Chapter 23
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nTranslator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
nWas Meng Lei rich?
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nNo, not really!
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nAs of now, his total assets came 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!
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nAlthough this bit of assets naturally couldn’t compare to the nobility and the filthy rich merchants, it was still far better than the commoner class that struggled to feed themselves.
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nThis wasn’t the point, however!
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nThe point was that money came to him fairly easily because he could pick it up at any time, anywhere!
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nMeng Lei had been picking up dropped items the whole time 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!
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nAdditionally, the more crowded a place was, the more dropped items there would be!
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nAs 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!
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nWith people around, things would naturally drop!
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nNaturally, this went to Meng Lei’s benefit!
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nAnd 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 tremendous change!
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nHost: Meng Lei
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nRace: Human
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nWealth: 2,306 gold coins
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nPhysical Body Constitution: Third-Grade Warrior (502
/1,000)
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nSpirit: Second-Grade Magician (213
/500)
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nMagic Power: First-Grade Magician (199
/200)
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nOthers: Some increase
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nThe number of gold coins he possessed had doubled and a little more!
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nHis body was comparable to a Third-Grade Warrior’s!
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nHis spiritual power had entered the ranks of a Second-Grade Magician’s!
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nHis magic power lacked only 1 point to become comparable to a Second-Grade Magician’s!
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nThere were even quite a few more spells in his repertoire now, too!
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nAs for battle skills… He had picked up three of them for some reason!
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nTsk, tsk, the capital city certainly lives up to its name 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?
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nThe capital city… I’ve certainly made the right choice in coming here!
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nMeng Lei was very satisfied with his rewards today, and he believed that there would only be more and more rewards in the future!
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nTherefore, could he use some of his gold coins to help two of his companions out financially, so that they could attend school here?
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nMeng Lei secretly mused over this. As long as Joseph and Andrew were a little more diligent and became Trainee Warriors within the first year, they would become able to easily earn money at that point.
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nAfter that, they would be able to support themselves and successfully finish their studies. By the time they successfully graduated, no matter how poorly they did, they would also have become Fourth-Grade Warriors.
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nHow 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!
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nIn 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!
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nHowever, when they heard Meng Lei’s thoughts, a huge jolt went through Hudders, Jonah, Joseph, and Andrew. All of them thought that they had misheard!
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n“Meng Lei, you’re not joking with us, are you?”
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nHudders looked closely at Meng 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!”
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n“Captain Hudders, you don’t need to say any more. I know what I’m doing!”
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nMeng 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!
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n“If the two of you can become Trainee Warriors within a year, everything is still open for discussion!”
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n“Big Brother Meng Lei…”
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nTerribly touched, Joseph and Andrew burst into loud sobs. They couldn’t take the roller-coaster of events anymore!
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n“What are you crying for? Keep Meng Lei’s words in mind well. After you enter the academy, cultivate properly and strive to become Trainee Warriors within a year…”
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n…
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nWith Meng Lei’s help, Joseph and Andrew successfully enrolled in warrior academies.
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nAlthough 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 Meng Lei properly in the future!
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nDuring the next two days, the group of five had fun in the capital city and went sight-seeing. At the same time that Meng Lei picked up a large number of dropped items, he was also bedazzled by the capital city’s prosperity and extravagance!
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nHe had initially thought that this world was very behind times and primitive because technology hadn’t developed here, but he was wrong!
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nDragon 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 development and innovation of Battle Aura and magic, as an endless amount of time passed, a lot of derivatives had also developed.
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nOut of which, the most common was… Magic devices!
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nPoor commoners at the bottommost tier of social hierarchy naturally wouldn’t be able to come into contact with magic devices. However, these products of magic civilization had reached deeply into many upper society families. For example:
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nStorage magic devices such as spatial rings, spatial bangles, spatial belts, and so on!
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nOffensive magic devices such as magic cannons, magic guns, magic puppets, and so on!
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nLifestyle magic devices such as magic lamps, magic carriages, magic carpets, and so on!
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nThere was a dazzling array of products!
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nAn endless number of products!
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nThis was totally different from the style of civilization on Earth. While being a huge eye-opener for Meng Lei, it also provided him with a clearer understanding of this world at the same time.
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nBut of course, what he felt the deepest was still a saying from his past life. “Meat and wine go to waste in the portals of the rich, while the frozen bones of the dead lie out on the road!”
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nThis world had extremely 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!
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nConversely, 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 homeless and miserable.
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nAfter he got an understanding of all of these, Meng Lei, however, didn’t develop the great ambition of destroying the ruling class and liberating the toiling masses. The only thing that came 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!
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nOf course, should he really become so strong as to possess the power to overthrow this world in the future, Meng Lei didn’t mind changing the world and cleansing the times, and return a beautiful world to Heaven’s Vault Continent!
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nTwo days of free time passed in the blink of an eye. The term finally began at Fire Dragon Magic Academy. Meng Lei bade farewell to Hudders and the others and arrived at the Fire Dragon Magic Academy.
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nAs 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!
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nIn the 20,000 years that came after, Fire Dragon Magic Academy had received tremendous support from Fire Dragon Kingdom and Dragon God Empire. It had developed rapidly and become one of Heaven’s Vault Continent’s oldest magic academies.
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nOver the course of these long 20,000 years, Fire Dragon Magic Academy had produced innumerable Master Magicians and expert magic craftsmen, and also groomed a large number of Saint Domain experts, royalty, and nobility.
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nOut of which, there were 37 Fire Dragon Kingdom kings and 1,169 Saint Domain experts!
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nFire 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.
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nYet 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!
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nWith a total of six levels, there are less than 100 people in each level!
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nIn other words, those that could enroll in Fire Dragon Magic Academy… Each and every one of them is a genius!
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