In the southwest of the Eslar Continent, there is a place called "Fog Town", which is named after the town's proximity to the largest "Hengduan Mountain Range" in the Eslar Continent, which is often shrouded in dense fog. Although there is a word "town" in the name, the place is not really big, but there are only about 100 households and less than 500 residents.

The people of the whole "Dense Fog Town" are simple, and most of the residents live by hunting, exchanging the magic cores and furs of the hunted monsters for the necessities of life, and for hundreds of years, the people in the town have become accustomed to this kind of life, this kind of life day after day, year after year.

The rising sun in the morning hung obliquely on the sky, and the warm sunlight shone lazily on Ryan's body through the thick fog, making Ryan's heart feel comfortable. The weather in July was good, and today is pretty much the best weather of the year in Foggy. However, there are not many people in the town, and at this time of year, there will be such good weather for a few days in Dense Fog Town, and the hunters in the town have already made an appointment to go into the depths of the Hengduan Mountains together to hunt a few large magical beasts and prepare for the upcoming "Victory Day" celebration in Takri Town.

Takri Town is the closest city to Dense Fog Town, but Takri is definitely not comparable to Dense Fog Town, not to mention, just more than 10,000 permanent residents and the two wide commercial streets in the center of the city are enough to prove that Takri is prosperous.

The annual Victory Day celebration celebrates the great victory of the combined forces of humans, dwarves, and elves over the invading army of the undead in Sunrise City on the east side of the continent 200 years ago. At the Victory Day Celebration in Takri, merchants from all over the empire will bring goods from all over the empire, as well as buy monster cores, furs, and other products that are abundant in and around Takri. These merchants came from a variety of places, from the imperial capital of Fernando in the north, to the largest commercial city in the south, to the city of Sea Breeze, which had overseas trade routes. It is the hard work of these merchants who are running from place to place that has brought the prosperity of the town of Takri today.

The annual Victory Day celebration is also the happiest time for the residents of Fog Town, and the hard work of hunting for the past year has finally paid off, with a large number of magic cores, furs, and precious monster cubs, etc., all of which will be sold for a good price in those days, and can also be exchanged for various items that are usually difficult to buy. There are even young people who are ready to grit their teeth and buy the exquisite ornaments made by the excellent craftsmen of Fernando City that they saw last time, and give them to their beloved girl.

Ryan didn't think much of it, though, and took a breath of fresh air, and walked briskly to a wooden house outside the town as usual.

"Ryan~", as soon as he left the town, Ryan saw his former partner Naimo greeting him in the distance.

Ryan felt a little strange in his heart, this hunt has only been gone for two days, why did Namo come back, he stopped and looked at Namo carefully. I saw that Naimo was still wearing the gray clothes made of winter wolf skin that he had been hunting in the mountains two days ago, but at this time the clothes had already been torn, and there were still some blood stains on his chest and thighs. Namo carried a fat pige boar on his shoulder, and he also carried 2 live edelweiss rabbits in his hands, and the edelweiss rabbits were still moving.

Naimo slowly walked towards Ryan. He looked at Ryan and looked at himself, so he showed off and said, "Hey, this time it's a good harvest, Ryan, look, I killed a Pig myself!"

Ryan was happy to see his friend hunt a Pig. You must know that the skin of the Pige wild boar is thick and powerful, and it is not easy for Naimo, who is only 16 years old, to be able to hunt one alone.

"Are you hurt," Ryan asked with concern when he saw the blood on Naimo's body, "Do you want me to help?"

"Haha, thank you" Namo puffed up his chest, "Men should be like this, hunting happily, drinking happily......"

"I still want to be with the woman I love," Ryan said without waiting for him to finish.

"Hehe" was said to be on his mind, and Namo smiled embarrassedly.

Ryan smiled and said, "You, every time you put these words on your lips, you are tired of hearing them. Your live Edelweiss rabbit was caught for her, right?"

was said to have hit the nail on his head, Nai Mo showed a shy expression, and hurriedly defended: "No, in fact, this is just a matter of hand." ”

Ryan was secretly amused, and then said, "Okay, I won't delay you, I know what you ran back for, go find Maevie." ”

"Good. Naimo hurriedly walked into the town, and did not forget to turn around and say, "Ryan, let's drink together in the evening, this pigeon meat is really good." ”

"Got it," Ryan agreed, and teased, "It's Maeve's craft, right?"

"Haha," Naimo's laughter came from the town, "I must come, today is my coming-of-age ceremony." ”

Rite of passage, yes, time flies so fast, and I'm almost 16 years old. Ryan was a little melancholy, Naimo's coming-of-age ceremony could be spent with Maev, what about himself?

Ryan shook his head, tossing the thought to the back of his mind. Slowly walked towards the wooden house outside the town.

As soon as he arrived outside the hut, Ryan shouted, "Teacher Galib, I'm here." ”

"Well, kid, you're here", a loud voice replied.

The door opened, and a strong figure appeared in front of Ryan. I saw that he was wearing clothes made of some kind of pale yellow monster fur, with spots the size of gold coins scattered on his clothes, a blood-red belt tied around his waist, and a pair of black leather boots on his feet. Isn't it Mr. Galib, who has taught him martial arts for nine years?

Ryan knew, of course, that the pale yellow dress on Mr. Galib was made from the fur that had been stripped from a lightning cheetah in the town of sadistic fog, and that the belt was made of leopard tendons mixed with the tendons of several Tariq antelopes. If these two pieces are just relayed by his parents, he clearly remembers the origin of the black leather boots worn on his feet.

About five years ago, Ryan followed Mr. Galib into the depths of the Hengduan Mountains. It's an expedition, but Galib takes Ryan to learn some skills and experience in the wild.

Young Ryan inadvertently alarms a sleeping Earth Bear. The awakened Earth Bear was very angry, and it slapped Ryan with its huge bear paws, at that time, Ryan only followed Galib to learn some more basic things, mainly for the exercise of physical fitness, and there was no time to dodge, and he was about to die under the claws of the Earth Bear.

At this time, in order to protect Ryan, Ghaleb, who was standing next to him, really made a real move in front of Ryan for the first time. This incident shocked Ryan very much, and it only took three moves to kill this Earth Bear, which belonged to the seventh level in the Warcraft classics!

Galib held the Earth Bear with his left hand and slapped Ryan's paws, then kicked the heavy Earth Bear backwards, and finally hit the Earth Bear with a volley, and his right fist directly shattered the Earth Bear's head, and the huge Earth Bear fell softly.

Afterwards, Ryan asked Mr. Galib why he could kill the Earth Bear in three moves, and Mr. Galib said meaningfully: "It's as simple as that if you have enough strength to hit the enemy's vital point with flexible and skillful use." ”

Of course, the end of this incident is that Galib has Ryan alone drag the Earth Bear back as a punishment for him. It took Ryan a few days and a lot of effort to finally drag the bulky creature back.

Ryan still remembers that his short figure carrying a huge earth bear into the town was a surprised scene in everyone's eyes, which made Ryan, who was watching, feel a little proud in his heart. Perhaps, today's Namo Kang Pige into the town was also affected by that time.

"Ryan, come in with me", seeing Ryan staring at his shoes, Teacher Galib said lightly.

"Oh, okay. Ryan was interrupted by Mr. Galib's voice, and quickly agreed, and followed the teacher into the cabin.

As soon as the two entered the cabin, Ryan heard an old voice say, "Ryan, you are here." ”

Ryan followed the voice and said, "Ah, it's Dranay-sensei, why are you here too?"

I saw an old man in a magic robe, sitting on a chair to Ryan's right, his face wrinkled with the passage of time. The old man was dressed plainly, with no magical items or embellishments other than a magic badge on his chest that symbolized his status as a magician.

There was a table beside the old man, and next to the table were two chairs in addition to the one on which the old man was sitting. The tables and chairs are of the most ordinary birch, and the workmanship is so rough that not even the bark has been peeled off. On the table were a large bucket and two wooden water glasses, both carved by Ryan himself with a dagger on the golden thorn log.

Seeing Teacher Draeney appear in front of him, Ryan was really a little surprised, Teacher Dranay, who originally left last month because of something, came back in less than a month, didn't he say that there was a more troublesome thing to deal with when he left last time, and it was solved so quickly?

Seeing that Ryan was a little surprised by his appearance, Draena didn't think there was anything wrong, he said slowly: "Ryan, don't think about it so much yet, today I and Galib want to tell you something important. ”

After Galib and Ryan were seated around the table, Draney said slowly, "Ryan, you're 16 years old. On the continent of Aislar, the child grows up to 16 years old and it means**, usually, the child's parents or teachers will assign a problem to the child, and let the child complete it through his own efforts, which is the coming-of-age trial. Have you ever wondered how to conduct your own rite of passage trial?"

Hearing Mr. Delaney's words, Ryan couldn't help but deeply recall his past:

Ryan was born in an ordinary Orion family in Fog Town, because the family was not well-off, and his parents were the only child. When Ryan was 5 years old, a prime-aged lightning cheetah came to the mountains outside the town. Listed as level 6 in the Warcraft canon, the Lightning Cheetah is fast, moves like the wind, has sharp claws and teeth, and has a short temper and is extremely aggressive. When the hunters of Dense Fog Town went into the mountains to hunt, many people were attacked by this lightning cheetah, and several people died.

Just when the whole town is at a loss, Galib passes by, and when he learns about the predicament facing the town, he takes action to get rid of the lightning cheetah. The townspeople were very grateful to Galib, and Galib liked the simplicity of the people, so they built a wooden house outside the town and settled down. So Galib lived in the town of Fog.

Gradually everyone became familiar with it, and the townspeople got used to having such an extra neighbor. The children of the town worship heroes and revolve around Galib, who has removed the lightning cheetah. Although Galib is indifferent to people, he prefers children, and he can't stand the children's begging, so he accepts seven or eight children to teach some more basic martial arts. Ryan and Naimo are some of the better in this group of children.

After several years of basic training, the children who learned martial arts from Galib have greatly improved their skills compared to their peers. Once, Galib asked why the children followed him to learn martial arts, some of the other children said that they wanted to learn some martial arts to show off in front of their partners, and some planned to learn more martial arts to support their families when they grew up, only Ryan said that he hoped to protect the people around him, this sentence moved Galib, so he paid more attention to Ryan's teaching, and Ryan's skills far exceeded Naimo and others.

Five years ago, the year Ryan entered the town with the Earth Bear, Drane traveled to Fog to find Galib. In the mountains of the western part of the continent, where Fog Town is located, it is very difficult to capture an Earth Bear. Normally, it takes a lot of effort to form a hunting party of more than twenty people, and the captured Earth Bear is also scarred. However, Galib and Ryan only went to the Hengduan Mountains for a few days before they killed an Earth Bear, and the fur they killed was simply undamaged, how could it not cause a sensation?

The story soon spread through the surrounding towns and became the talk of many people. While staying in Takri, Drane overhears people talking about it, and together they go up in Misty to visit the adventurers who can capture the Earth Bear, and find Galib.

Drane and Galib had been separated for a long time, and they were very happy to see each other again this time, and they each talked about their experiences after separation, and talked for a long time.

The next day, when Drahane saw Ryan who had come to learn martial arts from Galib, he was surprised to find that Ryan had a good talent for magic, so he offered to teach Ryan to learn magic.

In this way, Ryan has one more lesson every day, learning magic. After more than 4 years of studying magic, Ryan gradually mastered many magic techniques, and was able to unleash multiple magic spells with ease, much to Dranay's satisfaction.

A cry of wind came from outside the cabin, which woke Ryan back to reality from his memories, and he gathered his thoughts and said to Dranay, "Teacher Dranay, what kind of coming-of-age trial do you think I should do?"

Dranay knew Ryan was going to say this, and he and Galib looked at each other for a moment, a smile on their faces that made the wrinkles on his forehead even more prominent.

Draan said slowly, "Ryan, it's your sixteenth birthday in a few days." As far as I know, the custom of Dense Mist Town should be to hunt a monster alone, and then invite a good friend to participate in his own ** ceremony, of course, this hunted monster has become everyone's meal. ”

"Yes, Mr. Delaney. Ryan nodded, and suddenly he remembered something, and added, "I just met Naimo, and he wants me to go at night." This is the trial of Namo's rite of passage. ”

"You've been learning martial arts with me for nine years, haven't you? Galib took over the topic and said, "If it's just a simple hunt of beasts, it is estimated that with your Ryan's ability and careful arrangement, even if you really hunt a seventh-level earth bear independently, you can do it, so I don't recommend you to celebrate your adulthood in this way." ”

Ryan nodded and agreed, he had studied with the two teachers for many years, and he had really suffered a lot, and this ordinary trial was really not attractive to him.

Galib continued: "I still remember that once I asked everyone why you want to learn martial arts from me, and your answer was to protect the people around you. With that, Galib looked into Ryan's eyes and said word by word, "Why do you say that?"

Ryan didn't expect that his words from many years ago would still be fresh in Galibu's memory, he thought for a while and said, "Teacher Galibu, I remember that when I was very young, once, my father took me and my mother into the Hengduan Mountains to hunt demonic beasts. My father had a good harvest that day, and he caught a few jungle pheasants, but then in order to protect my mother, my father was bloodied by the fangs of a wild boar that hit me.

At the campfire that night, my father let my mother wrap her wounds and said to me, "Son, remember, as a man, you must protect yourself and those around you from being hurt, even if you pay for it." ”

Speaking of this, Ryan seemed a little emotional, he stood up and said excitedly: "Teacher Galib, Teacher Delaney, do you know? My father is a very ordinary hunter, usually even if he is wronged, he is silent and does not argue with others. But at that moment when the safety of his relatives was threatened, he used his body to block his mother's body, and used his hunting fork to stick a rampaging Pige boar on the ground, what a great power it was. ”

"The impact on me that time was too deep, although I was still young, but I secretly swore that I, Lane, must learn martial arts like my father, and do my best to protect my relatives and friends around me!"

Galib and Draena listened quietly to Ryan's story. Looking at Ryan, who was a little excited, Galib said, "Ryan, you take it easy, drink some water first, I believe you can fulfill your promise." ”

Ryan reached out and picked up the carved wooden glass on the table, and drank the water inside.

After Ryan calmed down, Ghalib motioned for Ryan to sit down, and then said: "Ryan, in addition to learning martial arts and magic, Draena and I have also taught you a lot of knowledge about the continent of Eslar, it can be seen that you yearn for the vast world outside, so have you ever thought about getting out of this town?"