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Noble Emblem

A young Brave walked out of his village, gathered companions to his side, defeated the Great Demon King, became famous, then came back with beauties in hand! This was a legend that appears in the world of Seyrol every 200 years! Our protagonist, however, isn’t a Brave. Even so, for over a thousand years his figure has loomed throughout its history. Unwittingly, the name of the Red Priest began to resound throughout the world. Red Priest’s legend included extraordinary sword techniques and magic, erudite knowledge, and an almost prophetic ability to lead young Braves toward the proper path. People of the world think of him as a descendent of the ancient Golden Race which led to his omnipotence. In essence, however, this was just the characteristics of the profession known as ‘Noble’. A word from the fabulousest translator/editor on Earth which is me I took upon this translation/editing project for the same reason I started translating my first Chinese novel. There are just too many big ass gems buried in a deep cesspool. I've long guessed that Qidian stopped introducing good Chinese novels on this platform in order to give some breathing room for English (and other) originals, but I don't agree with such approach. From a reader's standpoint, it is such a shame that we don't even know how many brilliant works we are missing because of the language barrier. To be honest, I'm mainly copypasting from the site called Novelhi. It is a really good resource and their machine translation is the best I've seen so far, and they also translate up to the latest available chapter. Still, they have several issues. For some reason they always miss the last paragraph which make you can missout on a potentially very important information related to a story, and they also have parts where just a couple of words gets repeated for a whole paragraph and it actually replaces the original text. They also translate an ad together with a chapter which is immersion breaking. I'll be correcting the inherent sins of such MTL with manual editing and translation and I will also polish some rough edges so that the readers will have as much seemless reading experience as possible. You will definitely have a better time reading this than me for sure

Shallowman · Fantasi
Peringkat tidak cukup
400 Chs

Teaching about the backdoor

Liang Lidong didn't know that someone was looking for him at this time. He was inquiring about Lisbon in the tavern.

Blue Harbor City was also a commercial city, but it was a seaport city. If it was on Earth, seaport cities were definitely the most prosperous places for commerce. But in this world, the ocean was difficult to conquer. It had nothing to do with the weather and ocean currents of the ocean. It was purely because there were many magical beasts in the ocean.

On Earth, the largest creature in the ocean was nothing more than the blue whale. But in this world, there were many creatures in the ocean that were larger than the blue whale, and the most terrible thing was that they were very good at hunting.

In addition to large creatures, there were many medium-sized sea magical beasts in the ocean. It was not difficult for them to destroy small and medium-sized sailboats. So in this world, commercial organizations that could carry out ocean trade had powerful forces behind them, or even multiple forces supporting them.

After all, the profits of ocean trade were too great. No matter how dangerous it was, there were always people who could create miracles.

The Black Bear Tavern was the most popular tavern in Blue Harbor City, not because it was luxurious, but because its ale was cheap enough and tasted good enough.

Whether it was the crew or the laborers, they all liked to have a drink after work, and the cheap and tasty Black Bear Tavern was naturally their first choice.

Many of the taverns in this world liked to call their signboards White Bear and Black Bear. There were a lot of taverns named White Bear and Black Bear, and there were so many that it was unbelievable. When the players first entered the game, no matter which town they went to, they would find White Bear and Black Bear taverns. They thought that the game world was the same as the world of martial arts and had chain organizations like Dragon Gate Inn and Bought Inn.

But later, when they stayed in the game for a long time, they realized that it was purely the people of this world who especially liked bears, thinking that they were powerful and smart.

Liang Lidong sat in the leftmost corner of the tavern. Every table around him was full, and many people even stood up to drink, but he occupied a table alone.

It was not that Liang Lidong deliberately drove others away. It was that no one dared to sit next to him. Almost all the people here were ordinary people. A spellcaster, who looked like a noble, was definitely not someone that laborers like them could come into contact with.

Although they didn't know why such a noble person would come to such a "lowly" place. However, no one wanted to go up and ask. What if they angered the nobleman and got killed by him?

With this thought in mind, everyone who was drinking lowered their voices. The originally noisy tavern was even quieter than the outside.

The owner of the tavern was quite happy. The presence of an aristocrat was a good thing for his business. After they left, he could brag to others that there was a noble cum spellcaster who also found his wine delicious and drank three large cups in a row.

This would definitely make his tavern business more prosperous.

However, there were always some people who were more daring. Just like there were people who dared to venture into the dangerous ocean, there were also people who dared to take the initiative to talk to Liang Lidong.

When Liang Lidong finished his fourth mug of ale, a skinny youth walked over and knelt down in a very serious manner. Then he said, "Greetings, Your Excellency. My name is Bancroft. There's nothing in Blue Harbor City that I don't know. I hope I can solve your problems."

Liang Lidong pointed to the opposite side of him and asked him to sit down. Then he smiled and said, "How did you know that I'm here for help?"

"You wouldn't come to such a lowly place to drink if it weren't for that, Your Excellency." Bancroft smiled confidently. "I've served many big shots in Blue Harbor City. They all say that the things in my head are truly valuable."

"You do sound impressive." Liang Lidong asked, "Do you know anything about the Lisbon family?"

"Lisbon?" Bancroft was stunned. He said awkwardly, "They're the mayor, and Miss Frey is a Great Swordsman. If Your Excellency wants to inquire about their private affairs, I dare not speak out of turn."

"Don't worry. I'm not asking you to tell me their secrets. I just want to know what's interesting about their family over the past three hundred years. " Liang Lidong took out ten silver coins from his interspatial backpack and placed them on the table. "If you can tell me, these silver coins are yours," he said.

Bancroft looked at the silver coins on the table and licked his dry lips. Then he said, "There have been many geniuses in the Lisbon family in the past 300 years, but the most famous one among them must be the patriarch of the Lisbon family, Theodore Lisbon, more than 300 years ago."

Liang Lidong knitted his brows when he heard Bancroft mentioning his acquaintances right from the start. His curiosity was piqued.

"I heard that the original family coat of arms of the Lisbon family should have been a goshawk 300 years ago. But for some reason, the patriarch at that time, Theodore, forcibly replaced the goshawk with a rat. I don't know how many aristocratic families laughed at him."

Bancroft stole a glance at Liang Lidong. Seeing that he was interested, he calmed down and continued, "And Theodore's actions became more and more strange. Not only did he start to build roads around his territory, but he also built them very well. It's clearly a seaport city, but he built the roads better than the port.

"Also, he was very eccentric. For example, he required his clansmen and descendants to drink at least a glass of milk a day, and the water had to be boiled."

Liang Lidong remembered telling Theodore such things in the game, such as getting rich first and building roads first. He didn't expect Theodore to remember these words in real life, even carrying out the rule of boiling water.

"I remember the old people said that Theodore was very weak at first, but when he was 15, he said that a Knight King was teaching him in his dreams. At first, none of his clansmen or even others believed him. But soon, he became stronger and stronger, and learned many strange things."

"People started to laugh at him, and then became skeptical. But no matter what, Theodore became stronger and stronger. Soon, he defeated his brother and became the lord, passing down his strange rules in the form of a will."

"And in his will, he said that if anyone didn't obey his strange rules, then they wouldn't have the right to inherit Blue Harbor."

Hearing this, Liang Lidong thought that Theodore remembered a lot of things about the game world, or even more about the half-elf Grinton. Unfortunately, he was long dead.

Liang Lidong pushed the ten silver coins in front of Bancroft, stood up, patted his sleeves, and left the tavern in a carefree manner.

Not long after he left, the tavern became noisy again.

Bancroft put the ten gold coins into his clothes, and was about to leave when he realized that he was blocked. Three drunkards who were much stronger than him raised a glass and smashed it at Bancroft's head.

No matter what world, money always made people crazy.

Liang Lidong walked out of the tavern and was about to leave when he found three people blocking his way. They were wearing black iron armor, and one of them said, "May I ask if you are Lord Beta?"

"Yes." Liang Lidong didn't understand what was going on. He saw a mouse painted on the armor of the three people and knew that they were members of Lisbon.

"Then come with us, our lady wants to see you."

Liang Lidong waved his hand, "No time."

"That's not up to you." The three men who looked like soldiers stood in front of him.

Liang Lidong put his finger into his spatial bag, and in less than a second, two scrolls appeared in his hand. He threw them forward, and two spider webs directly covered the three adult men.

Then he left the scene and came to the port.

At this time, Emma and Alice hadn't returned yet. Women always needed more time to shop.

Kail came back, and as soon as he saw Liang Lidong, he said, "Teacher, I asked. It's a fishing moratorium now, and Cambay Island is a fishing ground. The mayor has ordered that no one can go near the fishing ground during the fishing moratorium, or they will be arrested and imprisoned for three months. No ship owner dares to do that. "

"No?" Liang Lidong smiled and said, "Come with me."

Kail was a little confused, but he still followed behind Liang Lidong obediently.

Liang Lidong took him to a small building in the port. There were two soldiers standing at the entrance. Such a place was usually off-limits, but Liang Lidong was a spellcaster, so no one dared to stop him. He took Kail all the way to the front of the room on the second floor.

After knocking on the room, an old man opened the door for them.

Liang Lidong went straight to the point and said, "This must be the port of Blue Harbor City, the place responsible for the approval of ocean trade. Hello, sir."

Although the old man had some real power, he saw Liang Lidong's age and status as a spellcaster, so he didn't dare to be arrogant. He bowed slightly and asked, "Sir, what can I do for you?"

"I plan to go to Cambay Island tomorrow. Don't worry, we are not poachers. We are purely going to the island to look for something related to magic materials."

The old man was a little embarrassed, "This is a little difficult."

Liang Lidong took out two gold coins and put them on the table. As soon as the old man saw it, he said sternly, "What do you mean by this?"

"Nothing much." Liang Lidong smiled, "I just picked up two gold coins outside the port, and with the idea of looking for the owner, I brought the wealth here. I think with your character, you will definitely ensure that these two gold coins fall into the hands of the real owner."

"Of course." The old man smiled and put the two gold coins in his drawer, "According to the rules, we can't go out to sea during this period, please understand."

"I understand." Liang Lidong smiled and left the place with Kail.

After leaving the small building, Kail asked in confusion, "Teacher, he didn't promise us."

"He promised." Liang Lidong said, "According to the rules, fishing boats can't go out to sea during this period, but we didn't follow the rules. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken our two gold coins. Someone will contact us soon. "

Oh, that's right, Kail suddenly realized