Volume 1 The Lonely Arcane Road 001 Deposed
Haynes City, the most bustling city in Stormhaven, is especially festive today.
The streets are lined with cheering crowds, some waving flags, some holding banners, and some chasing after me, just like a festive atmosphere.
"Congratulations to Haynes on his dethronement!"
"The sky has eyes! The end of the end of the overlord of Haynes!"
"The iron-blooded Grand Duke is righteous and destroys his relatives, this is the Lord of Haines!"
"The Grand Duke is mighty!"
Huge banners tell the same theme.
At this time, a horse-drawn carriage rolled through the noisy streets, bald old horses, old wheels, slow rhythms, and the festive atmosphere was incompatible.
Charlie leaned against the cold, hard carriage, fingers pinching his eyebrows, trying to endure the pain of his brain tearing.
"Charlie, you...... Do you still have a sense of compassion or compassion! Even the princess dares to blaspheme! Have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard's gall?!" In the face of the disdain and disappointment of his relatives, in the face of the ironclad evidence, and in the face of Princess Elsa's disgusted and angry expression, the iron-blooded Grand Duke trembled with anger, and a palm that flashed thunder and lightning slammed over, and his eyes were black, and the stinging pain drowned out all his consciousness.
Then, the picture in my mind turned again.
An elder in a dark robe proclaimed loudly in the solemn hall: "Charlie Pavel, in view of your contempt for human morality, insulting the princess, blaspheming the imperial power, dishonoring the family, and making Your Majesty angry, and in view of your consistent behavior in the past, Lord Thomas, hereby proposes that the Pavel Family Council vote to remove you from all inheritance rights, and execute it immediately!"
In front of everyone's eyes, a group of elders cast spells at the same time, an ancient parchment scroll on the table slowly floated up, a red lock rune on the scroll emitted a dazzling light, getting brighter and brighter, with a crisp sound, turning into a little broken star, the parchment scroll slowly unfolded, and at the end of the paragraph, a line of light blue magic signatures written in flower characters gradually dissolved......
This signature relates to the Pavel family's real estate worth tens of billions, the rich seaside ranch, the family warehouse containing countless treasures, the hundreds of millions of taxes in the port of Haynes every year, the control of the Silver Knights, the family's private army, which is comparable to the small army of the empire, and so on, the total value of the assets is incalculable, and it will have nothing to do with Charlie from now on.
Next, Charlie's short life plays out in his mind like a film, changing rapidly, and if you look at Charlie from the perspective of the soul, you will find that what happened to him today is completely self-inflicted.
Arrogant, stupid, lazy, greedy, and untrustworthy, he escaped a spoiled young man, and except for inheriting the appearance and characteristics of the duke and duchess, he could hardly find a single merit in his body.
After reviewing his short life, Charlie put down his hand and sighed, he is Charlie and he is not.
In fact, he is a physicist from the 23rd century Earth, who fell into a coma in an experimental accident, and after recovering consciousness, he finds himself in a completely strange world. What is surprising is that the smart chip planted in his mind has also been brought to this world.
The Sigama chip is a scientific and technological product on the earth in the 24th century, implanted in the skull, connected with cranial nerves, improving brain capacity and the ability to remember quickly, monitoring the physical state, and has certain analytical capabilities, which is an indispensable auxiliary tool for new humans in the 23rd century.
Fortunately, he brought the Sigama chip, so that he could analyze and sort out the explosive information in a very short period of time and clarify what happened to him, but what about after the wisp?
Whether it's a dream of Nanke or a simulation game, Charlie is in the middle of the game and in danger, and only he understands what happened last night?
Late last night, he was taken to an attic by a playful boy he raised, who knew that as soon as he appeared, he was held down by a group of heavily armed men, and then, he saw an angry beautiful girl, a group of gloating brothers, and Duke Thomas, who was furious and almost crazy.
It wasn't until today's trial ceremony that Charlie knew that the beautiful girl was actually the third princess of the Millennium Empire, His Majesty's favorite daughter Elsa, and he actually broke into her temporary dormitory late at night, just when she was bathing.
Everything is so coincidental, even if there are doubts, with his past bad deeds, who will believe it?! Speechless, even his closest relatives are skeptical, afterwards, the little playboy does not know what happened, as if he had never appeared in this world, and all sins will fall on his head, and there is no way to refute it.
It's a deadly conspiracy!
There are no flaws from beginning to end, with Charlie's temperament and IQ, there is no escape at all, the key problem is that Charlie has too few friends and too many enemies, and he doesn't know where his enemies are? I don't know who the enemies are? I don't know what tricks the enemy will take next?
What to do next?, he knew that the only person he could trust at the moment was the coachman of the carriage, Brian, the old servant who had taken care of his mother.
"Brian, where are we going?" asked Charlie, sitting in the slightly vibrating carriage.
"Young master, let's go to Fort William, where the master once lived. ”
The name was familiar, but he had no memory in his mind, only that it was his mother's birthplace.
Perhaps feeling Charlie's anxious mood, Brian said a few more words rarely: "Young master doesn't need to be overly anxious, after all, you are the only bloodline of the master, as long as you concentrate on reforming, you will be accepted by the master one day." ”
Charlie smiled bitterly, "Brian, don't you even believe me?"
"It doesn't matter if I believe it or not, the important thing is that the princess doesn't believe it, the others don't believe it, and the grand duke doesn't believe it. ”
One sentence made Charlie speechless, even the civilians of Haynes were disgusted with him, what else could he say, this is the so-called betrayal of relatives!
At the end, Brian sighed with emotion: "Young master, there is still a long way to go to reverse the image!
Charlie sighed: "I'm afraid someone won't give me a chance." ”
......
In the evening, the carriage left the city.
The sky was hooked and the clouds were hooked, and the ground was drenched in rain, and the sky was still full of sunset, and a moment later it began to rain lightly.
A cloud of cirrus clouds in the western sky supports the sinking sunset, and the clouds are smeared with a blood-colored stroke under the smudge of the remnant sun, which is extremely enchanting.
Outside the city of Haynes is a lush woodland called the Elwin Glade, an ancient jungle with a history of thousands of years, until the establishment of the port of Haynes.
With the development of Haynes Harbor, the Elwin Woodland was greatly developed, and the deforestation caused the anger of the natives of the Elwin Woodland, and several large-scale beast tides occurred in the woodland, and the humans and foreign beasts broke out in a shocking battle, and finally both sides were defeated.
After the Great War, the people slowed down the raiding of the Elwyn Woodlands, and the initiators behind the beast tide also retreated into the depths of the dense forest, and the two sides had some tacit understanding, temporarily maintaining a fragile balance.
It is undeniable that the Elwin Forest is still dangerous, and there are still magical beasts on the edge of the surrounding human activity area, and only mercenaries will go deep into the woodland to hunt for unexpected riches.
After leaving the city, Brian pulled over to the side of the road, knocked on the door, and got Charlie's permission, and he got into the carriage.
Brian opened the sheepskin package he was carrying, solemnly took out two old scrolls, and said, "Young Master, the next road may be dangerous, we can only rely on ourselves."
There are some scrolls here, which are carefully copied by the master when he was an apprentice, one is the 'mana shield', the other is the 'arcane missile', all of which are first-level magic scrolls, for your self-defense, I am worried that if I encounter a demonic beast, it will be difficult for me to cover everything alone, after all, I am old. ”
Charlie smiled bitterly, "Brian, have you forgotten? When I was twelve years old, Mr. MiG, the vice president of the Royal Society of Magic, gave me a magic threshold test, and I was found unfit to learn any magic. ”
Brian smiled: "It doesn't matter, they are first-order scrolls, and they are also zero-magic scrolls, as long as you can recite spells, the beginner spells are very simple, children who can talk can learn them, I will teach you." ”
"Good. Charlie was skeptical, he had never paid attention to magic in all these years, he knew nothing about the field, he only had the impression that it was a very powerful and cool thing, and the children of the nobility were proud to be able to play magic.
Brian took a deep breath and unconsciously twisted his right hand in a gesture of an orchestra conductor.
Then, in one breath, it was full of strange syllables, which were combined, fast and slow, very rhythmic, and rhythmic, and all the syllables were spit out in three seconds, and finally merged into a complete incantation.
Charlie clearly felt a small storm in front of him, the light blue halo flashed and disappeared, and the hairline on his forehead was windless and automatic, because he didn't unlock the inscription lock of the scroll, so he couldn't trigger the magic inscription engraved on the scroll.
"Spells are the cornerstone of the magical system, and it is a key that connects the mortal world with the magical world. Brian pinched the scroll and talked eloquently, "Next, I'll slow down the spell a little bit, recite it again, the young master will record it carefully, and then adjust the tone and rhythm, as long as the spell fit reaches more than seventy percent, it means that the success rate of your activation scroll will be more than ninety, and we can go." ”
For memory, now Charlie has the support of a Sigama chip, which is considered his forte.
Didn't wait for Brian to repeat the spell.
Charlie mobilized his clumsy tongue and parroted the spell over and over again, stumbling without missing a syllable.
He also felt a surge of magical power, but the fluctuation was not as large as the previous one, and the pale blue halo was imperceptible.
Brian's eyes shone with joy, and he praised: "I didn't expect Young Master Charlie to have an amazing memory! The first time he recited the spell, the fit reached more than sixty percent, and he was only one step away from reaching the standard, which is very good! If you are proficient again, you can basically master it completely!"
For his little master, Brian did not hesitate to praise him.
Charlie replied calmly: "It seems that the completeness of the spell is one of the key factors in fit, is the rest of rhythm and rhyme?"
The first element of spell fit is completeness, and the second element is rhythm, and as for tone, I don't count on it today, after all, you're a beginner. ”
Brian retold the spell and instructed Charlie to train a few more times, and the effect was very good, Charlie's receptivity was far beyond Brian's imagination, and he remembered that he had never seen a young man with such a good memory, and then Brian taught Charlie the spell of the Arcane Missile, and the process went just as well.
Brian couldn't help but sigh: "Memory is the most important quality for learning magic, and many magic apprentices are stuck in reciting magic spells, and the failure rate will increase exponentially if one syllable is missed, so the threshold for learning magic is not low."
Although Master MiG has identified the young master's talent and determined that you have no talent for learning magic, there is no shortage of 'scroll magicians' in the empire, and they also have no talent for cultivating magic, which does not prevent them from succeeding, the difference is nothing more than that others are swielding magic power, while we are squandering gold coins, and our Pavel family is not short of this money. ”
The words gave Charlie a glimmer of hope to turn around.
Brian sighed with regret: "If the old master knew that the young master had such a talent, I don't know if he would regret today's decision?
"Heh~ I don't expect his charity. Charlie smiled and said, "Still, thank you for your comfort, Brian, I feel much better, at least not as good as they say." ”
"It's not just comfort, I'm talking about the facts, the young master might as well try to go deeper in this field, maybe there will be unexpected gains in the future. Brian made a joke, and his old face bowed into a flower, "Young master, it's getting late, let's go!"
"Good. ”