Chapter 54: Reunion in the Wastes
The air was filled with roast meat aroma, carrying magical beasts’ unique fat fragrance, making mouths water.
"Woo woo woo, so delicious..."
John gnawed voraciously at the roast meat while complaining incoherently: "I haven’t had fresh magical beast meat in so long!"
He took a big bite with complete satisfaction, then remembered his experiences and his mood instantly dropped.
Vaerik ate meat while observing John’s current appearance.
Indeed, unlike the high spirits when first arriving in the Northern Province, current John actually carried some weariness and had lost considerable weight.
"This Northern Province wasteland is no place for humans!" John complained to Vaerik while eating: "The frozen soil in my territory—grain simply won’t grow!
And the subjects are lazy and afraid of hardship. Give them farmland, they can’t farm. Give them hunting bows, they can’t use them. They just wait for me to distribute relief grain every day! They treat me like the Northern Province’s number one philanthropist!"
Vaerik consoled: "As long as you survive the initial period and gradually plan, things will improve."
"If my old man didn’t send me money monthly and transport grain from the south, I’d have starved to death long ago!" John grabbed his hair with a face full of grief and indignation.
Relying on transported grain and money to support an entire territory’s population?