The Mercenary Guild, Sean had encountered it earlier when he was in Thelmian.
The mercenary guild is a civilian organization. It is unknown whether it has any connections with higher-level officials in various countries. In general, if local guilds want to obtain more resources, they need to have good relations with local lords.
Originally, Telemian was not suitable for establishing a base for the Mercenary Guild, but at the request of Alia Hamel at the time, the guild finally established a base in the town.
But to be honest, Sean is actually very grateful to Alia in this regard.
Regardless of the other party's motives, Sean hadn't forgotten the help he had given his town. Perhaps it was this action that would lead to the children of the town walking out after seeing the mercenaries in a few years.
In fact, in Sean's heart, he still hopes that the children in his town can come out...
Just like what the old driver said, although most people end up accomplishing nothing and choose to go back, there will always be a few people who will achieve something.
For a small town, it would be good to have one or two people, otherwise after many years there will be no help at all.
Right now, Sean really wants to have someone he can trust to offer advice...
"Is it serious?" he said, looking at Harry.
"It's hard to say. It's been raining all this time, but I haven't heard from them in a long time. Plus, the Prince and the Duke both issued the same order... so..."
"So what?"
Sean saw that the other party had already shown a "testing!" state.
It turns out that he said so much this time because he wanted to get the information from his own mouth.
"So... I think something must have happened over there." Harry said with all his courage.
No matter what family the other party came from, he is just an ordinary person now. It is impossible for him to know about the things in the southeastern region, especially what the nobles discussed the day before yesterday.
"You're right, something did happen over there."
Sean didn't hide it but wanted to see the other party's reaction.
Harry was startled at first, then he immediately calmed down...
"It's true. I feel like I haven't heard any news about the southeast region in some time." He said to himself.
"How long is this period of time you're talking about?"
Harry looked up at Sean, then immediately lowered his head and said nothing.
"It's okay, I'm curious about this as well." He could tell the other party was testing him, wanting to know more.
It just so happened that Sean also wanted to get other information from the other party, and this kind of mutual testing was beneficial to him, because once he saw that the other party was in a state of "lying!", he didn't have to worry about it.
"In the past two weeks, the southeastern part of the empire has been the most unique among the several neighboring regions in the southern part. It covers a wider area... The Adak region has many rich places and cities, so it has the most mercenaries compared to other locations."
When it comes to geographical location, Sean had no reference in his mind because he had never seen the map of the Basaran Empire.
"Does this library have a map of the empire?" he asked suddenly.
"have."
"Show it to me!"
Since the Scholar's Library is where scholars gather, it should have these things.
"Please wait a moment, sir." Harry said as he ran to the next bookshelf to look through it, and soon came back with a larger parchment scroll.
His familiarity with the library once again made Sean think that he should be one of the staff here, and most likely a scholar.
"Your Excellency, please look at this..."
Harry opened it on the table.
It is difficult to have a global map of the world, not because it is difficult to draw, but because it is difficult to collect accurate data.
Because it's too far away, this kind of project is difficult to complete by relying on a single guild of scholars...
"This is the entire map of Zambutal. There are five countries in total. This is our Bashalan Empire." He pointed to the central area.
The Basaran Empire happens to be the territory in the middle...
In fact, it is one of the largest territories among the five countries, but Sean did not expect that the Basaran Empire is actually a "country of four wars"!
A country like this wouldn't know how to survive without border defense. No wonder the Grand Duke seemed so [uneasy!]...
"This is the southern region." Harry pointed to the south again.
The territory of the Basaran Empire is shaped like a mango, an irregular oval shape, and the entire southern region is exactly the protruding part.
Because the other surrounding countries are not regular, the other three are all in the north, and in Xiaohen's eyes, there is a large mountain range in the west.
The map view is displayed according to the scale of the drawn map...
If you draw a city, of course you will show the entire city's buildings; if you draw a country, of course you will show the country's topography. And if the scope is expanded to a continent like Zambutal, the display will of course be even more vast.
Only large mountain ranges, lakes and seas are clearly visible, including areas around large cities.
Anyway, you can look at it like a satellite topographic map...
There is a long Hengduan Mountain Range bordering the western countries, which extends almost to the point where it cannot be seen on the map.
This should be the location of the western plateau they are talking about. Since it is covered with ice and snow, the altitude must be very high, which means that it is sparsely populated. The south side is desolate. The part bordering another country with a very small territory is mostly loess. Of course, it may also be stone. In any case, there is little vegetation and not many cities.
On the contrary, there is a plain in the southeast. Although the connected area is also covered with loess, it has many city signs, which means that it is a place where the population gathers.
"The southeastern part borders the Adak region, so trade caravans from both countries often come and go. Mercenaries can also obtain some foreign goods there, so there's frequent contact. Even during the rainy season, there wouldn't be news for half a month. So the Mercenary Guild is very worried now... Actually, even before the Grand Duke and Prince issued the call for conscription, some people had wanted to send people over to investigate, but..."
"It's just because there's no money that no one goes?" Sean said.
Mercenaries are a free organization after all. If there is no money to be made, who would go so far away in the rain?
Faced with Sean's words, Harry could only smile awkwardly.
Of course, the nobles don’t have to worry about spending money, but once you are a commoner you have to fight on the front line every day.
"That...about the Southeast."
"Actually, I don't know much, about the same as you know, so I wanted to come over and ask about the situation over there... One more thing, do you know where the mercenary team in Lietis City is?"
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