"That happened over thirty years ago. Windmill Town used to be wonderfully peaceful, and it wasn't even called Windmill Town back then. But suddenly, a wealthy merchant came along and bought up the land on the west side. He built Windmill Ranch there and hired the townsfolk to farm for him. Now, this merchant devised all sorts of exploitative schemes. The townsfolk couldn't bear the crushing pressure, so they chose to resign and make a living off Falling Star Forest instead."
Listening to Will's earnest narration, Fangsheng frowned. Surely it wasn't going to be such a clichéd story?
"No matter how vast Falling Star Forest is, it couldn't sustain the dual hunting pressure from Carlisle City and Windmill Town. So Count Buster, who was only twenty years old at the time, enacted certain laws regulating hunting seasons and quotas. These laws made life difficult for the people of Windmill Town, yet even then, the townsfolk still had no intention of dealing with that merchant. Instead, they chose to reclaim wasteland on the east side of the town to grow crops..."
Chapter 65