Just a magical girl who picks up trash

And that person... is the prophet!

Strictly speaking, predicting the future is not a form of time magic, but merely one that has some connection with time. Or it can be said that the so-called foreknowledge is, in a sense, even closer to dream magic or spiritual magic.

However, even if it was only in the form of a border, it undoubtedly had some connection with time magic. It was under this connection that the Mage Tower's countless conspiracies and tricks against the Great Forest came to an end.

Sometimes they would even suffer heavy losses due to the counterattack of the orcs.

This shows how jealous and covetous the Mage Tower is of this prophet!

If I could master the power of time...

Probably with this idea in mind, the Mage Tower had tried to attract the Prophet's attention many times in the past, using all kinds of methods. But in front of a guy who can predict the future, do you expect these "ordinary" conspiracies to come true?

Haha~~That’s just overthinking!

But we have to say that sometimes in this world, there are always more solutions than problems.

Although the prophet possesses the magical ability of time magic to predict the future, and because he lives in the center of the forest, not to mention his own strength, he is always protected by the powerful orcs around him. It is extremely difficult for him to get close to them. However, with the unremitting efforts of the Mage Tower and the desire and pursuit of time magic, he finally achieved his goal in a dangerous way.

Although the result of that incident did not succeed as expected in killing the prophet and thus cutting off the orcs' reliance, the assassination incident almost caused the relationship between the orcs and the Mage Tower, which had been gradually easing, to collapse, and all-out war broke out again. However, it was ultimately stopped because of the prophet himself.

Of course, the Mage Tower naturally paid a hefty reward for this, and also signed a series of magic treaties with the orcs in the Great Forest, paying a considerable price.

This operation can be said to be a complete failure for the Mage Tower. After all, not only did they fail to kill the prophet, but they also lost so much wealth. More importantly, given the circumstances of those treaties, this was not only a disgrace to the Mage Tower, but also a huge loss. It also damaged the Mage Tower's prestige among the people.

Can the Mage Tower withstand the losses from three directions at once?

That is definitely intolerable!

But what can I do if I can’t bear it?

So... in the end you still have to endure it!

It was also because of that incident that the Mage Tower underwent a comprehensive renewal. Many nobles who participated in the "Prophet Assassination Incident" were dismissed, and even some titled magicians in the Mage Tower were stripped of their titles and expelled from the Mage Tower.

Even after the incident, even the mysterious Witch Tower issued a rare order, and along with the order came a girl named Shui Meng who looked only in her twenties. With her own strength, she wiped out all the magicians who had committed crimes but were unwilling to accept punishment and wanted to resist.

That was also the first time that the Witch Tower had shown its power in many years. To be honest, it really shocked a lot of people at the time, and it was even comparable to the action of the Orcs.

All of this information came from Hu Churou's narration, and according to her, the incident didn't even happen that long ago, just over a hundred years ago.

The reason why she suddenly told these things to Yu Huan, Xia Yu and others was not to let Yu Huan first understand the history of Mo Yu or to have a deeper understanding of the prophet, but because for Hu Chu Rou, what happened that year... was the starting point of everything.

At the same time... it is also her starting point!

124. Ordinary Experimenter

More than a hundred years ago

This incident happened probably after the assassination of the prophet. Because the Mage Tower completely failed in that assassination attempt, it triggered a full-scale counterattack by the Orcs. After the counterattack, both sides immediately rested and recuperated.

It cannot be said that the orcs did not suffer any losses in that assassination incident, because those nobles sent out many magicians in a frenzied manner, which caused chaos among many ethnic groups.

However, in the midst of the chaos, because the attention of many forces was focused on the Mage Tower and the Prophet, some people took advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters.

Yes, when the war was in full swing, some low-level "little man" magicians had some evil intentions, so they took advantage of the battle in the front to sneak into the prophet's residence.

Originally, the task of these "little people" was to search for some clues that might reveal the prophet's secrets in the prophet's residence. Strictly speaking, it was not a big task, because even the nobles who were sent did not believe that the prophet would place such important things casually in his residence.

In fact, these people really got nothing.

Then, according to the development after the battle, these people should have either been discovered by the orcs and killed directly, or they should have sneaked back and returned to the Mage Tower safely.

Then, no one knew whether one of the magicians had a sudden brain attack or what he was thinking, but when his "mission" was clearly completed, he suddenly paid attention to... another thing!

The prophetic inheritance of the Demon Realm Orcs has always been a secret... Although it is called a secret, it is actually a system that even the prophets themselves cannot understand, because the appearance of prophets is after the previous prophet's predictive ability gradually declines, and then suddenly "several" orcs with predictive abilities will appear.

In this kind of "choice", it seems that there are no other requirements except being limited to "orcs". Therefore, choosing the next "prophet" is undoubtedly a very troublesome matter.

It is precisely because of this that the lineage of prophets has established the system of saints, allowing these saints to gradually improve their prophetic abilities, and then gain recognition from everyone to become the next in line.

This system is also quite strange in a sense. Whenever the contemporary prophet is determined, the other saint candidates will lose their ability to predict at the same time and become an ordinary orc again.

It is also because of this that there have been many scenes of "counterattack", "envy, jealousy and hatred", and "reluctance" over the years.

Well, okay, we’ve gone off topic, let’s get back to the topic!

All in all, I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but the previous prophet happened to be from the fox clan... Yes, he is the same as this prophet.

And since the prophet is from the fox tribe, then the residence of the so-called "prophet" that the magician team is heading to is in a very simple place: the official residence of the fox tribe.

They were embedded in the fox tribe’s base. Although the mission ultimately failed due to various reasons, it was obvious that the evacuated magicians did not think of evacuating so simply. Instead, one of the magicians came up with another unknown idea!

He was a new school of magician, whose main research was the existence of 'regeneration magic' within the life magic system. It was also through his own research that he came up with a rather bold idea:

That is to combine the magic he has studied with the alchemical technology called "cloning" obtained from the external science and technology city some time ago, and try to see if he can artificially cultivate a "prophet"!

In fact, with this idea and ambition, he also took bold action:

In the incident of the prophet's assassination, although the prophet himself did not actually die, he was inevitably injured in the battle. Although the wound was treated immediately, there were still more or less bloodstains, hair, etc. left.

The magician collected these things quietly when he sneaked in without even being noticed by his teammates. He then kept them all and quietly brought them out of the forest.

With such a "grand" idea in mind and the necessary materials on hand, although his strength as a magician is not actually high and his wealth is not rich, let alone those powerful nobles, but with a spirit of scientific risk and crazy ideas in his heart, he still secretly carried out such an experiment.

And in the end, the experimental results naturally left nothing but deep disappointment!

Although it was true that his research direction was life magic, and although the cloning technology at hand had been tested in the Science and Technology City and proven to be successful, there was no problem with that.

But if you say that you can just create a life with some blood and hair... that is undoubtedly a fantasy. Not to mention that in order to prevent outsiders from knowing about his crazy experiments, this magician has always dared to do these things secretly and has never sought help from anyone.

Even if a genius wants to accomplish a unique feat, necessary labor and help from others are inevitable. Moreover, this magician is not a genius, so the result can be imagined.

The final result was that after spending half his life and energy, and exhausting all his financial resources, the magician's experiment ultimately ended in failure. Not to mention a successful 'prophet clone', not even one experimental subject was produced. Almost all living things died the moment they were created, or there was no breath of life in them from beginning to end.

The failure of the experiment naturally made the magician disheartened and he even thought of committing suicide. After decades of crazy ideas, he finally came to his senses when his life was about to come to an end. He realized that his actions were a blasphemy against life, an impossible violation of taboos.

Based on this realization, the magician finally came to his senses and decided to end the rest of his life, which could be regarded as a life without any achievements!

Carrying his experimental results from the past few decades, as well as various data, samples, etc., he once again came to the forest alone, and after finding a place with "nice scenery", he prepared to spend the rest of his life and sleep forever in this forest full of "life".

Perhaps to atone for the sins he had committed by violating the taboos of life, or perhaps because his life was drawing to a close and his heart was in a state of awakening, he sealed up all the magic experiments and various bodies he had researched throughout his life, and buried them all along with his "grave" in a deep pit in this unknown forest.

With that, the magician fell into eternal sleep. He was unable to perform any magnificent moves from beginning to end. He was like a small splash in the ocean, ending his ordinary life without causing any waves.

But because of this... it led to an extraordinary result!

The magician's death did not cause even the slightest impact in the Demon Realm or even the place where he once lived. After all, he had no relatives or friends there, and even if he died, basically no one in the entire Mage Tower would still remember his existence.

The most we know is that there used to be a mysterious magician who completed the tasks of the Mage Tower every day in a mysterious way, occasionally came to buy some materials, and was rarely seen at other times. He disappeared from the task hall of the Mage Tower at some point in time.

In this way, no one knew how much time had passed. He buried himself alone in the corner of the forest where the wizard had lived. Green grass covered the land where he was originally buried, and gradually growing trees replaced all traces of the original excavation. At the same time, as time passed, this area seemed to be no different from the surrounding areas.

If I have to say... maybe the plants here are more lush than in other places?

Of course, this slight change was not enough to attract the attention of others. Even the orcs did not know that a magician had come here and buried himself deep underground.

As time passed, the Mage Tower in the Demon Realm and the Orcs in the Great Forest gradually recovered the vitality that had been damaged in the battle many years ago through their rest and recuperation.

Perhaps because of the contractual relationship, there is more trade between them than before, and the atmosphere between them seems to be much more harmonious.

Not far from the place where the magician buried himself is the junction of the big forest and the magician's tower. Without a doubt, it has gradually become the center of trade between the two sides.

Well, come to think of it, this is not a strange thing. After all, considering the strength of the old magician at that time, it was obviously impossible for him to enter the forest without being discovered by the orcs. Therefore, even if he wanted to bury himself, he could only find such a marginal area at most.

And one day, in a corner unknown to anyone in the originally lush forest, a life... was born suddenly without any warning, for no one knew why or under what circumstances!

125.Who am I?

who I am? where am I? What am I going to do?

To be honest, it was a bit strange for the triple quality question to appear in this kind of atmosphere, but it was indeed the only question in her mind at this moment.

The milky white skin is as fair as that of a newborn baby... Well, actually, the body size is also about the same as a newborn baby. Under the delicate and cute image, the tender body is just covered by two large snow-white fluffy tails. While blinking the deep blue eyes, the fox ears on the top of the head also let out bursts of sighs from time to time.

Some people don’t understand why they are here, what they are doing, or even who they are.

She seemed to have some clear 'common sense' in her mind, but she was confused and found that she didn't know what to do. This strange world was reflected in her pure eyes, and for a moment she looked like a pure baby who had come into the world for the first time.

Pure and flawless!

In fact, this was her first time coming into this world.

The little girl was about the size of a two or three-year-old child, just old enough to walk upright. After a confused look at the vast forest in front of her, she finally thought about it and started walking towards the unknown front with her short legs.

As the junction of the big forest and the wizard tower, there is a long walkway outside the forest. It is obviously not difficult to meet people on this walkway. Therefore, not long after she appeared in the forest, she met a team of people who seemed to be escorting some kind of goods... humans?

The gazes of the humans looking at her were filled with dullness, and then this dullness turned into a strong greed and an uncomfortable light. At the same time, looking at these humans approaching her little by little, her first reaction was... to escape!

But how could a two or three-year-old child escape from a group of adult men?

Seeing that I am about to be caught by the other party, what should I do? !

This question seemed to arise in her mind for a moment, and before she could think of a 'solution', her body instinctively gave the answer:

Stretch out your hands, empty your mind, and the light will appear!

"Om~~~"

"Ahhhh~~ What is this?!"

"What...what's going on?!"

"My body, my body..."

"Ahhh~~ I don't want to die, I don't want to die~~~"

"Let me go, please let me go! Let me go, ahhhh~~~"

Screams, angry cries, pleas for mercy. Her eyes, tightly closed due to fear, prevented her from seeing the scene before her. The only thing she knew was the incessant screams. When she opened her eyes again, the scene before her left her stunned.

The five humans who were walking towards him suddenly fell to the ground in different postures, as if trying to escape from him. However, this was not the point.

The key point is that at this moment, there is no "human" feature to be found in these people. Apart from the body shape, the flesh and blood that originally belonged to humans has disappeared, and the exposed bones are like petrified, as if they were prevented thousands of years ago and have stood there like dust. As she looked over, a breeze blew and only dust was left on the ground.

This was not just about people. Even within a radius of more than ten meters around her body, all the grass had disappeared, and the earth looked dry and dry. Even the cargo trucks that seemed to be escorted by these people had half turned into gray-white powder within the "circle" that formed a semicircle around them.

"This is……"

She didn't know what was happening, so she could only stare at the scene in front of her with blinks. Her intuition told her that this was not a power that could be used at will, it was very dangerous.

But at that moment, apart from this consciousness, she obviously had no other thoughts, and even the concept of good and evil had not yet formed. After thinking about it, she pulled out a piece of cloth that looked like clothes from the other half of the car that had not yet turned to ashes and wrapped it around herself.

From the moment she woke up until now, she seemed to have been in a state of panic. Although this might not be a big deal for a two-year-old girl, she, with her complete 'common sense', knew that this was inappropriate.

Naturally, there were no clothes that fit her size in the vehicle, but fortunately, she could still find some "cloth" that simply covered her body. So after putting on these "clothes", she began to walk forward aimlessly.

She didn't know where she was going, what lay ahead, or who she was, but if there was one thing she knew, it was undoubtedly...

'To look for... to look for... something... to look for...'

Looking for something, or someone?

There seemed to be something in her mind telling her so clearly, urging her to move forward, urging her to move forward, urging her to pursue.

She herself might not even know what it was, she only knew that there seemed to be a voice in her mind... It was her own voice that kept telling her:

Go and look for something, find it... that is the meaning of your existence!

Following this idea in her mind, she walked forward aimlessly yet with a clear goal, passing through winding paths, rivers and mountains, and finally came to a huge city wall made of black stones.

Starlight City·Witch Tower!

Strangely recognizing the words written above the huge city gate in front of him, the small body, covered by "clothes", followed the flow of people into this bustling city.

The lively and prosperous scene filled her eyes with curiosity, and the constant stream of people coming and going also made her feel dizzy.

Before she knew it, she had come to her senses and found herself at the entrance of a giant tower. The title "Magical Girl's Tower" was engraved in front of the huge door. Looking at the tower in front of her, she hesitated for a moment and then walked in blindly along with the crowd around her who were obviously much younger.

To be honest, everything seemed so confusing. The little girl, who was only two years old, seemed to be very eye-catching in the crowd, but it was just that upon her arrival, the surrounding "candidates", "apprentices" and "magicians" all ignored her.

No one around noticed this strange phenomenon, and she herself naturally didn't notice it either, so she just drifted with the flow and walked into this magnificent tower.

The little girl, who possessed normal 'common sense' and 'thinking', but had no 'cognition' or 'knowledge' at all, was like a little girl caught in a vortex of thought between a normal person and a newborn baby. She didn't even have a clear understanding of her own behavior. She just walked aimlessly among the magician apprentices coming and going.

The crowd around, who didn't know what they were doing, gradually separated into several teams with a burst of noisy sounds, and she stood behind one of the teams at some point, raised her head and looked at everything in front of her with confused eyes.

Just like a person standing outside the world, her gaze never lingered on anyone around her, and likewise, everyone around her seemed to be unaware of her existence.

Ping wandered strangely in this scene where people were standing together but seemed to be in two different worlds, until the surrounding 'team' gradually disappeared in front of her under the leadership of various personnel and entered some doors not far away. Not long after, she was the only one left in the entire hall.

She was silent, still, and looked at everything around her with blank eyes, but at this moment she finally met someone... who could see her!

No, rather than being a person, it’s more like… some kind of existence?