Magical Journey: The Other Shore Blooms on the Other Shore

"How can he be a useless person without magic?"

"The child born from the best petri dish is actually a waste."

"That's hilarious! I wonder how disappointed Professor Slater will be. Hehehe, I really want to see his angry face. That would be quite a sight."

Qin was placed in a development chamber with culture medium at birth, a masterpiece of Beatrice in recent years. Newborn babies are raised in a culture chamber, thus eliminating the need for breastfeeding.

That way, the mother body can be freed up to do many things.

They could continue to use magic to contribute to the entire kingdom without wasting this time breastfeeding their babies.

Such devices became widespread upstream in Beatrice, where the noble witches were unwilling to waste a single moment. To them, children were merely tools for generating profit; at least, this view was very popular among the upper echelons of Beatrice.

Beatrice is a country that highly reveres magic, which has led to a situation where magic reigns supreme. As long as you are good enough in magic or make outstanding contributions to magic, you will be a person of high status. The Queen of Beatrice will grant you corresponding status and wealth based on your contributions and strength.

Incidentally, Queen Beatrice was also a magical genius. She passed the witch test when she was just ten years old, and her status in the hearts of the people of the country was beyond doubt.

However, the Queen does not actually hold power in the kingdom; she is merely a symbolic figurehead and representative of honor for Beatrice. The true core power rests entirely with the ten Snow Guards.

Their uniforms were specially made for the Queen, and were entirely snow-white, which complemented the pure white snow of Beatrice, this extremely cold place.

Xue Wei is undoubtedly one of the top ten people in the country in terms of magical skill and contributions, because a strict elimination system is implemented, and those without ability cannot stay.

Qin's mother was one of the Snow Guards.

[Frostflower] Alexia. A member of the Snow Guard, ranked Ren, she is a genius among witches. Although she officially became a witch relatively late, around the time she reached adulthood, her magical level is extremely high. Especially in life magic, any witch in the Witch Capital would be ashamed of her skill.

Of course, these factors alone are not enough to make her one of the ten. In terms of overall magical skill, there are quite a few people in Beatrice with similar abilities to her.

When she was very young, another Snowguard [Professor] Slater discovered her potential as a magical incubator.

Without a doubt, the petri dish meant that her child would likely have a strong potential for amplifying magic, and the magical talent he would use would definitely not be inferior to her as his mother. Therefore, she regarded him as one of the most important people Beatrice had in the last hundred years.

The name Alexia was actually bestowed upon her by the Queen; even she herself might not remember her real name.

She grew up under the protection of the royal family, and her education naturally taught her to fully assume the role of a nurturing vessel and share the burdens of her great motherland—Beatleice.

If she could mass-produce Snow Guard level mages, her contribution would be undeniable, and it wouldn't be impossible for her to reach the fourth rank of Upper Guard.

This is the greatest honor for any Beatrice, and naturally, it is the same in the mind of Alexia, who has received an elite education.

Alexia was very disappointed. She couldn't understand why her first child was a boy, and a boy without magic at that. She simply couldn't believe it was true. Her chosen stud was one of the top magicians in the entire kingdom, yet the offspring was so worthless.

And the boy's name was naturally Qin.

The name Qin was chosen by Alexia when she was pregnant. Of course, she hoped that the child in her womb would be a girl, so she naturally chose a girl's name.

But if it's a boy, giving him a girl's name in Beatrice isn't unacceptable; people might even think more highly of him.

In Beatrice, women generally have a higher status than men, and the reason is obvious: women have a higher level of magic, which is an advantage bestowed upon women by the Creator.

Before her birth, Jean was the focus of all the Snow Guards' attention, in fact, the entire nation's attention. But her birth caused Alexia to lose face completely.

In a fit of anger, he sent Qin, who was not even a month old, to an orphanage, announced that he was severing all ties with him, and let him be buried with the wind and snow.

This kind of thing is actually not uncommon in Beatrice. Many babies born without magic are given away as orphans in this way, because having another useless person means having to feed another mouth, which is not something any family would like to see.

Furthermore, her relationship with Professor Slater deteriorated further, as she believed that Professor Slater himself had done something to make her child so incompetent.

Alexia knew that Slater herself was also conducting research in life sciences, and that she had made many sacrifices to cooperate with this strange professor's experiments. Perhaps one of those sacrifices led to this result.

In short, the zither was born amidst laughter.

Just think about it. What was once considered a prodigy is now being told that he is nothing but a piece of trash. For the Beatrice people, who believe only in magic, this is the perfect topic of conversation.

Imagine sitting in a tavern, humming a song, sipping strong vodka to warm your mouth, and laughing together at a silly person when you're bored – what a wonderful scene that would be.

As for whether Alexia herself, the Snow Guard, is happy or not... she can't control everything, and there are many Snow Guards who don't like Alexia.

With their deliberate instigation, the joke about Qin naturally spread throughout the country.

Unless the Queen herself issues an order forbidding her subordinates from talking, there is no chance to stop such things from escalating and spreading, but how could the Queen possibly do such a thing?

For a moment, you may not really know Alexia, the Snow Guard, but you will definitely know her son, that good-for-nothing Qin.

In Beatrice, not having magic is something to be ridiculed, let alone being a child prodigy.

Those in power naturally laughed at him, laughing that he had given himself an extra fodder for attacking his political enemies.

The various magicians laughed at him, laughing at how he had added some color to his otherwise boring daily life.

Those inferiors without magic also laughed at him, saying he was far more unfortunate than themselves, and his reputation as a good-for-nothing spread throughout the country.

This is how the zither came to be.

It was born in a spectacular way in this deformed country.

Whether Qin likes it or not, he has to come into this world with this result, and this mark will accompany him for the rest of his life.