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Chapter 335

The goal this time is to gather enough information to speculate what Great Magus Stim Allenz is trying to do. Negri then thought: Naturally, there will also be other members of the Hermit Order helping to draw attention to the situation and draw attention away from himself "

Negri analyzed the situation in the Academic City. He didn't inherit Negri's power, nor did he inherit much knowledge. Furthermore, to prevent himself from being exposed, he wouldn't use any spells that were too closely related to Negri, but his thought process was the same as Negri's, although there were certain limitations due to his brain, soul, and other reasons.

The Sediments, especially the Sediments at the bottom of the hierarchy, are the ones who are most exploited. Their lives are precarious and can starve to death at any moment, and they are also the main source of sacrificial offerings or spellcasting materials for the cultists "

"These people are either complete failures, or the descendants of the Sediments" Negri looked up at Jimmy and Pilo, who were also the same.

There were many Sediments in the Academic City, some of them were refugees from other places, some of them were local bankrupts, but most of them were newborns born from brothels.

These people at the bottom of the hierarchy all carried a deep grudge, and the means to vent this grudge was through alcohol, gambling, women, and the like.

Women were a scarce resource in this place, as the prostitution of the Sediments was strictly controlled by the criminal gangs of the Sediments. Private individuals weren't allowed to engage in the prostitution trade, so most of the women ended up in the brothels of these gangs, while a small number of them had to risk being raped at any moment to work for them. Once the news of their rape spread, those who worked as nannies would be fired as well. For the people of the upper echelons of society, reputation was very important. If a maid or nanny brought shame to their family's reputation, they would only be fired, and they wouldn't care if the woman was the victim.

For this reason, there were very few women in the Academic City who didn't engage in this kind of business. The majority of Sediments were born in brothels, and these babies were treated as property, a small portion of them were sold to cultists or women who used the baby's blood for beauty purposes, while the majority were raised as livestock.

After that, when they were a little older, they would pick some of them to break their limbs or make them disabled and throw them on the streets to pray. After all, the young boys and girls who came to study were still young. Some of them still had sympathy, and some of them would also give alms in order to show the pity of the upper class.

There was also another group who became pickpockets or hired thugs for the gangs. The women were directly used to replenish the resources of the brothel. These Sediments were filled with resentment, so they did not show any mercy. Their actions were extremely violent. Women were a scarce resource, but since they were a resource, they were also expendable.

Men were no exception. After all, there were people who liked to be naked, or it could be said that humans were nothing more than consumables in this place. There were very few people who could truly shed their status as Sediments, and even if there were some who did, it would not be a good thing for the remaining Sediments.

Not a single person would ascend to the heavens. Sediments who relied on their value to obtain their status as upper class hated being labeled as trash the most. In order to assimilate into upper class society, they would do everything in their power to rid themselves of that label, as well as everything related to that label.

For them, being associated with a Sediments was a form of humiliation. Illegitimate children, women, and useless subordinates would all be eliminated, only then would they be considered 'clean' and a qualified gentleman.

Jimmy and Pilo were born in this brothel. Not long after that, their mother died of illness due to not having enough rest after giving birth. As they grew up, Jimmy became a pickpocket, while Pilo became a thug for the gangs.

They had no other choice, not working meant death. The Sediments of the underworld didn't care about the lives of their subordinates. Even their own lives were cheap, so don't expect them to respect the lives of others.

Pickpocketing was a high-risk job, because their targets were usually the upper class or the Sediments with a small amount of wealth. It was fine if normal people got robbed, but if the people with power or the pickpockets stole something important and caused a ruckus, the pickpockets would most likely be thrown out to atone for their crimes.

Thugs weren't much better off either. The gangs of the Academic City fought with each other every day, fighting for territory was like eating and drinking to them, a part of their daily lives. There was no telling when they would die on the streets, their corpses being fed to livestock.

Originally, this should have been Jimmy and Pilo's fate as well, until one day, when they accidentally ran into an Upper-Class person being dumped by a certain gang boss. They couldn't help but run away and become the lowest rung of society, relying on things that even the gangs looked down on, such as scavenging through the sewers to barely make a living.

This is also a breakthrough point, the profit of the new food will need someone to protect it. Negri then thought to himself, his previous self's way of thinking was still too childish when he was first modified. A few Sediments wouldn't be able to accomplish anything, the gangs were nothing more than a pack of hyenas, they would do anything and everything for the sake of profit. Anyone who lived in such an environment would have a severe mental illness.

There were no normal people here, and even if there were, they would either be dead or broken.

"Stirring up a riot is another option." Negri put the black gel in his hand away. Every once in a while, the Sediments would start a riot, but what awaited them was either the House of Mages or the Church of the Seven Gods.

For Negri's group, those supernatural beings were nothing more than child's play, but for these defenseless Sediments, they were practically Gods. They could easily control the lives of the Sediments, so a true riot had never happened before.

"It's really edible, it's really edible!!" Jimmy and Pilo didn't have any adverse reactions after eating the dirt-infused moss for a while, so they became excited. There were a lot of dirt-infused moss in the Academic City, and they grew quickly as well. Black horn stones that could be ground into black horn powder could also be seen everywhere, so it could be said that they now had an endless supply of food.

"Alright, if you're not afraid of attracting something bad, then shut up" Negri mercilessly scolded them, at the same time staring at the two of them with an oppressive gaze: "Submit to me now, and I will bring you glory!"

Negri held a small piece of black gel in his hand. It wasn't convenient for him to use any supernatural powers at the moment, and it would be best if he didn't even use hypnosis to induce them to submit. Because of that, there was still a chance that normal psychological guidance would fail if he wanted to make these two mentally ill people submit to him.

The will to survive they had displayed earlier was commendable, but that didn't mean that they were good people. The probability of a good person appearing among the Sediments wasn't much higher than the East Asian soccer team winning the World Cup.

They were a bunch of scum, even if they were forced to do so by their environment, that didn't negate the fact that they were scum.

With Negri's methods, the black gel in his hand was more than enough to become a fatal weapon without any supernatural power to guide it.