Bad luck doesn't end in the stats panel.

With Hodge's understanding of living in this world for many years, although he has always been trapped in the basement called Pana Castle, through daily contact observation and a few fragmentary diaries to simulate the whole picture of the world, the world he lives in is obviously not ordinary.

One of the key points is the existence of magic.

The owner of the castle is a noble magician, even if magic is still an ability that only a few nobles can access, but this is enough to confirm that magic is not taboo here, it has a high degree of popularity, the popularity here does not refer to the popularization of magic itself, but the cognition of magic, just find a commoner, even if he has never seen a magician, but he will not let out a cry of surprise when he first meets a magician, even if it is an illiterate child in the countryside, he also knows that magic exists.

A world with a clear hierarchy of classes and magical abilities like magic makes it very difficult for an orphan like Hodge to survive.

One or two skills related to combat will be of great help to him.

Unfortunately, he only has two abilities in his skill tree – linguistics and psychology.

What's so ......

If you think of this as a mod for a board game from a previous life, the difficulty level is undoubtedly beyond the five-star level of nightmare difficulty.

A dangerous world, with a very low starting point, weak bodies and skills, and no chance to explore the outside world at all, only to be trapped in a dark and damp basement for years, unable to see any ability to escape.

It's an unmistakable start, even for a seasoned veteran like Hodge.

The instinctive desire to survive has become the motivation for him to persist in living, even if it seems to be useless skills, he can make the most of it, and search for all the information that can be used as much as possible in the area that can be explored.

As calm as he could, he closed his eyes, the boy in the basement had only four hours of rest a day, he had already wasted half an hour sorting out information, and if he didn't fall asleep immediately, less than three hours of sleep would make him not have enough energy to cope with tomorrow's work, neither for his investigation nor for survival, it was not good news.

"Stay alive and get out"

Setting the two most important goals at the moment, he fell into a deep sleep.

......

The month passed quickly.

The boys' lives don't seem to be any different from before, with the same schedules and the same scope of work.

But there are differences.

Two meals a day, in the past, were always just a bowl of bland "meat" soup and a small plate of black bread crumbs.

But these days, the meat in the soup is getting stronger and stronger, and the black bread crumbs are gradually building up into a small mountain on the plate, and you can even eat a dash or two of cream once in a while.

The boys cheered and thought little about anything but enjoying the hard-won food.

Hodge felt a little uneasy, there were no good people in this castle, and there must be some reason for improving the quality of food for no reason.

The unknown is always daunting.

Intuition tells Hodge that something is about to happen.

When the boys got up that day, they were taken to the basement by the guards who were the customary to start work, but the guards led the boys on a path they had never traveled.

The boys were confused, and the fat boy couldn't help but ask the guards, "My lord, is this path wrong?" ”

The guard turned his head suddenly, and the gloomy eyes swept over the boys behind him, and the cold temperature in his eyes made everyone who was glanced at tremble slightly, and they were frightened, and they subconsciously lowered their heads, and finally this gaze fell on the fat boy.

The fat boy trembled more than anyone else at this time, and in addition to fear, he regretted it even more strongly that he was crazy and dared to ask the guards.

"Shut up and come with me, you should know, you'll know later. ”

He staggered his gaze and turned to continue walking.

The fat boy breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glad that he didn't dare to make a sound anymore.

They walked up a staircase and stood on a stone platform, the dimly lit aisle with little light, only a faint glimpse of a large gate in front of the platform.

The guard took out the key, opened the stone lock of the gate, and after looking back, his whole body was pressed against the gate, and with his movements, the gate slowly opened.

Intense white light poured in in an instant, and the boys subconsciously raised their arms to block it.

Living in a dark environment all year round, their eyes have become accustomed to darkness and suddenly come to the world of light. It takes longer to get used to it than the average person.

Hodge gradually let go of his fingers, letting the sunlight pass through his fingers, and even though his eyes were still uncomfortably secreting fluid, he still wanted to see the sun.

No one is more eager than his, and for other children, memories begin in darkness from the beginning, and only he is not.

"I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun. 』

Bathed in real sunlight, it was only at this moment that Hodge felt that he was truly alive.

......

They were taken to a room, where others were waiting, and a simple wash was given to them, and for nearly a decade their bodies gave off a foul smell, and the water quickly became cloudy, and the dirt fell off in the washing.

After washing, each boy was given a clean set of clothes and trousers, and the real clothes and trousers were no longer two small holes cut out of the enclosed linen.

The rest of the boys didn't know what was going on, and they were overwhelmed by the sudden treatment.

Hodge didn't know either, he had too little information at the moment. But his intuition of uneasiness in his heart is getting stronger and stronger.

They were taken to another room, which was more spacious and more ornately decorated.

"Don't talk or move. The guard whispered to them.

Footsteps were heard, and the door to the room was pushed open, led by a middle-aged man in his forties, followed by three adult men.

Hodge knew two of the next three, the two who were in charge of the boy in the basement.

Looking at their humble and respectful attitude at this time, the identity of the middle-aged man standing in front of them was simply about to come out.

The man he didn't know stepped forward, cleared his throat, and said loudly to the boys, "Standing in front of you is the Lord of Parna Castle, the Honorary Elder of the Northern Magical Society, the Bright Northern Star, the Honorary Archmage, and your only master, Lord McCarthy Parna. ”

The boys were confused by the series of titles, but they soon came to their senses and saluted the owner of the castle in an awkward posture that he had learned somewhere.