COSG - Chapter 153.1: Two-Copper Hypermarket

Walton's full name was Benn Hamn Walton.

Carrying a middle name bestowed by his godfather, the Walton surname had once been shining in the Kenyan Empire. Walton's childhood was bathed in affluence… until the Walton family became bankrupt.

Four hundred years ago, the Age of Discovery brought significant changes, including the emergence of new capitalist elites.

These newly affluent elites, enriched by seafaring during the Age of Discovery and broke into nobility with their vast fortunes, shook the Kenyan Empire's upper class. The most direct consequence was the scarcity of land for nobility titles.

Without lands commensurate with their titles, the status of nobility became unstable. Over the past four centuries, the Kenyan Empire and other nations involved in the Age of Discovery experienced more territorial wars than in the previous six centuries combined, predating that.

The Walton family, a traditional noble house, declined due to these wars. Engaged in a decade-long territorial battle with a wealthy, newly-established noble family over the same land, the Walton family, led by Benn's uncle and bearing a barony, couldn't even muster ten thousand gold coins for war reparations.

Young Benn Walton had no choice but to join the church's night watchman ranks, facing unimaginable dangers to earn a relatively substantial annual salary to cover this debt.

His service as a night watchman over two decades on the Kalan Peninsula exposed him to things he never encountered as a young master from a baron's family, such as catastrophes and pervasive cults.

Nobody was born with a heart of stone, and Walton was no exception.

In the Kalan Peninsula, with its two cities, slightly over a hundred towns, and hundreds for small villages, there would be several families that suffered due to cult activities each year.

Walton had dealt with horrific scenes where mothers burned their children, witnessed villages neglecting agriculture for blind worship of false idol, executed fanatical cultists attempting to sacrifice their relati

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