In the real world, Oberon's words left people even more astonished. They had never expected Fairy Queen Morgan to be like this in the Land of Fairies. It was far too unexpected.
They had originally assumed Morgan was merely aloof and cold, the natural bearing of a supreme ruler. Yet beneath that outward coldness, she had apparently imposed such tyranny upon the Land of Fairies.
"WTF? An existence tax? It absorbs the fairies' life force? That's way too much! What kind of ridiculous tax is that?"
"No wonder it's a Land of Fairies called Britannia. It really has the flavor of Holy Britannia—nothing is inevitable except death and taxes, huh?"
"Other people paid taxes with money. Here, they paid with their lives. That's just insane."
"To be fair, that's true."
"What a cruel Fairy Queen. What a cruel Land of Fairies!"
"Oh, give it a rest! Humanity did this sort of thing long ago, and in some cases, something even worse."
"Yeah, yeah. Are you seriously underestimating how much the upper classes in ancient human societies oppressed the lower classes? Leaving everything else aside, head taxes existed in both East and West. Plenty of countries still had them even in modern times—they just went by different names."
"That's right. In ancient times, head taxes were a vicious tool for effectively limiting population growth. They could even lead to siblings sharing one name, all to evade the head tax."
"How do you think unregistered households came about?"
"Even if you say that, ancient taxes were still paid in money, weren't they? Who collected lives directly?"
"Hahaha~ The person above is clearly way too naive. They have no idea what taxation represented in ancient times."
"Right. We were only talking about head taxes just now, but there were all kinds of exorbitant