This world...
No!
More accurately, should I say this enormous island?
In any case!
The world as people here saw and understood it—the land they had always mistaken for the only continent—was actually just a gigantic island shaped like a diamond or a four-pointed star.
In their understanding, the island was roughly divided into five regions: north, south, east, west, and center.
In the past, the Far North had been controlled by the Abyssal, "Isley of the North"; the west had belonged to "Riful of the West"; the south had been occupied by "Luciela of the South"; and the Far East, of course, was where the Organization and its headquarters, Staford, were located.
The square at the very center of the island was called "Rulz, the Central Lands." Most of the island's towns and ordinary people lived there, and the Organization had always offered them limited protection from being slaughtered by yoma and Awakened Beings.
After all, although this enormous island was the Organization's testing ground for its Awakened Beings, even the Organization didn't want the yoma and Awakened Beings to wipe out all the ordinary people on the island at once. That would hardly suit their plans to reap the people's wealth over the long term and continue their yoma experiments.
Likewise, the holy city of Rabona, where Annie, Elena, Miria, and the others were currently staying, was also in Rulz, the Central Lands.
However, Rulz, the Central Lands, wasn't just the holy city of Rabona. It also included many other regions, cities, towns, and villages of varying sizes.
Moreover, the original division of territories and spheres of influence had now been completely upended after "Isley of the North" moved south and eliminated "Luciela of the South."
At present, at least, the Far North no longer belonged to anyone,