You and me under the world tree

However, the attitude of these 'humans' towards the outsiders from Midgard is obviously strange.

Of course, since they are unfamiliar, there is no "enthusiasm" to speak of.

To them, these seem to be just jobs that have to be done.

"Must it be put off until tomorrow?"

With complicated emotions, Hodder couldn't help asking.

On the one hand, it was because he wanted to inquire about Gloria's whereabouts, and on the other hand, he wanted to test the attitude of the receptionist in front of him.

"If nothing else happened, yes, Lord Gloria left in a hurry and didn't tell us when she would come back."

"If she doesn't come back for a few days, is this matter just dragging on?"

"It is true that we have no right to participate in matters of house and land."

Then, Hodder found himself in an inexplicable endless loop.

First of all, when buying a house, you need to consult Gloria, who is the lord of the city.

This is actually nothing. After all, the real estate matter has already involved the land issue. As the lord of the city, Gloria does have a reason to get involved.

But the question is, once the city lord leaves, will this 'power' be put on hold?

"Is there really no one to work?"

"This matter is not within our jurisdiction. We are only responsible for answering doubts, sir."

The woman's face remained unchanged, and even in the face of the sarcasm deliberately shown by Hodder, she did not show any extra attitude.

At the same time, Hodder also intends to increase the heat.

"Really, I thought the city lord here was very wise, but he couldn't even handle these small things."

He controlled his volume and didn't let his voice spread out.

After all, he didn't want to screw this up.

However, this complaint was just right for the woman in front of him to hear.

And the moment the voice fell, he narrowed his eyes.

This woman's attitude and performance can reflect Gloria's attitude towards the fragile race of 'humanity' to a certain extent.

So how will this human female behave now?

Is it fear?

disturbed?

still is……

"You are so brave."

In front of Hodder, the woman directly staged a high-quality face-changing.

She became angry.

"How can you question that lord."

This anger is not born of fear.

Howard can easily judge this.

The anger that this woman displays comes from something deep inside her.

She has a good relationship with Gloria?

Or is she worshiping Gloria as a human being?

Although Huo De still doesn't know this, based on the attitude of this woman, he can almost conclude that this woman is doing well.

Although emotions are linked to memory, purely magical forgery cannot completely affect emotions.

Howard has a deep understanding of this point.

"What about doubts? Now my request has not been met."

Just narrowing his eyes, Huo De said coldly.

"I still have a lot of things to do next, I can't spend much time on this kind of thing."

"Then you don't have to spend it."

The human receptionist responded with the same icy demeanor.

"I think you may have made a mistake. The City of Ash has never lacked enthusiastic settlers. Even newly built houses have a large number of orders, and you are not lacking."

If it was purely 'business', then the words spoken by the human woman serving as a service personnel could be regarded as dereliction of duty to some extent.

However, the superficial status of the two parties is not on the same level.

Hodder is now just a traveling human adventurer, and although the woman is also human, she represents the city lord Gloria.

"It is not so easy to settle in this city for a long time. This city belongs to Lord Gloria. Of course, only those who pass her test can settle here."

"So that's how it is..."

Without continuing to argue, Hodder just whispered.

In front of that woman, he just put on a distressed attitude.

"Obviously just want to buy a house, why are there so many things? Could it be possible that there will be spies from outside?"

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What is Gloria's attitude towards human beings?

Hodder now has a little clue.

Although he didn't know the specific attitude of the city lord of the Ash City, at least it seemed that there was no malice now.

At least she wasn't a woman who would abuse her human servants.

Well, servant.

This is Hodder's orientation to the human receptionist in front of him.

At least he didn't think she was a free agent.

Because now, in this Jotunheim, being free actually means taking great risks.

Except for the powerful wizards themselves, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive in such a dangerous environment.

Let alone a decent job.

In fact, if you really want to talk about personal ability and positioning, human beings themselves are not even qualified to be servants of giants.

The difference in body shape determines the difference in living habits, and even if they can communicate, there are very few things they can do.

In this respect, it is a miracle to some extent that the tears of ordinary people in Jotunheim can survive.

If you can't be a servant, maybe you can only be a raised pet.

However, judging by her angry attitude, this woman should be living a good life.

And from this point of view, no matter what, at least Gloria would not directly beat her 'human pet' to death like Utgard did.

after all.Creatures' fear of 'death' and 'pain' is deeply rooted in their bones.

Because of the limitation of magic, the humans in Jotunheim may not die, but they will still feel pain.

After all, if there is no pain, the so-called 'punishment' itself has no meaning of existence.

However, for Hodder, these are not enough.

If it is said that at the beginning, his purpose was indeed just to test Gloria's attitude.

But now he'd heard some surprising topics, so of course he had to go on.

"It's really annoying."

He complained like this, and also mentioned some sensitive topics intentionally or unintentionally.

However, no one suspected that there was anything unusual about him.

At least not the female receptionist he was facing.

Huo De could see a trace of disgust from her face, probably regarded him as some kind of blunt idiot.

After all, that's what he's done before.

But he didn't care about that, what was important was what information the angry woman could reveal.

So while he was showing impotence and rage, he also paid attention to him.

But what surprised him a little was the self-cultivation shown by this woman.

After experiencing the initial anger as if her faith had been insulted, the woman quickly calmed down.

This kind of psychological quality also made Hodder amazed.

"I do not know."

she said coldly.

It's just that, because of Hodder's obviously outrageous nonsense before, it's impossible for her to continue to treat her with a kind attitude.

"There are some things that people like me can't ask about, and of course people like you shouldn't know. Since you want to live in this city, you have to abide by the rules set by Lord Gloria."

Because this city belongs to the giantess Gloria, if you want to live here, you have to abide by her rules.

It sounds like this is true, but at this moment, Huo De is more concerned about the attitude and performance of this woman herself.

She doesn't have any dissatisfaction, and even takes the initiative to defend her 'hostess', treating her as a god... Well, for fragile humans, the giant itself is no different from a god.

"There is still such an existence."

Quietly, he whispered so.

Although he already understood the somewhat distorted relationship between humans and giants in Jotunheim, he could feel the troubles in it when he divided it into details.

After all, not everyone is like Utgard, who will kill the human beings they raised because of a little thing, and then resurrect them.

And the most basic demands of living things are actually something like this:

Food, clothing and housing.

If all of these are satisfied and they are living a particularly good life, do they still care about the so-called 'freedom'?

Thinking of this, Hodder even thought of a joke in modern society.

Assuming that one day, supernatural powers or aliens come to the world to enslave the whole world, but if the life they promise is far better than now, what kind of choice will people make?

Hodder didn't know this, his busy mind never even thought about it.

But now, that once absurd topic was already in front of him.

"This is a choice made by some people..."

Gently clenched his fist, Hodder whispered.

The voice quickly dissipated, and Hodder didn't even let the woman notice the change in his own mood and expression.

"Then how do I meet the City Lord?"

After quickly adjusting his tone, he spoke.

He controlled his tone as much as possible, looking like a young man who spoke out loud but had to give in in the end.

"Property acquisition is very important to me."

How important is it?

There's no need to say this, it's important anyway, that's what he said himself.