Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 964 Familiar Strangers Cannot Be Asked

Satisfied with his payment, Toronto took another look around the maze before gracefully taking to the skies above Emilia to see which area was suitable for digging a lake.

After looking around Toronto, his eyes suddenly fixed on one person before quickly looking away.

Toronto's mind was in turmoil, a turbulent sea of ​​emotions, and for a moment he felt as if he had returned to the dream game he had created.

But he knew he couldn't say anything.

So, she simply pointed calmly to the lower right corner of the city and asked softly, "Is that okay? I don't see any signs of spatial fluctuations there."

Teleportation arrays and dimensional gates share a common drawback: in places where they are frequently used, the spatial membrane will become thinner.

If it's opened too many times, ripples will appear around the space... If a dimensional invasion occurs, this is the area most likely to be opened.

Of course, teleportation within this world generally doesn't have much of an impact, and apart from a high-level mage like Toronto with sharp eyes, no one else can tell.

"Oh? Why not the bottom left corner? That's farther from the outer city... Oh~" the Goddess of Night said with interest, "You even considered the original residents' situation!"

The commercial atmosphere is much stronger in the lower left corner, so the living environment nearby is unlikely to be too bad.

To prove their strength, businessmen will not allow themselves to live in poverty.

Nobody would buy things from a store that might go bankrupt. Putting aside the issue of bad luck, what if the item they buy is being sold twice?

In this world, basic low-level resources are generally guaranteed by lords or kings, and foreign merchants cannot and dare not compete with them for such markets.

Finished products and mid-to-high-level supplies will have higher starting prices, and buyers will have to consider more factors.

Not everywhere is like Qingfengling, where finished products are treated as basic resources and carelessly discarded.

Of course, Toronto himself only realized later that he had gone a bit overboard... but in his eyes, essential supplies were never just food and linen!

In his view, the basic life of the people is to have enough to eat and drink, to be warmly dressed, and to be able to leave their homes normally.

Besides, he didn't say anything like guaranteeing that everyone would have three dishes and a soup, or that everyone would have a bed...

He simply considered clothing stores, grocery stores, and snack stalls as basic resources, and even set up a purchasing station for the people.

Once he came out, Toronto realized that the only reason he did this was because it wouldn't be so conspicuous in the Northland.

After all, His Majesty Travis was so good at making money that when ordinary people couldn't make ends meet, they could grit their teeth and sign up to be miners. After ten years of hardship, they could live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

Although it was tough, the people of the North knew that there was this minimum guarantee... and the major mines in the North were relatively safe because of their close cooperation with the White Dragon.

In addition, the royal family has a strong hand, so local lords not only do not tamper with the awakening ceremony, but also strongly support their people to participate in the ceremony... After leaving, Toronto discovered that in some countries, you have to pay money to participate in the awakening ceremony.

Unlike the North, where the lords foot the bill, these smaller countries rely on public fundraising.

If you don't have enough money, you won't open it... and "enough" doesn't mean you have enough energy to open it once, but rather that you have to earn money.

The poorest people in the North could be considered wealthy in these small countries, since they actually had copper coins in their hands.

Even commoners in Qingfeng Territory who could afford to take out silver coins are considered upper class here!
It's his own perception that's flawed, and the reason why the North is the strongest country in the world is already quite unique.

Travis became a beacon of light for the people of the North, and this was not solely because he protected the integrity of the nation.

He's just not very knowledgeable.

After all, the past him, no matter how bitter, was just tired.

But every drop of sweat you shed will pay off.

True poverty and hardship are when you sweat eight drops of sweat, and every drop is wasted.

When it comes to comparing who's the worst, Hokuriku is actually the best!

Toronto is really glad it was brought to the Northland.

Although his mindset underwent a significant transformation due to the influence of his environment, he still retained his fundamental principle of treating people as human beings.

He could even understand why the Lord of Storms had always been so tolerant of the Storm Nobles of the North.

Although they were unethical and malicious, they never actually stole money from the pockets of the poorest people.

The eyes of the northern nobles are usually only on each other.

Most of the common people in the territory of Count Gezar only learned what had happened after Count Gezar and his entire family had been captured.

Toronto chose the Emilia Heights kingdom for one reason only he understood, in addition to the reasons he told the gods: the people here lived more like human beings.

Whether it was because the joint rule of the two churches forced them to show their believers the good side of their own, or because the believers of the two churches who came here were all high-level professionals and didn't care about a little bit of money, or even if Queen Emilia back then had no concept of taxation, resulting in this kingdom only collecting taxes on land, houses, and commerce.

Property tax will only be levied when a property is purchased or sold.

Land was taxed at 30%.

However, Emilia doesn't have many lords, and farmers who own their own land generally live quite well.

Hired laborers without land also typically worked for the Earth Believers… The Earth Believers weren't necessarily that compassionate, but their concept of money differed from that of ordinary people. Rather than skimping on their meager rations, they preferred to be paid in copper coins based on the amount of work done.

Perhaps in their minds, this means more work, more pay, which forces these farm laborers to work hard and saves them more time to tend to the land.

But for farm laborers, are there any better employers?
If they need grain, they can simply buy it from the farmers who own their own land nearby.

The other party happens to need money.

As for yield... the Earth Church's basic fertilizer is cheap and effective, and it also nourishes the soil.

If it's just about growing grain, a good harvest is a given.

The harvest from two acres of land is enough to feed a family for a whole year. Generally speaking, people with less than five acres of land are no different from hired laborers, and at most they can save a little more money.

Of course, there might be another reason why the Earth Believers would pay so readily... Emilia City needs a lot of casual labor.

The scientific conferences held by the Earth Church will inevitably require the maintenance of some infrastructure.

The Night Cultists certainly wouldn't do this job for them.

Therefore, usually, after obtaining compensation from the Earth Church, these temporary workers are assigned to handle the matter.

The Goddess of the Night prefers a clean environment, and the Church of the Night naturally has high requirements for urban sanitation.

These tasks naturally require odd jobs to handle... With compensation from the Earth Church, the Dark Church in Emilia City never lacks money to hire people to do the work.

Therefore, the common people of the Kingdom of Emilia Highlands are the most comfortable ordinary people Toronto has seen since leaving the Northlands.

He felt that, whatever the reason, the people of this country needed some kind of reward.

As for what happens next... Based on his understanding of the gods, and after seeing the cultural environment of the northern capital and Emilia City, they will subconsciously look for similar places when choosing the location of the next labyrinth.

The gods are certainly not the kind of people who are completely without compassion.

But they also lack empathy.

In their eyes, human life is... not very good.

Therefore, unless it has reached the point of driving someone to their death, they will never understand what it means to 'not be able to live'.

Besides, they usually just glance at it casually, so why would they take it to heart?

Anyway, even they, as believers, live pretty hard lives!
Toronto has seen a lot in the legacy of dragons and angels, and has come to understand a little about the differences caused by different dimensions.

Just as when humans see ant colonies or bee colonies working diligently on television, they would never think there's anything wrong with worker bees and ants working so hard just to feed the queen bee and queen ant.

The gods would not find anything wrong with the way tribes and kingdoms were organized.

Therefore, they only bare their teeth at evil, but don't care about the infighting among humans... Don't humans enjoy watching bees swarm when they divide their hives?

After Toronto understood these things, it had far fewer sharp thorns when interacting with the gods.

Although in the eyes of the gods, he had passed through his adolescent rebellion and finally matured.

Only he himself knows the extent of his ideological transformation.

But Toronto felt that his past self had not completely disappeared; he had simply learned to hide it.

There's nothing I can do. A struggling artist like me, who can't even fit into the real world, can only stumble and falter as I try to escape everything.

He wasn't brave enough to go along with the crowd, so he could only go with the flow and stay home again.

Even helping their own family members requires them to be done cautiously and discreetly.

Toronto looked up at the sky.

Once everything was over, he set off for Toril.

Look at the undead there, and feel the carefree life you should have had.

Otherwise, he might really become the shape of the multiverse.

If he didn't have two opposing lineages, his mindset might have been altered by those long memories long ago.

Fortunately, while watching the incredibly powerful dragon rampage through burning, killing, and plundering before finally dying of old age and returning gloriously to the Dragon Tomb, he kept hearing comments like 'Rebel!', 'Evil!', and 'Expel him!' in his ears.

Sometimes Toronto felt like the angelic heritage was about to come back to life with anger as he read the dragon's memories.

So, even you, the angelic ancestor, couldn't tolerate this, how did you come to have your eye on another ancestor?

Did you encounter the only vegetarian dragon?

Toronto was very puzzled.

(End of this chapter)