"Hey, don't go overboard. You robbed us and even threatened us to kill demons for you. What's so good about bullying a weak woman!"
Behind the trio were five youths in plain clothes.
They were the commoners who came to participate in the assessment of the Academy Of A Thousand Illusions. They thought that as long as they got enough crystal cores in this assessment, they could change their fate and enter the Academy Of A Thousand Illusions.
Unexpectedly, a few days after the assessment began, the descendants of the nobles in Huan City and other places in Huan Yun joined forces and robbed all the crystal cores they obtained from painstakingly killing demon beasts.
They also urged them to continue killing demon beasts and to hand over all the crystal cores.
In other words, these commoners were treated as free labor by these nobles.