My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 279 - 263: Les Misérables

The two who had just arrived in the Divine Teaching Country fell silent, exchanging glances filled with questions.

Although they were prepared in advance, facing it directly was still somewhat mind-bending. This was the most central and luxurious Magic University in the Teaching Country, and not far from the university gate, a female mage was openly selling her reproduction rights.

In other words, can you imagine someone blatantly setting up a stall to sell their body in front of Harvard or Massachusetts?

With clearly marked prices, fair trade for all.

Unable to comprehend, their minds blanked out for a while before they stopped moving forward.

They sized up the female mage, petite and cute. In any other world, with looks like this and being a top student at the Divine Capital Magic Academy, aspiring to be a mage, she would surely be highly sought after.

But here, she was treating herself as a commodity for sale, right at the campus gate, offering a flat rate of 200 gold coins to have 8 children in 10 years.

Hmm, it seems like negotiation is possible.

Seeing the two standing still, the female mage seemed interested. Noticing they were also wearing mage robes, she waved and said, "Seniors, want to take a look? Discuss the price? But if both of you together, there will be an additional charge."

Xue Dili: "..."

Little General: "..."

For no apparent reason, Xue Dili felt a visceral disgust and anger. Witnessing this made him feel an urge to shout, "I'm tired, just destroy it all," to let this world feel pain, understand pain, enjoy pain, with a sudden impulse to initiate a Genesis right there.

But for the people of this world, this seemed to be a regular occurrence. Passersby witnessing this scene didn't even show expressions of surprise, like seeing an ordinary stall without any reaction.

Xue Dili glanced at the Little General, his anger paused as he realized the Little General seemed even more outraged than him.

"Brother, should we teleport away, and then I'll fire a Star-Destroying Cannon to wipe out this world?" the Little General said through magic telephony.

Xue Dili: "..."

Brother, you seem a bit too extreme.

The initially angry Xue Dili's mind cleared instantly, instead comforting the Little General, "Don't be impulsive, let's observe the situation a bit longer. Actually, according to our previous intel, this can be understood..."

Xue Dili closed his eyes.

This world has no farmers or workers.

Yes, after the Heart Stealers occupied this world, there were no more farmers or workers. All means and tools of production were controlled by the "Divine Pavilion Organization," subordinate to the Divine Realm.

These Divine Pavilion organizations call themselves "Divine People," acting as bridges between the Human Realm and the Divine Realm, occupying all land, mountains, rivers, and cities.

In this world, ordinary people are not allowed to farm, hunt, or engage in any productive work.

That being the case, how should people survive in this world?

The answer is, have children.

Having children, as long as you keep having children, and give the excess to the Divine People, they could continuously obtain wealth.

Since all wealth, food, and even resources are controlled by the Divine People, this is a common phenomenon in this world.

Here, children can be openly priced, and similarly, reproduction rights can be openly priced.

"Let's go over and ask," Xue Dili said.

Unexpectedly, the Little General instead stopped him, "Brother, it's dirty, don't touch. If you're really feeling oppressed, many friends and teachers' daughters from my hometown could join your wife troupe. Don't underestimate it; if I put out your profile, I bet I could gather a harem of hundreds in a few days."

Xue Dili: "..."

Buddy, what are you thinking? Do I look like that kind of person?

"Our previous intel was like seeing flowers in the mist through Angel's memory; instead, this is a good chance to gain some common knowledge about this world," Xue Dili said, extending his hand to pull out a large pouch of gold coins from this world.

To him, once he knew the appearance of the coins in this world, he could quickly produce perfect replicas like a 3D printer.

The two mages knocked out earlier were rich guys with lots of gold coins, so Xue Dili took the opportunity to replicate them thousands of times, being able to easily duplicate thousands or tens of thousands on demand.

At one point, they considered conducting a financial war, collapsing the existing economy by replicating coins, but realized this wouldn't greatly aid their plan.

So, despite their initial reluctance, they darkened their expressions and went forth to inquire.

"Interested in heading to the nearest inn to discuss further? Talk specifics about the price," Xue Dili said.

The female mage's eyes lit up, and she immediately said, "Sure, the nearest inn is on me, senior. You can inspect the goods for free first, and then we can talk about the subsequent price."

The two of them immediately had even darker expressions. The sunlight was clearly shining on the ground, but their faces were filled with shadows, like dense lines.

The young lady followed them into the nearby inn without any defense, and in the room, the young general set up a magic barrier.

This young lady showed no restraint, coming to the inn as if she was returning home, sprawling spread-eagle onto the bed, and then saying, "When do you seniors want to start, need a bath first?"

Without a word, Xue Dili flicked a gold coin onto her head, causing her to clutch it with an "ouch." But seeing it was a gold coin, she swallowed back her words of dissatisfaction, excitedly pocketing the coin.

"I want to ask you some questions. Answer honestly, and we might consider paying you more." Xue Dili said directly, as the young general further reinforced the magic barrier, sealing the place off tightly.

"Alright then, seniors, ask away."

"Is what you're doing a common phenomenon throughout the entire school?"

When Xue Dili asked this question, the girl was stunned for a moment, then looked at the two with a different gaze, suddenly realizing something exciting.

Ah, I see, they made a mistake. These two must be juniors, not seniors, having just arrived at the school. They seem to be divine beings or possessors of divine blood, young masters oblivious to the hardships of the mortal world.

Hey, I've caught a big fish!

She secretly clasped her hands excitedly, automatically placing Xue Dili and the young general into her imagined identities, responding, "Divine young masters, you might not know, for us common mages, this is not a widespread phenomenon. It's just that... "

She smiled, revealing little canine teeth, "Everyone's done it!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Xue Dili and the young general's breathing hitched. This was still the most noble, richest, and prosperous Divine Capital, with its lofty Mage Academy.

And she was a mage.

What about the ordinary people in the Divine Capital, outside the Mage Academy?

Or the people in even more remote places outside the Divine Capital?

They couldn't even imagine it.

"Young masters, among us common mages, the gender ratio is 1 to 100." She continued with a shocking ratio, "For my classmates, each of them has had many children, relying on this subsidy to maintain a high mage lifestyle in school. Otherwise, who would pay our exorbitant tuition?"

"Moreover, we're not like those lower-class degraded people who have turned into devolved beings. We're very healthy, very clean. Many people, even if they don't sell themselves, have long-term contracts with some noble family." She spread her hands,

"I just had bad luck and couldn't secure a long-term contract with a noble family because I was malnourished growing up. If it weren't for some magical talent, I would've probably been handed over to the divine beings by my family when I was little."

She patted her chest, with loud thumps.

Xue Dili and the young general fell into deeper silence.

"But don't think I lack talent in that area. I'm confident that after I have children, things will improve. Also, you don't need to worry about my fertility. My mother gave birth to 45 children. I have enough talent." She smiled, promoting her advantages.

No sense of propriety or shame.

"What are devolved beings?" Xue Dili didn't pay attention to her rambling nonsense, or words that would be flagged on Blue Star.

But for the people of this world, it seemed like a daily occurrence.

"Ah, young master, devolved beings are those who've started growing fur, devolving like half-beastmen, from the lower-class poor," the young lady seemed even more puzzled.

These two young masters must be noblemen who've never left their castles in their lifetime, not even knowing about devolved beings.

However, she quickly realized she might have actually hooked a couple of big fish. These two young masters might be pureblood divine beings, judging by how they set up arrays easily and didn't view gold coins as money. They might even be nobility among pureblood divine beings.

Big fish! Could I become the 'lady' of a divine family's long-term breeding program? To achieve a leap in class.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but hum a tune, hurriedly talking about things that interested the divine young masters, full of ingratiating smiles: "Young masters, devolved beings are the appearance after the lower-class poor have bred for generations."

"It's said that in the slums, the strongest cases of devolved beings are not much different from the demon beasts in the Demon Beast Forest. We call those 'half-beastmen.'

"If they truly devolve to the stage of a half-beastman, they completely lose reproductive rights and are hunted. However, even in a devolved family, children might atavistically change back to pure human race."

"By the way, from what I know, submitting a devolved child's child gets only one third of the subsidy a normal human child would, while submitting a child with mage potential gets 1.5 times the subsidy of a normal human child."

She eagerly provided Xue Dili and the young general with all the underground information she knew, clearly showing she was a girl who had climbed up from the lower class. Otherwise, she wouldn't know so much about the lower class.

She likely came from devolved parents, and she managed to mutate and develop magical aptitude by sheer luck and atavistic chance, so she could survive.

Yet she consistently referred to the lower class as "the degraded."