Chapter 1 The Freedmen of the Eighth Block
"clang!"
"clang!"
The heavy ironclad sounded, the fire in the house was strong, and the steaming hot Romon's black face turned slightly red.
He was naked, his bronze-colored muscles, and his hideous scars trembled regularly with the movements of the iron.
The burning wrought iron deformed little by little under his movements, and the standard iron sword blank gradually took shape.
Standing opposite, a boy about ten years old was about to touch, and he grabbed a fiery red iron sword embryo with iron pliers and threw it into a stone pool.
The cold clear water blends with the fiery red iron sword embryo, and a large fog is instantly simmering.
Romon picked up a dirty towel from the shelf, wiped his face and sweat randomly, and said to the little boy:
"Ace, Dad, I'll go to the tavern on the east end of the street to quench your thirst. When you come back, you have to polish the sword blank, otherwise you'll be careful of your butt."
"I know, I know."
Ace didn't raise his head, skillfully clamped up the sword blank and threw it on the iron stone with the remaining Mars.
"I don't care if you go to drink, don't fight with others when you get drunk like last time. Not only will my mother and I have to go to the municipal square to pay the fine, you've also been whipped twenty times."
"You little brat," Romon's black face turned redder, like an old cat with hair blown.
"That time it was someone else who provoked him, Ulu insulted your grandfather's grandfather, citizen Nar.
Your ancestors followed the great city-builder Ronalmus, escorting the people from the pursuit of the ice demon, passed the thirteen trials, came to the promised land of the elegant goddess, and established the rich and powerful city-state of Medemus."
Romon gasped and said loudly: "We are not an ordinary family of free peoples, my son, you must remember that we are descendants of citizens and have honors that we must uphold."
“Yes, of course, the honor of ancestors must be maintained.
But the wallet at home is also very dry. We need to control our anger and devote ourselves to the efforts to regain citizenship, such as asking me to read and read, rather than hitting this damn sword blank."
Ace replied calmly.
He raised an iron hammer that was about half a person tall, and beat the sword blank "clang" and polished the surface of the sword blank gradually smooth.
Romon opened his dry mouth, trying to say something but couldn't say it.
Looking at his calm and busy son, he sighed, turned around and left the door, muttering, "I get it."
Ace picked up the sword blank from the iron stone and walked to the sharpening stone.
The sound of "Hoho" sharpening the sword sounded rhythmically. Ace skillfully grinded the sword blank, but his mind returned to three years ago.
He was reincarnated as a scientific researcher from the Earth. He remembered that he had just passed through time and was sucked into his mother's fetus in a trance.
Only when he was seven years old did he awaken the incomplete memories of his previous life. He forgot a lot and remembered a lot.
The skyscrapers and vehicles are flowing, and computers and smartphone entertainment are emerging one after another. They are all gone and can no longer be reached.
With the fusion of memories for two lives, he had a high fever. Thanks to the careful care of his mother in this life, he slowly survived the side effects of memories.
Children don’t know much, but they can at least speak the common term in this area. They have a complete family and are considered a serious local resident.
After consciously understanding, listening to Romon's bragging, listening to my mother's myths and stories, and not letting go of every sing and performing by the bard, I finally understood the world roughly.
There seem to be gods in this world, and they live in the invisible and invisible Mount Kaya.
The city-state of Medemus, where he lives, is located, in the southern part of the Salia Peninsula, the promised land of the goddess of grace.
The king of the city state is the son of the elegant goddess, Ronalmus, the founder of the city.
"Since there are gods, there should be extraordinary existence."
Ace thought so and was always paying attention to the surrounding phenomena.
The nobles of the city-state are indeed far superior to ordinary people's strength, speed, bounce and reaction. Ordinary people, including soldiers of the city-state, cannot be compared with the nobles with half-aged children.
I heard that in the wilderness outside the city-state, there are many monsters wandering around with all kinds of extraordinary abilities.
Ace used the child's talent for asking why, and asked many people how they could be like nobles.
The answers I got were that the nobles were the blood descendants of the gods, were born far beyond ordinary people, and were the human rulers of divine destiny, and mortals could not become them.
A world where there are certainly extraordinary creatures, but they are destined to be a mortal, Ace is a little unwilling to accept it.
However, he has a good mentality. He is in a low position now and has too few contacts, so the information he gets is extremely limited.
Only by entering the middle and upper levels of the city-state can you obtain more information and have more opportunities.
Even if not, their extraordinary secrets may not be able to be discovered by capturing wandering monsters and even extracting the blood of nobles in the future.
Ace's goal gradually became clear and became the middle and upper class of the city-state, that is, citizens.
The Medemus city-state is a young colonial city-state. It has only been a hundred years since its establishment. It is full of vitality and has the ambition to actively expand externally.
The city-state is surrounded by barbarian tribes and wandering monsters, which are far away from other civilized countries.
The most recent group of civilized countries is in the northern part of the Salia Peninsula, so this is a very martial and enlarged city-state.
The city-state of Medemus is the promised land of the graceful goddess Medea. His direct blood descendants, the son of God, ruled here, is the top of the pyramid of the city-state, and is followed by nobles, citizens, free people and slaves.
As for how to become a citizen, Ace has heard his father talk many times, and there are three conditions for free people to become citizens:
One is to learn literacy, the other is to hold a low-level public office for more than three years, and the third is to make achievements equivalent to ten people.
Any citizen who fails to meet the above three articles after three generations will automatically lose his citizenship rights.
In other words, Ace's family fell just in the decline of Romon's generation, from a citizen family to a free family.
Romon is a good city-state man with a burly figure, and has good sword and shield fighting skills. He has brought his own weapons and armor several times. He joined the army as a heavy infantryman, and has cut the heads of more than a dozen barbarian warriors and killed several monsters.
The only disadvantage is that he is not smart enough and cannot learn words. He cannot pass the exam until he is thirty-five and eventually loses his citizenship.
He also lost a series of rights to citizens' preferential treatment, the most favorable tax rate rights, the right to reduce crimes, the right to annuity rights, the right to participate in the government of the citizens' congress, and the 500-person meeting.
You cannot live in the first block with the best security, you can only move to the eighth block in the south of the city, making a living by mocking the city and residents.
When Romon was young, he worked hard to inherit the rights of his citizenship until he completely lost his citizenship and spent almost all the wealth left by his ancestors. He considered his marriage and took a look at it with Marina, the freeminant of the Eighth District, Ace's mother, and settled it down.
More than ten years have passed, and Romon is already in his forties. He has gradually become a skilled blacksmith and has his own stable home in the Eighth Block.
He loves drinking and always spends all his family savings, so he has no financial resources for Ace to read.
Chapter completed!