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The Giant Beast Forest lay between the Ai Lu Empire, the Baruba Empire, and the Phil Empire, with portions of its territory occupying parts of all Three Great Empires' borders.
At the edges of the territories occupied by the Giant Beast Forest, in the places closest to the forest, the Ai Lu Empire, the Baruba Empire, and the Phil Empire had each built a small city—the Supply Towns—specifically to channel resources obtained from the Giant Beast Forest into other cities within their empires.
Unfortunately, ever since the Beast Kings were born, the Giant Beast Forest had become a thoroughly dangerous place. Ordinary people, and even ordinary warriors and magicians, could no longer enter it. All resources from the Giant Beast Forest were now supplied by the Giant Beast Forest Encampment rather than circulated through the Supply Towns.
Thus, what had once been an exceptionally important resource distribution hub for the Ai Lu Empire, the Baruba Empire, and the Phil Empire had, by now, become nothing more than a transfer station for sending resources provided by the Giant Beast Forest to other cities.
As for the low-ranking warriors and magicians who had once lived in the Supply Towns, making their livelihoods by hunting magical beasts in the Giant Beast Forest, as well as the cultivators who had used the forest as a place to train, they could no longer be seen there.
Even so, the Supply Town was still quite a developed place.
After all, it still had many Trading Firms and Auction Houses. As the place closest to the Giant Beast Forest, the Supply Town often acquired rare treasures through other channels as well.