I, Valon, am frantically searching for my mother.

Wayne was surprised that Vivian was the first to react so strongly.

The old gold miner immediately became furious. She covered Anne's hand with one hand and hugged Wayne's thigh with the other, looking like she was having a mental breakdown.

She practically clung to Wayne's lap, her face streaked with tears and snot, and cried out to him:

"No! Master Jinlong! Why are you rewarding her?!"

"Why does she get to have such a good thing?! Waaaaah—"

"If you're really hungry, why not treat me to a reward? I'm only nineteen, and I'm quite good-looking!"

"I've never even touched a boy's hand! I've always...taken care of things myself!"

"So that I won't...so that I won't have to do it myself since I've never experienced it before! Waaaaah..."

Vivian was crying her eyes out, while Annie on the other side wore a contemptuous expression.

Ha, all that talk was just to get something for free.

Golden Dragon, nothing special.

"Wow, Lord Golden Dragon! Please! Don't do this! You are the embodiment of justice! The guardian of order! The nemesis of evil! You absolutely, positively cannot do such a thing! It will shatter your glorious image! It will break the hearts of all those who believe in you!"

"If you really want to give it to me, then give it to me. This wicked woman has had her way with me countless times, and I've never even had one. Why should she get such a good thing too?"

"Wow—I'm not convinced! I'm not satisfied! Why?!"

Sobbing uncontrollably, Vivian also recounted her tragic childhood:

"Besides, sir, I'm a very pitiful person."

"I... I'll tell you, when I was eight years old, an old sorcerer came to the village. He glanced at me and told my mother that I was very talented and was born to be a sorcerer!"

"My family and I were so happy! We felt like our Wei family's ancestral graves were emitting auspicious smoke, and finally, a great man was going to be born as a Taoist priest! My mother was so excited that she cried all night, and she even stewed the last egg-laying hen in our house to send the old man off..."

"Later...later I found out it was all a scam! Nobody told me being a mage was this hard when I was eight!"

"What? Magic network theory, magical linguistics, arcane geometry and runic literature, magical materials science, even the basics of planar geometry... I had to learn it all! I was only eight years old back then!"

"Do you know how much psychological trauma this can cause to an 8-year-old child?"

Vivian became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, as if she had returned to the time she spent in the mage tower.

"Do you know? Every day before dawn I'm dragged out of bed to memorize tongue twisters, and at night I draw runes by candlelight until my eyes are watering and my fingers are cramping. If I doze off even slightly or forget a symbol, that old man will hit my palm with his sorcerer's hand."

"Back then, I dreamt every day of spells chasing me, runes binding me, and all sorts of strange magical materials opening their mouths to bite me!"

"That old geezer won't give me a break, he makes me study every day. I'm all grown up, and I've never even held a boy's hand. What am I supposed to do?"

Imagine an 8-year-old girl being forced to leave her family in the countryside for an unfamiliar mage tower, where she has to learn a whole host of complex and difficult knowledge. Wayne can easily imagine the despair the girl felt at that time.

But Vivian was no ordinary person.

She opened the button!

Faced with countless immense pressures and a vast sea of ​​knowledge, Vivian, who was just a little kid at the time, hugged herself tightly in the dead of night when she was tormented by runes to the point of dizziness and driven to the brink of collapse by reciting incantations.

Suddenly, little Vivian opened the door to a new world.

After releasing her stress, in the extreme clarity before falling into a deep sleep, little Vivian, her face flushed, lay on the bed in a peculiar state of extreme relaxation and unusual activity.

She couldn't help but start thinking.

Reflecting on the meaning of humanity.

Think about the future of the world.

Reflect on the nature of magic.

Gradually, his studies improved, his sleep became better, and even his spellcasting became smoother.

Finally, during one of her outbursts, Vivian broke through.

The mysteries of magic, the origins of knowledge, the skills of dragon language, the relationship between the material plane and other inner and outer planes, and the connection between elements and otherworldly creatures...

All the knowledge was poured into Vivian's brain in the floodwaters.

Finally, in this cramped and prison-like mage tower, Vivian Longchang attained enlightenment.

On this day, the girl directly entered the realm of a first-ring mage!

Start learning at eight, complete the first stage at ten!

Even among the many talented mages, this is considered quite fast!

However, even after her breakthrough, Vivian remained repressed.

The old man was puzzled by Vivian's rapid ascension to the first ring mage, but he was greatly shocked.

He realized that he might have received a genius.

Does this mean that he will remain unknown his whole life, only to have his beloved disciple leave a lasting mark on the Buddhist community in his later years?

So he treated Vivian even more strictly, hoping that when his apprentice went down in history, he would also be remembered for his achievements.

……

Oh dear, why is this old man in the ditch so wicked?

Vivian was puzzled, Vivian was confused, Vivian was helpless.

The thought of her beloved teacher still guarding a dilapidated mage tower, without even a wife, terrified Vivian, and she burst into tears.

Does this mean I'll have the same fate as my teacher, spending my whole life as a gold miner?

I don't want that kind of thing!

So, at night, after finishing their work, the gold miners, besides pondering the meaning of humanity, the future of the world, and the nature of magic, also thought about how to escape the mage tower.

Finally, Kung Fu pays off.

With meticulous planning, on the eve of becoming a second-circle mage, Vivian finally escaped the oppressive mage tower.

What followed was a life of wandering and drifting from place to place.

With his status as a first-level mage and his fairly solid basic knowledge, he took on odd jobs and short-term work.

Until I arrived in Hull, a big city full of opportunities...

Vivian's hope was rekindled.

She wanted to save money to buy a small house in Hull, even if it was just the most dilapidated and remote one, and then bring her mother from the countryside to live with her so that she could have a few good days.

In the end, he saved up so much money that he was tricked into working in a factory.

Even in the depths of evil, Vivian maintained her purity.

The young woman would never indulge her body, but would take responsibility for herself and for the lovers she should have in the future. Vivian would not have physical relations with anyone; she was open-minded.

Even if her lover hasn't appeared yet, or even if she's uncertain whether she'll have a lover in the future, Vivian is still willing to be a virtuous person for him and for herself.

They would neither toy with the feelings of an easily deceived person for fleeting pleasure, nor compromise their desires by paying money to have their bodies played with.

What? You mean Vivian was out shopping in the brothel?

Haha, guess what your sister Wei did in the past?