Capítulo 139: City Lord Chapter 137
'Everyone has the right to choose their work?' Ayesha was confused as she glanced at Lucas. "Is any kind of choice possible?"
"Of course… not!" Lucas said, rolling his eyes. "The choices are limited to things like your hobbies and stuff."
Humans never really had many choices in their life. Many things were out of their control. For example, they didn't get to choose their families, it was chosen for them.
"Oh." Ayesha said. She felt that she understood somewhat but still felt pretty confused. "Then what kind of choice is suitable for me?"
"What do you like to do? What do you love?" Lucas asked. He was pretty curious as to what Ayesha liked as she was the only female beastkin among all the beastkins they had saved from horse thieves.
"I like to go around to discover new and strange things. I would love to have endless food, then find a handsome husband to marry, and then have a bunch of babies…" Ayesha's eyes were shining as she talked. She even took out a sheepskin scroll and unrolled it. "I've already written it down. My husband needs to be an amazing person who can obtain large amounts of wheat, he can't let me starve, and he can't let the babies starve…"
Lucas and Mina looked at each other helplessly and shrugged. Ayesha had already begun having fantasies about life after marriage.
Lucas listened to Ayesha blabber about her list of requirements and even pointed out a few things.
For example, Ayesha required that her husband be stronger than her, but Lucas seriously doubted that there would be many people who could surpass Ayesha in terms of strength.
"Oh! Then I'll change it to requiring him to at least be able to beat me." Ayesha said, nodding her head.
This requirement wasn't actually very difficult to fulfill- Ayesha was strong, sure, but she wasn't very skillful.
The group soon arrived at Sakura City.
Lucas was startled as soon as he walked through the gate. There were a bunch of people in front of him looking at him gratefully.
"Thank you Lord Lucas for saving us!"
"Long live Lord Lucas!"
"Long live Lord Lucas!"
"Long live Lord Lucas!"
'What the heck? How do they already know about me?' Suddenly, a man rushed out from the crowd and rushed toward Lucas. But before he could get close, Mina had already put her knife on his neck.
"Lord! I'm Ron. I work under James!" He was lucky that he had shouted as soon as he would have had his neck cut off if he had spoken any later.
"Ron?" Lucas recognized the name and thought that James had mentioned the name previously. He beckoned Mina to put the knife away and let Ron come to him.
"How come you haven't left Sakura City?" Lucas asked as he looked at the man who James had trusted.
"Uh…" Ron awkwardly touched his nose and changed the subject. He whispered, "Lord, many people are willing to go to Sedona City. I just received requests from about a hundred people."
"Oh? You were still trying to rope people in after the horse thieves came?" Lucas asked.
"Hee hee…" Ron smiled awkwardly and scratched his head. He whispered, "That's because I didn't finish the task."
Lucas suddenly thought of something as he looked around. He whispered, "Did you spread the information about Sedona City recruiting workers?"
"Yes. We started this morning. Nobody believed us at first, but now they all do. They were just waiting for you to show your face." Ron said excitedly.
Lucas smiled. Ron had basically taken care of the hard part and all he needed to do was to show his face.
"Good job." Lucas said, patting Ron's shoulder. "I will give you credit for this after we get back."
"Thank you, lord." Ron said, excited.
"Go and wrap things up. Tell them that we are leaving tomorrow to return to Sedona City and that those that want to come with us should go pack up right now." Lucas said.
"Yes!" Ron nodded and then darted away.
As soon as Ron walked into the crowd, the commoners of Sakura City bombarded him with questions. Their doubts just got cleared away as they saw with their own eyes that Ron had been talking with a noble.
"Lord Ron, is it true that you only need to pay a few copper coins to be able to live in a house in Sedona City?"
"That depends on the size of the house. A large house has a monthly rent of about a dozen coins." Ron answered. He had answered similar questions dozens of times.
"Is it true that the minimum monthly salary is 50 copper coins?"
"Yes. The monthly salary is at least 50 copper coins. You get 20% extra if you are literate." Ron answered.
"I want to sign up, my whole family will go to Sedona City."
"My family will go too. I heard that Lord Lucas is a good nobleman."
"Of course he's a good noble. The fact that he was willing to send troops to support us is the best proof."
The corners of Lucas's mouth rose as he continued to show his face around. None of the civilians or merchants that saw him would question whether or not he was actually a noble- in fact, even if they were told that Lucas wasn't a noble, no one would believe it just because of his clothes.
Lucas wasn't going to openly try to rope people in and that was for the best. After all, doing such a thing was basically stealing resources from a city, and even the good-tempered city lords would curse at such an action.
Of course, Sakura City's City Lord wouldn't be able to do anything even if he wanted to. However, Lucas still couldn't try to openly rope people in as doing so would make other city lords vigilant, and they could even restrict the commoners in their territory from being able to leave. Lucas didn't dare to underestimate the nobles in this world and the lengths they would go to in order to protect their own interests.
What Lucas wanted was for Sedona City to covertly attract people from all over the world to come and work there that would truly be a development.
"Young Master, if word gets out about what happened today, everyone will praise you for your virtue." Mina said while walking closely with Lucas.
"I hope so." Lucas said. He actually didn't hold much hope as nobles usually make a lot of moves behind the scenes.
A knight quickly ran towards Lucas and stopped when he was about 7 meters away from Lucas. "Lord Lucas, our City Lord is inviting you to the castle. We have already prepared a feast for you."
"Okay." Lucas said, nodding and smiling lightly. "However, we'll have to go back and clean ourselves first. After all, the smell of sinful blood isn't very nice."
"Understood! I will convey this to the City Lord!" The knight saluted. He then quickly ran away.
"Come on! Let's go back to bring some things to eat or we'll have to go hungry tonight." Lucas said. He couldn't help but shiver when he thought about the food served in this world.
"Mhmm." Mina nodded in agreement.
"Ah? There's good food?" Ayesha asked.
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