The city across the sea from Emerald City was called Spota. It was one of the Six Heavenly Cities of the neighboring Hais Empire. The Hais Empire was a colonial empire made up of six islands. Backed by the Northern Continent behind Emerald City, Spota had flourishing trade and was the Hais Empire's primary trading city, its status almost equivalent to Celestial Dynasty's Demon Capital.
At the same time, because of its enormous trade volume, it had always been an important military center of the Hais Empire.
After the Naga Divine God faction took control of the Hais Empire, they quickly developed this place into a military frontier. Its geographical location had originally made it an excellent Naga biological hatchery, but as luck would have it, the Blood Demon Legion under Borton's faction had taken up residence across from it.
During the period when they were not allied, Spota was beaten mercilessly. Every time a large-scale biochemical pool was nearly completed, it was destroyed by those elusive and extremely mobile Blood Demons. High-ranking officers were assassinated batch after batch. Over the past ten thousand years, more than twenty dragon-rank experts who had descended here had been assassinated!
Even for an established faction, such losses were excessive. They had no choice but to ally with Borton's faction!
After the alliance, to prevent Emerald City from launching a military assault, the agreement stipulated that Naga civilization could only use high-level biological hatcheries here. They were forbidden from building biochemical pools and had to accept irregular inspections by Blood Demon scouts!
Every year, Emerald City sent at least over a thousand elite scouts to monitor the situation here. At this moment, the two sides were effectively at war, yet both cities were behaving with remarkable restraint.
More than a thousand scouts still carried