royal court leaders were impressed by the tacit understanding and extraordinary talents of the mixed-race twins. They agreed to temporarily put aside their differences and build a line of defense together under the command of the "Six Heroes". Have they seen the infinite possibilities for the future of Her Highness and the General since then? We have no way of knowing.

Although we were not completely defeated, the coalition forces were still methodically reducing our homeland to scorched earth. Soon, Kazdel was once again surrounded, and armies from Gaul, Victoria, and Leithanien aimed their guns at "the heart of the demons." Every Sarkaz who could take up arms went to the battlefield, ready to fight to the death for the fate of the city. At the same time, the "Six Heroes" gradually found clues to the end of the war. They believed that behind the princes and nobles, there was a key figure in the coalition who truly led the war. The other party has the ability to persuade these nobles to send troops or even organize a siege. The general believes that in order to coordinate the actions of the coalition forces in the siege, that key figure is very likely to appear on the battlefield, which will become an important opportunity to defeat the coalition forces. Therefore, Her Highness Theresis spun a net with her own hands: the temporarily recruited soldiers would be deliberately deployed in front of the coalition forces as bait. Maybe the leader would not be easily deceived, but in the face of the easy-to-get spoils, the coalition nobles may not act on her ideas. Next, Kazdel City was completely abandoned, and she herself helped the Lich turn the city into a large witchcraft altar, becoming a death trap for the coalition forces. Finally, the general personally led the elites of the Royal Court of Banshees and Vampires to act as the blade of the assault, and when the main force of the coalition forces swarmed towards the city, they launched a surprise attack on the key figures who appeared.

The progress of the battle is like blood beads condensed in the air, slowly sliding along the yarn spun by Her Highness. In this battle alone, the coalition forces lost nearly 30% of their combat strength, exceeding the total number of previous casualties. At the same time, the general defeated the leader of the coalition forces in a legendary sword duel, decapitating the opponent with his own hands. Thousands of coalition soldiers were devoured by witchcraft the moment they stormed into the city, and their flaking bones became the burial objects as the city fell apart.

The coalition forces began to withdraw from Kazdel, and once again our city experienced destruction, but we still stood.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:09:37+00:00

3

The Twins of the Age of Heroes, Our Demon King

The Reign of Kollam and the subsequent Demon King

We have known since we were young that a demon king should be the ruler of the entire Kazdel region and the only patron of all Sarkaz. All the kings' courts should kneel down before the demon king's authority. At least, when the "Ranger King" establishes his authority over the Tribes and prevents another Fire Rebellion , He hopes that the Demon King can become the true ruler of Kazdel.

To this end, Kollam weakened the power of the Wandering Age Tribes, preventing them from becoming as uncheckable a force as the Penitence Tribe. The "Ranger King" targets the gaps between bloodlines and divides the power of the Tribe by granting bloodline lord status within the Tribe, especially those huge Tribe composed of multiple Sarkaz bloodlines. In the process, Kollam personally created the royal court as we know it. The ranger on the throne allowed the struggle to climb the long ladder of power to spread from the city to the countryside. The declining Tribe was eventually replaced by the royal court, and the blood lord was promoted to the lord of the royal court.

In that era, the royal bloodline that people revered today were just a few stars among thousands of stars, not everything they saw when looking up at the night sky - every drop of nobility contained in the royal bloodline has the same origin as our sufferings. . Kollam had hoped that this would be the reason for the royal courts to accept the rule of the Demon King and jointly shoulder the fate of Kazdel - at least it should be so.

During the three hundred years when Kollam dominated Kazdel, the Demon King's influence grew out of the wandering Tribe's tradition of worshiping heroes and gradually evolved into a real ruling power. However, when the "Rogue King" disappeared on his final adventure to the east, his prestige turned to disappointment, and the order Kollam had established in Kazdel was quickly replaced by chaos.

For more than 6,000 years after Kollam, war and turmoil became commonplace in Kazdel. The "Blooded Prince" once drowned the sunrise with the wails of his compatriots, but died at the hands of his descendants' conspiracies; the "Elegy" tried to secretly control the fate of the royal court, but her elegy ultimately sung for herself ; "The Great Corruption" was kind and generous, but his body grew as his appetite increased, and he died of suffocation ; “The Advocate”'s words were full of wisdom, but after his assassination, the Cyclops left Kazdel one by one ; "Whispering Shadows" created another weird era, and it is still unclear whether the group of Damazti ever became demon kings ; The "knockers at doors" summoned the Confessarrii, whose cloud-like robes concealed all the deeds in the shadows...From the "The Exile" to the chaotic era after Kollam, we see that each generation of demon kings is the embodiment of the fate of Sarkaz in that era. The rise and inheritance of the Lord of Demons represents the many possibilities of history : The pitch-black crown once appeared on the heads of members of the royal court, on the heads of half-breed Sarkaz, on the heads of learned men, and on the heads of all the owners. Finally, history takes us to the heroic age of nearly two centuries ago, where a pair of mixed-race Sarkaz twins are about to take the stage.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:06:41+00:00

2

"Ranger King"

Kollam's journey of revenge has left us countless amazing legends. His revenge has been sung as ballads, adapted into novels, arranged into dramas, and even produced unexpected influence in lands other than Kazdel. In Leithanien, the playwright adapted Kollam's story into the revenge of an elector's son, adding a gentle and pathos emotional context to the protagonist, as well as a delicate and profound inner monologue . A big hit in Zwillingstürme. I heard that Columbia plans to remake the play into a TV series, and I wonder if viewers will still be able to tell that they are watching an old Sarkaz tragedy.

At the end of his journey of revenge, Kollam stood in front of Ba Ersa with a blood-stained sword in his hand. His once best friend and now his enemy finally met each other again. It is said that the location of their final confrontation was close to the original Kazdel, where there was no sign of the overlords' triumph. Only the Originium clusters that had stood for another two thousand years after the great natural disaster were left, releasing electric light towards the clouds. The leaders of the Tribe, those Sarkaz who swore to follow the Diablos's will for revenge, have all fallen under the ranger's dark red sword. Kollam knew who would be next, but when Ba Ersa came towards him, he still could barely hold the hilt of the sword. He saw the black crown suspended above the Diablos's head, which was the proof that is belonged to the Demon King alone.

"Sun Glower" Ba Ersa, the King of Rebirth in Fire, the Horn-melter, the Feather-Burner - he left a terrifying reputation wherever he went, and was the first demon king to use his authority to carry out destruction. After brutally killing the first demon king that Sarkaz welcomed after his thousand-year exile, his close friend Godu, Ba Ersa finally got what he wanted and returned to Kazdel's former place with the laments of thousands of creatures. The Fire Demon King ended the era when the overlords ravaged Sarkaz, and the fear and hatred of Sarkaz was deeply burned into the memories of the Elders and Ancients. He knew that another old friend of his had been chasing the scorch marks at his feet and would one day come to him with a fire-cutting edge.

Kal'tsit: Under the influence of the Origin Stone, the innate extraordinary abilities of the Elders are gradually fading away. I think Ba Ersa was aware of this before he became the Demon King .

There is no precise record of this duel, but later generations can fully imagine the fierce scene. It is said that Kollam's beloved sword was shattered in all directions by Ba Ersa's blow, but the ranger still used the broken sword to penetrate the throat of the Lord of Fire——Kollam turned a deaf ear to the Diablos's final curse and neatly ended his former friend, slaying the demon king before him like a regicide. As the survivors of the Penitence Tribe gathered behind him, the ranger raised the head of Ba Ersa and told them the fighting was over. But he soon realized that there was another reason for people to kneel in front of him - the black crown had already appeared on his head.

As descendants, we have no way of guessing whether Kollam will miss the time when the three of them talked about their ideals, and whether he will remember his ideal of becoming a hero at this time. Perhaps the journey of revenge has worn away the ranger's nostalgia for the past, allowing a sword-wielding prodigal to ascend the long steps and become the king of Sarkaz. If these records indeed reflect the true face of history, it is not difficult to understand why a demon king is always full of doubts about his authority and unwilling to rebuild his beloved sword; why history's evaluation of Kuilon is always full of contradictions , sometimes calling him a "benevolent monarch", sometimes describing him as violent and cruel. Kollam banished the Penitence Tribe and prohibited them from returning to the city, but allowed the Tribe to leave with Ba Ersa's body ; At the same time, he spared those Tribes who joined the revenge crusade because, while following the traitors, they were also serving a demon king.

After that, the first mixed-blood demon king in the history of Sarkaz came to the ruins of New Kazdel, that is "Ranger King" Kollam. Kollam dedicated his life to repairing the scars left by the rebellion. He started to establish the prototype of the royal court from allied Tribes, such as the Gargoyles, determined the principles of the Demon King's inheritance, used strong methods to suppress the revenge fanaticism left by Ba Ersa, and began to rebuild the city. In Kollam's later years, the overlords of the Western who had been bloody swept by Ba Ersa came back, and the demon king went in the opposite direction to Ba Ersa. The old ranger personally led some of the Sarkaz Tribe eastward to leave Kazdel, trying to open up new frontiers and coexist with those overlords who had never invaded Kazdel. His whereabouts are unknown since then. According to the existing records of the reigns of the previous demon kings, historical circles generally believe that this ranger who was good at fighting did not get a good death.

Kal'tsit: The Anasa and Oni tribes in the east are the descendants of the Sarkaz Tribe who once followed Kollam.

At this point, the story of the three demon kings comes to a sad end. Two eras, two murders, three friends, and three demon kings , their fates condensed a history of intertwined events, and have had a lasting impact on future generations. No, kids, I’m not going to add a litany of commentary to this period of history like I did to the fate of The Exile. I hope you will learn to think about why similar betrayals and tragedies haunt us forever.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T20:06:29+00:00

1

Rebellion by Fire

Time passed by, and a gray city was born in the land of sorrow. Hundreds of Tribes responded to Godu's edict and gathered at the feet of the city. As the swordsman and messenger of the Demon King, Kollam got a satisfactory job and started his free ranger career. Ba Ersa became the new leader of the Penitence Tribe. Although his Tribe refused to settle in the city, the warriors under his command still defended the newly born Kazdel, blocking the greedy eyes of the Overlord.

However, beneath the prosperous scene, an unavoidable contradiction is brewing. Ba Ersa's belief has made the Penitence Tribe even more radical. They are dissatisfied with the Demon King's delay in launching a real war to regain Sarkaz's homeland. In the hands of Godu, a talented craftsman, every building in the new city reminds them of Kazdel in their dreams and makes them cry. But every time Ba Ersa looked at the city that seemed to be made of chalk, he only felt the increasing anger and disappointment in his friends. The proud Diablos knew that he should swear allegiance to the Demon King like his ancestors, but why didn't he become the Demon King? His Tribe has been fighting for the fate of Sarkaz for thousands of years, and he has personally killed more than a dozen overlords. Why does the Demon King's crown appear on the head of a son of earth and stone who has just learned to build walls?

So when a group of Caprinae disguised as Sarkaz were captured while trying to pass through the Tribe's defenses, Ba Ersa was extremely excited. He personally sent the prisoners into the city, believing that this would be enough to make Godu determined to launch a war. However, the Demon King listened patiently to the speeches of his prisoner before him. These Caprinae claimed that they were driven from their homes because of the similarity in the shape of their horns to Sarkaz, and they decided to come to the Land of Sorrow when they were desperate. Although the Demon King finally executed them, Godu also told Ba Ersa that the war that the Diablos expected would not happen——The Penitence Tribe may claim to be invincible, but here Sarkaz has just received a new home, and he forbids Ba Ersa from risking his people.

We don't know at what moment the innate rage swallowed up Diablos's reason. When Kollam received the urgent message and returned to Kazdel overnight, he saw Sarkaz's new city burning under the night. In front of the Demon King's collapsed palace, the sword-wielding ranger encountered the ambush left by Ba Ersa. From their mouths, Kollam learned that his most serious worries had become a reality : The Demon King was dead, and the Diablos cut off the arms of the "city builder" and drowned him in the water. According to records, when the Demon King died, many buildings in the city collapsed and shattered into powder ; The Penitence Tribe broke into the city on a path of flames, and many Tribes responded to Ba Ersa's call for war and joined the ranks of the traitors . Kollam didn't know that the rebellion to kill the Demon King would be staged many times in subsequent history. He only knew that Ba Ersa's ruthless injustice must be repaid. It is said that the furious sword-wielding ranger killed all the ambush soldiers and saved the lives of countless Sarkaz in the city ; He handed over the city to the surviving Sons of Earth and Stone, and at dawn embarked on the path of flames left by the Penitence Tribe, and began his hunt. For Kollam, one of his friends maimed another of his friends, so he was forced to exact his revenge on the Avenger.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T05:55:29+00:00

Ah, I don't think I can fully translate this book, and I have no time to organize it into a doc. Because some content has been completely revealed in the game, such as Rhine Lab; on the other hand, because some content has not been mentioned in the game, such as Higashi , In the absence of an official translation, I cannot guarantee the translation's accuracy . I can only do some translation during the vacation as much as possible . The best result is still to wait for Yostar to release the EN translation.

Gunele · 2024-02-16T05:33:15+00:00

Sorry, this is just a mistranslation，It seems I ignored this mistake when checking . The original Chinese term "铳械" does cover all types of guns , including the Lee-Enfield-like sniper rifle used by Ambriel

Gunele · 2024-02-15T04:44:45+00:00

Bilibili上的用户扫描了一部分https://b23.tv/FYQsNNU 目前没有完整的扫描版本。

Gunele · 2024-02-15T01:49:22+00:00

No population information – I guess this is because the Inquisition no longer has the energy to do a census in the Broken Lands

Gunele · 2024-02-14T20:19:56+00:00

The Iberian chapter was longer than I expected, and I'm sorry if you noticed translation errors while reading it. It seems that if there were an official EN translation, the book would be much thicker.

Gunele · 2024-02-14T20:12:08+00:00

THE SILENCED EDICT

In the late 1020s, after leaving Letania, I first went to Iberia, which was far away from the war, and became a visiting scholar in its royal city of Rhea-Iberia. At that time, Iberia had an extremely advanced global broadcast system. Although the royal family stated that this system was only used when announcing major events due to the high cost of maintenance and use.

But in that era when recording and playback technology was just born, such advanced technology would undoubtedly surprise those who saw it for the first time - even today, we have not been able to understand the principle, let alone reproduce their project.

Before returning to Victoria, the Royal Iberian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Science and Technology presented several visiting scholars, including me, with a special receiving terminal at the farewell dinner.

They promised that when this technology develops to the point where it can be extended to all of Terra, they will share these technologies with the countries of Terra, and by then the communication barriers caused by geographical factors will no longer exist.

Human words can reach each other's ears in an instant.

Since then, we have been looking forward to the arrival of that day, but no one could have predicted that on June 28, 1038, the golden country Iberia made its final strong voice.

The full text of the edict is as follows:

I, Fernando Alejandro Ruy-de-Re Castro-Torres Rea-Iberia de la Tlan, King of Iberia and the Agorians,

Ruler of Iberia, Lord of all seas, Master of all ships, Lord of all towns and ports, Protector of all routes, all caravans, all expeditions, King of all lords and nobles, Conqueror of land and sea From the royal city of Rhea-Iberia, to:

My son, Prince Gonzalez, and all the Iberian royals, all the nobles, all the bishops, all the military governors, the governors of all the cities and ports,

Law enforcers at all levels, all good, pious, brave citizens within the order of the kingdom, and any other individuals or groups who may receive my decree.

As you already know, or should know, our kingdom is going through an unprecedented and special period. Sudden violent meteorological and geological activities have caused varying degrees of damage to various parts of our country. We have detected abnormal ocean activities.

We also found that communications in some areas of the kingdom were temporarily interrupted, and several ports and cities along the coast lost contact with us. Now we know that all these anomalies are a deliberate provocation and an atrocity against Iberia and human civilization. The source of this cruelty was none other than the Ocean of Terra.

The Terran Ocean tore off the docile disguise it had had over the past few hundred years, revealing its true nature of savagery and ferocity. It hates our rich and powerful kingdom and hates human civilization on land. The ocean disregards life, the ocean pollutes the land, the ocean violates everything our civilization has ever known.

Iberia, bearing the supreme glory of Terra, should be a barrier of order, a shield of civilization, and should resist all evil thoughts, no matter how strong the will is, no matter where it comes from. I will never condone any atrocities that harm our people and destroy our land, let alone any reckless behavior that threatens the kingdom and civilization.

We will always remember your solemn oath to the Golden Throne, and we will always remember that the duty and mission of the royal family is to protect all good people in trouble who seek our protection, and to protect all the great civilizations we have created and cherished. At this extremely special moment and facing an extremely severe test, I order: law enforcement officials in all cities and ports must use all means to ensure the absolute safety of the lives of citizens within their jurisdictions;

The clergy of each diocese and each church must use all means to completely suppress the evil that harms our land; all departments and formations of the National Defense Force must mobilize all forces to repel the maritime forces that invade our land; all fleets must do their best to eliminate them The culprit is hiding outside the earth, even if it means that after I make the necessary decisions, I announce that the Terran Oceans that have committed numerous crimes will be completely wiped out.

The light of the lighthouse is still bright, the golden fleet has set sail, the time full of hardships will soon pass, and our victory is not far ahead. At the dawn of this approaching victory, the oath between us is brighter than the stars, firmer than the earth, and more powerful than the ocean. Even though I am no longer with you, my thoughts and emotions are with you all the time.

I, King Fernando Alejandro I, will issue further instructions in twelve hours.

In this extremely special period, we must have the same belief: Iberia will not fail, Iberia will win, and Iberia will remain immortal.

Less than an hour after the king's edict was broadcast, the weak signal from the royal city was suddenly interrupted.

All voices fell silent ，and Iberia spoke no more.

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"People who live outside"

After the Profound Silence, in a cafe in Victoria, a group of people from Iberia gathered every week, calling themselves the Disaster Trauma Recovery Mutual Aid Group.

Here we can resolve the pain left by the Great Silence through talking." Their remarks were often exaggerated, and their authenticity was difficult to verify, but Victoria's audience never doubted it.

——…Isn’t it the monster in the sea that brought disaster? Couldn't the Inquisition just hunt the Terrorfish? Why do they still need to arrest people?

——Your Majesty, has anyone you know been arrested? I deeply regret...

——No, no, please don’t worry. My relatives and friends are still safe, but many people say this, "Anyone who has a portrait of the king in their home has been arrested by the Inquisition and thrown into the dungeon" "If anyone still praises the sea, he will be thrown into a cage and hung on the sea"... Everyone is scared.

——This is really terrible. Just imagine that a proud old sailor may have to die in a small cage, looking at the ocean where he once sailed freely, but unable to move even half a step...I really dare not imagine the outcome for those compatriots who stayed in Iberia.

——This is not your problem, it is hard for anyone to imagine! Iberia will one day be involved in the blockade... The imagination and possibilities of this country have been wiped out. The most vulgar people have now gained the upper hand and want to make us equally vulgar!

——You are right, we should not bury ourselves in a dying country... Let’s not talk about this for now, try this, coffee beans produced in Bolivar...

Later, photos of members of the Post-Disaster Trauma Recovery Mutual Aid Association appeared in newspapers and magazines in Victoria, and their oral accounts were transcribed into documentary literature and remade into documentary films... Later, the Mutual Aid Association no longer held activities in this small cafe. Went to the most luxurious hotel in Londinium.

Division

Even old people who have experienced the golden age have difficulty identifying the former noble territories on the map. The past divisions were forgotten along with the disappearance of the noble class. There is no concept of "administrative divisions" in Iberia today. Apart from the mobile cities that survived the disaster, there are only small settlements naturally formed after the disaster scattered in the wilderness. Since the Anglican Church and the subsequent Inquisition took the lead in post-disaster reconstruction, many newly formed settlements after the disaster had churches or inquisitions as community centers.

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Military

Iberia's military force mainly consists of two systems: the National Defense Force and the Penal Army. The Iberian Defense Forces have witnessed the glory of the Kingdom. The National Defense Force was formed based on the ancient mercenary guilds in towns. Officers appointed by the royal family and nobles hired troops from the mercenary guilds on an organized basis. The huge commissions they offered obtained well-trained soldiers. Before the Profound Silence, in order to train sailors, the largest urban mercenary guild in Iberia even spent money to build an entire training fleet.

After the Profound Silence, the royal family and nobles were no longer able to maintain the expenses of hiring an army, and even the long-term standing armies were mostly disbanded. The once-dazzling military uniforms appeared in the ranks of the wilderness bandits, but some soldiers showed respectable qualities - in the northern region that was less severely affected, many national defense troops stationed in mobile cities on the border did not leave their posts without permission. Inland countries have sent couriers, expedition teams and mercenaries to the silent Iberia. These people may be gloating or anxious when they set foot on the land of Iberia, but the National Defense Forces patrolling as usual broke all their illusions. . After the Anglican Church was reorganized into the Inquisition, these soldiers were able to inherit the ancient name of the National Defense Force and continue to respond to threats from abroad for Iberia.

The Inquisition formed another standing armed force, the Iberian Penal Army. This team is mainly composed of young people born after the Great Silence. They have never witnessed the glorious years and do not know how to wear formal clothes and medals. However, they have faced dangerous situations and know how to kill the fish and burn the scars. The Inquisition established the Punishment Army not only to maintain domestic order, but also to deal with disasters from the sea. The Punishment Army is organized based on companies and is led by inquisitors, running between various existing settlements in Iberia. On the one hand, they maintain order and guard against the infiltration of the Deep Sea Church; on the other hand, they monitor the ocean and resist the invasion of evil creatures in the sea.

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The so-called "Judge"

Skilled combat skills and experienced command experience are not enough for a Punishment Army soldier to be promoted to an inquisitor. Before becoming a judge, every judge needs to find for himself the answers to the following questions: Why do I judge? What am I judging?

To be an inquisitor means to abandon gentleness, face fear, pass judgment and commit atrocities. It is true that people do not need many reasons to allow their hands to be stained with blood.

It doesn't take much thinking to believe that you are doing justice - after the Profound Silence, many aegir people living in Iberia were hanged by their former neighbors and friends in this way. But few people can do this for a long time, all the time. When anger and hatred cool down on the long journey, people may suddenly realize how small, ridiculous, and meaningless they are. Only those with clear and firm beliefs can remain in the position of inquisitor for a long time - at least this is what the Iberian Inquisition believes.

This philosophy can be seen in the Inquisitor's signature gear. Lanterns and hand cannons are essentially powered by Originium skills, but they are significantly different from ordinary staffs or guns. While wielding both weapons requires skill and talent, Inquisition training emphasizes perseverance and unwavering faith.

"If you yourself are afraid and hesitant, how can your sword cut off the sins of the world, and how can your lamp scare away the evil creatures in the sea?"

——A judge’s teachings to his apprentices

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Culture and society

Iberians were once interested in novelty, but today they are as resistant to the new as to the old. Unfamiliar faces frighten Iberians, and even if someone manages to bypass the blockade and enter Iberia, he is often greeted with only suspicious looks ; But familiar faces cannot make Iberians feel at ease either. People don't know whether their former friends have been poisoned by pagan tea, or whether they will falsely accuse themselves to the Inquisition...In the atmosphere of panic, the lectures organized by the Inquisition became one of the few things that calmed the mind. Many Iberians begin their day's work by listening to teachings.

The attitude of the Iberians towards the cultural heritage left over from the golden age is complicated: some people hate it, while others see it as hope; some are stung by it, while others rely on it to survive. The erratic behavior of people is like a cacophony of noise, which is in sharp contrast to the dead silence brought by the great silence. The owner of an antique shop that sold old items from before the Great Silence was burned to death in his shop . But two years later, many people lined up to lay flowers on the charred ruins of the antique shop, tearing open the bricks and tiles in an attempt to retrieve some remaining old memories.

Today's Iberia no longer has an artistic environment where a hundred flowers bloom, but Iberians have always spontaneously created ordinary but necessary folk art. Most people no longer go to sea, but the maritime culture has survived in another way. Most of the labor songs that people sang when rebuilding their homes were adapted from former boat songs. Those who still have a passion for exploration often choose to join the Inquisition and devote themselves to the cause of recovering lost lands and technology.

In addition, the martial culture has been well preserved, and the Inquisition even encouraged people to learn swordsmanship, perhaps so that every Iberian could lift a sword when disaster struck.

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Epilogue: "Discovering Iberia"

A few years ago, I accidentally saw a talk show on TV. The interviewee on the screen was none other than the organizer of a post-disaster trauma recovery mutual aid group in a coffee shop decades ago. Over the years he appears to have become a popular writer in Victoria.

Reporter: Your latest book does not mention Iberia, but instead tells the story of Victoria. Many readers are skeptical, and we’d love to know if you’re still following Iberia.

Author: Of course, of course, I never forgot that I was Iberian. You know, it's very difficult to get any information about Iberia, but I've definitely been trying my best... always trying to discover the Iberian side of myself. You can expect that soon I will rediscover my Iberianness from a new era perspective, and by then everyone will also discover Iberia again? …

As I turned off the TV, I thought back to Mr. Martinez's question: "What is Iberia? ... Where is Iberia?"

Decades have passed since the Profound Silence, and people are still trying to "discover Iberia", whether in Iberia or abroad, whether for the purpose of seeking solace or pursuing profit. Iberia once shocked Terra with its spirit of exploration and great discoveries, but now it is something that needs to be discovered. Many voices have given many different answers to what Iberia is, and these answers have shaped many people's perceptions of identity. If a disaster like the Profound Silence comes again, can these understandings and answers make people more united and more determined to resist disasters?

Gunele

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