Age of the Gods, Greece.
Arcadia Mountains, outside the Piliwen Cave.
As night falls, Nyx, the goddess of night in ancient Greek mythology, drives her chariot of night from the underworld to the human world, spreading the veil of night across the sky.
In the twilight before sunset, the Centaur sage Chiron, holding a golden harp, slowly walked out of the cave while playing the beautiful strings and came in front of the two young men standing in the cave.
He lowered his head, looked at the two young children in front of him, smiled gently, and said softly: "Children, why are you here?"
The two boys looked at each other, and then the blond boy with blue eyes took the lead and took a step forward. He raised his head, mustered up his courage, and loudly answered the tall and burly Centaur in front of him: "I am here to pursue justice!"
Upon hearing this, the sage Chiron nodded slightly and said nothing more, because he already knew this student who was destined to come here, and had been waiting for this young man here for a long time.
His name is Theseus, and he is the future king of Athens.
At the same time, he will also be a great hero who will become famous in ancient Greece in the future!
"What about you, kid?"
Chiron smiled gently and turned his attention to the other child.
A child who had never appeared and did not exist in the future he saw.
The boy had a very handsome face, even though it looked a little immature due to his young age, his heterochromatic golden-blue eyes were as beautiful as gems.
"I'm here to be a hero."
The young man looked at the Centaur Sage in front of him and answered in a sonorous voice: "My greatest wish in this life is to become a hero, or to die gloriously in a magnificent event so that I can be remembered and praised by the world!"
That day, Chiron learned the boy's name.
The boy's name is Theo
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Three years later,
Inside the Piliwen Cave.
Wearing an ancient Greek scholar's uniform, Theo was sat by the window.
This was the uniform made by the sage Chiron for his students. It was mainly white in color and engraved with the magic of the Age of Gods to protect the students who had not yet grown up.
Theo's heterochromatic pupils gazed at the rising sun, playing with an exquisite card in his hand, muttering to himself: "Come to think of it, more than three years have passed..."
After saying that, Theo lowered his head and looked at the card in his hand which looked like the Class Card in Type-moon.
A piece of information appeared in his eyes.
[ Name: Theo
Age: 16
Era: Ancient Greek Age of Gods
Identity: Traveler
Heroic Spirit Occupation: Unconfirmed
Heroic Spirit Quality: F (Unknown)
Legend of Heroes: Meet Theseus, the future king of Athens, and become a disciple of Chiron, the Centaur Sage... ]
Theo looked quietly at the projection of the class card information in front of him, which only he could see.
That's right, Theo is a time traveler.
He does not belong to this era, nor does he belong to this world.
However, Theo did not travel to ancient Greece in the Age of Gods from the beginning. The actual time and place he traveled to was the Clock Tower, a modern magic association located on the outskirts of London, England.
He is a student of the Clock Tower, and his teacher is an old acquaintance, Wever Velvet, who inherited the name of El-Melloi!
However, the magic family that Theo traveled to was a fallen family, and the previous generation head of the family disappeared somewhere with the magic crest. Even though the new head of the family tried hard to keep the family running and had been searching until now, it was all in vain.
Losing the Magic Crest would mean that the family would be cut off from magic and would no longer have any reason to exist, so what they would eventually face was being expelled from the Clock Tower.
However, Theo doesn't care much about this.
Because he had already prepared himself mentally, and even if he left the Clock Tower, at least in his lifetime, Theo's family would not collapse immediately, and he could still live a life of ease and comfort under the protection of the big tree.
But just when Theo made up his mind and even completed the withdrawal procedures.
Just like a dream, Theo 'woke up'.
In fact, Theo did not travel through time and space by occupying another person's body. He was reincarnated, but he had forgotten everything until he woke up from a dream that night.
In this way, Theo not only remembered his past life, but also, because of the time traveler, he instantly realized what a dangerous world he had come to.
He knew about the Holy Grail War, and also knew about Chaldea and the Burning of Humanity!
But fortunately, when Theo woke up and realized all this, he naturally understood the real reason why he "woke up"...his time-traveling golden finger arrived.
That is the Heroic Spirit Creation Card in his hand at this moment!
At the same time, this is also the reason why Theo is now in the ancient Greek Age of Gods.
In the wooden house of the Piliwen Cave, Theo was playing with the Heroic Spirit Creation Card in his hand.
Its appearance is somewhat similar to the class card in the parallel world, Magical Girl Illya, but its essence is different.
Because it is not used to steal the power of the Heroic Spirits on the Throne of Heroes, but to shape them.
"So, to put it simply, my golden finger can take me to different eras, allowing me to leave a legend and eventually reach the Throne of Heroes."
"At the same time, the me who is in Greece at this moment is not my real body. My real body is still in the Clock Tower. This body is actually just a projection created for me by this Class Card..."
As he spoke, he glanced at the quality of the F-level, unknown heroic spirit.
"As everyone knows, the so-called heroic spirit is the existence of a hero whose great achievements have been passed down as legends after his death and who has become an object of faith."
"The more magnificent the legend left behind, the higher the quality of the heroic spirit. The events before me that can be called a legend is undoubtedly my apprenticeship to the Centaur Sage Chiron and meeting the Goddess Hecate and becoming her apprentice."
"In a popular sense, the higher the quality of the heroic spirit, the more powerful the power I will gain!"
As he spoke, Theo put down the Heroic Spirit Class Card in his hand, put his hand on his chin, and muttered to himself thoughtfully: "Although I have no interest in the Holy Grail War, I have to be on guard against the matter of Chaldea. After all, when the human principle was burned, except for the people who stayed in Chaldea, it seems that everyone else is dead... or frozen?"
"And even if the world I live in doesn't have the Incineration of Humanity, this world does have vampires, True Ancestors, and Dead Apostles."
"So no matter what, my purpose now is very simple and clear."
That is to use this Heroic Spirit Class Card to gain the power to calmly deal with all kinds of unexpected situations!
Then Theo gently threw the card in his hand into the air, and it disappeared just like that, but as long as he thought about it, it would appear again.
By the way, this Heroic Spirit Creation Card is not a one-time use card.
When Theo completes a legend and goes to the Throne of Heroes, it will split into the corresponding class card, leaving the original form still blank.
So as long as Theo wants, he can carry out this process countless times!
Therefore...
"I'll be a hero, and..."
As he spoke, Theo's lips curled up slightly, and he turned and walked out of the wooden house.
"Let the bards sing my story, and let the world remember my legend forever!"
"Finally...die with a bang!"
Because there is a prerequisite for stepping onto the Throne of Heroes, and that is that one must be dead.
However, all this obviously did not pose any problem for Theo since he could start over infinitely. He could go and ask for death without any psychological burden!
So,
"Teacher Chiron!"
In the early morning, the black-haired young man with heterochromatic eyes came to Chiron, the Centaur Sage, and said with great vigor: "I want to go down the mountain and become a great hero!"
Hearing this, Chiron put down the golden harp he was playing, glanced at Theo indifferently, sighed lightly, and then repeated the same answer he gave almost every morning.
"No!"
Outside Piliwen's wooden house,
Facing the morning breeze, Theo, dressed in scholar's clothes, was lying on the branch of an ancient tree, playing the harp in his hand with a sad face.
The beautiful melody attracted birds and small animals.
A blond-haired, blue-eyed boy who was two years older than Theo was soon attracted by music.
"Hey, Theo, your music sounds as good as ever?!"
Hearing this, Theo lowered his head and glanced at the other person indifferently, then continued to play the sad tune without caring, and said: "What? It's Jason..."
"You... Look at your expression. Teacher Chiron didn't agree to let you go down the mountain today?"
Theo did not answer, but the tune he played became a little sadder.
"I say, it's about time you gave up." Seeing this, Jason couldn't help but feel a little amused and said.
"How can I give up?"
Theo sat up suddenly after hearing this, glared at Jason with his emerald eyes angrily, and said loudly: "Do you know what you are talking about? You are preparing to kill a future world-famous hero!"
"I don't know if you can become a great hero, but I know that if you keep doing this, you will never get down the mountain." Jason couldn't help but said, "You guy, others are just talking, but you really want to have a spectacular death, and you even regard it as the greatest wish of your life!"
"Teacher Chiron didn't let you go down the mountain because he was worried that you would get involved in something without knowing your own limitations and die in vain. After all..."
At this point, Jason raised his head proudly and said to Theo sarcastically: "Theo, don't forget that you are the weakest among us!"
Hearing this, Theo looked at Jason unhappily and replied bluntly: "Yes, Jason, the second to last, weakling."
"That's better than you who's ranked last..."
Theo is indeed Chiron's weakest student now, even weaker than Jason in front of him, because his body is a projection of his modern body.
Although his adaptability to the Age of Gods is solved by the class card, it does not provide improvements in other aspects.
It just let's him survive in highly concentrated magical environment of Age of God.
And you have to know that not everyone can be Chiron's student... Although Chiron accepts everyone, the prerequisite is that you really have to be able to come to Chiron!
If it weren't for holding on to Theseus thigh, the future king of Athens, Theo would not have arrived safely before Chiron.
Among Chiron's students, there are real demigods everywhere, and even true gods!
Among them, the god of wine Dionysus is a heavyweight, because he is not only the son of Zeus, the king of gods, but will also replace Hestia in the future and become one of the twelve main gods of Mount Olympus!
As for others, such as Hercules, Odysseus, Achilles, etc., there is naturally no need to say much.
Then Jason saw that Theo no longer paid attention to him and continued to lie on the tree trunk playing the sad melody. After thinking for a while, he continued to ask: "Hey, you are not really going to seek death after going down the mountain, right?"
"You make me sound like I've been wanting to commit suicide." Theo looked at Jason speechlessly as if he was looking at an idiot and said, "I am going to die, but I want to die gloriously, so that everyone will remember and sing praises to my legend."
"What if you just came down the mountain and encountered such an opportunity?"
"Then why are you hesitating?" Putting down the harp in his hand, Theo replied excitedly: "Go!"
Seeing Theo's expression of "I will fight to the death with anyone who dares to stop me", Jason said speechlessly: "Then you just want to commit suicide... You'd better stay on the mountain!"
"How can this be called committing suicide? Everyone is destined to die, sooner or later, and..."
I'm not really dead.
Theo didn't say this sentence.
"Besides, Jason, why did you look for me?" Theo looked at Jason with some frustration and said, "It's so late, why don't you go out and study?"
"You're talking about me. I came to say goodbye to you."
"Say goodbye?" Nuoyan was slightly stunned.
"Yes, that's right." Jason nodded, raised his head proudly, and boasted: "Unlike you, the last one, Teacher Chiron has already said that I can go down the mountain now!"
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