My Magic Age

Catalina's father, Talos, was a second lieutenant in an independent infantry division of the Southern Army. He grew up in a military family and his family was extremely wealthy. At only twenty-five years old, he had been promoted to second lieutenant and was only waiting for the coming year. He was conferred a title at the royal ceremony, which means he has a bright future. Becoming a second lieutenant in the army also means becoming a commander. Even the second lieutenants who serve as assault battalions have a much lower chance of dying in the war, not to mention the second lieutenants in the infantry division.

Her mother was a bunny girl in a private dance troupe called Zijin Mosaic in the imperial capital. She was originally a slave girl bought by the owner of the dance troupe from a slave trader. The laws of the empire required that all citizens of the empire could only be untouchables at the lowest level, and only aliens could do so. After the war, he redeemed himself and became a slave. Sweet-looking human-animal hybrids like Katarina's mother are the easiest to slip up in the empire's laws. Her physical appearance is more like that of a human, but she only has a playful and furry short tail. He can no longer hide his identity as a half-orc.

Because of her hot figure and sweet appearance, she was spotted by Katarina's father and spent seven gold coins to buy Katarina's mother from the owner of the dance troupe. However, the good times did not last long. In the south of the Green Empire The defense line was tight, and the independent infantry division that had been retreated to the rear for rest was transferred to the front line again, but unexpectedly this time it was a farewell. The second lieutenant, Katarina's father, died on the front line not long after. This dancer who once worked as a bunny girl in the dance troupe was once again sold by the second lieutenant's official wife six years later. The then five-year-old Catalina was also regarded as a hybrid because of her distinctive red eyes. He was sold along with his mother.

The person who bought Katarina and his mother away was a small foreman in the mine. There are many small foremans who go out to make a living in the Green Empire. They often run out of home to find work at the beginning of the year, and then make a fortune A sum of money is sent home regularly, but they never take their family members out. Sometimes when they have money, they go to brothels or dance troupes to have some fun. But after getting an unexpected fortune, this lucky little foreman actually chose to buy Catalina and her mother back to the mine, and became the little foreman's wife.

When Catalina was six years old, her mother and the little foreman, whose face was always dark, gave Catalina a younger brother.

However, the peaceful days did not last long. Catalina had not yet adapted to how to eat rough black bread smoothly. The little foreman died in a mining accident. Naturally, the mine owner paid a sum of money for compensation. But the money ended up in the pocket of the little foreman and his wife, and it had nothing to do with Caterina and her mother. In addition, the three mothers had to move out of the adobe house where the little foreman lived and lived in a shabby thatched hut. Every day, Catalina's mother would go to the mine to carry stones for a bite of black bread for the three of them.

Well, it was difficult to even eat a bite of black bread in the days that followed, especially after Catalina's mother was injured by a rolling stone, which undoubtedly made things worse for the precarious family. A month later, Caterina's mother also died in bed. Only eight-year-old Catalina and her two-year-old brother were left begging for food in the mine.

Fragment three

The Noli Mountain open-pit mining area on the outskirts of the Green Imperial Capital is the largest coal mine nearby. It supplies almost one-third of the imperial capital's coke and coal mines. There are a large number of miners and businessmen staying here all year round, and a small commercial area has gradually formed around the mine. There is a large garbage dump around this temporary unregulated commercial area. The children of the coolies in the mines would be in this garbage dump every day, trying to dig out something valuable, maybe a broken sleeper, maybe a rusty iron nail, as long as they could get black bread That’s it. Catalina is the first child to pick up things at the garbage dump every day. She will take her brother to a small restaurant in the town to try her luck at noon. Maybe the kind restaurant owner will give her half a bowl of leftover cold porridge.

Until one day, an orc shaman came to the mine. He was dressed in a colorful and weird costume like a French chicken. He directly found Catalina in the garbage dump. The shaman was standing in the garbage dump. On a large gray stone stained with oil, he held a wooden wand inlaid with magic crystals in his hand, and an astrolabe in the other hand, which was usually used by orc priests for divination. When the pointer on the astrolabe pointed directly at Catalina, the orc shaman with shriveled skin looked relieved. But when he saw Catalina, his wise eyes showed infinite arrogance and said to Catalina: "My child, the beast god guided me to find you. Follow me or stay here as a scavenger in the mines for the rest of your life. , choose one of the two!”

"Will we have black bread if we follow you?" Katerina squatted next to the trash can, picking up a tattered big leather shoe with one hand, and holding her brother's hand with the other and asked innocently.

The shaman nodded slightly and said: "As long as you are willing to follow me and return to our orc rabbit tribe, I can guarantee that you will have endless black bread every day, and I can even give you some. A bit of sweet and sour applesauce or strawberry jam, and occasionally snow-white wheat cakes.”

Catalina was a little embarrassed and wiped her dirty little face, trying to wipe it clean. A little girl of her age already knew beauty and ugliness, and she wanted to show her most beautiful side in front of outsiders. , and asked the shaman: "Will you let us eat sweet potatoes? I heard that eating sweet potatoes is very common in the orc tribe."

The old shaman lowered his slack eyelids and said calmly: "No, you don't need to eat those things!"

Catalina's face became very pale and ugly when she thought that the children in the small town had sarcastically mocked her a few days ago and said that she was a lowly slave. He asked with some worry: "Will you let us be slaves? I heard that orcs like human slaves."

The old shaman seemed a little tired. He simply stuck the wooden staff on the ground and slowly sat on the boulder. He looked at Catalina calmly and profoundly and said, "No, but you have to Marry the strongest man in our tribe, maybe our current chief or one in the future. You will not be a slave, because you are a half-orc. Come on, son! There isn’t much time, let me take you out of here!”

The old shaman stood up, stretched out his old and skinny hand to hold Catalina, turned around and walked out of the garbage dump.

"Hey, why don't you take my brother with you?" Katarina turned around and was shocked to see her brother still staying there. She struggled desperately to break away from the old shaman's big hand and stumbled back to where she was. She was so frightened. The crying boy struggled to hold him up and angrily questioned the old shaman.

The old shaman hesitated for a moment, then finally explained: "He is a human child, he does not belong to our world of orcs!"

Catalina couldn't believe her ears. She widened her eyes and asked in a desperate cry: "Do you want me to leave him?"

The old shaman's expression finally changed, thinking that the orcs had finally taken things like separation of flesh and blood lightly. Unexpectedly, this precarious human girl still refused to give up her brother, so he thought for a moment and said: "I heard that there is a shelter in the Green Capital. I can help you send him there. I guarantee that he can survive!"

The little girl said stubbornly: "I don't want to leave him. He is my only relative in the world!"

She remembered the promise she made to her mother before she died a few months ago. She couldn't imagine that her brother could survive without her care.

The old shaman's words were very dry. I'm afraid he didn't even believe in the authenticity of his words. Orcs have never been very good at lying, so the old shaman said: "No, you just separated from him for a while, maybe You will have another chance to meet in the future.”

The little girl's stubbornness exceeded the old shaman's expectation. Originally, the old shaman thought of coaxing the little girl away. Maybe it wouldn't be long before she would forget her childhood, but Catalina opened her red eyes wide and said: "No, I would rather pick up trash to feed him than be separated from him."

In the end, the old shaman often sighed. In this Green Empire, you may be able to persuade an empire member to leave the country. You may see beggars dying of illness on the streets, but as a strong outsider, you cannot forcefully lead them away. If anyone leaves, it will violate the laws of the empire, and they will be hanged on the execution ground like slave traders.

So the old shaman said: "In that case I can't take you two out of here, and you also have the right to choose to stay here! But I need to take back the ability that belongs to the orcs in you, until one day you are willing to change your mind, I just It is necessary to carve a sealing circle on your body, so that you Only in this way can you completely break away from the orc tribe, but you must remember, never reveal this secret to any orc, you will have an irresistible attraction to any orc, because the blood in your body has awakened a very magical Ability, this ability is called 'Killing Heart'..."

That night, Catalina met the legendary ghost wolf, the guardian of the wasteland. His light blue eyes were like two bright lights shining deeply into the deepest part of her heart. The man known as the Soul Walker The shaman uses his own blood A cage was drawn on Katarina's chest, "I will sign a sacred contract with the Beast God with my blood. This cage will never be broken for as long as I live. I will condense the blood of your courage into my heart and form ice crystals. For the rest of my life, This ice will never melt."

This is the oldest life contract. Even the old shaman needs to borrow the form of the soul wolf to maintain the normal progress of the ceremony until the end. Catalina never said a word of giving up until the end. She only remembered the right to The words my mother promised: never give up.

But Katarina lost her courage from then on, and most of the time she was like a timid mouse, only daring to live in the shadows.

What exactly is courage? All along, Catalina has been trying to find it. Until one day, a girl wearing a gray and white striped devotional magic suit, with an exquisite magic sword hanging on her belt, stood in front of her and stared into her bright red eyes and asked formally: "What is your name?"

"Katrina!"