"Steel" Maveti

Neph did not linger. Having said her piece, she drifted away. Even from a distance, she could still hear Danitz asking Gehrman Sparrow:

"What did she mean? What does Aimo mean? Judging by her attitude, it can't be anything good. You must know what it means, right?"

"I don't know," Gehrman Sparrow replied steadily.

Neph smiled with her lips pressed together and left without looking back.

Bayam was also known as the Spice Islands. It boasted all manner of exotic spices, and plantations growing them formed the backbone of its economy.

Blue Mountain Island, where Bayam stood, accounted for more than half the archipelago's land area and possessed deposits of gold, silver, copper, coal, iron, and other minerals.

It had extensive forest cover, a wide variety of fruit, and exceptionally fertile soil. For that very reason, the first colonists named the city they built by the sea the "City of Generosity," believing it to be the treasure land flowing with milk and mead promised by the gods.

It was also the linchpin of the Loen Kingdom's colonial rule in the Central Sonia Sea, one of the largest cities in the region, with a considerable number of powerful official Beyonders. Even the most brazen pirates dared not show themselves openly here. Most of the time, they had to rely on local Gangsters or people with powerful connections to dispose of stolen goods and purchase necessities-this was the background information supplied by the original novel. As far as actual effectiveness went, Neph considered it roughly equivalent to "Gringotts is the safest bank in the world" or "Hogwarts is the safest school in the world."

This was Neph's second time setting foot in Bayam. Even after experiencing it firsthand once, she still held that opinion-the number of Beyonders on Bayam's streets was absurd.