Volume 1 Dream Treading Dust [Fanwai 01] I, the lord of the town
The world is so noisy, why the hell am I here?
This is my third year in the Violet Empire.
It is often said that the first ten years of my life were the most carefree childhood, and I didn't feel that way at all. Ironically, I even smelled the stench of the world in the very first third.
Who told me that I was born to understand adults and see their past and future?
It took me three years to figure out the last thing I wanted to accept: my life was the opposite of everyone else's.
It might be a bit abstract for me to say that.
Take ordinary people as an example, the world they see in infancy is completely unknown, their consciousness is confused, and they rely on vague perception to understand the world; they accumulate knowledge and broaden their horizons in their youth; they work hard in their youth to refresh their understanding of the outside world in social groups; they look back and think about the past in their old age until they die.
And I am just the opposite of normal humans, I am an astrologer, and to be precise, I am an astrologer with extraordinary destiny, and I am the person with the highest right to know in this fantasy continent.
As a result, I was able to understand people in my mother's womb, know what kind of environment I lived in, and even see concrete things on the dark red walls of my womb, and finally form a relatively accurate judgment in my not yet fully developed brain.
But I had a limited brain capacity in the embryo, and the only thing I remembered after I was born was-
When I was three years old, my parents would abandon me.
I'm finally sure that the creator god is probably a bit too joking.
Around the time I was just weaned, I discovered that I could control fluids. Every time my mother fed me barley porridge, it was hot, and I always secretly cooled my mouth when she wasn't looking. At first I thought everyone in the world could do that, until one time she knocked over a glass of water and the boiling water burned her hands to a dime-sized bubble.
Since then, I have been able to intuitively feel that my body is completely different from my father's mother's.
As I grew up, I could feel more and more things and remember more and more.
When I was two years old, I first learned about the concept of "spiritual power". It turns out that there are two types of people on this continent, "Terran" and "Psychics", my parents are humans, and I am a psychic.
It's ridiculous.
I live in a small village in Grinstershire, and there are many psychics like me in the royal capital, St. Randall, far away from our village. They are divided into several categories, such as the "Spirit Race", "Astrological Race", "Illusion Race", and "Merfolk Race", which are the four most populous and powerful races.
I'm supposed to be one of the astrologers.
It's weird. But again, I'm sure that the God of Creation is playing with me.
I didn't have any friends since I was a child. Two or three-year-old children don't understand anything, the girl in the next village gives me a piece of candy, I don't have a straight face, she thinks I am the big bad wolf in a fairy tale, the bear child at the end of the village will cry when he hears the dog barking, I hold my hands and say that he is naΓ―ve, and he will become a big villain......
I even tried to please them with the innocent eyes of children, or babbling words, which is really stupid. Although humans are social creatures, the most unacceptable thing is that they are alien.
I'm an outlier.
I have never stolen or robbed, I have never done bad things, but I was born with dark silver hair and eyes, so I will be said to be a monster by children, and I will be said by adults that I have done evil in my previous life, and I will not be rewarded......
You try to live like me first.
Finally survived to the age of three. The memories came true.
My presence caused my parents' status in the village to plummet. Everyone said that the woman of this family gave birth to a freak and was the reincarnation of a snow demon.
The "Snow Demon", the legendary ancient spirit animal, once awakened, will bring a long and cold winter to the mainland.
The Berg family next door was the most hateful, and every time his youngest son saw me, he would point at my nose and scold me for persecuting the common people, bringing misery to the village and affecting their food harvest.
Okay, I admit it, I'm a hoodoo, I can make your house lose everything with my fingers.
Finally, under the encouragement of old Mr. Berg, the village chief could not bear it anymore, and asked my parents to kill me as soon as possible, or send me to another country, and in any case, I would never be allowed to appear here again in this life.
The couple had no pity for me, and as if they had been granted amnesty, they took advantage of the night to wrap me in a few layers of moldy and torn sheets at home, and went out without hesitation.
Saying it through someone else's mouth, I finally had a reason to get by on conscience and threw me away. After all, the couple had never seen much of the world, and they didn't know the concepts of "spiritual power" and "spiritual magician", so in their eyes, I naturally became a natural vision, a great omen.
I didn't say a word, and from the moment I left the house, I willingly disowned the mortal couple.
I don't know where they heard about the astrological elders.
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It didn't take long for me to be picked up by an old gentleman.
I lay quietly in the crook of his arm, and felt that he actually had a spiritual aura similar to mine.
I don't know if it's my own special ability, or the basic spiritual skills that all astrologers know, but just one look at him, I know that his name is Quinn, and he is the elder of the astrologer family.
In that moment, I was relieved.
I was silently thinking in my heart, whether to pretend to be stupid and stunned in front of the old man, or to introduce myself straight to the point......
"You're here. β
I was stunned when I heard this, and I didn't expect his first sentence to be like a reunion with me after a long absence.
"Elder Quinn, do you know me?" I asked, milkily.
"Don't you know me too, you know my name when we first meet. β
I was speechless for a while, and I was not well received in the village, so I was used to speaking freely, and I even said the old man's name at once. I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when I thought about it, "I should call you grandfather." β
"Okay, you'll be called Rongmei in the future, okay?"
It sounds feminine, I'm a boy, why do I use "charm" as a name. Although I didn't like the name very much, I nodded and agreed to thank Mr. Quinn for saving his life.
"Do you know why you have the word 'charm' in your name?" Quinn approached the room with little me in his arms, ripped the rags off my body, and handed me a glass of milk.
I was shocked when I heard this, how could this old gentleman know what was going on in my heart. But I didn't care so much, the temperature of the milk was just right, I took a sip, it was very sweet and fragrant.
"In the Violet Empire, the person named after the word charm will be the patriarch of the astrology clan in the future. Quinn smiled very gently and kindly, "If you agree, you can't go back, you are the next astrological patriarch." β
I squirted out a "poof", "Don't you kid, I can be the patriarch of the astrological clan?"
"Of course, you have to. β
Quinn stood in front of me with his head bowed on crutches. Although his face was thin and old, it was not an old man, and there was wisdom and sharpness in those eyes that far surpassed those of other old people. His hands were rough, his calluses were thick, and his fingernails were covered with rust and mud that hadn't been cleaned up......
Even so, it was the warmest hand I've ever seen in my life.
I don't know why, my heart was frightened and excited, and I muttered with a bitter face: "Grandfather, I don't want to be the patriarch of the astrological clan, there is no freedom." β
The greatest freedom in a person's life is to know how to make trade-offs and restrain desires, rather than blindly indulge. Quinn stretched out his hand and asked, "Do you think I'm restricting your freedom now that I've asked you to give me half of the milk I've drunk?"
"I ......" I thought about it, hummed for a long time, handed the cup to Quinn's hand, squeezed his brows and said, "I know that you haven't eaten for a long time for my good, and it's late at night, and you will definitely have a stomachache if you drink so much...... Oh, I'll give it back to you. β
Pretending to be profound, I sighed secretly in my heart. Although he does look like a well-known astrologer, he is only a craftsman at best, and if he is willing to raise me sincerely, it is not impossible to train me to become a blacksmith in the future......
"Where did your little head go?" Quinn sighed.
I swallowed, raised my eyes, and asked, "Grandfather, don't you think it's too early to talk about 'freedom' to a three-year-old child?"
There was a hint of surprise in Elder Quinn's eyes, and he must have wondered why I was so young and replied to his question in an adult's tone.
"Also, you're too young. Some things should be said in two years. β
Before Quinn could finish his sentence, I anxiously asked, "What's the matter?" Grandfather, you can't wait for something important. β
"You kid......" The old man sighed again, frowned, and asked me, "You don't feel afraid of the unknown at all? You're only three years old." β
I pursed my lips, stared at a pair of pitiful eyes, and said, "If you don't want to say, I don't know, if you are willing to tell me, isn't there nothing in this world that I don't know?"
Quinn let out a sullen "um" and said in a deep voice, "Learn more and read more books." β
I smiled, stood beside Elder Quinn, and asked him, "Grandfather, can you take me to the royal capital, St. Randall?" β
Xu I said amazingly, Quinn didn't hold back for a while, his face was blue and red for a while, and he bent down and coughed violently.
"You...... You bear child, do you know who the king is today, and you dare to speak out. β
"Of course I know, the most outstanding king in the history of the Water Empire, thanks to him, we Violet have not suffered defeat in twenty years, and it may be in the next three years, but if it is a little further away, I don't know...... If you have any contact with the royal envoys, please ask you to sell your face, and introduce me to the king in the name of the astrologers...... It's really not good, introduce the Spirit Clan patriarch to me to get to know me, I ......"
I smug myself and flaunted, not trying to hide my astrological talents in front of him. But the more he spoke, the more Elder Quinn's face turned paleβmy perception was far beyond that of a three-year-old.
"Grandfather...... Don't be angry, I'm just ......"
Quinn bent over and took my warm little hand.
"Oh, you are also the elder of the astrological clan, the most outstanding astrologer in the whole empire, don't you feel sad to see the sword without eyes on the battlefield and people killing each other?" I tried to pull Quinn's finger and said as I shook it: "Since you have the destiny of heaven, you should change the world, not let it continue to develop uncontrollably into the future! Grandfather, I can turn the future around, you ......"
Quinn said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, you will definitely not see it, the Imperial Patriarch of the Spirit Clan, and the Spy Patriarch of the Astrology Clan are both fighting in the Euroti Empire now, and you can't see any of them." β
"Well, I'm not a good person, I'll do it myself. β
Quinn quickly pressed my hand urging spiritual power, and said angrily, "Little Ancestor, your spiritual energy must not be used so indiscriminately!"
I chuckled, immediately withdrew my hand, and replied with a raised face: "Okay, grandfather, since you know my secret, then I won't hide it, let me ask you a few questions, and you answer me truthfully, okay?"
Quinn had no choice but to nod.
"What's the name of this ability of mine?"
"Your spiritual power, called 'Suppression of the World,' means to subdue the world in place of the creator god. The Lord has no time to take care of the trivial matters of the world, so he has entrusted you with this power to control all things in the world, so that you can know the past and the present, predict the future, and can use divine power to turn things around in this life. β
I wondered, "How do you know?"
"I am the one who guards the secrets of the continent and know a lot of things. β
"So, my secret is also one of the secrets?"
"It's one of the more important ones. β
I nodded, and walked up and down the room. Quinn's grandfather's workbench was huge, and the mahogany armchair was so high that it took me a lot of effort to climb up.
I thought he was a blacksmith, but upon closer inspection, there were huge curved-neck flasks, test tubes, scorched metal blocks, and many unfinished spiritual artifacts on the workbench.
"That is, there is a more important secret...... "I picked a piece of crystal and held it in my hand, it was crystal clear, and it emitted a light like breathing with the fluctuation of my spiritual power.
"Your secret is nothing. But if you move your whole body because of your sloppiness, then it's in trouble. Quinn touched my head and said in a deep voice, "You have to learn to protect yourself, you never know whether someone else's plan is to cause war or hope for world peace." β
"So......" a strange thought suddenly came to my mind, "grandfather, you never married a wife in your life?"
"I'm sorry, what did you say? People are old and can't hear clearly. β
"No, no, no, nothing. I hurriedly waved my hand and grinned widely, "If you let others know the secret of Zhen Shidu, I am only three years old, how can I protect myself? Grandfather, you have to find a scapegoat for me." β
Quinn narrowed his eyes at me and asked in a deep voice, "Where did you hear these words?"
"I don't know, I was born to do it. I smiled again and continued, "You have to help me find the most powerful psychic in the whole empire, the more mysterious and suspicious the better, preferably suspicious enough to make everyone think that the news of the 'Suppression of the World' is a false information." β
"You mean," Quinn frowned, "to have that psychic partner with you to hide it from the Empire?"
"Yes, but not entirely, grandfather. I looked at him with blazing eyes, "I need him to follow my plan and play the role of the owner of the town of the world, and if you have better advice, I'll listen to you." β
When I said this, I didn't have the idea that Elder Quinn would do what I had instructed, so I deliberately disguised the instructions as advice and said them with the childish air of a child. Since it is the game of the creator god, who of us is not a pawn on his chessboard?
The name of the god of war, the brilliance of the god eclipses the human race, we are the vassals of the gods, and the rules of this game of chess, even as the embodiment of divine power, I don't know anything.
"Good. β
Quinn looked me straight in the eye.
"You're right. He replied to me neatly, "Your wisdom is indeed beyond the reach of us mortals. β
"Do you have a candidate?"
"Yes, but you have to learn something from me before I can trust you to someone else. Quinn said slowly, "Patriarch and Lady Elennor will raise you, and in the future, he will do his best to protect you." β
I let out a soft "oh" and asked, "Then you thank him for me." β
"Here, bring it on. β
Quinn pulled out a black string necklace from his velvet coat, with a dark green ring hanging from it. He hung it around my neck and pushed me to the mirror.
"What is this ......?"
"It's the first time I've seen you, and I've given you a meeting gift. Quinn stood behind me, helped me straighten my upturned silver hair, stroked my collar, and hid the ring under my clothes, "When you're older, put the ring on your hand, it will protect you when you need to." β
"Hiss...... "The ring was very cold, and I was instantly chilled.
"Alright, poor little one, you can go to sleep now. β
"Well, grandfather, are we going to drink rye porridge tomorrow morning?"
My grandfather picked me up and said with a smile, "I might like to consider adding you a waffle, my lord of the world." β