"What now? Sir Nicholas?" A man uttered with a soft voice directing the question in front of him.
Many people passed by him, but they didn't even turn their heads when he spoke, as if they did not hear him. They mind their own business and even ignore the people lying on the side street sufferings from famine.
The people walking past them, their pace seemed hurried, as if they were afraid they would miss something if they were slow.
Hearing the question directed at him. Nicholas, who had been walking at a distance of five meters behind the man who followed him, growled, "Just shut the fuck up and follow me."
After knowing that the man he followed got angry, he became meek and silently followed him.
And just like that, two people were walking at the same pace at the same distance, which anyone would find suspicious. However, no one paid them any heed since people had to put their thoughts on their current situations first.
In the Human settlement, a system was created to keep those people who have their purpose and a reason to be invested in, such as labor, making pottery, and having the knowledge of how to make them primitively, etc. The Job which the system stands at its peak was those Hunters!
Considering that their Job was the most difficult one, they were provided mostly with clothing, food, a small home, and everything the Human settlement could accommodate with the best resources they could provide.
To have a better understanding of the current system. Let's take the pyramid as an example. The pyramid had a shape of a triangle, in which at the top side was a peak, while the middle body contained the center, while the bottom couldn't be considered as part of the pyramid, in other words
Just like that, the current situation of the Human settlement could only be described with a single triangular base. The peak was for those Hunters while the bottom was for the useless people. If even the people below who were considered at the bottom of the triangle tried to question their position, they don't have the power to voice it out.
Moreover, if the people residing in the center part of the triangle supported their claim, and since they represented the center, they of course had the power to back it up. Not a literal one but a general one, since they made cloth, cooked the food, made small wooden huts similar to Vincent resides, etc.
However, where and whom could they entrust to someone in supplying the food? To which this Job was for the Hunters? Furthermore, with the little physiques they have, how could they deal the problem of beast invasion that happens every day?
In conclusion, whenever they had the thought to complain and wanted to have the benefit, which the Hunters acquire, they would dismiss that thought at the back of their heads, given the consequence that negative mentality could bring them into.
People who stood at the bottom had no choice but to utilize every use of their bodies, and most of them were girls since they could satisfy every man's desire. Although this idea was rejected by Vincent when Nicholas suggested it since he doesn't want the Hunters under him to get slacked off and just lie on their bed dancing to the woman whose face seems to be forced and have no choice.
But there would still be people who were so devious and tempted the women with the resources they had. The one sole reason women would fall into their temptation was because of food. Some women, when they came to the human settlements, had kids or already suffered from malnutrition, which caused them to be considered useless and positioned at the bottom of the pyramid.
However, some of them didn't plan to yield and accepted this treatment. Since even a kid aged 9-13 dream to have something that the Hunters have, they swore to their parents who was with them, or they made use of their grudge against the hunters when they suffered from them, and they could only think of one way for their dreams to achieve.
It was to reach the Rank 1 of cultivation! It was the only way, given that the leader of the Human settlement, who almost managed everything in this place from his experience that he was once a chief when the world was still peaceful. He announced that for those people to get the same treatment that the hunters have, was to become a cultivator.
And reaching Rank 1 was the only way! After that announcement, many people, especially at the bottom, persevere to reach that stage. Many of them didn't even eat at least once and would only eat if the human settlement provided them with food, and they would not even beg unless their stomach grumbled to the point they would die from their hunger.
Since the food they provided was almost 90% water while 10% grinding meat from the beast from the hunters' provided. Although the hunters felt contempt for the change of behavior of the trash people, they couldn't do anything about it since Rules were still applied for the Human settlement to discipline their people.
The people who resided at the center of the triangle didn't even bother trying to become cultivators, besides the small number who tried and failed. The failure only further amplified that with their own position, it was only enough for them to survive.
Besides, they still waited for God to consider his promise. One such as sending cultivators to support them on the journey of cultivation.
While Nicholas and the man followed him and reached outside the human settlement area, the man who followed him couldn't help but feel anxious and was afraid that some beast lurked and would take this chance to pounce on them.
As while the man had his own concern, Nicholas, who walked with his feet without reaching out to the concerned the man felt, finally stopped before the tree. A man at the highest branch of the crown of a tree stood with his body covered with a black cloak, while his head was covered with a black hood.
Seeing that Nicholas stopped as some kind of domino effect, the man also stopped between his tracks while turning his head upward, and his eyes met the crimson-colored eyes, which caused his heartbeat to palpitate at a faster rate.
The moon shone brightly on the three of them, while the colder breeze slapped them. This caused the leaves, and the black cloak fluttered with the wind.
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