Chapter 1 The Wizarding World
Bang, bang, bang, there was a violent knock on the door from the thick door panel. Green, who was sleeping in the small thatched hut, was awakened instantly. The cold numbness under his feet made him gasp, but Green did not dare to delay and shouted, "Here you come."
Not caring about his feet that were almost frozen and unconscious, Green quickly put on his worn-out clothes, picked up the leather jacket covered with the worn-out quilt as the second quilt, and opened the wooden door. The cold wind in the cold winter was mixed with ice slag, and Green's body was shocked. Outside the door, Old Ham curled up in the broken wooden carriage, holding a whip in one hand and a cigarette pipe in the other. The carriage left two marks in the bumpy snow.
"Hurry up, the road is not easy today. If you are late, you will be scolded." Old Ham slapped his cigarette pipe and muttered to Green.
"Oh, I know." Green covered the wooden door and got on the carriage quickly. He was used to everything. Basically, since he took over this stable job with Uncle Ham, he would hear him mutter every day.
Ham didn't say much, and finally smashed his cigarette puff, waved his whip hard. Old Ma groaned and pulled the carriage to continue moving in the bumpy snow. Green leaned against the broken carriage guardrail, looked at the dark sky, and closed his eyes again. Because according to past experience, it took at least half an hour for the old carriage to arrive at the Viscount's Mansion in the city on this snowy day, and it was almost dawn at that time.
Leaning on the carriage, Green smelled the familiar smell of dry tobacco and was very grateful to Old Ham from the bottom of his heart.
Green has been an orphan since childhood. He often followed a group of orphans in Beeser City, living a begging life without food. Until one day, the old childless Ham saw Green was quite excited. When he thought of his childlessness, he brought Green back and laughed: "I'm dead, these two thatched huts and old horses are yours."
To be honest, these two country huts and old carriages are really not worth much money, but Green is full of gratitude to Old Ham and regards them as rebirth parents.
As for the life plan for Old Ham and Green to make a living, they rushed to the Viscount's Mansion in Bissel before dawn every morning, cleaned up the large pieces of garbage left after the high nobles dispersed overnight, sent them outside the city to clean up, and then went to the Viscount's territory to purchase all the carnival supplies the next night.
This time, almost half a day has passed.
More than half an hour later, the road began to smooth, and the ground was covered with stone roads. Green, who was napping in the carriage, woke up immediately without Old Ham's advice. He knew that he had arrived in Bissel City and was about to arrive at the Viscount's Mansion. He quickly swept the snow on his body and sorted out the instrument.
Although often when Green and Old Ham arrive every day, most of the nobles who had been partying in Viscount's Mansion for a night had long since dispersed. Even if there were occasional sporadic nobility, the nobles who were above the nobles would not look at these two lowly servants at first sight. The appearance and other things were of no use at all. However, the old butler of the Viscount's Mansion was a difficult character, always making things difficult for Green to do the trick of the servants who were doing odd jobs, waiting to get some benefits. He used the inferior excuse of being disorganized, such as being a poor person, to blackmail the old Ham silver coins more than once.
After a night of guarding, two tall and large knight guards at the Viscount Mansion were already exhausted. They glanced at Old Ham and Green. They had been so familiar that they could no longer be familiar with each other for several years, so they ignored them. Old Ham smiled apologized, and Green jumped out of the carriage and entered the Viscount Mansion with his head down. He did not dare to look at it anymore, and went straight to the luxurious hall that had to be carefully cleaned every day.
Green and Old Ham, who were originally listless, suddenly felt that the atmosphere today seemed different. The old butler of the Viscount Mansion at the entrance of the hall had a gloomy face, and his fierce triangular eyes glared at Green and Old Ham fiercely. After trotting, he came to the two of them and shouted in a low voice: "Wait here, block your ears, and close your eyes."
"Yes, yes." Green and Old Ham responded quickly.
There was a vague noise in the hall. Although I couldn't hear it clearly, I could vaguely tell that it was a girl who was making a big fuss. Instinctively, Green and Old Ham knew that they should be big men.
After waiting for about half an hour, it was already completely dawn. Green and Old Ham were so cold that they stamped their feet and shivered. The old butler who was originally waiting at the door of the hall walked over with a gloomy face and shouted in a low voice: "If you can't stand it, don't come tomorrow."
Green and Old Ham changed their faces. After struggling several times, Old Ham took out a silver coin from his torn linen clothes and stuffed it into the old housekeeper's hand. He smiled repeatedly and said, "You can bear it, you can bear it."
"Hmph." The old butler skillfully stuffed the silver coins into his pocket, ignored the two of them, and waited anxiously at the door of the hall, visiting inside from time to time.
Green couldn't help but whisper: "Damn it, I just got the benefits from us a few days ago, and now I want them again!"
"Oh, forget it, bear it. There are a lot of people who want to do our job. The old housekeeper wants us to leave." Old Ham sighed. He is old and is fast moving, and he no longer has the hot temper like a young man.
At this moment, a girl rushed out of the hall, wearing luxurious noble clothes, her delicate face was covered with tears. She ran to Green and Old Ham and stopped, shouting to the hall, "I only want my brother Elon. I won't go to Lilith's cottage, let alone become a wizard!" After that, the girl seemed to be unhappy and took out a book and threw it out, strode out of the Viscount's Mansion.
"Reverse! Reverse! What are you two still standing there? Why don't you chase me?" A big-bellied noble master was so angry that his face turned red, and he roared at the two armoured knights beside him. However, what Green couldn't believe was that the Viscount Master, who was usually tall, was helpless at this time, and he stood beside the big-bellied nobleman with a smile, whispering something.
"Hmph, what does she know? She gave up on the wizard I invited for a huge price for that little lover? You know, half a year later..." In a hurry, Lord Viscount followed the big-bellied nobleman and left the Viscount's Mansion without even looking at Green and Old Ham. As for the old housekeeper, he also followed him in a hurry. Before leaving, he took all the two guards away and disappeared into the snow.
In a blink of an eye, the yard became empty and soundless.
Seeing that there was no one around, Green instinctively wanted to pick up the book on the ground in front of him. Old Ham stepped up, knocked Green's hand with a pipe, and shouted in a low voice: "Is there no life?"
Green grinned in pain and whispered: "It should be okay? If someone asks you, we will say that we will throw away the garbage. Anyway, it was the noble lady who just threw it on the ground."
Old Ham thought about it, looked up and saw that there was indeed no one around, nodding, and accused Green. Green put the book into her clothes, and then followed Old Ham to clean the hall as if nothing had happened. All the huge amount of garbage left by the nobles after a night of carnival in the hall was cleaned into the carriage. Until before leaving, no one asked about the whereabouts of the book, so Green didn't care.
After all, in the past, there were often some treasures mixed in the garbage that nobles and masters looked down on, but their servants were extremely happy.
Crack, the carriage full of garbage slowly left Bissel City. Sitting in the carriage loaded with garbage, Green no longer felt sleepy. Suddenly he thought of something and took out the book he picked out from his arms.
Frowning, servants like Green who work hard for nobles are generally illiterate because Old Ham worked as an accounting apprentice for a restaurant when he was young. Although the restaurant was closed later, he also learned to recognize words and handed over to Green in recent years.
However, Green frowned because the handwriting on the cover of this book is not often used in daily life. It is some unfamiliar words. After thinking about it for a long time, Green recognized these words.
""Nose Hunting Transformation and Smell Map"? What is this?" Green stared at the eyes, thinking it was a biography novel by a bard, which was also the favorite book of the noble ladies and young masters, but he didn't expect that the noble ladies just threw a book with such a strange name.
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Green suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened, full of incredible things! Could this be a book about wizards recording mysterious magic?
Wizards have always been a topic that only nobles are qualified to talk about. Ordinary people will never even see a mysterious wizard in their lifetime. In the eyes of ordinary people, wizards master mysterious magic, full of evil and mystery. There are often rumors that wizards do blockbusters of slaughtering ordinary people, even eating children's eyes, and using ordinary people to do evil magic experiments. However, because the extraordinary power of wizards can easily kill ordinary people and even knights is great and awe-inspiring.
Green even fantasized more than once that those mysterious and great wizards rely on to master those mysterious and great powers? Why can't ordinary people master? If they become wizards and master those mysterious and great powers, they don't have to look at the faces of those noble masters anymore? Whoever dares to say that they are a pariah will kill him directly.
With an incredible look, Green quickly flipped out the book "Nose Hunting Transformation and Smell Map" he obtained, and began to read it word by word. Sometimes when he encountered strange words, he had to think about it carefully or even skip it temporarily. Slowly, a shock began to appear on Green's face, as if opening a brand new door to the world!
The so-called odor is to distinguish volatile molecules of different substances in the air through the biological olfactory system. The most irritating odor accounts for half of the taste that the organisms can distinguish.
According to the "Smell Map", normal humans can distinguish between about 30 to 400 odors. Occasionally, some people with special functions can distinguish about 600 odors, but this odor is so low compared to some other creatures.
For example, a chicken crowing chicken is a chicken creature that can emit like a human baby crowing. According to experiments, this creature can distinguish at least 6,500 odors.
For example, Yin Butterfly, a magical creature that can only survive by collecting odors, can distinguish more than 8,200 kinds of odors...
The book mentions that the creature known to be able to capture the most smells in the air is called the Three-Headed Dog. This is a creature that many wizards dare not provoke powerful ones. It can tell any known smell that wizards can separate from the air. There are 17,852 species in total, up to an incredible level.
"Nose Hunting Transformation" tells the story of using the sensitive sense of smell of certain creatures to transform themselves based on the wizard's own physical condition to achieve the perfect evolution of smell. Among them, the so-called magic experiment involves many strange materials, and so far Green has not figured out the most common word, cell that appears in books?
"Green, Green!" After Old Ham shouted twice, Green came back to his senses from the wonder of the magic books, hurriedly put away the magic books, and helped Old Ham start dumping the garbage in the carriage. After dumping all the garbage in the carriage, Green followed Old Ham to purchase goods from the Viscount's territory according to the previous specifications for the consumption of the nobles tonight.
It was busy until the evening when Old Ham and Green transported all the goods to the Viscount's Mansion in the city, and then rushed back to the countryside with more than a dozen copper plates. Green was still looking at the book "Nose Hunting Transformation and Smell Map" in his carriage.
Old Ham looked back at Green and sighed, "You kid, you are really possessed today. Is this book that good-looking?"
Green smiled and didn't say much, but his heart was full of yearning and shock at this mysterious wizard world. There are really big mountain life in the world that can move? Rivers flowing from the sky? And what are the things in those foreign worlds? What is the principle of wizard mastering powerful magic power?
A series of questions came to Green's mind, but no one could answer them.
"Hey, I'm seventeen years old in the blink of an eye, right? Well, I'll renovate the house next year to see if I can find a suitable girl from nearby to be a wife for you. I hope that my old man can take a look at his grandson before burying him." Old Ham muttered.
Green muttered casually without raising his head, "What are you talking about? Your parents will live for a hundred years and will last forever. It is not a big deal to unify the world."
Chapter completed!