viscount

"Master Matthew, wake up, don't take a nap, it's time to take a bath, the master is going to take you to the auction in the evening." The voice seemed to come from afar.

Matthew woke up from the darkness and sat up, his brain twitching, as if someone had been chiseled into a steel nail through the door of his head, and his thoughts couldn't turn at all.

Lay back on the bed again and began to silently perceive the world. The surrounding furnishings are Western-style, oak furniture, silver-plated candlesticks, and a bronze mirror erected in the corner.

Matthew was covered with a linen quilt, and the core of the quilt seemed to be goose feathers, and Matthew slowly pulled his hand out of the quilt and put it in front of him.

"It's so small! It's not my hand!"

The hands in front of me are white and tender, and the nails are neatly trimmed, and they look healthy. But the incredible thing is that this is not an adult's hand, at best it is the hand of a 10-year-old!

Matthew struggled to get up and came to the mirror, only to see a white child with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose, curly blond hair tied into braids, and a childish face.

"Am I crossing over?"

Everything around me is so strange, I am loaded into the body of a child, who am I?

Another sharp headache hit, and Matthew couldn't hold back his exhalation, his face turned pale, and his head broke out in a cold sweat. I saw a stream of strange memories come to mind, and scenes emerge in front of me like a movie!

"My name is Matthew Downton, son of Viscount Downton, heir to the title!" Matthew's memories told him.

At this time, a maid pushed the door in, wearing a black cotton maid dress, and said softly:

"Young Master Matthew, please hurry up and freshen up. The lord is going to take you to the auction in the evening, and it will be too late, why have you slept for so long!"

The maid spoke an unfamiliar language, and after absorbing the memories in her head, Matthew could understand and use it without any obstacles.

"Okay!" replied Matthew.

While being arranged by the maid to freshen up and eat, while combing the memories in his mind. The information was too complicated, and it took Matthew a lot of effort to tease out a context. This is a world similar to the Western Middle Ages, where the occult is rampant, wizards, knights, dragons, monsters, and aliens all exist!

Matthew was ten years old, and after completing his basic education in the Viscount of Downton, he was required to be taken to the capital by his father to undergo a talent test. This was a treatment that only the high-ranking aristocracy could enjoy.

In this world, where hierarchies are tight, class mobility is largely stagnant, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to break through the class ceiling. With the inheritance of generations of nobles and commoners over thousands of years, the gap between the two is unimaginable.

The aristocracy enjoyed the most superior material conditions, paid attention to the inheritance and learning of education, culture and history, and valued the selection and maintenance of high-quality bloodlines. And the commoners were struggling to survive the day's labor, struggling to survive and be exploited by the aristocracy.

Thankfully, Matthew crossed over and became a member of the high-ranking aristocracy, and the world opened the door to him.

Unlike in previous lives, this is a world full of mysterious powers, where the energy of the system is infinitely weakened, and the power is attributed to itself! Only those who possess extraordinary power can master power and wealth.

And human beings are selfish, how to master supernatural powers, how to climb the peak of evolution, how to open their eyes to see the real world, all knowledge is strictly controlled in the hands of a few, and the more powerful the source of power, the more secret.

As a member of the high-ranking nobles of the kingdom, the Downton family has been inherited for more than 500 years, even so the Downton family only has a few secrets to improve the strength of the body, this part of the knowledge can only support the initial stage of the profession of "knight", if you want to become a middle-level knight, the inheritance of the Downton family is not enough, the family is like a middle-level professional, you need the right time, the right place, and the people.

Thanks to the family heritage, each generation of the head of the Downton family has a great chance to become a beginner knight, and at the worst can become a senior knight apprentice. The extraordinary power in the possession of the head of the family is the cornerstone of the entire family's maintenance!

The power belongs to itself, the knights hold the power of the world, they control the size of the power, make rules, find their own position, the apprentice knight family is the cornerstone, is the starting point of the aristocratic system. The Beginner Knight Family is a prince who controls a territory within a radius of thousands of miles, amasses wealth, and determines life and death with a single word.

Middle-level knights are out-and-out big shots, and the families that can give birth to middle-level knights all have a long heritage and unique bloodline, and if such a family pursues power in the world, it can easily become the lord of a country.

Professionals above the middle level are detached from the world and easily do not appear in the world. Each time they appear, it is the birth of a legend that will be widely praised by troubadours.

A high-ranking knight, or even a grand knight, is the ultimate ideal of countless low-level people.

However, the public's opinion is always one-sided, and the knights who interfere in the world with their physical bodies have limited power after all, and they are not the ultimate power of this world! On top of this, the legal profession that changes the world with knowledge and leverages matter with spirit is the core that occupies the throne and quietly controls the world behind the scenes.

For the masses at the bottom, wizards and warlocks are just legends that even troubadours can't verify, just a symbol of "nobility, mystery, and horror".

However, for the aristocracy, the wizarding world was not out of reach. After all, no matter how high-end the circle is, it also needs to absorb fresh blood.

Every year on the first weekend of September, all the children of the nobility who have reached the age of 10 will be gathered in the nearby big city, and the noble wizard apprentices will test them for wizarding talents, once they are detected for wizarding talents, these teenagers will open another path! This is a fateful choice!

Thinking of this, Matthew couldn't help but sigh: "What a cold and dangerous world! The air is filled with an icy smell! But! Why is my heart beating so fast? Why does this colorful power make my blood boil so much? Thank God for letting me come to this world, the power I have been striving for for many years is so intuitively placed in front of my eyes, it is so good!"

Matthew's excited mood is difficult to calm down, even the uneasiness that he has just crossed has been diluted, with a fixed goal, with a direction to work towards, people have motivation! Even the monotonous dinner in this new world has become delicious!

Sitting at the dining table, holding a knife and fork, Matthew silently began to eat.