Chapter 1: Meteor Street
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In the endless waste heap, teenagers in protective suits are shuttling through the ruins with magic extractors and detectors, constantly looking for remnants of magic waste.
They put the mana scraps they found into the mana extractor to refine their mana.
In the faint blue light, there was no smile on the childish face, just a mechanical repetition of the movements in the hand.
In the barren ruins, there are many large trucks repeatedly dumping waste from all over the country, and even some nameless corpses, and the noise is extremely unpleasant.
Vultures hovered over the land, but did not dare to fall.
It is not marked on the map, and people from the outside world have rarely heard of it.
The inhabitants of this place call it Meteor Street, which means that everything here is as fleeting and insignificant in the world as meteors. The entire area of Meteor Street is about 6,000 square kilometers and has a population of about 300,000.
More than 300 years ago, Meteor Street was a landfill, and it continues to this day. Abandoned babies from all over the world and some exiles with special status are abandoned here, they do not need to register national numbers, physical data, etc., and no one knows how the inhabitants live and what education they receive.
At this time, a young man with red hair and wearing a simple protective suit was holding a mana extractor in one hand and catalyzing a floating slipper with the other, and the faint magic on the slippers was being injected into the mana extractor little by little.
His name is Meteor Dust, and he is a boy who has been living in Meteor Street for fifteen years, and when he was three years old, he was abandoned here and began his life on Meteor Street.
Just as he was busy, a tall red-skinned crab man climbed up to the garbage heap where Liuchen was located, and slapped Liuchen with his huge claws, Liuchen was startled, and the floating slippers in his hand fell off at once.
"Hey, what are you doing! ”
"Hey, Dusty, how many are you left to finish today's task?"
The boy who spoke was called Ali, a teenager of the Crab Clan, who was also abandoned here, but because his innate huge chelica claw could not complete the extraction of magic power, he could only do the porter, and he was Liuchen's only good friend.
Liuchen wiped the sweat from his head, and said with a long sigh of relief:
"If it weren't for the fact that you scared me out of mana extraction, I might have completed my mission by now. Liuchen looked at Ali helplessly.
"Hehe, I'm sorry! I'm so excited!"
"Excited, what's there to be excited about......" Dusty muttered to himself.
"Cut, don't believe me, this news is explosive!" Ali still looked mysterious.
Liuchen was also a little interested by him, put down the magic extractor in his hand, and said in surprise:
"You...... You don't agree to let me taste the crabs, do you?"
"Fuck off!" Ali gave him a blank look and continued:
"I'm not kidding you, I'm going to get down to business, you must not have heard of it, at this time of year, there will always be some mercenary groups from all over the world who come to our Meteor Street to recruit and select some talented teenagers. This time, the famous War Song Corps is also coming to us to recruit soldiers, it is said that the time is the day after tomorrow, as long as you participate in the tryouts, you will have the opportunity to be hired, and the threshold for registration is not very high, the threshold of the demon warrior is white wolf pattern, the threshold of the magician is white star pattern, and the threshold of the arcanist is the white pattern of any attribute. Would you like to give it a try?"
The little curiosity that Liuchen had just been instigated quickly extinguished, he looked at the blue cow stripe on his right arm, and was suddenly a little disheartened, shook his head and said:
"No, with my Demon Pattern level, I don't even have the qualifications to enter. ”
In this world, except for dragons, creatures of any race will inherently grow a magic pattern, which is like a birthmark, randomly appearing on a certain part of the body.
According to the different characteristics of the imprint, the magic characteristics of this creature can be judged, and it has also become an important basis for judging the strength of the strong.
If the creature's mana is good at transferring mana to weapons or strengthening itself, then its patterns will take on animal patterns, and as the mana increases, the patterns will start with the cow pattern and gradually evolve into wolf patterns, snake patterns, tiger patterns, eagle patterns, and dragon patterns.
In the process of evolution, the color of the grain will gradually change from white at the beginning, to blue, green, yellow, orange, red, until it evolves to the next stage. Such creatures, if they work their own, can often be called excellent demon warriors or demon knights.
In the same way, if the creature's magical characteristics are the manipulation of the forces of nature and the power of the universe, then its patterns are in order: cloud, star, hexagram, moon, sun, and sun, and they will generally become magicians.
And the last type of magic is characterized by the transformation of the magic power of the five elements into arcane arts, forming arcane crystals, then its patterns are the five attributes of wind, fire, water, earth and electricity. They only have color levels, but each color level will be very difficult to improve, making them very rare Arcanists.
Normally, each creature is born with only one mana pattern. Of course, there are also extremely rare instances that possess two mana patterns.
But this does not mean that he has an advantage over others because he has two magic patterns, in fact, it is the opposite, because each magic pattern has the characteristics of mutual restraint and repulsion, which makes these people with two magic patterns need to spend exponential mana in the process of growth, resulting in a lot of mana loss and loss.
Therefore, these outliers, who seem to be all-rounders, often become weaker ants for ordinary people.
Flowing dust is one of the unfortunate outliers.
After he was born, his body grew both the beast pattern of a demon warrior and the star pattern of a demon controller.
He had speculated that perhaps it was for this reason that his biological parents decided to abandon him and send him to a shelter on Meteor Street.
For so many years, although he also went to the magic training hall to improve his magic power whenever he had free time, because he had two magic patterns on his body at the same time, the extracted magic power was divided into two, and it was greatly reduced, so he has not made much progress, and the cow pattern on his arm has been stagnant at the blue level.
Even so, he was willing to endure being ridiculed by others, and he didn't want to tell others that he still had a magic mark on his shoulder, and he didn't want to add another freak to the title of waste.
So when Ali saw the magic lines of the dust, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
"Ah, isn't it? After you were bullied by the Deception Yunyu last time, you haven't been practicing in retreat for so long, how can you ...... Why haven't you even broken through the level of a color!"
"Yes, this world is always like this, there are always people who can get everything without working hard, and there are people who have been working hard, well...... Still have been working hard......" Liuchen smiled bitterly.
Ali scratched his head with his big claws and muttered:
"Alright then, I originally wanted to ask you to train with me and then participate in the audition together!"
Liuchen replied indifferently:
"It's okay to train, even if I don't qualify, I still won't give up because ...... I don't want to be a fleeting meteor in this meteor street!"
Ali found that Liuchen's eyes showed a light that he couldn't normally detect, but he still felt a little sorry for his companion.
"Okay, let's go now...... What's wrong with you?"
Before Ali could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed that Liuchen seemed to have heard something suddenly, and turned his head and crawled towards the top of the garbage heap.
Ali soon heard the voice, and although it was a small voice, it was obviously the cry of a girl.
When he followed Dusty over the hill, he found that Dusty had run next to the girl, who looked like she was supposed to be an elven girl.
It's just that she doesn't look like an elf at all except for her features.
The pointed ears and white skin of normal elven girls are the most beautiful of all races, but because she has lived in Meteor Street for too long, this elven girl's skin looks gray and abrupt, and her ears are a little drooping.
Her name is Avril Lavigne, and like Dust, she is an orphan who collects mana crystals together in Area C.
Although Dusty was not very impressed with her, he remembered that the girl was usually very friendly, and helped him sew and mend clothes many times, and once, this girl found a very beautiful magic boot in the ruins, and she gave it to Dust. But the dust never wore through, because there was no leisure time here except for work.
At this time, this kind girl cried so sadly, of course, Liuchen could not ignore it.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Liuchen.
"Nothing...... It's okay......" Avril had red eyes, clutching the empty mana extractor.
"What the hell is going on?" Liuchen squatted down, only then did he notice Avril's mana extractor, Liuchen was annoyed, and suddenly understood, "Why is your magic crystal missing?"
Avril cried even more sadly when she was asked by Liuchen like this, but she still bit her lip with her sharp teeth, not wanting to tell the story.
"You don't care...... I lost it myself...... Woowoowoo......"
Liuchen was silent for a moment, and he had already guessed what was going on in his heart, and muttered:
"It's Decepticon, right...... They stole your mana, right?"
Avril nodded instinctively, but immediately shook her head in denial:
"Woooooooooo......oo You don't care...... It's okay...... I'll just keep collecting, I won't starve to death if I don't eat one less meal anyway...... Woowoo woo ......"
The more the elf girl cried, the more sad she became, and the empty mana extractor was thrown aside.
On Meteor Street, if the children in the shelter can't complete the mana extraction task every day, they won't be able to eat dinner and have to complete the mission overnight, or they won't even be allowed to return to the shelter.
"Damn! It's these bastards again, always thinking about getting something for nothing, and bullying others!" Seeing this scene, Ali couldn't help but say angrily.
"Woooooooooo......oo But what can be done, Decepticon Yunyu is the only teenager in the shelter who has a yellow wolf pattern, and he is also appreciated by Mr. Lei, and the guards will not care about this kind of thing, woo woo woo ...... "The elf girl's eyes are already crying red.
"Damn! This kind of person will get bad retribution sooner or later!" Ali said through gritted teeth.
"Although we are weak, we can't be so weak that we can always expect the curse to kill the bad guys!" Liuchen suddenly looked serious, slowly stood up, and then poured all the mana crystals in his mana extractor into the girl's mana extractor.
"You...... You poured your mana crystals on me, so what are you going to do?" Avril choked.
"I'll help you get it back!" said Flowing Dust.
With that, he turned and walked away.
Ali froze for a moment, and it took a while to react and rush over to chase the dust.
"Why are you so stupid!
Avril also wanted to stop the dust, but she only ran out a few steps, and when she thought of the fierce threat of the Decepticon Yunyu before, she trembled and did not have the courage to chase after her, and held the magic extractor tightly in her arms, and the worry in her heart was even more grateful.
"Hey, you stop me, you're crazy, what can you do? It's not that you don't know the power of Decepticon Yunyu, neither of us is his opponent alone, you even went to him to ask for magic crystals, isn't that looking for a beating? People like Decepticon Yunyu are now rampant and domineering here, everyone is retreating, you can bear with it, besides, didn't you also be robbed by him last time?
"It's different, Meteor Street has always been the weak, there is a gap in the strength of the two of us, he has the capital to order me, I accept it. But he's bullying people and bullying girls, so sorry, I can't tolerate it!"
Liuchen replied categorically and pushed Ali away.
"But......" Ali still didn't want Liuchen to die, and clamped him with his claws, "If you really want to go so insistently, as a brother, I will go with you!"
Liuchen shook his head, broke his claws, and said:
"When I'm a brother, you go back, you also know that the two of us can't beat him together, and you still have to participate in the selection, at this time, if I hurt you because I caused you and couldn't participate in the selection, I would feel guilty for the rest of my life!"
Looking at the back of the flowing dust, Ali gritted his teeth.
Although he knew that Liuchen was very reasonable, he still didn't want to see his brother take risks, so he was still ready to go with him.
However, as soon as he took a step to chase after him, Liuchen poured magic into his right fist and smashed it towards the garbage heap beside him.
There was a bang, and the entire garbage heap collapsed, blocking Ali's path.