Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

Elvia's lips twitched.

She turned to the side, leaned close to Lin Gui's ear, and lowered her voice.

"When the hell did I become the lord of Avalon?"

Her voice was squeezed out from between her teeth, carrying an uncontrollable absurdity.

Aren't you going to explain yourself?

Lin Gui looked puzzled.

He put down his charcoal pencil and said.

"Although you only served for about a week, you are indeed the lord of Kalan. Have you forgotten?"

Elvia opened her mouth slightly, stunned.

"Kalan? What does that have to do with the city of Kalan?"

"Kalan, is the starting point of our revolution."

Lin Gui's voice was flat, as if he were saying something that should be taken for granted.

"I'm also aiming to build a city-state like Avalon, haven't I told you that already?"

Elvia's reaction left Lin Gui completely bewildered.

Lin Gui had never hidden his plans from Elvia.

On the way from Baiya City, he communicated all his plans to everyone except the system.

Elvia stood there, stunned, glancing at Lin Gui and then at Morgan and the others.

She covered her forehead, her voice full of surprise.

"No, I thought you were joking with me?"

"Are you kidding me with your plan to establish a revolutionary base in some remote border region?"

Lin Gui was speechless and powerless.

"I paid the price with my own body just to get you, a grasshopper on a rope."

Would I joke about something this important?

"Besides, wasn't our entire journey there precisely to get back to Karan through the red desert?"

Elvia was speechless after being rebuked, but she still couldn't help but complain.

"The price you paid for this is really upsetting to me."

"No, why would I think you're joking with me? You don't even look at how outrageous your plan is."

"To establish a force against the alliance in Karan City?"

"Brother! My dear brother! Whose almanacs are these?"

"The Black Tide was born in the borderlands, and damn it, it was born in the middle of the Withered Rift near Karan City."

"Kalan City has long been reduced to ashes, and you're still sticking to your original plan!"

"The frontier is indeed a perfect place for you to rekindle your flame, but at the very least, you need people!"

"Everyone in Karan City is feeding demons. Who are you going to ask to help you grow your power? Demons?"

Lin Gui sighed helplessly and finally said softly.

"Kalan, it has not been destroyed."

"I have a way to confirm it."

He looked at Elvia.

"It's the same method as confirming that you were still alive at the time, and that King Carter was still alive."

"Elvia, you know, it's incredible that even King Carter didn't perish in the first phase of the Black Tide."

"If the Black Tide hadn't been heading directly towards the capital of Carter, it might have survived, thanks to that woman's power."

Elvia was speechless.

Lin Gui is right.

If it weren't for that woman, King Carter would have been trampled to pieces by the demons long ago.

Elvia frowned.

"You mean, there's a Katarina in Karan City too?"

"Wait, how did you confirm the existence of Karan City?"

She looked at Lin Gui with suspicion.

"So, you're keeping a little bitch there, and you confirmed it through the romance thread?"

Lin Gui's eyes drooped like a dead fish.

"Do you really think I'm that lustful and promiscuous?"

"If I were truly lustful, then what are you, the guy who repeatedly offered yourself up only to be rejected?"

Is Carter the ugliest man in the city?

Elvia's face flushed red instantly.

"you--"

Before she could finish speaking, Morgan couldn't help but interrupt.

"This Karan is...?"

Lin Gui tossed out a map, pointing to the location of Karan City.

"This is the place I told you about, the place where we'll build a second Avalon."

He glanced around at the half-demons and continued.

"This is also where they will live and work in peace and contentment."

Cedric couldn't help but ask.

"Miss Knight said that the Black Tide was born in the Withered Rift Valley."

"Given how close it is, can this small town really have survived?"

Lin Gui pointed to the capital city of Carter on the map and said.

"This city-state also survived the first phase of the Black Tide."

He paused for a moment, recalling Eve's prophecy and Katya's strangeness, and finally spoke.

"It's also possible that it survived the trampling of the mainstream Kuroshio."

Cedric frowned and asked.

How did you determine that?

Lin Gui pointed at Elvia.

"She was the princess of the fallen kingdom of Carter."

"And I was the one who rescued her after the first phase of the Black Tide ended, when I went to the capital of Carter."

Morgan and other legends simultaneously contracted their pupils.

Their eyes all fell on Elvia, filled with surprise and disbelief.

A princess of a fallen kingdom?

Those who survived the Kuroshio?

And he was rescued by this high-level mage in front of him?

Cedric opened his mouth as if to say something, but then closed it again.

Leah leaned against the grain sack, her gray hair falling in front of her face, her eyes slightly narrowed as she looked at Elvia again.

Hewlett's gaze was steady as he looked at Elvia, lost in thought.

Elvia stepped forward and stood next to the map.

"I am Elvia Loren, the seventh princess of the Carter Kingdom."

Her voice wasn't loud, but every word was clear.

"You can find my name in any newspaper that reports on the Carter royal family."

She paused for a moment, her gaze sweeping over every legend present.

"You don't need to doubt what Lin Gui said."

"Even if the city of Kalan and King Carter are truly destroyed, the borderlands are indeed the most suitable place for you half-demons to build your own city-states."

She reached out and took the map from in front of Lin Gui, then spread it on the wooden board.

Then she looked up at Cedric and the other legends and waved.

"Come closer."

Her tone was natural, as if she were giving instructions to her subordinates.

The legends were taken aback.

A superhuman knight giving them orders?

Morgan walked up to him quite naturally.

He crouched down next to Elvia, his gaze fixed on the map.

Seeing that Morgan was in such a state, the other legends followed suit.

Cedric scratched his head and squatted down next to Morgan.

Leah slid off the grain sack and squatted down beside it, hugging her knees.

Hewlett stood up from the edge of the raft, walked to the map, and knelt on one knee.

Freeman remained in the shadows, but his gaze was also fixed on the map.

Elvia crouched down and tapped her finger on the map.

Her voice was steady, carrying a certain confidence that came from someone who had once commanded thousands of troops.

"The predicament you are facing now consists of only three things."

"First, discrimination based on identity."

"Second, the pursuit of the magic tower."

"Third, the sheer number of half-demons makes it impossible for all the city-states covered by the Alliance's transportation network to accept them."

Her finger traced across the map, from the central city-states to the outskirts.

"For you, your final safe haven must be somewhere that the Alliance's transportation network cannot reach."

"Furthermore, the Alliance would never allow a city-state of half-demons to exist."

"Therefore, we must stay away from the alliance network of city-states."

She looked up at the legends before her.

"And in Akara, only three areas can meet the requirements."

Her finger pointed to the northernmost point of the map.

"First, the endless snowfields of the far north."

Then she moved her finger to the westernmost part of the map.

"Second, the fragmented islands that were crossed by sea to the west."

Finally, her finger landed on the southwest corner of the map.

"Thirdly, there is the eastern border region, where the transportation network was severed more than a decade ago."

She drew a circle on the map with a charcoal pencil, encompassing all the small city-states, including Flowerwood City, Kalan City, and New Testament City.

Morgan and other legends looked at each other in bewilderment.

Cedric couldn't help but question it.

"But you also said that this Black Tide originated from there."

"The number of demons there must be terrifying. Is it really suitable for us to live there?"

His voice was filled with worry.

"I don't want my compatriots to experience the kind of life in the desolate wasteland, surrounded by powerful demons and suffering from hunger."

Then he received a speechless and disdainful look from Elvia.

Elvia looked at him as if he were someone who lacked common sense.

"Do you know how Dawn City transformed from a dilapidated village into Akara's largest city?"

Cedric was a little embarrassed.

"Um... I don't know."

Elvia landed the charcoal pencil in the heart of the central city-state, on Dawn City in the east.

"Dawn City was founded during the first decade of the Dark Ages."

"At that time, it was just a dilapidated little village with a population of less than a thousand households."

"Its location advantage is not enough to support its development to this point."

"But it eventually became Akara's largest city, with a permanent population of over ten million."

Do you know why?

She was looking at Cedric.

Cedric's gaze began to wander.

As an assassin who spent his entire life honing his martial arts skills, he had no idea about these intricacies.

He has never read a book in his life.

He looked at Morgan, the man who had studied in Chittoria, as if pleading for help.

Morgan awkwardly pulled his mage hat down a little.

Actually, he didn't know any of this either.

This should be part of a political lesson; in the Thousand Towers, magic offers almost no benefit.

He wouldn't deliberately learn these things.

He coughed and said to Elvia.

"Miss Elvia, just say it."

Elvia gave all the legendary half-demons a strange look.

This is such common sense...

How...

All the legendary half-demons avoided her gaze without hesitation.

Only Hewlett was still looking at her, his gaze steady.

Hewlett spoke up.

"It's because the fourth Kuroshio Current broke out from there."

Elvia nodded.

"right."

"The Kuroshio Current was a devastating catastrophe, especially for the city-states in the region where it originated."

"But few people realize that it also took away all the demons from its birthplace."

"It brought the birthplace a working space and transportation environment comparable to the golden age."

"And that's why Dawn City began to rise to prominence."

She paused for a moment, her gaze sweeping over everyone present.

"The same applies to remote and border regions."

Morgan's eyes lit up.

"So, in other words, the number of demons in this border region is extremely small?"

His voice carried an barely suppressed excitement, and a glint of light flashed in his blood-red eyes.

Elvia nodded.

"To date, there have been more than twenty Black Tides, and each time, the birthplace of one of them has experienced a golden period of development free of demons."

"Many large city-states that have recently emerged are built in the birthplace of the Kuroshio Current."

She paused for a moment, then lightly touched the map with her charcoal pencil.

"And the duration..."

"It can last at least two years."

Her gaze swept over every legendary half-demon present.

"This is enough time for us to capture the important resource points around Karan City."

Her charcoal pencil moved across the map, drawing small circles.

"Build fortifications there to defend against demons and construct supply cities to provide resources for Kalan."

She looked up at Morgan.

"Just like Bronze Gate City is to Dawn City."

Morgan's fingers gripped the fabric on his knees so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

He didn't speak, but the light in his blood-red eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Elvia lowered her head and began marking on the map with charcoal.

"There are three most important resource production points near Karan City."

Her pen tip landed on the hill of Ink Orchid.

"First, the Murran Hills."

"During the golden age, this place was a major grain-producing area."

"The soil is fertile and the water supply is abundant. As long as there are people to cultivate the land, feeding millions of people is not a problem."

"When the Carter Kingdom first moved its capital, this area was the first place they considered."

Her pen tip moved south, landing on a location marked as an abandoned port.

"Secondly, Liuli Port."

"A high-quality natural deep-water port."

"Although it has been abandoned for decades, the port facilities are still there."

"With just a few minor repairs, it can be put back into use."

"Although we can't transport it by sea, we can collect marine resources and freshwater resources refined by magic."

Her pen tip moved north, landing on the south side of the Dragon Bone Mountains.

"Third, the mineral veins on the south side of the Dragon Bone Mountain Range."

"Copper, iron, tin, and a small amount of magic crystal-associated minerals."

"These ores are the foundation for forging weapons, armor, and magical items."

She looked up at Morgan.

"These three resource points are indispensable."

Her voice was unhurried, each word carrying a firm and unquestionable authority.

"Food guarantees survival, ports guarantee fresh water, and mineral resources guarantee development."

"As long as we control these three places, Karan City will have a solid foundation."

Morgan nodded without saying anything.

His Adam's apple bobbed, as if he were swallowing something.

Elvia continued.

Her charcoal pencil drew dotted lines on the map, connecting the resource points and the city of Karan.

How to conquer, how to build fortifications to defend against the demons that will move in later, how to mine resources, what industrial products can be made after mining, and how to sell them through the alliance city-state network...

A series of issues and methods related to city-state staffs.

She continued to draw and bring to life her art with her pen.

Every step was extremely rigorous, and every step was feasible.

From the initial deployment of manpower, to the mid-term allocation of resources, to the later-stage industrial upgrading.

From the selection of defensive fortification sites to the planning of transportation routes to the channels for product sales.

She even estimated the cost of mining each type of ore and the selling price of each pound of grain in the central city-state.

Morgan's eyes widened.

Leah leaned against the grain sack, her half-open eyes fully open.

Cedric stared, his bloodshot eyes filled with disbelief.

Hewlett crossed his arms, his gaze shifting from the map to Elvia's face, then back to the map.

Even Freeman, who was in the shadows, slightly raised his head.

They looked at the blonde woman, at the charcoal pencil in her hand, and at the densely drawn map in front of her.

He remained silent for a long time.