Chapter 15: The Dream Chaser's Heart Begins to Move
[Chapters 15 to (?) are all stories related to the parents of the supporting character Paul Aristotle]
The number of chapters in (?) will be changed after it is written.
Angus Gale, the most prominent of the troubadour's lineage in 3,000 years, was promoted to level 5 magician at the age of 40, and was born into a small merchant family.
Since he was a child, he was very fond of listening to stories, and when he was a little older, Angus Gale was found to have a medium magical aptitude, which made the family very happy, and he entertained guests and asked for news of the magic academy everywhere.
Unfortunately, he was born in a large city in the Eastern Continent that has decayed, and the population of a large city is less than 2,000, because it was once the second line of defense of the unfallen city, but now it has fallen with the disappearance of the unfallen city.
There are no magicians in the vicinity, no magic academies, and even the former magic guilds are about to move out.
The only way for Angus Gale to learn magic was to go 300 kilometers from his home to the big city of Standt, which was the birthplace of the first magic academy in the Eastern Continent.
Angus Gale chose to live on campus. There, as a rare possession of moderate magical qualifications, although he was close to his teacher, Angus Gale was ostracized a lot because of his magical qualifications that were one level higher than others and his poor birth.
Under such circumstances, Angus Gale plunged headlong into the library of the academy, where there were no good stories, but looking through the historical documents of the past still gave Angus Gale the feeling of reading a story.
And because he was not welcomed, Angus Gale was able to study and meditate quietly by himself from time to time. It has to be said that learning magic is a work that requires endurance of loneliness, and meditation is even more so, emptying the body and mind, experiencing the magic in the space, and then imagining your body slowly sinking into the ocean of magic, absorbing the free magic power at a moment's notice, this is what basic meditation is all about.
Boring, monotonous, but going on day in and day out, this is the meditation of a magic apprentice, but that's how almost all magic apprentices come through.
But Angus Gale worked very hard, and from the beginning he learned to meditate, he did not have a day of laziness. So, at the age of fourteen, he became a noble first-class magician, and after another year of preparation, Angus Gale embarked on his study tour, and all of the 15 people he was at the same time were apprentices in magic.
This year, Angus Gale chose an art elf as his natal elf, because he liked to listen to stories the most.
On this trip, he plans to go to various places to record all kinds of interesting stories, and then let more people hear these stories. So, after saying goodbye to his family, Angus Gale began to work hard for his little dream.
In the past five years, as the number of stories recorded, Angus Gale collected local stories and told stories that the locals had never heard before, and before he knew it, Angus Gale had become a second-class troubadour.
Gradually, Angus Gale discovered that there was a lot of repetition in the story, and the story in many places was a routine, nothing more than a magician, a demon warrior, a dragon, a treasure, and a long life...... and so on, some stories even have more than 80% similarity in content except for the names of the characters, which makes Angus Gale feel that there is a "book shortage", yes, it is a "book shortage".
So, he began to write his own stories, which was a sad process, because at first everyone was dismissive of the new stories he told, and often Angus Gale finished telling a story that he made up himself, and the applause was not received, but there were a lot of boos, and there were many people who wanted to listen to him tell old stories that only changed the name of the main character and the name of the place where the story was written.
This made Angus Gale feel confused, is his original really that bad, or is everyone unwilling to listen to new stories?
You see, from the day he became a troubadour, Angus Gale worshipped three people:
One is the story of the army of death wreaking havoc on the world 10,000 years ago, and the song "Requiem" appeases the elite army of 100,000 undead, and finally dies with the necromantic lich - Helen Petra.
One is 6,000 years ago, fighting on the front line of the invasion of the underworld, recording the story of magicians and demon warriors desperately stopping the invasion of the lizardmen, fighting with the enemy's 5 "legends" until the oil ran out, and bought precious time for the arrival of the army organized by the Magic Council - Alexander Pachkin
The last one is 3,000 years ago, boldly and meticulously recording the mistakes made by magicians, and even being suppressed by the Magic Council and unwilling to change the original painting, and finally formed a civilian government of the reform painter - Aransu Dartai. Since then, in addition to taking refuge in the magic family and building a magic family by himself, the civilian mage has a third way out.
This also made later generations of magicians more aware that the power of magic should not be used by magicians arbitrarily. The three major biographies about the story of these three people, "Tragedy of the Dead", "Never Say Die", and "The Unforgettable Death of History", are Angus Gale's favorites.
Unfortunately, he himself does not seem to be as talented as the people in the story, and Angus Gale is a little disheartened by the frustration of the original story, and he just walks silently from continent to continent, telling stories written by others day after day to earn a small income.
Sometimes he even wants to abandon his art elf and change to an elemental elf to specialize, but he just can't let it go. And at this time, the turning point of his life came unconsciously.
......
It was a small town called Verona, and a young man and woman had recently committed suicide because the two families were rivals and could not be together.
After that, the two families fought over this, and the residents of the city were afraid of being innocently affected.
It was in this oppressive atmosphere that Angus Gale entered the city, and thus combined the narratives of the inhabitants. A story about the martyrdom of two young men and women because they could no longer be together in the context of a conflict between two families spread through his mouth in this small town.
The story focuses on the great damage that the conflict between the two families did to the love of two innocent young people, resulting in an irreparable tragedy, and this story finally becomes an opportunity for a truce after the two families fight.
The two families have been in the same city for so many years, and they also deeply feel that if they continue to fight like this, it will be the result of losing both sides, and when the time comes, one will accidentally cheapen others.
The story of Angus Gale was both a small thought of kindness and an opportunity for the two families to reconcile. Angus Gale's somewhat naïve and reckless act was treated favorably by the two families, and the friendship and gratitude from the two families were also gained, and the story was also named "Julian and Camilla" by the two young families, and spread to various places through various means.
After this incident, Angus Gale regained his confidence, and he thought that he should not ask about the local stories everywhere he went, but should integrate them, ask about what has happened in the local area, and then use them as his own creative materials and process them into his own stories.
As soon as his thinking changed, the road widened, and Angus Gale's fame grew, and he even opened his own magazine called "The Blind Mage", which recorded what he saw and heard along the way.
The magazine's fame grew, and it became known as an important source of information about the life of a magician for ordinary people, but that's a story for later.
At this time, "The Blind Mage" is actually more like a travel diary of Angus Gale now than the content of the future. As Angus Gale's fame grew, so did the story, and his path as a troubadour became smoother.
In this way, in just 20 years, at the age of 40, Angus Gale has become a level 5 troubadour, and although his magic is still limited, Angus Gale does not care, because his principle of walking on various continents has always been "safety first".
And because his art elf-exclusive magic is not suitable for use on magical beasts that do not understand art, nor is it suitable for use unguarded, so the most slippery magic he uses, in addition to the troubadour's own magic, is all kinds of magic used to run and defend.
Usually Angus Gale would not go to a place with few people, every time he went to a city, he would walk with the caravan if he was close, and if he was far away, he would save enough money for the teleportation array before leaving, and most of the money he spent on writing books and doing adventure missions was spent on sitting in the teleportation array.
In 17995, Angus Gale came to a small city called Sever, which is relatively peaceful.
But under his investigation, he found that this small city is really a wonderful place to collect materials, because to the east is the branch of the Tesla family in the Western Continent, to the south is a branch of the three spiritual families in the Western Continent, and most importantly, in the direction of the north and south, the former Newton family lineage settled there.
And according to the rumor he obtained, the girl of the Galilei family, who had been in a lot of uproar, had come here with the twin brothers of the Newton family...... It's a great material for writing a story!
Out of a certain sense of occupation, Angus Gale did not go directly to the place where the Newton family now lives to inquire about the story, but first went to the three branches of the spiritual department that were closer to the Newton family.
This is because of the particularity of the profession of the three hereditary judges of the spiritual system, this family generally plays the role of arbitrator in the local area, and if there is a dispute, they generally seek to evaluate the lawyer, and if they can't adjust it, they go to the formal channel to fight a lawsuit.
At that time, the judge and the "neighborhood office" were the same family, and the inside story was basically clear, so there were very few unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
It is precisely because of this that Angus Gale has to go to the three houses of the spiritual department, because that is the place where the story is truly recorded, which is much more efficient than asking his family in the past, which is also the convenience he has after he became famous.
Along the way, Angus Gale did not squint, but his ears were erect high, and he secretly added a second-level magic [Bat Beast Ear] to himself, and the collectors were short of the east and west families on both sides.
When he was about to reach the door of the three spiritual families, Angus Gale was listening attentively to the two families on the side of the road, where they were gossiping about the two Newton brothers...... Why, in the end, the younger brother was a step ahead and brought back a beautiful female magician, who was about to become the successor of the head of the family. (Nothing happened then).
The story is about noses and eyes, as if they were watching the whole process from the sidelines.
Angus Gale slowed down as he listened, but he didn't realize that a man was running out of the corner of the gate of the three psychiatric families, and then, with a "bang", someone crashed into Angus Gale's arms.
Angus Gale instinctively blocked this figure with a second-level magic [Water Bullet Wall], and then turned around to leave.
This is an instinctive reaction he developed when he encounters an accident in the wild, and after being bounced off by this magic, the average predator will give up the prey and wait for the arrival of the next prey because he is not injured, and considering the difficulty of catching the prey.
This is also the lesson of blood and tears that Angus Gale summed up after walking so many places, once the counterattack hurts the monster, if you encounter a grudge, the revenge is endless.
But before he turned around, Angus Gale felt that something was wrong, this was in the city!
He looked back and saw a beautiful girl with long blond hair sitting on the ground rubbing her buttocks. And behind her, a somewhat wooden, ordinary-looking man was walking out of the door quickly, and when he saw the woman who fell to the ground, he hurriedly said, "Sister, are you okay?"
The blonde woman said angrily, "I'm in such a hurry to marry me off, why don't I be your sister?"
Looking at the pair of brothers and sisters in front of him, Angus Gale hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I'm sorry......! Kindness...... This lady fell, you weren't hurt, were you?!" he said and reached out to pick up the blonde woman.
Angus Gale was 42 years old that year, but because of his early promotion to level 5 magician and his perennial travel, his body not only did not have the pale and feminine appearance of ordinary magicians, but his physique was strong, his posture was straight, and he had a man's masculine atmosphere, and his short and thin blue hair was undoubtedly very attractive to the eye.
If it weren't for the magic he had just cast, others would have said he was a warrior, and it is estimated that nine times out of ten, some people would believe him.
And after the woman was pulled up by Angus Gale, she felt a fiery masculine aura approaching, and her face turned red, and she looked up in a panic and explained, "No...... I wasn't hurt, but I didn't see the road myself, and I'm sorry to hit it. ”
As she spoke, she looked up, and her blue eyes met Angus Gale's black eyes.
For a moment, Angus Gale felt a throbbing in his heart, as if he had not seen an old friend for many years.
At this moment, Angus Gale felt ...... I'm tempted!
(PS1: More than 4000 words, the amount of two more is appropriate, and the above is not as simple as love at first sight, and there will be a detailed explanation below.) Finally, ask for a recommendation ticket once a day, and life is boundless!)
(PS2: The survey on whether the title of this book is going to be changed has basically come out, whether it is my personal feeling or the investigation of book friends, I have found that there is still the upper hand in favor of not changing, so the title of the book will not be changed, hereby announced!)