Chapter 70: The Field of Shock
Help. Wasn’t this topic straying a little too far? He could understand the first part, but he was completely lost in the second. Why did he need to speculate about how this hidden land came to be inside a city? Wasn’t that just unfair to an elf?
"Actually, for elves, this kind of thing is pretty normal," Illiya said with a bit of resignation. "In elven territories, even in the most prosperous towns, there’s always a purposely cleared space somewhere. So I really can’t guess. What, is it that amazing to see an empty patch of land nowadays?"
"Don’t tell me it’s like how elves leave open space to grow plants themselves?" Illiya joked. "As far as I know, among humans, only commoners grow their own crops, right? Anyone above that class hires someone to do it."
Seoryun raised his hand and patted Illiya on the shoulder, cutting off whatever the light elf was about to say. "It’s just like you guessed. This land was personally approved by the city lord and approved specifically for someone else to farm."
Illiya: ???
He was just joking—how did that turn out to be true?
Faced with the stunned expression of the elf, Seoryun wore the look of a man who had seen through all the vanity of the world. "According to those two demons, they bought this land directly from the city lord. It was a special case. From what they said, I suspect the city lord originally wanted to give them a better plot, but for some unknown reason, those two insisted on this one."
"I was just as baffled. I’ve never seen such an unreasonable request. I asked them about it, and they said this land is very similar to the land on the border of the demon realm. Since they plan to return and farm again, they needed a patch of land here that resembled their own. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to grow anything when they go back."
Illiya listened, dumbfounded, unable to recover from the shock.
Dear gods, should he be more shocked that demons and humans were actually involved in land transactions, or that someone would willingly spend more money on worse land? Or perhaps he should be shocked at the bizarre logic demons apparently followed.
Still, none of that was as surprising as the real bombshell: the demons is doing farming.