"A forest this magnificent and lush is nowhere to be seen in the twenty-first century."
"It's obvious. Bathed in this natural environment filled with True Aether, even ordinary plants have grown to an astonishing degree compared to those of later eras."
"You meticulously gathered the fruits of various plants, making preliminary preparations for your research project."
"You wore a cloak of straw and shoes of woven hemp. You drank the morning dew and ate from a simple bowl."
"When hungry, you filled your belly with wild fruits. When thirsty, you drank from mountain springs. When tired, you rested against the branches of ancient, towering trees."
"For the first time in a long while, you felt the comfort of what could be called 'freedom'."
"Whether it was the exam-oriented life of your previous world or the exhausting hustle of your Clock Tower career, this was a kind of contentment you had never before experienced."
"You roamed between the mountains and rivers. As an Ultimate Life Form favored by the Age of Gods, the vast expanse of the British Isles was like water to a fish for you."
"After more than a month of living this Bear Grylls-style life, you completed your initial survey of the forest."
"To further collect seeds from various agricultural crops, your footsteps began to appear in the surrounding towns and villages."
"But what you saw and heard there was somewhat shocking..."
"It wasn't just the plants that were growing wantonly in this Age of Gods, so rich in True Aether."
"All sorts of Demonic Beasts, Elementals, and even Phantasmal Species frequently appeared across the land."
"Humanity was not the sole primate of nature—this was a prosperous era where all things grew."
"However... whether in times of chaos or prosperity, the suffering of the common people remained the same."
"The iron cavalry of the Vile King had never swept through these peaceful towns and villages."
"Yet, under the pretext of wartime mobilization, the residents here were not only subjected to harsh tax exploitation by their lords, but also frequently faced raids from bandits and brigands."
"The tax collectors sent by the lord acted arrogantly when collecting grain and conscripts, but the guards who were supposed to protect the populace were always nowhere to be found when bandits attacked, often arriving long after the looting was over..."
"The knights from noble families always held up humility and mercy as virtues to be followed. Perhaps the act of eliminating bandits sounded too vulgar, a stain on their inherited glory. Thus, these renowned noble knights, with their titles and lands, always disdained such 'dirty work' as dealing with roving bandits."
"You saw many people in the towns and villages with sallow faces and gaunt figures; some were barely clothed and starving. Despite this being a glorious Age of Gods, with far greater abundance than later eras, it seemed that simply filling one's stomach was an extravagant wish..."
"The vast majority of people were born to silently endure this reality, accepting it as a natural and inevitable part of their lives."
"But you, having gone through a modern political education system, understood the true mechanism at work—all the bloody capital of primitive accumulation comes from the exploitation of the surplus value of others."
"If there is no gap, one must be artificially created. Only by fostering a perpetual sense of insecurity can people be kept as eternal slaves."
"After all, without the poverty of the many, how could the wealth of the few be highlighted?"
"Knights. Knights..."
"These hypocritical, contentious, filthy things. What they rode were not swift steeds, but the torrential blood and sweat of the people. What they wore was not magnificent armor, but the piled-up bones of the common folk."
"You gave a few sweet wild fruits to a beggar, who wept with gratitude. You watched him in silence."
"You couldn't help but recall a lament from the ancients, which, in just eight short words, captured the true essence of dynastic cycles."
"When a dynasty rises, the people suffer. When a dynasty falls, the people suffer."
"Suffering..."
"As expected, all these tragic sights were blamed on Vortigern."
"For the high-ranking lords, the vile Demonic Dragon was an incredibly convenient excuse. The more chaos there was, the easier it was to amass wealth. As for the lives of the common people, who truly cared?"
"Faced with this scene of internal and external turmoil,"
"You let out a soft sigh and began accepting various quests in town, tasks that were considered dangerous even for knights. The only payment you asked for was seeds of various crops."
"You single-handedly infiltrated and wiped out the bandits entrenched nearby. When reinforcements came for revenge, you slaughtered them until they were too terrified to ever harass the area again."
"Fierce Demonic Beasts became as docile as house pets upon sensing your presence, and even a one-eyed giant fell to your omnipresent Blade of Shadow."
"Soon, the surrounding residents all heard of a handsome, peculiar young man traveling nearby, highly skilled yet only symbolically accepting a few bags of barley and wheat seeds as reward."
"Requests for your help soon became endless."
"You never hesitated to lend a hand to those truly in need, but you couldn't even be bothered to reply to the various recruitment offers and banquet invitations that followed."
"Ironically, although you repeatedly stressed that you were no so-called knight, people whispered among themselves that you might be the descendant of a reclusive knight, praising you for your noble virtues of humility, mercy, and justice."
"You found it amusing to imagine the expressions on their faces if they ever learned your true identity."
"As your accomplishments grew, so did the number of demonic beasts you tamed and subjugated."
"Your fame gradually spread. Tales of a graceful, silver-haired, beautiful young knight began to circulate in the surrounding towns and villages. People started calling you the 'Pale Silver Star that Guides the Way'."
"Rumor had it that this Silver Knight was as handsome as an elf from a painting, his stunning beauty a masterpiece sculpted by the heavens, possessing a magic that could charm anyone who saw him."
"The beautiful, sheltered daughters of nobility, ignoring the mud on their clothes, would wait by the edges of the farmlands you frequented just to catch a glimpse of you. Some lords even wanted to marry their daughters to you, hoping to bring you into their families."
"It had to be said... being this distractingly handsome was quite satisfying."
"However..."
"Whenever those noble ladies cast sultry glances your way, a cold and dark aura would drift from not far behind you. It didn't take a genius to know it was a jealous Morgan, who had been secretly following you all this time."
"Of course, your tsundere cousin wouldn't feel at ease letting you go out alone. But to indulge her little whims, you continued to pretend you hadn't noticed her 'care' all along."
"Naturally, how could these powdered-and-rouged women compare to the Witch of Britain? Just on the point of white stockings alone, they lost far too much to her black garter belts!"
"To rid yourself of these pointless and vulgar romantic advances,"
"You used the magic core of a giant as material to personally carve a pair of exquisite rings that shimmered with an obsidian luster. You then slowly slid the one engraved with the witch's name onto your own ring finger."
"A ring on the ring finger symbolizes a vow of faithful marriage."
"In this way, you unilaterally declared your sovereignty over the witch."
"It's a necessary measure to ward off harassment, you thought. Morgan probably won't blame me, right?"
"Watching you carefully wrap and store the other ring,"
"And hearing you mutter to yourself things like, 'They're so much worse than my Morgan',"
"Within your perception, it seemed the witch had fled in embarrassment."
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