Chapter 1: The Worst Times
The Sinnoh Empire, the Ordovician Kingdom, the capital city of Triumph.
"Darkness hangs over the skies of the empire, and you are all sinners, and you should have suffered and died, but the Lord is merciful in the end, and has entrusted His servants to bring hope to the Lamb who is confused, and you should believe in the Lord, cut off the sins of money, and offer offerings of faith, and the Lord will protect His people."
Beneath the ornate Carolingian octagonal building, the most famous masterpiece of imperial vault architecture, the Paladicatal Cathedral, clergy with the Gospels in their hands proclaim the teachings.
About a year ago, a wave of death swept across the continent, and the Grim Reaper, known as the Black Death, mercilessly harvested the lives of commoners and nobles alike, cruelly and mercilessly.
The infected were ostracized and mutilated, the corpses blocked the rivers outside the city, and the uninfected were in fear and unwanted to work all day long.
Many small and medium-sized towns were unable to resist the disaster, resulting in the near-complete paralysis of agriculture, handicrafts, urban transportation, etc., and even a dead city.
In contrast, as the capital of the kingdom, Triumph City maintained at least basic order.
The army stabilized the city by locking off all the infected people and their families in slums on the edge of the city.
As a result, it also attracted a large number of nobles and merchants who were unable to protect themselves in the kingdom to take refuge.
Among them were fiefdom nobles who had abandoned their domains, surviving officials in ruined towns, and small merchant families who had fled.
And they all have one thing in common, all of them carry a lot of wealth.
The officials of Triumph City warmly welcomed them, and the church held a grand mass for them.
Under the Basilica of the Philaein, around the priests, dozens of extraterrestrial nobles dressed in gorgeous clothes offered the gold and precious stones that had been prepared long ago, and twenty meters away, on the periphery of being stopped by the knights, thousands of civilians dressed in short brown linen clothes knelt on the ground, handing the only belongings on their bodies to the knights who approached.
In return, they were given a fairly clean piece of sacrament bread.
Sixteen-year-old Ronan Ortautios, a member of the city's aristocracy and a member of the royal family, was also invited to the mass.
At the moment he was sitting at the very center of the very end of the chair for the royal family to rest.
Ronan looked around, and most of the people sitting around him were mature men over thirty years old with beards, all of whom were his uncles and elders, and a few teenagers of his generation, yawning impatiently.
What made him speechless was that his cheap father did not attend this important ceremony.
In order to avoid being gossiped about, he had to sit in his seat honestly and dispel the idea of leaving early.
Leaning his head back in his soft chair, Ronan pondered his future plans.
He has been in this world for sixteen years, from the initial confusion to the current habitual.
The good news is that he was born into the imperial family, and his uncle is the emperor of the empire.
Although his father has no real power, he has the title of honorary earl, and the two brothers have a harmonious relationship, and they also married the daughter of a fiefdom earl, and their status in the capital city of Triumph is not low.
Thanks to the screening of the family's excellent genes from generation to generation, he has a delicate appearance in this life, blonde hair and purple eyes, and his appearance is not low.
For Ronan, the second son, the parents in this life are also cared for, and it seems that it is not bad to be a nobleman who eats and waits for death in this life.
The bad news is that this is a bad time, with medieval barbarism, aristocracy brutality and tyranny, and commoners insensitive. The Sinnoh Empire, which rules most of the continents, has constant disputes between monarchy and divine power, and there are many contradictions between the central and local governments.
This sudden epidemic has stained the entire empire black.
Even the Ordovician Kingdom, which was ruled directly by the emperor, had difficulty enforcing its edicts, let alone the other principalities and vassals within the empire.
The Great Tribulation was followed by great chaos, and the Black Death shattered the authority of the feudal lords everywhere and brought about decades-long pains.
But it also gave Ronan an an opportunity.
Originally, the ruling class in the empire has long been solidified, and all fiefs have their own owners, belonging to a radish and a pit, unless you are the eldest son of a fiefdom noble, it is possible to inherit the territory after your father's death.
Otherwise, there is basically no other way, this set of rules maintains the interests of all fiefdom nobles, and there is no room for provocation.
But now it's different.
A large amount of ownerless lands were vacated, although according to the laws of the empire, these lands could only be inherited by the descendants of the fiefdom nobility.
But only if they are willing.
As far as Ronan knew, there were a large number of fleeing nobles in Triumph City who were selling their land.
The reason why this is the case,
On the one hand, it is because the high cost of living in Triumph City makes it difficult for these foreign nobles to make ends meet.
On the other hand, because after the loss of the fiefdom nobles, it was difficult for the kingdom's decrees to be implemented in these territories, which caused the emperor's dissatisfaction, and ordered all fiefdom nobles to return to the territory within three months.
The nobles, who had long been frightened by the Black Death, finally escaped to Triumph City, where would they be willing to go back?
Some of them had no choice but to sell their land.
The emperor also acquiesced in this behavior, and declared the transaction valid as long as both parties were nobles, signed an agreement and paid taxes in the presence of the town hall and the church.
Ronan is undoubtedly eligible, although he is only the second son in the family, and the family title has nothing to do with him.
But as early as the age of twelve, at the court banquet held by the emperor, he was given the title of honorary baron by his uncle, enjoying all the rights of nobility.
If, according to the normal situation, it was just an ordinary person crossing over, Ronan would not have a brain twitch and run outside the city to find death in this situation.
As a qualified traverser, he naturally has his own golden finger.
It was a wizard development game, and after it came with him, it came to his mind.
Ronan opened the game panel in his mind.
Name: Ronan Ortavisus
Class: Sorcerer
Talent: Immortal
Specialty: Occult Studies
Level: Lv1
Mana: 20/20 +1/hour
Unlocked Knowledge: Sword (-1/hr sharpness), Mounted Archery (-1/hr mount enhancement, -1/standard arrow), Pharmacy (-10/standard vial)
Unlock the next level requirement: Have your own research workshop
The wizards in this game are a little different from the traditional wizards, and they don't allow people to unleash cool spells that destroy the world, and their abilities are reflected in their talents and specialties.
The immortality in the talent is only immortality in the sense of the game, which means that he will not age, will not get sick, but will still die if he is mortally injured.
And the specialty, occult studies.
This specialty allows him to learn a certain knowledge that, after reaching a certain level, appears on the panel of the unlocked knowledge, and then can be used to grant certain occult properties by spending mana.
Just like swordsmanship, he has successfully unlocked it through several years of unremitting knightly training, and is able to spend 1 magic point to give the weapon in his hand a sharp trait for one hour.
Even if he was holding a stick, he could easily cut through the metal and split the rock.
Other lore unlocks are also literal.
Knight training is the focus of his most time in recent years, after all, if you want to live a long time these years, you have to be able to play and run.
As for being able to fight, it has always been that those who punch cannot beat those who hold swords, and those who hold swords cannot beat those who draw bows.
Not to mention being able to run, two legs are desperate and only worthy of eating ashes behind four legs.
The only pity is that I don't know if it's because of the wizard profession, he has not been able to get started with the knight's breathing method in this world for a long time, and he can't master the extraordinary power of the local area.
On the contrary, it is pharmacy, which is successfully unlocked without intentionally inserting willows.