The Loli Picks Up the Big Brother

Matthews understood this sentence, but he shook his head. He had only drunk river water raw once since arriving in this world, and that time he had been in such agony that he fainted. Now, there was no way he would ever consume anything from this place again!

Matthews went to the riverbank, gathered some dry branches, and started a fire. He caught a few fish, roasted them, and handed them to the little girl who had saved him.

"Mm."

Looking at the roasted fish Matthews handed over, the little girl began to eat in large bites, tears streaming down her face.

The little girl had once been the apple of her family's eye, and her parents were mages. From a young age, they had taught her many manners and knowledge about the continent, but not long ago, her parents had died during a mission.

Since her parents had no other relatives, she, a seven-year-old girl, naturally had no ability to live on her own, and she eventually drifted to the riverbank.

The little girl had fallen from heaven to hell, and now, being treated with such gentleness by Matthews, she threw herself into his arms and cried, "Big Brother, Mia has no parents anymore. Will you be my daddy?"

"Ah!"

Matthews didn't understand, so he could only fumble about, trying to comfort the sobbing little girl in a flustered manner.

The little girl cried as she said, "Mia is so stupid, I actually forgot you can't read. You don't understand what I'm saying!"

Matthews finally managed to coax the exhausted little girl to sleep. To be honest, he didn't know where his own future lay. As a college student from the new era, he had naturally read novels.

In all the online novels he had read before, the protagonists were always incredibly overpowered. They would kill all the villains the moment they appeared, but he was much more unlucky.

First, he got a stomachache from bad food, then he thought he had met a good person only to be betrayed, losing the only potentially valuable Death Scythe he had found. Later, he was even auctioned off; have you ever seen a protagonist who starts off by being auctioned as a slave?

Although he didn't know why he was saved later, he had been knocked unconscious by a dead tree in the riverbed while trying to escape. Now, even though he had been saved by this seven-year-old girl, he wasn't sure if he could survive while dragging this burden along.

After this series of blows, Matthews had sobered up. This was a dangerous reality, not a novel world where the protagonist could crush the heavens and the earth.

The next morning, a majestic, childish voice rang out from under the cliff by the river.

"You, I, he—"

Matthews repeated after her: "You, I, he—"

At this moment, Matthews felt a bit ashamed. He was a fine twenty-year-old young man, yet here he was, being taught how to read by a seven-year-old little girl holding a twig, and he couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed.

"Snap—"

The sound of a twig hitting the ground rang out, followed by a milky, authoritative tone: "Be serious!"

The two-hour teaching session passed quickly. Matthews spent his mornings learning to read from the little girl, then practiced the basic martial arts he had trained in before, and continued his studies in the afternoon.

A month later, Matthews could roughly understand most of the language of this world.

"Do you have anywhere to go?"

Seeing Matthews ask, Mia thought he was going to abandon her.

She grabbed Matthews's arm and said, "Don't leave me behind, you promised me back then."

"When did I promise you?"

Mia said righteously, "You clearly promised me at that time!"

Seeing that the little girl was on the verge of tears at the slightest provocation, Matthews immediately said, "Fine, I swear I won't leave you behind."

Seeing that Matthews was willing to swear, Mia let go of his arm.

"It's getting a bit cold this season. Do you have a place to stay?"

Seeing Mia shake her head, Matthews asked unwillingly, "Then what about your old home?"

"I can't go back, there's nothing left in the house."

Matthews asked Mia uncertainly, "Are you really not lying to me?"

"I'm not."

Matthews still asked, unconvinced, "Didn't you say your parents were mages?"

When he was rescued on the boat, he had seen that kind of brilliant magic from afar. In Matthews's mind, mages were the most powerful beings; surely they wouldn't be so miserable that they couldn't even afford a house?

Afterward, Mia took Matthews to the village where she used to live, and Matthews pulled Mia along to start clearing the weeds growing in the yard and the cobwebs filling the house.

This was a relatively backward little mountain village, hidden among the hills behind the river. The scenery was quite serene, and the environment was secluded. It was a suitable place for a reclusive life!

Matthews and Mia lived there together. In the mornings, Matthews would teach Mia some of his martial arts, and then Matthews would be taught the knowledge of the continent that Mia knew.

"The continent we are on is the Oya Continent. The west is ruled by the Bright Empire, controlled by the Church of Light. The far east is ruled by the Dark Empire of the Dark Court."

"We live in the Furio Empire, and the emperor of the empire is a powerful rank nine warrior who believes in the great Four Divine Beasts Sovereign."

Matthews recited the knowledge Mia had given him while pondering some details. When he arrived in this world, he had passed through a spatial turbulence. Later, he had obtained the corpse of an unknown beast wearing a golden crown, as well as a Death Scythe.

Now, combined with the Church of Light, the Dark Court, and the Four Divine Beasts Sovereign, Matthews had to suspect that the beast he obtained when he arrived was a Sovereign corpse from the spatial turbulence, he just didn't know if there was still a Sovereign Spark inside.

If he could find out the name of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereign, he could be certain that he had come to the Coiling Dragon universe.

Then the Death Scythe he lost must be a Sovereign Artifact, and as for the corpse that might contain a Sovereign Spark, it was highly likely still inside the golden lotus that brought him here.

Seeing Matthews lose focus again, Mia seriously tapped the back of Matthews's hand with her twig pointer.

"We're in class, don't lose focus."

Looking at the little girl pretending to be majestic, Matthews pinched her cheek.

"Annoying, if you don't get serious, Teacher Mia is going to hit your palm!"

"Alright, alright. Your big brother is listening carefully, Mia, please continue!"

After speaking for a moment, Matthews continued to ask, "You just mentioned the Four Divine Beasts Sovereign; who are they?"

Mia shook her head, her milky, childish voice saying, "The Four Divine Beasts Sovereign are just the Sovereigns."

"I mean, what are their names?"

"Mia doesn't know either."

Matthews thought about it and decided not to ask further. In the original Coiling Dragon, Sovereigns spread their faith in material planes, but they wouldn't let such insignificant mortals know their names. Just like in the Yulan Plane, if not for the appearance of the Sovereign Beirut, the protagonist wouldn't have known who his true enemies were even after becoming a deity.

Therefore, how could a little girl like Mia, who wasn't even a mage, possibly know the names of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns?

"Mia, can you use magic?"

Mia said in low spirits, "No. Before, Father only taught me some knowledge about the continent."

"Then, seeing that I was young, he didn't teach me any magical knowledge."

After hearing this, Matthews sighed. Although he was now roughly certain that he had arrived in the Coiling Dragon world, he just didn't know which material plane it was.

Having come to this world, how could he not practice magic? Becoming a Saint Realm expert meant gaining eternal life; this was the lifelong pursuit of so many novel protagonists. Furthermore, no man could refuse the temptation of such longevity, nor could he refuse the splendor of magic.

The most important thing now was to make money. Matthews remembered that in the original work, testing for talent cost ten gold coins. Just as the Buddha doesn't save the penniless, you can't play with magic if you don't have money.

Just like in the original work, the protagonist's family were nobles, yet they still had to sell their property to survive. Now that he had transmigrated to this place, it was obvious that he didn't have any money.