The Barren Forest, as the name may sound like a lot, is actually a small forest in the far north. Comparing the places that Ryan is relatively familiar with, it is about one-third the size of Brica City, and about the size of Vento Town.

However, this small forest is the habitat of many rare jungle races, such as the Crowbranch Tree People who only settle in the barren forest.

The barren forest itself is located in a relatively cold area, and in autumn and winter, the temperature drops even more, and the Crowtree Man will go into dormancy after the temperature is low to a certain extent.

In recent years, because of the awakening of fashion consciousness, they will find their neighbors, who are also half-sheep people of the jungle race, and wrap themselves in a layer of cotton clothes that are beautiful in their opinion, which is both windproof and beautiful.

But not all Crowbranch Tree people like to wear this kind of thing, but when the temperature is very low, and they may even freeze to death of the tree, they have to choose to wear it. Therefore, the lower the temperature, the more crowbranch tree people will wear cotton clothes.

This raises the question of the fact that the barren forests are also home to the white-maned bears, whose fur is heavy and can withstand the harshest winds, so even in the depths of winter, when the temperature is lowest, the white-maned bears are still very active.

Although the name contains a person, the white-maned bear people have many bear habits, and they are considered a less civilized race at this stage.

One of the habits of this bear is that it likes to rub things.

In the early days, the relationship between the white-maned bears and the crow-branched treemen was quite close, because in the winter when the crow-branched treemen were dormant, they would also be afraid of being attacked, and if the white-maned bear-people rubbed and became infected with the bear-man's breath, they could scare off many predators, including some bugs that were very scary to the treemen.

For the white-maned bearmen, the crowbranch treemen are also their favorite rubbing, because the skin of these treemen secretes a layer of resin, which is similar to an itch reliever to the white-maned bearmen.

However, now, with the introduction of insect repellents and the acceptance of civilization by a large number of races, there are fewer safety issues to consider when the Crowbranch Tree People are dormant, and the dependence on the White-Maned Bear People is not so strong.

But their habits have changed, but the white-maned bears have not, and they are still used to rubbing crows and trees in winter. But many of the crows and trees began to wear cotton clothes, and those who wore cotton clothes couldn't stop itching when rubbed up, and the resin couldn't be wiped off.

Although the white-maned bear people are not very advanced, they still know that they can't do this when other people are sleeping, they pick off other people's clothes and rub them.

So, someone acted as a middleman and started a business, selling itch relieving agents containing tree man resin to bear people in the winter.

Things are good things, but they are a bit expensive, so under normal circumstances, white-maned bear people will still go out to find a crow branch tree man who is not wrapped in cotton clothes, after all, it is free, and it is not "rubbed" white.

However, in recent years, winter temperatures in barren forests have been getting cooler, and in the words of some scholars, this is a climate crisis! They even suggested that the root cause of the climate problem was that people now use too little magic, disrupting the energy cycle of the entire world.

So they suggested that one day a year when the magicians would get together and set off the magic as fireworks for a whole day.

This is the origin of the modern magic contest, but the annual contest doesn't seem to work very well.

It's a bit far, the reality is that the winter in the barren forest is indeed much colder than in the past, so there are more and more crows and trees wearing cotton clothes when they are dormant, and there are more and more white-maned bears who can't find their favorite trees in winter, so they can only grit their teeth and buy anti-itch products.

It just so happens that the white-maned bears rub the hair that falls off the trees, which is a nesting favor for a bird called the knife-billed bird.

When the knife-billed bird does not have enough hair, it will run to the Hyde Meadows next door to the barren forest to steal the wool of the Hyde shepherds, resulting in a decrease in the shepherds' income.

As the income of the Hyde shepherds decreases, they will spend less money in the commercial town next door.

The Tita people don't make any money, so in the winter they choose to go fishing in nearby Lake Illo to supplement their families.

In Lake Eliho, there is a species of fish called the red scale fish, which would have spent the winter in Lake Illio, and in the spring they went down the river to Lake Tasu, thousands of miles away in the kingdom of Yolais. The lake contains a very rare shell that produces a precious orb called the Light of Tasu, which is the favorite treasure of the noble lady of Jolais.

The reason for the scarcity of Tasu Light is that in addition to the small number of shells itself, it is also because in Tasu Lake, there is a kind of shrimp that specializes in feeding on various shells, and they naturally don't know what shells are rare or not, and they eat them when they see them, and it is unknown how many of these Tasu Light shells are eaten.

But these shrimp also have natural predators, and that is the red scaly fish that comes all the way from Lake Eliho.

The contradiction arose, and the Tita people fished in their spare time, among which there were red scale fish, which caught a lot of fish, and even fewer people could make it to Tasu Lake alive. Those shrimp have fewer natural predators, and fewer shells are eaten. Then there is the decrease in the production of Tasu Light, and it may be possible to find two or three in a year.

However, the largest jewelry manufacturer in the region often receives more than forty or fifty orders a year, which is the favorite of all Jolais women.

The light of Tasu was not in supply, and these Yolais women had to settle for the second tier when choosing jewelry, the most popular of which was Pocha gold from the Golden Cliffs.

Pocha gold is a slightly cyan gold, which is not very beautiful, and not many people like it.

But it was probably thanks to the sales pitches of some merchants that the people of Yolais liked, and they were equally fond of Pocha gold, which was said to be an essential gift for their marriage proposals.

The production of Tasu's Light decreases, and more Jolais women will buy jewelry made of Pocha gold, but the production of this gold is not high, normally the supply to Jolais and Pelt is quite tight, and now Jolais buys more, and those ladies are more willing to pay than goblins, so the Golden Cliff provides less Pocha gold to Pelt.

Without the necessities of the proposal, the marriage prospects of the goblins are worrying.

In short, the world is too peaceful and there are fewer people using magic, which leads to a series of problems, including climate change, which eventually prevents the Pelt goblins from getting married.

It took Wren a while to figure out the reason for the declining marriage rate of the Pelt goblins mentioned in this news.

It sounded reasonable, but Wren always thought it was a little weird.......

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Chapter 141: About the Golden Ecology of the Pelt Goblin