Otaku Witch

"We've arrived, it should be here, though I haven't been here for a long time."

The group of people arrived at the entrance of a remote village. Yagyū Jubei pointed at an old-looking house at the village entrance, speaking somewhat uncertainly.

Beside him, Wenwen was holding a camera, recording the appearance of this village. While filming, the Black Feather Witch couldn't help but criticize.

"They're really poor friends. This village looks like it struggles with basic needs, and yet you have the nerve to come and borrow money."

Wenwen was truly puzzled about why these Japanese Witches lived such miserable lives. After all, they are witches.

As a reporter, she considered herself well-traveled, but she found that the average living standard of witches on Japan was the lowest she had ever seen.

In the outside world, no matter how poor the witches are, they are assured of food and clothing. Even if they can't afford a private Sky Island, acquiring a small individual house in those large residential areas isn't difficult.

As for food, witches don't need to eat; eating is just a enjoyment of taste, not a necessity. Moreover, in the Witch World, ordinary food is so cheap that mortals can't imagine it. After all, the grain that mortals need to farm for half a year can be matured with a simple spell by a witch specializing in agriculture.

The truly expensive things are those spiritual ingredients containing magic power. Long-term consumption of these spiritual ingredients helps in little witches' magic power growth. However, low-rank spiritual ingredients are not so expensive as to be unaffordable. Even for relatively poor witch families, eating them at every meal might be unaffordable, but having them once every two or three days isn't difficult.

In short, even the poorest witches outside live lives comparable to those of mortal nobility, and even the nobility may not match them.

But, look at the witches on Japan...

Sigh, even mortals would despise these shabby little wooden houses, let alone witches. Clearly possessing superhuman strength, yet living worse than mortals. Where did it all go wrong?

"Tsk, even without money, witches could easily build a cute little house with their power. It's just a spell, so why live so frugally?"

Wenwen couldn't help but whisper such complaints.

Dorothy's gaze swept across the village, not particularly surprised by the situation.

"Sigh, this is what happens when there's too many monks and too little gruel."

She sighed, saying.

Japan isn't large, overall it's just the size of a medium Witch Territory, but the tiny place has a very dense population.

Sophia had shown her the population statistics of Japan; this little place has a population of 2 billion, which is ridiculous.

To know that the total population of the entire Witch World is only over 500 billion, but the territory of the Witch World is billions of times larger than Japan.

Witches are spread throughout the vast Witch World, leading to sparsely populated areas, which gives the Council of Sages quite a headache.

After all, the witches' expansions never cease, and the Witch World's territory keeps expanding. In contrast, the relatively low birth rate of witches can't keep up with the speed of territorial expansion, coupled with the high death rate due to wars...

The Council of Sages often worries about large tracts of land becoming desolate due to lack of management, and various campaigns to promote marriage and childbirth on the Magic Network never cease.

But Japan and the Myriad Realms are two extremes.

Japan has always been closed off, not allowing outside people in nor local people out.

Yet witches are an Eternal Life Species, with even the most ordinary witch having a lifespan of a thousand years, but their fertility is not low.

Strong witches might find it hard to have offspring, but ordinary witches' fertility isn't much less than that of mortals. Even if childbirth leads to permanent decreases in the magic power of both witch partners, ordinary witches don't care about this. Anyway, no matter how hard they try, they won't achieve the status of Great Witch, so they might as well have more children for a chance at a genius mutation.

The weaker they are, the more they can reproduce.

Thus the outcome is predictable. Even if Japan has a land area the size of two or three Earths, this would be enormous for mortals, but too small for witches.

Normally, the resident witch population of a medium-sized Witch Territory like Japan should not exceed 1 million, but now, Japan clearly exceeds this limit.

The limited land resources on the island cannot sustain so many witches, and more troublesome is the rigid social structure of Japan.

Most of the land on the island belongs to the Chinese Clan of only about a few hundred thousand people.

Therefore, ordinary Japanese witches can forget about living comfortably. They even have to rely on serving the Chinese Clan Patriarchs to barely obtain scant resources.

This is basically no different from slavery.

Witches indeed wield superhuman strength and have strong productivity, but prolific productivity and individual living standard never necessarily correlate positively.