Chapter 432: LXVII. It’s All a Game
East of the Narrow Sea, in the western coastal city of the Mulong Duchy, Golden Palm Port.
On May 21, half a week had passed since the agreed-upon date, and yet the key pillar of the Seventh Amendment, which was supposed to have already reached Golden Palm Port to discuss cooperative matters with Black Sail, had not returned.
As the East Sea Commissioner of Lostra, Celeste had performance targets to meet.
Aran had deployed a large amount of manpower and resources, even with an army escort, at this pace of construction, even if bypassing some forbidden zone chasms, it would take ten months, and if Black Sail failed to act, by increasing Aran’s efforts, they could penetrate Mulong Duchy before the end of the year.
This railway, stretching to Green Oasis Country Wadina, would require a maximum of three years.
The Western Continent was divided into east and west by the Narrow Sea, with boundaries untouched by the sea, filled with steep mountain ranges in the north, and though the temperature was nothing like the icy Northern Realm beyond the Arctic Ocean, winter was still marked by incessant snowfall.
Aran, situated in the east on the Dragon Rising Land, had almost completely unified the eastern region.
The homeland of the Werewolves, the self-governing Chenfeng Plateau, acted as a natural barrier, separating Aran from Pedan.
Pedan, located in the central north, west of the Chenfeng Plateau, had sprawling mountain ranges within its borders. Once known as the Nation of Four Fortresses due to its isolation, many ancient magics were preserved here. The first Magic Energy Industrial Revolution erupted in this land, and after its subsequent expansion, it devoured the northern mountainous areas, possessing the largest territory among the Five Permanent members of the Western Continent, if excluding colonial lands of the Duchy. Yet, it had the least exploitable land among them.
Gureg, Ji Weng, and Lostra stood in a tripartite balance to the west of the Narrow Sea.
Along with other large and small countries acting as strategic buffers or functional states, they formed the entirety of the Western Continent.