Today, because of some unexpected events, the exploration of the wizard tower was pushed back by a few days.
Because Ol 'Seadog was back.
In fact, Søren thought that Ol 'Seadog was dead. Accidents were always inevitable when sailing on the sea, such as encountering powerful sea monsters, encountering terrible storms, ships accidentally hitting rocks, and so on. The fleet that Ol 'Seadog brought out had been missing for two months. Basically, the management of Mordor city thought that he was dead and arranged for someone else to take over. But what everyone didn't expect was that this guy actually came back alive.
So what if he came back alive? Ol 'Seadog wasn't a particularly important person in Modo's management.
But this time, his return was a bit interesting.
Because Ol 'Seadog brought back a lot of useful information to Søren. This time, he didn't come back from the eastern route, but from the other side of the Amazon rainforest to Mordor. This was a new route, and the fact that Ol 'Seadog could return safely proved that this route wasn't too dangerous. Moreover, according to the crude nautical chart he had drawn, the final destination of this route was a huge and somewhat barren island.
Located at the border of the eastern world, its area was larger than several southern kingdoms combined. One-third of the land showed signs of desertification, but it wasn't as serious as the eastern kingdoms. There were remnants of ancient ruins on the island. Because it was too long ago, not much could be seen on the surface, but there might be more undiscovered things underground.
Ol 'Seadog and others found a huge city ruin, but they didn't see any indigenous life.
This island was about two or three days away from the eastern sea route. From their current exploration, only some eastern pirates used this coastline as a secret base.
No one from the eastern kingdoms studied and explored this island in depth.
It wasn't that the eastern kingdoms didn't have an adventurous spirit, but in their legends, this island sealed some powerful ancient evil creatures.
Ol 'Seadog and others didn't encounter any ancient evil creatures, and it was unlikely that they would come back alive if they did. However, when they explored the edge of the city ruin, they encountered a lot of undead and ghosts. These things weren't something they could deal with. After losing a few people, Ol 'Seadog decisively gave up further exploration and directly took people to raid the eastern pirates' lair at night. Then, they robbed one of their warships and returned to Mordor from the Amazon rainforest.
Ol 'Seadog still had some brains.
He actually knew to bring something valuable back to Søren. For Søren, the valuable things were naturally not gold or jewelry. Mordor City did not lack these things at all. What Ol 'Seadog brought back were some peculiar dark-red soil, some special alchemy parts, the corpses of mutated lifeforms living in the vicinity, as well as something that looked like a light bulb.
In Ol 'Seadog's words, this thing had been inside a room in the ruins for who knows how long.
There were two or three boxes of things that would come.
Unfortunately, they weren't anything of great value. It could be seen that Ol 'Seadog was really just taking a stroll around the periphery. Søren picked up an alchemy component and gave it a quick glance, then handed it over to Gloria and Fallen Witch. "Could it be a fallen floating city?"
Gloria looked at some of the items and frowned. She shook her head and said, "I'm not sure."
"The alchemy craftsmanship of these things isn't very high. If a floating city had really fallen there, then it would've been impossible. Then why didn't there be a big explosion? Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any relatively well-preserved ruins of a large city in the material plane. Maybe it's just another Wizard City that's been buried in history. We'll have to go and take a look to be sure. "
Fallen Witch also nodded and said slowly, "It doesn't seem to be of much value at the moment, but maybe we can consider taking a look after taking down the wizard tower."
"The only complete ruins of a floating city in the material plane can only be found in the Eastern Kingdom."
Søren nodded and said, "Well. I see. "
After that, he turned his eyes to the nautical chart in front of him. According to the nautical chart drawn by Ol 'Seadog, his return route would pass through the Amazon rainforest and eventually reach the border of the Eastern Kingdom. Søren's finger gently tapped on the map as if he was thinking about something important. After a while, he shook his head and reached out to erase a mark on the map.
"The Eastern Sea is too far."
Søren looked at the nautical chart in front of him and murmured, "At this critical juncture of the outbreak of the Avatar Crisis, it's no longer suitable for me to expand my territory. The Frost Kingdom was able to suppress the pirates because of Princess Anna and Princess Royal. Otherwise, because it's too far from the south coast, the management would have been full of loopholes. "
"The Eastern Sea."
"The benefits of taking it down and the price paid are not proportional at all."
Søren already had three sea territories.
If he took down the Eastern Sea, then the sea area where human activities were basically complete. However, the current situation was that the cost of taking down the Eastern Sea was too high, and the benefits were already very limited. Adding Arendelle's route was not of much use to Søren, so he might as well put his energy elsewhere.
However, this sea area still needed to be marked.
The core territory of the Arcane Empire was in the Eastern Kingdom. When the Arcane Empire was destroyed, the floating cities were concentrated in the East. No one could be sure if they were lucky.
A day passed in a blink of an eye.
Just when Søren was ready to continue exploring the Wizard Tower, a small accident happened again.
Autumnfall.
A very important message was sent from the intelligence system of Mordor, that was, a part of the half-elves in Autumnfall seemed to have organized. They prayed for Søren's protection and were preparing to migrate to the outer islands collectively. Because of the importance of this matter, the people below could not make the decision at all, so it was sent to Søren for the first time. The half-elves were Søren's main source of believers, so he also attached great importance to this matter. He would never complain about having too many people. If the half-elves planned to migrate to the outer islands, he would definitely welcome them.
However.
Mordor City could not hold them now.
In the original design, Mordor City was a structure similar to ancient Rome. The population it could accommodate was only tens of thousands of people. Even if it was expanded for the third time, it would not exceed 100,000 people. It was not that the area of Mordor City could not accommodate so many people, but the supply of all kinds of food and drink could only be maintained on this scale to make it easier to operate. The transportation capacity of this era was very limited. It took a lot of effort to transport a ship of fish from the port of Mordor to the inner city. The large concentration of the population would cause Mordor City to become quite bloated.
If these half-elves wanted to come over, they would certainly not be treated as well as the first batch.
It was estimated that they could only go to the towns near Mordor City that were being explored. Only when these towns around Mordor City were all built, the supply system could really be established, and the population of Mordor City could be expanded to more than 100,000 people!
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