To say that communication on the Sains Continent depended mostly on shouting... would have been a bit of an exaggeration.
But if one excluded the utterly fantastical method of real-time video communication using spatial magic-an incredibly advanced method available only to mages at the Great Mage level and completely beyond the reach of ordinary people-then communication on the Sains Continent... really did come down to little more than shouting.
Letters could be sent back and forth on the Sains Continent, but poor transportation made postage extremely expensive.
Specifically, if someone had wanted to mail a letter from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Main Base in the Stantin Duchy to Anvilmar City, some thirteen hundred kilometers away, the postage alone would have cost thirteen gold coins, even disregarding the barriers between the two countries and the possibility that the letter might never arrive.
That was right: one gold coin per hundred kilometers, no more and no less.
Such an exorbitant price was simply beyond the means of the vast majority of ordinary people.
As a result, most ordinary people on the Sains Continent had virtually no contact with anyone outside their immediate surroundings. Since they rarely had a chance to leave their homes in the first place, almost all of them were born, grew up, lived, and eventually died in the same place, never encountering the outside world and knowing nothing about it.
Although the Xinfei Merchant Guild and the Amli Merchant Guild had now improved transportation across a substantial region, giving ordinary people who had never left their villages a chance to broaden their horizons in the wider world, communication remained an enormous problem.
Many of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's workers, for example, might only return home once a year, with no way to contact their families in between. To Xu