Chapter 242: Further Information About The World Background

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"..." Azmond wore a perplexed look on his face.

'What is this old dude talking about? I asked for the precise location of the Nightmare Council, not some weird relationship advice.'

He was truly beginning to think that the Old City Lord had already gone senile.

"Whatever, old guy. Can you just tell me in what approximate direction this Nightmare Council is located? You only gave me extremely vague directions a few days ago," Azmond mentioned with a neutral look on his face.

Dealing with the Old City Lord required one to be completely unresponsive if they wished to get through to him. He had learned that the hard way after interacting with him.

"Don't worry, lad, I will never mention this to anyone else as well; you have my word! And if you are truly adamant on going to find the trouble yourself, then you can take this map I had made when I went to the Nightmare Council a few months ago."

The City Lord followed up his words by throwing a rough paper map in the direction of Azmond.

*Pat*

Azmond caught the map and took a look at the details inside. And the first thing he couldn't help but notice was that the Great Wildlands Forest was depicted as a giant eastern-styled sword!

However, that made no sense to him.

Why would there be another sword-shaped forest on top of the one he found when he picked up Emu? Wouldn't that be too much of a coincidence? Or was he simply overthinking things again?

You could call him a gaming completionist in a way!

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"If you wish to find a larger map that expands to the entirety of the Azure Blank Continent and even the rest of Asterion, then you will need to go out and find maps like that yourself.

After all, information is also power in this world, and information at such a high level doesn't come free," The City Lord said with an aged expression.

It looked like he had gone through quite the effort to get this map of the Divine Sun Provincean effort that likely cost him billions of gold coins, or the equivalent in spiritual stone's.

Nonetheless, Eldric didn't dwell on such a depressing topic for long as he looked back at Azmond and resumed his explanation of the general marked locations in the Divine Sun Province.

He didn't have to do such a thing, but it appeared like the young lad had essentially zero knowledge of the world background of Asterion. So the City Lord figured he would give him everything he needed in return for 'helping' him with his Ariana problem.

It was a 'helping' that Azmond had yet to even learn that he agreed to...

Eldric informed Azmond of the details regarding the limited degree of the map of the Divine Sun Province, as he told him about the rest of the kingdoms and sects such as the 'SilverWood Kingdom', 'Crimson Valley', 'Jade Kingdom', 'Divine Tiger Sect', 'Whisperwind Sect', and a few more.

All of such kingdoms and sects ranked anywhere from Tier 1 to Tier 7 and took up varying degrees of land.

A Tier 1 sect or kingdom would usually only get a few dozen miles to a few hundred miles of land, considering they only had Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators at the very pinnacle of their hierarchies. Which could even be considered quite strong in most low-level areas.

After all, cultivation wasn't as easy as Azmond, and even Crystalline made it out to be. It was a process that required one to first have talent, and then it needed one to utilize that talent in a way that would allow them to progress through the Realms faster than their Lifespans burned away.

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