In this world, because the Spirit Fiend Abyss had appeared since ancient times and given people the opportunity to possess extraordinary power, technology had developed to some extent, but it had never spread widely.
Since wilderness danger zones separated the Base Cities from one another, communication between them was extraordinarily difficult. Even among the great families and major powers that controlled the Base Cities, very few had the ability to communicate easily with the outside world.
Take the Terror Breed sealing incident that Longyao City had encountered this time. Even after the incident had passed, Longyao City still had to pay a huge price and expend a great deal of effort to contact the other Base Cities and exchange information, allowing the outside world to learn about what had happened there—late as it was—and take action.
The same applied to Tianfeng City. Its method of opening its doors to the entire world and recruiting talent was either to painstakingly send envoys to investigate and extend invitations, or to recruit locally by developing its own citizens into stationed personnel. It had to recruit troops and talents for Tianfeng City, then take responsibility for safely escorting the recruits. How troublesome this method was could be imagined.
But there was no helping it. That was simply the current state of this world. The Base Cities ruled their own territories and relied on self-sufficiency. Even when they exchanged resources, it was difficult for them to interfere with one another, so the issue of communication urgently needed to be resolved.
As a result, even if a Base City successfully developed advanced technology, it was still difficult for those technologies to spread widely. Being able to share them among the nearest few Base Cities was already rare. Any farther, and there was nothing they could do.