Azure Star Sea, Dream Island.
The island lay embraced by an endless emerald sea and a clear blue sky.
Viewed from high above, the entire island resembled an emerald set into the sea.
Merchant ships sailed across the water in an endless stream, laden with all kinds of natural treasures and specialties produced by different races. They entered the island's docks in orderly succession, creating a bustling scene.
After ten years of development, Dream Island had become a universally recognized neutral territory in the surrounding waters.
It was precisely this absolute neutrality that allowed Dream Island's trade to expand steadily. Passenger and cargo traffic increased by the day, making it the central trading hub of the surrounding seas.
To accommodate this growing demand for trade, Dream Island had undergone several large-scale expansions with help from the various races' construction crews. Vast coral zones had appeared around the island, where specially cultivated coral polyps grew rapidly with the technical support of alien construction teams, spreading into a colorful coral forest in just a few years.
Now, Dream Island's eighth expansion project was in full swing.
Busy alien artisans could be seen everywhere around the island, dividing up tasks and working together to lay new roads, erect new buildings, and reinforce the docks. The roar of machinery mingled with the howls of enslaved sea beasts.
To make travel easier for visitors of every race, another thirty-nine stable Teleportation Arrays had been built across the island's various districts. Connected to uninhabited transit islands in thirteen sea regions, they greatly shortened the journey for merchant caravans from other waters and further expanded the island's trading reach.
Meanwhile, another round of expansion was underway at the docking area.
The original berths had long since become insufficient for the growing number of merchant ships. The expanded