I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 85 Severing Worldly Ties

In short, applying the aptitude-enhancing agent is not a troublesome task, and in many cases, it is directly carried out by magical puppets or artificial beings.

However, one of Jemin's strengths is that he listens to advice. After confirming that his mentor Clark meant no harm, he didn't resist the task too much and set off immediately after accepting it.

Piloting the seeding equipment provided by the academy, a streamlined small airship equipped with an automatic seeding device and energy detection system.

Following the coordinates provided by his mentor, he flew smoothly to the designated area.

As the airship slowly descended, he saw a small team coming to greet him on the ground, led by a regional lord dressed in fine clothes.

When he saw the lord's face clearly, Jemin was slightly taken aback, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

He knew this lord!
The two had met a few times before, and it was this very lord who had sent him to Norren Academy!
The area he was in charge of was actually his hometown in this world!
"...Hey! Although he's a bit expressionless, my mentor is actually a good person." After a moment of silence, Jemin couldn't help but grin.

It was only at this moment that Jemin truly understood the purpose of his mentor Clark's assignment of this task to him.

A year later, he will be going to take the test organized by the Norren Workshop, which includes hundreds of academies.

Although the specific reasons and purposes are unclear, given that Norren Workshop suddenly proposed to conduct tests and forced high-level wizards and apprentices to return, those who passed the tests probably have other plans.

Although he was always humble, Jemin would never underestimate himself. He was unsure whether he could get first place in that test, but passing the test was definitely not a problem.

Judging from the intensity of Norn Workshop's actions, if they pass the test, they will most likely not return to Norn 13, and may not even return during the rest period.

Even if he can come back later, it will probably be a long time from now, and Jieming's parents are just ordinary people, so they will probably have passed away by then.

Therefore, Clark's mentor assigned him this task, giving him one last chance to see his family before leaving this world in a seemingly businesslike manner.

Although this mentor was not one to smile, he inadvertently revealed a humane concern.

However, after learning this fact, Jemin found himself surprisingly calm.

Instead of rushing home, Jemin first formally handed over the mission authorization to the local lord, and then the lord took him to the laboratory for an academic exchange.

It wasn't until four or five days after accepting the mission that Jemin bid farewell to the lord and arrived in the region where his hometown was located, following the progress of the sowing.

During a break from spraying the medicine, he used the excuse of needing to replenish energy to land the airship on the edge of a town not far from his home, and then went to visit his parents.

The meeting with his family was even more uneventful than Jieming had expected.

Pushing open the familiar wooden door, I saw that my parents had aged a bit, but they were still quite healthy.

When they saw Jemin return, a hint of surprise and joy appeared on their faces, but the joy was not overly intense.

After all, the entire plane was under the deliberate control of the wizards, and in order to "optimize the population," the residents worked very hard to have offspring.

Even for ordinary farmers, with ample food supplies and a superior medical system, it's common for a family to have five or six children.

Small business families like Jamie's parents have more resources and can raise more children.

There were already seven or eight siblings in the family before Jemin left.

When he returned, the number had soared to more than a dozen. So when Jemin opened the door, he was greeted by children of all ages playing in the yard.

To his parents, Jemin, who left home a few years ago, was just one of many children, a child who "left home to make his way in the world."

They were pleased that he had "made it big," but there wasn't much sadness at parting or excitement at reunion; in fact, there was a sense of unfamiliarity.

As for his other siblings, they had no feelings whatsoever about this strange brother who liked to play with sticks.

Jemin himself already possessed the consciousness of an adult, and having experienced the baptism of the extraordinary world, he had long since detached himself from the attachment to mundane family ties.

He felt a deep sense of gratitude towards his parents who had raised him, but he didn't experience much sadness at parting.

Although I had anticipated that I might be sad before coming, those feelings vanished after meeting them.

Although it's regrettable, it's not too sad—it's like in a past life, you suddenly lose contact with a friend you've always played with, and then one day you suddenly remember them again.

As for his parents, ever since he was taken to the academy by the lord, Jemin's family suddenly received a lot of subsidies from "benefactors"—subsidies and hidden care that belong to wizard apprentices.

Thanks to these subsidies, Jemin's father has transformed from a small business owner into one of the town's leading businessmen.

He came from a wealthy family, lived a comfortable life, and even had several mistresses.

So overall, the family members didn't feel much about Jemin's sudden return; on the contrary, the young lovers their father had found in the past two years still showed worry in their eyes.

At this stage in the Noren 13 dimension, supernatural powers are kept strictly secret from ordinary people.

They assumed that Jemin had been chosen by nobles to become a retainer (or even a plaything) of the lord, and therefore had a natural awe of these "noblemen".

Seeing that Jemin had returned without any attendants or carriage, they worried that he might have angered the lord and been banished, or that he had escaped on his own.

Either way, it will mean their family won't have such a good life anymore.

So, not long after entering the room, Jemin received a report from a local official through his communicator, much to his amusement and dismay: a lover had reported Jemin's whereabouts.

It was only at this moment that Jemin truly realized that the two of them were no longer from the same world.

For this reason, Jemin didn't stay at home for long. He simply chatted with his parents and a few siblings for a few minutes and left them some gold coins.

Then he returned to the airship and continued to complete the remaining tasks of spraying the medicine.

As the airship traced an arc in the sky, evenly spraying the diluted aptitude enhancement agent onto the ground, Jemin felt a mixture of calm and complex emotions.

He knew that this land would gradually move towards a completely different future under the transformation of wizarding civilization.

Regardless, Jemin was very grateful to his mentor, Clark, for giving him this opportunity.

He had gradually drifted away from this mundane home; his path lay in the depths of the starry sky, on the other side of the extraordinary.

(End of this chapter)