CH748 Entering the Extreme North II
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Before leaving the bank, Alex looked out at the rapidly flowing river that cut through cliffs and rugged terrain. The nature of the river made it difficult to cross without specialised boats.
And with the region's shipbuilding methods, travel along the river remained sparse—especially since it was controlled by a greedy man like Marquis Bramford and a money-grubber like Baron Corbin, both of whom were too stingy to invest in improving the technology.
'Perhaps it is deliberate,' Alex mused.
For a moment, Alex entertained a faint suspicion about the entire situation.
How likely was it that the river separating the rest of the empire from the encroaching Great Berserk Beast Forest was controlled by two stingy nobles who were either too tight-fisted or too lacking in foresight to develop the shipbuilding methods and infrastructure needed to fully exploit the potential of the Rotbark River?
