The Overlord Divine Kingdom is a place where strong eats the weak, talented lowborn people would be executed immediately without a chance to pluck their wings to the sky. But luckily, Divine Soaring Kingdom has left the scums with two choices: One is to be their slave for a lifetime and be nurtured, protected by them. Second, reject and you'll immediately be executed!
Here, humble family, noble family, the royal family had the highest authority, countless struggling among themselves were constant. But ultimately, the Royal Family held much authority than the rest, as the others were merely subordinates or cannon folder.
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Wasteland City is the outer region of the Overlord Divine Kingdom in short, the slum right regional area is where the martial commoner reside.
Today, the sky hangs out a warm light, sun floated there in the east, giving out some heat that bearable to humans. The present sky was exuding a wonderful and calm scenery, but below this in the scum area, there was a dirt-covered youth, ragged clothed, disheveled hair, and a filthy face, leaning against the wall with a terrified expression. His hands curled up to his feet as he rested to the broken walls from his back, looking at him carefully, his body was clearly trembling every second, shivering in cold, cowardice clearly visible to his face.
His eyes were presently staring at the red-blood that scattered in the ground. As he thinks about the commoner that was executed a while ago, he could not but vomit.
Not long ago, there was a man that awakens a grade C talent. A 'C' talent was hailed as a Genius, but due to his not worth mentioning background, a general from the Divine Soaring Kingdom immediately came over after hearing the news that a commoner awakened a Grade C talent. The man was left with the usual two choices, but the man had an unyielding, stubborn nature, that ultimately leads him to his demise and was executed in the spot due to him disagreeing to become their slave, then he was brutally executed, splitting his body half. This event both give fright and fear towards the commoners who witnessed the execution, including this dirt-covered youth.
"Wh-what is this world? Is this the really the idiom of 'Strong eats the Weak' on the web novels I read?" The youth muttered a strange dialogue. However, it was not weird for him to talk like this, for he was not from this world.
This dirt-covered youth named Long Tian, a domineering name that could make everyone shine their eyes with admiration and fright. Long Tian was a man that cross-over from a different world called Earth. That place earth was heavily protected, laws are needed to comply, committing a serious crime could lead to one's death or jailed out. But in this world, there was no law, only the strength spoke above, and power eats the weak. He possessed a youth that was beaten to death, a useless piece of sh*t, that identity lower than the surface of a bottomless chasm.
Because he died from his phone explosion, he luckily crosses from this world three days ago, instead of dying. At first, he was laughing with delight, until he inherited the memory of the previous owner, also witnessing this frightening scene. His desire of being transmigrated and becoming the Main Character was instantly extinguished and wished that he was not given a second chance on this life.
If we talk about his talent, he was merely an E- talent, the lowest of lowest, hence most of the people here never cared for him except for one person. In fact, the previous owner of this body was beaten to death for a mere rough bread!
D*mn you!! Giving me a second chance, but instead, giving worse luck?
Long Tian sighed, calming his fearful emotion, he supported his knees and stood up, walking towards the central region of the scums.
The road was filled with filth fragrance, mud splashed the road, many filth covered people squatted from the erratic walls, their expression was the same with his, trembling and spiritless. He walks deeper from the scum central region, and saw hut that was built with worse materials that one could find from the endless seas; probably garbage for the silver-plates. He then saw people that were much better from those people, that had no huts to rest in.
If he had just possessed a body from a wealthy family, and a talent that could compete with others. Long Tian sighed as he thought about his current life.
In this world, the talent was divided into the lowest E- class to the highest A+. In the descending to ascending order, it was like this: E-, E+, D, C, B, A-, A+. It was like an order of test worksheets from schools in the modern earth, but the only difference that this grading was the one that decides the fate of whether a person would become an expert or not.
In the Divine Soaring Kingdom, the highest talent had awakened were merely B grade, and they were hailed as a monstrous genius. A- and A+ were merely legend from tales, that no one had awakened for thousand of years. Having a B grade talent could be specified that person would eventually reach the Earth Realm. But to a person like Long Tian who had the worst talent could only look from afar.
Soon, Long Tian arrived in a broken bridge, below this bridge, was an unclean stream flooding from right to the left. People sh*ts also flows along the waves, which made it very disgusting to look at. This stream was where the commoner of scums area p**p, cleaned their clothes off. Long Tian shook his head when he looked at this as he walks in the broken bridge with cautious strides for it was rusty and seems to crumble in any second. As a person from the modern earth and a person who likes clean things, Long Tian was scared to fall from the stream and rot his body with others' p**p, which only worsen his smelly self.
After a few minutes, he crossed the broken bridge with beads covered his forehead. He then spent another ten minutes to arrive in a shabby broken hut.
Stepping his way in, Long Tian saw a bearded old man, naked upper garment, tattered pants, revealing his burned skin. This old man was the one that had the highest talent of the scums, an E+ talent. Hence, this shabby broken hut that was much way better than the previous one was specially assembled by him, and also this was the only person who takes care of the previous owner of the body.
"Xiao Che, did you saw that again?" The old man sighed as he revealed a golden tooth, wrinklies showing its luster. His face was extremely ugly to the point where no one wanted to look at him, mainly the scars from both cheeks made him 60% ugly and 40% wicked. But to Long Tian, this smile was warm after fusing with the memories of the previous owner.
Xiao Che was the name of the previous owner of this body, and this old man was called Old Ye, no one knows his real name as he never interacts with others that much, excluding, Long Tian who had the same charisma and endeavor with this old man.
"Grandpa Ye, I saw that again." Long Tian sighed. The thing that they were talking about was pretty obvious, and that's the scene where the man was executed. People dying in the scums are common thing happened daily from them, hence some are getting used to it, while Long Tian still couldn't strengthen himself in that lawless killing that was rare from his previous life, even he had spent three days from this world.
"Xiao Che, sigh, I said that just stay here and don't leave, or you can just go at the back river from the forest, catch some fish, and enjoy life. How about you come along with me today?" Grandpa Ye suggested as he said.
Looking from his eyes, one could see that there was a hope Long Tian would agree to his request, and thus Long Tian won't be able to see that brutal scene temporarily, for youth like him that was around 15 years old.
Long Tian could only inwardly sighed as he agrees. His life was already predestined to end up a common life, why he shall not agree to his request? Especially to an old man that took care of him?
Hence, Long Tian merely nodded and smiled.
"Great! Now let's go!" Grandpa Ye excitedly grab the types of equipment for fishing, grabbing the hands of Long Tian as they dashed towards the forest.
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A time that takes to burned an incense stick, Long Tian and Old Ye arrived in the river. The scenery was different from the stream in the broken bridge. The waters were clean, lush trees stood there surrounding the river. Looking around, there were also people sitting in the corner, fishing out some fish in the river; These people were clearly commoners like Long Tian and Old Ye.
The reason this place was not tainted was that this is where the commoners would grab their food to eat. If they tainted this place and polluted it with p**ps and filths, the fish would be long dead, unable to survive in this environment. Also, the river was in spiral form, hence it was different from the stream, where it flows, disappearing in their sight. In short, this was a sacred place for commoners like them.
Old Ye gawked around for a while, before noticing an empty area and sat there along with Long Tian. Old Ye opened his 5 meters length bag, opening it revealed two wooden fishing rod. He then pulled the two wooden fishing rod and gave the other one to Long Tian, grabbing, opening the pouch on his waist, he put it down in the middle between him and Long Tian, pulling out baits for the fish.
"Haha, come, Xiao Che, let's catch thousands of fish." He laughed and started to drown his fishing rod. Long Tian was an advanced guy, who experiences this thing through watching videos from the web. Hence, he also grabs baits and skillfully putting it on the tip of the crook and throws it into the river as he held the rod with two hands.
Soon, twelve minutes pass, Long Tian and Old Yu were talking to the point where Old Ye suddenly spoke words.
"Xiao Che, do you want to know why the Nobility suppressed us, commoners?"
Long Tian was stunned as he shook his head and asked. "No... do you know why? Grandpa Ye?"
Long Tian was definitely interested in the reason nobles suppressed them, commoners who had no advantage towards the path of cultivation, even if they would reach a decent realm, they were still worst from their heirs, right? In the web novels he read before, royalties allowed commoners to practice, and even to the point, they would nurture commoners who had great talents. Thus, comparing the novels he read and his current predicament, was totally different from what he expected, so he was curious why.
Old Ye was silent for a while as he said like he was a knowledgable person. "Xiao Che, Today's current situation all started because of an event roughly two thousand years ago, before commoners were eligible to practice martial arts at ease, royalties wouldn't bother with them, in fact, they would even nurture them into an expert. But that all changes when a youth awakened the legendary A- talent that sent surprised to the Overlord Divine Kingdom. As that man awakened an A- talent grade, he was of course nurtured by the royalties itself. There was no problem at all, and seven years passed that time, that man stepped into the cultivation comparable to some peak expert of Overlord Divine Kingdom."
"But, unexpectedly, that man fell in love with a woman that was engaged with the crown prince. The both of them love each other dearly and consummated each other, not long after that, the man's woman was pregnant, as the news spread in the kingdom, the crown prince who was engaged with the woman was enraged hearing the news. Hence the man was ordered to be executed only ended up escaping as the woman he loves sacrifices herself for his escape. The man was furious and enraged due to that, as he, later on, battled the peak expert of Divine Soaring Kingdom. He killed many as well the crown prince, but he was also injured and then disappeared after that."
"Then the Overlord Divine Kingdom suffered miserable defeat and lost countless of experts. Thereafter, the emperor establishes two choices for commoners to choose, whether to become their slaves or not, executed!" Old Ye narrated as his eyes were showing emotions that Long Tian didn't understand. Old Ye shook his head and focused on the fishing rod he was holding.
Then, Long Tian nodded his head, finally understanding the history of the reason why the Divine Soaring Kingdom killed off talented figures of commoners. They would kill them if they wouldn't submit, and if they did, they would imprint a lifetime slave mark on their soul. This was really cruel for the commoners to accept. Long Tian sighed, as suddenly the fishing rod on his hand made restless movements and with a pull, he caught a fist-sized fish.
Then at the same time, he also suddenly heard a mechanical voice on his head.
[Ding!]
[Host had acquired a fish; Type: Ordinary, Rarity: Common, Experience Value:10]
[Ding!... The Host had finally triggered the activation of the Divine Limitless System. Rewarding the Host with a 'First Player Gift Pack', Congratulations to the player.]
[The system is officially launched! Would the Host like to open the status button?]