Sea Origin Calendar Year 187, late autumn.
Tulip Islands.
Once an essential trade hub with the Ilya Kingdom, the long-silent southern city of Gloucester in Phaletis suddenly became bustling again.
One hundred twenty kilometers to its southeast lies the Ilya Kingdom city of Hereford, which is also the nearest place to the other allied countries of Ilya.
Though the overall natural resources of the Tulip Islands are fairly abundant, their distribution is highly uneven, making trade between nations a necessity.
It wasn't until after the Ilya Kingdom's fierce "Great Uprising" that the navigation between the two stopped for the first time, and the scene of ships coming and going vanished for a full three months.
However.
The ones who came here this time were not merchant ships loaded with goods after the resumption of commerce, but warships flying the flags of the other five member countries of this alliance: Phaletis, Tyrone, Paros, Thessaly, and Tulip.
