The very next day, Silvia received a letter from the Post Office. Rowan was a known name there, so it was always Silvia’s name used during the exchanges.
Post Offices generally did not have private alerts to the receiver. They had to go to the Post Office and ask if they had received anything.
In order not to waste the time of all the spies they sent out, Alterra implemented a standard time of sending and receiving of letters. Anyway, they seemed to still be in the same time zone somehow, despite being a thousand kilometers apart.
Rather, even if it was farther away in Bleulle, the timezone was still the same, so they knew that at least, assuming this place was a globe, it was quite a big bigger a planet than Terran was.
Anyway, Alterra would always send out letters at specific times of the day, except during urgent events like wars, in which case they would order someone to camp in the Post Office at all times.
The letters were also written in their code, of course, and they opened them at the safety of their room in the inn.
They also used the Sound Blocker, just in case. They wouldn’t put it past Voumi to have literal ears on the walls.
According to one of the infos they got from pubs, in a drunken stupor of some groups, they ranted about how Voumi would get slaves hiding in the walls of some inns, which was much thicker than they appeared.
Like most system buildings, the Inn was also highly customizable so this was possible.
Although it was doubtful a slave was assigned to spy on them, it wouldn’t hurt to be safe.
Anyway, the two of them read the letter together, blinking when they saw its contents.
[Find a way to pit Voumi and Valov against each other. Find or exacerbate an issue big enough so Alterra could gather more strength.]
[Of course, your safety will always be top priority. If the odds are against you, in any circumstance, do not continue the mission.]
Their eyes softened as they read, though the couple was quick to start discussing it professionally.
"Hmn... this makes sense," Silvia said. "The Elders always did prefer to avoid any direct confrontations."
Alterra’s goal was always to have no casualties during wars—no matter how big they got.
They had managed to do this during the standard Beast Mobs.
Alterra had achieved the amazing feat of having no deaths because the basics like hunger and thirst had always been a non-issue for them, so the citizens could focus on more productive things like getting stronger.
In fact, except for a few prisoners of war who weren’t particularly sharp and excluding the unfortunate deaths they had during the Town upgrade and wars, it had been months since Altherra saw the last death because of a monster mob.
Now, the goal was that there would be no deaths because of fighting—whether it was against humans or not.
This was a massive vision, especially for the aborigines, but it made their hearts pump in excitement.
They, too, hoped to see it happen one day.
The journey would be far from easy. Alterra was so desirable that it was difficult to have time to breathe and grow without interruption.
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