Of course, a tavern's main functions were selling alcohol and gathering information, but that didn't mean a tavern only had those two functions.
In fact, taverns had many functions. For example... grabbing a bite to eat while you were there?
All right, that was a joke.
At its core, gathering information was still about people. Without any special functions, obtaining more information required more people.
In this world without telephones, cell phones, or the Internet, long-distance real-time communication was controlled by a few exceptionally powerful individuals. Ordinary people who wanted to communicate over long distances could only write letters. Other than that, if they wanted to learn news from afar, they could only hear it from people who had come from elsewhere.
And in the underground world, a place filled with danger at every turn, there was naturally no such occupation as messenger or mail carrier.
To obtain more news from the outside world, one could either establish an information network like the great clans did, or rely on word of mouth.
So in this place, when people talked about information, they were actually talking about people.
And this "system-built" tavern, besides adding a function that allowed people to obtain information without relying on other people, had not forgotten that people were the carriers of information.
That was right. Besides possessing an inexhaustible supply of ale and a function that provided information without needing people, the tavern had another function—it had a certain chance of attracting additional guests!
"Additional"—those three words were enough to explain the matter. The effect was somewhat similar to how taverns in the classic game Heroes of Might and Magic could recruit heroes.
The only difference was that Heroes of Might and Magic taverns could recruit only heroes, while this tavern, which Landen had named Youjian