Volume 5 Chapter 159 - Filling vacancies (1/2)

Volume 5 Chapter 159 Filling vacancies

The appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had driven the surge of magic machines in the countries of the southwest corner of the Sines Continent, which had greatly affected the surrounding countries.

But if one put aside the magic machines, the biggest change that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought to these countries was the change in transportation.

Public roads, these new roads that had appeared in Banta city at first had attracted the attention of many people.

When the roads filled the Lampuri Kingdom, connecting every city in the Lampuri Kingdom, people noticed the benefits that these roads brought.

With the Magic Cars that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, there was a new transportation network in the Lampuri Kingdom.

Compared to the horse carriages on dirt roads of before, the Magic Cars on these smooth roads had increased both the speed of travel and the comforts of travel, which pushed the traditional horse carriages into the backs of everyone’s minds.

So after seeing the benefits brought by the roads, the countries around the Lampuri Kingdom learned from them and began inviting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce into their countries to build roads.

To this day, the Lampuri Kingdom has over twenty thousand kilometers of roads. Not only had they connected every city, they had almost connected every single town.

In second place was not the Rudson Kingdom that had a bigger land area than the Lampuri Kingdom, but rather the Stantine Duchy.

The Rudson Kingdom’s total roads in the beginning of this year just passed ten thousand kilometers, but the Stantine Duchy’s roads had already reached fifteen thousand kilometers in the middle of last year.

If one looked at it from the air, the roads of the Stantine Duchy were like a spider’s web, with many different roads crossing each other. Even places that didn’t have roads before, now there was a road that connected to every part of the Stantine Duchy.

All of this was of course because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s main base was in the Stantine Duchy.

Other than this, in the surrounding countries, such as the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Norton Duchy, and the others, they had built several roads which ensured that all their main roads had been replaced.

Even the Falk Kingdom that had contacted the Lampuri Kingdom the year before last had already built three roads that passed through their kingdom, as well as ordering another eleven. It was estimated that there would be over two thousand kilometers of road that would be paved.

According to the report on the Amrit Chamber of Commerce the «Lampuri Weekly» ran, they were estimated to finish paving roads in these countries in five years, connecting all the roads of these countries together.

Once this was achieved, if one set out from the Stantine Duchy that was in the farthest southwest to the Falk Kingdom that was in the farthest northeast, which was a distance of two thousand and five hundred kilometers, there would be a road that connected the entire way.

With the fastest Magic Sedan that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted, it would only take a day and a half to travel this distance.

Just a few years ago, this was a distance that almost everyone had thought was impossible to traverse.

It could be said that with the appearance of the roads, the distance between each country had greatly decreased. It made the countries in the southwest of the Sines Continent much closer to each other.

All of this was however unrelated to the Sack Kingdom.

It was very simple, the Sack Kingdom had always been enemies with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was a Lampuri Kingdom company.

Adding in the relation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Sack Kingdom, it was impossible for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to pave roads in the Sack Kingdom.

So while the other countries were investing in roads, creating their new transport networks, the Sack Kingdom could only watch. Even if they wanted it, they couldn’t do a thing.

But after the establishment of the free trade zone between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, as well as the relationship between the two countries becoming more relaxed, this gave the Sack Kingdom a bit of hope.

But even if the Sack Kingdom had mentioned this to the Lampuri Kingdom either clearly or in secret, even sending people to contact the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in secret, they had been rejected. This had let the Sack Kingdom side give up hope.

This time the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly declared war on the Sack Kingdom, which made the people of the Sack Kingdom give up hope even more when it came to the roads.

The relationship between them was already this bad, so how could the Lampuri Kingdom allow the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build roads in the Sack Kingdom?

However, no one expected the Lampuri Kingdom’s attitude to suddenly experience a hundred and eighty degree change.

After proposing truce to the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom not only set up this free trade zone again, they even became more relaxed in other aspects.

Building roads was one of them.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn’t under the Lampuri Kingdom, but they led the Lampuri Kingdom’s caravan here. In the caravan behind them, there was a representative from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.