I Created Scientific Magic - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Diary of the Useless

Translator: Lonelytree

[Training, training again… No matter how many times I try, I can’t do it. It’s impossible for me to pass the selection…]

[Why are you looking at me with such anticipation? Father…]

[It’s time again. July, Year 824 of the Holy Calendar. The third Knight Selection…]

[Defeated in 27 seconds against Tyrell. Once again… Do you hate me? Ivana? I can understand how you feel. A useless person snatched the opportunity that should have belonged to you…]

[If only it could be reversed. Why can’t it?]

[Perhaps I shouldn’t have existed in the first place…]

As time passed, the bonfire in the cave slowly burned out after the last bit of firewood was used up.

The sudden darkness broke Lin En’s train of thought. With a wave of his hand, the tree branches and fallen leaves that were piled up at the side floated up and filled the pile of wood that was flickering with sparks.

The next moment, the red flames rose, and Lin En flipped through the diary in his hand again.

No, in fact, it might not be appropriate to describe it as a diary.

This was an ordinary noble youth without any extraordinary talent. He had recorded all his cowardice, inferiority, hatred, and pain that he could not tell outsiders on a piece of paper.

“Lott Pedro!” Lin En called out the name of the youth.

There was no doubt that this was an example of being driven crazy by excessive expectations.

However, what he saw was more complicated than this.

Lott’s father was a baron in the Saikas Empire. However, he was a landless noble who had long since declined. He was the kind who only had a name. He could only rely on squandering his savings to maintain his dignity as a noble barely.

Just like every parent who hoped for their son to become a successful person, Baron Pedro placed all his hopes on his son to revive the family.

If a noble disciple like them could pass the knight examination before the age of twenty and had a firm belief, they would be qualified to become a priest. This was undoubtedly the best way to change the fate of the family.

Because of this, Lott had received the strictest training ever since he was a child. His goal was to pass the knight examination and become a member of the Church’s clergy.

Baron Pedro even spent a lot of money to hire official knights to hone Lott’s combat skills.

However, Lott’s talent wasn’t very good. No matter how hard he trained, it was useless.

There would only be three new priests in Nordland territory every year, but there were countless people who wanted the same thing. Among them, there were many who were more hardworking, more talented, and even more powerful than Lott!

Therefore, from the time he took part in the assessment at the age of sixteen, he was met with disappointment after disappointment. Under the expectations of his family and the blow of reality, Lott gradually became dull, taciturn, and extremely introverted.

His sister, Ivana, was a different story. She was quite talented. She had mastered decent swordsmanship by simply observing the daily practice between Lott and an official knight.

However, for Baron Pedro, the talent that Ivana displayed was just a small surprise.

In the Saikas Empire, it was not that there were no precedents of females becoming nobles, but that was only when there was no other choice. Otherwise, daughters were usually used as tools for political marriages to strengthen the influence of the family.

It was not worth it to spend a lot of resources to nurture them.

After all, the continuation of the bloodline was the foundation of nobility. If a woman were chosen as the heir, all the wealth accumulated by the family would be at risk of being swallowed up through marriage.

Lott, who couldn’t bear the pressure and expectations, probably planned to use his death to force Baron Pedro to make a choice.

In Lin En’s opinion, Lott’s choice was undoubtedly a foolish move.

He also had some understanding of the nature of these nobles. According to the description of Baron Pedro’s personality in the diary, after learning of Lott’s death, he would only consider whether he could have a second son or adopt an excellent heir from a side family.

Ivana would always be the last choice.

An illegitimate child like Carl was even worse off. Unless the family were completely wiped out, they would not get anything…

A diary of more than a hundred pages was quickly flipped to the last page. Lin En was somewhat touched by this noble youth’s experience, but what really caught his attention was a word mentioned in the diary.

“Useless?” Lin En muttered to himself. He thought that he would not hear this name after arriving in the Otherworld.

After all, even a farmer had the value of being exploited here.

Lin En slowly exhaled and reorganized his messy thoughts. He turned to look at Lott’s body. He should properly bury him later.

“071, how much energy reserves do we have now?” Lin En asked in his mind.

[Remaining energy at 12.3%. Energy concentration detected decreasing. Estimated increase of 1% energy reserves every 10 hours.]

‘As expected…’ Lin En looked at the slightly bright sky and was not surprised.

Just as he had guessed, the Radiant Moon would affect the activity of magic power. After a night of rest, the stamina and mana consumed in the previous battle had almost recovered.

In Lott’s diary, Lin En had also obtained a very important piece of information, and he was in the Nordland Territory’s port town!

In other words, the hidden underground river in the manor actually flowed directly to the Sea of Fog!

Unfortunately, in order to deal with Archbishop Anril, he had already sent away the troublesome Joni and Pigeon.

Lin En could not determine where the two mages had drifted to. If they were good enough at swimming, they could have come ashore anywhere, unlike him, who could only drift with the flow and slowly learn to swim.

It would not be easy to find two living people in the entire Nordland Domain without communication.

How to avoid the Holy Court’s tracking was also a big problem.

Lin En pondered for a long time, and a name suddenly jumped into his mind, Cripple Lauder!

No matter where Joni and Pigeon were, as long as they were still preparing to go to Grimrelle, they would definitely come to the port town and find a way to contact the cripple Lauder.

In that case, he only needed to find this person first!

Lin En stood up and looked at the towering city wall in the distance. There was only one problem left, how to enter the port town safely.

“071, get me information on disguise techniques. It’s best if they can be completed with simple materials!”

Lin En looked at Lott, whose figure and hair color were very similar to his. Perhaps he could temporarily borrow his identity to hide from the guards of the port town.

If he remembered correctly, other than disguising himself, there was also a spell that could deal with such a situation in Basic Magic and its Uses.