Li Wei sat in his chair, utterly uninterested in the dark, lightless scenery flashing past the window.
He stared at the map in his hands and the various documents laid out beside him.
The three satellite cities surrounding Sun City each served a different purpose. Dawn City handled commerce, Noon City handled military affairs, and Sunset City handled customs and ceremonies, while Sun City controlled the finances.
The shadow monsters had killed the people of this city, but they had not destroyed their records. This had allowed Li Wei to gather plenty of valuable information about the three cities.
What was war?
War was an extension of politics.
Li Wei hoped to find enough resources in this world to give the Empire a reason to keep investing in it. Since the Second Sanctuary had ores such as moon silver and adamantine, he figured that the Third Haven, a world protected by the Sun God, ought to have something valuable too.
And in fact, things had turned out exactly as Li Wei had imagined.
They had found what they wanted.
Not iron ore or copper ore. Those things mattered a great deal to this world, but they were barely worth mentioning to Li Wei-the Empire had plenty of those ores and had no need to concern itself with them.
What he had found was something far more valuable, yet to the people of this world, it was practically everywhere.
This world had a substance called sunstone. Simply placing it in sunlight allowed it to absorb the sun's light and heat, which it then released at night. Here, it served as both a hand warmer and a lamp for nighttime illumination. Moreover, sunstone deposits were extremely abundant and could be found around every city-or rather, these cities had all been built around