Ambassador Hakane was merely passing through Noxus Town.
After Supervisor Narl treated him to lunch at a restaurant that had opened in town only half a month earlier, Ambassador Hakane and Vice President Riley once again set off down the road to the Candel Empire.
This time, Vice President Riley would accompany Ambassador Hakane all the way to Wimbledon City, the capital of the Candel Empire, to meet several officials under the empire's Department of Administrative Affairs.
The Amli Merchant Guild hoped to use Ambassador Hakane's connections to make the Candel Empire recognize the convenience and necessity of roads, paving the way for extensive road construction within the empire.
According to the plan, if everything went smoothly, by the time the Amli Merchant Guild finished laying roads in the Norton Duchy a year and a half later, it should already have established a partnership with the Candel Empire. It could then move straight into the empire and continue building this road.
But that was still more than a year away, so Supervisor Narl did not need to worry about it for now.
After seeing Ambassador Hakane and Vice President Riley off, Supervisor Narl went to Mirror Lake, northwest of Noxus Town.
There had long been a small dock on Mirror Lake, not far from the entrance to the Anfield River, where boats arriving from the upstream Milando River or sailing against the current up the downstream Anfield River could moor.
But three months earlier, before the Amli Merchant Guild entered the Norton Duchy to begin laying roads, a convoy of ships had arrived from the Milando Duchy upstream and renovated the dock, expanding it to more than ten times its original size.
Of the cement, reinforcing steel, and large quantities of Engineering Magic Machinery the Amli Merchant Guild had used