Chapter 410: Interesting Strife
The so-called teleportation seems to be more stable than the Gate of the Secret Realm, and there is no sense of weightlessness without any pulling, nor is there any short-term confusion of the five senses. It felt like his eyes were flashing, and by the time Thor reappeared, he had come to a strange place.
This seems to be in the wilderness, the four fields are silent, Thor's deliberately erected elbows, and there is no chance to draw his sword for the time being.
Before she came, Omia said that many years ago, the use of teleportation points on the mainland was very high, and almost everywhere there were teleportation points for easy communication. However, it is unknown when the waypoints were mostly used for assassinations and beheadings in power grabbing.
Later, the usage of teleportation points on the continent was reduced to a minimum, and this did not change even with the arrival of the Dark Calendar.
Well, these old things are obviously the eggs of humanity itself.
Omia had originally wanted to send Thor directly to Pandor, but suddenly there were some problems with permissions. To put it bluntly, the Triston family does not have enough face and can't open Pandor's main teleportation array, so they can only use their own family's secondary teleportation array to send Thor away.
Thor doesn't care too much about this, he doesn't have any concept of himself, and he doesn't know what the secondary method is, as long as he can leave.
That's why Thor is going to appear directly in the wilderness, a secondary teleportation point built by the Triston family here.
Originally, it was expected that the teleportation point would be built in a human settlement, and although it would not be heavily guarded, there would probably be a few guards and torch stands. Who knew that it was directly in the wilderness, and there was no trace of people around, and a large area of wild grass spread.
Well, this time the teleportation ...... It seems to be quite secondary.
Thor was not the least dissatisfied, for he stood in the wilderness and looked around, and found a faintly lit human stronghold behind him. Apparently I managed to save almost a month of travel, which is enough, what more do you want?
"Is there a problem, Neferna, I mean, did the teleportation affect you in any way?" asked Thor looking down.
"No problem, I keep a lady's demure just because I'm thinking about what to eat at night. Neferna's voice came.
"......" This goddess seems to have been raised by herself?Thor inexplicably imagined the scene of a pig running around in the divine realm.
So Thor put on his cloak of concealment, took a step, and walked towards the flickering lights.
Spider Forest, that's the name of the small village where Thor arrived.
The name may sound strange, but it is said that many years ago the village was infested with spiders in the woods adjacent to it, hence the name of the village. However, after years of deforestation, there are no more woods here, and only a bare name is still in place.
Suffice it to say that humans are clearly the biggest pests on the continent.
The guards who crossed the gate of the village were not subject to any checks or fees, and it seemed that the place was relatively open to outsiders.
The small village seemed to be much livelier than expected, and as soon as he entered the village, Thor was blocked by a group of adventurers.
"Welcome, friend!" said the man who looked like the temporary captain to Thor.
"Thank you for your greetings, I wonder what you're gathered here for?" Thor asked.
Thor had thought that these people were gathered here to talk about ghosts, but they weren't.
According to the captain, these adventurers gathered here because they were hired by the village of Spider Forest to fight adventurers from another village and local villagers. As for the cause of the conflict between the two villages, it was over water problems.
Many years ago, there was harmony between the surrounding villages, there was never any concrete dispute, and everyone would sometimes help each other.
But I don't know when it began, perhaps because of geology or some other reason, the village's own wells gradually dried up, and people had to travel farther to get water, and the remoteness of the road and the threat of wilderness caused inconvenience to daily life.
There are no lakes or rivers around the Spider Forest, only a half-high peak due north, where there is a mountain spring.
Gradually, the mountain spring, which showed no signs of drying up for the time being, became the main source of water for the two nearby villages.
As time passed, many new questions began to emerge.
Theoretically, the daily storage capacity of the mountain spring is enough for two villages, but there is a problem with the speed of water storage.
The people who went to fetch water, who went first and who queued up later, and so on, the people of the two villages could tear for a long time every day.
And the matter of receiving water is not just a matter of carrying a bucket. You might have to pick up the neighbors, or you might have to carry them for your friends, but in addition to the fact that the wheat fields in the village should be irrigated, or should the people take a bath?
So every time I go to fetch water, there are always a lot of people, with a large number of containers in their hands, eager to put all the water into their own jars. This means that those who arrive at the water pick-up point will be stuck in a long wait, cutting in line, impatient, and all kinds of quarrels will start to emerge.
And that's just one aspect, although the dark wilderness was dangerous in the past, it could barely cope with two or three adventurers in the village every time they went to fetch water. Now that the ghosts are raging on the mainland, the matter of receiving water is starting to become extremely dangerous, or too expensive.
Ordinary adventurers are obviously unable to cope with the current situation, and must hire someone with the ability to eliminate spirits to escort the team.
So every day in the village, every household began to hire a determinant to escort and fetch water by pooling money, and it was like this for another period of time.
Later, it was discovered that it was profitable, so a few splinters and a few adventurers took possession of the spring and made a fortune by selling daily water to the two villages. Since the interests are not small, another group of interest pretenders soon popped up.
It seems that no one can afford to kill the spirits, so the conflict of interests gradually evolved into the current confrontation between the two villages.
What started as a small water problem has escalated over the years. It has become a situation in the two villages where the exterminator is now the exterminator to the exterminator, the adventurer is to the adventurer, and the villager is to the villager, which I have to say is really interesting.
Now people on both sides are convinced that if we kill another village, the water will be all ours, and then we will divide it ourselves.
In this relatively difficult living environment, it is said that the people of the village should have moved automatically, and in fact, those who had relatives and friends in other settlements had already left. The rest are all those who don't want to go to other villages and towns to be homeless, and they can't move their homes.
In addition, later adventurers and soul exterminators smelled the smell of interests and came to them, and those who wanted to make a windfall and wanted to avoid trouble for a while made this place a little lively, so they couldn't go. You have to defend to the end and blow up the dog head of another village.
The most interesting thing is not the confrontation, but the geographical location of the two villages. The Light of Alber is the name of this territory, the main city of Pandor, and there are more than 20 villages and towns in the entire territory, with two small villages at the very edge.
It is said that this is an internal dispute in the territory, and the main city of Pandor originally wanted to manage it, but after actually intervening, he found that he couldn't manage it.
Because if you want to reassure the people, you have to solve the local water problem, and that's the root cause. To solve the water problem, this means that the main city of Pandol must organize a large number of people to deliver daily water to the two villages every day, which is obviously a bit of nonsense.
Of course, Pandor can also declare the ownership of the mountain spring, bringing order back to the distribution of water sources. They also did this, sending special personnel to manage it, and later the managers were either bribed by the locals to favor favoritism, or they were simply killed.
After coming and going, the main city is no longer too lazy to take care of it, and it doesn't take a lot of Pandor's interests to grab it, but sends people here to guard a broken mountain spring, and deals with a group of trivial people every day, which is obviously more and not in line with interests.
The main city side is even likely to hope that the two villages will fight to the death, and when the dog's head is defeated, the two villages will merge, all the problems will be solved naturally, and the whole world will be clean. So after the main city was left alone, the people of the two villages completely let themselves go.
This is also the reason why Saul came here and was instantly noticed and welcomed. The adventurers and villagers gathered here don't care where you're from, what you're doing, whether you're wanted or not, they just care if you can use your sword or not, and if you're fierce enough.
After a brief politeness and introduction, the captain, or perhaps the village chief, immediately invited Sol to blow up the dog head opposite, and the commission could be discussed in detail. Thor waved his hand and refused, because his assessment of the matter in his heart was only three words, 'neurotic'.
Seeing Thor's decisive refusal, the strong man didn't bother much, just pursed his lips and walked away.
"Aren't you going to help them?" asked Neferna, who had witnessed the whole thing.
"What do you want to help them? Kill someone from another village for some profit?If it's a robber or a monster on the other side, I'll probably join in the fun, and forget about killing people indiscriminately, it's not interesting, and besides, does this big demon king seem to be a man who is short of money?" Thor shook his head.
"Look~" Neferna disdained.
"You fart, you little special girl, what else do you think about on the way except to eat? Your life has been barren, do you know? I will find a place to settle down first, maybe I should try to use my feet today. Thor said thoughtfully.
"Aren't you talking about life......? It's time to use your feet?"
"I just remembered that the Chretty shiitake mushroom at home used to help me in gauze socks, and it seemed to feel good. Saul has some nostalgia.
There was a moment of silence in the air.
"Ahh
The poor goddess of shiitake mushrooms has not escaped the harassment of Thor's old dog when she is shrunk in her buttons.
"What is torturing you? This is the obligation of the Demon King's special female hug, do you know? Don't talk nonsense, I'll buy you a pair of tight gauze socks in Warm Breeze Town, either you obediently put them on and wait for me on the bed, or just break up!"