With his attention brought back to the map, Michael returned to the task he had abandoned earlier.
Arianne remained beside him, and with her familiarity with the imperial capital and the surrounding areas, narrowing down a suitable location became considerably easier.
Before long, the two settled on a region northeast of the capital.
It was relatively open, sparsely populated, and close to one of the empire's military training zones.
The empire currently maintained three major categories of armed forces.
The largest was the Imperial Regular Army. It consisted mostly of ordinary knights, soldiers, cavalry, archers, engineers, and other conventional military personnel. Individually, most of them were nothing remarkable by supernatural standards, but their numbers were enormous.
They formed the backbone of the empire.
