The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Only a few families like Frostwolf, would send their children into the wild without guards. Even though they send them alone, these children would be given sufficient food and weapons to protect themselves and survive in the forest.

If they can't they can return. The family would then provide guards but then the resources that would be tilted towards them would be bare minimum.

This was a choice that a commoner child like Dorian would have but he had another choice presented at his awakening. He was given a system. It was an existence that made him powerful, the more he killed.

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So his growth was much more than others who were at his level, which gave him the strength to hunt more. This was a repetitive cycle, that kept on increasing his strength to new heights as time progressed.

With the help of the system, Dorian dreamed of becoming the most powerful in the world and being able to rule the entire world. This was possible with the resources that were available to him. As long as he can kill and earn the required points, he can easily get them and become the most powerful person.

What he thought was that it wouldn't matter if he just became the most powerful person. He needs a lot of followers. Only then, having that strength would matter.

He also knows that people would betray their friends for benefits. So he was in need of loyal followers and they can be found mostly when they are still children. Their values would still be malleable and can be sculpted as he wants.

After he awakened, a few of the children started to follow him but these are all who have failed to awaken or yet to grow through the awakening ceremony. All the others decided to find someone to depend on and later on they did.

In this world, it is not easy to upgrade oneself without the help of others.

Though the nobles usually look down on commoners, they are not idiots who couldn't distinguish talents. All the awakened are useful in one way or another. So, many nobles would try to get them to join their families in return for benefits.

Of course, that was not for free. These children have to repay the debts after they grow up in one way or another. Most nobles take the payment in the form of servitude. There are few who wanted to break from the servitude and for that, they had to pay the debt in the form of something extraordinary.

What the nobles lack is not some gold but rare and unique resources. There are many rare resources that can even save someone who has only a breath left in their body. Some resources can give the person who used them, an ability.

This ability can be a skill or resistance or something else but what these give are at level max. It means there is no need to work tiringly to achieve this feat and can enjoy the benefits from the start.

There are many rare metals that can be used in weapons, that would be far more powerful than the weapons of same grade.

As long as materials such as those were presented, then they would be free.

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Dorian didn't want to be bound like that. He learned a lot of things from children who went to work for those nobles. Though they are safe and their families have better accommodation than they did before, these people were not happy at all.

They wanted more but the conditions were something that they themselves agreed to. They weren't forced to sign the contracts back then. The nobles did keep their promises back then but they now understood that they were underpaid.

Some at their rank would be much more powerful and richer than them but they also know that they wouldn't been able to reach such positions without the nobles' help. They wanted to enjoy the benefits early and had to pay for that now. There is no other way around.

If they had remained away, they would already be dead or still living in some small house in a city. There was no way for them to bloom without proper tools, which the commoner children lacked.

There is still a way to get out of this but they also know that this method is very dangerous and could end their lives. It would be best to develop slowly and steadily and live a long life, rather than trying to kill themselves.

They have seen that happen to many of their comrades. Only a few succeded and were able to gain freedom. It was tempting but it was a very dangerous path. They aren't protagonists of a story who would survive no matter what. He would even return from the dead and would gain everything that he wants in the world.

Most of these people are extras who wouldn't survive a few chapters in a story but Dorian felt that he was the protagonist of the story.

He believed that because of the system. He believed that this was a gift from the heavens, a blessing to him. With that, he can rule the entire world, which he was so sure of.

Moreover, he found his own stepping stones, some noble brats who think that they are better than others. What other way is there for a protagonist to step onto the world stage, rather than by stepping on those noble brats?

This is his story, he believed that very much in his heart.