Chapter 4 ：Welcome to Baldur's Gate

"Dang ~ dang ~", bell towers echoed, and long bells echoed above the city.

"Chirp ~ chirp ~" A string of joyful birdsong fell from the branches of the big poplar trees, flew over the narrow window lattice in the attic, and banged on Luna's ears.

"Bread! Rye bread fresh out of the oven! " Someone peddled under the window, throwing freshly baked bread into wicker baskets, splashing some bread crumbs, some bread cracking, and a sweet aroma filled the attic.

"Lord Tom Leavell will arrive in the afternoon, and please prepare your taxes.

Hon. Tom Leavell will arrive in the afternoon, please … "A young proclamator in black and white coated clothes and pointed boots shakes his bell and shouts his announcement as he races down the street.

Luna felt like she had a dream, an extremely long dream.

He dreamed that he was born in a small village, attending classes during the day and herding cattle in the afternoon.

Inexplicably, I was forced to go to school for more than ten years, and I had to take the exam every few months. If I didn't fail in the exam, I would end up miserably.

After that, I was finally admitted to a key university, worked, married, my parents died, got promoted, and had a little secret. When I was preparing to look for the second spring, I woke up...

When he woke up from the dream, he patted his head hard, and the result was a sharp pain on his head.

Luna touched it carefully and found that the edge of her head was wrapped with a thick bandage.

"I'm injured?"

Probably, it was another accident. No wonder no one came to ask me to work.

Looking at the burn marks on her hands and arms, Luna smiled bitterly.

If you encounter more accidents, you naturally don't care so much.

Gently press the temples with your hands. This kind of massage of the blood vessels in the head can slightly relieve the pain in the head, which is still the knowledge in the dream.

Why are dreams so real? Luna lay on the bed, drew a right triangle virtually with her fingers, and then easily performed a calculation using the Pythagorean theorem.

Even a beginner mage wouldn't know this kind of knowledge. It shouldn't be something that an apprentice like him could obtain.

He was just a blacksmith's apprentice and later became a mage apprentice through relatives.

Speaking of which, he only knew a few tricks, so he didn't have the chance to master such profound knowledge of spells.

Circles, trapezoids, cubes, polyhedrons... the more calculations are made, the more complicated they are. Those things called "geometry" are as profound as engraved in my mind.

Luna shuddered when she remembered the surge model that Archmage Habathur had been calculating for years.

If Habasser knew that he knew these things, his fate would be really unpredictable.

May be called to be an assistant, may be locked up as a spy, most likely to be squeezed out of knowledge and killed.

And chemistry, physics, algebra, mechanics, electronics... omniscient Ouma, are you testing me?

This is no longer the knowledge of magic, it is broader and more comprehensive than magic.

But it has nothing to do with magic at all. It's called science.

Ouma, why do you, all-knowing and all-powerful, care about a little person like me?

"Huh?!" Luna rolled over and sat up suddenly, almost hitting the wooden roof of the attic.

"Who am I?!" I... I... I am... "

His real past, the life of that young man named Luna, is like a huge rock sinking in a pool, which can't be picked up even if you try your best.

Memories are like decades apart, intermittent and incoherent, and he tried hard and panicked to piece together.

A whole morning passed, and the scales and claws were combined together, and the past gradually gained some eyebrows.

He was born in Na Sakai, a small town south of Baldur's Gate, the son of a Karatu merchant who had never been seen since he returned to the East when he was five years old.

His mother was weak and sick. A few years ago, she helped the miners in Sakai starch clothes and earn a little money to bring him up.

After the age of seven, he became an apprentice in a blacksmith shop and learned some good crafts.

At the age of twelve, his mother died.

On his deathbed, his mother entrusted him to his uncle's family, and then sent to the witchcraft grocery store at Baldur's Gate as an apprentice, three years ago.

His cousin, William Gast, is only 20 years old. He is a talented seventh-level mage and the pride of his uncle's family.

William Gast studied under Archmage Ramasis at Baldur's Gate and became an official mage. He joined the group of mages serving the "Flame Fist" and chose to work in alchemy at the witchcraft grocery store.

He also kept expanding his influence in business alliances, calling friends and making friends with powerful people. He publicized that his goal was to join Baldur's Gate Parliament, unabashedly showing his ambition.

Luna's apprenticeship status was obtained through the help of her cousin William Gast.

William Gast is sociable and helpful.

His group of young mages, Blazing Flame, was received by the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate because he repaired equipment for the Flame Fist mercenary group for free.

Thus, he entered the Grand Duke's power system and worked hard to climb up.

Here he is the rising star of Ran Ran, and many people are optimistic about his prospects.

On the surface, he cares for Luna very much, arranges work and accommodation for Luna, and often guides Luna in front of others. Everyone knows that William Gast has a cousin he loves deeply.

However, since it is on the surface, it is of course different from the actual situation.

In fact, Luna heard William Gast curse his appearance more than once, even curse him directly to his face.

Luna has a pure Kalaturian appearance, with dark eyes, dark hair and yellow skin, and a standard Chinese appearance.

This appearance has a resounding title in Sword Bay-"Son of the Demon"!

Nowadays, more and more Kalaturians from the far east appear in the Sword Bay area.

Only then did Sword Coast People know that there are several countries in the East that the appearance of people is like this, and the number even far exceeds the sum of Sword Coast People's mouth, and in the East, Sword Coast People also appears as a Rakshasa ghost.

So after that, people no longer associate this appearance with demons, only some stubborn old guys still have this prejudice.

Sadly, most of the parliament where Baldur's Gate is in power today are precisely these old guys, and they have all heard rumors that Gast is involved with the demon.

So, William Gast felt that Luna was in his way, and of course he was abnormally abhorred.

"Cousin!" I hear you hurt! I told you not to do those dangerous experiments! Do you know how much your family will worry about you? "

His recollection was interrupted by a sudden voice, none other than his lovely and honorable cousin William.

First, he told his love in a voice that was enough for the neighbors to hear clearly, and then he walked to the attic.

His cousin has beautiful blonde hair, a handsome face, and a tall build. He will smile first when people don't say anything, showing eight shiny teeth.

Unfortunately, that mouth is spitting venom now. "Wow, the children of the demons are lucky. To be honest, I really envy your good luck of always escaping death."

"Immediately, he dropped two bottles of purple potions beside the bed. "Don't bother me, I'll sit there for 15 minutes and leave!"

William pulled out a soft-covered book and leaned against the window to read it.

This is a fixed performance routine.

Luna always gets hurt.

He's just a lowest apprentice, and in places like witchcraft grocery stores, no one teaches you the real thing.

At most, it is to tell you a process, and then it is to work repeatedly, repeatedly, which is "training".

The consequence of the high development of alchemy was that the participation threshold was gradually lowered, allowing apprentices to gradually undertake the tasks that originally needed to be completed by mages.

Only in this way can the cost be further reduced and the labor force of apprentices be squeezed.

Anyway, the survival rate of apprentices is not high, and everyone is used to it. It is a common view to squeeze as much as possible before death.

However, in order to obtain mysterious magic knowledge, magic apprentices should not only work hard, but also perform well and take the initiative to engage in dangerous work.

Only in this way can he win the favor of official mages.

For example, Luna is engaged in alchemy potions, commonly known as magic potions.

Magical extracts are often the products of uncertainty.

According to the chemical point of view, it is something with unknown composition, unknown concentration and unknown nature.

When this extract is "mixed" in the final step of the potion making process, there is more than 10% chance of failure, and there is a 5% chance of causing a serious explosion, so this step is usually done by apprentices in the thick and simple basement.

"Why didn't you just drive me away? I think it's not hard for you to find a reasonable excuse. " Luna said.

"Oh?" William looked back in surprise. Since the first time he had been taught a lesson by William, William had become accustomed to this kind of relatively silent drama.

Anyway, the two of them don't have any feelings. Even their parents' side, since they sent Luna here, it seems like they have lost a burden. They haven't asked anything except to sell their sister's house as soon as possible.

"You want to leave?"

"Of course, since you feel that I have tarnished your reputation, wouldn't it be fine for me to leave?" I'll be my blacksmith and you'll be your congressman, okay? " Luna said with some annoyance that the new memories made him feel a strong sense of humiliation about his present life.

"So you care!" William shook his head. "You are always stupid. I thought you were beating iron into an iron head.

Since you don't like to hear me joke about your appearance, I won't say it in the future.

Forget all those words about 'Son of the Devil'. Those are just jokes. If you care, I can even apologize."

"What do you mean?" Luna said doubtfully.

"You won't understand.

You just have to know that you'once'did get in my way, but I don't care now, so that's all right. " William kept his eyes on the book.

"Forget it," Luna said, waving her hand. "It doesn't matter, because I have decided to leave."

"Why?!" William put down the book with a frown and asked unhappily.

"There is no future, no guidance, my life is in danger at any time. The teacher is just squeezing me like a free laborer. He doesn't even know my name. Now, give me a reason to continue?!"

"Well," William said after a moment of hesitation, "it was my negligence … I will try to change to a safer environment for you, where you can learn something."

"Why did you do that?"

"You want to know?"

"I have to know."

"Alright," he said.

William pressed the book on the table, thought for a moment and said, "Does Anta Silvershield know? One of the archdukes of Baldur's Gate, the most powerful of the most powerful men.

Just the year before last, Anta Silvershield's youngest daughter, Lil Silvershield, was kidnapped and brutally killed in the process of negotiation.

After the incident, the angry Archduke Anta Silvershield purged the whole lower city. More than fifty criminals were hanged, four powerful figures fell, and thirteen Flame Fist officers were implicated.

This incident caused a huge noise, and even completely changed the political situation of the gate of winning. "

He was silent for a moment and continued, "Before that, the Archduke was slightly inferior in terms of strength.

After that, the archduke had an absolute advantage!

"William picked up the book and stood up, and said meaningfully." Every big man needs a weakness that can be attacked. "

William leaves.

Luna collapsed weakly on the bed.

William thought he didn't understand, but how could Luna, who had decades of memory and was bombarded by news every day, not understand? He is William's obvious weakness. He usually attracts malicious eyes. At the critical moment, he can sacrifice Luna in exchange for greater political chips.

Nothing good.

But he didn't want to give up.

Luna knows she's talented! He even thought that he might be a genius.

His body has always been very flexible, and his long career as a blacksmith has also given him a very strong body. His memory is amazing, and any story can be firmly remembered by listening to it once.

Before his father, the Kalaturian, left, as if he knew that he would not come back, he dictated to Luna, who was still young at that time, a set of secrets for meditation and a spell that could be cast, the "Mage's Hand".

So Luna, like all children, stubbornly thinks that if she learns this well, her father will come back.

So he secretly meditated every day after his mother fell asleep.

Two years later, he finally displayed the "Mage's Hand".

He showed it to his mother, who only praised him and told him not to let others see it.

Little Luna meditated year after year and practiced the "hand of the mage" year after year.

From being able to only move a straw, to holding a fiery blank of iron and flipping it on an anvil, to turning the iron block himself, and swinging the hammer by magic... Only my father never came back.

When Luna grew up, she gradually realized that after those Kalaturians made their first long trip away from their homeland, a large number of them would never leave their hometown again, and they became loyal vernaculists.

Although he didn't wait for his father, he persisted in meditating, because it brought him the only pleasure of childhood.

In this world, from shallow to deep, magic is divided into nine rings.

Someone who can cast the first ring spell is called a formal mage, or a first level mage.

After mastering one ring of spells, you will become a second-level mage, and you can enter the next ring of magic study.

The mage's character level can be divided into 20 levels, and the mage beyond 20 levels will enter the legend.

Before level 20, master an additional ring spell every two levels until level 18.

After level 18, only the number of spells that can be cast will be increased before legend, and the level of spells will stop at the nine rings. This is stipulated by the mysterious lady, the mother of magic, the magic goddess Misra, the master of magic net and spells.

Ever since Lady Misra had weaved the magic web and combed the scattered and violent magic energy, it had had an unparalleled impact on the entire Faerun world.

It's easier and faster for mages to cast spells, and the possibility of ordinary people becoming mages is doubled.

After that, according to the division of magic, divine arts were divided into nine levels, which were given by God to his priests respectively.

The magic net determined the level of a magician. Other professions in this world, whether it was well-known warriors, rangers, priests, etc., or less than ten psionic wanderers, sorcerers and other unknown professions, would compare the level of a magician horizontally and determine their own profession level accordingly.

Before becoming an official mage, as an apprentice mage, he could master some Zero Ring spells. These spells were weak in invoking magic, had very little effect, and almost didn't have any power. They were called "spells".

It is mainly used for magic apprentices to be familiar with magic, as well as the measurement of talent, aptitude and inclination to spell school.

It took Luna two years to display the "Magician's Hand". Her talent can be said to be the lowest among magicians, and the possibility of becoming an official magician is slim.

This once plunged him into despair after he became an apprentice.

As an apprentice, there are not many tricks listed as "must master".

The light technique used to "charge" the magic lamp, the "freezing ray" and "acid splash" used to make potions, the "mage's hand" used to save lives when preparing potions, and the "repair technique" used to clean up the scene after the explosion.

He watched the others quickly master the tricks one by one, and could only make a meaningless look with a stiff face. In private, he spent almost ten times the time to keep up with the progress.

He hadn't told William or anyone about this, so William still had some expectations for him.

As for his mentor? Someone who can't even name him, what's wrong with his qualifications?

Drinking the medical potion William brought, Luna fell asleep.

I have bursts of itching in my head. Tomorrow, I should get better, right?