Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 373 - 10: Your Emperor Has Returned! (Part 3)

At one point, the situation was so critical that the early Mechanical Church nearly faced complete extinction. The global warfare forced a halt to the Industrial Revolution’s progress, and any books related to mechanical industry were banned by many kingdoms. Those who read or studied this knowledge were executed on the spot, nearly driving civilization back to the Mysterious Era.

By this time, Duncan had finished recording these ancient era materials.

Coupled with what he has collected and organized recently, a unique mark had already appeared on the projection page.

——"The First Industrial Revolution (Magic and Industry): The technology and knowledge born in the late Mysterious Era in World Three. The God of Steam and Mechanics improved the runes of the Mysterious Era, making them suitable for some early industrial technologies. Among these recorded materials, there is a stronger emphasis on secular industrial technology, but they also include improvements of mechanical runes to magic constructs.

After the outbreak of the first Industrial and Magic Revolution, the church of the God of Steam and Mechanics improved the traditional mages’ ’Anti-Gravity Rune’ and applied it to manufacture the first batch of aircraft.

However, the ensuing world war interrupted this research process.

Faced with sieges from countries worshipping other divine sects, the church of Steam and Mechanics gained tremendous strategic advantage through floating airships, lightning tanks, and mechanical armor clusters!

But soon, they had to face the incarnations and chosen ones of other divinities.

This also led to the fall of the God of Steam and Mechanics, and His Divine Heart of Machinery was completely destroyed.

The First Industrial and Magical Revolution was forced to stop until the true God of Ten Thousand Machines was born, descending into this world through a Mechanical Incarnation."

(Warning!)

(The information collated back then, once released, could potentially impact the civilization process of other worlds.)

Impact the process of civilization?

This is precisely what Duncan intended to do.

After the No. 3 Human Form returned to the resting place, with a thought, the projection page of the No. 1 Human Form appeared before him.

——Mist-covered Avalon[Land of Blessings].

Ever since Duncan retired, the scene here had remained in a relatively static state.

Only the national mark on the projection page would occasionally show a bit of log updates, with the time intervals between the logs becoming increasingly longer, until finally only changing once in decades.

——In AD 489, the Crow Queen - Triss was promoted to the God of Witchcraft and Secret Magic (Weak Divine Power), and her clandestine sect was active on Great Britain.

——In AD 492, the Middle Ages witnessed a new wave of mythological decline, with people foreseeing the advent of the End of Dharma Era. Large areas in Europe began experiencing Death Magic Zones, and the spellcasters of the Mysterious Era started a mass exodus to Great Britain.

——In AD 498, Duncan II diligently governed, highlighting the national concept of ’Ship Development’.

——In AD 503, with the mythological decline, a religious reformation occurred in the Nordic faith, colonizers began to appear in Iceland, and with the maritime hegemony national ideology emerging, the empire strongly developed ship technology and navigators discovered Gellanling Island.

——In AD 512, the first fleet of colonists set foot on Gellanling Island, giving rise to a new national ideology of ’Colonial Wave’ in the empire. However, limited by the era’s technology, this ideology did not attract widespread attention.

——In AD 520, Anya’s Legendary Level converted into the commercial field, mythologizing alongside the No. 1 Human Form’s legend as the Empress of the Empire, gathering some Divine Power.

(She was acclaimed as the first to buy the empress position with astonishing wealth!)

(As a wise and supportive partner to Emperor Duncan, she was highly proficient in business trade, providing invaluable support during Duncan the Great’s ascent. Due to such meritorious service, she ultimately surpassed Duncan the Great’s other lovers, leaping from a widowed widow to the noble Empress of the Empire.)

(Anya was promoted to an Upper-Rank Heroic Spirit, and over time, her statue was also venerated in the shrine of Emperor Duncan, worshipped by many merchant groups.)

——In AD 532, with further mythological decline, temple altars began losing some Supernatural Power, prompting a slight decline in the Avalon faith, and some Druid prosperity rituals started to fail.

——In AD 535, Duncan II highlighted the national concept of ’Precision Cultivation’, leading to significant advancements in the empire’s agricultural technology. With the massive decline in Supernatural Power, the empire’s research institute focused heavily on agricultural technology, disseminating precision cultivation throughout the empire’s territory, which led to explosive population growth.

——In AD 536, after reigning for fifty years, Duncan II voluntarily abdicated. Duncan III ascended to the throne, marking the early appearance of relatively smooth power transitions in the empire.

This successor diligently governed. Although he did not achieve glorious military feats, he allowed the empire to recuperate for several decades. Following Emperor Duncan, he completed the dissemination of education and justice, established local courts, abolished blood feud, and transformed Germania into the empire’s core province, ushering the empire into a period of prosperity.

In the thirteenth year after abdicating, Duncan II passed away at the age of 97, becoming the longest-recorded reigning monarch.

——In AD 542, the empire’s Mesopotamian region was conquered, after which Duncan III personally led an expedition, reclaiming the lost province. However, the empire’s territory was too vast, and the administrative body too bloated, gradually weakening control over the Middle Eastern regions. Twenty years later, Babylon fell again, with heretics slaughtering and burning down churches and temples, forcing the empire’s stationed troops to retreat to the Jerusalem area.