Mortal Epic of Douluo

Although he is at the fourth level of innateness, Mo Youxue is still very happy. It is definitely lucky to meet two children with soul power in a village. Especially this little boy named Oscar, who has a food-type martial soul + an innate full soul.

After returning to the Borno City Palace to report the news, I believe that I will definitely get a good reward.

Of course, the rewards from Wuhun Palace are not given in vain. No matter how many awakened talents there are, if they are not under the command of Wuhun Palace, it will be useless. So if you want to get substantial rewards, the patrol deacons will go to the countryside to help civilian children awaken to martial arts.

The Queen of Souls 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 innate full 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, I'll give you face by selling you grandpa. I'll wait until you reach the third level of cultivation."

At level 10, grandpa will help you hunt for a thousand-year soul ring that is absolutely suitable for you, and it will be at least 1,400 years old."

Hearing these words, Mo Youxue fell silent.

The thousand-year soul ring was of great significance to her. She had an ordinary background. 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 for it.

A hundred and sixty-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 five hundred years.

Even though he joined the Spirit Hall, it is still very difficult for him to obtain a suitable thousand-year soul ring for his third soul ring, let alone a thousand-year soul ring that is more than 1,400 years old.

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

"Sister, what do you want?" Oscar didn't know why Mo Youxue got stuck while he was talking, so he asked curiously.

"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, and 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 thank them, 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. The old man smiled back at him. Atreus always felt a little confused, and the way the old man looked at him was very similar to that of his previous life.

That professor dug up what looked like 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. Ennide, I respect your knowledge, so I agreed to let you come and observe the ritual of awakening the martial spirit. It is an innate talent."

Soul power! If the bishop of our Borno Temple finds out, he will definitely scold me severely."

"Hahahaha~" Lai Ennid didn't care about Mo Youxue's complaints at all, and said with a hearty smile: "You are a student of the Haagen-Dazs Spirit Hall's Advanced Spirit Master Academy, and you only came here because they are divided into halls.

There are not enough manpower and you are from Borno, so I will temporarily loan you out of the academy. When you complete your task, you will still have to return to the academy, and he will not be able to 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’s heart will be moved.”

"The kid named Oscar is really very talented. Although there are very few geniuses with full soul power, a few will always pop up every few years. But the food-type martial soul with full soul power, whether it is the Wuhun Palace or the

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 Soul Master. Don't worry when you break through to level 30. I will find you to fulfill my promise."

After Enid praised 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 it too much and were used to it, so they had no concern for their children's unawakened soul power.

of touch.

Mo Youxue also packed up her things and left the barn, and happened to see the village chief 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 had both awakened their soul power.

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Mo Youxue asked doubtfully: "Old man, is it okay for two children with soul master qualifications to appear in one village? In the six villages before yours, among the seventy-seven children, I met a first-level,

One and a half levels, one of these two children is born with full soul power, and the other is level 4, 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 seventy-six villages in the territory, and there are a total of thirty work-study students at 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 of them were..."

"What are you doing? Why are you, an old man, so nagging and hesitating when you talk?" Mo Youxueyang said angrily.

"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 a child from Earl's Mansion wants to enter a junior college, isn't that just a matter of saying hello? How is it possible to compete with common people for work-study places?"

Atreus was about to continue speaking, but Grandpa Leicester stopped him, "Okay, Atreus, don't bother the soul masters of Wuhun 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.

, it is necessary to make a profit. Therefore, self-financed students are the majority in the college, and the places for free working-study students are very precious.

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 - Earl Ogunode. Although Earl Ogunode has no control over the people in his 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 60,000 acres, and there were 12,000 households in the fiefdom with more than 40,000 people. In recent years, the actual land owned by the Earl Ogunode family has exceeded 90,000 acres.

However, the taxpayer population under its jurisdiction is only 8,000 households, less than 30,000 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 national "population" in the fiefdom has declined instead of rising. The reason behind this is not due to war or natural disasters, let alone

Attack by spirit beasts.

It's because of land annexation.

Count Ogunode instructed his knights and stewards to seize land from the freedmen by various means, so that the freedmen 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 noble children of the Earl's Palace, but by the tenant farmers and children of private slaves belonging to the Earl's Palace. Such people were originally free people, but after becoming vassals of the Earl's Palace,

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 village chief of Leicester.

Although less than 5% of civilians have awakened their soul power, the fifteen precious work-study student places that cannot be divided among the seventy-six villages are always somewhat stretched.

Especially in recent years, it has often happened that 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.

I clearly have the opportunity to become a soul master, but I can 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 Hanermo Village has two at once, how can Lester not be embarrassed?

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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 because the local nobles are competing for profits with the people, and the oppression is getting stronger and stronger. If things go on like this, our Wuhun Palace's cause in the Borno area will definitely 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"