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Chapter 1 automatic idling cultivation system
Starfire Town.
It is a frontier town of a declining kingdom, located to the west of the 'Magic Beast Mountain Range', the primary mountain range of the Yulan Continent.
The morning sun was just rising, and Starfire Town still held the lingering chill of the early morning. However, in the town's central plaza, a massive crowd of people was currently engaged in morning exercises.
In Starfire Town, whether they were full-grown men or children of seven or eight, everyone would perform short morning exercises in this plaza when the sun rose.
In the central plaza, the warmth of the sun shone upon the trees beside the open space, leaving only dappled spots of light on the ground.
As time passed, the adult men finished their brief morning exercises and began their day's work. The remaining group consisted of half-grown children, roughly two hundred in number, who were divided into two teams.
Both teams were divided into several rows, and the children stood quietly in the open space, their expressions serious.
Among these children, the smaller group consisted of only fifty or sixty, aged between six and ten.
The other team consisted of youths aged ten to fifteen or sixteen.
The two teams were clearly separated, and in front of the children stood a burly middle-aged man wearing a white sleeveless vest and coarse cloth trousers.
This burly middle-aged man was the youth instructor of Starfire Town, named Cavin, a Sixth-level Warrior.
At this moment, the instructor looked serious. With his hands behind his back, his head held high, and a cold gaze, he observed the group of children. Seeing them all pursing their lips and staring at him with wide, dark eyes, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "If you want to become a great warrior, you must train diligently from a young age."
"You are all commoners. You do not have the powerful dou qi secret manuals that only the great nobles possess. If you want to get ahead, if you want to avoid being looked down upon in the future, you must train using the oldest, simplest, and most basic methods: exercise your bodies and temper your strength. Do you understand!"
"Understood!" the group of youths shouted loudly.
"Very good."
Among the youths, the children under ten were mostly still naive, coming here to train for hours every day just to avoid being looked down upon by their peers. However, the youths over ten had determined gazes, for they all understood the truth contained in those words.
In the Yulan Continent, almost every child works hard to train from a young age, regardless of gender. Because if they do not train diligently, they will be looked down upon in the future, have no status, and certainly no strength or wealth.
A man without strength will be looked down upon by women, and this same principle applies to women as well.
Because they want to make their parents proud, want to achieve glory in the future, want to earn the approval of their peers, and want to gain the favor of the opposite sex.
They must become great warriors.
Because they are all commoners, lacking those precious dou qi secret manuals and rarely having access to magic, their only path is to train their bodies and temper their strength from a young age. If they can successfully pass the Public Security Team's assessment, their families will be respected by the entire Starfire Town.
This is the ideology instilled by the lord, 'Carl Talos'.
Not far from the central plaza, there was a group of stone houses built with bluestone; that was the place with the highest status in the entire Starfire Town: the Public Security Team.
It was a unit directly under the command of the lord, 'Carl Talos'. In the entire Starfire Town, everyone took pride in joining the Public Security Team.
The Talos Family was situated behind the Public Security Team. It was an old mansion, and every time a member of the patrol walked past it, they looked at the residence with reverence.
In the hall of the mansion sat a man wearing black robes, with a resolute face and a mustache, quietly drinking the herbal tea in his hand.
It was hard to imagine that this man, who appeared to be only thirty, was actually over two hundred years old.
As a Ninth-level Warrior, Carl Talos had a lifespan of up to five hundred years; if calculated by the lifespan of an ordinary person, he had only lived halfway through it.
To the right of Carl Talos sat a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. However, there was a hint of urgency on his face, though his decades of upbringing made him very clear that it was best not to interrupt his father while he was drinking tea.
At this moment, Carl Talos held his teacup, mechanically sipping the still-warm tea, but his gaze was fixed on the Void Realm before him, seemingly unfocused.
A pale blue screen, visible only to him, was flickering slightly, with numbers appearing on it from time to time.
This was the Golden Finger belonging to Carl Talos.
[automatic idling cultivation system]
Just as the name of the System implies, it allowed Carl Talos to automatically Cultivate. It was precisely because of the existence of the System that Carl was able to, over a long period of time, step by step cross the barriers of the Seventh-level and level 8, and finally enter the ranks of the Ninth-level Warrior.
In the Yulan Continent, everyone takes pride in working hard to Cultivate, because Cultivate truly brings an increase in strength, and can bring wealth and status.
However, in the Yulan Continent, those with talent are always just a small handful at the tip of the pyramid, while most people are just ordinary folks with average talent.
And for these commoners with ordinary talent, even if they Cultivate diligently from a young age, their own talent from birth limits their upper potential.
The Sixth-level Warrior and Seventh-level Warrior stages are one of the barriers of this talent.
Those with insufficient talent, no matter how hard they work, cannot cross this barrier to become a Seventh-level Warrior.
A Seventh-level Warrior can easily live for two or three hundred years. Relying on the power of Qi, they are even capable of single-handedly annihilating a thousand-man army; this is the true cornerstone of the kingdom.
If one does not become a Seventh-level Warrior, even if one has a fortune, there will come a day when it is all exhausted. Because the Yulan Continent is not peaceful, one might, amidst various twists and turns, lose that precious dou qi secret manual, lose that stable home, and from someone in a high position, gradually become a commoner.
In the Yulan Continent, within every major kingdom, there is an iron law.
If one does not become a Seventh-level Warrior, one shall not be ennobled, nor awarded land.
Carl Talos belonged to the commoners with ordinary talent. Originally, as someone who had undergone Transmigration, Carl had once considered himself extraordinary. He had trained diligently with the town's instructor at the age of six, became a First-Level Warrior at fourteen, and reached the level of a Second-Level Warrior when he joined the army.
Upon reaching sixteen, a First-Level Warrior could easily join the army.
However, after ten years of military life, having luckily survived until retirement, he was merely a Fourth-level Warrior.