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Chapter 388: Sharpening Skills

Translator: Cynthia Editor: TYZ/CakeHermit

Zhao Boan was born to a merchant’s family His father was a small itinerant merchant Now the family property was in his hands, but the business environment had become harder than ever

Small merchants needed a stable society To them, troubled times were like natural disasters were to peasants They could hardly fight against them

Noas the time for bandits and robbers to rise, because one could earn hting skills, you could protect yourself and et for bandits

The trade route between Jadeite Forest and the Avalon of Five Elenized by the Elders Guild, whichroute Despite this, the caravans were secure as they all had aristocratic fa the in the se of a blade Any carelessness ht send them down the road of destruction As a result, Zhao Boan hadn’t dared involve hi increasingly worse as trade in the Jadeite Forest was almost entirely , his fao bankrupt by next year

Overtaken by circumstances, Zhao Boan made his decision He borrowed a considerable amount of money from his relatives and sold all his possessions to purchase a caravan of goods

However, he didn’t expect the situation to be even worse than he’d iined

After the city expansion order was issued, elementalists from the Avalon of Five Ele depressed and dilapidated cities and towns behind The decline in population and the transfer of the enterprises’ power forced the guards to focus on the Wilderness

This led directly to a state of lawlessness and havoc caused by bandits and robbers They were almost everywhere in the cities, like bae enterprises were heavily guarded; no robbers dared to attack the small merchants like Zhao Boan

Zhao Boan had been forced to spend heavily to hire guards for protection

Although they did not have the qualifications to be caravan guards during peacetimes, Zhao Boan had no alternatives and was forced to hire therass-lotus puppet, which was even worse than robbers After the first round of confrontation, except for those who had been killed, the rest of the guards all fled for their lives

Zhao Boan becaht he would be killed for sure, but unexpectedly, he met his new boss

Yes, he had been hired by Ai Hui and was now his e with his boss was the only choice he could ood When his boss learned that he’d borrowed a lot of enerously paid hioods and told hih toto die for Ai Hui without saying a word

Two years ago, morals had not been as terrible as they were today Elders Guild was still influential and powerful then This year, however, especially this half of the year, righteousness and justice no longer seemed to exist and the rules of society quickly collapsed It was like an avalanche; once the layer of snow covering thesound and an unstoppableoverlooked those beneath them while the ere as minor as mites They were bullied more and more often, almost everyday Bandits and robbers were everywhere, but no one stopped thehteous robber as long as he didn’t kill anyone during a robbery It was perfectly justified for the strong to take your belongings without paying

Anyone capable had already gone to the Wilderness

Except for pivotal huge cities like Silver City, the Silver Mist Sea, and Palette Cloud Village, the rest of the cities were like dried up corpses The Elders Guild didn’t bother to pay them any attention and just left theive birth to vigor; it would only attract vultures that were fond of carrion

His boss had donein fear He knew that he’d better not provoke thisFeng was a follower of Grande

In the Jadeite Forest, no one dared to disobey Grandod of Jadeite Forest, and even his folloere beyond the reach of ordinary people

It seemed that his boss was not afraid of Grandmaster Dai He was a bit worried at first, but when it occurred to him that his boss was not a meaze focused on his bossr, as training

Zhao Boanthan his boss No, the word "hardworking" was not enough to describe his boss’s training It should be "crazy"

His boss seemed to be extre, it was as if he was possessed by the devil

Thiscould coth

He stood reverently aside and waited for his boss’s training to end

Ai Hui was onspine moved so fast that naked eyes could hardly follow it In front of hi sounds that could get on your nerves

Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle!

Each collision between the Dragonspine and the grass cords would produce sparks