Chapter 43 Earth Veins
During this period, every time Gao De went out to sell medicine, he would stroll around Hogan City on the way.

The first is to get familiar with Hogan City, but it is also a way to relax and experience the customs of the “other world”.

The second is to understand local customs and even prices, and deepen your understanding of the world.

It was this action that made him realize that there were many more people in the city recently who were obviously not local residents of Hogan City.

This made Gao De alert.

He inexplicably felt that a storm was about to come.

In addition, there was an unexpected gain that even Gaode itself did not expect.

In this world, books are a rare and expensive commodity.

Only in some larger cities are there libraries that specialize in selling books.

In small cities, it is impossible to even think about it. Only nobles, scholars and wealthy businessmen have private collections of books in their homes.

This is due to the monopoly of knowledge held by the powerful class in this world.

After learning about this situation, Gao Deben no longer had any thoughts of buying any books in Hogan City.

But I didn’t expect that while strolling around, I found a small studio selling books in the civilian area.

The owner of the studio is called Dai Ruiqi, who was once a monk in the Bremen monastery.

Most monasteries have their own libraries where monks can study doctrine.

At the same time, books in their collections are copied and sold to scholars in need and even wealthy patrons.

When Dalich was in the monastery, he was responsible for copying and producing books.

Later, due to high maintenance costs and the depletion of funding sources, the monastery could no longer continue to operate and had to be closed.

This group of monks were then sent back home.

When the monastery was closed, the monks divided up the contents of the monastery and took away everything that could be moved.

Dai Rich was already very old and couldn’t get any good stuff, so he could only pack up some books from the monastery’s collection and return to Hogan City where he was born.

He is old and lacks the physical strength to do any physical work. Even though he can read, few people are willing to hire him because of his age.

But people always have to eat.

The old monk decided to rent a small house in a civilian area and open a small studio.

He managed to make a living in his old age by producing and copying books in his studio and selling them directly to clients.

The books sold by the old monk were not very valuable, and were mainly religious texts.

These include guides to religious rituals, manuals on church doctrine, books on church history, and even church literature including hymns.

In addition, there are a small number of heroic epics reflecting heroes and historical events, as well as a few scattered chronicles, travel notes, and books on geography and humanities.

There wasn’t a single book of knowledge or practical manual.

Of course, even if you have Gaode, you can’t afford it.

Here, any book related to knowledge can be priced sky-high.

Those “miscellaneous books” in the traditional sense will be much cheaper.

But this cheapness is only relative.

Although the types and quantity of books are small, they are exactly what Gaode needs.

He bought several travel books and books on geography and humanities, a total of four books, and spent two gold coins.

This price is simply staggering – in the past, it was not uncommon to buy a pound of books for only 50 yuan.

Although Gaode felt the pain, it still paid the money and followed the local customs.

As soon as he returned to the medicine garden with the four books he had bought at a high price, Gao De couldn’t wait to pick up a copy of “Geography of Bremen” and began to understand this world.

Speaking of this, I have to thank Master Seda.

If Gao De had not been taken back to the medicine garden and accepted as an apprentice, how could he have learned to read given his former status as a beggar?
Here, after flipping through a few pages, Gao De showed an extremely surprised expression on his face. “It’s very different from what I thought?”

The entire Bremen region, located in the west of the Principality of Seen, is so vast that it far exceeds Gode’s imagination.

Because the overall appearance of this world is too similar to medieval Europe, and the city of Hogan is indeed not big, the productivity is extremely low in his opinion.

This made Gode subconsciously regard the Principality of Sean as a small country of tens of thousands of square kilometers, or at most one hundred thousand square kilometers.

His guess can be further supported by the fact that Bremen, the largest city most known to the people of Hogen, is actually less than 200 kilometers away from Hogen.

As it turned out, the Bremen region alone was actually larger than he had imagined the Principality of Sean to be.

The entire Bremen area is more than 400 kilometers long from east to west and 800 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of ​​more than 300,000 square kilometers!
This is already the size of Guangdong combined with Fujian.

In addition, there are nine major rivers in the Bremen area.

Seven prominent mountain ranges.

Mountains, forests, swamps and lakes are everywhere.

This is just the western region of the Principality of Sean.

One can imagine how large the area of ​​the Principality of Sean is.

“With this world’s technological level, is there a way to manage such a vast territory? Won’t it be out of reach?”

This question instinctively popped up in Gao De’s mind, and he muttered, “This is unscientific!”

The next moment, he smiled awkwardly, realizing that he was subconsciously thinking about the problem with fixed thinking again.

Although the technological level of this world is not high, equivalent to medieval Europe, it possesses extraordinary powers such as magic.

Isn’t the reason why extraordinary powers are called extraordinary because they are unscientific?
Shaking his head, Gaode turned the page and continued reading.

Such a vast area in the Bremen region is actually very desolate.

With Bremen as the center, eight small cities including Hogen form a development area of ​​nearly 10,000 square kilometers.

The remaining 300,000 square kilometers are undeveloped wilderness, filled with ferocious beasts and dangerous earth creatures.

Going further, Gaode finally learned a little bit of information about the underground creatures.

Although he often heard the term “geo-vein creatures” and often mentioned them, Gao De actually did not have much knowledge about them.

It was a rare opportunity to see information about underground creatures, and he felt like he had found a treasure.

“After the planes intersected, earth veins were born frequently, and their number increased day by day. Earth vein creatures emerged, but no new earth veins were born in the Bremen area for two hundred years. Jellos XII once praised Bremen as a blessed place.”

The article only contains this brief description of the earth vein creatures, and then moves on to other geographical introductions.

However, just this short sentence contains enough information.

“The planes intersect. Does this mean that there is more than one plane in this world? Or is the plane here different from the plane I know?”

The sentence “ground veins are frequently generated, and ground vein creatures emerge” is easy to understand. Ground vein creatures come from ground veins, and ground veins are continuously generated and their number is constantly increasing.

The same is true for the number of subterranean creatures.

As expected, a world where extraordinary powers exist is absolutely extremely complex and strange, and contains countless secrets.

And the sentence “No new land veins have been produced in the Bremen area for a hundred years” did make Gao De feel a little relieved.

Gao De had witnessed once in the medicine garden the terrifying nature of the underground creatures.

It goes without saying that the appearance of earth veins is a natural disaster for humans.

Once a natural disaster occurs, there are too many uncontrollable factors. How could he, a weak first-class mage apprentice, not be affected?
Gao De doesn’t want to see his current peaceful life disrupted.

He is still young and lacks strength, but he has unlimited potential.

It’s better to just “grow” quietly and wait until you become much stronger.

(End of this chapter)