"Everything, huh?"
The turtle laughed upon hearing my declaration.
It was not a laugh of admiration.
If anything, it was closer to mockeryâor sheer disbelief.
"Youâre certainly full of confidence. But do you truly believe thatâs possible?"
"Whether itâs possible or not isnât important. Thereâs something an old man I know once told me. Do you know what he said?"
"What did he say?"
"'Make the impossible possible.' That was one of the few things that idiot said that I actually liked."
"â¦"
There was no such thing as impossible.
I would make it possible.
If I needed something, I had to obtain it, no matter what it was.
That was the life I had to live now.
Soâ
"Teach me. I have to do everything I can."
"â¦"
The words left my mouth as simply as stating a fact.
The turtle, still expressionless, stared at me in silence.
He wasnât about to refuse now, was he?
The thought made me slightly uneasy, but I waited.
And thenâ
"You," he finally spoke.
"What do you think sorcery is?"
Sorcery.
The word alone made my eyes twitch slightly.
âSo they call it sorcery here too.â
This was the first time the turtle had ever directly mentioned sorcery.
Or rather, this was the first time Iâd even heard the word here.
It made me feel⦠slightly unsettled.
âIs sorcery not just a term used in Zhongyuan?â
Or perhapsâ
âIs the turtleâs language simply being translated to something I can understand?â
That was possible.
Nothing in this world followed the logic I was used to.
Andâ
Sorcery itself was an enigma.
âI was told sorcery is a power brought by dragons.â
A long time ago, it was said that dragons left behind the power of sorcery.