Super Righteous Player
Chapter 862 - 399: The Old Era Marked by Engravings

Chapter 862: Chapter 399: The Old Era Marked by Engravings

Seeing Jiu’er muttering such things in public, Lin Yiyi was a bit worried that others might overhear.

So she quickly coughed and drowned out Jiu’er’s voice.

Then she swiftly changed the subject, "The twenty or so stalls on this street, they all look like ’talent shows’... I mean, the kind that don’t advertise but simply share tastings with others."

Even without curse energy technology, they would absolutely never starve.

—Aside from the loyal horsemen, there were also Aesirland people, numbering five to six times more than the Elves, serving them.

"...Service? Working?"

Jiu’er asked subconsciously.

Lin Yiyi, her mouth greasy from gnawing on a skewer of meat, shook her head, "No... in those days, the Elves’ factories, due to the presence of curse energy, spells, and rituals, had already achieved automation. Only key buildings required supervision... and they were mostly just used as human alarms."

The disparity in quality among the Elves was enormous.

Apart from a few scholars who were proficient in curse energy technology and knowledgeable in various fields, ordinary Elves didn’t even understand how curse energy worked.

"If I’m not mistaken, ’money’... it’s probably something specifically for the native people of Aesirland."

Lin Yiyi whispered, "Inside the Elf community, money might not be needed at all."

Currently, humans are called "High Aesirlanders"; in addition, there were dwarves and giants, which are "Aesirland Dwarves" and "Aesirland Giants"... but they are all Aesirlanders, the indigenous people of the Aesirland continent.

At that time, of course, it was the Silver Baron Church that issued money, but the higher-order clergy were only Elves—even excluding prejudice, with thousands of years of civilization inheritance, naturally being of the silver tier, and at least one-third being elite, the Elves were quality-wise far superior to the Aesirland people who had only just developed to the early medieval level.

At that time, the Aesirland people hadn’t even understood the principles of spells.

They didn’t know the pathways of sublimation and degeneration; they just progressed based on experience and talent, the highest level of Transcendent being the "Condensed" level, without a single Gold-tier; when it came to Divine Arts, they were still worshipping wild gods... Divine Arts, spells, magic tricks, and fraud were all mixed up, commonly referred to as sorcery; in terms of technology, let alone gunpowder weapons and steam engines, they hadn’t even figured out printing, and literacy rates were incredibly low.

It could be said that the Aesirland people were at the technological stage where transportation mainly depended on walking, agriculture mainly depended on the weather, and medical care mainly depended on fate.

Then, the Elves and horsemen, having endured hundreds of years in the desert, led by over fifty Gold-tier individuals with a luxurious lineup of True Gods and False Gods and thousands of armed silver-tier soldiers, invoked the technological wishing engine, and charged over in twenty or more floating Wizard’s Towers...

When Lin Yiyi saw the historical background of this world summarized by Longjing Tea on the forum, players were all crying out, "It can’t be, it can’t be."

...It could be said, the Aesirland people could continue to reproduce only because the Elves had high moral standards and gods watching over them.

And most of the Elves clearly didn’t want to deal with what they saw as "savages."

Those Elf towns were almost entirely semi-closed, completely inaccessible to outsiders.

It could even be said, if it wasn’t for the need to place "Curse Cellars" everywhere to mine curse energy, supporting the national supply of curse energy for all Elves, most Elves would probably only live within the imperial circles, enjoying comfortable lives, never venturing outside.

In their eyes, the Aesirland people’s towns outside the Elf residential areas were probably considered barbaric lands comparable to living deserts. Only some adventurers who were bored to death would go out for "training."

The Elves didn’t need to oppress the Aesirland people to labor for them... because at that time the educational level of the Aesirland people was extremely low, their quality too poor, and the Elves didn’t need mere manual labor.

But the Elves would not share curse energy technology with the Aesirland people.

Thus, what the Aesirland people could do was mining, hunting, breeding, farming, chopping trees—selling these "raw materials" to the Elves, obtaining a certain number of "Aesirland silver coins" and using these coins provided by the Elves to buy advanced technologies and technological products from them.

"The centaurs must also need money," Lin Yiyi guessed, "only I think they earn quite a generous salary... Look."

Lin Yiyi gently scratched the palm of Jiu’er’s hand with her fingernail and discreetly pointed towards the distance.

There was a female centaur.

This was the first centaur they had encountered in the city.

She was only slightly taller than Jiu’er, small and adorable, clearly still a young filly. Her brown hair tied up in a high ponytail, falling to her waist and bound with ropes.

However, compared to the female centaur they met later who resembled humans more closely, her thighs, though slender, were quite powerful, with clearly visible muscle lines, obviously adept at running, with traces of a horse visible at her ankles.

She looked rather shy... she had bought some curse materials from a certain shop. Lin Yiyi and her saw clearly that she handed the shopkeeper some very small silver coins.

These silver coins looked almost the size of broad beans, similar to the difference between ten-cent coins and one-dollar coins used today.

Suddenly, without warning, she turned her head back, looking at the two with some surprise.

Then, she blushed, grabbed the stuff in her pocket, and quickly ran away—truly fast, easily reaching speeds of forty miles per hour.

"...Feels like the type Wenwen would like," Jiu’er whispered to Lin Yiyi.

Lin Yiyi silently nodded.

"It would be nice to interview that girl."

She sighed, "I was actually a bit curious just now. I wanted to stop her and ask about her monthly income..."

But Lin Yiyi was not a professional journalist.

As she was organizing her words, the girl dashed away in a whoosh.

It was so real.

Completely different from the previous nightmare... not just the lack of urgency.

More so, there were some "useless" things.

Many details in the nightmare had their significance. Places that the purifiers noticed were often useful... but here, there were many "completely useless" things... and it was these parts that enriched the details of the nightmare.

It was like another world.

For a while, Lin Yiyi hardly wanted to look for Miss Bofis... She was somewhat reluctant to leave this nightmare.

This was indeed "frozen history."

Being in "history," Lin Yiyi gained a deeper understanding of the social environment of those times.

She also understood more deeply the significance of preserving such "sealed history"... This method could indeed better imprint an era and preserve it completely.

—Clearer and more intuitive than any text, legend, or video.