After leaving the lowest level of Dead Silence Mine, Li Wei transformed into his elven form and came to the ward of the Zelandia Magic Research Laboratory.
A great contributor to Zelandia still lay here.
If not for the two pieces of news she had brought, the new city on the surface would very likely have faced an invasion by trolls in the near future.
Just like the scene shown in that Guardian God cleric's [Divination].
Perhaps something far more terrifying than that.
Once that troll Shaman had united all the tribes, then used the power traded from that "evil thing from another realm" through sacrifices to create a batch of giant trolls, it would not only be Zelandia—even the entire Northlands would likely face a catastrophe.
Although gods like Helm and Tyr, along with the paladins beneath them, would certainly step in to save the situation by then.
By then, however, it would already be too late.
Zelandia's foundation in the Northlands' new city would inevitably suffer a devastating blow. Starting again from scratch then would not be nearly as easy as it was now.
After all, after such a catastrophe, who knew how drastically the population of the Northlands would plummet?
That was absolutely the outcome Li Wei least wanted to see.
And if they had not learned beforehand from Aierlinni about the "Silvermoon City Hundred Merchants Debt Collection Delegation," allowing all the citizens to stop work at once and buy time to prepare, those cheaply sold "letters of intent to purchase homes" probably would not have been so easily recovered almost in full.
After all, not all merchants were fools.
And speculation was practically the nature of every successful merchant.
If they were allowed to see a thriving "new city," steam locomotives racing everywhere, countless Mage groups