Mortal Epic of Douluo

Although he was born at the fourth level, Mo Youxue was still very happy. It was definitely lucky to meet two children with soul power in the same village.Especially this little boy named Oscar, who has a food-based martial soul and full innate soul power. After he returns to the Borno City Palace and reports the news, I believe he will definitely get a good reward.

Of course, the rewards from Wuhun Palace are not given in vain. No matter how many talents are awakened, it will be useless if they are not under the command of Wuhun Palace.Therefore, if they want to get substantial rewards, after patrolling deacons go to the countryside to help civilian children awaken their martial spirits, they will "show affection and reason" to talented children and let them join the Spirit Hall.

"Oscar, and Atreus, you have awakened your martial souls. At the same time, one has full innate soul power and the other has innate level four. I wonder if you are willing..."

Before Mo Youxue finished speaking, she felt a hand pressing on her shoulder, and a voice that only she could hear came from her ear: "Xiaoxue, it's a shame to sell grandpa, wait until you reach the third level of cultivation." At level 400, grandpa will help you hunt for a thousand-year soul ring that is absolutely suitable for you, and it will be at least [-] years old."

Hearing this, Mo Youxue fell silent.

The thousand-year soul ring is of great significance to her. She was born an ordinary person. After awakening her martial soul, she studied hard at the Borno Junior Soul Master Academy. After reaching the tenth level of soul power, she had to plead with the teachers at the academy to help her hunt it. A 160-year-old colorful leopard soul ring arrived.

Later, she chose to join Wuhun Palace and study at Haagen-Dazs Intermediate Soul Master Academy. Although Wuhun Palace Academy treated civilian students better, her second soul ring was only about to exceed 500 years.

Although he has joined the Spirit Hall, it is not easy for him to obtain a suitable thousand-year soul ring for his third soul ring, let alone a thousand-year soul ring with an age of more than 400 years.

The most important thing is...she doesn't have the strength to reject the old man.

"Sister, what do you want?" Oscar asked curiously, not knowing why Mo Youxue got stuck while talking.

"Oh, it's okay." Mo Youxue shook his head and did not finish what he just said, "I mean you have all awakened your soul power. You can enter the soul master academy to study in September. Practice hard and become a soul master." Famous soul master!"

Then he glanced at the children in the barn and urged: "Children, you have awakened your martial arts souls now. You can go home now. Go ahead."

The children came up one by one to say thank you, and then left the barn hand in hand.

Atreus walked at the end, and when he closed the door, he glanced at the old man, who smiled back at him.Atreus always felt a little baffled. The way the old man looked at him was like the way the professor he followed in his previous life dug up paleontological fossils under the frozen soil of the Arctic Circle.

The kind with eyes full of light, very weird.

In the barn, after the door was closed, Mo Youxue turned around and said helplessly to the old man: "Mr. Leonid, I respect your knowledge, so I agreed to let you come and observe the ritual of awakening the martial soul. It is an innate full soul." Power! If the bishop of our Borno sub-palace finds out, he will definitely scold me severely."

"Hahahaha~" Leonid didn't care at all about Mo Youxue's complaints, and said with a hearty smile: "You are a student of the Haagen-Dazs Spirit Hall's Advanced Spirit Master Academy. You only came here because of the manpower of their branch hall. It's not enough and you are from Borno, so I'm just loaning you out from the academy temporarily. When you complete your mission, you still have to return to the academy, and he can't embarrass you."

Mo Youxue sighed: "Well, I hope you keep your word... Judging from your appearance, are you tempted to accept a disciple? Indeed, a genius with innate soul power, I believe that no matter who he is, Everyone will be excited."

"The kid named Oscar is indeed very talented. Although there are very few geniuses with innate soul power, a few will always pop up every few years. But food-based martial arts with full innate soul power, whether it is Wuhun Palace or It has never appeared in the records of the two empires and sects. No one wants to miss such a genius..."

"Old man, I'd like to thank you for today's matter. You have already reached level 29 and are not far away from the Soul Master. Don't worry when you break through to level [-]. I will find you to fulfill my promise." Leonid After praising Oscar, he pulled up his hood and disappeared into the barn into a black shadow.

Outside the barn, many parents of children came to take away their children. The adults were basically neither sad nor happy. Perhaps they had seen enough and were used to it, and they had no idea about their children's unawakened soul power. touch.

Mo Youxue also packed up her things and left the barn, and happened to see the village leader Lester with a sad face.

"What? You both have soul power. Why, how come two of them suddenly appeared..." Lester was confused when he heard that Oscar and Atreus both had awakened soul power. .

Mo Youxue asked doubtfully: "Old man, is it not good for two children with soul master qualifications to appear in one village? In the six villages before yours, among the 77 children, I met one first-level, one and a half Level one. One of these two children is born with full soul power and the other is level four. Shouldn't they be happy?

"This...Master Soul Master, you don't know something!" Lester paused for a moment, organized his words and returned: "Our village of Hanermo is located in the territory of Earl Ogunode. Earl There are 76 villages in the territory, and there are a total of thirty work-study places for Borno Junior Soul Master Academy every year. In fact, it was originally enough, but in recent years, the number of places available has become less and less, at least half All were..."

"What's wrong with you? You old man, you can't stop mumbling and hesitating when you talk." Mo Youxue pretended to be angry.

"They were all divided up by the Earl's Mansion." It was not Lester who answered her, but Atreus.

"Earl's Mansion?" Now it was Mo Youxue's turn to be confused, "If the children from Earl's Mansion want to enter the junior college, isn't that just a matter of saying hello? How can they compete with common people for work-study places?"

Atreus was about to continue speaking, but Grandpa Lester stopped him, "Okay, Atreus, don't bother the soul masters of the Spirit Hall with this kind of thing. I will take you back." Home."

Atreus did not stubbornly finish his words. Although this soul master named Mo Youxue gave him a good feeling, there were some things that there was really no need to tell her. After all, they were not relatives.

The sorrow of village chief Lester is both simple and complex.

Borno Junior Soul Master College is the only college in the entire Borno region that recruits work-study students from civilian families. Although Borno Junior Soul Master College is large in scale, it is ultimately a school jointly established by the government and nobles. , is to make a profit.Therefore, self-financing students are the majority in the college, and the places for free work-study students are very valuable.

The village of Hanermo where Atreus is located is located forty miles north of Borno City, and there is an absolute local emperor in the northern Borno region - Count Ogunode. Although Count Ogunode has no control over the people in the territory, The free people have no power to govern, but the Earl's Palace, which controls the countryside, has been constantly encroaching on the little rights of the common people.

It is said that the first Earl Ogunode's fiefdom was 1 acres, and there were [-] households in the fiefdom with more than [-] people. In recent years, the actual land owned by the Earl Ogunode family has exceeded [-] acres. However, there are only [-] taxpayer households under its jurisdiction, less than [-] people.

In the Kingdom of Haagen-Dazs, the nobles have the obligation to protect the citizens in the fiefdom. However, the taxes paid by these citizens every year are collected by tax collectors sent by the king. These taxes are divided between the nobles and the king.

Count Ogunode has been passed down to the current Femi Ogunode for the third generation, but the "population" of the people in the fiefdom has declined instead of rising. The reason behind this is not due to war or natural disasters, let alone Attacked by spirit beasts.

But because of land annexation.

Count Ogunode instructed his knights and stewards to use various means to seize land from the free people, so that the free people who originally owned the land could only be forced to become tenant farmers. Once the tenant farmers had a major change in their family, they had to sell out. He himself became a private serf of Count Ogunode.

The places for working students in the Soul Master Academy from civilian families were not occupied by the aristocratic children of the Earl's Mansion, but by the children of tenant farmers and private slaves belonging to the Earl's Mansion. Such people were originally free people, but after becoming vassals of the Earl's Mansion, Instead, it became a sharp knife for the nobles to exploit the free people.

Atreus and Oscar, two brothers in distress, would probably have become private slaves of the Earl's Mansion without the help of the kind-hearted Mayor of Leicester.

Although less than 5.00% of civilians have awakened their soul power, the fifteen precious work-study student places that cannot be divided among 76 villages are always somewhat stretched.

Especially in recent years, there have often been cases where there were not enough places in the previous year, resulting in some children having to wait for a year before competing for work-study students. There are two people that Atreus knows who have no way to study now. Although I clearly had the opportunity to become a soul master, I could only waste it in vain.

Which village doesn't want a soul master to come out of its own village?In order to compete for the quota of work-study students, there have been many disputes between villages. Now that there are two students from Hanermo Village at once, how can Leicester not be in trouble?

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Surveys in the Borno area in recent years have shown that the proportion of civilian soul masters is decreasing day by day, while the number of noble soul masters (including their vassals) is increasing day by day.

The fact that the qualifications of this non-commoner are becoming more and more mediocre is actually due to the local nobles competing for profits with the people and increasing oppression. If things go on like this, our Wuhun Palace's cause in the Borno area will not be able to make any progress. If we don't make progress, we will retreat.

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————Excerpt from "Foreword to the Establishment of the Junior Soul Master Academy in the Main Hall of Haagen-Dazs by Bishop Vicott of Borno"