The Down-and-Out Baron

Name: The Down-and-Out Baron
Author: Half-Old Slicker

落魄的男爵

by Half-Old Slicker (半老滑头)

Status: Completed
Length: 337k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: European Fantasy
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After transmigrating into the body of a destitute baron on the brink of bankruptcy and buried in debt, Allen Winchester has inherited only a leaky castle, more than three hundred hungry subjects, and a single silver coin. Fortunately, the Noble System activates in his darkest hour and gives him a hot-air balloon. Just as everyone thinks the bankrupt baron is as good as dead, he takes to the skies, flying over river valleys, the North, and the heads of the powerful. He makes glass, builds blast furnaces, trains a private army, and fights the barbarians. From baron to viscount, from viscount to count, Allen uses a single hot-air balloon to tip the balance of power across the entire kingdom. Years later, when his fleet of hot-air balloons blots out the sky above the royal capital, people finally understand: ravens do not stay forever on dead branches. In the end, they fly toward fire and the throne. This is the legendary story of a down-and-out noble who rises step by step in another world through technology, commerce, and military might.

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