"Five, maybe six at most," Arthur knew this would bring more mockery from John, yet he didn't object on giving this devastated man some space to forget his humiliating present and bitter past.
After rounds and rounds of John's usual rant about how optimistic Arthur was, Arthur returned to ask him again about this world.
"So everyone here is mages?" he asked.
"All the free men and women here are with systems, but slaves are people without systems and so they all are considered to be the low scum of this world."
"They all came running here from lower realms?"
"Not at all, most of them were born here just like me," John corrected him before adding, "yet who was a child to a slave remains so until his master releases him. And this is considered a very rare occasion, extremely rare indeed."
