C3

"Grandpa Seven?!" Lin Ke was slightly surprised.

Like the other five elders who had become elders of the family, the seventh grandfather, Haiman, was called by Cohen as his grandfather but was actually not Rhine's blood brother. By now, except for Rhine himself, the first generation of the family had all passed away, leaving only a limited number of descendants to protect the Moutes family. Rhine was also very good to the descendants of his brothers, and those under the age of eighteen were all sent to the family school to study, which was no different from his direct line of descent.

The six elders were all old brothers of Cohen's grandfather, Rhine, during his military days. It was only when Rhine was able to return to the Wind City to set up his family did the six elders, who were almost a hundred years old, and also over sixty years old, suddenly look back and realize that their original civilian families had already become different. They were still living a difficult life without the protection of the powerful family, and after Rhine learned about their situation, he sent out an invitation on behalf of the Moutes family, and the latter brought their respective family members to the Wind City, joining the Moutts family together to become the six elders of the Moutts family.

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Rincewind was awakened by a sob.

He did not know how long he slept, but he knew that when he woke up, his mind was exceptionally clear. There was not a single part of his body that was not filled with energy, making him desperately want to find a place to release his excess energy.

This feeling could not be any better.

"Master Cohen, you're awake."

The one who spoke was a girl that even the Earth magazine Lin Ke who was used to seeing artificial beauties had his eyes brighten, with bright golden hair and clear blue eyes, like a Barbie who came back to life, just a weak curve of her full and delicate lips made the entire room incomparably bright and beautiful.

Lin Ke felt that he had been stunned for at least a thousandth of a second before he stood up and greeted her, "En, good morning big sister Xue'er." As he said this, he naturally brushed past her shoulder and caught a whiff of a faint fragrance.

"Master Cohen, please," Ellie threw herself in front of Cohen as if she was drowning. "Please, for the sake of all these years I have been taking care of you, please don't drive me away. Please."

"Of course." Link felt a little thirsty, so he took a look at Ally. She obviously wouldn't help him store water, so he poured himself another glass of water and drank it.

"Really, you, you really agreed to not send me to the West District?" Ellie's watery eyes widened as she stared at Link as if she were looking at someone she had never met.

"Master Cohen, Lady Selina is very dissatisfied with Ally's dereliction of duty. She has already decided to leave the family and return to the Western District." The Barbie girl, Xue'er, answered the questions in Link's mind.

"Oh, so it's like this. Then will you give her a sum of money?" Link asked casually, ignoring the despairing look in Ellie's eyes.

"Of course, Lady Ce'Nedra has already told me to take care of her life," she said, going over to Link and gently taking the glass of water from him and refilling it again.

Lin Ke sighed in his heart, "I seem to have slept for a long time." He walked naturally to a huge mirror, and only then did he see his current appearance for the first time: a pair of light blue eyes exuding a peculiar luster under long golden hair, a towering nose and faint smile on his lips. Everything seemed so harmonious, compared to the public face of his previous life, he could be considered as quite attractive.

"Three days." Xue'er's three slender, porcelain fingers caught his attention. "Moreover, it's not early morning yet. Doctor Ka Ma came by yesterday to say that your body recovered shockingly fast. You'll probably wake up today."

"What an experienced doctor," Rincewind said, putting the cup of water on the table and stretching. "Let's go out for a walk, it's been too long in this room, it's time to get some air." Rincewind stood up and ruffled Ellie's hair, which was very soft and maroon. "I agreed to your request, little Ellie," he said, looking up at her with a smile that revealed his white teeth.

Xue'er could no longer conceal the astonishment in her eyes. Following that, a bright smile captivated Linke. "Madam will definitely be very happy to hear your words."

"Did you just call me big sister Xue'er?" Xue'er quietly walked a little behind Lin Ke, not far away but not too close. Behind her was Ailee. She had already put down the heavy burden. She was like a little bird in the spring, walking much faster than usual.

"What, you're afraid I'll go back on my word?" With his hands behind his back, Lin Ke passed through one courtyard after another, as if he was casually visiting some historical monument.

The natural environment of this world was much better than Earth's. The air was fresh and clear, the flowers and plants were bright and moving, and even in the Moutes' family mansion located in the center of Wind City, there were still trees everywhere that would probably need two people to surround them before they could be embraced. The lush treetops cast mottled shadows on the flat stone surface of the road that swayed with the wind.

Xue'er shook her head. "You have never called me that before. Even though we have met countless times, you have become a little different."

Rincewind hadn't expected that the first person to notice such a difference was not Cohen's mother, Selina, but the girl who had only been with Cohen for less than ten minutes. In Cohen's memory, they had only met for a very small amount of time.

Maybe it was because of that one moment of upheaval, which allowed me to clearly see a lot of things that I had never seen before in my life, those things that I had neglected before, those things that I had persisted in, those things that I had once disdained and those things I had once been proud of, it was as if I had lived fourteen years anew.

Xue'er was still not used to his jumping thoughts, so she was a little stunned.

Passing through a simple, hard, wooden door on the tall, thick wall, there was a huge square field behind. Based on Cohen's memories, Lin Ke knew that this was the Moutes' family school. All the children under the age of eighteen were studying and training here, hoping that they could successfully stimulate their energy before leaving the school to become a noble and professional person.

In the past, it was countless of facts that if a human being could not awaken their relationship with the free energy of the outside world before he or she became a professional, he or she would never be able to make a breakthrough in his or her entire life, and could only live as an ordinary person. At the same time, it wasn't that the earlier his or her awakening ability got, the further he or she could go.

The academy consisted of several types of people. The first type was Rhine's direct bloodline, which included six boys and three girls, including Cohen. They were the most favored students in the school, the oldest being nineteen years old but still unwilling to give up and leave. The second type was the young descendants of the five great elders. This was a relatively loose group, and everyone was keen to go up, hoping that one day they could break through their limits and become a professional, with a better future within the family. The third type were the descendants of Rhine's dead brothers. They were the most united because they were discriminated against in the family. The fourth group was the group of servants. They were the group with the largest number of students in the academy and were the future reserves of the big families. They were all children from poor families or orphans. From a very young age, they were adopted into the academy by the various large families, and were given treatment and a life that the common people's children would never be able to have until the day they became professionals and entered the circle that the family focused on nurturing, or became servants or guards after the age of eighteen, and completely integrated into the family. Like a rootless drop in the sky, they destined to fall into the river but only created a small ripple.

He would never be like a savior who would barge into the shackles to save someone, because he knew that only he could save himself, and only he could break free from the shackles that surrounded him, giving him a new lease of life.

He didn't come to class. Today, he came to see someone, a brother who gave him a bowl of broth.

The arrival of Linke attracted the attention of almost everyone on the field who were exercising. At the edge of the training field, there was a small forest, it was quiet and secluded, and under the shade of the trees, there were a few young men in long robes meditating. At the moment, people were already looking over, and in the center of the training field, a large group of boys were staring at the training field, their upper bodies bare, and their muscles shiny from smearing drugs.

Around the field, groups of girls with wooden spurs caught and killed, graceful and fluttering like swallows, and scattered youths holding blunt swords horizontally as they hacked at wooden stakes, as if they were angry cubs.

This was the most important color in Cohen's memory. It was where he spent most of his childhood! While the other children on Earth were playing in the playground, he had already meditated in the forest day after day. When all the children on the field had left, he was still in the familiar woods, quietly trying to figure out the intangible magic.

Cohen was never a genius.

However, he had done everything that everyone thought was impossible!