In True Flame Principal's impression, Tian Yuan City indeed underwent a major change resembling a changing era every so often.
Just like the earth-shaking changes that had occurred throughout the Ten Directions Island Domain more than ten days ago, that too had been a major change of the era.
But wasn't this happening a little too quickly?
And what had they just said? No major faction or nation would ever introduce a World Tunnel.
Yet the Nation of Merchants Alliance had introduced one!
This was a great national power whose scale far surpassed that of the Seven Cities Federation! If not for the numerous factions and races within the Alliance, it would not have been impossible for the Nation of Merchants Alliance to replace the Holy Griffon.
After a while...
True Flame Principal learned the reason.
It was neither complicated nor secret.
The Seven Cities Federation had an embassy in Tian Yuan City, so it naturally knew about the establishment of the World Tunnel's new route. True Flame Principal only had to ask his own people to find out. They had been piloting an airship through the boundless wilderness earlier, and since this was not an important matter, no one had specifically informed the two of them.
True Flame Principal said:
"The Elf King's Court of the Nation of Merchants Alliance is taking the lead. The specialties of the Alliance and Taixuan are indeed vastly different, and many precious materials of immense value to humans are merely ordinary to nonhuman races. The reverse is also true."
Perhaps that was why the proposal for the Nation of Merchants Alliance to introduce a World Tunnel had passed.
Of course, that certainly wasn't the only reason.
"What's done is done. There's no use thinking too much about it."
In any case, it would