Tempting as the thought was, he ultimately abandoned the plan. After all, even without breaking through to the Transcendence Realm, Big Hen was already far stronger than other Transcendents. He was in no hurry.
The military camp's drill ground was packed with women squatting on the ground, young and old alike. Jiang Hao had noticed that female Beast Tamers were rare in the North Sea Kingdom-pitifully rare. Perhaps this had something to do with the state of their country. After all, resources were scarce, and what little they had could only be provided to men. More than ninety percent of those resources were in the hands of the lords.
If you wanted to become a Beast Tamer, you had to sell yourself to a lord as a retainer. "Retainer" sounded respectable, but in reality, you were only one rank above an ordinary slave.
Unless your talent was extraordinary and you became a Transcendent Master like Zuo Xianning, those lords would never give you a second look or address you as "sir." They would grant you countless resources and supreme honors, but in the end, you still had no control over your own fate. The power over your life and death remained in the lord's hands. If he wanted you alive, you lived; if he wanted you dead, you died.
Precisely because almost all the resources lay in these lords' hands, even the North Sea imperial family was constrained by them and had to watch their expressions before mobilizing troops or dispatching generals.
Weren't these women pitiful, born a rank beneath others, their lives beyond their own control? Jiang Hao suddenly felt as though he had come specifically to rescue the women of the North Sea Kingdom. The more he thought about it, the more ridiculous he found the idea.
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