In the blink of an eye, George and Millie had been living in the small town of Desaifus for more than two months.

For more than two months, George spent most of his time learning about the world through reading books.

This world was originally known as the Land of God.

For many years, the world was blessed by a man named Lucia Alvaron, known as the "God of Magic", who taught humans how to use the power of magic to protect themselves.

The human race has been able to thrive in a world infested with beasts because of the power of magic, and there are still people who use the magic she bestows to this day.

Suddenly, a group of gods suddenly descended from the sky, they were huge, almost all of them were seven hundred meters tall, and their whole bodies were dressed in shining armor, and no one had ever seen what it looked like under their armor.

The gods defeated Alvaron, who had been protecting humanity, and Alvaron's body was shattered by the gods and sunk into the center of the earth, where no one could find him.

After that, human beings all over the world saw a strong white light flash, and the gods disappeared after the white light, which later generations called "the light of the apocalypse".

Alvaron, who had been sheltering humanity, vanished, and the people at first wailed in pain and cried out for Alvaron, but received no response.

Humans don't know why the gods of magic killed them, and the power of humans is as small as dust in front of the gods, so they don't dare to hold a grudge against the gods.

Life goes on, and humans discover that the magic given to them by Alvaron can still be used, but each time they use it, there is a price to pay.

The more powerful the magic, the more severe the price the user will have to pay.

Sometimes it is necessary to trade damage to a certain part of the body, or even overdraft life, for powerful magic, and overuse will eventually become a monster that destroys everything in front of you.

But what should be the choice between the power to defeat a formidable enemy and the ability to survive?

Magic users must have the corresponding awareness, so only those who have the sacrifice and consciousness can truly become a magic user.

Because of the various drawbacks of using magic, humans began to gradually reduce the use of magic.

Later, it was discovered that some children born in the year of the apocalypse would have special abilities.

Some of them are infinitely powerful, some are extremely fast, and some have special abilities that can not only fly to the sky, but also release fire and ice......

People call these innate special abilities "apocalyptic powers".

These special abilities are all powerful, some are useless, and the same abilities are used by different people.

Some scholars speculate that the gods deprived Alvaron, the god of magic, of his divine power and gave the gods of magic to humans, and some say that these special abilities are new powers directly given to humans by the gods, but these are just speculations, and the real reason is still a mystery.

Although humans claim these special abilities as apocalyptic powers comparable to those of the gods, none of their owners dare to call themselves gods.

Even the most powerful users of the power of the Apocalypse in history did not dare, because they had already seen the power of the gods, and in their eyes, the great and majestic gods were the real gods.

Of course, Alvaron has been dead for a long time, but there is still a small group of Guardians who have survived to this day, all of them are ordinary people who have no apocalyptic powers, who only use magic and call themselves parters.

Until one of the partees discovers that they can use special magic to transfer their own damage to others.

So this group of partees gradually became synonymous with blood and brutality, people feared them, and the empire captured them.

The Parters were once almost extinct and then disappeared, and it was only in the last decade or so that the empire was in decline and kings stood side by side, and these Parters became active again.

And when it comes to empires, we have to say a pair of twins more than a thousand years ago.

Legend has it that they were the children of the crows, twins with black hair and black eyes, and a pair of black wings on their backs that could fly at breakneck speeds, and they possessed power that surpassed all those of their time.

They were able to read people's hearts, were wise, and had many supporters, and eventually they defeated the war-torn kingdoms and founded the Crow Empire, known as the Twin Emperors. Together, the Twins changed the name of this world to "Underheim".

But in the end, the twins parted ways due to their respective ideas, and they split the Crow Empire into two and went their separate ways, one renamed the Fujin Empire and the other renamed the Wuni Empire.

With the passage of time, the two empires are no longer at their former peak, and most of the territories have become independent into more than a dozen kingdoms, large and small, and now the two empires in decline can only huddle together for warmth before they can coexist under the encroachment of the kingdoms.

The small town of Desaphos, where George and Millie lived, was within the jurisdiction of the Fokine Empire.

……

Closing the page, George walked slowly to the window.

He looked out the window at the sunny sky and thought a lot, and he could see from the book that the world was not peaceful, there were brutal beasts, there were people who abused magic and eventually became brutal monsters, but the most dangerous thing was people.

As can be seen from the recent increasing frequency of human disappearances, the danger! Maybe it's around.

Unexpectedly came to this strange world, and there was a girl who didn't know anything by her side.

He really wants to go to the earth of this universe and return to modern life, but seeing that the civilization on this planet is only at the level of the Middle Ages, how can he go? He doesn't know where his future lies or where he belongs.

He misses the days when he was on Earth and scrolling through his phone in bed, but the system that has been struggling with him is gone.

Wandering away his worries, George slowly walked down the stairs alone.

Millie is not in the room, but recently Millie's personality has become more and more lively, often going outside to play with others, saying that she has made a good friend.

"Good afternoon, Rab, it's business as usual."

George greeted him and sat down at the bar, and the tavern keeper, Rab, brought George a large glass of rye beer and a large plate of steak.

George took a big sip from his glass, the refreshing taste and the aroma of malt hit his taste buds.

A bite of juicy steak would be even more exciting if there was a TV to watch the game.

This kind of life is Ba Shi, when there was a system in the past, he didn't have time to be so leisurely, and at that time, he might not receive a mandatory task from the system when he went to the toilet.

The soft sound of the piano resounded in the tavern.

Scratching his ears, George didn't have to look back to know that it was the boy in the big red hat who was about to start playing and singing.

This guy keeps singing that tune, and his ears are calloused, and I don't know if he can only sing this song.

This song was also learned later by chatting with Rab.

It tells the tragic story of a prince of the Wuni Empire a long time ago, and it is rumored that the prince was born without the power of the apocalypse, just an ordinary person.

After the death of the old emperor, his elder brother succeeded him, and he was exiled to a county, and soon after arriving in the county, he was assassinated, and it turned out that his girlfriend was seriously injured in order to save him, and finally died.

The prince hated his weakness, and he learned powerful magic from somewhere, and froze the entire county in freezing, leaving no innocent inhabitants alive.

Not long after that, the emperor and empress of Wuni Kingdom, who had just taken office, suddenly died violently.

Since then, the kingdom of Wuni has begun to go into decline.

The prince is no longer a prince, but has become the king of the Arakawa, Panradgang.

The entire frozen county was renamed the Arakawa Wilderness, and the sadness of the past can still be heard in the frozen wilderness.

At first, the nearby lords were terrified, fearing that the King of Arakawa would attack them.

However, there was no movement for a long time, until there were rumors that the king of Arakawa seemed to have gone wrong with his magic and could not get out of the wilderness of Arakawa.

As time went on, this argument seemed to become more and more true, so that the lords could really relax, but as some of the adventurers did not return, no one dared to venture into the Arakawa Wilderness again.

……

After a few glasses of wine, George's face was slightly drunk, chewing on the last steak in his mouth, and he turned his head to look at the kid who had finished the performance and was collecting money with his hat at this time.

"Why didn't this kid bring his puppet companion today?"

George took out a silver coin, flicked his fingers, and tossed it into his hat with precision, which was almost a habit of his making, and he would do it every time the boy finished his performance.

Belch~

Another glass of wine went down, and the wine began to rise, and the redness on his face was even worse, and the whites of his eyes were red and bloodshot, and his head was a little dizzy.

He felt as if someone was sitting next to him, and when he turned his head, it turned out to be the boy who sang the song, and this kid took out the copper plate from his hat and asked for a glass of ale.

This is the first time George has seen his appearance from a quiet distance, usually his face is covered by a wide brim, but now when he looks closely, he is quite delicate.

"Hey! You're pretty handsome, but you're a little inferior to me. As he spoke, George patted the boy on the shoulder.

"Ahem, cough, ahem, ......", the man was drinking, and was choked by Qiao's sudden slap and coughed continuously.

He stopped coughing, slowed down, and said to George with a smile: "Thank you for your compliments, and your generosity every time, I don't know what to call Sir." ”

"My name is George, and you're the boy in the red hat."

"My name is Arthur, and I miss your hair color and eye color." After saying that, Arthur took a sip of wine with gloomy eyes.

"Oh~ yes."

George shook his head, then squinted his eyes and looked at Arthur's hair and eyes carefully, and he said happily: "Hey~ Why are they the same hair and eye color." ”

This is rare, Arthur has been here for so long, and Arthur is the first black-haired and black-eyed Underheim that George has seen.

The rest of the Underheim have colorful hair and eyes, all colors, even the tavernkeeper Eevee...... Well, this guy is so bald that his eyebrows are almost gone.

He imitated Arthur's gloomy eyes just now and said, "I miss your hair color and eye color very much." ”

Arthur picked up his hat and put it on, asking, "Are you a descendant of the Imperial Family?" Only the descendants of the Imperial Family have such hair color and eye color. ”

"Hahaha...... Anyone can be in Anderheim, but I absolutely can't. Seeing Arthur put on his hat, George took it off, put his own hat on Arthur's head, and said:

"Boy, I really don't agree with your aesthetics, you see if I look inferior when I wear your hat, men should wear hats like mine."

As he spoke, George pointed to the cowboy hat Arthur was wearing on his head.

Arthur shook his head and changed the hats of the two of them back, he smoothed the feathers on his hat and said with a nostalgic expression, "It's more than just a hat to me. ”

"It's true that you're engaged in art, and I can't understand what you say, but why do you always perform that one piece, and there's nothing else?"

"One song is enough."

"It's not enough, it's far from enough, people have to learn to improve, you perform the same thing every day, there will only be fewer and fewer people listening, and your reward will be less and less, and in the end you can only drink the northwest wind."

George paused for a moment and said with a smile: "I'm happy to send you a good song today, and if we meet again in the future, how about you sing it to me."

"What tune? Can you compose? ”

"Hey, hey! You don't have to worry about that. As he spoke, George smiled mysteriously, pretending to fumble in the space storage bag for a while, and then took out a lossless music player.

Arthur looked at the colorful iron box in George's hand and asked, "What is this?" The craftsmanship looks exquisite"

"It's a music thing, it's a good thing, I paid a lot of money to buy it."

Arthur had a hellish look on his face, he had never seen a musical instrument like this, a strange iron box, could he blow or pull, or knock?

George plugged his headphones in and said, "Boy, you've got a good ear, come, bring this, so only you can hear the song." With that, George helped Arthur put on headphones.

Arthur touched the strap on his ear with something new to him, which he thought was more of a protective gear than a musical instrument.

"Ready? I'll be like a man for a while, but don't make a fuss and break my thing. ”

"Ready." Arthur nodded with a serious expression.

George tuned the track to Vitas' Devotion and clicked play.

Fortunately, Arthur didn't react in surprise under George's previous reminder.

As the song surrounded his ears, he seemed to return to the carefree days when he was with his beloved, and he remembered the feeling of being in his mother's arms.

All kinds of thoughts and the loss of love made Arthur close his eyes and immerse himself in it, and at this moment he seemed to be no longer in a tavern, but to return to a time that was impossible to go back to.

What he lost, what he missed, what he loved, these pictures appeared and disappeared one by one with the music, and finally only tears were left in the corners of his eyes.

After the song, Arthur opened his eyes, he looked at George with gratitude in his eyes, he took off the headphones and put them in George's hand and said:

"Thank you for the tune, Mr. George."

"You're welcome, you won't listen to it a few more times, remember to sing it to me next time."

Arthur said confidently: "One time is enough." ”

"Can you sing with your voice?" George said with a look of disbelief.

"I can try."

"Well, that's it! Sing to me when you're done, I'm sleepy, so I'll go back to my room and sleep first. ”

With that, George dropped a few copper coins and walked crookedly in the direction of the stairs.

Arthur looked at George with a complicated face, he followed and said to George's back: "Thank you for the gift, you can find me if you can help in the future." ”

George didn't look back, yawned and said, "Ah~ha~ next time." ”

Walking on the stairs, George, who was dazed, suddenly said strangely: "Strange, is it because I drank too much wine today?" When did I become so showy? ”

When George's figure disappeared into the hallway, Arthur stroked the feathers of his hat and whispered to himself, "Haven't I been out for too long?" The world is changing so fast, there is such a magical 'instrument', next time I have to ask him where he bought it. ”