章節 138: The Morphomancer's Apprentice

"I was born a commoner in the Émeraude empire and grew up in a farmer's family. Life was hard but beautiful and warm in our small village. However, everything changed when I turned twelve. By royal order, our village was burned to the ground on that fateful night."

"My father, seeing the flames rise from the village and expecting the worst, swiftly woke us up. We escaped on his working carriage, pulled by a donkey, without any possession as I witnessed the place I grew up in ravaged by the imperial soldiers. The smell of burning wood and corpses, carried by the wind, suffocated me as I cried like I never did in my life." 

"Disappointed by the empire's action, my father chose to exile our family in an unnamed and unexplored chain of mountains in the far northern part of the territory, certain that we could survive and live happily on our own."