Chapter 1 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Happy birthday, Dad.”

Andrew Smith heard his son, Tim, calling him. He opened his eyes helplessly and ended his meditation.

Lowering his head, he saw that the red gemstone in his hand was full of cracks.

“Did I fail again?”

Andrew’s expression was a little gloomy as he pondered. Then he looked at the fire jade crystal in his hand with a painful look on his face.

This day was his 100th birthday, but he was not happy at all.

“Happy birthday, Dad!”

Beside him, his daughter Mary, dressed in an emerald green robe, came over happily with a piece of cake in her hand.

Looking at the happy looks on his children’s faces, Andrew didn’t want to disappoint them, so he forced a smile on his wrinkled face.

“Thank you! I’m very happy that you guys are so sweet.”

Though he said so, he was still frowning.

Tim and Mary looked at each other and saw the worries in each other’s eyes.

After thinking for a while, Mary came forward with an innocent look and helped Andrew stand up from the shining hexagram spell array that had been outlined in the living room earlier. At the same time, she comforted him.

“Dad, don’t worry too much about Mom.”

“The army has already promised to help us look for her.”

“Mom has already…You can’t give in!”

Tim also hurriedly followed suit.

“Mary’s right, Dad.”

“You don’t need to worry about the money issue for the time being.”

“I’ve just passed the examination for a beginner mage and I’ll get an allowance.”

“Our family is rich now.”

“You guys…”

Andrew shook his head and his serious expression softened. He felt relieved because his kids had grown up and could even be on their own.

When he thought of this, he was more relaxed than before and walked straight to the balcony.

Andrew raised his head to look at the starry sky, and was surprised to find that the stars that dotted the Sagittarius and Ursa Major were no longer pure as before.

Instead, the stars looked like something burning, turning almost a third area of the sky red.

“This celestial phenomenon is…the blazing tide?”

“It seems that quite a number of fire element mages will make a breakthrough tonight.”

At the same time, some information popped up in Andrew’s mind like a conditioned reflex.

The next moment, he smiled helplessly.

“What does this have to do with me, a half-dead old man?”

He said with a bitter smile. Andrew was not from this world, but from a blue planet that was almost the same as this planet but with no magical power.

He did not know if he was lucky or unlucky. One day, he got drunk at night. When he woke up the next morning, he became a crying baby in this world.

When he first learned that this was a world full of magical power, he was very excited.

Even though Andrew did not have the legendary golden fingers of a transmigrator, he still entered Magic Academy with his precocious intelligence when he was young.

However, this was the beginning of the nightmare.

Andrew’s talent in magic was too poor!

In this world, those that were talented could become beginner mages before ten years old, and many of them could be promoted to advanced mages before eighteen years old.

However, Andrew was still a magic apprentice when he graduated.

This world was different from the blue planet he came from. Here, there were endless wars. Powerful mages might be able to profit from the war, but the weak ones like Andrew could only suffer.