Sorcerer: I want to be an Academic Prodigy

"This damned world."

"Lord Harper, you are the Master of Fire Fury who founded Fire Fury City upon the ruins, please don't say such dispiriting words. If the citizens hear, it might cause panic."

On the hillside, there is a city. At one corner of the city is a castle, and the inner wall of the castle is right next to a steep cliff. At this moment, several figures are standing on the city wall above the cliff.

Leading the group is the City Lord of the city - Harper Fire Fury, and beside him is his chief steward, Rogie.

Upon hearing Harper's dissatisfied muttering, the diligent old Rogie couldn't help but remind him.

"You don't understand."

Harper did not turn his head; his eyes still gazed forward, looking at the ash-gray sky, the ash-gray dust, and all things gray on earth.

He hated this omnipresent grayness.

"Indeed, Old Rogie doesn't understand much, but I know that without you, Lord, opening up this city, people wouldn't have their current good life. It's you who brought all of this. In everyone's heart, you are a great man."

Old Rogie did not understand what troubled the Lord; he could only scrape together words of comfort to say.

"Great, perhaps."

Harper noticed his eager gaze and ultimately did not deny anything outright.

However, in his heart, he understood that he was different from Old Rogie, different from everyone else in this city, because he knew what light was, so he could not tolerate the current darkness.

If he had the ability, he hoped to pierce through this layer of sky.

Time passed little by little, and the gray sky began to darken.

"It's getting dark."

"Please rest assured, our Fire Fury City has already embarked on the right track. It will be as peaceful at night as it is during the day."

Harper waved his hand noncommittally, turned, and walked toward the interior of the castle. Old Rogie and other guards hurriedly followed.

The castle is situated very high, allowing one to see the entire city at a glance. As it got darker, people outside hurriedly returned to their homes, and soon the streets became deserted.

Not going outside at night is a common understanding, as well as a rule in Fire Fury City; violators will be severely punished.

Speaking of which, Fire Fury City has only been completely built for ten years, erected on the site of a city that no longer exists. Today, there are over 30,000 residents in the city.

As the founder of Fire Fury City, Harper is perceived as a living legend by its inhabitants.

The affairs of the 'Master of Fire Fury' are the residents' favorite topic and a legend often told by adults to children on idle nights.

"Little Tom, let me ask you, what are we?"

"Grandpa, I know, we're the gray inhabitants living inside the city."

"What about those outside the city?"

"The vagrants hiding and fleeing everywhere."

"That's right, let grandpa tell you, the Master of Fire Fury was also a vagrant long, long ago, but through his own effort and training, he became stronger and stronger----"

"Grandpa, can the Master of Fire Fury kill the fierce shadow monsters in the night?"

"Hush! You mustn't say that word at night, the Master of Fire Fury is so strong, of course, he can."

"Then how many fierce shadow monsters can the Master of Fire Fury deal with, ten, a hundred, or many, many more?"

"Hush, hush, hush! I said don't say that word, not discussing it anymore, lay down, shut your mouth, and go to sleep fast."

"Oh."

As always, the residents in the house spread the good name of the Master of Fire Fury to the next generation again, making everything seem so harmonious and peaceful.

In fact, Fire Fury City is just a very small city on this gray land, and the title of Master of Fire Fury is not a particularly distinguished title, just an alias for the City Lord.

Master of Fire Fury, as the name implies, refers to the owner of Fire Fury City.

Harper is the protagonist of the legendary story, and every time he hears the alias 'Master of Fire Fury,' he has a kind of indescribable awkwardness. But other city lords are addressed this way too, so he can't forcefully stop it and can only let it be.

On the other side.

Harper returned to his study in the castle to read. His study has a larger window that faces the city, convenient for him to keep an eye on the movements within the city.

"What a damned world."

"If only I could stay by the side of the great Divine Venerable all the time, but unfortunately, there's not a single clue on the matter the Divine Venerable entrusted to me. It should be like some records state, this is a place abandoned by people from the upper realm, and the ceaseless descending dust is evidence."

"Damned upper realm."

Under the dim light, he cursed angrily.

Though living in this world, Harper never felt a sense of belonging; he has been wandering without a home since childhood, living a life precarious every day, with hunger, cold, and injuries as the norm.

He didn't even have a surname, and his name was picked up, taken from an adult who had bullied him.

That person died. He beat up the other kids before he snatched the name.

He became another Harper.

He thought he would end up like the previous Harper, not knowing when he would suddenly collapse, but fortunately later he found a peculiar object.

Then, he met an omnipotent, all-knowing Divine Venerable.

Divine Venerable claims to be a sorcerer, but Harper prefers to call him 'the Great Divine Venerable.'

From the Great Divine Venerable, he learned many things, and his strength quickly grew, far surpassing anyone around him.

According to the Divine Venerable's instructions, in the days that followed, he walked out of the narrow, dark hiding caves and began to explore the outside world, gradually becoming a warrior daring enough to roam the gray land.