Forn was a youth from Hof Village, an unknown village in the south of the Ebarute Empire.
When he was six, he followed his father, a woodcutter, to town to have his initial Mental Strength tested: 13 points.
That was a very respectable initial Mental Strength value. In the Ebarute Empire—or rather, throughout the entire Wizard World—the minimum initial Mental Strength required by the various Holy Towers and magic academies for recruiting apprentices was 10 points.
An initial Mental Strength of 13 had already given Forn a decent start.
Yet even so, Forn had still spent two years gathering firewood with his father before, at the age of eight, he finally awaited the floating ship from a distant major city.
That floating ship would carry Forn into the wondrous and resplendent world of magic.
What was magic?
When the young Forn had asked his parents that question, his father, who barely knew a few written characters, had trembled and been utterly unable to answer him.
Likewise, Forn's Mother, his three elder brothers and sisters, and his two younger siblings could not answer him either.
Children of the poor grew up early. At only eight years old, Forn had already understood the hardships of life.
He yearned to learn the legendary magic only so that he could improve his family's circumstances.
But Forn did not even know the most basic characters. How great could his achievements be after entering a magic academy in the future?
That was a question.
Of course, Forn, who had been born in the Ebarute Empire, was luckier than the lower-class commoners of other regions in the Wizard World.
Because only the Ebarute Empire had sparked a craze for magic among all its people.
In other regions of the Wizard World, magic was the exclusive privilege of