Chapter 286 Incredible Area

The units of measurement in this world differ from those on Earth.

As a transmigrated soul who crossed into this world, he didn't bring any items for comparison, making it difficult to ascertain whether this was a world of giants or ants.

He could only gauge the vastness of this world by the proportions of his own body.

According to his research, his height had grown to about 1.87 meters, making him the tallest in the Tulip family.

Assuming he is the same size as his Earth counterpart.

Coral Island is roughly the size of a prefecture-level city in China, averaging about 10,000 square kilometers; Red Crab Island is similar in size to a small-to-medium-sized province, averaging around 100,000 square kilometers. The Sapphire Duchy comprises more than ten islands the size of Red Crab Island, along with the larger Blue Dragon Island.

The total area of all the islands is roughly 2 million square kilometers, about one-fifth the size of China.

The Sapphire Duchy is a remote archipelago nation on the continental periphery, likely smaller than other duchies and grand duchies. Its suzerain state, the Kingdom of Steel Ridge, has seven vassal states whose combined area exceeds that of China; the Kingdom of Steel Ridge itself is twice the combined size of all its vassal states.

Thus, the combined area of the Kingdom of Steel Ridge and its vassal states is equivalent to the size of the Asian continent—45 million square kilometers.

The rival Kingdom of Blastfurnace is slightly smaller, with one less vassal state, totaling about 30 million square kilometers; the neighboring Kingdom of High Furnace, with more vassal states and a larger total area, exceeds 60 million square kilometers.

The combined total area of these three kingdoms, including some offshore uninhabited islands, surpasses the total land area of Earth—149 million square kilometers.

However, these three kingdoms are located in the northeastern corner of the continent.

The entire continent is likely twenty times the size of these three kingdoms, as even a single empire on the continent is larger than several kingdoms combined.

Liszt clearly knows that this continent is home to three existing empires—the Empire of Everlasting Glory, the Blue Dragon Empire, and the Kushan Empire.

The surface area of Earth is approximately 500 million square kilometers, while the area of this continent is roughly 3 billion square kilometers, equivalent to six times the surface area of Earth.

It sounds unbelievable.

But the truth is, the land is so vast that the Sapphire Duchy, located in the northeastern corner of the continent, learns about countries on the other end of the continent not through rumors, but through legends—legends like the emperor of the Everlasting Brilliance Empire having been on the throne for two hundred years, or the legend of the Wind Howl Valley where storms rage all year round.

A continent spanning 3 billion square kilometers.

It took Liszt a long time to accept this reality.

However, according to the data he has recently collected on the length of day and night, seasonal changes, and temperature variations of the continent, there is an even more astonishing fact awaiting verification.

"If my high school geography serves me right, the available data suggests that this continent is merely a small part of the Northern Hemisphere, it doesn’t even cross the equator or approach the North Pole."

South of the equator, temperatures would gradually decrease, yet the southernmost part of the continent is the hottest region, suggesting they haven’t crossed the equator.

Near the North Pole, even without ice and snow, the sun should hover near the horizon, but now the sun is only slightly off-center, indicating they are still far from the North Pole.

"The continent’s location is likely between the tropics and the temperate zone. It hasn’t reached the cold zone. Since the sun is always nearly overhead, not very slanted."

He feels.

In terms of Earth’s geography, it is roughly equivalent to the region around Southeast Asia.

"So, if I live on a sphere, how large is it?" With his limited imagination, he can’t solve the complex equation to determine the sphere’s volume from its surface area, so he can’t compare it to Earth. "Is there any other land beyond this continent?"

According to the legends of the Sapphire Duchy, beyond the Blue Sea lies the Devil’s Sea, where devils roam.

Even dragon knights cannot traverse the Devil’s Sea. It seems that apart from the continent, everything else is an endless sea. No one knows what lies beyond the sea, and no one is curious enough to find out. The vast expanse of the continent is sufficient to captivate all the nobles.

Liszt still remembers that when he once marveled at the sea’s infinite wealth, Marcus was dismissive, focused on achieving glory on the continent.

It is now clear that developing the ocean is extremely challenging; let alone crossing the Devil Sea, navigating within the Blue Wave Sea is perilous at every turn.

Ghost ships, Dromitchta...

He suddenly remembers: "By the way, I almost forgot about the book *The Diary of Philip, the Sun’s Descendant*. The descendant of the Sun’s Son, who shares the same bloodline as the old shoemaker, must have come from another continent and was exiled here... Therefore, there must be other continents, and new 'human' civilizations."

The storage of the 36D ghost, a drifting bottle used only for communication, exhibiting exquisite craftsmanship and magical ingenuity, all show that it comes from a highly developed magical society.

With these thoughts, he retrieves the floating bottle from the gem space, its unique metallic texture and intricate carvings which he has admired countless times.

He has made countless speculations but has yet to uncover any answers.

"Perhaps one day, the Smoke Mission will release another task related to the Sun’s Descendant, and then I’ll be able to make use of this bottle. Reflecting on it, over the past six months, he has gathered numerous bottles of the old shoemaker’s blood, enough to open the floating bottle hundreds of times."

Whenever he has free time, he requests some blood from the old shoemaker.

Then he has Jesse deliver various tonics to the old shoemaker, concerned that the old shoemaker might die from excessive blood loss.

Frequent bloodletting might be beneficial for health, or perhaps the tonics are effective, yet the old shoemaker is actually becoming younger. Baxter also heard from his butler, Carter, that the old shoemaker and Jesse have talked about whether he should find a wife—perhaps with some effort, he could have a son.

Baxter did not intervene.

He actually hopes that the old shoemaker finds a wife and has children, so he can gather more blood from the Sun’s Descendant and repeatedly open the floating bottle.

After playing with it for a while, he puts the floating bottle back.

Liszt easily took out a piece of rubber for further study.

The rubber from the rubber tree, which he planned to examine thoroughly, to understand all its properties. Firstly, its hardness; once solidified, the rubber had a hardness comparable to marble used in building castles. Secondly, its fire resistance; it was completely unaffected by flame, just like stone, making it entirely fireproof.

It was also water-resistant, showing no change when submerged, and it did not react with most of the liquids Liszt had available.

Its adhesive property was extremely strong, but since it had already solidified by the time it was brought back, he could only determine that it bonded so strongly with wood that they almost became one.

However, it was very light, comparable to plastic.

From the current data, this rubber could potentially act as a replacement for cement, but it is not practical for making cement. However, how much rubber is produced from a single rubber tree?