Chapter 111: Cornered and Manipulated [Bonus - ]
[How can a river dry up in a matter of months? The dryad has only gone asleep because she’s gotten so weak after the forest was burned. But it shouldn’t hinder the growth of new trees and plants. It seems there’s more to this. The magician from earlier must be involved. He seemed to have a lot of mana for a human.] Ferdinand thought.
’A magician can even affect drought? They can manipulate things to go this far?!!’ Arabella was shocked. But then again, she recalled Alwin even made it rain in the entirety of Riva in her past life.
"The rain barely came too until it didn’t fall once even in spring. The summer became hotter and the winters became colder. It made the situation in Safiro even worse," Nadia continued.
The former fertile lands that were now unproductive were easily abandoned by the nobles from Dempsey since there was nothing to gain from it anymore.
Meanwhile, Safiro was left with no source of food and water.
They dug up springs and wells but they also dried up very soon.
They imported food from Dempsey County and the other nearby territories but their money soon began to run out.
It was then that Dempsey proposed mining the mountain again. The tribesmen and Nadia’s father were still against it though.
The people of Safiro still hoped that their guardian deity Esmeralda was still alive even when the Sacred Tree got burned and dried up.
But since they kept refusing, Count Dempsey refused to trade food with Safiro anymore.
Safiro had no choice but to trade in other territories which were a bit farther.