Are We Marines Actually Accomplices?

The slums outside the walls resembled anthills washed apart by a torrential rain. Crooked wooden shacks were piled atop one another, ragged children ran barefoot, and an old man curled up at a street corner tightly clutched a broken begging bowl in his bony fingers. The guards atop the city walls were reflected in his clouded eyes, while inside those walls lay unimaginable prosperity.

Qi Yuan was stunned by the sight before her. The town where she had grown up had also been poor, but at least everyone had food to eat and could still get by.

But the scene before her stabbed into her eyes like a sharp blade.

"Do you see it?"

"This is the real Sorbet Kingdom!"

Mu Chen's voice sounded beside Qi Yuan. Everything Mu Chen had done until now was simply to show Qi Yuan another side of the world. People needed to grow. Trying to avenge herself against the Celestial Dragons without knowing anything would be nothing but a fantasy. Since Mu Chen had decided to help Qi Yuan take revenge, he had to arrange everything properly.

"So tell me, what is the reason behind everything you saw after dawn?"

"Why had this country become like this?"

Qi Yuan could not understand why a country could be rich on one side and poor on the other, much less the reason behind it all.

Mu Chen gazed at the distant slums and slowly said, "The reason is simple: the nobles' oppression of commoners."

"In the end, it was that simple."

Qi Yuan still looked confused after hearing that. "I've seen nobles oppress commoners while carrying out missions, but I've never seen such extremes. The commoners here can barely survive!"

Of course, Qi Yuan knew she could not control the nobles' oppression of commoners, and she