Barbarians were born with the ability to go berserk. They used this power day after day, year after year, but no one had ever thought about where this power came from, until Hedegar.
It was said that when Hedegar was still a young prince, he had been thinking about what berserk was and where it came from.
In the end, this wise genius found the secret of berserk and found a way to control this wild power.
When Hedegar inherited the throne of his father who died in battle, he began to use this method to train his people and greatly increase the strength of the Storm Army.
In the following war of gods, Hedegar defeated a group of knights that belonged to the Lord of War and killed an incarnation of the Red Knight, the God of Strategy, who was a servant god of the Lord of War, Tempus, and obtained the power of divinity.
In the end, Hedegar relied on this divinity and became the God of War of the Barbarians. However, he did not ascend the throne. Instead, he used the power of the Arcane Empire to lead several legions that belonged to the Arcane Empire. He defeated and destroyed the main force of the gods at that time, several powerful groups of knights of the Lord of War, and destroyed the church of Tempus.
Hedegar took advantage of the fact that Tempus was extremely weak because of the destruction of the church and the invasion of the floating city of the Arcane Empire. He killed Tempus and obtained his divinity and priesthood, becoming the new God of War.
Next, Hedegar led several legions of the Arcane Empire to betray the Arcane Empire and join the gods.
At this time, the Arcane Empire also fell into an irreversible period of decline because of the successive wars of gods.
In the end, Hedegar led his followers to occupy the Star Plateau that originally belonged to the high elves, establishing the Sutton Empire and the War God System headed by himself.
If the Arcane Empire era was an era of bright stars, then Hedegar was undoubtedly the brightest one.
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The Star River was the second largest river in the northern continent. This river originated from the glaciers in the mysterious and desolate north of the Wild Plateau. When it passed through the Torrent Valley, it was already a big river.
The river passed through the fragmented mountains and plains in the north of the Moradin Mountains. Its flow gradually began to slow down. It gathered a large number of tributaries from the Moradin Mountains and the Hydegaard Mountains in the north. When it entered the eastern plains of the Sutton Empire, it was already a mighty river.
From the northeast to the southwest, the Star River passed through the entire Star Plains, winding for nearly 20,000 kilometers. Along the way, the rivers from the Hydegaar Mountains in the north and the Emerald Mountains in the south continuously converged into it. When it reached the estuary, it was already a rich river with a width of more than 100 kilometers.
The Star River was the mother river of the Sutton Empire. It was also the main transportation artery of the Sutton Empire. This river and its hundreds of tributaries formed a large water network that extended in all directions to every region of the Sutton Empire. The capital of the Sutton Empire, Storm City, was the main hub of this water network, connecting river and sea transportation.
Stormwind City had the largest port in the north. It was divided into two parts, one was the coastal port on the west side of the city, and the other was the river port on the south side of the city.
The ship sailed into the port on the west side of Stormwind City. Feng Chou stood on the high bow of the ship and looked at the port. This city was very different from what he had imagined.
In Feng Chou's mind, magic was the technology of this world. The Sutton Empire was a country of warriors, so magic was not flourishing. Naturally, it should be more backward. However, Feng Chou looked at the port. The port was shrouded in smoke and the roaring of machines. It was bustling with activity. Behind the port, there was a forest of tall buildings.
In the sky above the city, there was a depressing gray. Upon closer inspection, it was the smog that Feng Chou could not be more familiar with!
On the port, the largest number of ships were not magic-powered ships. Instead, they were iron-shelled ships with sails and huge steam engine chimneys.
Huge cranes were densely packed on the large trestle bridges of the port. What was different from the port in Orvendell was that there was a machine under each steam engine that occasionally spat out white smoke. Behind each trestle was a boiler room with a huge chimney that emitted black smoke.
In the middle of the trestle bridges was a railway that led directly to the storage area and the warehouse area behind the port. The carriages that came and went on this railway were not the large chariots that were commonly seen at Orvendell's port. Instead, they were a series of rectangular carriages that were emitting black smoke and white smoke.
When the Patrick docked on the trestle bridge, Feng Chou saw that the ones driving the trains were not humans, but goblins!
When the Patrick docked, the managers of the local trading companies immediately boarded the ship, hoping to buy their goods.
However, Feng Chou had no interest in any of this. He left the selling of the goods to Loke's vampire spawn and impatiently disembarked from the ship to observe the situation at the port.
Soon, the Qiankun Pagoda spirit gave him a very definite answer. On this dock, whether it was the train, the cranes, or the iron-shelled ships with sails, their power core was not magic, but steam engines!
The ones responsible for driving and maintaining these steam engines were mostly goblins. There were humans as well, but only a small portion of them.
Feng Chou strolled to the side of an iron-shelled ship and observed it. Qiankun Pagoda quickly scanned the ship thoroughly.
This iron-shelled ship was slightly behind the goblin steamship that Feng Chou had seen at Tailun Harbor. Its outer shell was only a layer of armor installed on the wooden hull. It was still a wooden sailboat.
Its steam engine was also a generation behind the goblin steamship. It was a single-expansion reciprocating steam engine with very low heat efficiency.
Judging from the weapons on the ship, it was obviously an armed merchant ship. It only had one gun deck, and a total of more than twenty cast-iron cannons were installed. These cast-iron cannons were shaped like wine bottles and had a large caliber, but they lacked magical support.
There were humans and goblins on the ship, but most of them were humans.
Feng Chou stopped in front of the iron-shelled ship for a while before turning to leave. The people were used to his curiosity, and there were always outsiders who came to take a look.
Feng Chou followed the flow of people and left the port, arriving at the bustling streets behind it.
Walking out of the port gates, he saw a wide street that could accommodate six carriages side by side at the same time. In the middle of the street were two parallel tracks for carriages. There was also a two-meter-wide sidewalk on both sides of the street that was higher than the road surface. Between the sidewalk and the tracks for carriages was a lane for ordinary carriages.
On both sides of the street were six to seven storeys tall buildings made of red brick. They looked like matchboxes.
Apart from humans, one could also see goblins and dwarves walking on the street from time to time.
Carriages of various sizes shuttled back and forth on the road, most of them carrying goods that were piled up like small mountains.
The street was no less busy than Tailun Harbor.
Feng Chou also noticed that there were a few low street lamps erected on both sides of the street. These street lamps were only slightly taller than a person. They were not magical lamps, but oil lamps.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that the remaining oil in these oil lamps should be animal oil. More accurately, it was whale oil.