The Exiled Noble Rises as the Holy King: Befriending Fluffy Beasts and a Holy Maiden with My Ultimate Cheat Skill! Volume 2 [Complete] by Yu Okano

Author:Yu Okano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4: Reclaiming the Ghost Town

“Well, what do we want to do now? I guess this place would make a decent base for the time being. It’s better than the middle of the Purgatory Forest, at least,” I mused as I surveyed the ghost town in front of us.

“Woof woof! (I hardly expected we’d be granted this place!)” said Mataza happily. I could understand why; he had high hopes for the immediate future.

Beside him, Liber said merrily, “Woof woof, woof! (We’ll be starting from scratch, but this is a fine place, close to the city!)”

Yes, we’d been granted the village of Asyl. By whom? The city council of Midrogue, of course. To be more precise, the city council had decided to lend us a long-term exclusive right to use the land, but Katarina had devised the technical legal formalities in our favor as best she could, so there was no point in dwelling on it. She’d told me her intent was to eventually amend it so that the area would be completely transferred to me, so I’d just have to trust her on that. If it didn’t work out, then so be it. We could just withdraw to the forest if need be, so we had nothing to lose.

When I’d been a noble, the prospect of having nothing was terrifying. But it actually felt quite alleviating to have total freedom this way.

“Meow.” As if she knew what I was thinking, the feline monster Cath, the most free animal in the world, meowed at me.

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“We should start by demolishing all the dilapidated houses. Let’s do our best, guys,” I said in front of the buildings.

The kobolds all gave a howl of “Woof!” and got to work. Their behavior was confident, a far cry from the kobold pack that had lived fearfully in the forest not too long ago. Mataza and Liber gave precise instructions, and the crumbling houses were dismantled bit by bit.

One might wonder if it was really all right for us to do this. This village had been deserted for ages now, but someone might still own the houses or other buildings, so we shouldn’t have touched them. But Asyl was where Glydel had produced droves of skeletons, and it had been abandoned for a long time. Therefore, there was nobody who could claim to hold rights to the area. No human would willingly live in a place where tons of undead had shown up. The location was also very remote and had no special commodities. By all measures, the land was completely useless.

Even so, people used to live there. There were good spots for water wells and farming, and the forest was bountiful. It was a relatively decent land, but the fact that nobody had decided to move back in showed that the place was unwanted. It was still under Midrogue’s jurisdiction, so you would need the city’s permission to use it, which the city council had voted to grant us. Thus we could have some peace of mind about demolishing everything.

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