Lord of Lowland

Chapter 4 Level Up, Prestige and Retirement

Cecil returned to his own home in a carriage. It was almost evening. After returning home, he almost didn't bother to talk to Butler Akat or Yashan, and quickly returned to his room. The experience of the day today is really is too hard to digest.The games I played for such a long time did not have as many strange things that happened to me in one day, no matter whether it was good or bad, a bunch of things happened all at once.More importantly, I have not yet accepted the fact that I have already crossed
It seems that I can only struggle in this world as Cecil in the future, and Jin Xin can only say goodbye to myself in life.This is also something that cannot be done.

As she was thinking wildly, Yashan reminded herself that it was time for dinner.To be honest, so many things happened that day, both physical strength and brain cells have been damaged countless, only after hearing this sentence did I realize that I was really hungry.

Dinner is much richer than breakfast. White bread, beef soup, and roasted chicken all show that this is indeed a noble living condition. Fortunately, the meal program settings entered when the game was first produced did not really fully conform to the medieval ones. flavor, otherwise Cecil might really not be able to eat anything.The food is very delicious, almost at the level of a high-end western restaurant.It seems that when the game was originally designed, it was a food program set by a gourmet.The only thing that made Cecil feel uncomfortable was that the maid and the housekeeper watched him motionlessly while eating. This is an inevitable habit for nobles, but it is simply a punishment for an otaku.

Fortunately, during dinner this evening, Alt began to report the income of the territory to Cecil.Cecil's main source of income is a manor in the southern countryside of the empire, with about 200 hectares of land.There are about 5000 gold coins in income every year. Cecil needs to give half of the money to Earl Kasikud who gave him the land, and he needs to pay 500 gold coins in the kingdom tax. Originally, Cecil had only an old housekeeper and a servant in his family. , the money is abundant, but after the death of Cecil's father, Cecil has actually been unable to fulfill the obligations of a knight to the kingdom. The family did not join the army to serve the country because the knight himself was underage, so he had to spend a lot of money to hire people from the Mercenary Association to go out on behalf of the family, spending a huge amount of money every time.In addition, Cecil is usually lazy and poor in strength, so he is a big fat in the eyes of those punks.They are often used by casinos and brothels to squeeze money out of fairy jumps, and they are also the favorite objects of loan sharks.Over time, the family's financial situation turned out to be unable to make ends meet, with repeated deficits.

"I owe 125 gold coins to Alumba, 89 gold coins to Doria, and 213 gold coins to Dragon Talamy." Hearing that the steward reported that he owed nearly 3000 gold coins, it seemed that he was truly in negative equity.

After eating, Cecil lay alone on the bed thinking about his own development path in this world. He felt that the most urgent thing to do was to raise his registration first. As long as his level could be raised, the rest would be easy to talk about.After all, in this world, one's own strength comes first
In the game world, leveling up seems to be an easy task, but Cecil is having some difficulties now, because he is only level 1 now, and he was born directly on the royal city, and there is basically no suitable wild land around the royal city. At the point of leveling, with Cecil's current strength, even the weakest porcupine on the outskirts of Wangcheng is definitely not an opponent.And those pheasants and hares that can be beaten at level 1 basically have to go to the novice village like a dungeon to find them.Of course, you can hire people from the mercenary guild to go to the wild to kill monsters with you,
While Cecil was thinking wildly, he only heard the housekeeper Akat order the maid Ashan: "Ashan, go and clean up the underground warehouse, and then move all the newly purchased grains in." The maid Akat obviously agreed. Reluctantly, originally in a noble family, this kind of heavy work was naturally done by the male servant, but there is only one servant in this family, Yashan, and basically this kind of physical work is done by the maid.Whenever this time is naturally full of complaints, Cecil is not surprised.

Suddenly, a flash of thought flashed through his mind, and Cecil rushed to the living room, "Housekeeper Akat, let me do this job."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.The old housekeeper of Akat and the maid of Ashan looked at you as if they didn't know each other.Cecil's behavior was too unexpected for them. After being in a daze for a long time, the old butler of Akat said in his feeble voice, "Master, this does not conform to the code of conduct of a nobleman."

Cecil was very speechless. He had never seen such a stubborn butler before, so he could only coax and deceive him.In the end, he couldn't grind himself, so the old butler Akat had no choice but to agree to the request.As for Ashan, she was naturally happy to see someone helping her work, and she didn't care about the code of conduct of the nobility.

System prompt: You have accepted the task of the old butler of Akat: clean the warehouse and move the grain.

It worked! ! !Sure enough, as I thought, in the city, you can also gain experience by completing entrusted tasks. In this way, you can upgrade to level 10 even if you don’t leave the city, hahahaha.

Having never worked before, Cecil was a little uncomfortable with these heavy jobs, but the excitement of being able to receive the task also made him work very vigorously. In more than an hour, Cecil moved all the rations for one year into the warehouse.Cecil hurriedly went to the old housekeeper to hand in the task, and finally got the experience he dreamed of.

System prompt: You have completed the task "cleaning the warehouse and moving grain", you get 25 experience points, and you get 10 copper coins
System prompt: Congratulations on your promotion to level 2

System prompt: Due to actions that do not conform to noble behavior, your kingdom reputation -1
Kingdom reputation -1, Cecil's eyes widened in shock, this is really ridiculous, is this okay?The reputation system in the game is a hidden attribute, basically divided into world reputation, kingdom reputation and temple reputation.Prestige is difficult to gain. Basically, only after completing advanced missions like campaign missions or temples can one obtain kingdom prestige and temple prestige. As for world prestige, no player has ever obtained it before Cecil traveled.The higher the prestige, the more respect the aborigines can gain, and the lower the prestige or even negative value, the aborigines basically despise it.Players basically regard reputation as a treasure, and now Cecil has been deducted a little reputation for 25 points of experience.If the player before the time travel found out, he would have to laugh his ass off.The problem is that Cecil doesn't know either. When newcomers play these characters, they are civilians who have just left Novice Village, and their reputation will not be deducted at all if they do this kind of task.As for Cecil, there are only a few first-line guild masters who have obtained the noble qualifications of knights, and it is impossible for them to do this kind of errands.

What to do, this question deeply troubled Cecil, whether he still wants to do this kind of task, whether reputation is important or experience is important, if he is still a player, then naturally reputation is important, but now he is already a It is true that a worthless dude will be looked down upon if his reputation continues to decline, but the question is, will he be looked down upon now?The scene of Kasich stepping on his feet and ravaging himself with a sword was played back in Cecil's mind over and over again. This kind of humiliation was like a knife cutting Cecil's heart.Do you still have a choice?Do I still need to choose?
The next day, Cecil appeared in every corner of the capital. He helped the owner of the grocery store deliver goods, and sent letters to the man from the east of the city to his beloved girl, and then the girl gave the gift of love to the man. Carry goods for the dock foreman, buy wine for the mercenary boss in the bar, and clean the bottles for the alchemist.Cecil almost completed all the missions in the city. Finally, one day after one month, when Cecil completed the last mission of sending letters, a system prompt sounded like a heavenly sound.
System prompt: Congratulations on your promotion to level 10. After level 10, each level up will add 5 free attribute points.
System prompt: Congratulations on your promotion to level 10, you can go to each temple to choose your own job
System prompt: Congratulations, you are the first player to reach level 10. You will be rewarded with strength +1, stamina +1, constitution +1, dexterity +1, and spirit +1
System prompt: Congratulations on your promotion to level 10, please choose your first talent skill

Innate skills are powerful skills given to players by the system when they become adults, that is, when they reach level 10. Aboriginal people do not have such powerful skills. This is a gift from the system, that is, the adventurers given by the creator gods.It belongs to the highest authority of the system, and has the ability to change the situation of the battle at some point.

Cecil chose the talent skill "Eternal Protection" without hesitation,
Eternal Protection: The user will not receive any damage within 1 second, and the CD time is 3 days

In fact, it is invincible in the normal sense of the player. This skill seems not as good as the Paladin's level 30 skill "Holy Sanctuary". The duration of Holy Sanctuary is 5 seconds and the CD time is only 1 hour. From the data, it looks longer than eternity. The asylum is much stronger.But slightly experienced players know that the Holy Sanctuary is not truly invincible in all situations. The Priest's Discipline Specialization and the Ares Warrior's Magic Breaking can break the status of the Sacred Sanctuary. As for the blasphemy of demonic creatures and the decay of undead creatures, It is also the nemesis of the Holy Sanctuary. As for all kinds of magic above level 7, it cannot be resisted by this small skill that can be mastered at level [-].But "Eternal Asylum" is different. This is true invincibility. In this second invincible state, even a god cannot break it. Many missions require this skill to be a weapon that can turn things around.So this skill is called a real sky-defying skill.

As for the additional achievement reward of being the first player to reach level 10, it is an unexpected surprise for Cecil. The built-in system determines that he is still a player, and he is already the only one in this different world. player.In other words, you can get almost all of the No. 1 additional achievement rewards that hundreds of millions of people competed with in previous lives that no one can repeat. This is really a good gift package.

At this time, Cecil really breathed a sigh of relief. He completed nearly a hundred tasks in a month, and finally raised his level to level 1. Tomorrow, he only needs to go to the Shrine of Dawn to pray. With 10 points of strength, he can already equip the weapons left by his father.In this way, he can embark on the real leveling road, go to the wild to kill porcupines, and no longer need to carry out such low-paying tasks at the risk of losing his reputation.

When Cecil returned home, he heard the voice of Akat's old housekeeper as soon as he entered the hall and before he entered the house.Hello, young master, Count Kasikud sent someone to deliver a letter just now.

In fact, the old man Earl had never seen Cecil a few times. In fact, he only remembered visiting with his father a few times when he was a child. Although he was still a knight to whom he belonged after his father died, he was too muddy to support the wall. So the count was really not interested in meeting him. He did not expect to receive a letter from him today. Cecil quickly opened the letter, and he also wanted to see what the count had to say.

Your Excellency Cecil Augustine:

Your Excellency has never thought of making progress, does not seek to make progress, seeks pleasure, and loves leisure and work, but I see that you have been taking care of you for the sake of your father. I did not expect that you have become worse and worse in the past month, and you are completely out of place.What you have done not only made you, but even me, your patron, the laughing stock of the nobles of the imperial capital.You must stop your absurd behavior immediately, or I will have to disappoint your loyal and kind father, take back your asylum, take back the title and manor bestowed on you, and throw you on everyone and make you a real beggar.I will not recommend you to any temple in the future, it is just a waste of my precious recommendation quota.The last thing to remind you is that you are already 18 years old, if you go to the mercenary guild to find someone to replace you next time the kingdom recruits soldiers, then you will face the wrath of His Majesty the King!

Fitzwilliam Kasikud
After reading the letter, Cecil had to lament the strength of the kingdom's reputation. Although he had been ineffective, the earl had always turned a blind eye to him. He never expected that he would send himself such a severe letter as soon as his reputation dropped. Just now I heard from the old butler of Akater that the servant of the Earl's Mansion who came to deliver the letter said that the Earl's dissatisfaction with him has reached the extreme. Last night, at the noble party hosted by the Earl, he seemed to be the laughing stock of the audience.The Marquis Marquis, who had always had a rift with the Earl, was even more sneering, and gave the Earl a new nickname "The Beggar's Asylum".Cecil didn't blame the Earl very much. In the final analysis, he still had to blame himself for this matter. If a subordinate shamed his boss, it was right for the boss to reprimand the subordinate.But fortunately, they are already level 10, and the earl's request to "stop this kind of behavior immediately" can be fulfilled by him. It doesn't matter if he loses the recommendation, he already has a way to join the temple.On the contrary, if the earl recommends a temple that he doesn't want to go to, he will be in trouble.The only troublesome thing is the last one. There have been rumors in the market this month that the battle at Devil's Gate is tight, and the human nations need to withdraw troops to defend the three cities on the front line of Devil's Gate.Maybe the Kingdom will soon mobilize troops.I have to use this time to upgrade and improve my strength, but this battle may be the last battle, because it is more than 4 years before the game starts, and when the player enters the game, the demon gate has been closed .In other words, the human coalition forces are likely to be able to close the demon door that has threatened them for 200 years in the near future.As for the earl's bad comments about him, there is no other way but to make up for it later.

After returning to the room, Cecil entered into meditation. The so-called meditation itself is a mode of exercising one's fighting spirit.Originally, in the game, players only need to meditate, but the aborigines only need to exercise. This is a way to improve fighting spirit.But when Cecil used the meditation method on the first night, he found that he had entered a meditation mode. Once he entered the meditation mode, he would enter a dungeon to deal with a person with exactly the same attributes as himself.Then come to defeat yourself, every time you defeat yourself, your fighting spirit value will increase by 1 point.Every day has a chance to beat yourself.However, the player's meditation or the aborigines' exercise took almost five or six days to improve a little fighting spirit.Efficiency is simply not the same.Cecil believes that the reason for this state is entirely due to the combined evolution of his player system and Cecil's original aboriginal system, and such an unprecedented meditation system has appeared.Facing the same self, the only way to defeat him is to constantly improve his skills.On the second day, he was facing a self who had improved his skills the day before. In this way, Cecil felt that his fighting skills had improved rapidly in the past month.

Just finished meditating, when Cecil was about to wash up and go to sleep.Akat suddenly reported Baron Kuresta's visit. Cecil was surprised again, but he quickly invited the baron to the living room. Baron Kuresta himself, like Cecil's father, was also due to His meritorious deeds were conferred as Lord Knight, but unlike Cecil's father who became unknown in the future, Kuresta himself made great contributions in the Battle of Devil's Gate five years ago, and was promoted to a real nobleman and became a hereditary baron .For Cecil, Baron Kuresta has a more important identity, that is, he is Cecil's future father-in-law.

But Baron Kuresta's expression was not very good today, with a serious look on his face.Cecil's feelings are not very good, so he can only put on a smiley face, "Baron Kuresta, I don't know what to do when I come to my humble house late at night."

"Cecile, let's not talk about being polite. The purpose of my visit today is very simple, which is to dissolve the engagement between you and my daughter Talis."

Uh, this old man got straight to the point. Cecil didn't know what to say for a while, but the old butler Akat couldn't sit still, "Master Kuresta, you can't do this, if it wasn't for the master who saved you 15 years ago , you died in Keshkar a long time ago. You begged our lord to make this marriage contract, how can you go back on your word now?"

Cecil glanced at the old housekeeper unexpectedly, but he didn't expect the old man to be quite loyal.

"Takimi did save my life, and I will remember it all my life, so I have been with this useless bastard all these years. I have helped him pay off his gambling debts and usury for no less than 10000 gold coins, otherwise this little bastard would have died. I was hacked to death by the debt collector. Even so, I did not shake the agreement of the year, but what did this kid do in the past month? No one in the royal capital pointed at him, even my daughter, The daughter who served in the Temple of the Brave has also become a laughing stock, and she has become a different kind everywhere, a beggar woman. What reason do you give me to maintain this marriage contract?"

Kingdom prestige, damn kingdom prestige again, it seems that the more than 10 points of kingdom prestige I paid to upgrade to level 100 really has a major impact. At that moment, Cecil even felt that his efforts in the past month were really worthless. The gain outweighs the loss. Kasich humiliated himself a month ago because he was weak.Today, I suffered another kind of humiliation because I wanted to become stronger.It's really a kind of black humor on its own.

Cecil was still thinking about his own thoughts, and Baron Curesta continued: "But as the son of an old friend, I still won't leave you alone, I will compensate you for the loss of 10000 gold coins, and recommend you to go to the Temple of the Earth There is no need for an exam to become a shield warrior."

"Thank you, Lord Baron, for your concern. Since the matter of the marriage contract has been decided, Lord Baron, let's forget about it. As for the money and the position in the temple, I can't accept it. Lord Baron said that he has helped me pay off a lot of debts over the years. I don't know, but I know today, and I will definitely have to pay it back in the future, so I won't give it away at this late hour." Cecil interrupted his thoughts and said these words, he decided to keep his last bit of poor self-esteem.

The baron was obviously a little surprised by Cecil's words, wanted to say something but couldn't say it, turned around and left.

After Curesta left, the living room was dead silent for about 15 minutes, and it was Cecil who broke the silence

"Mr. Akat, Kuresta helped me pay off my gambling debts and loan sharks. Did you ask him?"

"Yes, but." The old Akat butler who is usually eloquent now hesitates and doesn't know what to say.

What to say, what else to say.The creditors are chasing after the debt, so what should the old housekeeper do?It’s not just that I can only ask these friends of my father’s life. I thought that the family only owed 3000 gold coins, but I didn’t expect it to be just the tip of the iceberg. I have never been soft when I gamble all these years. When I borrow money, I just sign it. What about points?Cecil originally wanted to ask if he had asked his father's other friends or even Count Kasikud, but he immediately dismissed the idea and asked what was the use and what could be done. Can he pay it back now?
Talis?The last time I met her was ten years ago. As an 8-year-old boy, I was beaten to tears by this beautiful 8-year-old girl.Compared to the second-order knights in the Temple of the Brave at that time, they should despise themselves, but now, they hate themselves even more.After all, any self-respecting person would feel sad if a knight who performed well became a laughing stock because of his fiancé.Can he blame his father?If I were Kuresta, would I feel at ease to marry my daughter to such a person?Presumably any father would not do this.

Cecil lay on the bed thinking about these things, and finally could only slowly fall asleep.

(End of this chapter)