The world begins with refining skills

Chapter 196 One Year Later (Happy National Day!)
Refugee resettlement area in the southern part of Tolost District.

Eren, the successor of Attack on Titan, Mikasa, the orphan of the Ackerman family, Armin, the king of big talk, and his grandfather, the four of them squeezed into a simple wooden house built with wooden boards.

The area of the wooden house is less than ten square meters, and after placing two beds, there is basically no space for activities.

Alan slept on the lower bunk of the bunk bed on the left. Even though he was asleep, his brows were still furrowed.

Mikasa slept on the bunk above him, while Armin and his grandson slept on the bunk bed on the right side of the room.

The refugee resettlement area is very quiet at night. The refugees who have worked hard all day have fallen asleep, and you can still vaguely hear snoring from next door.

At this moment, the door of the wooden house was suddenly opened. The wooden door, which usually creaked when moved slightly, now made no sound at all.

If someone looks closely, they will find that the door socket is filled with many fleshy tentacles.

It is for this reason that there was no sound when the door was opened.

As the door opened and closed, a dark shadow appeared silently at the head of Alan's bed.

After taking a quick look, Mu Sheng stretched out his hand and hovered over Allen's head.

Several tentacles dropped from his hands, landed on Alan's face, wrapped around Alan's head, and quickly spread downwards.

In just a few breaths, the tentacles swallowed Allen whole and then drilled into Allen's body.

"found it!"

As the tentacles went deeper, Mu Sheng sensed a familiar energy fluctuation. It was the giant's bloodline energy, which was purer and more advanced than what he had refined before.

Then Maki Sheng controlled the tentacles to move up and down, trying to suck the power of the giant out of Eren's body.

However, the next moment, the power of the giant in Allen's body seemed to be stimulated by something and began to resist violently.

Fine lightning also began to burst out from Allen's body, but fortunately, because it was wrapped by the tentacles, it did not cause any noise.

"No, we can't go on."

Seeing that more and more lightning were bursting out, Mu Sheng stopped immediately. If he continued, the protagonist would either be killed by himself or transformed into a giant.

"Let's try again after the refining progress reaches 60%. By then, the blood energy extracted from the strange creature will probably be of no use."

"It would be a bit of a loss to refine the blood of the nine giants now."

Mu Sheng calculated in his mind that the protagonist has not yet joined the training corps, and the next plot node is at least three years away.

It should be no problem to push the refining progress to 60% in three years. By then, it should be no problem to extract the giant power from the protagonist's body.

So Mu Sheng withdrew the tentacles that were wrapped around Alan, and disappeared into the room as quietly as when he came.

"Mom," Alan murmured in his sleep, completely unaware that he had just walked back from the gates of hell.

Time quickly came to the year 846, and it had been nearly a year since Mu Sheng traveled through time.

Over the past year, the atmosphere in the Trost District, or the entire Rose Wall, has become increasingly solemn.

The loss of Wall Maria caused humanity to lose one-third of its land.

In order to cope with the problem of food shortage, the royal government ordered all refugees to open up wasteland and grow food crops.

However, after a year of hard work, the grain harvest was far from the expected target.

The original residents within Wall Rose were also full of dissatisfaction and hostility towards the refugees who took away their food and lowered their living standards.

This accumulated dissatisfaction and hostility gradually turned into verbal abuse and bullying.

At the church square in the central area of Trost, refugees who have worked all day are queuing up to receive food.

The residents around the square looked at them with either pity or disgust.

"Those damn refugees should be eaten by the giants. Because of them, my family hasn't had meat for almost a year!"

At the street corner, several local residents were talking about their troubles to each other, and one of them was cursing viciously at the refugees who were receiving food.

"Don't say that. They are also very pitiful. They work very hard all day and only get a little bread to eat," a companion at the side advised.

"They are pitiful? Then are we not pitiful?" The man became more and more angry and started cursing at the refugee group not far away.

At this time, a carriage happened to pass by here. In the carriage were Mu Sheng, who had just finished a meeting and was preparing to go home to rest, and Ferreger, who served as his coachman.

"Did the harvest of grain from the land we reclaimed last year produce very little?" Mu Sheng lowered the curtain on the carriage window and asked his adopted brother in front of him.

"Food?" Feregail pondered for a moment: "Although it's not much, it can still be done if it's just to ensure that everyone doesn't go hungry."

"Has it come to this?" Mu Sheng understood Ferreger's subtext.

Food can only keep everyone from going hungry, but how can the royal officials and gendarmerie in the inner city, as well as the wealthy and powerful people in various districts, be satisfied with just not going hungry?

How can a gentleman eat only bread? He must have meat and wine, too.
Raising poultry requires food, and brewing wine also requires food. If you are a little more wasteful, you will consume even more food.

"It's probably time to retake Wall Maria, based on the descriptions I remember."

"To put it bluntly, this operation is to send the lower-class civilians to their deaths."

"There are too many people and too little food. It's impossible for the masters not to enjoy themselves, so we can only let the people at the bottom die."

"After all, the lives of cattle and horses are not as important as fine wine and delicious food!"

The carriage soon stopped at the door of Libs's mansion. After jumping off the carriage, Mu Sheng stretched and rubbed his sore waist.

During this year, the Holy Light Team led by Rico has grown stronger and stronger, and now has more than ninety people.

These people are tall and short, plump and slim, loli and mature, and even a few wives.

As a result, Mu Sheng's life this year was extremely hard and miserable. Every day he was either spreading the Holy Light or on his way to spread the Holy Light.

In order to fight against the erosion of dark and evil forces and save mankind from doomsday, Mu Sheng has racked his brains and put all his efforts into it.

"Oh, it's so hard to be a good person!" Mu Sheng sighed sincerely.

"Brother Victor, if you are tired, take a few days off."

"You are our backbone. If you collapse from exhaustion, what will happen to the future of mankind?" Fregel said with concern.

Half a year ago, Mu Sheng rewarded his younger brother with a tentacle and took him under his command, so Fregel also knew Mu Sheng's story about the origin of the doomsday.

"No, it doesn't matter if I suffer a little or get tired. As long as I can defeat the dark forces, all these efforts are worth it." Mu Sheng waved his hand with a solemn expression:

"For this, I, Victory Held, will gladly accept it even if I die of exhaustion!"

"Brother Victory!" Fregel was so moved that he was speechless.

He is worthy of being his elder brother. This spirit of sacrificing one's life for the future of mankind shines on him like a bright sun.

"Okay, I understand what you mean. Big brother knows his own health well." Mu Sheng patted Fregel's shoulder.

"You should go and rest first. We have to go to the Elumiha district in the inner city to baptize Madam Lilith and her twin daughters in the evening," Mu Sheng said and yawned again.

"Brother, you should take a rest. I'll go down first." Seeing this, Fregel didn't want to disturb Mu Sheng's rest, so he left quickly.

Mu Sheng did not rest after returning to the room. He could eliminate this tiredness with just a thought.

Just to prevent himself from becoming less and less like a person, Mu Sheng stopped deliberately eliminating his negative state a long time ago. He felt tired and sleepy, would pay tribute to beautiful women, and would be greedy when seeing delicious food. This kind of life was more interesting to him.

"Should we intervene in the battle to reclaim Wall Maria?"

"There are only over 200,000 people, so the place is easy to solve. The three urn cities in the east, west and north of the Maria Wall can still be used. The main problem is that there is no food."

"The best way to solve the food problem is to retake Wall Maria."

"If I want to take back Wall Maria, I must quickly eliminate the giants inside the wall."

"If you want to deal with the giant inside the wall, you have to expose your own strength."

Mu Sheng was a little confused and opened the panel.

Host: Mu Sheng

Refining progress: Giant bloodline 53% (odd species)

Infinite Dharma Body:.
World: Attack on Titan
During this year, with Xiao Hei's hard work, Mu Sheng killed 158 strange species, almost killing all the strange species on the island.

This is also the reason why he was able to push the refining progress to 53% within a year.

“It will take at least half a year to cross the 60% mark.”

"The intelligent giants sent by the Marleyans have not been found yet. According to my understanding of the plot, these people will participate in the same training as the protagonist."

"If we reveal our strength now and scare these people back to Marley, we will have to confront Marley in advance."

"The battle that was originally a situation of slow development in the early stage and crushing in the late stage will become a tense battle in the middle stage."

"Besides, the internal situation is not stable yet. It's not difficult to take over the Trost District, but it's not so easy to take over other places."

“It always feels like a thankless task!”

Mu Sheng's dilemma only lasted until the evening. After baptizing Lilith, her mother and her two daughters from the Elumiha district, Mu Sheng forgot about his worries.

He is not a savior. He didn't care too much about these things in the world of martial arts. Why would he worry about the country and the people in the world of giants?
At least in the martial arts world, Chinese is spoken, and here there are only little devils.

"Huh? So this is why I'm so indulgent in this world?"

"Sure enough, I knew it wasn't my fault. Oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, while those grown in the north of the Huai River are bitter oranges."

"Everything that's wrong is the world's fault!"

"Let's stick to the original plan. We will first take over the power inside the wall little by little."

Half a month later, the royal government issued an order to retake Wall Maria.

A large number of unemployed people and the elderly and weak were gathered together, most of whom were refugees, and some were residents within the Rose Wall.

"From this perspective, it is understandable that these residents hate refugees. Before, their living standards were only declining, but now they are even facing the risk of losing their lives."

"That's not right. The reason is still due to the people above."

"The benefits are divided up by them, the happiness is enjoyed by them, but the suffering is borne by the lower class."

“Once the economy goes down or encounters some problems, they are unable to solve them and are unwilling to give up exploiting the people below them.”

"So they instigate conflicts among the lower-class civilians, making them hostile to each other and vent their grievances, causing the lower-class civilians to suffer not only materially but also spiritually."

"For the sake of illusory material security, we give up our ideals, our personality, and our love."

"Damn, this is so fucking stupid!" Mu Sheng suddenly recalled bad memories and cursed angrily.

In the evening, Rico suddenly brought Iori to find Makisatsu.

"Lord Victori, something bad has happened!" Rico hurriedly rushed into Musheng's room.

"Something's wrong? What's wrong?" Makito looked at Riko and Iori behind her in confusion.

"The book is about Iori. Iori was chosen for the operation to retake Wall Maria that the royal government ordered two days ago!"

"Iori was chosen? She is not unemployed, nor is she old or weak, so how could she be chosen?" Makisheng's face turned cold instantly.

"Did Iori offend someone? Is someone targeting her on purpose?"

"That's not the case. I was just unlucky to be chosen." Rico shook his head and said, "Or maybe it was targeted at the group of soldiers who retreated from the outer city wall."

"Oh? How do you say that?"

"It's like this. Although everyone knows what this wall-recapture operation is all about, we can't just drive the civilians out of the wall."

"So for this operation, we will select some soldiers from the Garrison Corps and the Survey Corps to command the 200,000 or so civilians."

"And we will give priority to selecting soldiers like Iori who have retreated from Wall Maria."

"And then Iori was chosen."

"Uh!" Mu Sheng didn't expect this to happen: "Okay, I get it, I'll take care of it, don't worry."

Isn't it just a matter of changing someone? It's very easy to handle. Just find the person in charge and hypnotize him.

However, after hearing Mu Sheng's answer, the two did not look relaxed, but instead looked hesitant.

"Huh?" Mu Sheng looked at the two of them in confusion.

"Iori, tell me yourself," Rico pushed Iori's back.

"Lord Victory, I...I want to participate in this recapture operation!" Iori said with a stutter but firmly.

"what?"

"You want to participate in this recapture operation?"

"Don't you know that this is the royal government's mission to send those civilians to their deaths?"

Makisatsu didn't quite understand Iori's train of thought.

"I know, but I can't escape anymore!"

"It is the duty of the garrison to guard the city walls and protect civilians. Last time I ran away because I was afraid."

Iori lowered his head, as if remembering something.

"There are many faces I have seen in the team that took over the battle this time, including neighbors, vendors, and many familiar strangers."

"I've already abandoned them once. This time, I can't run away again."

"And isn't resisting the power of darkness also the mission given to us by God Mosai?"

"Isn't the power bestowed upon me by the Holy Light meant for use at this time?"

"Lord Victory, please allow me to participate in the battle to retake Wall Maria!"

Iori leaned forward and shouted loudly with a firm tone.

　Writing a novel is so difficult!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)