Chapter 11: The Original Appearance of the Continent

Soon, they came to a gorgeous room; it looked like a bedroom. The Old Mage took out a few gorgeous Magic Robes from a wardrobe and handed them to Old Xie, saying: “Put this on. Remember, hide your two lower arms well. Don’t let them show. I want to take you to meet someone!”

Old Xie frowned, did not ask much, and directly put on the robe, hiding the Behemoth Arm under the wide Magic Robe. These Magic Robes seemed to be custom-made for Old Xie; otherwise, with his height of two meters, it would have been hard to find suitable Magic Robes.

Seeing this, Old Xie looked at the Old Mage with a puzzled gaze, wanting to ask why he was secretly making clothes for him, but unexpectedly, he found the Old Mage staring blankly at him, with tears even shimmering in his eyes.

Old Xie immediately knew there must be something fishy going on, so he asked: “What’s wrong with you?”

“Ah, nothing, just seeing things that remind me of someone!” the Old Mage said, wiping away his tears, and then said: “I know you have many doubts, but don’t worry, I will tell you everything soon. Now, come with me!” Saying that, he led Old Xie to the other side again.

This time, he went up another two floors, where the rooms started to have more of the smell of a laboratory; not only were there many Alchemy devices, but there were also many Puppets busy with various tasks.

Finally, they arrived at a room on the fifth floor of the Mage Tower. After entering, Old Xie found that this seemed to be a specialized hall for medical treatment. There were various Potions and treatment instruments everywhere, and several huge hospital beds were placed in the middle of the hall. On one of the beds lay a naked young man, and next to him was a fat man wearing noble attire, crying non-stop.

The fat man was about forty or fifty years old, with small eyes and a face full of fat, on which there were quite a few pockmarks; he looked very wretched. He was about 1.78 meters tall and definitely weighed over 200 catties. However, judging from his extremely magnificent clothes, he was a person of high status. At this moment, he was immersed in great grief; it seemed that the young man lying on the bed had already died, and was even his closest relative.

However, the Old Mage obviously had a big problem with this fat man. Seeing the fat man crying non-stop, he immediately flew into a rage, rushed over and kicked the fat man hard on the head, knocking the fat man over on the spot, and then cursed: “All you know is crying! Damn it, what’s the use of crying now? What the hell were you doing earlier!”

The fat man was obviously terrified of the Old Mage; even after being kicked to the ground, he didn’t dare to resist, but just cried even harder.

The Old Mage was so angry that he shouted: “Shut up!”

Seeing that the Old Mage was really angry, the fat man seemed to sober up and hurriedly stopped crying in fright. He looked at the Old Mage with his small eyes aggrievedly, stammering and not daring to speak.

Seeing this, the Old Mage couldn’t bear it, shook his head helplessly, and then said, “Get over here!” After saying that, he waved to Old Xie, signaling him to follow. Then he opened another door and entered a living room.

Although the living room was not big, it was very comfortable and luxurious, and the sofas placed there were all top-quality goods. The Old Mage sat in the main seat himself, and Old Xie was even less polite; without being told, he found a comfortable place to sit. After the fat man followed in, under the Old Mage’s instruction, he also sat down carefully, and then looked at Old Xie with a suspicious gaze.

After everyone was seated, the Old Mage said: “Let me introduce you first. Kid, this useless fat man is my grandson, Kadi Stephen!”

Being described like this by the Old Mage, Kadi Stephen immediately showed an expression of great embarrassment and depression, seemingly very dissatisfied that his grandfather was making him lose face in front of an outsider. However, when he heard the Old Mage’s next introduction, his eyes suddenly burst with a trace of surprised light.

“As for this little guy, his name is Jenny Stephen!” the Old Mage said indifferently.

“Jenny Stephen?” The fat man immediately showed an excited look and said: “He also has the surname Stephen, could he be a member of our family?”

“Yes!” The Old Mage nodded and said: “He is our bloodline left outside, and according to seniority, he is a generation higher than you!”

“Oh?” When Kadi Stephen heard this, his eyes lit up, and then he looked at his grandfather, Rafat Stephen, with an ambiguous look.

Seeing this, the Old Mage immediately understood what the fat man was thinking, and was so angry that he cursed: “Don’t use your pig-like IQ to speculate on his origin! I can tell you clearly, he is absolutely, absolutely not my Illegitimate Child!”

“Yes, yes, I understand!” Kadi Stephen quickly nodded in fright. But although he said so, the expression on his face clearly wrote the three words ‘I don’t believe it’!

The Old Mage could naturally see this, but he had no way to deal with it, because he couldn’t tell Old Xie’s origin, right? He had to depressingly slap his forehead, and then explained to Old Xie using his Mental Power: “Sigh, damn it, our Stephen family has been single-generation for several generations, and there is no bloodline left outside at all. And your mother’s matter involves too much and is a secret, no one knows. So, it’s no wonder he suspects your origin; in fact, apart from this explanation, it’s really hard for him to imagine anything else! Forget it, let’s leave this matter as it is for now, and don’t talk too much, so as not to bring up your mother.”

Old Xie’s answer was a roll of his eyes, but in the end, he didn’t say much, only his expression became very ugly.

The Old Mage didn’t want to dwell on this issue either, and directly cut to the chase: “Kid, this time I have a favor to ask of you. As for what I want you to do? We’ll talk about that later. Let me tell you what trouble we have encountered first! Okay?”

“Okay!” Old Xie nodded.

“Sigh, speaking of it, it’s really a family misfortune!” The Old Mage then sorrowfully recounted the whole story.

As the saying goes, hearing about it is not as shocking as seeing it. It turned out that the wretched fat man in front of him was actually a Duke.

From the Old Mage’s previous narration, Old Xie already had a relatively deep understanding of this Continent and the country he was in. On this Continent named Yilan, more than a hundred different races lived together, among which five races were relatively powerful: the Human Race, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, and Barbarians.

Among them, the Barbarians did not establish a country and still lived a primitive tribal life. They lived on the Barbarian Wasteland, located in the center of the Continent, in a position equivalent to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on Earth.

The Human Race Kingdom established dozens of countries, among which the two largest countries alone occupied 80% of the human world’s territory. One was the Empire of Light with the Angel as its banner, and the other was the Kingdom of Griffin with the Griffin as its banner. The Empire of Light completely believed in the God of Light and was a state where church and state were united; the Pope was the supreme ruler. Its location was equivalent to the vast area south of the Yangtze River. The Kingdom of Griffin was composed of many small duchies united together, believing in various sects. Its location was equivalent to the vast area north of the Yangtze River. Old Xie was now in this country.

As for the Orcs, Elves, and Dwarves, each had a Kingdom. The Kingdom of Orcs was in the northernmost part, in a location approximately equivalent to Russia on Earth, bordering the Kingdom of Griffin.

The location of the Kingdom of Dwarves was approximately equivalent to the entire Xinjiang; it bordered the Barbarian Plateau, the Kingdom of Orcs, and the Kingdom of Griffin at the same time.

The Kingdom of Elves was in the southernmost part of the Continent; they lived in a vast tropical rainforest, equivalent to the southwest region of China on Earth, also including the entire Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and other places, with an extremely vast area.

Apart from the regions of these five countries, there was also a large piece of land in the west of the entire Continent. This vast area bordering the Kingdom of Orcs, the Kingdom of Dwarves, the Kingdom of Elves, and the Barbarian Plateau was a barren dead land. The terrain there was like a giant honeycomb, with many huge deep holes leading to another world.