A Stranger

"This…" Islinda was skeptical before adding, "we have the means to contact many merchants, but selling this huge territory like this in a short time will have bad effects on us."

"You mean lowering the price?" Rigo asked.

"Sure, and this is the least of our problems," she said before adding, "the new territories hadn't yet fully integrated under our system. Our fleet back there is still fighting a strong resistance that will take weeks to clear."

"Tsk," James was annoyed, "we need to find more resources then," he muttered before adding, "do you have the map of the surrounding territories?"

"One minute," Islinda then clicked on some buttons over her airborne screen before a new one appeared in front of everyone with a stap map showing the general view of the grand sector.

"We are here," she pointed to a place far east, "and the Terases empire is there," and she pointed to a place far west.