"Meridian," to put it bluntly, is simply a "longitude line," an arc on the planet's surface connecting the North and South Poles and perpendicular to the equator.
But according to the Pope's current distribution method, the explored world has become the exclusive domain of the Kingdom of Castilia.
As long as it is managed with care, the colonial territory can expand at the fastest speed, rapidly rising to become the next colonial empire and consolidate its own imperial crown.
And for the North Sea Empire to gain broader overseas colonies, it could only venture to the Corridor of Truth or even bypass the Eastern Continent to explore farther away.
Even if the difficulty of developing the Corridor of Truth is similar to that of the Southern Continent, the progress would still lag at least twenty years behind Castilia!
But who among those present does not know that the Eastern Continent entered the intertidal zone decades ago, with half its body already submerged in seawater.
