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Subsequently, Winters meticulously recounted all the information he knew to Antonio.

The special envoy from The Federated Provinces, Mara, had not arrived at Sea Blue City by chance; he brought with him a treaty concerning the Tanilia Archipelago.

The Venetian desire for the Tanilia Archipelago was common knowledge.

Seven years earlier, the Freman people had begun a brutal tug-of-war with their eastern neighbors. To raise more military funds, the Freman Sultan, who controlled half the Eastern trade route, had started levying higher commercial taxes.

Therefore, since Debela took office as governor, Venetian tax revenue had plummeted, the current prosperity had begun to decline, and merchants who had grown wealthy from the Eastern trade route were going bankrupt one after another.

Meanwhile, within the internal trade circle of Senas Bay, the status of Venetia's central transfer station was facing a formidable challenge—from the Tanilia Archipelago.