"May the Chief Divine protect us! After conquering the Chapala Lake Region and the coastline of Sea Woman City, the population of the Kingdom of the Lake's six counties has reached an astonishing two million! The kingdom I personally established has become a military machine second only to the Alliance in the world, continuously expanding outward, expanding, and expanding again!..."
The sun slanted westward over the Eastern Sea, the red sun setting on the water, casting a vast expanse of red glow across the sky. Xiulote stood in the palace of Hidden Serpent City, gazing westward through a half-open wall window. In this rich, beautiful, and comfortable seaside land, he had lingered too long, so long that everything on the highland seemed distant.
From this end of the Eastern Seaboard, looking toward the western hills. The magnificent Tloquiditlan lay twelve hundred li to the west. And the Qinchongcan Capital of the kingdom was a full two thousand li away!
