Cities, Towns, and the Fun of Fairies and Mages

Northwind City, Cold Mountain City, and Golden Ear City could accommodate over two hundred thousand people, but the pressure would still be considerable.

Therefore, Ryan also planned to establish several small towns in Northwind Province, each housing one or two thousand people and scattered across key locations throughout the province.

The final and most important group would remain around Zero Crossing City.

This whole series of matters was extremely important.

It was not merely about settling Miklagard's population. Those two hundred thousand people belonged to Ryan. Wherever his people were, that was where his territory lay.

However, this was clearly unreasonable. Northwind City was nominally under his jurisdiction now, but that city would forever belong to His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire. Cold Mountain City and Golden Ear City were both county cities of Northwind Province. It could be said that, in the entire province, only the former Zero Crossing City had been Viscount Miles's fief. The other county cities were all part of the Empire's authority.

By settling over two hundred thousand people among them, Ryan would ensure that, once the numbers were spread out, even in Northwind City, the local Natives would be fewer than the incoming people of Miklagard. If Ryan did not wish to let go, he would have to send people to govern those three cities.

From any perspective, this Baron of the Frozen Earth had overstepped his bounds.

Especially those towns—they were a genuine act of claiming land and occupying it, with no room for outsiders to interfere.

There was only one thing Ryan could handle: the nobles of Northwind Province.

At least until Marquis of Northwind grew up and began inheriting power, Ryan only needed to placate the nobles of Northwind Province and make everyone keep silent about the matter.

"You want