"Delicious, Brother Derek, where did you find these foods?"

Derek distributed the contents of his backpack to the miners, one of whom was the one who ate the most was his former henchman, whose name Derek didn't know but called him a bug.

"It must be the ones in green! I've seen them! I've got this kind of food too! ”

Some of the miners who had received aid from the Celestial Empire looked a little excited, they might have regretted that they didn't get in the car and follow each other, otherwise they wouldn't have been mining in this dark place.

"None of this matters, listen to me!"

Derek's past fame in the slums played a role here, as almost half of the miners present knew Derek and the other half had heard of him.

Coupled with the blessing of food, Derek became the center of the group in an instant, and they all looked at Derek.

And Derek has long been accustomed to this feeling of being watched by everyone in the death arena, the difference is that he used his own strength to conquer the audience in the death arena before, and this time Derek has to try to use words.

"Don't you think life is not normal right now?" Derek said in a deep voice to the miners present.

"Brother Derek, now that the death arena has been suspended, if you want to be full, you can only work in the Black Flame Stone Mine."

The worm was still nibbling on a steamed bun in his mouth when he spoke, so his voice sounded a little muffled, but he didn't understand what Derek was saying at all.

"What do you get out of working in this mine?"

Derek asked, looking directly at the worm's dirty cheek, he was the thinnest of all the miners, and he was only about twelve years old.

"I can eat a meal of white porridge a day, and there is a place to keep warm." The little worm bit the steamed bun in his mouth and broke his fingers at the same time, and said, "But I have to work all day and night, and I feel like my hands are about to be broken, but I don't have to worry about being frozen to death here." ”

Derek was silent as he felt the suspicious gaze from all sides, and suddenly realized that the 'abnormal people' in this mine were him, not the minions.

In this world, it is a matter of course that they are enslaved by the nobles, because these miners may not know anything except mining, and only those nobles are literate and qualified to manage these minerals, correspondingly... These miners only need to get food every day.

They don't have any expectations for the future, and they should have the qualifications to expect them at all.

"Derek, let's go... This is not the place for you. ”

The adoptive father saw that Derek was different from the past, and that something had changed him, and the adoptive father pushed Derek behind with his soot-covered hand to get him out of this hellish place.

"Father! Why don't you understand, the nobles are no different from us at all, as long as we learn literacy and swordsmanship, we can also become knights and scholars! Derek turned to his adoptive father.

"Can you beat the caster, then?" The adoptive father's words made Derek stunned.

The caster... The caster, the most unequal being in this unequal world.

Because in order to learn magic, one must have an inscription, which is a mark on the back of the hand, and only those who become the bearer of the seal are eligible to learn magic.

This is also the biggest difference between slaves and nobles, noble families are almost all spellcaster families, because if you don't know magic, you are the weak in this world, and the descendants born of noble blood have a high probability of inheriting magic inscriptions.

"We're just a bunch of ordinary people who don't know anything, Derek, can't swordsmanship or read, it's good to be able to work in this place, those who can't hold the manuscript are freezing to death in the streets, and the people in green clothes seem to be nice to you, so go quickly, don't bring this food back." The adoptive father shoved the steamed buns that Derek had given him back into Derek's hands.

Of course, my adoptive father had eaten this kind of steamed bun in the camp, and it tasted very good, but when my adoptive father remembered that he would never be able to eat it after Derek left, he felt very bad in his heart... I don't even have an appetite.

Derek's hands clenched to say something, but he couldn't say it.

Because it is a fact that it is difficult for ordinary people to defeat spellcasters, and the law that only nobles can become spellcasters is deeply ingrained in everyone's heart.

"Big brother! Daddy Donji, I... I'm actually... There are inscriptions. ”

The little worm eating steamed buns in his mouth suddenly said after wiping off his snot.

"What nonsense are you talking again, you kid!" The adoptive father heard the worm's words and stepped forward to smoke him.

"Really! Those red wolves are gone. The worm wiped the back of his left hand, which had a scarlet inscription.

The inscription is very simple, with only an upward triangular arrow, but the dim light emanating from the surface of the inscription tells everyone that this is a real magic inscription, not someone who painted it.

"Where did you find something to draw it?" The adoptive father didn't want to believe it.

"This is really an inscription, Brother Derek! But I don't know how to use magic. The worm was so anxious that the steamed buns in his mouth fell.

"Father! He can have inscriptions, and we ordinary people can become spellcasters as long as we learn knowledge! ”

When Derek saw the inscription on the back of the worm's hand, he saw hope instantly, the worm had the potential to become a spellcaster, and Derek was sure that this guy was definitely not a descendant of some nobles.

In fact, Derek remembers one or two of his childhood playmates who awakened the inscription, but they were quickly taken away by the nobles and never seen them since.

Over time, the law that only nobles are qualified to be spellcasters has been ingrained in the hearts of the commoners of this world.

"What knowledge is not knowledgeable! If those people knew you were literate, they would have to beat you to death! The adoptive father stopped fighting the bugs this time, he stepped forward and hit Derek on the back with a stick, "Get out, do you hear me!" The movement here is estimated to have been discovered by the guards, so get out of here! ”

Civilian literacy is allowed in this country, but it is illegal for mine and serfs like him, and even slaves like objects, to be literate, and flogging is the most basic punishment when discovered.

The wooden stick in his adoptive father's hand hit Derek's body, but Derek's muscular body did not feel the slightest pain, and the eyes in his pupils burned as he stared at his adoptive father like a flame.

"Why should we be afraid of them?" Derek whispered the words.

"They have swords, they know magic! A sword can cut off your head! Do you understand! Brat! The adoptive father shouted at Derek with some exhaustion.

"There aren't many of those nobles right now! When I left, I remembered that they didn't have a hundred soldiers, and there were only six guards in the Black Flame Mine, but we had hundreds. Derek said.

"That's you, not us! You're going to die! Don't shout at us. The adoptive father wanted to raise the stick in his hand and whip the unfilial son again, but he found that he no longer had the strength.

"Being enslaved by those nobles like this is no different from dying, don't you want to be free..."

Derek shouted at the other miners, but no one answered him.

"Derek... We can only live like this, even if we kill the nobles of this mining area, we will be caught by Scarlet's city guards and sent to the gallows, and even if we get out of Scarlet, this winter will kill us in just one night. ”

The adoptive father knew that he couldn't persuade Derek just by fighting, so he could only reason with this stubborn adopted son.

"We don't need to flee, our strength is far superior to theirs, and they are the ones who should flee!" Derek exclaimed.

"Damn! Are you going to disobey the king's orders? ”

When the adoptive father heard this, he realized how perverse Derek's idea was.

"The current ruler of Scalley is not His Majesty the King at all, and I do not intend to be an enemy of His Majesty, I just want to fight for the rights and freedoms we should have in this way!"

Derek's ideas about politics and governance are still very naïve, but the stories of those foreign countries that Niu Shan told him, such as the French Revolution and the Glorious Revolution, made Derek yearn for it very much, and realized that 'the power of the people is invincible'.

"You're making enemies of them! When they catch you, they will put you to death! ”

When the adoptive father said this, a scene that made him a little desperate appeared, that is, the door of the house was suddenly opened, and two soldiers in armor suddenly walked in.