Ham was a very ordinary Low Xiyan. Now thirty-five, he was unmarried and still single.
But there was one thing unusual about him: his birthplace—Windmill Town. Because it lay close to Savage Cave.
Just like the other people of Windmill Town, the more they learned about the world of transcendents, the more they came to understand how magnificent and fantastical it was. Their hearts grew ever more yearning and expectant, and everyone secretly harbored their own fantasy: How wonderful it would be if I could become an exalted wizard too.
Ham was the same. Since childhood, he had dreamed of becoming a wizard, but what drove him to despair was that his mental power value was only 6. Even with potions, that was a number difficult to make up for.
After learning that he could not become a wizard, Ham went to make a living in Night Demon City, the capital of the Inner Earth Kingdom, with a lingering sense of awkwardness in his heart.
After drifting about for more than twenty years, Ham still had not made anything of himself. He could practically see his future: still plain and ordinary, without a single ripple until death.
Then Night Demon City suddenly underwent a tremendous upheaval.
Everyone seemed to have become a different person. They shouted, "Praise the Queen!" while performing strange movements in the fog-shrouded capital, like a procession of clowns.
Ham was fortunate. He had happened to return to Windmill Town to visit his parents at the time and escaped this calamity. Later, after Ham's parents learned what had happened in Night Demon City, they urged him to stay in Windmill Town.
Twenty years ago, Windmill Town had been the place where his dreams had shattered. He had not even dared to face it, fleeing in a sorry