Chapter Seventy-Three: The Mediocre

Emmanuel Grouch was born in Strath, the capital city of the county of Villette, a little south-east of the Franco-Austrian Union. The county of Villette is close to the county of Puglia in the south-east of the Franco-Austrian Union.

Sloped between County Villete and the county of Coriolis to the south-west is the Andrés, a huge mountain range that blocks the flood of rain and heat from the southwest.

Coupled with the rugged environment of Villette and the numerous surrounding mountain peaks, much of Villette is a mountainous forest and basin, with only a few being plains. Even if a large amount of warm and humid air is blocked, you can still feel the humidity and clouds of Strathcity all year round.

Emmanuel Grouhi grew up in such a place, where many civilians live in the middle of nowhere. Civilians had fewer opportunities to meet civilisation in more distant places, and the inconvenient transportation for them made it difficult for distant winds to blow in. As a result, they developed a unique culture, even though it was vulgar and despicable to the nobles, merchants, and officials of Strass.

The Grouchy family is a marquisal family, and as the heir of the marquis' family, Emmanuel Grouch naturally has more resources and sources of information. He longed to leave the closed, damp, rainy city that never saw the light of day. Emmanuel's countenance looked rather ordinary, despite the handsomeness and beauty of his merry father and noblewoman's mother.

Emmanuel is cautious by nature, rigorous, disciplined and dogmatic, which also means a certain mediocrity. He was well versed in aristocratic manners and spirits, and rarely interacted with the commoners, and even the merchants who had little status could hardly communicate with the old-fashioned earl's son. Some aristocratic children who have been in contact with this Emmanuel for a while, and after observing Emanur's behavior and language, will feel that chatting and playing with this person is like chewing wax. They felt that such a strange child did not look like a promising aristocrat.

In the course of his daily study and exercise, Emmanuel finally came of age, and at the age of sixteen, he did not hold a coming-of-age ball or party as the children of the nobility often held, but was alone in his father's study reading a book about a heroic figure. Yes, he, like most of the teenagers in the Franco-Austrian league who have not been eliminated by time, has a dream in his heart to grow into a hero.

On the night of Emmanuel's coming-of-age ceremony, his father, Mellen Grouchy, came to his study in an evening gown. Melun Grouchy's clothes were gorgeous and delicate, he had some men's perfume and some women's powders and perfumes, and he held two goblets with some red wine in them.

Mellen Grouchy handed the wine to his son, he looked at Emmanuel, smiled, and said: "People always aspire to be legendary heroes, but it is rare for millions of people in the world to meet heroic figures, let alone mediocre people who want to be heroes whimsically. You and I, most of the nobles in the world are just ordinary members. However, ordinary people also have their own unique and extraordinary lives. My child, Emmanuel, has seen the end of his life at my age, and it is my destiny to be happy in time. And your mission is to do what you are supposed to do to the best of your ability. Mellen Grouchy finished speaking, drank the red wine, and walked out of the room.

Was Emmanuel Grouch out of vanity that he went to the book without a ball at this memorable moment in his life, or was he afraid that he would be ridiculed by the boys and disliked by the girls at the aristocratic ball? Or is it because Emmanuel Grouch is really a figure with a potential genius? Even Emmanuel Grouch didn't know much about this. Because, in the past four years, there are sufficient resources and energy to provide, and he has worked very diligently every day to polish and ignite the Yuan Point. However, at the age of sixteen, he still only ignited seven yuan points. In comparison, the aristocratic children of his age have already ignited eight yuan points, and the reason why they have not broken through to become a fourth-level war master is mostly because they want to make their yuan power more refined, the physical power more powerful, and the spirit is completely mature, so that when they become a fourth-level war master, they will have more powerful combat power.

That night, Emmanuel Grouchy couldn't sleep, he looked at the night sky outside, some of the moon was obscured, and silently shed tears.

Even though Emmanuel Grouchy's talent was mediocre, he still entered the Second Military University of the Franco-Austrian Union. In the Franco-Austrian alliance, there are only 10 universities that require the actual examination of the college entrance examination to enter, and these universities have no restrictions on superfluous conditions.

Some aristocratic students with strong talents will go on to the Noritian aristocratic university, or they will also go to the military university founded by the Franco-Austrian government. The Franco-Austrian government established a total of five military universities, the first of which is located in the county of Antenor, the central core of the Franco-Austrian Union. The remaining four military universities are located in the southeast, north, and west of the Franco-Austrian Union. There are also other forces that have also created universities, such as the Holy Grace Cross Theological Seminary founded by the Holy Grace Cross Church, and so on.

If you want to enter a military university, the first hard condition is that you must have a certain background, this sentence is very interesting, which means that only those nobles or descendants of officer families can enter, and more senior officers often have noble titles, and there are often some high-ranking officers in noble families. The second hard condition is that there is no criminal record, and the criminal record is actually ambiguous, some officials are often descendants of noble families, and some nobles even if they commit crimes, as long as they do not make a big fuss, the general forces and governments will not care, such as the Baron Lucilion who was killed by Lin Luowen.

The rest of the conditions were quite relaxed, so many of the descendants of the nobility became students of military universities.

During his studies at the Second Military University, Emmanuel Grouch did not unexpectedly complete his studies on time. Even a girl who dated him couldn't stand his regular life to a certain extent, and broke up after dating him for half a month. Since then, this Emmanuel has not been in a relationship again. When Emmanuel's lust had to be satisfied, he would go to some special place to satisfy his spirit and body.

During his three years at the university, Emmanuel was mediocre in appearance, never in the limelight, and never said anything extraordinary. It took three years for Emmanuel to reach the fifth level of the war division to join the army.

Emmanuel became a deputy company commander, that is, a lieutenant, because of his status as a fifth-class combat division. During the execution of some tasks, he acted in a rigorous and conscientious manner, and strictly followed the orders of his superiors outside the specifications. The soldiers under his command called him "Bonflette stick", a kind of hard stick bread in the small city-state of Flett, a small city in the north of the Franco-Austrian Union, this kind of bread is one of the staple foods of the soldiers because it is easy to store, although it is hard but chewy to eat, and the aftertaste is a little fragrant.

Our Bonflette baguette Emmanuel Grouch watched in silence at the wind and snow on the mountain tops of the northern border, and remained motionless for half an hour, his soldiers watching the strange behavior of this Emmanuel with a little doubt in their eyes.

Time passed, and Emmanuel Grouch, a bonflette from the south with a strict temper and a restrained style, led his army on the northern border to battle the small cavalry of the Terence Khanate.

It wasn't until fifty years later that Emmanuel finally became a sixth-class war division, and at the age of sixty-nine, he was finally promoted to a major officer and a battalion commander in the army.

For those with mediocre talents, the speed at which they ignite the polishing meta point will gradually decrease with the weakening of physical power and the decline of mental power caused by the passage of time. Although the purity of their Yuan Force had increased, it still couldn't match the rate of decline. And if a person is entangled in all kinds of emotions, desires, evil spirits, and impure things, and because these things interfere with their spirit, then they are likely to have a hard time getting ahead. Many gifted human beings are not difficult to continue cultivating because their physical energy is not pure enough, but because their spiritual power is mixed, evil is not pure enough, justice is not firm enough, and chaos is not deep enough.

Bonflet Emmanuel is naturally not one of the above-mentioned gifted people who find it difficult to continue to ignite the meta-point, and he still persists and polishes the meta-point for decades. When you reach level six, your lifespan will generally be around one hundred and fifty years.

Eighty years later, at the age of one hundred and forty-nine, Emmanuel Grouhi, now in his last years and gray hair, sat alone in the ashram, looking back on his life with a very regular stereotype, a smile on his lips. Yes, his life was so ordinary and even mediocre, that there were no huge waves, and there were not many bumps and bumps. Even the confrontation with those barbarian wolf cavalry on the border was a skirmish every time, and the leaders of both sides were very cautious. They have even reached a latent rule in their years of confrontation, which is to try to be as good as possible and not fight to the death. The middle-aged and elderly commander on the opposite side even had some sympathy for him. Yes, in the years of military career, it has been difficult for both sides to promote their titles through military exploits, and a hard rule for the promotion of military ranks is the improvement of strength. Since the strength cannot be improved, and you don't want military merits, why fight to the death?

However, for Emmanuel, his life was a taste, and he spent one hundred and forty-nine years doing his best and then dying an ordinary death.

Emmanuel Grouch sighed as he looked at the folded skin on his arm. Subsequently, close your eyes.

His last attempt to absorb the leyline essence in the earth, a miracle happened, the leyline essence that had not responded to him for many years actually burrowed a trace from the earth and entered his body.

He didn't have time to get excited and tremble, but let that wisp of leyline essence enter the sixty-fifth elemental point, and the last bit of darkness on the sixty-fifth elemental point was worn away. Sixty-five yuan points of light lit up on him, and a large amount of yuan power emerged from the yuan points and began to transform his body. Half an hour later, Emmanuel finished washing his body, and tears welled up in his eyes as he looked at himself as he had regained his middle-aged appearance.

It took him so many years, but at the last moment of his life, he became a seventh-level leyline battle master.

So, what kind of future will fate give him?