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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

There has been no city lord for more than 300 years

Gajeel felt like he was looking at a madman.

If planning to build a city on a swamp was already a fool's dream, then transforming the entire wetland into a plain was something that only a lunatic would do.

The wetland covered an area of about a thousand square kilometers. Even the most powerful spell casters would find it impossible to transform such a large swamp into a plain. If only a few spell casters could do it, it would take at least a hundred years. If a large number of spell casters were hired to help, it would cost tens of thousands of gold coins.

Unless the entire country was mobilized, it would be impossible to completely transform a wetland into a plain unless a miracle happened.

And yet, a young noble was talking about turning a swamp into a plain? That was too ridiculous.

Gajeel finally calmed himself down. He asked, "Since you're planning to build a city, you must need a lot of stone materials, right? Are you interested in working with me? I can supply you with high-quality stone materials at a discount from the market price. "

That was the real reason why Gajeel had invited Beta here. As it turned out, Gajeel had thought that a noble like Betta would be able to use magic to solidify a small piece of land and build a castle in an environment like the wetlands after obtaining a piece of land.

Since he was going to build a castle, he would need a lot of stone materials. Harvey City didn't have a lot of things, but it had a lot of stone materials.

Although the Gangti Family was one of the wealthiest nobles in Harvey, Gajeel wasn't averse to earning more money. No one would ever complain about having too much money.

However, he didn't expect that Beta was planning to build a city on a swamp.

Regardless of whether it was a crazy idea or not, Gajeel saw a big deal in it. Even if the city couldn't be built, as long as the construction started, a lot of stone materials would be needed, which meant a lot of gold coins.

Beta was quite interested to hear that. Although it was only a discount from the market price, he could save a lot of gold coins if he built a lot of them. Besides, there were only half of the gold bricks in Beta's space left, which was far from enough to build a city. Not only did he have to increase the income, but he also had to reduce the expenditure. Otherwise, he would be broke before the city was built.

"As for this matter, we can discuss it in detail after my caravan is established." Beta agreed and then asked curiously, "I just realized that the City Lord doesn't seem to fit in at this banquet."

"He's always been like this. I don't have much to say about him, "Gajeel said with a smile.

Beta saw the strange expression on Gajeel's face and knew that he didn't want to talk about it, so he didn't pursue the matter. Then, Gajeel introduced a few nobles to him. After chatting with them for a while, Beta took Shirley and Jessica back to the hotel.

In the carriage, Jessica patted her bulging belly with a satisfied expression.

As a former beggar, Jessica was very interested in food. In the past, she didn't eat much because she was afraid that she would make her master poor. Now that someone had invited her to a banquet, she wouldn't miss this opportunity to eat to her heart's content.

Shirley sat beside Beta and said with a strange expression, "I chatted with those noblewomen for a long time just now, and I discovered that they despise the City Lord very much. They would say bad things about him from time to time, but I couldn't ask them why. They seem to be very tight-lipped about the City Lord. I don't know what's going on."

"I noticed that too." Beta nodded. "Gajeel is the same."

Shirley was a little worried. "I can see that the power distribution in this city is a little strange. I wonder if it will affect our plan."

"We can ask someone about the City Lord." Beta smiled. "For example, Amanda."

The next afternoon, Amanda came to the hotel to report to Beta about the progress of the caravan recruitment.

She was wearing a white cotton-padded robe. Although the curves of her body could no longer be seen, she still gave off a sweet and innocent feeling.

After listening to the report, Beta invited her to sit down and said, "I went to the banquet last night, and then I discovered something strange. As the most powerful City Lord in Harvey, he didn't seem to be popular at the banquet. No one was willing to talk to him, and no lady asked him to dance. People all looked at him with disdain and hostility. I'm very curious. Do you know something? "

Amanda shook her head. "How can a small merchant like me know about the affairs of nobles?"

Smiling, Beta looked at her quietly for a while before saying, "One gold coin for information."

There was nothing wrong with the saying that businessmen pursued profits. As soon as Beta finished, Amanda's expression changed slightly. She shook her head again. "Sir, I really don't know."

"Five gold coins." Beta raised the price.

Amanda's expression was already very interesting. She was clearly hesitant. After a long while, she said, "Sir, I still don't know."

Beta said in admiration, "You really are a trustworthy merchant. You're so tight-lipped. But I believe that many people in the city know this. I wonder if they're like you. I'll go to the Mercenary Union later. Maybe they know something. "

"Wait. You don't have to go. " Amanda slammed the table and said helplessly, "Sir Beta, you really are my nemesis. You know that I have no resistance to gold coins, but you still used such a trick. That's so despicable … Now, can you give me the five gold coins?"

Five gold coins was a small amount for many small nobles, let alone a merchant like Amanda.

Beta took out five gold coins and put them on the table. Then he said, "If you have more valuable information, I'll give you one or two more gold coins."

"Okay." Amanda's eyes flashed.

Shirley, who had been standing nearby, came over too. She was quite interested in the matter.

Amanda took a deep breath and said, "The mayor you saw last night was only a mayor in name. Harvey hasn't had a mayor for more than three hundred years."

"What do you mean?" Beta was slightly confused. "This is Hollevin's land. If a mayor doesn't have a mayor, the royal family will appoint another one. How can there be no mayor, and for more than three hundred years?"

"I knew you would ask that, sir. My family has been here for more than four hundred years. I happen to know about this. "Amanda smiled." Please listen to me. You're free to ask any questions later. "

Beta made a gesture of invitation.

Amanda immediately began to tell the story.

As it turned out, three hundred years ago, Harvey had a mayor, but for some reason, all the men in the mayor's family died suddenly one day. Also, they died in terrible ways. They were cut in half by an unknown force, or they rose on the spot, as if they had suffered an invisible attack.

Within a day, all the men in the mayor's family died, leaving only the women and children. But those women and children were quickly devoured by other nobles. In less than five days, the mayor's family was all dead.

Hearing this, Beta frowned. The timing of three hundred years ago and the way the men in the mayor's family died made him think of an extremely bad possibility.

Then, in order to permanently control this stone city, the nobles of Harvey City banded together and put on a good show. They found a poor person in the city who looked like the successor of the city lord at that time and helped him to the position of city lord. Then, they controlled him from behind the scenes. Because of this, Royal City didn't know that the City Lord of Harvey City had been replaced, so they didn't assign a new City Lord.

Just like that, the noble families controlled Harvey for more than three hundred years. This was already an open secret in Harvey. Only outsiders didn't know about it.

"It's indeed an interesting story." Beta took out seven gold coins from his space and put them on the table. "You deserve it."

"How generous of a noble."

After complimenting Beta, Amanda left in a hurry with the coins.

Leaning back in his chair, Beta heaved a long sigh.

Shirley asked worriedly, "Master, you don't seem very happy."

"A little." Beta smiled bitterly. "If my guess is correct, I was probably the one who killed all the men in the mayor's family back then."

Shirley's eyes widened, "How is that possible? Although Master's manners and manners are very mature, I'm sure that your body is still very young. There's no way you're a three-hundred-year-old old man."

"It's true. I ordered all the adult men in the mayor's family to be killed. " Thinking for a moment, Beta said honestly, "That's why they ended up like that because of something strange that I can't explain to you."

Shirley hugged Beta's neck from behind and said gently, "So what if you killed them? I believe that you wouldn't kill for no reason, Master. "

Indeed, it wasn't for no reason. Betta remembered that back in the game, he had a serious conflict with the mayor of Harvey City, to the point that they were irreconcilable enemies. In the end, he led the Knight Legion and conquered Harvey … He personally ordered the execution of all the adult men in the mayor's family and the exile of all the female members.

He didn't expect that what happened in the game would be reflected in reality so faithfully.

What was even more unexpected was that the female members of the mayor of Harvey had all been killed by other nobles in reality. None of them were spared.

Beta was rather gloomy. He didn't regret what happened in the game, but he didn't expect that reality would be so cruel because of the game. It was almost like fate.

Although he didn't believe in fate, he wouldn't be manipulated by it.

Just as he was feeling melancholy, the waiter outside the door came in and said,

The mayor is paying a visit!