RNP Chapter 86 Shame
Chapter 86 Shame
"Hmm?" Hearing the Scarlet Wizard's strange words, Loon was also taken aback and stepped onto the ridge.
The scene on the other side of the mountain ridge then came into view of Luo Ang.
Further away, there are rolling mountains and deep forests.
Between the mountains at your feet and the jungle in the distance lies a slightly undulating plain.
In the middle of the field, there is also a winding stream.
It looks like a place that is very suitable for cultivating land, and also a place that is very suitable for ordinary people to live in.
Right by the river, there is a small village.
Fields stretched out around the village.
Although the autumn harvest season has passed, it is time to plant winter wheat.
Therefore, the farmers in the village did not stop to rest, but continued to work in the fields.
Although the village was some distance from the mountains, it was daytime, and there was no fog on the land. Luo Ang and his companions were on high ground with an unobstructed view.
In addition, the exceptional vision granted by powerful mental strength...
Everything in the village and the surrounding fields could be seen clearly.
The farmer was working in the field, carefully tending to the land, breaking up the hard clods of soil and clearing away the weeds.
Everyone was dressed in tattered linen clothes, shivering in the autumn and winter. After working for a while, they would stop and blow on their hands.
Occasionally, when a farmer looked up at the mountain range where Luo Ang and his group were, Luo Ang could see that the farmers' faces were full of wrinkles and grime, their eyes were cloudy and lifeless, like walking corpses, without any luster or hope.
He looked even more emaciated than a month ago when the Scarlet Wizard returned to the ship after finishing his underwater hunt.
Looking at the neighboring village, it was equally deserted, without a single spark of light.
Several children, also dressed in thin clothes, shivered and hid in a sheltered spot, looking at the manger next to them.
Beside the manger, a soldier in leather armor reached into the manger and stirred things around. Then, with a hint of disgust, he shook his hand away. Immediately, some children hiding nearby cautiously approached the manger, picked up what the soldier had thrown out, and stuffed it into their mouths.
Outside the manger, a soldier was riding slowly, letting the horse graze on the newly sprouted wheat seedlings in the field.
In some dilapidated houses, several pairs of eyes looked at the wheat seedlings that had been gnawed by flattery and shed tears.
Seeing this scene, Luo Ang's eyes immediately turned red.
A strange sense of shame almost overwhelmed his reason.
He had just confidently told the Scarlet Wizard that this was the 'future'.
As a result, this scenario, which had no future whatsoever, unfolded right before the Scarlet Wizard's eyes.
You can imagine how embarrassing this is.
"After the war with Grandma Orchid and the others, the existence and use of fertilizer were widely promoted, and the yield of grain increased greatly."
"Even on those barren islands in the stormy seas, farmers cultivate land and grow crops, and they can all have enough to eat."
"Why are the farmers in these central countries all so emaciated, and the children so hungry that they have to scavenge for horse feed?"
"Judging from the surroundings, it doesn't look like they've been through famine or war."
The Crimson Wizard asked with some curiosity.
There are not many inhabited islands in the Stormy Seas—therefore, almost every inhabited island has some connection with wizards.
On and around that island, the real power lies with the wizards.
Although there are nobles on the island, the presence of cargo ships makes it difficult for them to completely control the flow of people and goods on the island.
Secondly, with the wizard Lescent regularly patrolling the stormy seas, his presence was more open and aboveboard—and the sea dwellers held the wizard in greater awe than the nobles.
Therefore, although the nobles in the Stormy Seas do exploit people, their exploitation is not considered harsh. After all, the Stormy Seas is the territory of the "Black Wizards," and no noble wants their reputation for exploitation to spread, making the Black Wizards think their family is rich and then plunder their family.
That's why the people on those islands in the stormy seas are still managing to get by and live a decent life.
But what about these farmers?
This person isn't even human anymore!
The scene before her eyes was something the Crimson Wizard had never seen before—even the slaves on some islands in the Storm Sea were not this emaciated.
To put it bluntly, even if the Scarlet Wizard's experiments ever reached a critical point and required living people as experimental subjects, she would never choose such people as experimental subjects.
"What else could it be besides the exploitation by the nobles?" Luo Ang glanced around and saw no trace of bandits or robbers around the village. The reason why the farmers in this village were so poor was already obvious.
"Are the nobles here so demanding?" the Crimson Wizard asked, without paying much attention to it or having any other thoughts.
She was simply curious about the scene before her; she had no intention of getting to the bottom of it or changing anything.
"Thunder Wizard, do you think that if we complete the wizard tower here, the local nobles will come after us and cause trouble?"
In the central kingdoms, conservative wizards held sway, strictly defining the "boundary" between wizards and mortals, and not easily revealing themselves to mortals.
It was precisely because of this that the Crimson Wizard vaguely sensed that, for many nobles in the central kingdoms, the identity of a wizard might not have the intimidating power they had imagined.
"Let's wait until Teon gets the news from them and comes back before we talk about it."
Teon gave the Crimson Wizard a word of advice and was about to turn back, but in his heart he had already made a deep grudge against the nobles of this land.
"If they dare to cause trouble, the magic we have won't be just for show."
For some reason, after the Scarlet Wizard brought up this possibility, Loon suddenly felt that what the Scarlet Wizard said was really possible!
In the eyes of farmers, nobles are noble and wise—but Loen, who is also a nobleman, knows very well that nobles are never noble, much less wise.
Among the nobility, there are many greedy, despicable, and arrogant individuals.
As for scholarship... heraldry was the only popular field of study among the nobility.
Knowledge other than heraldry, such as medicine, geography, and history, is considered trivial and would not be of interest to nobles.
Many nobles truly believed that they were born noble!
In their eyes, knowledge such as medicine, geography, and history is knowledge that serves the nobility and is something that only lowly people should learn.
—To what extent did the minor nobles despise knowledge?
Take Luo Ang's family for example.
They were nobles of the White Maple Kingdom—but their library didn't even contain a history book of the White Maple Kingdom.
Not to mention mountains and rivers or geography.
The complete map of their territory was a rough sketch drawn by Loon when he was twelve years old, after he took people out for a walk.
It is exceptionally difficult to hold back.