Capítulo 770: The New Mansion

When Alexander asked for Lapitus to ready all of Lord Ponticus's secret documents, he did so with great anticipation, especially towards the maps.

Detailed maps of any country were something that was considered an absolute national secret.

This was firstly because it was very costly to produce a map.

Performing proper cartography was an immensely difficult challenge given the lack of technology and the absence of various specific tools yet to be invented.

So to do all that and then have all that hard work stolen was of course not ideal.

But more than that, perhaps it was the strategic value maps had that made them so valuable. 

This might be weird to think now, given not only maps are so readily available that they are a dime a dozen, one can even get real time footage of anywhere on earth any time of the day from anywhere.