Moldavian Lord's Palace.
The senior maid Sorin is cleaning carefully as usual.
It was still cold in March in the North. Whether it was the biting and icy dry wind or the hazy pale clouds, it could be seen that the weather was not getting any warmer. But even so, Thorin only wore a pair of clothes. Wearing an ordinary maid outfit, she worked hard in the lord's mansion, cleaning every trace of dust in the gaps.
But what is strange is that there is no heating in the lord's mansion, and there is not even a fire lit. The average temperature in the corridor is minus five degrees. Why can the maid work freely in such an environment
The answer is actually very simple.
Because including the grooms and gardeners, all the staff in the Moldavia Lord's Mansion have Silver-level strength.
Not to mention minus five degrees, but minus twenty-five degrees, they can still work freely without feeling the slightest bit of cold.
The silver high-level berserker, the maid Solin, is now skillfully using a huge broom and rag that are comparable to a giant axe, cleaning the dust in the reception hall. It can be seen that the maid shuttles between giant dragon skulls and Among the demon heads, she showed no fear in the face of pressure that would frighten ordinary gold-level people. She even looked at the trophies of these lords with a somewhat friendly expression.
"Alas, the lord hasn't added any trophies here for a long time." She raised the special handkerchief in her hand and wiped the dust off a certain skull ornament, while sighing softly: "I guess I can't let it go."
It can be judged from the voice of this maid that she is not more than twenty years old. A Shirogane who is not twenty years old can be called a young and promising person anywhere, but in Molda In Lord Via's Mansion, she is just an extremely ordinary one among the many ordinary servants.
Even judging from Sorin's slightly short stature, which was obviously due to stunted growth due to malnutrition in childhood and adolescence, her past was unhappy and did not provide any support for her current strength.
All thanks to the lord.
Whenever Sorin thinks of her painful and hopeless life in the past, she can't help but recite this sentence silently.
Solin once lived in an ordinary town near the main city of Moldavia. It is said to be a township, but in fact, it is just a simple wooden building complex. It can only be said to be a gathering place, with more than fifty households and two to three hundred people living here, making a living by farming and hunting.
The climate in the North is not suitable for farming, but because of the rich soil, even a yearly harvest is enough for ordinary people to maintain their lives. However, it is just to survive, and there is no more room. Only the richest families in the village have the strength and tools to hunt—but even for them, every hunting is a gamble. No harvest is actually a good thing. If they encounter a monster and a few people die, Then a family that was still doing well might collapse completely.
This was the real life of ordinary residents in the Northland more than ten years ago - farming was not enough to eat, hunting was extremely dangerous, and there was even the threat of beast tide every year. Although, the existence of the Black Forest Fortress reduced the damage of the black tide to the territory to a minimum. The lowest, but every time a beast tide appears, the lord will increase the tax for that year to recruit new soldiers and compensate the families of the fallen.
There were originally seven members of Sorin's family. She had three younger brothers and one younger sister. As the eldest sister in the family, she had been helping her parents farm since she was ten years old. Her early hard work made her much smaller than her normal peers, but she This did not improve the family's life. Soon, with the outbreak of the magic wave one year, the Solin family, unable to make ends meet, had no choice but to sell Sorin to the main city to prevent the whole family from starving to death.
Sorin did not resent her parents who sold her, because it was a helpless choice. The harvest that year was not very good, and more than half of the winter wheat was lost to the violent monsters. In this world with extraordinary power, , Ordinary people without extraordinary strength are unable to fight against the group of monsters that are born with the ability to cast spells. When encountering these beasts, in addition to praying for a passing knight to defeat them, most of the villagers can only tremble and pray. The other party looks down upon his own skin and bones.
It was a really dark and helpless day.
Fortunately, the Lord Lord appeared.
While humming a little tune, Sorin concentrated on wiping the metal armors placed on both sides of the corridor. These metal armors seemed to have a tendency to come back to life due to the overflow of the Lord's power. Some other maids saw them some time ago. The way the metal armor patrols the corridor in the middle of the night. While wiping, she couldn't help but squint her eyes, and couldn't help but think of the day she happened to be sold into the lord's house that winter.
It was a winter of panic - the old lord who was kind and had never imposed any weird taxes suddenly passed away, and a group of unknown knights forcibly entered the main city, before everyone could figure out what was going on. At that time, the current lord returned, and neatly drove away the group of knights who came from God knows where. He also destroyed the old lord's mansion and began to recruit a brand new group of attendants.
I was really lucky, because I was pretty, stood up straight, and my voice was very powerful when answering questions. In addition, I looked very young and pitiful, so I immediately became a member of the new maid. A noble attendant.
At that time, this was the only opportunity for a civilian to change his destiny, apart from war and the church.
But now it seems that this fate may have changed a little bit.
Because when the lord has nothing to do, he actually gives professional lessons to these maids.
During the first lecture, Sorin and several other young attendants and maids were pulled into the large room on the underground floor. Originally, she thought that this was the Lord revealing his noble nature and preparing to treat these poor and helpless people. When the little maid who helped her took action, she was surprised to find that half of the people who were brought here were actually men. Just when Sorin was thinking about whether her lord had a good appetite, she discovered that the lord actually did not He was not going to take action against them, but instead taught them a new set of fighting spirit cultivation methods.
Although according to what the Lord Lord said, this practice method was thought up by himself and is a low-level method with no advantages other than being easy to popularize, how could the maid pray for more? Being able to practice cultivation itself is an opportunity that far surpasses 99% of the people in this world. No one can say a word other than crying with gratitude.
Not to mention that there will be subsequent updates such as 'Basic Exercises 0.8beta', 'Basic Exercises 0.9beta', 'Basic Exercises Official Version' and 'Advanced Exercises Deluxe Enhanced Edition'.
And this is just a small part of the huge changes brought about by the Lord.
Magic armor, Winterfort Academy, large-scale infrastructure renovation, gathering village residents, and centralized labor... As an ordinary maid in the Northland Lord's Mansion, Thorin certainly didn't understand the meaning of these inventions and policies, but she But I know that the lives of the residents of the North are getting better and better.
The emergence of magic armor and the rental industry have made it possible for even an ordinary person to easily complete farming work that might not have been completed in a month. In addition to 'magic armor for farming', there are also 'magic armors for mining'. Various categories such as hunting and infrastructure use have greatly reduced the labor intensity of ordinary people, and the emergence of Winter Castle has allowed many talented ordinary people to be discovered and educated as formal professionals.
Large-scale infrastructure reconstruction has connected all the scattered towns with a smooth and wide road. Many urban residents living scattered in the countryside have been gathered into the main city. Under the arrangement of the lord's palace, the surrounding areas around the Bufrog River have been restored. Sorin did not know the specific meaning of this policy, but she knew that since the implementation of this policy, she had never heard of anyone needing to sell their children to survive the winter. information.
With the emergence of the magic energy factory and the magic energy furnace core, the changes have become even greater - not to mention other industrial products and production line systems, who would have thought that there would be such a thing as heating in this world? My lord, this is simply the greatest invention in the north, bar none!
And this change has even spread to the whole world.
Moldavia seems to have become a strange example. Whenever it has any good reforms, other cities in the empire will learn from it immediately. Even if they fail to learn, His Majesty the Emperor will personally take action and let it learn. Come, and with the large-scale reforms within the empire, the eastern plains and the far south will naturally not fall behind. Even the most sluggish Xishan Kingdom will start trying in a few months at the latest.
It's not that the major forces don't have technology and don't want to innovate. The reason why they don't do so is just because it's not necessary.
Since it is not the nobles or the higher-ups who are suffering, then why should they change themselves for the suffering of the people at the bottom? Even if a large area of civilians starves to death, to the superior nobles, it is nothing more than the death of a walking crop. Although the current extraordinary people seem to have entered the bottom of Mycroft's world, and even in the countryside there may be a mid-level professional, Solin will not forget that more than ten years ago, those extraordinary people were condescending. It's like looking at ants.
If the lord had not taken the lead in implementing these policies with unbelievable strength, and His Majesty the Emperor also strongly supported it, and even killed groups of dissenters, would ordinary people also want to get involved in extraordinary power? This is absolutely impossible.
"Almost done."
Wiping away the non-existent sweat, Sorin looked at the area she was responsible for with no trace of dust with satisfaction, and then nodded.
Of course, even if she is an ordinary maid in the North, Sorin knows very well that there is no free dinner in this world, and there is no good thing for no reason, even for the lord.
Those big shots must need more professionals to complete their plans, so they spread extraordinary power on such a large scale... Maybe it's an unprecedented war, and there is an incredibly powerful enemy who needs them to be cannon fodder. ? Although it sounds a bit arrogant, other than this, the little maid who is not very knowledgeable really can't think of any reason.
But even if it is to be cannon fodder, even if it is to die.
Sorin didn't think there was anything unacceptable.
She is very happy now.
Nowadays, Sorin has friends and can be respected by others. She has strength and can live happily. According to the contract of the Lord's Mansion, she only needs to work until she is twenty to end the contract signed by her parents and get Being free, relying on her own professional level, even if the girl is not a maid, she can work as a guard anywhere, or find a serious job.
Today's Moldavia, and even the entire empire, the entire world is booming. Countless ancient industries have disappeared, but more new industries are booming. Through the relationship with the lord's house, Solin knows that there is a job to go to a factory in another world. , the salary there is five times that of Mycroft's homeland. Lord, that's five times the salary.
Human beings are inherently strange creatures who will risk their lives for illusory glory, hope, belief and future happiness. Sorin is not that noble, and she does not understand honor and belief. The little maid just knows very clearly that all the happiness and joy she has now belongs to the lords of Moldavia, the Radcliffe family. given to her.
People should know how to repay, at least learn to be grateful.
That's all.
"Solin, don't be in a daze! Miss Hei passed out in the pool again due to overtraining. Everyone else has work to do. You need to fish her out quickly - the pool will burn dry in a while!"
Suddenly, Thorin heard the voices of other maids. She immediately responded: "Okay!" After saying that, she raised the broom and walked quickly towards the backyard with small steps.
Alas, even if I am to be used as cannon fodder, maybe it won’t be my turn. The ordinary silver high-level berserker maid thought so. After all, I am so weak, so helpless, and so short.
at the same time.
High in the sky above the main city of Moldavia, a black-haired man and a white-haired old man were talking softly.
"'Ordinary people' like Solin, who can go from classless to high-level silver level in just seven or eight years just by being given normal living conditions and the most common basic cultivation methods, throughout Moldavia. , there are as many as eight thousand people."
Watching the little maid who was only about 1.4 meters tall and indeed relatively short, trotted all the way and dragged Hei Cong, who had fallen asleep due to overtraining, out of the pool of boiling water with one hand, Joshua said calmly: "If you give them With adequate nutrition and scientific training, I am confident that these 8,000 people can reach the golden realm before the age of forty. Among them, the more talented ones can advance before the age of thirty."
"And among these eight thousand people, there may be dozens of people who can advance to the ultimate level, and even give birth to a legendary powerhouse."
Second update
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