Jasmine had agreed with Isaac to come to the rescue of the freemen who might have been affected by the blizzard, but naturally, it wasn't entirely out of unconditional charity; she also had her own purposes for the development of her territory.
Along with the rapid development of the Black Dragon territory, its fatal flaw was also gradually exposed, which was that the population was too meager compared to the land area.
In this era, if a territory wanted to increase its population and strength, besides encouraging the local citizens to bear children, the fastest method was to take in exiled freemen flooding in from the outside and to buy slaves.
However, the Black Dragon territory, aside from the Kobold tribe living in the forest, had no other human natives. With such a vast domain, the largest labor force consisted of the three hundred slaves she had taken in all at once when taking over the territory from someone else.
