Several days passed in the blink of an eye.
Abidos, Southern Continent.
A map of the Southern Continent lay before them.
The continent was vast. Beyond the Star Highlands lay forests, valleys, plains, mountain ranges, and deserts.
Back in those days...
Although Balam had claimed to rule the Southern Continent, its ancient borders had not actually encompassed the entire landmass.
Many places had remained outside Balam's borders.
Laskin, the puppet city lord, stood beside the desk with a fawning smile, cautiously pointing to the forest beyond the Star Highlands.
"This forest covers an enormous area. The Rose School once organized an expedition, and it took them a great deal of time to open a road through it that carriages could use."
"The Green Forest Ancient Trail."
"Follow this ancient trail, and you can get out of the forest. Beyond it lies a region of plains."
"Vicious bandits often roam there, along with some nomadic peoples. They're all uncivilized savages."
"They go wherever there is water and have no permanent homes. Occasionally, they form villages, but they often migrate because of the water supply before those villages can grow into towns."
"So even now, no cities have formed on these plains."
"As for the mountain ranges, valleys, and deserts farther away..."
"They have never been explored. We don't know what might be there."
Sifa nodded.
Next, he planned to lead his troops on an expedition, conquering everything along the way.
Once his battle flags flew across the Southern Continent, he would turn back to conquer Loen's colonial cities, until the entire Southern Continent was his.
That should allow him to finish digesting the Conqueror potion and complete the ritual for advancing to Sequence 0.
However...
He still needed the Uniqueness of the Hunter Pathway and two Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristics.
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