Black sail

Chapter 630 X. Cost-effectiveness

Gurege's former glory is no longer there, and it has been declining ever since.

And those magnificent buildings from thousands of years ago still stand tall, making everyone here immersed in the untouchable ancient prosperity.

Lostra is already a constitutional monarchy, where the prime minister is elected by party leaders, then goes through a certain degree of public opinion polls, and is finally appointed by the monarch.

Although Alan is a military government under the emperor's dictatorship, it is not entirely without flaws. Its quick decision-making and strong execution capabilities, as well as the use of force, can effectively suppress opposition and rebellion and maintain social stability. Its non-partisan nature also helps to avoid political infighting to a large extent.

However, Gureg's rigid feudal monarchy could no longer keep up with the times. The imperial power had never been out of control and the influence of the court lasted forever, but it led to many disasters for the country.

The aging hero is trapped in the web of the past. Even though the magical revolution has completely destroyed the embankment of distant years, he still guards the ruins and refuses to sail away.

In the courtyard deserted by time, the wind and sand of the centuries have eroded the ancient giant to the point where only a skeleton remains, and it must grow flesh and blood again.

In the dormant city, the hustle and bustle conceals the vicissitudes of life.

The window is a frame for dreams, displaying vanity.

Pearls are like tears, diamonds are like frost, imprisoned in a glass cell.

The gray area of ​​power vacuum breeds darkness, causing the abscess of the times, the Thieves Guild, to spread out like a capillary carpet.

When people make a choice, they lose the choice.

And every choice Kayden made was based on willfulness and stupidity, at least that's what she thought.

Documentary records.

Nine hundred years ago, when the celestial spheres met, the half-demon bloodline with white hair and golden eyes began to spread in the Western Continent. As the place where the door to the other dimension was opened up, this bloodline is relatively abundant in Gureg.

Scholars of the Tower Alliance call this skipped-generation inheritance. Even if several generations are normal, this is a recessive and stubborn bloodline, which causes a certain characteristic of the organism to reappear after several generations.

Gureg, who believes in the theory of bloodline, does not like this kind of bloodline and most of them will be abandoned.

The Fate Weaver Society is not the only one that likes to use monsters to fight monsters. The Thieves Guild favors all marginalized people in society because their alien bloodline has physical fitness far superior to that of ordinary people. Kayden was not dismembered alive or sold as a child prostitute. He has a higher utilization value and has the potential to achieve success in the field of political assassination.

In the Thieves Guild's structure, the mysterious source of the plague, Diaz, is omnipresent, delivering his orders to the chiefs of staff in each region through letters.

In addition to having strong professional skills, becoming a regional chief of staff also requires the ability to be well-versed in interpersonal relationships and manage business.

Counterintuitively, when he was a child, Kayden did not envy his peers who had complete families. The chief of staff assumed the responsibilities of a guardian but did not exercise his powers.

The chief of staff said that Kaden possessed talents that others did not have, and that in a conventional education environment, people would often be refined into the melting pot of universal values.

People usually feel guilty about the mistakes they make, but what is counterintuitive is that this is not because of moral consciousness, but rather the dependency conversion rate planted deep in their minds. I'm sorry that your money has raised such a person.

The chief of staff's life creed can be summed up in three words, and that is cost-effectiveness. The relationship between blood relatives seems to be stronger than gold, but in fact it is just very cost-effective. Social animals need allies who are always mutually beneficial, and the continuation of bloodline is actually the dominant part of performance, but generally speaking it is also performance, not the emotional mechanism brought by blood.

As he put it, he had mortgaged his soul to the money.

The reason why I became Kaiden’s guardian was because of the high cost-effectiveness.

So Kayden is talented and does not need to feel guilty for the mistakes he made. If an ordinary person carelessly bullies a disabled person, he may get up and slap himself in the middle of the night, but Kayden can just kick the cripple's good leg wildly. He feels good when he kicks, and he feels good all the time when he keeps kicking.

The chief of staff won the MVP, and the nobles all won without doing anything.

Why don't you look for your own problems when you have no house to live in and are displaced and dying in a foreign land? This is really your own problem. Have you killed anyone? Have you set a fire? Have you cheated, deceived, or stolen anything?

That tenant farmer is right there, ah, I’m going to curse you to death.

Can the grain harvest offset the debt for renting the land?

Yes, yes, yes.

Can you be paralyzed?
According to the chief of staff, Gureg's problem is not economic. The 98th king did not let the country fall into hunger and poverty, and it is still one of the most powerful countries in the Western Continent.

The real deadlock lies in the social structure and human ideology. The status of the royal family in people's hearts is too high to be shaken. The resulting powerful class is also difficult to overcome and lives in quiet despair.

However, under the impact of the magic industrial revolution, the bureaucratic assets in the free market have proliferated infinitely, leading to absolute extreme materialism. It is understandable that people admire the strong.

We have arrived at the age of magic energy industry, where armor is constructed with magic patterns, weapons are controlled by magic, and the world is ruled by economics. The definition of power has been rewritten.

In primitive communities, the hunting ability brought by physical strength is power. However, with the development of civilization, the assets under one's name are the only indicator of constant power. The gap in power between people is infinitely magnified, making it seem like a giant is being looked up at by the impoverished when looking at other people with the same flesh and blood.

In Lostra or Alan, there is still a certain channel for upward mobility, but in Gureg, under the pressure of the king, no one dares to raise their head.

The money-worshippers in these countries will at least pretend to be righteous for the sake of morality. They won't even put on an act in Gurege. Their moral bottom line has completely collapsed, and they have achieved the freedom to buy prostitution.

Only "cowards" and "sex workers" are left in this country, and all faces are waiting for one evening to be dissolved by the rain and turned into faded oil paintings.

But that day...

It seems like it will never come.

As he grew older, Kaiden understood more and more about the Chief of Staff's way of dealing with things, and he also fully understood the principles on which the Thieves Guild operated.

It seems that the most important thing is the Golden Dragon, but in fact, for the Golden Dragon and for the power in the industrial age, one will do anything.

This is the only way for the lower-class people around the world who do not want to become "cowards" and "sex workers" to band together and fight against some kind of irresistible destiny.

Cost-effective.

It has also become Kaiden's life creed.

The golden dragons tore at each other in the darkness, and Kaiden collected every broken wail and counted every drop of falling sweat and blood.

[When people make a choice, they also lose the choice.

And every choice I made was based on willfulness and stupidity.

But this time, I seem to have really embarked on an incredible road. 】

Imperial Arena.

In the backstage lounge, Caden put down his pen.

Now the real deadbeat is scary, but he is not scary because of the chief of staff. The chief of staff is the best.

Kaiden's guardian is an extremely rare thief who retired safely.

The Royal City Army guarding near Kaiden just thought that Kaiden was writing a suicide note. The psychological pressure on these contestants was indeed very great. In the bloody fourth round, they were the strongest people selected from all over the world, competing for the pinnacle of martial arts.

"Yes, please help me deposit this letter at the Adventurer's Guild. I am now one of the top 100 contestants after all, and Wang Ting should be able to help me pay for the letter."

Kaiden cast a wink at the fully armed Royal City Army guards.

"Isn't it a suicide note?"

The guard was shocked.

"What the hell is this suicide note? I've found out that Lord Augustus seems to be still single. I'll be his wife from now on. You should be more respectful when you speak to me."

Kaiden took off his super-large cup scientific blade. The first battle outside had already started. It seemed that it was a battle between stateless people and people from the other side of the narrow sea.

guard:"……"

Kaiden continued to fantasize. The schedule had already been arranged. He would be facing a guy he had never heard of, so he probably wouldn't be that good.

And the Ghost-Eyed Mad Blade Sarrett, who had been chasing him all the way, was most likely going to die. He was going to fight a championship seed player, which was extremely difficult from the start.

But I'm not like those crazy people who want to be the champion. I just want to make it to the top 16 and give the person I kissed for the first time a little facial cumshot.

(End of this chapter)