A huge sand table had been built in Tinder Castle's great hall. It was a terrain model of Flame Island that Ake had made in half a day, exquisitely detailed enough to show every little river and every small town.
However, several features on the sand table differed from the real terrain—fifteen stone roads had been added, seven running east to west and eight north to south. These were the future main transport routes of Flame Island, which Liszt had sketched out while staring at the model, along with water-storage lakes, canals linking rivers, and so on.
On the day of the New Year festival, knights from all over Flame Island, nobles holding titles of viscount and above, Yevich, who had returned from his voyage, and the Listeners from the Moon-Slayers' major tribes had all arrived at Tinder Castle for the luncheon being held there.
Since there were more than a hundred guests, the dining hall simply could not hold them all.
So it was changed to an open-air buffet.
At that moment, everyone had gathered around the model in the great hall, clicking their tongues in amazement at Flame Island's sand table. They had all seen the map of the Flame Archipelago released by the Magic Guild, but it was nowhere near as clear as the sand table.
"So this is where we live."
"This is Flame Mountain, and Jade Mountain is here. I work in Jade City!"
"Dragon Valley City is here! Haha, you can even see the galena mine. I'm in charge of that mining area."
"So this is where our Xia Tribe used to live. But I've already led the expert team to work in the royal city. Why did it take us so many days to travel there when it looks so close?"
"This is