Half an hour later.
Lin Yuan had taken a seat in the reception room of the Island Lord's residence, waiting for Steward Liu to appear.
Chi Yu had gone to inform Steward Liu. Alone in the reception room, Lin Yuan took the opportunity to look over the East Pole Island Lord's former residence.
The style of this residence was completely at odds with the other buildings in the surrounding inner city.
Rather than a residence, it looked more like a fortress.
The entire residence was built from hard black stone and metal. Its design had nothing to do with splendor or intricacy, instead adopting a plain, simple style suited for combat.
There were no ornamental pavilions or towers inside, only observation decks positioned to support one another, rooms connected by secret passages, and all kinds of maps hanging everywhere.
These included construction plans for East Pole Island, maps of the factions in the East Pole Sea region, and nautical charts of Shattered Island and other islands that had been broken apart.
As Lin Yuan studied these maps, he could not help forming a rough understanding of Steward Liu.
These arrangements clearly dated back to the East Pole Island Lord's time, and Steward Liu had preserved them to this day.
This had not been a day or two, but a full two thousand years!
On Blue Star, two thousand years was enough to see dynasty after dynasty rise and fall, nation after nation emerge and disappear.
The fact that Steward Liu had preserved the East Pole Island Lord's arrangements for so long proved his absolute loyalty to the Island Lord.
In stark contrast, the rest of East Pole Island had become thoroughly rotten and degenerate.
Those so-called Four Great Families on the island cared only about filling their own bellies, completely