Chapter 702 A poor country (2)

Chapter 702 A poor country (2)

The first location that we were heading to was a village outside of the capital city.

Even though the capital city was the most prosperous location in the kingdom, that didn't mean that there weren't villages in the surrounding area.

This wasn't like the modern era where there was strict planning over the land used.

In this world that was in the middle ages, there was only planning when it came to cities and towns since they were important trade centers. Anything outside of cities and towns went however one wanted to do it.

So there were actually many villages that were outside of the capital.

Villages were created by people gathering and people gathered based on the land that was available.

These villages would generally be built in places where there was fertile soil so they would be able to farm and feed themselves.

From time to time, villages would be favoured by nobles and taken under them as territories.

Or they would be given as territories to nobles for accomplishments even if they had nothing to do with the villages.

That was just how it was sometimes, that was the way of the nobility.

This was a world that worked on the feudal system after all.

When we arrived in the village, the first thing that happened was that there was a panic that came from below.

The villagers scattered like ants when they saw that there were wyverns heading towards them.

The men gathered up with makeshift weapons as if they were prepared to fight while the women and children were all evacuated into the forest. From above, we could see that there was a makeshift shelter in that forest that they were hiding in.

But of course, it wasn't as if we were here to attack them.nove(l)bi(n.)com

So we landed on the outskirts of the village.

Over the next hour, we were led to different parts of the village.

While we were in the village, we could see that the women and children that had been evacuated were brought back to the village. But they made sure to stay out of our way as we toured the village.

I could even see that some of the women were scared of even matching our gazes as they walked by.

It was as if they were afraid to attract any attention to themselves.

I could already guess why that was the case.

They were afraid of catching the eyes of a noble since it would mean being torn away from their village and their family.

This was a world with the feudal system and one where prima nocta still existed, so these commoners wouldn't be able to resist the nobility at all.

But the way that they looked at us was more than that...

It was as if something like this had already happened before, which was why they were so scared of us.

It seemed like the nobles of the Beirut Kingdom really weren't that good in the first place...

As for the parts of the village that we were shown, we could see that there were crops that were growing quite well in their fields. It seemed like there would be a good harvest this year for this village, but...

I also noticed that the village chief and the men who followed him seemed a bit thin, as if they were a bit malnourished.

So while the prime minister and the ministers seemed to be pushing these crops onto us, the village chief and his men seemed to be staying quiet.

It was almost as if they were praying that we would leave their village alone.

At the same time, it was almost as if they had suffered from an incident that was similar to this before.

That was how expressive the emotions on their faces were.