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Chapter 8: The Mirror's Story.
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While he was shopping, Xing Ye discreetly probed for some basic information about this world.

In this world, civilians were dependent on their land and rarely left their homes. Travellers were all wandering bards, knights who wanted to get stronger, and wealthy nobles with servants and horse-drawn carriages. They would generally stay at taverns, inns, farms, castles, or churches. Taverns were the worst of the lodgings, with noisy and unsanitary conditions. Usually only wandering bards or suffering church devotees would reside there. Unless knights needed somebody to watch their horses, they would rather sleep outside than in a tavern.

With regards to Xing Ye, a tavern was the best place to collect information. He wasn't picky about his lodgings and could bear with it even if it was filthy.

This body's chest was too big so even if he wrapped it tightly with cloth, there was still a visible bulge, forcing Xing Ye to wear a cloak over his clothes. After finding a place to keep his horse for the night, Xing Ye entered the tavern. He just ordered a big cup of beer, quietly finding a corner to eavesdrop.

Xing Ye took a gulp of beer and his face stiffened, using all his willpower to stop himself from spitting it back out. What kind of shitty beer was this? The nasty flavor could practically kill somebody. It was a wonder how everybody in the tavern gulped it down happily.

He heard a lot of stuff about what happened after Earl Luca's manor burned down. The people in the tavern seemed to love talking about the wanton noble who killed himself in his fun. Everybody knew about how Earl Luca treated his maids and that during it, he accidentally set fire to curtains and bed sheets, causing the whole mansion to burn down. He didn't have any children, only two younger brothers who were now rushing to Earl Luca's manor to fight for the inheritance and title. 　　

The two younger brothers didn't care about how their brother died as long as he was dead. They didn't punish any of the servants in the manor and even rewarded them to pull them onto their side.

That meant Claire's village wouldn't be affected.

Everything was done without a hitch... Xing Ye pondered. He only planned everything out roughly and although it had a high chance of success, it shouldn't have gone this smoothly either. How did this happen?

A notification icon appeared on his wristband, presumably with more information. However, there were too many people here. Even if they couldn't see the band, it was still inconvenient to check now.

Xing Ye gulped down the beer before ordering a cup of wine, enduring the strage sour flavor as he continued to listen for news.

Setting Earl Luca's inheirtance aside, the other most discussed topic was the queen's birthday. In half a month, it would be the queen's 500th birthday and all the aristocrats would have to prepare a gift for her.

Wait, 500th birthday?

Xing Ye almost spat out the gross sour wine in his mouth. Although the narrator's introduction did say a long, long time ago, he didn't think that it would actually be so long as five hundred years ago!

Could it be that this world's similar to the ones in fairy tales? But after listening for a while, he didn't hear any talk about magic, dragons, fairies, dwarves, adventurers, and things like that. Furthermore, he was just a newbie with no magic or skills. If the first world's settings were so big, there would be no way he could win.

After gathering all the information he could, Xing Ye retired to the single room he booked, frowning when he entered. Even if you ignored the gross moist air in the room, the bugs crawling on the wall were really indescribably disgusting.