"Mm, I understood a little, and I didn't understand a little." Lilim shook her little head, her folded ears flopping back and forth.
"So, in a way, we've gotten weaker."
"And Yuffie secretly got stronger, while everyone else got stronger too."
"I understood the food problem. We've solved the immediate crisis, but we still need to farm in the long term, right?"
Lynn nodded. "More or less. That's the idea."
He walked to the doorway and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel. "The elves cultivate all kinds of crops and improve them so that people in different regions can all have enough food to eat."
"That led to a population boom."
"But they still couldn't escape the Cyclical Law, and the world began to wage war."
"The Northern Continent originally belonged to the orcs. Back then, humans only occupied its southern tip."
"The spring wheat improved by the elves let the orcs sow a batch of seeds and get a steady supply of wheat in winter. The yield was small, and they didn't know how to farm, but it was still much better than their former life of hunting."
"That caused their population to grow."
"So the orcs moved south into the Central Lands, burning, killing, and looting wherever they went."
"Later, seafaring technology made a bit of a recovery. They used magic to propel ships, and only then did the First Empire conquer the southernmost part of the Northern Continent. They relied on the mountains to build military camps, and used a kind of building magic that had since been lost to construct the Great Wall. That was what finally stopped the orcs from moving south."
"At the same time, humans also acquired spring wheat, and successfully turned the Northern Continent into their territory."
"As for