Volume 4 Chapter 31 - In depth cooperation (1/2)

The nobles were only something to the commoners.

On earth, this clear social class divide had already been eliminated, but for a half feudal and half slave society on the Sines Continent, there was a very clear and very wide social divide.

At the top layer there were nobles.

Slaves were people with no rights and could be killed at will. For the commoners, nobles not only enjoyed respect, with their higher status, they earned many privileges.

For example, nobles could become officials, nobles could reduce taxes, nobles could have their personal horse carriages, nobles could not kneel when seeing his majesty, nobles could……

In short there were many rights that only nobles had. There were clear differences between nobles and commoners, so having a noble status meant being at a stage higher than commoners, allowing them to look down on commoners.

Even if nobles had strict divisions among them, to the commoners, this was almost a different world. So no matter who it was, once they became a noble, they would do everything to increase their status and do everything they could to keep, allowing them to enjoy the rights a noble had.

In the history of the Sines Continent, it had always been nobles losing their rights after abusing their status, there had never been a noble who asked to give up their titles.

Most of these stories belonged in the fantasies that girls loved to hear. A noble male lead gave up his status for a commoner girl, going against his family’s wishes and running away with that commoner.

But in reality, if there was a noble that did this, even the girls who loved reading love stories would call that noble an idiot.

Giving a noble status to their lover was also the dream of the commoner girls, but once a noble lost their status, what meaning did that dream have?

So that meant no matter what angle it was viewed from, it would be impossible for a noble to give up the noble status that was hard to earn because he would be given up plenty of rights as a noble.

Unless that person was an idiot.

But…..was Xu Yi an idiot?

As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman who created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bringing it to become one of the top companies in the Lampuri Kingdom, single handedly promoting the creation of the magic machine industry and turning a small city like Banta City into the economical center of the kingdom, who would call this kind of person an idiot?

But Xu Yi did something that everyone considered very idiotic.

He actually gave up his noble status with the Royal Parliament!

When this news was spread by the «Banta Times» and confirmed by the «Lampuri Weekly», everyone was stunned.

No one thought that Xu Yi was an idiot, but no one could understand why he gave up his status as a noble. So….why?

Why did he do this?

“I’ve already said this before, I never cared about this status as a noble. Giving it up is fine, it’s not much.” Xu Yi replied with a smile.

Seveni looked at Xu Yi for a while with her eyes filled with doubt.

“I know that the status as a noble isn’t important to you, but Xu Yi, you have to admit, doesn’t this noble status bring many conveniences to you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? At least, it is because you are a viscount that you can have such a large territory. You can place all the facilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this land and save quite a bit of money for your company. Isn’t this what you told me before?”

“Un, it is indeed like this.” Xu Yi nodded before changing the topic, “But Seveni, have you ever thought that my status, my land, and the benefits brought to me by that land, where did all of this come from?”

“Is there a need to ask? Of course it’s because you……” Seveni suddenly stopped.

She suddenly remembered that Xu Yi had strangely become a noble from a citizen because of the recognition of Lampuri Thirteenth.