It took an hour for them to walk to the fields. It is not that far, but on their way, they stopped many times and the minotaurs carried on with their pillaging and capturing the people. They also inspected every house to make sure that it really is empty without anyone.
After all the humans gathered at the field, there is one minatour standing before everyone.
He is a bit different from the rest of his kind as he has red skin and he is a bit bulkier. He seems to be the leader of this bunch of minotaurs.
As for why it is simple. Generally, normal Minotaurs will have Pale green skin and they have a constitution that is good for brute-forcing and smashing everything. But that doesn't mean, they don't awaken any elements, but it is extremely rare and that would be dependent right from birth.
Even the element can be identified easily as their skin would change colors.
The minotaur standing in front of them is one of them and he awakened fire element.
Minotaurs are a bunch of muscleheads and whoever strong can speak up.
"Humans, now you are all property of our Minotaurs and you shall work for us.
You are weak and you have to earn your keep your lives safe. Since you guys didn't cause extra trouble, I will give you a chance. You can choose between farming and mining but you have to give your answer in an hour.
Think carefully, if anyone tries to escape, you will be killed and made into fertilizer."
The Red minotaur gave his imposing speech and left. The rest of the minotaurs are looking at the people greedily. Actually, they are looking at the remaining women. Sam could only shake his head.
Humans really do seem like some good sexual objects. Even in Naga Loka, they are crazy over the humans both male and female.
He doesn't know how the views of sexual intercourse of these minotaurs are, but if it is as liberal as the Nagas and if they are also as open as them to sex, then soon the female minotaurs will also come and try to take a pick.
After an hour, the Red Minotaur also came and asked to pick the profession. To the surprise of the group, half of them chose mines.
But Sam and his group decisively took farming. From what Sam learned they farm a type of wheat in this area. Even though he doesn't know too much information, he figured it couldn't be more different than the wheat that was grown on modern earth. The most difference it could have might be the size and growth rate.
As for why many chose to be miners, he doesn't know, they have to learn it later.
After picking the occupation, then started another tussle in the group, the minotaurs started picking the women and the men they are married to or born to are all trying their best to beg the minotaurs to let go of their woman.
"Every family that wants to keep their woman to themselves must cultivate an extra acre of the field for every woman. If you fail to deliver the required quota of wheat by harvest, then not only will we kill you, your women will be turned into whores."
The red minotaur once again spoke, but the people are at least relieved a bit as they at least have a chance.
After this farce is over, the land is divided. Each person, man or woman as long as they are older than fifteen, they have to cultivate an acre of land by themselves.
They don't have any leeway. Now according to the new rule, the family that has kept their women has to cultivate extra acres of land.
As everyone is being assigned their land, Sam looked around and noticed something. Not many people are wearing spatial rings in this place.
Even though there are some humans wearing them, one look anyone could tell, the space is not large.
The minotaurs finally left the fields after they assigned the fields. They should start their work right now and they would be assigned a residence later that night after their work was done.
After they left, Sam and their group finally started spreading out to talk with the rest of the farmers.
When they introduced themselves, they just told their original names, but they didn't say there are not from here, they just said they are the villagers from the Dhaka village that was sacked a few days ago and escaped this way, but to their bad luck they are stuck here.
They explained that they don't have any farming tools left and no seeds and fertilizer to cultivate the land.
The villagers are welcoming to them. After all, they are all in the same boat of suffering, so they didn't shun them off.
They arranged a set of farming tools since half of the villagers went to become miners, their tools are all left here, so Sam and his group didn't have a lack of tools, as for seeds every group gave little of their own and after combining them all, they all got a share.
Sam offered to buy them, but the farmers rejected and acted friendly.
He just offered them a favor and said that he would help them out if they want to and left.
There is one thing left to obtain and that is fertilizer. When they asked about it, they only shook their head and said that it would come when it should.
They made some small talk to reveal as much information as they can.
After regrouping they shared the information they got and compiled it.
Currently, they are in a village named Prana. It was formerly a village under dwarves but now sacked by minotaurs.
The dwarves have four tribes in total and four of them have divided the entire dwarven territory into four parts. In the middle of these four lands, there is a large city. The City of the council.
This the place where the Dwarven elders stay. There is an elder council that acts as a parliament and rules the dwarves.
They don't have a single king.
The minotaurs are different though. They have a king and they only have a single territory under a single rule.
As for the orcs, they didn't know anything.
What they did know is that minotaurs and dwarves are on a verge of breaking out into war and these attacks on the villages are part of it.
Sam had a headache. He didn't think that he would arrive at a situation like this. They were directly dropped in the middle of a race war.
Even though they knew that there are occasional skirmishes, it has been centuries since one race managed to invade another race this deep into their territory.
As they were thinking, the rest of the farmers already started working. The fields that are already leveled and ready to be plowed are being plowed and the fields that are not leveled yet are being leveled.
But one thing that surprised the group of six is that there is no livestock to plow the field. The farmers are plowing it with their own hands and some of them even have large wooden plows and started dragging them over their fields to till the land like livestock themselves.
The six of them exchanged a look of helplessness. They can't do anything for now. The Red minotaur has a cultivation level of a Nascent and in the current situation, their strength is nowhere near that. They can deal with some great realm cultivators. But they cannot deal with Nascent stage cultivators without and spiritual energy.
They have to wait at least three days before they could escape.
They examined the land and noticed that it is extremely hard. It would be hard to till the land with brute force alone and after observing the farmers, they noticed that they are using their spiritual energy to till the land.
Now only they understood why they needed cultivators to just farm the land. They also learned earlier that the land is extremely fertile and the crop could be harvested two months after planting and even if it is not as fertile the crop would still mature in two and a half months.
Even though the rest of the team members didn't feel anything, Sam was clearly surprised. Because, after coming to this world, this is the first time he came into direct contact with the farming and he didn't expect the regular crops could be this magical here.
Just two and a half months means they can at least have five harvests a year. This is simply great.
All six of them looking into the horizon and sighed as they went on to start working. They knew their current situation. All they can do is work for now and don't gather too much attention and wait for another three to four days.
After all, they didn't have any expectations coming here. All they wanted was a new experience and being a powerless person after gaining so much power can also be considered a new experience.
