I Became the Progenitor Vampire - Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Recker’s Longing, I Want~

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A credit system?

What is a credit system?

Many faces were full of questions.

Lide didn’t leave the crowd in doubt for long and began to explain directly.

“In the future, Dawn City will measure your contributions to the city with a credit system.

The land will permanently belong to Dawn City, but it can be distributed to you for farming. For the first three years, you will need to pay thirty percent of your harvest as taxes.

Land distribution will begin tomorrow morning.

After three years, as long as your credits reach 10 points, you will only need to pay twenty percent as taxes.

Once you reach 20 points, you will only need to pay ten percent as taxes.”

The crowd was stirred with excitement. They only had to pay thirty percent of their income in taxes? And with credits, they could pay even less after three years?

By the goddess above, this was a divine blessing.

In the outside villages and towns, even if you owned your own land, the taxes paid to the nobles each year reached forty percent, or even half… because the nobles held power and could offer them protection.

“Moreover, this winter, I will establish schools and a Mage Tower in Dawn City.

The first commoners to earn 10 points of credit can send their children to school to learn knowledge and magic.”

Lide continued to drop bombshells, not allowing the crowd much time to discuss.

“Strive to earn credits within three years, because after three years, if you have 20 points of credit, you can apply to become official residents of Dawn City.

If after three years, any commoners haven’t obtained 20 points of credit, they will have to move away from Dawn City to live in the villages outside the city.”

Lide’s words brought a strong impact to the crowd below.

The fact that land distribution was taking place tomorrow settled everyone’s nerves, and the news of constructing the Mage Tower and starting schools in the winter was an unexpected joy.

But what was concerning to them was the possibility of being evicted from Dawn City if they couldn’t get 20 points of credit within three years.

Whether they were newcomers or the first to arrive.

The Bloodline had managed Dawn City for over a hundred years, making it more exquisite than Green City. The aesthetic of the Bloodline was beyond question; the city was beautiful.

For peasants who had always lived in villages, this great city was far better than their dilapidated little towns and villages.

No one wanted to leave the lively, spacious, clean city to return to the desolate, remote villages.

As the crowd buzzed with conversation, Lide’s tone didn’t pause for a second and he continued.

“Credits will become the most important wealth for you in Dawn City.

If you can obtain 100 credits, regardless of age, gender, or origin

I will confer upon you the title of a Knight of Dawn City, and bestow upon you nobility status.”

The crowd that was somewhat tense unconsciously swallowed, their hearts uncontrollably racing.

Just to be granted nobility status with 100 credits.

By the goddess above, this was a heavenly favor, praise the goddess, praise the Holy Light Bloodline!

Below, Recker, with a parched mouth and tongue, almost couldn’t suppress an idea that rose up uncontrollably in that moment.

Nobility, I want to become nobility!!

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In a world where the nobles wield absolute power, it is almost impossible for commoners to become nobles. The social stratification is more solid than the mountains, and the pathways to ascendancy have long been blocked by the power-controlling nobles.

In the Nolan Empire, perhaps only a few hundred people are granted new noble status each year, and the majority of them are due to military exploits, with the old mage lords making up seventy percent of that number.

This is why becoming a mage is so popular; it’s the only known path to the ruling class for a commoner, aside from risking their life on the battlefield.

But now, a lord who commands vast lands and bears a dignified identity has publicly declared that as long as they can earn enough points and make sufficient contributions to this city, regardless of their identity, gender, or age, they will be granted noble status.

This is indeed a joyous occasion.

“Being granted noble status means you can send your children to a Mage Tower school to study magic for free. Regardless of whether your children have the Talent for it, the Dawn City Mage Tower will turn them into high and mighty mage lords. Of course, the prerequisite is that you earn 100 points.”

“How do we earn points?

It’s simple. The allocated land only needs to be taxed on time each year, and you can earn one point each year. In the future, we will open more channels to earn points.”

Finally, Lide took a pause, his eyes burning as he gazed at the crowd below. The point system could be said to be the foundation of Dawn City’s future development; its power is currently known only to him.

“Twenty points are needed to become an official resident of Dawn City?

Besides earning one point annually through taxes, how else can we earn points? I don’t want to leave this city.”

“Earning 100 points will grant us noble status, by the Goddess above, do we also have a chance to become high and mighty nobility?”

“Officers of the Security Team, do you know what’s the deal with the points? Apart from planting crops and collecting taxes, how else can we earn points?”

The crowd was like boiling water, buzzing with heated discussion.

The depth charge that Lide dropped was truly too explosive.

Put aside the matter of land, everyone was mentally prepared for that, but the sudden introduction of the point system was an incredibly pleasant and unexpected surprise.

Accumulating 100 points would grant noble status, by the Goddess above, that’s nobility, high and mighty nobility!!

He never dared to dream that he could one day become a noble; they were just a group of farmers who dealt with the land. How exalted were the nobility!

But now an opportunity lay before them. Although it’s still unclear how difficult it will be to earn 100 points, there’s hope, isn’t there?!

In truth, Lide greatly underestimated the weight a noble title held in the eyes of the commoners. As the unquestionable ruling class, nobles wielded so much power they could arbitrarily execute commoners without legal repercussions, and any commoner who offended a noble would face severe punishment.

Nobility, the dominant class holding the fate of their inferiors, possessed absolute power and strength.

Becoming a noble was almost every commoner’s ultimate aspiration.

Most of these people lived in border villages and small towns, with absolutely no avenues for upward mobility. Some of them hadn’t left the places where they lived for hundreds of years and dozens of generations.

Giving them hope to become nobles was undeniably opening their channels of ascent, providing them with a strong sense of hope.

If land is the lifeblood, then becoming a mage or a noble is the light they see, the enticing cake drawing them forward.

Even Recker, a level 7 warrior who had once been a mercenary in Nolan City, the capital of the Nolan Empire, with no lack of experience, could not resist this temptation.

Although logic told him that it would certainly be difficult to earn these new points,

He was fearless. The land captured his heart, and the talk of nobility seized his soul.

He, Recker, would undoubtedly become a noble of Dawn City.

Praise the great Holy Light Bloodline, praise the Kachar City Lord!

Lide looked down at the crowd below, which was in a fervent uproar, with a calm expression on his face. Giving a slap then a sweet date was the best way to manage the people.

Now that they had the sweet date, next would come the slap.

Thinking of the troublemakers from the Wild Wolf Gang tonight and the recently subdued blasphemers, his eyes turned slightly colder.