"Yanquan Hassan..."

Aivas muttered the name.

He has more than just heard of it.

Just from the order of events, it can even be said that their group was chasing Hassan, the Fire Fist - to be more precise, chasing the [Fire Tetrahedron] in his hand.

Although Avas no longer intends to get the piece of geometric Tiansi fragments... After all, the water-attribute fragments are obviously more valuable, and Avas has already figured out where to get the Tiansi fragments that Leya is about to use.

"Since you," Evas became a little interested, "he is the leader of the rebel army you sponsored?"

If a businessman with the specifications of Grandet remembers his name, and talks with people of Aivas with great enthusiasm... he is definitely not a small person. Even a small person must be his "superior work" and a fulcrum that can leverage the boulder.

"He is a legend in this desert."

Grandet's voice was low and gentle: "You must also know that he is a resting man, and he is a slave..."

"Yes," Evas nodded, "It is said to be a dark-skinned and thin snake man."

According to the characteristics of snake people, if they do not eat enough or even overeat before adulthood, they will become quite ugly after adulthood. Moreover, their figure will be thin and short, and their status in the snake people society will also decline.

As a slave, he naturally could not enjoy any nutritious food. Therefore, his general appearance was unimaginable.

Grandet nodded, and then said, "In resting... Even the snake people who are slaves have a chance to leap in class. As long as they develop into young snake people with good appearance and figure before they become adults through the characteristics of "overeating" they are good, they can be selected as priests by the temple of the Snake Man who worships beauty. The snake people will be responsible for paying a sum of money to buy them from the good Lord.

"According to the resting rules, the children born by slaves belong to the owner's property, just as the cubs born from cattle and sheep raised by herders' homes belong to the herders. All slaves without a contract master belong to the good master. Even all slaves in the hands of the contract master still belong to the good master in terms of ownership. The contract master only has the 'second right to hold', and their agreement or disagreement does not count.

"Therefore, the snake man does not need to buy them from the original contract owner. From this perspective, if a slave is taken away by the temple, it is actually equivalent to the contract owner losing a slave that can be passed on to his descendants in the future. Therefore, the contract owner will try hard to make his snake man slaves not full... thus, they can hold their descendants for a long time."

"…In other words, is the Yanquan Hassan such a snake-man slave who is not allowed to eat enough?"

Avas asked.

Grandet sighed. The cunning and unintentional businessman seemed to have some sincere compassion: "His situation is even more special. Because he gave birth to their mother, he wanted his children to break free from their slave status in the future... but under the control and supervision of his master, this is difficult to accomplish.

“So she had an idea—

“She gave up four of her five children to centrally support the one with the best qualifications.

"Because of the master's clamping, the children's food has been reduced. Every child can only eat half full. In a state of constant hunger, the transcendent instinct in the snake's body will chew on their flesh and blood to give priority to strengthening their brain, stomach and nervous system, and at the least cost to maximize the success rate of "betting before fighting to death".

"And this mother, she asked every child to spit out two-thirds of the food on the basis of being able to eat half full, and gave priority to one of the relatively best-looking female snake people. The snake people society respects beauty, and women's tenderness is often beyond men, so the cost of cultivating a priestess who meet the requirements is much lower than that of a male priest.

"There is another problem here, that is, the work of female slaves is mainly to wash clothes, cook, do housework, and provide bedside needs for their masters. Male slaves are sent to mine, hunt, patrol, protect their masters from traveling, or work in higher-risk jobs such as militia guards, so they are more likely to have disabilities or scars, which affects the level of "beauty". For example, Hassan's arm in the Fire Fist...that is what he lost in an accident due to excessive hunger and fatigue.

"His brothers and sisters also paid a price. His youngest sister was so annoyed by his master because she was too thin and ugly that she sold her directly. Later, she saw her scales in the ceremony store. His elder brother died in hunting because of hunger. His second eldest sister dumped hot food on the little master because of her weakness, and was infected and died after being cut off one of his arms. He was already the only survivor.

"The decision made by that mother is cruel, powerless and correct - it is indeed the only plan for their family to be able to escape the shackles of slaves."

“…so.”

Hearing this, Aivas understood.

It’s like children from poor families don’t have the money to go to school, so they let their brothers and sisters work to provide tuition fees.

It’s just that in resting, this kind of offering is much more cruel.

If Evas was not mistaken... this kind of offering comes at the cost of life.

In any case, it is impossible to get into trouble easily when working. But in this damn desert, slaves really have to do tired or dangerous things, and there is no medical guarantee...even if they are completely unable to eat enough and can only barely maintain their vital signs.

It's already possible to eat half-full food, but it's about two-thirds of it. It's basically good if you don't starve to death.

But in resting, it is also a normal thing for slaves to die - unless they do not send slaves out to work, they do some business and open a hotel or something. Otherwise, no one will doubt that they die outside while working.

"Have they succeeded?"

Avas asked.

"It's a success."

Grandet replied: "It is indeed raised - the female snake man named Niya, who was beautiful at the age of fourteen, and reached the standards of the Snake Man Temple. With rich nutritional support, her height is more than three circles larger than her brothers and sisters, and she has soft white skin, as white as jade, and scales that can emit purple illusion in the sun.

"But because of this... her contract owner was increasingly reluctant to let her go. After committing violence against her, she tried to scratch her face. However, the snake man who had completed overeating had the power equivalent to a second-level extraordinary person. She did not resist the violence, but resisted when the other party destroyed her appearance, and turned the contract owner into a fracture.

"Although the Snake Man Temple has purchased slaves, as usual - the contractor has not received compensation from the good master. The contractor went to the good master to cry, claiming that his slave had injured him and asked the good master to give him a punishment. But his verbal organization ability was too poor, which annoyed the good master... So the good master directly punished both sides at the same time.

“He hung up the noisy contract master and dried it up, and asked someone to torture the slave who dared to hurt his master—skin her snake skin.

"The Snakeman Temple did not want to risk offending the Good Lord to protect a new priest who had not even begun to worship the Snakeman Temple, so she was caught and skinned before she arrived at the Snakeman Temple.

"After the contractor was hanged, his wife and son were about to become slaves because they lost their income and ability to pay water taxes. They went crazy and brutally killed Hassan's mother before they became slaves.

"So, Hassan lost all his relatives."

"…Where is his father?" Aivas asked with a frown.

"It's the contracting master himself."

Grandet sighed: "Yes...a father, when his illegitimate daughter is about to gain freedom and hope, reported her to death with her for her life due to jealousy and greed.

"—Hasan thought this was too cruel, too ridiculous, too unreasonable. These people, together with this split country, were like a joke that was hard to laugh at."

Speaking of this, Grandet bared his teeth: "So, he escaped and joined the rebels. He vowed to burn all these people to ashes."
Chapter completed!