Land belonged to the lords—every inch of it. Therefore, the world belonged to the noble lords.
So when nobles from another world arrived and sought to seize a stretch of land to secure their survival, it meant declaring war on the nobles of this world. It was plunder, shameless theft, the occupation of land that belonged to this world's nobles.
Naturally, this would bring endless trouble.
Xenophobia—outsiders would plunder resources that belonged to the Natives. There was nothing unusual about that.
If Nostria did not have such a large population, or if its people were like those of Nidhogg—an otherworldly society without nobles, where only enslavement existed—then it would not have been too great a problem. At most, it would have placed enormous pressure on Ryan's livelihood policies.
But with nobles involved, everything was different.
In particular, there were no small number of nobles in Nostria's Holy Flame Empire. Ryan did not have the ability to make every noble on the Norris Continent recognize them and agree to let them occupy The Wilds. Likewise, he could not strip every noble in the Holy Flame Empire of their titles.
Yet he also did not want a brutal war over land to erupt. After all, the population base was Ryan's most important source of confidence.
Conflict was bound to arise. It was an indispensable part of the "exchange" between two similar civilizations. Some would vanish into history, while others would rise amid chaos. What Ryan wanted to control was the extent of it, allowing everything to begin and end peacefully.
At the same time, this was the first time Ryan had felt the pressure of land so intensely.
The problem that had emerged in the Florian Empire decades ago had now become an obstacle in Ryan's path as well.
During this process,