A room was nearly packed with dozens of tiny green dots, each dot representing a person. If many people stood together, they might become indistinguishable.
Fortunately, Talemian wasn't a large town. This map, almost two square meters, could fit the entire town and still clearly show pedestrians on each street, which was already impressive.
Sean looked up and thought about it—Talemian had just over eight thousand people, plus a few hundred outsiders, totaling around nine thousand. When all gathered together, it still looked somewhat miniature. Many small houses were smaller than a fingernail, and inside, you could see four or five tiny green dots.
Besides the green dots, there were a few yellow dots representing [Neutral] affinity, mostly outsiders and people dispatched from Koga City to work in the town.
The entire map of Talemian was like a miniature town, allowing Sean to observe it slowly...
Back home, especially on those idle snowy days, he could spend the whole day in his room watching it and still find it fascinating.
It was like those strategy games he used to play.
Things like Sim City, and so on...
You could personally watch the subtle changes in the entire town, and now it was just like that.
The streets were dark, and Sean could only see houses with lights on, but as people walked through the town, night lamps would slowly move along the blocks.
Starting from his own house, he found the homes of Luke and Danti. They were both at home right now...
Because he could see white dots inside the houses. White represented [Respect] affinity. Even in his own town, only Luke and Danti had reached that level of friendliness.
He wasn't in town, but they still kept to their daily work routine. To Sean, that was truly rare.
More importantly, even when he wasn't home, they didn't slack off much. Sean figured only those who had reached [Respect] could be this diligent...
No.
He suddenly remembered Ignia, still in Koga City. She also had [Respect] affinity, but she never did anything he asked properly!
It still depended on the person.
Watching the lights gradually go out in the town, the houses would turn pitch black once the lights were off.
As the town slowly sank into night, Sean rubbed his head.
Too bad there was no map of Koga City; otherwise, he might have been able to see what was happening there now.
But when he was in Koga City, he hadn't walked through every place, so the range he could see would probably be limited... Based on the situation with the Talemian map, he had to personally walk through an area before he could see real-time changes on the map; otherwise, it was all shadows.
Hearing the noise outside, Sean suddenly thought...
If he could draw maps of every region in the world, could he monitor the whole world?
No.
At least, he could see everywhere he had been.
Right, that was a good direction for development...
If he had had a big map like this back in Koga City, he might have known what was happening in the Count's mansion in advance and could have called for reinforcements in time.
He wondered who drew these maps. If possible, Sean thought he could try to join their work. If they didn't draw, he would do it himself—finishing the map of every region he visited.
That way, even if he left later, he could still know what happened in that area.
Natural disasters, man-made calamities...
Or the things that happened to people he had high affinity with.
Huh...
Wouldn't that make me a GPS!
............................
Knock, knock, knock...
Just as Sean was daydreaming, a knock came at the door.
Who would come at this hour?
Freya?
The only person Sean could think of was Freya. Could it be that this woman felt lonely at night and wanted him to accompany her for a walk?
The door was knocked again, harder.
"Hold on, I'm coming." Sean hurriedly put away the map, along with the magic book and pocket watch, and went to open the door.
"Coming."
He opened the door, and standing there was a girl he didn't recognize.
Her face was somewhat youthful, her lips slightly pursed but small—the kind of cherry mouth with a hint of rouge curling up.
Pinkish hair, a tight gray-black outfit with high boots, and a large coat thrown over her shoulders. She wasn't tall, just a bit above Sean's chest.
[4000/4000, Neutral] and above her head was the status [Scrutiny!].
She was sizing him up?
Seeing her health bar, Sean realized this girl was the one who had bumped into him on the street during the day.
Bang!
He directly shut the door.
"Hey! What's wrong with you? I haven't even said anything yet! You took my stuff, give it back!" The girl clearly hadn't expected Sean to just close the door on her.
Looking incredulous but with no choice, she kept knocking.
"Hey! Open up!" she shouted anxiously outside...
When Sean saw her appear, he already had a good idea why she had come. He quickly stashed things away in the room before opening the door.
"Who are you? I don't even know you. When did I take anything of yours?"
"We haven't met, but today during the day, when you bumped into me on the street, something fell on you. Remember now!" Her big eyes sneaked a peek at the room behind Sean.
Luckily, he had cleaned up earlier, so she couldn't see anything.
"Oh, it's you!" He pretended to recall.
"Right! You remember."
"Sorry, I didn't notice anything falling. After you bumped into me, I left right away," Sean said.
"What? No way?! Look again, it's about this small, like a silver coin, with a pattern of two high mountains on it." The girl tried her best to describe what it looked like.
"Really, there isn't... I left right after you knocked me down. My waist still hurts. You came at the right time, saves me from having to find you."
"How could a big guy like you get hurt from a little bump like that! I..."
The [Neutral] affinity instantly dropped to [Cold], and even the emotion [Disgust!] appeared.
For the first time, Sean felt like he was being a scoundrel.
The girl was about to say more, but the door to the next room opened at that moment...
Freya, who lived next door, stepped out.
Her cloak was off, and she was now wearing a sexy, slightly red outfit.
"What's wrong, Sean?"
She was half a head taller than him, and standing in front of the girl, she seemed like a giant.
"And who is this?!"
Freya looked at the young girl... but the moment the girl saw Freya, she immediately said goodbye and ran off.
"Pretty sensitive. Looks like she's seen some experts," Freya remarked after the girl had fled.
"You know?"
"I heard your whole conversation... What's the matter? Does Baron Weigel have a hobby of hiding girls' things?" she asked, watching Sean pull a silver badge from his pocket.
"I just think this thing isn't hers."
"Of course not. This badge represents a bounty hunter!"