NOTE: Go look at the auxiliary chapter for information about the power ranks and scaling.
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"Hmm hmmm hm hm hmmm..." Eren hummed peacefully as he woke up. Two maids immediately entered his room with a pair of clean and neatly folded clothes. The classic medieval-times noble clothes.
Eren wanted to protest against having to wear such clothes, but it was no use. He had been reincarnated into another world. And as the 5th child of a poor baron at that!
He thought he would live a leisure life in the baron household but he was way off. In fact, he even had to work around the house and in the small fields just like some of the farmers he saw every day.
Yeah, his family governed a small town with about 10,000 people as the total population. Despite being a poor baron's child, Eren still lived better than the commoners in the village.
Every once in a while he could eat both meat and bread, but the commoners could only eat such things every once in a blue moon. Naturally, Eren thought this was unbelievable and wanted to change things.
But, even when he tried, he became aware of the truth. His family didn't have enough meat or wealth to donate any to the commoners. Eren found out that it was his 3rd sister, Lydia, that would go hunting every now and then for animals.
Unfortunately, she'd return home injured every time. Thus, she would be bedridden for a week or so every time.
Luckily, that didn't stop her from hunting at all. In fact, her body would grow stronger each time she recovered from an injury. Though, this wasn't enough to change the outcome of her hunts.
"Mother, I believe I'll have the strength of an Iron-Grade cultivator in due time. If I can endure these injuries for maybe half a year, then I'm confident! Once that happens, I'll definitely hunt more animals for us!"
As Eren walked down the stairs, he saw Lydia talking to his mother at the dinner table. The first thing he noticed was her crimson-red hair that matched both her mother and father's hair.
Eren and his family were a bunch of handsome and beautiful redheads that earned the approval of the commoners in the village. Eren's short red hair was even purer colored than Lydia's.
And his golden-yellow eyes made him seem like a dangerous treasure. A mound of gold stained with crimson-red blood!
Eren slowly walked down the brown wooden stairs of the manor, approaching the dinner table and sitting down. There he noticed his 1st and 4th brothers were eating.
His first brother, Frederick, and his fourth brother, Cameron, were scarfing down the meat and bread on their plates. They mostly spent their days lounging around in the house, bored out of their minds.
They didn't like hunting with Lydia because she only fought from a distance with her wooden bow. They, on the contrary, wanted to fight animals up close with swords!
But since the family's wealth was rather low, they couldn't afford anything they didn't need. Plus, Eren's parents weren't trying to gather wealth or do anything about their financial situation.
All they did was have unreal amounts of s*x every night. At one point it even drove Eren crazy how much they did it.
And the crazy part about it was that Eren used to watch certain videos every other day in his previous life. He never once thought in his life that he'd get tired of s*x or anything related.
But here his parents somehow made that non-existent thought a firm reality.
"Eren, how did you sleep? I heard from one of the maids that you were having trouble sleeping the other night." Eren's mother, Moriya, said. Her hand slowly tearing apart the piece of bread on the plate.
"Uhh... I slept pretty nicely last night. I was even rather upset that I had woken up this morning!" Eren lied. Half of what he said was true, while the other half was a blatant lie.
But his parents would never know because they were far too concerned with their nightly activities to think that it might be hindering their son from sleeping!
Eren quickly began eating the bread on his plate before drinking the glass of milk near him. After finishing his breakfast, Eren left the table and went off somewhere.
He unbuttoned some of the buttons on his stuffy clothes so he could breathe properly.
'Who knew being the child of a noble was so difficult?' Eren went outside and observed the small field of wheat his family grew every year. It was their only source of income besides the pelt Lydia would sell every few weeks.
Without this piece of farmland to grow wheat, Eren was sure his family would have already been demoted from a house of nobles to mere commoners.
He helped the farmers tending to the wheat. He watered it and everything afterward before visiting an area surrounded by apple trees. These trees were the last resort for the poor noble household.
If all else went sideways, they'd desperately rely on these 5 apple trees to bring them small amounts of wealth.
Though, the chances of anyone buying some random apples were extremely low.
Eren sighed at his dull fate and headed back to the manor. Though, before he entered the manor he heard loud rumbling coming from the forest nearby. It already looked creepy enough, and the rumbling from within made Eren approach the manor even quicker.
He soon realized what the rumbling was and immediately rushed towards his family. Luckily, they were still at the table quietly eating.
"Mother, father, there's a beast tide!" He anxiously shouted. His parents' faces instantly went pale as they jumped out of their seats and ran to one specific space. Eren knew where his family was going; the panic room.
It was a room installed in the manor in case something of emergence like this would happen. Eren was grateful it was still there, or else he wouldn't have known what would become of him and his family.