After listening to the young man's account, Velin had gained a basic understanding of the archipelago.
Simply put, a Legendary Mage had come here, claimed a territory, granted lands to her followers as nobles, and collected tribute from them regularly.
As for why she had not used this as a foundation to establish a duchy, the young man's one-sided account was insufficient to tell.
However, one thing was certain: that Legendary Mage was definitely not in the Malmi Archipelago. Otherwise, she would not have stood by and watched the Demonic Calamity ravage her territory.
After several exchanges, at Bamur Hades's invitation, Velin temporarily remained in Whispering Valley. First, he needed to wait for Kyle and Lester to awaken. Second, he wanted to learn about this place through the Hades family library.
Historical records stated that the Legendary Mage named Lucia Garn Antoinette had arrived here eight hundred years ago, bringing twenty thousand students, attendants, servants, and slaves with her.
Within only ten years of arriving in the Malmi Archipelago, she had conquered the northern lands, driven out the fishmen, destroyed over a thousand Human Free City-states, captured Native Powerhouses as experimental material, and established Demeduta on Deizer Island, directly controlling the island's roughly three hundred thousand square kilometers.
As for Pumisoma Island, Gadanah Island, and Xilai Island, she had distributed them among her attendants and servants, making them Vassal Lords and collecting taxes each year.
As for them waging war against or annexing one another, Demeduta would not interfere. However, the size of one's territory determined the amount of tax owed. That was the bottom line, and anyone who violated it would be destroyed.
The thousands of small islands scattered among the four large islands had been bestowed upon slaves, who were appointed as island lords. They drove the Native