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"Little brother, can you earn two hundred gold coins in a year by hunting and adventuring in the Evernight Forest?"

"Of course!" The boy with a bow raised his voice immediately, but his evasive eyes immediately betrayed him.

Levi smiled and continued without revealing anything: "Do you know how the two fourth-level followers I trust the most are treated? They are the two who walked away just now."

"What kind of treatment?"

"I granted each of them two fiefs. Each fief can generate a net income of about three to four hundred gold coins every year."

"Impossible, don't try to deceive me! I have never seen such a generous nobleman!" The boy with a bow couldn't help but swallowed and retorted loudly.

Objectively speaking, Levi was indeed too generous in this regard, but who made him have no one to use? Many times, the value of loyalty is even higher than strength. Levi will never dislike his subordinates like Haaland and Bellam no matter how many times they come here.

"Why are you lying to me? You can ask them both later.

Do you know the holy spring potion produced by the royal family? A perfect quality holy spring potion can increase the success rate of a fourth-level martial artist by 25% when breaking through to the fifth level. The price of a holy spring potion is almost two thousand gold coins. "

"Is there really such an expensive auxiliary medicine? It is not impossible. You noble masters have always been rich and have endless money to spend."

"Haha, I bought two perfect quality holy spring potions, just for the two of them." When he heard this, the boy with a negative bow almost stared out of his eyes, and Levi continued:

"Originally, they were both at the fourth level. I thought about the fact that they had worked hard over the years and paid a lot for my family, so I planned to help them and bought them auxiliary potions to break through to the fifth level. success rate.

No, one of them had a deeper accumulation and tried to break through to the fifth level first, and succeeded. "

"You're lying to me-"

The boy with the negative bow was about to retort, but Levi spoke first: "If you don't believe it, you can ask yourself. By the way, my other follower hasn't had time to try to break through to the fifth level, and the holy spring potion I gave him has not been used yet. .”

"You nobles always like to fool people, and your subordinates are also with you. Who knows whether what you say is true."

Li Wei looked at the boy with the bow in front of him and guessed a little bit. He must have been severely exploited by the nobles, so he had deep prejudices against all nobles.

It stands to reason that for such a young fourth-level ranger like him, he should have been recruited by the nearby nobles long ago and live a stable life.

But the young man in front of him would rather endure hardship in the forest than go outside to be accepted by the nobles. There must be many stories in between.

Just as Li Wei guessed, this young boy with a bow named Yaqis was not less angry with the local nobles.

Yaqis's father was one of the first immigrants to the newly expanded five counties. Since he had some rudimentary hunting skills and the cultivated land in the newly expanded five counties had not yet been developed and was still in the pioneering stage, he tried to go to Yongye. Hunting at the edge of the forest.

In the beginning, the local nobles supported this spontaneous hunting behavior, because wild beasts and even magical beasts from the Evernight Forest would threaten the surrounding pioneering farmers at any time. Such hunting activities were conducive to the development of new lands.

At that time, hunting in the Evernight Forest not only did not require paying taxes to the nobles, but one could also get limited help from the nobles when purchasing weapons and trap props.

At that time, life was pretty good for the Yakis family.

Even when Yaqis was seven years old, his father broke through to the third level. The furs he hunted and the various mountain products he collected each year were always sold for twenty gold coins.

Excluding some necessary expenses, the Yaqis family can save ten gold coins a year.

According to Yaqis's father, "I will work hard for a few more years and try to save up money for Yaqis' future wife."

Yaqis has admired his father, a hunter, since he was a child. He aspires to become a more powerful hunter than his father, so that his family can live a good life with meat every meal like noble men!

Later, as the immigrants from the Kingdom of Fontaine gained a foothold and the cultivated land gradually matured, the nobles began to collect taxes from the hunters.

Sometimes it's taxes, sometimes it's specific mountain products and furs. The tax rate is not clear, but the taxes collected are getting higher year by year.

According to the original words of a certain aristocratic lackey:

"Eternal Night Forest is not an ownerless land. Each area is divided into the hands of the surrounding noble families. You untouchables can hunt in it. It is already a gift from the masters. I didn't tax you in the past. I have pity on you, gentlemen.”

It would be fine if they just collected taxes, but it would just mean that the hunters would have less income every year.

But noble gentlemen would make some harsh demands from time to time.

For example, one time two aristocratic masters were jealous of each other, insisting on which one could produce more bearskin cloaks and better quality!

As a result, a group of hunters in the Evernight Forest suffered a disaster. They were required to turn in at least two bear skins in good condition within a month.

Even a few old hunters who had long returned to the fields to farm and retire were forcibly found and asked to hunt bears in the Evernight Forest.

But the jealous aristocratic gentleman also took the cake.

He announced that bear skins classified as ordinary wild animals can offset hunting taxes for 1 to 3 months depending on their condition. If it is a bear skin from a Warcraft type, it can be used to offset at least half a year's tax, and some additional gold coins will be subsidized based on the quality.

Soon, the outskirts of the Evernight Forest, where there were only a few large beasts left, were swept away by the hunters, and the feud between the two nobles had just begun to heat up.

"I want bearskins! More bearskins!"

As a result, the target of two bear skins a month became five bears skins every two months, but what is gratifying is that the subsidy promised by the noble Lord has also been increased.

Since there are no longer enough bear prey on the outskirts of the Evernight Forest, hunters are forced to explore deeper into the forest, and Yaqis's father is one of them.

This experienced hunter who has reached the third level of strength is very confident in himself. At a dinner, Yaqis's father announced in a high-profile manner that he would definitely get a generous bonus from the noble man!

In the beginning, Yaqis' father's hunting operation was very successful. In just one month, he hunted three ordinary black bears and a third-level blue-striped black bear.

But bad luck always comes at the wrong time.

Just when Aqis's father, looking forward to the huge reward offered by the noble lord, stepped into the depths of the Evernight Forest and prepared to hunt the fifth bear, an accident happened.

Yaqis's father encountered a small group of forest demon wolves. The leading forest demon wolf had nearly fourth-level strength, and there were more than one other third-level demon wolves.

After an arm was torn off and considerable trauma to the torso, he was seriously injured and barely escaped from the Evernight Forest. He died of his injuries the night he returned home.

Now not only could the noble master fail to meet his target, but the backbone of the Yakis family has also fallen.

Even more outrageous things are yet to come. The steward under the noble lord announced that because Aqis' father failed to complete the target issued by the noble lord, all the four bear skins previously handed over were used as fines, and the hunting tax for that year was doubled!

Perhaps such a trivial matter was not the result of the personal intervention of the noble nobleman above, but the decision of the lackeys below. But a dead hunter, who cares?

After this incident, the Yakis family went from a well-to-do family directly back to abject poverty. Moreover, since the backbone of the family collapsed, Yachis and his mother were bullied everywhere.

That year, Achis was twelve years old.

From then on, Archis hated the nobles and their lackeys.

It was those greedy, stupid and incompetent nobles and their bullying and tricky wild dogs who killed his father and destroyed his family.

Therefore, even if Yaqis later showed his talent and became famous in this area, and the local nobles began to try to recruit him, he would always appear to be respectful and insensitive.

Forgive me, readers! I'm late!