After Rita parted ways with Durandal, Durandal reflected that buying an official post was not something she liked. True authority and rank should be earned with one's own hands.
Those who accomplished great deeds in ancient times possessed not only extraordinary talent, but also unwavering resolve.
To achieve merit and establish a legacy!
When military posts and official positions became commodities, the nation had truly reached its end.
However, Durandal had to admit that buying an office was indeed far quicker than enlisting and climbing the ranks step by step, especially in such a corrupt empire.
Besides, she could not possibly devote her life to serving this empire or protecting this country.
Thus, buying an office to rise quickly was the best shortcut.
This empire was strange. One could see traces of several Shenzhou empires in it.
The emperor who founded the empire was known as the First Emperor. As the first emperor in this world, he had mobilized the strength of the entire nation to slay super-dangerous beasts, using their body parts along with special materials to forge more than forty Imperial Arms. Every Imperial Arm possessed transcendent power beyond mortal imagination.
It bore a slight resemblance to the Qin Dynasty!
And this decaying empire now also carried a hint of the late Han Dynasty, even the late Ming Dynasty, though it was not quite that extreme... After all, during the late Han Dynasty, the emperor personally sold official positions.
This empire had not reached that point yet.
Its situation also resembled the late Ming Dynasty, though this empire was in far better shape than the Ming Dynasty. Its enemies... were not nearly as powerful.
More importantly, this was a medium-magic world where one person could fight ten thousand, or even hundreds of thousands.
Unlike Durandal, Rita did not