Three Men Bound for the Northern Territory

Yami and Alvarez bid Bettis farewell, then met up with Hunter, who had been waiting at the station, and prepared to take the train north.

Yami was accompanying Alvarez to the Northern Territory and would lend a hand there for a while. Hunter and Alvarez, however, would be stationed in the Northern Territory permanently.

Both of them had received Theus's special pardon, allowing them to leave Castel and head for the Northern Territory.

Of course, this was no vacation. They were going to help Alexei develop the Northern Territory.

There was no need to say much about Yami. His academic ability was enough to build an entire team in the Northern Territory, so Theus intended for him to assist in establishing an academy.

As for Alvarez, while he had only average talent for studying, he was highly receptive to new things. And as one of the three grand dukes of the Northern Territory, he possessed tremendous influence throughout the region.

With his help, Alexei would surely accomplish twice as much with half the effort.

Hunter, meanwhile, was a scholar. Theus had long found the Northern Territory's scholarly establishment an eyesore, so Hunter had another mission on this trip: recruit them to Castel.

Those scholars naturally could not compare to Castel in mechanical technology, but quite a few of them researched secret history and forbidden knowledge, which happened to fill a gap in the Silent Temple.

—The Silent Temple's historians were practically all from the Temple of the Forgotten, and they were still stuck in the white fog.

Over the past year or so, Blood Port had developed at a breakneck pace. After being connected by rail, construction in the Northern Territory had not fallen behind either.

The Northern Territory's planned basic infrastructure had already been completed, and railways now connected