Episode 2

On my third birthday, I knew this world wasn't ordinary. My mother's palm glowed with a faint blue light, enveloping the candles on the cake, and the flames ignited out of thin air. She smiled and said it was 'Basic Ignition Magic,' something every child learned before school. Turns out, it was another world. No wonder my modern knowledge was locked away—physics and chemistry followed a completely different set of rules here. The system popped up a notification: 'Unlock Condition: Upon surviving each life stage, the knowledge of the corresponding tier will be unlocked.' In other words, I had to grow up properly to reclaim fragments of my past life's memories. My father was a low-level adventurer, and my mother worked at a pharmacy. We lived in a border town where the house leaked wind and dinner was often just bread and soup. Crushed by work in my past life, crushed by poverty in this one—fate really has a sense of humor. But I discovered something—the uncontrollable magic I felt as an infant, I can sense it now. A faint, warm current flowing within me. Maybe I don't need the knowledge the system provides. Maybe I can figure it out myself. Fine snow began to fall outside, and my mother wrapped the blanket tighter around me. I clenched my fist, feeling the faint pulse of magic in my palm. This time, I won't be a corporate drone. I'm going to be the strongest.