"When~when~", the bell towers echoed and rang, and the long bells echoed above the city.

"Chirp~chirp~" strings of cheerful birdsong, falling on the branches of large poplar trees, flying over the narrow window lattice of the attic, and tapping on Lu Yuan's ears.

"Bread! Freshly baked rye bread! "Someone was shouting under the window, thumping the freshly baked bread into the wicker basket, splashing some crumbs, some of the bread cracking, and a sweet aroma permeating the attic.

"Your Excellency Tom Levy will be arriving in the afternoon, so please prepare your taxes. His Excellency Tom Levier will arrive in the afternoon, please ......," a young announcer, dressed in painted black and white and wearing pointed boots, as he shook a bell and shouted a loud proclamation as he ran through the street.

Lu Yuan felt that he had a dream, an incomparably long dream.

He dreamed that he was born in a small village, attended classes during the day and herded cattle in the afternoon. Inexplicably, he was forced to go to school for more than ten years, and he had to take exams every few months, and if he didn't do well, he would end up extremely miserable. After that, I was finally admitted to a key university, working, marrying a wife, my parents died, I was promoted, I had a secret, and I was about to look for a second spring, and I woke up......

When he woke up from his dream, he patted his head hard, and there was a sharp pain in his head. Lu Yuan touched it carefully and found that there was a thick bandage wrapped around the edge of his head.

"I'm hurt?"

Probably, it was another accident, no wonder no one came to call me to work.

Looking at the burn marks on his hands and arms, Lu Yuan smiled bitterly. I have encountered more accidents, so I naturally don't care so much. Gently pressing the temples with your hands, this kind of massage of the blood vessels in the head can slightly reduce the pain in the head, or the knowledge in that dream.

Why are dreams so real? Lu Yuan lay on the bed, used his fingers to draw a right-angled triangle virtually, and then easily performed a calculation using the Pythagorean theorem. This kind of knowledge, even a junior mage wouldn't know the Dao, and this shouldn't be something an apprentice like him can get. He was only an apprentice of a blacksmith and later became an apprentice of a mage through a relative. Speaking of which, I only know a few tricks, and I don't have a chance to master such a profound knowledge of spells.

Circular, trapezoidal, cubic, polyhedral...... The more complex the calculations become, the more profound the things called "geometry" are engraved in my mind. Thinking of the surge model that Archmage Habasat had calculated for several years, Lu Yuan shuddered. If Habaaser knew that he knew these things, the outcome would be really unpredictable. may be called as an assistant, may be locked up as a spy, and most likely be killed after draining knowledge.

There are also chemistry, physics, algebra, mechanics, electronics...... O omniscient Oumar, are you testing me?

This is no longer the knowledge of magic, it is broader and more comprehensive than magic. But it has nothing to do with magic at all, it's called science.

O Omar, why do you, who are all-knowing and all-powerful, care about a little man like me?

"Huh?!" Lu Yuanmeng rolled over and sat up, almost hitting the wooden roof of the attic.

"Who am I?!I...... I'm ......."

His real past, the life of the young man named Lu Yuan, is like a boulder sinking in a pool, and he can't pick it up even if he tries hard. The memories were like decades apart, intermittently incoherent, and he struggled and panicked to piece them together.

A whole morning passed, and the scales and claws were combined, and the past finally gradually gained some eyebrows.

He was born in Nasikai, a small town south of Baldur's Gate, the son of a Karatu merchant who never appeared again after he returned to the East when he was five years old. His mother was frail and sickly, and in the past few years, he had to help the miners of Nasikai wash their clothes and earn a little money to pull him up. At the age of seven, he apprenticed in a blacksmith's shop and learned some good trades. At the age of twelve, his mother died. On her deathbed, his mother entrusted him to his uncle's family, and then he was sent to the witchcraft grocery store at Baldur's Gate as an apprentice, three years ago.

His cousin William? Gast is 20 years old, a genius seventh-level mage, and the pride of his uncle's family.

William? After becoming an official mage under Archmage Ramassis at Baldur's Gate, Gast joined the group of mages serving the "Flame Fist" while choosing to work as an alchemist at a witchcraft grocery store. He also continued to expand his influence in business alliances, calling on friends to make friends with the powerful, and he proclaimed that his goal was to join the Baldur's Gate Council, unabashedly showing his ambitions.

Lu Yuan's apprenticeship is through his cousin William? Gast's help was obtained.

William? Gast is sociable and helpful. The "Blazing Flame", a group of young mages he organized, was received by the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate for repairing equipment for the Flame Fist mercenary group for free. He also entered the power system of the Grand Duke and worked hard to climb up. Here he is the rising star, and many people are optimistic about his prospects.

On the surface, he cared about Lu Yuan, arranged work and accommodation for Lu Yuan, and often guided Lu Yuan in front of people. Gast had a cousin he loved very much. However, on the surface, it is of course different from the actual situation. In fact, Lu Yuan heard William more than once? Gaster cursed his appearance and even bluntly cursed him to his face.

Lu Yuan has a pure Karatu appearance, black eyes, black hair and yellow skin, and a standard Chinese appearance. This appearance has a resounding title in Sword Bay - "Son of the Devil"!

Nowadays, there are more and more Karatu people from the far east in the Dangjian Bay area. Jianwan people know that there are several countries in the east where the appearance of people is like this, and the number is far more than the total population of Jianwan, and in the east, Jianwan people also appear in the image of Rakshasa ghosts. So after that, people no longer associate this appearance with demons, only some stubborn old guys still have this prejudice.

Sadly, most of the councils now in power at Baldur's Gate are just such old fellows, and they have all heard rumors of Gaast's affair with the Devil. So, William? Gast felt that Lu Yuan was in his way, and of course he hated it.

"Cousin! I hear you're hurt! I told you not to do those dangerous experiments a long time ago! Do you know how worried your family will be? ”

A sudden voice interrupted his memory, it was his lovely and respectable cousin William.

He first told his love in a voice that was enough for the neighbors to hear clearly, and then Shi Shiran walked up to the attic.

His cousin had beautiful blonde hair, a handsome face, and a tall build, and would smile when he saw someone without speaking, revealing his eight shining teeth. It's a pity that the mouth is spitting venom now, "Wow, the devil's child is fateful, to be honest, I really envy your good luck that you can always escape death." ”

Then he threw down two bottles of purple potion beside the bed, "Don't bother me, I'll sit for a quarter of an hour and leave!" ”

William took out a softcover book, leaned against the window and read it. This is a fixed performance routine.

Lu Yuan will always get hurt.

He's just a lowliest apprentice, and in a place like a witchcraft grocery store, no one is going to teach you the real thing. At most, it tells you a process, and then it is repeated, repeated and repeated labor, which is "cultivation". The consequence of the high development of alchemy is that the threshold for participation is gradually lowered, allowing apprentices to gradually take on the work that would otherwise be required of mages. This further reduces costs and squeezes the apprentices' workforce.

Anyway, the survival rate of apprentices is not high, everyone is used to it, and it is a common belief to squeeze as much as possible before death. However, in order to obtain mysterious magical knowledge, magic apprentices must not only work hard, but also perform well and actively engage in dangerous work. In this way, it is possible to gain the favor of the official mage.

For example, Lu Yuan's alchemy potion work is commonly known as magic potions.

Magical extracts are often the product of some indeterminacy. From a chemical point of view, it is something whose composition, concentration, or properties are unknown. There is a more than 10 percent chance that the extract will fail when it is "mixed" at the last step of the potion making process, and a 5 percent chance of causing a serious explosion, so this step is usually done by an apprentice in a thick and simple basement.

"Why don't you just drive me away? I don't think it's hard for you to come up with a reasonable excuse. Lu Yuan said.

"Oh?" William looked back with some surprise, since the first resistance was taught a hard lesson by William, William has become accustomed to this relatively wordless drama. Anyway, the two of them don't have any feelings, even their parents, since they sent Lu Yuan here, it's like losing a burden, they haven't asked anything other than selling their sister's house as soon as possible.

"You want to leave?"

"Of course, since you think I've tarnished your reputation, wouldn't it be okay for me to leave? I'm going to be my blacksmith, and you're going to be your councillor, isn't it? Lu Yuan said with some annoyance, those new memories made him have a strong sense of humiliation for his current life.

"So you care!" William shook his head, "You're always dumbfounded, I thought you had become an iron head." Since you don't like to hear me joke about your appearance, I won't talk about it later. Forget all about the 'Son of the Devil' or anything like that, it's just a joke, and I can even apologize if you care. ”

"What do you mean?" Lu Yuan said suspiciously.

"You won't understand. You just need to know that you 'once' did get in my way, but I don't care now, so that's fine. William continued to keep his eyes on the book.

"Forget it", Lu Yuan waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, because I have already decided to leave." ”

"For what?!" William put down the book with a frown and asked unhappily.

"There is no future, there is no guidance, my life is in danger at any time, the teacher is just squeezing like a free laborer, he doesn't even know my name, now give me a reason to continue?!"

"Hmm," William said with a deep sigh, "it was my negligence...... I'll try to give you a safer environment where you can learn something. ”

"Why are you doing this?"

"Do you want to know the way?"

"I have to know the way."

"Okay."

William pressed the book on the table, thought for a moment and said, "Does Anta Silver Shield know what to do?" One of the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate, the most powerful of the most powerful of the most powerful of the few people. Just the year before last, Antar Silvershield's youngest daughter, Liel Silvershield, was kidnapped and brutally murdered during the negotiations. After the incident, the enraged Grand Duke Anta Silver Shield purged the entire lower city, more than fifty criminals were hanged, four powerful figures were down, and thirteen Flame Fist officers were implicated. This incident caused a lot of trouble, and even completely changed the political situation of Bodemen. ”

He was silent for a moment, then continued, "Compared to the strength of the Grand Duke before that, the Grand Duke was slightly inferior. After that, the Grand Duke had an absolute advantage! ”

William picked up the book and stood up, and said meaningfully, "Every big man needs to have a weakness that can be attacked. ”

William left.

Lu Yuan collapsed on the bed weakly.

William thought he didn't understand, but how could Lu Yuan, who had decades of memories and was bombarded by the news every day, not understand? He is William's weakness that is clearly placed, usually attracts malicious eyes, and at critical moments, he can sacrifice Lu Yuan in exchange for greater political bargaining chips.

It's bad.

But he didn't want to give up. Lu Yuanzhi said that he was very talented! He even felt that he might be a genius. His body has always been very flexible, and his long career as a blacksmith has also given him a very strong body, and he has an amazing memory, and he can remember any story as long as he listens to it once. Before his father, the Karatu man, left, as if he knew that he would not return, he dictated to Lu Yuan, who was still young at the time, a set of secrets for meditation and a spell that could be cast, the "Mage's Hand".

So Lu Yuan, like all children, stubbornly thought that if he learned this well, his father would come back. So he secretly meditated every day after his mother fell asleep. Two years later, he finally cast the "Mage's Hand". He showed it to his mother, who only complimented him and told him not to let anyone else see it. The little Lu Yuan meditated year after year, and practiced the "Mage's Hand" year after year.

From being able to move just a straw, to clutching a flaming iron billet and turning it on an anvil, to turning the iron himself and swinging the hammer by magic...... But my father never came back. As he grew up, Lu Yuan gradually understood that after the first long trip away from their homeland, a large part of the Karatu people would never leave their hometowns again, and they became loyal localists. Although he didn't wait for his father, he persevered in meditation because it brought him the only joy of his childhood.

In this world, from shallow to deep, magic is divided into nine rings. A person who can cast a first ring spell is called a formal mage, or a first-class mage. After mastering the spells of the first ring, you will become a second-level mage, and you can enter the magic learning of the next ring. The character level of the mage can be divided into 20 levels, and the mage will enter the legend after 20 levels. Master one more ring of spells every two levels until level 20, up to level 18. After level 18, the Legend only increases the number of spells that can be cast, and the level of spells ends at the Nine Rings, which is dictated by the Lady Mystery, the Mother of Magic, and the Lady of Magic, the goddess of magic, who is the master of the web and spells.

Ever since Lady Misra weaved a web of magic and combed through the scattered and violent magical energy, she has had an unparalleled impact on the entire world of Feren. It is easier and faster for mages to cast spells, and the possibility of ordinary people becoming mages increases exponentially. Later, following the division of magic, the magic was divided into nine levels, which were given to his priests by God. The magic net surveys the level of magicians, and other professions in this world, whether it is a well-known warrior, ranger, priest, etc., or unknown professions such as psionic wanderers and sorcerers who are less than ten, will make horizontal comparisons according to the level of mages, and determine their own professional levels accordingly.

Before becoming an official mage, as a mage apprentice, you can master some zero-ring spells, which are weak in magic, have little effect, and have almost no power, which is called "tricks". It is mainly used to determine the familiarity of magic apprentices with magic, as well as the determination of natural aptitude and inclination to the school of magic.

It took Lu Yuan two years to unleash the "Mage's Hand", and his talent can be said to be a subordinate qualification among magicians, and the possibility of becoming an official mage is very small. This once plunged him into despair after he became an apprentice. As an apprentice, there aren't many tricks that are included as "must master". Brightness for "charging" magic lamps, "Cryo Ray" and "Acid Splash" for making potions, "Mage's Hands" for dispensing potions, and "Repair Techniques" for cleaning up the scene after an explosion.

He watched others quickly master one trick after another, and could only make a useless appearance with a stiff face, but it took almost ten times as long in private to keep up with the progress. He hadn't told William or anyone about this, so William still had some expectations for him. As for his mentors? How can a person who can't even name him be qualified?

Drinking the medical potion brought by William, Lu Yuan fell into a deep sleep.

There is a burst of itching in the head, tomorrow, it should be better, right?