A dull ache.

There was a dull pain all over the body, and it seemed that all the muscles had been ruthlessly destroyed, causing every shaking of the body now as if there were countless knives slowly scraping in the body.

Jiang Yan could only feel such pain in his confusion, and the weightlessness that seemed to be being carried in his body.

The sound of the wheels rolling on the ground came to his ears, followed by the jolting sensation that shook the boy's body, and made him understand that he seemed to be lying on a vehicle, and the bumpy touch was the sound of this simple vehicle driving on uneven ground.

There was also the sound of horses' hooves in front of the march, and combined with the touch of wood on the skin, it seemed that this vehicle seemed to be a simple carriage.

"How many times this month?" a man's voice rang out.

"Who knows, there are several times a month of this anyway!" the other man replied in a tone of boredom.

Jiang Yan, who was groggy and seemed to have a faint stinging pain in his head, finally broke away from his trance, and barely recalled his identity and current situation.

'Ah, I see, I failed the summoning ritual of the Primordial Elves...... Now, has it been abandoned by the Institute?'

Jiang Yan recalled his memories in the research institute.

...... Here are the recollections......

His name is Jiang Yan, but this is just a self-title, and people around him prefer to call him Subject 213.

Ever since he was born and realized his existence, he found that he seemed to be different from other children.

I remember that in a dimly lit basement, when I opened my eyes, I found myself in a cold glass cover filled with turbid culture fluid, floating in the liquid with short hands and feet, both in the nasal cavity and in the trachea, all filled with the touch of the strange smell of the culture liquid that I still can't help but gag when I think about it.

When he opened his eyes, through the vision that had been dyed dimly colored, Jiang Yan saw that there were many glass covers around him that were connected to pipes like the ones he was waiting for, and the inside was also filled with culture medium and babies that had developed and formed.

The reason why we say 'babies that have already developed' is because some of them are strange-looking fetuses that seem to be still in the embryonic stage.

At that time, Jiang Yan didn't know what this meant, but he just felt that everything he saw was novel.

Even though he didn't feel suffocated or anything like suffocation in that liquid environment, he instinctively sensed the discomfort and began to struggle.

Shaking his hands and feet vigorously, he struggled in the glass cover like a drowning man, churning up a large number of bubbles.

In the basement where a large number of incubators are housed, seven or eight adults in white coats are walking back and forth, occasionally checking the status of the babies in the incubators and typing into the operation panel under the devices.

The commotion on Jiang Yan's side was naturally noticed by these white coats not long after, and they quickly gathered in front of Jiang Yan's cultivation device.

Jiang Yan still can't forget the exaggerated expressions on the originally indifferent faces of the white coats at that time, and now that he thinks about it, it should be called 'surprise'.

Jiang Yan, who was still in a baby state, was immediately taken out of the cultivation device by the white coats, and breathed the first breath of air after coming to this world.

Since then, I have been living in this large training facility called the 'Research Institute'.

Even in this indifferent 'research institute', Jiang Yan's childhood was lived in the strange eyes of the people around him, not only from the researchers, but also from the children who were also 'experimental subjects' who were trained at the same time.

First of all, his appearance was completely different from that of the children around him, and the other children born from the training device all had light golden hair that seemed to glow like the sun and blue eyes like jewels, and all of them looked delicately like porcelain dolls, both men and women.

But Jiang Yan is the only one, who is pure with black hair and black eyes, and he is an outlier in the group of children.

From the discussions of the white coats around him and his outstanding memories, Jiang Yan knew that when he was just born, his hair color and pupil color were actually no different from the children around him, but he didn't know why, after a year or two, his hair color and pupil color gradually began to change, and finally became the black hair and black eyes that were very different from the children around him.

From the reactions of the surrounding researchers, Jiang Yan learned that the appearance trait of black hair and black eyes was actually not unfamiliar to the outside world, but it was very abnormal when it appeared in the children born from those cultivation devices, especially when Jiang Yan's pupil color and hair color were not abnormal at the beginning, but suddenly changed in the middle of the process.

Unfortunately, even Dr. Lukes, the most knowledgeable person in the institute, couldn't figure out why.

Then in terms of appearance, although Jiang Yan is not bad, he is very inconspicuous compared to the children around him whose facial features are as delicate as a little prince and princess. That group of children is not only outstanding in appearance, but also has a high degree of similarity with each other, just like multiple births carved out of a mold, but Jiang Yan, the more he grows up, the greater the difference in appearance between other children.

Jiang Yan remembered that Dr. Lux was very angry because of his difference in appearance from other children, first taking his blood for testing, and then thoroughly examining all the researchers who were in charge of his embryo culture at the beginning, but the final result was just nothing.

In addition, Jiang Yan's 'awakening' time, that is, the time when he showed a clear sense of self from the cultivation device, was significantly faster than other children by two or three years, but the growth rate was not slow, and the children who were two or three years older than him were not much slower, which was obviously also an anomaly, but compared to the above-mentioned anomalies, this physical growth rate was not very conspicuous.

After that, Jiang Yan showed more differences from other children.

It is embodied in the ability to learn far beyond ordinary people.

It can be called an unforgettable memory, the mental arithmetic ability that can almost be called a humanoid computer, the reaction speed that is no worse than that of a cat, the ability to control the limbs in a meticulous way, and the ability to easily read and memorize seven or eight books at the same time...... Taken together, Jiang Yan's performance in the study courses arranged by the institute always surpassed that of other children who practiced at the same time.

In addition, Jiang Yan has always performed top-notch in the training of basic combat skills, whether it is hand-to-hand combat or cold weapon mastery, combat skills such as gun training, or auxiliary skills such as driving, first aid, field tracking and search, he has always improved the fastest, and the efficiency is even so fast that it is doubtful that he has already learned.

If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Yan was born from the cultivation device, and that he lived under the surveillance of the institute almost all the time, the researchers would have wondered if this was a spy in disguise.

Well, it's a joke! There is no way that any force would be willing to send such a child of the top genius level to be a spy, right?

It was only when he was learning "elven arts" that Jiang Yan did not perform as well as in other aspects, but his level was also maintained at the top level among the outstanding students of the same period.

Before he knew it, Jiang Yan was already eight years old, and the other children in the same period were also ten years old.

Early one morning, all the children of Jiang Yan's phase were gathered in a testing ground the size of a football field in the institute, and Dr. Lux appeared in front of them with a large number of researchers.

"Subjects, it's finally time to do this, and you all know what day it is, right?"