From the farm shed to the palace .

[Artisan Farmers Alliance]

"Hai, look up the stairs, the Elders. We shouldn`t let them wait too long. The sun is burning today." The docking area at the council isn`t far from the Council. Only a few minutes later they`ve reached the monumental building here at Crete.

"Konnichiwa honorable Elders of the Corsairs. It`s an honor to be here at the Council. My name is Ryu Nakata, a few of you already know me." He bowed "With me here are my personel guard Ishikawa Hasebe and the young Farmer Isao Hiyashi."

Nakata tried to hide his aversion to the warm temperature. "Hopefully they don`t want to talk too much about the weather here. We need to go inside very soon. I think it`s comfortably cool in the building." he thought...

One of the Elders made a little step forward to welcome the delegation of the Alliance...

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