Throne of the North.

Chapter 69 The Arrival of the Overpopulation Crisis

"Is this the power comparable to that of a Holy Land Knight?"

Ryan was shocked. With just one sword, he killed the demon giant.

The crown has returned to Ryan's hand. As the power of the sword fell, the heroic spirit Goncalves also fell into a deep sleep. This is what the Amethyst Master said, only the last remnants of the artifact are left.

If it weren't for Ryan's blessing from the deer spirit, the heroic spirit would have dissipated immediately after releasing the sword, and the crown would have shattered along with it, and would have fallen into eternal death along with the continent of Exnel.

With the death of the demon giant, the cultists began to flee into the distance in fear, and the Crucible City erupted in a carnival like a tsunami.

"we won!"

Ryan rode his warhorse and walked in the Crucible City with his knights and squires. Wherever he passed, all eyes were filled with fanaticism.

Indeed, victory in war can bring trust and respect, and even serfs will feel that they can live better under such a lord.

In front of everyone, Ryan also announced that all the soldiers on the city wall would be stripped of their slave status and turned into free citizens.

Such a decision was not entirely for the purpose of enhancing his own prestige, but more for the purpose of planning to bring these people to the Frozen Territory.

Slaves are the lord's wealth, so their daily food needs to be provided by Ryan. However, the free people in the Frozen Territory have to figure out what to eat by themselves.

Not working hard? If you don’t work hard, you won’t even have enough food to eat, and your life will be worse than that of a serf.

But the slaves in the Crucible City were unaware of this at this moment. They were surprised by this change and shouted for the kindness of the noble masters.

Over the next day, Ryan sent soldiers out of the city to search for the cultists. Only after knowing that the cultists had indeed escaped did he place the Plane Gate in the center of the Crucible City.

It’s not that he hadn’t thought about avoiding this war before, but after considering it, he found it impossible.

The gate to the plane is so small. The Crucible City has a population of nearly 20,000 people, so it takes a long time to pass through the gate to the plane.

During this time, if the demon's followers rushed into the city, it would definitely lead to an extremely chaotic situation.

Moreover, once the plane gate appears, the Crucible City will definitely not be able to keep the abyss monsters out of the city.

With a way out, everything will be different.

In addition, Ryan also needs to plunder the entire Crucible City. He needs wealth. There has never been a moment when he needs wealth more than now.

Because the population of the Crucible City is too large, the appearance of 20,000 people in the Frozen Territory is not only a problem of chaos in all aspects, but more importantly, the scarcity of food.

The food from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce has arrived, but how long can it last?

Ryan needed wealth, a lot of gold coins and things that the southern nobles loved, in order to trade for enough food.

Without food, he couldn't feed so many people. Without food, he couldn't support more troops. Without troops, he couldn't expand more territory.

All we can say is that the Frozen Territory has encountered its first population crisis.

But it is not impossible for Ryan to give up these 20,000 people. Ryan stood at the ruins of the Mage Academy. The air here was no longer warm, but shiveringly cold. The artifact disappeared, and the furnace completely lost its last temperature. In just a few hours, the temperature of the Furnace City was like the bleak autumn wind.

Such temperature differences caused many elderly people in the Furnace City to pass away as they could not bear the cold.

Knowing the result, Ryan could only let the people of Furnace City cross the space portal in batches to go to the Frozen Territory.

"Let some of the soldiers who participated in the Crucible City Defense War go to the Frozen Territory first."

After the order was given, the Crucible City calmed down after a brief bustle. Many slaves and civilians became desperate, thinking that Ryan had given up on them. They stayed at home, wrapped in clothes, and welcomed death with the Crucible City.

The north wind blew, and it snowed in the Crucible City in the morning of another day.

"This is the first snowfall in the Crucible City in a hundred years."

Behind Ryan stood some of his former nobles. They looked at Ryan's back with eyes full of awe and a change in their perception of their own identities.

Before the space portal appeared, they still had the glory and pride of the nobility, but when the plane gate that had not been touched by the Crucible City for hundreds of years was easily released by Ryan, all their dignity disappeared.

At this moment, they looked at the flying snow in the Crucible City, and their eyes did not contain any aesthetic feeling for this quiet snow city, but fear and despair.

In the more than one hundred years on the continent of Exnel, there has been no story praising winter.

Everyone knows that in the frigid north there is only endless cold and hunger, and even wild beasts cannot survive the harsh winter.

Ryan closed the door to the plane, which not only made the common people and slaves at the bottom who could not see anything feel despair, but also the descendants of nobles from aristocratic families were also uneasy.

The Crucible City has gradually entered the same cold winter as the North. If they cannot follow Ryan away, they will eventually die on a cold night.

"Death and cold will fill this city, but before it dies completely, there is still soil that can be used for planting."

"Although most of the soil has been dug away, the remaining land still needs to be used, especially the part near the Mage Academy. The soil there is still very fertile."

Ryan turned his head and looked at those who chose to follow the noble council to the battlefield, and said:
"I want you to stay here for a while, at least until this winter, and cultivate the land here. I need a lot of food."

"I have already told you about the birth of the Lordship system. When you go to my territory this winter, I will grant you three places, three Lordship places. Moreover, I can allow you to walk through the gate of the plane with at least 500 gold coins of wealth."

"This is my mercy, and it is an answer you cannot choose."

Ryan's words made many of the people in front of him clench their fists, but just as Ryan said, they had no choice.

Staying here is a dead end, and no one thinks they can survive this winter.

And once they decide to become Ryan's people, they have no right to choose.

After Ryan finished speaking, he turned around again and looked at the Furnace City covered with snow. Without the heat from the underground furnace, even the exhaled air seemed to be condensing into frost.

(End of this chapter)