Chapter 139: CXXXIX. Big News
The Southern Wetlands receive exaggerated amounts of precipitation, experiencing heavy rain throughout the year.
Pitching a tent outdoors offers little resistance against the fierce raindrops.
But over the past few years, with extensive renovation of strategic roads, transportation has become more convenient, surpassing the infrastructure of many inland countries.
The reason for building so many stone-paved roads is, of course, to facilitate future military invasions, slowly eroding the complex terrain advantages of the wetlands.
Under Murphys’ sustainable strategy of exhausting resources for profit, roads continue to multiply, allowing human armies to advance directly.
However, there are benefits, as the market economy has begun to develop slowly.
More and more adventurers also come here to make a living.
The areas inhabited by intelligent races in the Great Wetland account for only thirty percent, with half of the region being uninhabited virgin forests, rumored to contain mythical creatures.
But it is true that there are many valuable Magic Beasts to hunt, and gold seekers come here searching for mineral veins.
Along the strategic roads, there are many station inns where one can stay, eat, and buy horses all in one place.
Just like highway rest areas, there is a station about every hundred miles, all of which are well planned.
