Chapter 112: North

“The north?” Rebecca tilted her head, recalling Elizabeth and Sara’s village. “Wasn’t there only uninhabitable mountains there?”

“… Yes. But across the mountains, there is a sea. If we can get there, we can build a fishing village,” Marissa said.

“What’s with the sudden interest?” Rebecca tilted her head. “And why us?”

“Hm… I’m not sure either. The kingdom and the ministers suddenly started talking about how we should use Hiro to pave a way through the mountains and build a port city across them,” Marissa said.

“That’s…” Rebecca twitched.

“Ahem. With the threat of Latvin gone, we can freely expand. Our choices are to conquer the Forest of the Tentacles or the mountains,” one minister spoke. “We deemed the mountains were easier path.”

“There are monsters.” Rebecca frowned. The main problem Litmus had when expanding had always been monsters, not Latvin. Latvin’s assault on their soil was recent. Can they defend the soil they