Chapter 82: Lain. Ham

  Rayn. Ham is a native of Draria City, born into an extremely poor family, struggling to make ends meet every day, helping with household chores since he was three years old. Now 10 years old, he has never had a full meal since his memory began, nor worn a new set of clothes! Not even on Paul's Day!

  There are four people in his family, father, mother, and a younger brother who is more than half an hour younger than him. His mother loves him very much, and his younger brother also likes to stay with him and play together, and is very well-behaved. However, his father doesn't particularly like the two brothers. It's not because he suspects that they might not be his sons, on the contrary, their father is very clear that they are indeed his sons.

  There was a time when my mother told me that their family wasn't rich, but they weren't poor to this extent either. They had three meals a day and could still afford two new sets of clothes a year. However, after my mother became pregnant with them, for some reason, she became very weak and often fell ill. My father didn't want them at first, but under their mother's insistence, they were born anyway.

  Because of his mother's persistence, his father spent almost all the family's assets for his mother's illness. What's more important is that after spending a lot of money to invite many light system magicians to treat his mother, although his mother's body improved a bit, she was still very weak. Even after giving birth to their two brothers, they didn't have enough money to buy nutritious food to help her recover. As a result, even ten years later, their mother's body is still very weak and can only lie in bed for most of the day. That's why his father treats them that way.

  The two brothers, already 10 years old, knew that their father didn't dislike them because they weren't the ones who made this home so poor, but because of them, their mother had changed from a healthy person to this. So neither Rain nor his younger brother Rake hated their father; on the contrary, they still deeply respected him in their hearts. Because he hadn't abandoned them or his wife despite these circumstances.

  The only thing that made Rain happy was that his younger brother was a genius. At the age of one, he could already call out "Mother! Father!" and afterwards, whatever their mother taught him, he would learn very quickly. He was extremely famous in their neighborhood. Under his mother's insistence, his father took him to the Magician Guild to test his physical attributes when he was four years old.

  He was a 7th-level earth-attribute and 2nd-level wind-system advanced physique! At that time, the earth-system magician who tested him at the Magician Guild took him as his apprentice, not only waiving his tuition but also promising to give him 10 silver coins as pocket money every month, and he could eat and live with him.

  On the mainland, from the earliest times, the physical constitution of a person was defined as 9, and then divided according to the various properties contained in the body. Generally, a person's body will contain two to three properties, with one being more prominent.

  If there is a kind of attribute that occupies more than 5% in the physical attributes, his talent can be considered good. Such people, as long as they learn things with the same attribute that occupies a high proportion in their body, will be much faster than others. Whether it's magic or aura, it works! This has been verified by countless people on this continent.

  Lei Ke's body had a single attribute of earth that reached 7! Such people are one in ten thousand on the continent, and he was undoubtedly a genius! Of course, not everyone is at 9, some are below 9, and some exceed 9. Those who exceed 9 are geniuses among geniuses. Those who are below 9 and do not have any attribute that reaches 4 will not achieve great things in learning Dou Qi or magic, and their entire lives will not reach the high-level realm of level 6! Moreover, most people are at the third-level realm.

  Can learn magic for free and get 10 silver coins every month. Leika certainly wouldn't refuse. Their father certainly wouldn't either. It was also because of the 10 silver coins that their mother's body had slightly improved compared to before.

  And his younger brother did not disappoint them, following that magician to learn magic for 6 years, now already a level 4 intermediate magician! A 10-year-old intermediate magician, though not unprecedented, is certainly rare. To know that his teacher is now only a 6th-level magician, and is already over 70 years old! According to his own words: "This child will definitely surpass himself in just a few decades", which shows his genius level.

  His younger brother would come home once every three months, staying for three days each time. The monthly allowance his teacher gave him had also increased from the initial 10 silver coins to 1 gold coin as he grew stronger. One gold coin per month was enough for them to eat their fill every day at their household's consumption level.

  However, because he had to support his mother's health and pay off previous debts, both he and his father often went hungry. Moreover, he rarely returned home, only going back when he missed his mother or when his younger brother was returning. For a long time, he lived alone outside, doing simple tasks for others in exchange for one or two copper coins to sustain himself. That's why it turned out this way.

  His mother had told him many times, but he still insisted on going out. He didn't want to be a burden to his family! His mother saw that he wouldn't listen and would often come back, so later on she just stopped advising him and only reminded him to be careful each time he left.

  In fact, in Lain's heart, he also wanted to stay at home very much, but there was a reason that made him feel like he had no face to stay at home. Because he was a commoner, a commoner who had no future in studying magic and martial arts, or in other words, he was a waste! Moreover, his intelligence couldn't be said to be stupid, but it also wasn't related to cleverness. Because when his father took his younger brother to the Magic Guild for testing, he also brought him along, and his attributes were 3 earth elements, 2 wind elements! A publicly acknowledged person who had no future in studying magic and martial arts!

  That's right, he is such a person! He and his brother were in their mother's womb at the same time. His brother was a genius, but he was not. The same thing, his brother could learn quickly, while he had to be taught by his mom many times, even dozens of times before he could learn it!

  This made him feel very uncomfortable, although his mother and younger brother did not look down on him, but instead showed great care for him. Every time he didn't understand something, his mother would gently explain it to him again and again. His younger brother was always by his side cheering him on and encouraging him. Even after the younger brother became an apprentice of that magician.

  Every time he comes back, he hands over his study notes to him, letting him see that although the handwriting is very ugly, the content is very detailed. Lane can completely imagine how focused his brother was when writing things for him at that time.

  It's precisely because of this that Rén feels even more that he has no face to go back. He feels that he owes his mother's love and his younger brother's expectations. So he doesn't want to go back, or rather, until he achieves something, he will never truly go back! This is what he told himself when he was 5 years old. And from then on, he left home.

  It's been 5 years, every time he goes home to see his mom and brother, then turns around and leaves, the whole thing doesn't even take ten minutes. He dares not stay there for too long, afraid that he can't bear to leave. For five years, he has been struggling alone outside, often going back to some martial arts schools to do odd jobs, because he wants to learn martial arts! He wants to learn internal energy! Even if it takes ten times more effort than others, he is willing.

  He takes advantage of the time he spends doing chores at the martial arts hall to secretly learn from others. Although he still only learns some moves, he persists every day. He believes that one day he will become a strong man! Don't compare yourself with your younger brother, just being able to go out and have adventures as a mercenary is enough. That way, you can earn money to support your family! He has been working hard towards this goal.

  Yesterday was the first day of Paul's festival, he went home once in the morning, his younger brother also came back and brought him a piece of clothing. He didn't dare to wear it, after leaving home, he hid it in a broken hut where he is currently staying, that place was given to him by the martial arts gym where he often does chores, they took pity on him and gave him a small wooden house. It's only two square meters, but it's enough for him to live in.

  This morning, when he woke up, he found that there were more than 1,000 gold coins in the center of his small hut! More than 1,000 gold coins, those dazzling lights, made him unable to open his eyes. Although he didn't know why so much money would be here, he wasn't stupid enough to think it was left here by someone else, so after being shocked, he immediately picked up the money.

  With 1000 gold coins, he could buy a lot of things, but the first thing that came to his mind was to buy some delicious food for his mother! So early in the morning, he went out with 2 gold coins and hid the rest. The 2 gold coins were enough to buy some good food for his mother.

  He had been alone on the road for a long time, and Lain was quite familiar with Dela City. After leaving his residence, he went straight to a high-end restaurant. It was a very luxurious restaurant where only wealthy people dined, and it was said that each dish cost more than one gold coin! In the past, this was completely out of his reach. However, their dishes were indeed delicious, and every time he passed by, he could smell them. So this time, he directly took two gold coins to go there.

  The wine house is different from the tavern, they usually open late, that wine house opened at more than 9 o'clock in the morning, he came early, only more than 8 o'clock, the wine house had not yet opened, he sat directly at the door of the wine house waiting. At this time, there was no one around, it looked particularly deserted.

  "Ah?" In Little Rain's expectation, the door of the wine house was slowly opened, and a young man in his late 20s, yawning, stuck out his head from behind the door. Seeing Little Rain's tattered clothes, he first froze, then showed an extremely disgusted expression, shouting at Little Rain: "Little beggar, scram! You can't beg for food here!", while saying this, he also moved forward, preparing to push Little Rain away.

  "I'm not here to beg for food, I'm here to buy it, and I have the money!" Little Rain retorted before the little boy could even approach him, and he also took out his two gold coins to prove his words!