Chapter 2: Zero Force Talent



The white robes eventually brought Sully and Cyril to a city.

Suli guessed that the place where he was originally located should be an important place of transportation in this world.

Otherwise, the man in white robes would not have been able to escape from that place—

The town of Jisso, where Suli and Cyril used to beg, is not only poor but also full of various muddy dangers.

Because this town is one of the areas closest to the Monster Forest. But at the same time, as a transportation hub, once you arrive at this town, you will have six directions to go forward.

The first thing that must be explained is the Monster Forest, which is full of dangers and opportunities. In addition, there is the city where Sully is currently located... and other things that are not necessary for the time being.

After the white-robed man took them out of the town, he used horses as a means of transportation. This also made Suli judge that the background of this world probably belonged to the 18th/19th century before the time travel.

The details were indistinguishable, and Sully had not studied the history of the West in the 18th/19th century. Moreover, there were elementalists in this world who forcibly pulled the lid of Newton's urn into a coffin.

This group of unscientific elementalists even danced a tango on the coffin lid.

Suli rubbed his face which was so numb that he couldn't make any expression. He looked at the white horse that seemed to be standing on auspicious clouds, but... his face was expressionless.

Cyril, who was sitting in front of him, looked excited, but he was still concerned about the identity of the elementalist behind him who called himself Egbert. His voice was blown by the wind and it sounded like he was mumbling: "This is my first time to come into close contact with the element of light. There has never been a light elementalist in Jisuo Town."

Egbert chuckled behind Sully, and the vibration of his chest caused by his laughter made Sully feel a tingling sensation on his back.

"An elementalist is not something to be admired. Everyone has the potential to become an elementalist."

Egbert's words were not soothing; they were facts, but this fact made Cyril drop his head for a moment.

"You are right."

Everyone has the potential to become an elementalist, but not everyone has the money to become one.

This information made Cyril lower her head in sorrow.

In addition to the time when a child is born, the church will test the elements in their bodies. After that, every child who wants to become an elementalist without any connections or family power needs to go through a huge financial investment, and there is no guarantee that they can become a powerful elementalist.

But orphans, especially those with average talent, are neither worthy of others' investment nor capable of investing in themselves.

While Sully was still pondering the background setting of this world, Cyril suddenly realized something and said, "No, you are wrong!"

Egbert:?

Suli:?

Cyril immediately raised his head and said in a slightly proud tone, "Sully. Sully has no affinity for any element. He was determined from birth that he would never be an elementalist."

Sully: ...

"If it weren't for the fact that you sounded like you were showing off to someone who had never seen you, I would definitely use my beautiful, bony hands to give you a big smack."

On the first day of traveling to another world, he was indirectly judged by his friends, who had no idea what kind of relationship he had with them, that he would never have the special abilities of this world.

Although this was not worth caring about for a salt fish like Sully, somehow, looking at Cyril's proud look, Sully felt like spanking him.

Egbert laughed even more merrily.

Perhaps the little animal sensed the danger instinctively, and Cyril didn't say anything else on the way to the city.

Sully was unwilling to reveal to the people of this world that he knew nothing about this world, so he was completely silent along the way.

Egbert finally got the two little guys into a hotel, booked rooms for them, told the waiter to make sure the two children were washed and clean, and then went to a nearby store to buy two sets of clothes.

When the two children put on clean clothes and stood in front of Egbert again, he suddenly remembered a sentence his former colleague the Saint said.

"Ultimate beauty is the only thing that can rival light."

That's it now.

Cyril didn't reach that level. His slightly curly golden hair, eyes as blue as the sea, and his extremely thin body made people think that he was a poor guy, like a dog with nowhere to rely on.

And Suli, a child with platinum-gold hair and eyes as green as mountains, rivers and lakes, will make anyone who looks at him feel beautiful the moment he is properly dressed.

It is a very strange beauty.

He had an extremely obvious lazy temperament, which seemed to make him not take anything seriously, yet he had a unique quality that existed in the world. This made his face, which could only be described as beautiful, become strangely magnificent.

Even those eyes will make people think of a series of things related to nature.

Mysterious and beautiful.

But for the person who finally got the mirror...

"It seems that I look better than I thought. I wonder how much money I can make by relying on my looks."

When Egbert heard this, he felt something invisible was broken. But despite this, he could hardly feel anything strange. He just said with a smile: "I have never heard of anyone who can make a living by his face."

Sully wanted to say that he was ignorant, but he still remembered that he had been here for less than a day.

You can't compare your understanding of the world with that of the natives, that would just make you look like a fool.

Cyril beside him tugged at her clean clothes in a strange way, looking very uncomfortable. Sully took a look and did not do anything to comfort her. Instead, he talked to Egbert and said, "What are you going to do next?"

Egbert took off the hood of his robe that he had been wearing until now. Like Cyril, he also had blue eyes, but when he looked at Sully with his eyes full of smiles, his words became less steady and more playful: "I thought I should say this."

Suli shrugged his shoulders and said, "In fact, when you took me away from that town, all I could think of was that begging in a big city would be better than begging in that chaotic place."

In other words, they could just move to another place and continue their life of begging.

But Egbert was different.

"Then do you want to guess what I'm going to do?" Egbert did not comment on Sully's idea, but continued to talk to himself.

The idea that if you move to a new place, you have to start over and make things better than before is often a concept imposed by bystanders.

Suli touched the expensive clothes on his body and said calmly: "When a lone elementalist passed through the town of Jisuo, which is the only way to the Monster Forest, he did not choose to go directly into the Monster Forest, but went to other areas. In fact, this can explain the situation."

"Have you forgotten the gold coin you used to hire me not long ago?" Egbert asked in a puzzled tone.

Su Li looked at Egbert as if he were a fool.

"Even if you tell us your identity directly, it won't be a big deal. Besides..." Su Li's eyes became distant for a moment, "I think you don't even know that you will appear here now."

Sully's time travel was an accident that he himself was not aware of, while Egbert's meeting with Sully and Cyril was an accident that no one was aware of.

The good deeds of the Son of Light are not cheap, but very precious. He was just a poor child living in hell, and he was moved by compassion for a moment, so he wanted to give a gold coin. But the moment he took out the gold coin, he realized from the greedy eyes of the people around him that his behavior was wrong, so he wanted to change the gold coin into a copper coin...

It was just Sully's words at that time that changed all the established facts.

Egbert also went from wanting to escape to the Monster Forest to coming to the city where the mercenaries were born.

"That's not a good story for children," said Egbert with a wry smile.

"Do you have any misunderstandings about people who have been begging for years in a remote town full of crises?" Sully didn't want Egbert to have the idea that he was a naive and ignorant child.

The mirror brought up by the hotel waiter not only confirmed to Sully that he was good-looking and had a future in making a living with his looks, but also helped him estimate his age to be around twelve or thirteen.

Although I already had an idea when I saw Cyril.

But who would have thought that Cyril, who looked fifteen years old, was actually only twelve years old...

Orientals really have no idea about Westerners' facial features, Suli thought with a sad face.

The face of Suli in the mirror presents an advantageous combination of Eastern and Western facial features, with three-dimensional bone structure and particularly delicate skin.

Without further ado, Egbert later explained the things that concerned him.

It comes from the confusion after all the events happened, and also from the deep desire to express the complex emotions and thoughts in the heart.

And Sully is indeed the only person that Egbert has met in recent times who is suitable for complaining to.

Egbert, one of the many Sons of Light in the Church of Light.

This is a world where even kings have to lick the boots of church bishops, and divine authority is far greater than imperial power.

Egbert, the Son of God who was equal to the bishop, was first sent to a city to govern it in a capacity similar to that of a city lord before being appointed by the Pope as the next successor.

Only two years later, he was covered with a layer of gold skin and grew to a more suitable age. He was announced by the Pope to the world and was named the heir.

However, this act, which was ostensibly a demotion but in reality a gilding, was discovered by a bishop of equal rank to Egbert.

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