Since the second month of spring this year, with the return of the Saul people, the territory of Liberty City has gradually become lively.

This buzz does not refer to the noise on the surface, but the freshness brought by the arrival of many new faces as the population gradually grows.

Thor's method of increasing the population was simple and crude, sending out a large number of silver coins and secret realm scrolls, so that all the people under Deller's command could move, and persuade those who were willing to settle in the Free City through words.

These men of Diller will eventually become the eyes of the Free City in the future, and seek intelligence on the entire continent for the territory, so it is necessary to adapt to this chaotic rhythm of life all over the continent in advance.

So at a certain intersection on the first floor of the reincarnation dungeon, a sign was erected, which read.

"The investment point of the free city, the starting point of a new life, the turning point of destiny. ”

These nondescriptive-sounding slogans were the idea of Jaime of the five in charge of pulling people.

Originally a young farmer with ash stumps, Jaime was smart enough to have no relatives since his mother's death. Growing up on the handouts in the village, he has been living a miserable life for many years with enough food for one person and no hunger for the whole family.

As a child, he also fantasized about becoming a dragon slayer warrior, a hero of the continent, and even changing the world. But in fact, he has been wielding a pitchfork and gathering hay from the village and providing it to the livestock or the villagers to mend the roof, year after year.

After seeing the gap between dreams and reality, Jaime gradually became too lazy to even dream.

Until one day the ash stump was swept away, and all the villagers were driven to a small place and became someone's lord.

It is not appropriate to say that it is a sweep, because the methods of the people who came are quite mild, but they only threaten that everyone will usher in a new life.

As one of the few wise men in the village, Jaime himself did not believe such words. When he arrived at the little settlement that didn't even have a name, Jaime was even more sure that he had a new life for a fart.

For this new lord, Jaime was not convinced. There is no specific reason, just because we are both young people of the same age, why are you the lord and I can only live with a pitchfork.

Gradually, however, Jaime noticed that something had changed in his life. Although he was still wielding a pitchfork and doing things that didn't seem to be much different from before, life was just different.

For example, he can use the new thing called merit in the territory that he has obtained by his own labor, and put himself in a new and more decent clothes. Or maybe you have a drink after a long day, even though the ale is only a common taste.

It's hard to say exactly where these changes began.

It seems to be from the new buildings that are being added every day, from the newly built dirt road under your feet. Or from the smiling faces of himself, and the people around him, to be honest, Jaime hadn't seen the villagers smile like that in years.

Before, everyone was numb and repetitive, day after day, year after year.

Jaime was supposed to be one of them, but gradually he realized that he could now stop occasionally after a hard day's work, look up, or laugh with the people around him.

It seems that every day, life in the territory is changing, and this change is impossible to talk about, but it is everywhere.

Jaime didn't like the merit system originally, and although he didn't know much about it, he had traveled to Kenadze territory with the village's trade party three or four times a year. He knew that in the outside world, 'coins' were the things that really had value.

While it's currently more cost-effective to use merit in the realm to buy things, Jaime thinks it's just because the lord doesn't want to give money.

It wasn't until one day that the lord named Thor said a word on the stage that he really woke up Jaime.

"Nothing has ever been taken for granted in this world, and even if I don't come, you still have to survive, and you have to face everything you have to face now. But I have come to give you a more stable and orderly life, and I only hope that my giving is worth it. ”

It wasn't profound, but it still caused Jaime to reflect deeply.

yes, why do I take many things for granted?

Why do I think that the lord should be like this and not like that? Why do I think that these new houses, these roads under my feet are built for the lord?

That night, Jaime curled up in his blanket and cried, thinking that the boy who had dreamed of slaying the dragon years ago had died.

What have I done for my barren life? Have I worked hard, have I ever fought?

From that day on, Jaime finally broke free from the shackles of his original farmer status, began to work hard to learn something new, and tried to live a more active and enthusiastic life.

Recently, the lord opened up the two-way exchange of merit and coins in the realm, and at this time, Jaime was not in a hurry to exchange money. Because he instinctively felt that his merits seemed to be more valuable, which was a change in vision brought about by a change in attitude towards life.

As a healthy young man, Jaime became one of the first members of the Scarlet Cross.

He didn't really want to join the Crimson Cross, as that seemed glamorous, and he knew that those people would likely become the more prominent ones in the realm in the future.

But Jaime just felt that it was not for him, not because he was afraid of war and death, he just felt that his ingenuity could not be fully utilized in fighting monsters to the death.

Just as Jaime was weighing up, he was picked out by the halfling captain named Diller to join a temporarily unnamed department. It is said that the basis for the selection is because he usually gives the people around him, a rather clever impression.

This department is said to be in charge of intelligence in the future, which is a bit beyond Jaime's knowledge and vision.

However, the first thing or task assigned by this department was very much to James's appetite.

After feeling the magic and convenience of the Secret Gate, Jaime began to wander around the continent alone, convincing some local people to come and settle in the Free City through the Secret Gate.

Before this mission began, Lord Thor had given a brief training session to the five of them.

"I've wandered all the way from the southern frontiers, and I've seen too many people struggling with hunger and poverty along the way. This is the current situation in the mainland, so I have never worried about the population problem, and I believe that this is also an excellent entry point in the process of attracting people. ”

The lord's words were still in his ears, and the lord's honor of meeting the five people alone also made the five members of the team full of enthusiasm.

So the five of them went into a frenzy, and Jaime himself brought in three farmers, a miller, and a carpenter in the past few days, and Jaime received a reward from these people.

Lord Thor's rewards are straightforward, and you can choose between coins and combat exploits.

To Jaime's surprise, the other four were the same as himself, all of whom chose combat exploits and none of them chose coins. This shattered the original small abacus in Jaime's heart, and the five of them began to be filled with a strong atmosphere of competition.

Jaime's original plan was to accumulate merit and become the captain of this five-person team. Because the article of the combat merit system makes it very clear that as long as you accumulate a certain amount of personal merit, you can submit a request for promotion to the military department yourself.

Now it seems that you are not the only smart person, and you have to speed up your pace.

The lord has detailed requirements and rewards for pulling people, pulling a single settler will reward one silver coin, pulling a settler will reward two silver coins per person according to the number of heads in the household, and if pulling a production household, the reward will be doubled.

In addition, if you attract merchants who are willing to come to the territory to trade, there are also related rewards.

Later, Jaime had an idea and erected a sign at the intersection of the first floor of the secret realm.

"The investment point of the free city, the starting point of a new life, the turning point of destiny. ”

This sign is meant to motivate passing adventurers, whether they wish to settle down on their own or go back to their respective towns to bring in settlers to earn a buck, Jaime is very welcome, and he will split his reward in half with the other party.

At first, the other guys who pulled people were a little disdainful, but they watched many adventurers ask according to the signs, and even sometimes Jaime didn't need to run, and the adventurers brought people over.

The other guys finally couldn't sit still anymore and ran to the first floor of the dungeon to put up signs at other intersections.

And as the five of them continued to run around day and night, many greater changes took place in the territory.

With the arrival of the population, the semi-stagnant stone ore mining sites are in full swing again, and more regular stone roads are quietly spreading, in addition to stone houses are also rising one after another, but these are not the main ones.

Blacksmith shops, mills, watch shops, and ready-to-wear shops are also open for business.

And the most eye-catching of them is undoubtedly the huge bazaar in the territory, which effectively diverts the pressure on the distribution points of supplies.

Although there are only a few small stalls in the market at present, selling some personal handicrafts or special snacks, it is enough to foresee the scale of the whole market in the future.

Every day Jaime wakes up to see the changes in the territory, or to discover something new, and every time he thinks that these changes have been created by his own hands, Jaime always feels a full sense of participation and accomplishment.

And recently, Jaime has a new target, which is a kind of goblin produced by a kind of goblin in the watch shop, called a precision gadget called a clock.

It is said that because of the extremely complicated process involved in clocks and watches, and because the lord intended to make clocks into luxury products of the realm, the knick-knacks that exude metal beauty are expensive for each.

The individual price of the clock is one dragon's eye gem, or two magic crystals, sixty golden eagles, nine hundred silver wolves, or ninety thousand bronze shields.

It's not that there are no magic hourglasses sold in the territory that are used for timekeeping every day, and each hourglass costs only twenty silver coins. That was Jaime's original goal, but as his vision changed, Jaime now found the magic hourglass uninteresting and unproductive.

For example, when you go out to solicit people, in another territory or town, in front of the object you want to persuade, you will inadvertently take out a clock and look at it, what a decent thing it will be. And the reason for decency is only that I have you and don't.

It's a pity that the price of a longan is far from what he can afford at the moment, but Jaime is not discouraged, he feels that the goal of clocks is necessary. With a new goal, Jaime felt that he was full of fighting spirit and living more passionately every day, and he hated having to sleep and threw himself into things.

In the process of pulling people, Jaime has not been to big cities, and he has even set foot in the main cities of several major forces on this continent. After the initial shock, Jaime is now at peace.

The prosperity is indeed attractive, but Jaime is convinced that the territory will not necessarily be worse than the big cities in the future, and more importantly, he knows where he needs him more and reflects his value.

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