In fact, if Princess Sarah's doubt was known to Austin, he would probably scoff.
The notion of innate nobility is merely self-praise by a group of beneficiaries to maintain their own interests.
There's no such thing as a country perishing without nobles; it's just that the nobles monopolize knowledge, leaving the lower class peasants as ignorant farmers who know nothing.
A group of clueless peasants, once free from noble rule, naturally have no way to survive in the wilderness.
This world is unlike the ancient Hua Country in Austin's previous life, where the imperial exam system was implemented nationwide, allowing even commoner scholars who failed the exams to have a certain reserve of knowledge, hence enabling at least some management talents during historical peasant uprisings.
In this world, due to the manifestation of Extraordinary Power, class structure is extremely rigid.
Knowledge is monopolized by the upper nobles, resulting in the ignorance of the common masses.
