Chapter 23: A Long History, Ranked Ninth In The Continent
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Was ng Lei rich?
No, not really!
As of now, his total assets ca up to only 2,306 gold coins, as well as the 5,000 gold coins per year scholarship grant that hadn’t entered his pocket yet!
Although this bit of assets naturally couldn’t compare to the nobility and the filthy rich rchants, it was still far better than the commoner class that struggled to feed themselves.
This wasn’t the point, however!
The point was that money ca to him fairly easily because he could pick it up at any ti, anywhere!
ng Lei had been picking up dropped items the whole ti ever since he had arrived in the capital city. Gold coins, stats light balls, spells... In fact, he had even picked up... A grand total of three battle skills!
Additionally, the more crowded a place was, the more dropped items there would be!
As the capital of Fire Dragon Kingdom, what the capital city lacked the least was people, especially when the term was beginning for each of the major academies during this recent period. As such, a large number of people had entered the capital city!
With people around, things would naturally drop!
Naturally, this went to ng Lei’s benefit!
And wasn’t that so? Because it hadn’t even been a day since he had arrived in the capital city, yet his pockets were already overflowing from the number of items he had picked up, and all of his various stats had undergone a trendous change!
Host: ng Lei
Race: Human
Wealth: 2,306 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Third-Grade Warrior (502/1,000)
Spirit: Second-Grade Magician (213/500)
Magic Power: First-Grade Magician (199/200)
Others: So increase
The number of gold coins he possessed had doubled and a little more!
His body was comparable to a Third-Grade Warrior’s!
His spiritual power had entered the ranks of a Second-Grade Magician’s!
His magic power lacked only 1 point to beco comparable to a Second-Grade Magician’s!
There were even quite a few more spells in his repertoire now, too!
As for battle skills... He had picked up three of them for so reason!
Tsk, tsk, the capital city certainly lives up to its na as the place where billionaires and experts congregate. It hasn’t even been a day, and I’ve already picked up this much. Can you imagine how it’ll be like in the future?
The capital city... I’ve certainly made the right choice in coming here!
ng Lei was very satisfied with his rewards today, and he believed that there would only be more and more rewards in the future!
Therefore, could he use so of his gold coins to help two of his companions out financially, so that they could attend school here?
ng Lei secretly mused over this. As long as Joseph and Andrew were a little more diligent and beca Trainee Warriors within the first year, they would beco able to easily earn money at that point.
After that, they would be able to support themselves and successfully finish their studies. By the ti they successfully graduated, no matter how poorly they did, they would also have beco Fourth-Grade Warriors.
How could the riches that Fourth-Grade Warriors could create possibly be just 200 gold coins? There was no need to worry that they couldn’t pay him back!
In other words, as long as I loan out 200 gold coins, I can change two of my companions’ lives. That’s a pretty good deal!
However, when they heard ng Lei’s thoughts, a huge jolt went through Hudders, Jonah, Joseph, and Andrew. All of them thought that they had misheard!
“ng Lei, you’re not joking with us, are you?”
Hudders looked closely at ng Lei and said, “I know that you have a scholarship grant of 5,000 gold coins per year, but magic cultivation has much higher expenses than Warriors’. The 5,000 gold coins grant may not even be enough for you to buy magic potions and magic materials!”
“Captain Hudders, you don’t need to say any more. I know what I’m doing!”
ng Lei waved and looked at Joseph and Andrew. He said, “I’m also very poor, so I can only help you out financially for a year. You’ll have to depend on yourselves after the first year!
“If the two of you can beco Trainee Warriors within a year, everything is still open for discussion!”
“Big Brother ng Lei...”
Terribly touched, Joseph and Andrew burst into loud sobs. They couldn’t take the roller-coaster of events anymore!
“What are you crying for? Keep ng Lei’s words in mind well. After you enter the academy, cultivate properly and strive to beco Trainee Warriors within a year...”
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With ng Lei’s help, Joseph and Andrew successfully enrolled in warrior academies.
Although it was just an ordinary mid-range warrior academy, it was still enough to make Joseph and Andrew beyond touched. They promised right there and then that they would study properly from now on, and repay ng Lei properly in the future!
During the next two days, the group of five had fun in the capital city and went sight-seeing. At the sa ti that ng Lei picked up a large number of dropped items, he was also bedazzled by the capital city’s prosperity and extravagance!
He had initially thought that this world was very behind tis and primitive because technology hadn’t developed here, but he was wrong!
Dragon God Empire’s civilization had tens of thousands of years of history. Although the main trend was the passing down of one’s personal battle strength, as well as the developnt and innovation of Battle Aura and magic, as an endless amount of ti passed, a lot of derivatives had also developed.
Out of which, the most common was... Magic devices!
Poor commoners at the bottommost tier of social hierarchy naturally wouldn’t be able to co into contact with magic devices. However, these products of magic civilization had reached deeply into many upper society families. For example:
Storage magic devices such as spatial rings, spatial bangles, spatial belts, and so on!
Offensive magic devices such as magic cannons, magic guns, magic puppets, and so on!
Lifestyle magic devices such as magic lamps, magic carriages, magic carpets, and so on!
There was a dazzling array of products!
An endless number of products!
This was totally different from the style of civilization on Earth. While being a huge eye-opener for ng Lei, it also provided him with a clearer understanding of this world at the sa ti.
But of course, what he felt the deepest was still a saying from his past life. “at and wine go to waste in the portals of the rich, while the frozen bones of the dead lie out on the road!”
This world had extrely serious social stratifications. The small group of people standing at the top of society hoarded an overwhelming majority of society’s resources and reveled in indulgence while enjoying life without restraint!
Conversely, more than 90% of the poor masses could only struggle at the bottom tiers of society, suffering to the fullest extent the upper class’ exploitation and oppression, dragging out their sad existences, and drifting about holess and miserable.
After he got an understanding of all of these, ng Lei, however, didn’t develop the great ambition of destroying the ruling class and liberating the toiling masses. The only thing that ca to his mind was to continue to cowardly mature so that he could escape the exploited tier of people in the end and live on in a better and more enjoyable manner!
Of course, should he really beco so strong as to possess the power to overthrow this world in the future, ng Lei didn’t mind changing the world and cleansing the tis, and return a beautiful world to Heaven’s Vault Continent!
...
Two days of free ti passed in the blink of an eye. The term finally began at Fire Dragon Magic Academy. ng Lei bade farewell to Hudders and the others and arrived at the Fire Dragon Magic Academy.
As the best magic academy in Fire Dragon Kingdom, Fire Dragon Magic Academy had a founding history of over 20,000 years. While it was already impossible to determine when exactly the school was founded, there were files that explicitly recorded that the earliest classes had been held 20,000 years ago!
In the 20,000 years that ca after, Fire Dragon Magic Academy had received trendous support from Fire Dragon Kingdom and Dragon God Empire. It had developed rapidly and beco one of Heaven’s Vault Continent’s oldest magic academies.
Over the course of these long 20,000 years, Fire Dragon Magic Academy had produced innurable Master Magicians and expert magic craftsn, and also grood a large number of Saint Domain experts, royalty, and nobility.
Out of which, there were 37 Fire Dragon Kingdom kings and 1,169 Saint Domain experts!
Fire Dragon Magic Academy ranked third among more than 20 magic academies in Dragon God Empire and ranked ninth among more than 100 magic academies in Heaven’s Vault Continent.
Yet it was exactly such a magic academy with a long history that, as of now, Year 44,781 of the Heaven’s Vault calendar, had only... 600 existing students!
With a total of six levels, there are less than 100 people in each level!
In other words, those that could enroll in Fire Dragon Magic Academy... Each and every one of them is a genius!
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