Whoa... Whoa... The icy rain relentlessly washed the blood-stained battlefield, and mountains of corpses covered the entire land, lingering with dead air, and no grass was born. It is clear that there was an unusually tragic battle here. Both sides of the war paid a heavy price for this, with numerous casualties and corpses strewn across the field.

In such a terrifying place like purgatory, there are two groups of people...... Uh, no. To be precise, a group of people and a humanoid monster are facing off in mid-air. At this moment, the monster was already alone, mixed with a black mist full of bloody stench, although it was no longer clear what it looked like, but it could still see the huge bat wing wings behind the monster. The pair of batwings had obviously suffered a lot of damage, and there were patches of extensive damage. Through the black mist, the pair of blood-red eyes, full of deep resentment, stared at the group of people in front of them with endless killing intent. This group of people who stand clearly apart from the monster lineup is a group of priests wearing uniform (anti-river crab) uniforms. The heavy rain was separated by a magical force, and not a single drop of rain hit the clean white robes they were wearing. An aura of purity and sacredness lingered around them, making the priests seem a little out of place in their surroundings.

A terrifying thunderclap broke the silence between the two sides that had been in confrontation for a long time.

"Damn, don't think you're going to beat me!"

......

"It's ...... you"

Poof......

"For... What'......"

"Wow......!!"

“......”

Wisps of white gradually covered Il Gray's eyes. After habitually covering his eyes with his hands, Il found himself lying comfortably on the familiar bed, the sunlight pouring through the window beside the bed into the four-foot square bedroom.

"Tsk... It's that dream again..."It doesn't seem like this is the first time I've had this dream.

Not far from the bed was a slightly shabby wooden desk, on which lay an unfinished biography of a great man and a candlestick that had burned out, apparently from which Il had fallen asleep before going to bed last night.

"Could it be that I have read too much of my own adventure biography...", Il came to such a conclusion with great certainty.

Ilr glanced at the worn-out magic timepiece on his desk, and a few illusory numbers vaguely floated around telling him that it was already past eight o'clock in the morning.

A magic timepiece is simply impossible for an ordinary family like Il, whose father is the chief of the village guard and whose mother is an aunt who runs a grocery store. But Il didn't dwell too much on this issue, but he once heard his father Mike Gray say that it was left behind by his deceased grandfather, and it was the only magic device in the family. Such a timekeeping device is not an eye-catching thing to take out, but even so, it is a magic prop after all, and it is better than nothing.

In such a warm environment, no one would definitely associate the bloody scene just now with such a private bedroom. Shaking his still slightly dizzy head, 14-year-old Ill was about to start his day's work to help out at his grocery store. After freshening up and changing into a clean and neat outfit, Ill walked out of his room. Il's room is located on the second floor of the house, and another room on the same floor is the bedroom of Il's brother, Ysu Gray, who is two years older.

The elder brother Isu has been talented since he was a child, whether it is something he is interested in or anything his father teaches, he can learn it quickly, and it won't take long to integrate it. The father was full of anticipation that his clever son would be able to break into the world in the future, become a strong man in the world's attention, and revitalize the family's reputation. Il didn't know why his father, who lived in an ordinary rural family, had always taken the glory of the family so seriously, and since his father didn't tell him, he naturally didn't bother to ask.

With his father's dedication to the glory of the family, Isu was sent to the village martial arts academy for a long time when he was just 6 years old. Isu's hard training has caused him to rarely have the opportunity to get along with his younger brother Yir since he was a child, although the occasional opportunity to meet is only a few pleasantries. In the eyes of others, the emotional bonds between brothers do not seem to be too deep. But Il didn't care about outsiders' eyes, after all, he could understand his father's thoughts, not to mention that he was enjoying his current peaceful and stable life. Some people may ask, why only the elder brother Iso has high hopes for his father......, but Il does not?

Il Gray lived in the year 853 of the Holy Light calendar. The two main special forces that dominate the workings of this world are called war energy and magic. Although it has been tens of thousands of years since the discovery of magic, it has not been as widespread as imagined. The most basic elements of magic are water, fire, wind, and earth, all of which are mutually reinforcing and indispensable. Its cultivation has many exquisitenesses, first of all, it is the perception and understanding of the various elements contained in all things in the world, and after obtaining the recognition of the elements to itself, it can be gathered in the body so that it can manipulate the power of the elements and form magic. The magic system is based on the four basic elements, and there are many other derivatives, such as fire magic derived from thunder magic, water magic derived from frost magic, and so on. Back to the point, Yir's elder brother Isu is cultivating a battle qi that is opposed to magic. In this world, the spirit of war is also a major force that influences history, and its existence is more ancient than magic. In some ancient records, the concept of war qi has always existed, and in the eyes of the world, it seems that war qi is an instinctive existence of human beings. Battle qi is the foundation of all martial arts, and martial arts make better use of battle qi, such as common sword skills, axe skills, gun skills, hammer skills, bow skills, and hand-to-hand skills...... When the battle spirit is combined with martial arts, it can exert unimaginable power. There are those who have a strong fighting spirit, who open mountains and split rocks, turn over rivers and seas, and are omnipotent.

The biggest difference between the cultivation of battle qi and magic is the threshold. The threshold for magic is extremely high, not to mention the huge financial and material resources that must be consumed in the process of cultivating magic, and talent alone turns away many people who want to learn magic. When it comes to talent, it's actually the foundation of magic - the ability to perceive the elements. Those who have no perception of the elements, or some people with poor perception, can barely learn a few simple elementary magics, but they can only taste it at a superficial level, and they can't delve into this mysterious magical realm at all, and they are always at the level of a layman.

Compared with magic, the cultivation of battle qi is much closer to the people. It has almost no threshold, and almost all of them can condense their fighting spirit. Father Mike has let Isu practice battle qi and martial arts since he was a child, and a large part of the reason is because of this, because their Gray family can't afford such a large consumption of financial resources to cultivate a magician who can glorify their ancestors. Moreover, in this world where martial arts and demons are respected, there is no such thing as knowledge that can change fate, and the top power institutions within the country are also in the hands of a small number of families with top powerhouses. Therefore, if you want to have a career, cultivate your battle qi, and become a strong person in the world is indeed a good way to be more affordable.

Of course, as mentioned before, almost everyone can condense battle qi, but Yir is an outlier......

The battle qi is divided according to strength, and there are nine levels: beginner, intermediate, high, small, great, grandmaster, venerable, king, and supreme. Each realm is divided into nine levels, and when a person who practices battle qi reaches the ninth level of the ninth supreme realm, the battle qi in his body returns to one, which is the time when he becomes the legendary top powerhouse in the world. Ordinary people can simply use some war qi to help their production and labor in their daily life, and some children with ordinary qualifications can also reach the level of the third level of the primary stage at the age of ten. However, Yi'er couldn't do it, at the age of fourteen this year, the battle qi in his body still stayed at the first level of the primary class, which can be described as extremely weak. Originally, he wanted to train the two brothers of Il-Isu to become the father of the Gray family, but he had to face the reality that Il-Su's physique was extremely poor and not suitable for cultivating battle qi, and instead concentrated on cultivating Isu to make up for the regrets in his heart. Then why doesn't Il practice magic? You know. As an ordinary family in the village, it was difficult to send his brother to study in the martial arts school, and such a Gray family simply did not have enough financial and material resources to train a magician, and his father Mike did not think that Il would have the talent to practice magic.

With my father's painstaking cultivation, the time came a year ago. When Izu turned 15, he took the annual selection test that the town held. The so-called examination is actually a concentrated test and selection of young people in the vicinity of the town, which produces some excellent seedlings, and then selected by different colleges to become their students to continue their studies, and cultivate talents who will be useful to the village, town, state and county, and even the whole country in the future.

This customary exam is divided into two categories: the martial test and the magic test, and Isu naturally participated in the selection of the martial test, and as for the magic test, he didn't care too much about it. The hard work paid off, and ten years of hard work finally paid off. In the case that most of the assessment judges were not optimistic about Isu, a young man from the countryside, Isu relied on the big sword given by his father in his hand, and won the first place in the martial arts test with the strength of the ninth layer of the battle qi of the junior level, and was selected by the famous Ponne Academy in the town, and named the students who became his key care on the spot to enter the academy to continue his studies. In this way, those who are directly admitted on the spot are generally very good seedlings who will enjoy such treatment. Because of Isu's outstanding performance in the exam, not only in the village, but also in the town, it has become a topic of conversation for many people after dinner, which makes his father Mike feel quite face-saving.

The camera returned home, because my brother had been studying at the town college for a long time, and his parents went out early in the morning to work. After having breakfast alone, Ill went to his grocery store. By this time, his mother, Seuss, had already opened her shop and was chatting with a woman in the village.

"I'll be here. When the mother saw Il, she turned around and said with a smile.

"Yes Mom, good morning. Ilr replied.

At this time, the woman who was chatting with her mother just now also noticed Il's arrival: "Ouch Il, you came here so early to help your mother with her work, what a good boy." ”

"Hello Auntie, I am satisfied to be able to help my mother share some work. Il politely replied to the woman's compliment. Mother Seuss heard her son's words and a big smile appeared on her face.

"Suss is really blessed by your family, the eldest brother is talented and studying in the town, and the younger brother is well-behaved and clever by your side to help you work. Ay... My wild child didn't know where to go crazy in the morning. "The aunt was talking about her child, Mark Stephen.

Mark was a child who grew up with Il, and his family was a blacksmith, and their iron utensils were of good quality and were very popular in the village. Unfortunately, as the aunt said, Mark is a rather quiet guy, and he is not willing to inherit the family business of the Stephen family's blacksmith family in peace, and follows the children of the village everywhere on what he calls "adventures". Although Il and this lively Mark have played since childhood, and their relationship with each other is quite iron, but for Mark's "adventure" career... He was not interested in it, and he would rather read more biographies of the adventures of great men, which were much more interesting than the "adventures" of Mark.

The woman chatted with Eir's mother for a while, and then took what she had bought and left. After sending the woman away, Il was about to begin his day's hard work.