Chapter 17: Dark Canyon

Listening to Lucy, Lucas laughed lightly. And said to her smiling.

"Well, you see Lucy, all the fief that are filled with people are already surrounded my many nobles."

"And now I didn't know which noble is my ally or my enemy. So, how can I choose these fiefs."

"So, I thinking of choosing a place that is with people and far from the nobles."

"And to develop a place without people we need slaves."

"Now do you get it?"

Hearing this Lucy nodded her head to show her understanding Lucas's reason and after thinking for few seconds she asked her another doubt.

"Your highness, you said that you would like to select a place that is far from noble's territory and also without or with very few people."

"But…"

Saying that she looked at the map for a while and continued asking Lucas.

"As you can see your highness, that type of lands is either located at the border or only place that are barren are left out."

"And both these places are filled with risk."

"At border there is risk of invasion form neighboring kingdom and in barren places we can grow crops so risk of food is there."

After saying that she stooped and looked at Lucas face. Lucas looked at Lucy whose expression were saying "So, why are you looking for that type of places?"

"As I already told you, I want a place far away from nobles' territory and away from other princes' influence."

"As for the place you have shown, I have no interest in settling in that kind of places."

"I'm looking for the place that suits my requirement and also help me further into building stronger kingdom."

After saying that he started looking at the map again. Although Lucy understood the requirements of Lucas, she wasn't able to understand where he could get this kind of place.

After that they started talking about the situations inside the kingdom and also matters about the Nobles.

And time went by, few hours went by, it was lunch time. They stopped the discussion and Lucy went to prepare lunch and Lucas sat there in the study room and started going through all the information given by Lucy. And he started writing the important matters in the paper.

While writing in the paper Lucas thought to himself.

"The quality of the paper is really bad. After I settle down, I have to build the paper manufacture factory and improve its quality."

Well, what could we say as it was just as before medieval period on Earth were paper were build of animal skin or made up of large watered down bark of a tree.

The paper Luca was using was made up of tree barks, it was very thick and yellowish in color. The cost of the paper was high so only rich nobles were able to buy them.

And because of the poor manufacturing it would rot away quickly. So, for to preserve the important data or information they would add a solution on the papers, which would slow down the decaying, but because of this solution it would give off weird smell.

Ignoring the weird smell Lucas started writing the information in the paper. After done with the writing Lucas came before the map and started looking a place very closely.

The name of the place is Dark Canyon home of pale skin Barbarians.