Chapter 443: End of the Rainbow 3
The best motivation for people is money.
Some might talk about dreams, hopes, justice, beliefs and other idealistic notions, but living 11 years in a medieval fantasy land makes such talk disappear. After all, wasn't Roland an adventurer who roamed the Kingdom's four corners, from northern snowfields to southern jungles, just to earn gold coins?
The point is, this wasn't modern fantasy but medieval fantasy.
More precisely, when divided by economic standards, the upper class lived lives closer to modern times while the lower class lived medieval lives. The obvious reason was the existence of mages, something Earth didn't have.
Nobles wore fashionable lace and frilled dresses and silk tailcoats, living clean and comfortable lives with magitech devices similar to modern conveniences. But poor commoners lived medieval lives without game company buffs.
Lives where pigs were raised inside homes, filth lined the streets, and people didn't know the word hygiene so they never bathed. If everyone lived that way it wouldn't matter, but knowing how the rich and noble lived made everyone's eyes turn red with desire for money.
Misfortune and discomfort stand out more when there's something to compare them to.
"Should we leave right away?"
"After meeting up with the others buying exploration supplies."