Carl Gary is fifteen years old, born in and raised in Carroston.

Carl originally had a happy family, rich and warm, with an older brother and two older sisters who loved him, his father ran a small chamber of commerce, and his mother ran the family.

But fate is always unlucky, my father and his young brother were in a big deal, the news leaked, the caravan was besieged by the Brown Lion thieves, more than 20 merchants and mercenaries were killed, and all the goods were looted. The pension and high compensation made the Carl family's small chamber of commerce go bankrupt directly, and the remaining ones lost all the gold coins.

Carl was nine years old, his two older sisters also entered a brothel to engage in the leather and meat business, and his mother entered a windmill workshop as a laundryman.

"Keep looking for the meaning of life, no matter how desperate life is, there will be a ray of sunshine. This was what Carl's teacher said to him after giving him his last lesson, and for fear that Carl would forget, Carl's teacher took a thin piece of copper and gave it to him.

On the day he hung the necklace, Carl found the meaning of his life, he wanted to become a powerful knight, kill all the thieves of the Brown Lion Thieves, and avenge his father and brother.

An innkeeper in the city, who had received the favor of Carl's father, told him that if he wanted to become a knight, he had to have a strong physique, that if he wanted to have a strong physique, he had to eat enough, that if he wanted to eat enough, he had to work as a helper in the kitchen, and if he wanted to work as a helper in the kitchen for a long time, he had to work hard and hard.

In this way, Carl became Carroston's most diligent kitchen helper, and he was also the most fed helper. Because Carl was diligent and literate, the innkeeper admired him and gave him more hours to work, more work to do, and the rest of the food for the guests.

After three years as a kitchen helper, the twelve-year-old Carl grew tall and strong, looking like a sturdy young man of sixteen or seventeen.

One day at noon, the innkeeper suddenly ran into the inn from outside, panting and screaming excitedly, "Carl! Bring out all the ales, all the ales are free today!" That day, Carl cried all afternoon and drank two large vats of ale with the innkeeper and the helpers.

The day after Carl's drunkenness, the innkeeper found Knight Egger's Oak Will Cavalry, bought a sword that had slain thieves, gave it to Carl, and told Carl that he wanted to be a knight like Egger!

Three years later, Carl was still Carroston's most diligent and most festive kitchen helper, and every day when he was free, Carl would practice his swordsmanship in the yard wielding the long sword that had been stuck to the blood of the enemy.

Fifteen-year-old Karl is very strong, a little taller than many adult men, and he plans to sign up for the Oak Will Cavalry Regiment when he is sixteen next year, and become an acolyte, not only to see the knights of Egger every day, but also to learn riding and knightly will.

Today, as usual, while Carl was preparing the ingredients for dinner with the other helpers in the back kitchen, the innkeeper came up to everyone with a serious face and said, "Stop what you are doing, you will be closed today, and now we will go to the temple together." ”

"Go to the temple, what's going on now?" everyone asked.

"I just heard the news that Knight Egger was ambushed by the Red Eagle Wings and was seriously injured and unconscious, and several priests and mages have passed over, in the temple. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Karl dropped the cured meat in his hand and rushed out.

After hearing this, everyone else in the kitchen also put down their work, cleaned up the kitchen, closed the inn with the innkeeper, and set off for the temple.

When Carl ran to the temple gate, there were already several people who had heard the news before him, and after squeezing into the crowd and asking around, he was already in tears, and his heart was full of anger and fear.

After wiping away his tears, Carl squeezed out the crowd, ran to a river next to the temple, took off his clothes, and walked towards the center of the river, the river became deeper and deeper, and finally swam to the center of the river, after taking a deep breath, he plunged into the river, kicked his legs, and dived to the bottom of the river little by little, and touched four river stones from the bottom of the river before swimming back to the shore.

After getting dressed and carrying the river stone back to the temple, and placing it in the stone pile at the entrance of the temple, Karl began to wait anxiously, and the sky slowly fell into darkness, and many torches and candles began to be lit around him.

The crowd grew more and more, including cavalrymen on horseback, nobles and wealthy merchants in carriages, and civilians on foot.

There was a man who got out of the carriage and caught the attention of Carl and many others, and there was no special expression on his face, it seemed to be particularly bland, just the kind of blandness where everything had nothing to do with him. At this time, the crowd that came to the temple, whether it was nobles, merchants or commoners, was basically more or less worried and anxious, and in this case, a stranger with a plain face was so out of place.

Like many people, Karl looked at the man with a frown, and although he had also taken a river stone and placed it at the temple entrance, Karl was sure that this man he had never seen before, and that he was a fresh face.

After the man entered, the crowd chatted for a while and soon fell into an uneasy wait.

I don't know how long it took, the night became thicker and thicker, and the thick clouds obscured the moon and stars in the sky, and there was not a trace of moonlight or starlight leaking out, and many people had begun to close their eyes and cover their chests and pray. Carl kept saying to himself, "No news is good news." ”

Suddenly!

A palpitating sensation made Carl's heart beat violently, and Carl looked around in panic.

Carl saw the same panicked crowd, everyone looked around at a loss, but couldn't find anything, but the palpitations became more and more obvious, Carl clutched his beating heart, looked at the temple in confusion, and began to murmur prayers.

At this moment, the thick clouds in the night sky began to roll violently, like countless invisible hands beginning to move outward and around with a particle, and the clouds were parted by a geometric circle little by little.

The crowd grew alarmed, the palpitations became clearer, and Carl felt as if it were becoming more and more difficult to breathe.

In a trance, Karl, like many others, looked up at the night sky and saw the thick clouds that had been circled apart.

For a moment, many people couldn't help but start shouting, and Carl watched in shock as the circle expanded little by little, more and more clouds were squeezed away, and the clean night sky scattered some luminous light from the circle little by little.

The feeling of palpitations quickly faded, a mysterious will slowly descended, and the coercion fell little by little, Carl felt as if the entire space was blocked, and his whole body could not move, and the strange feeling made Carl have a complex feeling of not being able to move, and as if he did not dare to move, so he looked up at the vision in the sky.

The tumbling clouds were stretched apart little by little, and the circle became larger and larger, and the clouds near the edge of the circle were already extremely thick, as if one more twist, heavy rain would pour down.

The extremely oppressive feeling made Carl more and more uncomfortable, and the clouds in the sky were pushed thicker and thicker, more and more starlight was projected from the expanding circle, and the last crescent moon slowly emerged from the clouds, exposed to the sky.

Carl had never felt so sad about time, as if countless years had passed, but it seemed like a moment had passed.

I don't know when, Carl's neck shook, only to realize that he could move again, and looked around, the surrounding crowd was panicked, everyone watched the clouds on the dark night sky be half expelled by the mysterious force, and the circle became larger and larger.

Karl noticed many people coming out of the temple gate, all of whom Karl recognized, led by the city lord Viscount Orin, as well as the city lord's family and many nobles, officials, and wealthy merchants of the chamber of commerce. Everyone is either rich or expensive, and these people are also shocked and panicked at this time.

Suddenly, as if Carl sensed something, he searched back and forth in the crowd with his gaze. Something is wrong, what about the monks and priests? I was still handing out wheat balls and water before, I don't know when, I didn't see any of them, something must have happened! The indifferent man who got off the carriage just now didn't see it, he clearly remembered that he had indeed walked in just now, and there was no reason why he didn't come out to see it!

The crowd was in a commotion again, the night clouds in the sky that had been pushed away were so dense that it was unsettling, and the oppressive feeling was once again hard to breathe.

Suddenly, Carl saw that in the center of the circle in the night sky, there seemed to be a point of light slowly lit up, and just as he was about to rub his eyes to see if he was wrong, a golden white light fell from the sky that he would never forget, and instantly fell on the temple!

The entire white temple was covered with light, and the white and soft light was extremely sacred.

"Poof! poof!"

All the people outside the temple who saw this great light, whether nobles or commoners, all fell to their knees, threw themselves on the ground, buried their heads, cried, and wept everywhere.

The moment Carl saw that light coming down, he said, "Wow!" and fell to his knees, crying loudly, all the suffering, misfortune, grievances and despair that had ever been, and he slammed his head on the ground, echoing in his mind the words that the teacher had said to him.

"Keep looking for the meaning of life, no matter how desperate life is, there will be a ray of sunshine. ”