Cultivation Villages

The **Cultivation Villages** is a collection of seven villages in Hartner Duchy, populated by refugees from Sauron Duchy, and established by Belton Hartner under the pretense of cultivation. The villages were a focal point of a dastardly conspiracy and feud for succession by the Hartner Brothers, Belton and Lucas.

## Known places

Seventh Cultivation Village

The most populated of the seven, with a population around three hundred it could be considered between small and meduim villae in Lambda, half of its residents were humans while the other half were from other races, the houses were all one-story buildings, known places and their occupants:
**General store/bar/Adventurers' Guild Branch and inn**: Known as the jack-of-all-trades store
Unnamed shopkeeper
Lina: Adventurers' Guild worker
**Small srhine of Alda**: Made in thanks to the Alda's priest that used to visit the village
Chief house
Chief: A man who looked like several years had passed since he was in the primes of his life
Ivan's house
Ivan: A villager whose live was saved by Vandalieu
Unnamed wife: pregnant
Unnamed child
Sixth Cultivation Village
Fifth Cultivation Village
Fourth Cultivation Village
Third Cultivation Village
Second Cultivation Village
First Cultvation Village
Abandoned after they couldn't make any profits due to the lack of water they suffered. After this its inhabitants were sent into the slave mine in secret.[?]
## Background

Trying to escape being caught up in the middle of the conflict with the Amid Empire, some inhabitants of Sauron Duchy fled to Hartner Duchy, where they settled down in the cities. However, they were considered to be the primary cause of public disorder in the duchy, and were thus relocated by Belton Hartner.

In order to strengthen the duchy's defenses against the Amid Empire, Belton Hartner started a land reclamation project in remote regions of the duchy, where he sent the refugees under the pretense of cultivation. These settlements would grow to become the **Cultivation Villages**. Inhabitants who failed, were to be sent to slave mines. This was to squeeze out the rest of the dwindling supply of metal, while enacting policies to maintain forts and strengthen garrisons. However, Lucas opposed his brother's project and sought to sabotage the villages.

Although the plan was to simply leave the refugees to fend for themselves, Belton's cultivation project was going unexpectedly well. Only one of the seven cultivation villages had been abandoned, and though there were differences in prosperity between the other six villages, it seemed that they would last for at least five more years. The residents of the collapsed village were enslaved and sent to a slave mine, where the titan refugees were found.

After the Hartner family succession struggle was settled with Lucas's victory, Pablo Marton, the head of the Red Wolf Knights' Order, failed to properly inform his subordinates that he called off the operation against the cultivation villages, and Karcan Lassen, impatient for credit, went out of control, disguised his squires as bandits, and attacked the villages.

The squires' attack was repulsed by Vandalieu, but Lucas, who believed that unidentified rebel militants hid in the cultivated villages, sent the Red Wolf Knights' Order led by Pablo to the village. Vandalieu and the villagers fought them off as well, but they could no longer stay in the Hartner Duchy.

Currently, the villages have been abandoned and its residents have relocated to Talosheim.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 73: *Scum approaching from afar and a scoundrel lurking nearby* (LightnovelBastion)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 69: *Making a decision with someone’s life in the first village* (LightnovelBastion)
3. ↑ Chapter 83: *The difference between making requests and making a selection* (LightnovelBastion)
4. ↑ Chapter 90: *Let’s go, you sorry bastards!* (LightnovelBastion)
5. ↑ Chapter 92: *The troops led by a herbivorous man vs the Red Wolf Knights' Order* (LightnovelBastion)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 93: *The Monster who won’t give up* (LightnovelBastion)