Chapter 144

"Nolan Continent Geography and War Geography" is a branch course under the compulsory course "Basic Cultural Studies."

This course is offered for a total of four terms per academic year.

Gao De signed up for the first term taught by Instructor Mo Sen.

The class time is the afternoon of every day ending in 2 during the three months of Frost Gold Month, Mist Frost Month, and Icebound Month.

The classroom for this course is very large.

One reason is that this course has always been one of the famous "easy courses" in the academy, with a large number of students each term, so more seats are needed.

The content of "Nolan Continent Geography and War Geography" is relatively simple, and the assessment is easy to pass, yet it can earn as many as two credits.

Almost all students will choose to take this course in some year.

Some students who struggle with credits even treat this course as their "insurance": whenever they can't scrape together ten credits in a year, they quickly sign up for this course and muddle through the year with these precious two credits.

The second reason is that as a "geography course," although it is an indoor course, it needs to be equipped with a sand table for simulating terrain to make teaching more intuitive.

It is not just the academy; Saint Xi En City has also become exceptionally bustling due to the Sairui Academy admissions.

Gao De entered the classroom a quarter of an hour before the class started.

At this time, there were already quite a few students in the classroom.

Just the class arrival time alone can distinguish students with different personalities.

Some people like to arrive at the classroom early, some like to arrive a little early, some like to arrive right on time, and a very small number of people like to be late.

And Gao De belongs to the type of student who likes to arrive at the classroom a little early.

Arriving too early is unnecessary and a waste of time; arriving right on time is not safe, as one might accidentally be late.

And being late, in Gao De's view, is a bad behavior.

Sure enough, after Gao De, more than a dozen students arrived one after another.

Of course, without exception, they were all senior students.

Gao De is the only "first-year" student among them.

—The other freshmen are still digging for ore under the Hard Labor Cliff.

When the hour struck, a thin old man with curly brown hair, wearing a robe marked with the academy emblem, walked in from the main entrance, clutching a roll of parchment.

The thin old man was their instructor, Instructor Mo Sen.

As soon as Instructor Mo Sen entered, the slight whispers that had existed in the classroom disappeared instantly, and it became quiet all at once.

Without even introducing himself, Instructor Mo Sen went straight to the point as soon as he entered the classroom.

At the very front of the classroom was a very large whiteboard.

But strangely, the whiteboard was not hung up, but laid flat, supported by a stand underneath.

At least when Gao De first saw this whiteboard, he couldn't imagine what it was used for.

However, his doubts have now been answered.

Instructor Mo Sen stood in front of the whiteboard, raised one hand, and his fingers danced lightly.

A subtle magical fluctuation immediately permeated the air.

Under the guidance of his gestures, a piece of light gradually emerged on the huge whiteboard.

A three-dimensional map model began to condense within the light.

"Nolan Continent is the name of the continent where the land beneath our feet is located." As soon as the map took shape, Instructor Mo Sen began to speak on his own.

"If viewed from the sky, Nolan Continent is an irregular pentagon, resembling a bird about to take flight, long but narrow at the bottom, short but wide at the top."

"As an aside, this world is not just this one continent of Nolan Continent; below and to the right of Nolan Continent, there are two other continents, namely the Terra Continent and the Middle Court Continent."

"The three continents together make up the map of our world." "Of course, Nolan Continent ranks first among the three continents in terms of both area and comprehensive strength."

"Alright, now back to the main topic."

Instructor Mo Sen only mentioned the other two continents in passing; after all, the name of this course is: Nolan Continent Geography and War Geography.

Subsequently, he made a rotating gesture.

In the three-dimensional map model condensed by light, the whitish area at the very top began to highlight, becoming exceptionally conspicuous.

What an "advanced" teaching method.

Looking at this 3D projected map, Gao De sighed secretly.

Magic sometimes does even better than technology.

"This area is the northernmost region of Nolan Continent, which we call the Northern Realm."

"The Northern Realm is the land of ice and snow storms, with an extremely harsh environment, perennial severe cold, and endless ice and snow storms."

"The land of the Northern Realm is even called the permafrost tundra, where it is almost impossible to grow food."

"Therefore, the humans living in this land are all nomadic hunting peoples, making a living by hunting."

Instructor Mo Sen snapped his fingers, marking the edge of the Northern Realm region with a red cursor.

"The edge of the Northern Realm is the Eryinlaya Range, which is the highest mountain range in Nolan Continent, with an average altitude of over eight thousand meters."

"It is this mountain range that isolates the ice and snow storms of the Northern Realm, making the two sides present completely different landscapes and climates with the Eryinlaya Range as the boundary."

"It is also because of the existence of this natural barrier, the Eryinlaya Range, that although the Northern Realm region belongs to Nolan Continent just like the southern region where we are, there is almost no communication between the two sides, just like an independent continent."

"Of course, if you want to enter the Northern Realm, it is not the only way to cross the Eryinlaya Range." Mo Sen's fingers traced in the air, and soon two blue lines appeared on the periphery of Nolan Continent on the map.

"Taking the sea route into the Northern Realm is a more reasonable choice."

"However, because of early internal disputes and its location on the frontier, the people of the Northern Realm do not like to interact with the outside world, and at the same time, they have great hostility towards outsiders."

"In addition, due to the characteristics of nomadic hunting peoples, they need to migrate with the change of seasons and the migration of prey, living a mobile life without fixed settlements, so there are no large ports in the Northern Realm at all."

"Limited by these conditions, communication between the outside world and the Northern Realm has always been very rare, only occasionally some magic users will form teams to enter the Northern Realm by boat."

"Because of the isolation and the environment, there are many high-rank magical plants and earth vein biological resources in the Northern Realm that are difficult to see in the outside world; it can be said to be a treasure land that has never been developed."

Instructor Mo Sen explained: "These magic users take the risk to enter the Northern Realm for this reason."

"In addition, the Vikings in the Northern Realm will also take the wolf ships they built to go south to plunder and loot resources when the ports thaw in summer."

"However, this is something that countries on the coastline need to worry about, and it has nothing to do with our Saint Xi Encheng." Instructor Mo Sen spread his hands, and that was how he simply ended the introduction to the Northern Realm.

The light in the Northern Realm region in the three-dimensional map also dimmed accordingly.

And what lit up next was the eastern region of the map.

This time, the area that lit up was so large that it occupied almost half of the remaining territory of Nolan Continent except for the Northern Realm.

And Instructor Mo Sen paused at this time, waiting for the students to write down this area, and after having a general impression, he asked: "Do you know what this area is?"

Could it be the "Eastern Wasteland"? Gao De's mind subconsciously popped up this slightly mischievous thought.

According to the classic settings in the web novels of his past life, the counterparts to the Northern Realm should be "Eastern Wasteland," "Western Desert," and "Southern Sea."

Some students among the students have already raised their hands.

It was a student from a noble background.

For them, they already knew this knowledge, and there was no need to obtain it from the class, so naturally, they could answer Instructor Mo Sen's question at this moment.

Under the signal of Instructor Mo Sen, the student who raised his hand revealed the answer: "This is the territory of the Holy Empire."

(End of chapter)