Free Web NovelChapter 646: Chapter 393: The Century Is Up—Welcome Faust’s Return
Even Susu had started chewing on her bread while listening to Faust’s story.
In the past, their understanding of this world came only from the stereotypes that fell from Faust’s lips, but after going through the events in Roland City, the two of them had gained a deeper grasp of how warped this world truly was.
Hearing Faust’s story again now carried a different flavor.
"My Lord Apostle, in this world, Innate Techniques have a chance of being passed down to one’s descendants."
"Here, Mystic Scholars are divided into Innate and Acquired. That distinction represents whether they are born with a bloodline Technique. Generally speaking, Innate Mystic Scholars are more specialized and can walk farther down a single path, whereas Acquired Mystic Scholars forcibly grasp mystical Techniques through knowledge—they are more well-rounded, but that also means more mediocre."
"Typically, the ratio between Innate and Acquired is about 1:3. Among those with Innate Techniques, commoners make up roughly half. Even though noble houses have a higher probability of passing down Innate Techniques, their numbers still fall far short of the commoners, and that results in the continued emergence of commoners who can wield bloodline Techniques."
Faust paused, then said, "In fact, Acquired Techniques are merely the study of other people’s bloodline Techniques. Within the nobility there might be countless Techniques preserved from their ancestors, or Innate Techniques taken from others, stored away for their descendants to study."
"Back then, even though the proportion of nobles among Mystic Scholars dwarfed that of commoners, commoners were still a force that could not be ignored."
Xue Dili nodded. He could more or less understand the structure of the world before Mephisto became an Apostle.
That is, the natives of this world are born with a talent called ’bloodline Technique.’ This talent is not some unique, personal superpower; rather, it can be copied or learned by others based on its Engraving structure.
This made Xue Dili think of the Great Sage’s race: a group known as "Demons," beings called Magic Elves by birth. The natives of this world seemed to possess a similar talent, though they were somewhat weaker than the Demons.
The nobility, then, were the families who, generation after generation, steadily accumulated more Techniques, and by stably inheriting their own bloodline Techniques and collecting data on others’ bloodline Techniques, monopolized them as knowledge, thus forming a distinct group.
This group could reliably pass down bloodline Techniques and monopolized portions of the records of learnable bloodline Techniques. These people were the earliest nobles of this world.
But at that time, no matter how the nobles tried to monopolize things, at most they could only achieve a monopoly over all Acquired Techniques, raising the threshold for commoners to study Mysticism to a nearly unreachable height. Yet they could not stop the birth of Innate Mystic Scholars.
Many children of commoner families even realized that their awakened Innate Techniques were their most precious treasure. So they imitated what the nobles had done, searching for ways to pass down their own Techniques, and racking their brains to obtain other people’s Technique Engravings or structures.
In this way, as long as a child or grandchild became a Mystic Scholar, there would be a great chance for the family to rise into the nobility.
But how could the old-line nobility possibly tolerate such a situation?
They were already enjoying the benefits of monopolizing Techniques and the Extraordinary. How could they endure latecomers sharing in their power? Latecomers even wanted to imitate the very path they had used to rise and squeeze into the ecological niche that belonged to the first arrivals?
Since when do those who came first have to quietly endure those who came later?
Mephisto grew up in precisely such a social environment.
At that time, the solution the nobles came up with was to absorb the majority of Innate Mystic Scholars into their families—investing in them while they were still young and studying, and in the end having them recruit other talented commoners for the Patriarch. This was still within the bounds of "normal."
Mephisto himself was one of those talents who could only pursue Mysticism thanks to aid from the Alben Family. In his youth, he suffered innumerable hardships in order to study mystical knowledge. Even though he was a Transmigrator, in this world he had no idea how much discrimination, bullying, and beatings he had to endure before things finally began to turn around.
This is why Faust could become the second seat of the Praise Society, and Harley Alben could become the third seat. Faust and the Alben Family had helped him when he was at his weakest, and this was his repayment in later years.
However, as Mephisto grew, more and more clear-sighted nobles discovered his value and began increasing their investment in him. By the time he became a God, he gathered together everyone who had ever invested in him and founded the Praise Society, to jointly govern this world.
"Jointly govern," so they said, but aside from Mephisto alone, everyone in the Praise Society was a noble!
Even Faust was a noble in every sense of the word.
And with Mephisto requiring only that the nobles beneath him deliver enough women each year as tribute, how do you think the nobles would act in such circumstances?
The world as it stands now is the complete and final answer.
A world where only gangs and prostitutes remain...
There are no more commoners. All "commoners" are merely the descendants of prostitutes. When girls reach a certain age, they either become prostitutes or are taken away, then disappear.
As for boys, the overwhelming majority are forcibly castrated, and then, under the effects of Magic Potions, turned into girls, only to meet exactly the same fate as those born female...
