Starborn Apotheosis: When Demon-Elf Hybrid Unlocks the Primal Codex

Ceremony

As a new spring arrives, little Eldrin begins to shed his boyishness. The hunting knife at his waist was no longer just for show. He began to follow the village hunters into the mountains to hunt, though not too deep into the forest and not in the front line when facing the beasts, and the work assigned to him was more of an understudy, setting traps and cleaning up the prey, but at least it showed that he was already a hunter. Blacksmith Bobby was very happy again, for Eldrin's hunting knife had taken him several nights to make, using several pieces of his treasured smithing steel. Bobby was happy for every magical beast that little Eldrin killed with it.

Hunting is always dangerous, and the rolling coastal mountains harbor an unknown number of magical beasts, as well as the occasional lost magical beast deep in the mountains that lead to the village of Rutherland. Little Eldrin then encountered a pale gray demon wolf. It was a true level two magical beast that even the village chief had to deal with. When he encountered the demonic wolf, little Eldrin was surrounded by only two hunters from the village. It was a fierce battle, and all three were badly wounded, but in the end they dragged the wolf's body back to the village. To the village's credit, little Eldrin was unusually calm and collected throughout the fight to the death, and could have done no better than the best of the hunters. And if it hadn't been for Eldrin's s***h, which severed the tendons in the demon wolf's hind paw, the outcome might have been different.

Regardless, Little Eldrin had faced many dangers this year, and he had always been calm and collected and reacted well. He never flinched from the most dangerous situations.

At the age of nine, Eldrin learned to be brave. It seemed like it should have been the easiest year because mountain children never lacked courage. But the courage Mama taught Eldrin was different, and Eldrin did it, and from then on, Mama stopped calling him Little Eldrin and started calling him My Eldrin.

"My Eldrin is a real man now!" Elaine would say with a big smile whenever she saw Eldrin.

But one day Eldrin replied with his chest puffed out, "A real man has to be wise, too!"

Elaine was surprised, looked at Eldrin seriously and asked, "Tell Mommy who told you that.

"It's in the book!"

"What book?" Elaine asked patiently. Not to mention wizards, even magical apprentices had a wealth of knowledge. So Eldrin had already learned several languages under Elaine, even a very difficult and obscure ancient language. Reading hadn't been a problem for Eldrin for a long time, and he had even finished several introductory books on magic during the dull and boring winter months, but Elaine couldn't remember any book that contained such a sentence.

"It's this book in the attic... It's got a lot of interesting stuff in it. It's the first time I've learned that the world is so big," Eldrin said excitedly. Eldrin said excitedly.

"It was that book?" Eldrin remembered something, then smiled again, "That book was interesting. My Eldrin, of course a true man cannot lack wisdom, but perseverance, strength and courage are much rarer. My Eldrin is so smart, he won't lack wisdom when he grows up. That's why Mommy has to develop this kind of character in you first, understand?"

"And happy!" Eldrin snapped.

Elaine smiled, stroked Eldrin's head and said, "Yes, and happy! Has my Eldrin been happy these past years?"

Little Eldrin shook his head and said sullenly, "Not always happy. Pilou bullied me, and besides, I hate breadfruit. And, Mommy, what kind of person is Daddy?"

Elaine's face changed for a moment before she said quietly, "Your dad is a real man ......".

Eldrin immediately continued, "I know! He's also the worst of the bad guys! The one Mommy hates the most!"

Elaine smiled, every year Eldrin asked her that question a few times and she always answered him like that. By now Eldrin could have memorized it. But Eldrin was a smart boy, and he could sense the deep hatred Elaine felt when she mentioned his father, and in time Eldrin hated that father just as much.

Because so often Eldrin would wake up in the middle of the night and hear his mother crying softly.

A child's logic is originally simple: his mother is the one who loves him the most, and he loves her the most. What Mom hated was what he hated. From time to time, Eldrin would ask about his father, partly out of curiosity, because once he got a little older, his mother would talk to him more about his father. On the other hand, Eldrin tried to learn more about his father so that he could avenge his mother when he grew up. As for how to get revenge, he was still a child now, so of course he didn't have a clue, but it was something that was kept in the back of his mind.

This time Elaine doesn't tell Eldrin more about his father than that her time with Eldrin's father was very short and that's all she knows.

"One day in the future, you'll know your father very well." For some reason, Elaine suddenly said that. As soon as the words came out of her mouth, her face changed, as if her heart was clutching something. Elaine herself didn't know why she said it.

Eldrin sensed that her mother's mood had suddenly changed for the worse, so she quietly stuck out her tongue, said, "I'm going to go read a book," and ran into the back room. That was Elaine's study, and next to it was the laboratory where the potions were mixed. The books in the study were not many, they were all about the basics of magic, the introduction to potions, and the history, geography and scenery of the continent, which was appropriate for Elaine's status as a magical apprentice, and Eldrin liked to read here in the evenings. There was a magic lamp in the study, the light was not bright, with Eldrin's little magic power to fill it once, it could make the magic lamp light up for the night. Since oil was expensive, Eldrin was the only one who could keep the lamp lit for a long time at night, except for the village chief, the blacksmith, and a few of the most powerful hunters.

It was in this humble but cozy little room that Eldrin quietly spent his childhood.

In those thick books he saw another world, a world much larger, more complex, more sublime and more magnificent than Rutherland. Little Eldrin had thought quietly that when he grew up to be the best hunter in the village, he would take his mother with him and leave the village of Rutherland to see the world beyond the mountains.

Eldrin sat alone in the living room, the sound of brushing and turning books in his ears. Little Eldrin was once again reading by heart; he had a solid grasp of the basics of magic, but he had yet to learn any real magic. Eldrin had even f*******n him to meditate. On the continent, in order to become a good magician, one would normally have to start meditating at the age of four or five, and from there, at the age of ten, one would be able to accumulate enough spiritual power to begin the study of magic and the cultivation of magical power. But little Eldrin didn't think there was anything wrong with that, because he didn't know anything, and also because he thought his mother was right about everything.

Elaine sat quietly, because of one more word tonight, the door to her memory opened softly and many, many dusty events from the past surfaced one after the other, and she couldn't even push the button.

Her head began to ache a little, and Elaine rubbed the corner of her forehead gently, sighing softly. Her eyes fell on the calendar on her desk, and suddenly she saw a prominent mark. In about ten days it would be Eldrin's tenth birthday. Ten was the boundary between a boy and a teenager, and at thirteen or fourteen one could hardly be called an adult.

I don't know, has it been ten years already?

Elaine stared in awe at the light leaping from the magic lamp, the brass body polished to a snowy sheen, reflecting her face. She wasn't beautiful, she could only be described as an ordinary woman, but in the village of Rutherland she was one of the most beautiful women. Ten years had passed, but the years had left no traces on her face, and if it were not for the fact that her clothes were already approaching the age of a middle-aged woman, almost no one would have remembered how old she was. If someone who had never met her before had seen her, they would have thought that Elaine was only in her early twenties.

The face reflected in the brass lampshade was actually quite unfamiliar to Elaine, and all too common, for when she was born, it was not such a face. A long time ago, she had never imagined that she would live such a simple and hard life, for ten years at a time. But watching Eldrin grow up day by day made her feel so fulfilled deep inside.

Elaine went into the cave and looked at Eldrin, who was holding a thick illustrated book about magical animals, and smiled, "My Eldrin will soon be ten years old, and Mommy has prepared a special ceremony for you to celebrate my Eldrin's growing up.

"Yay! Will there be presents?" Eldrin jumped up, showing that he was still a boy.

"Some of it will be a gift that will follow you for the rest of your life. But you need to rest for the next few days, okay? It's late now, time to go to bed."