Looking at the skill card in his hand, Ternas did not hesitate in the slightest.
He immediately used the card.
Ternas could feel a very strange energy beginning to envelop his hands.
Under the transformation brought about by this energy, he could clearly sense that the flexibility and dexterity of his hands had increased by an incredible amount compared to before.
And that was only the benefit on the surface.
One had to remember that Ternas was only five years old!
To possess the hand speed and dexterity of a top-tier magician at the age of five would undoubtedly bring him enormous benefits.
For one thing, as long as he continued training consistently, his hands would become extraordinarily nimble once he grew up.
And this was extremely important for a wizard as well.
Weren’t wizard duels essentially a competition between the magic of the two sides, the strength of their magical power, and the speed at which they could cast spells?
Now that Ternas possessed the hands of a magician, it was easy to imagine how fast his movements would be.
He would certainly be faster than most wizards.
Without a doubt, he had already won at the starting line.
Feeling the newfound dexterity in his hands, Ternas understood the benefits it would bring him and was naturally overjoyed.
After getting such a great start with his first sacrifice, Ternas naturally wanted to strike while the iron was hot.
Perhaps he could obtain even more good things from the sacrifices that followed.
Unfortunately, Ternas soon discovered just how difficult life could be.
Apart from the first sacrifice, when he had exchanged a magic wand for a pair of skillful hands from a magician in another world, the subsequent sacrifices had failed to produce anything useful.
Most of what he obtained was practically worthless: a pair of shoes, a pistol, a longsword, and a tree branch.
Those were all of his gains.
Looking at these several useless items in front of him, Ternas was truly disappointed.
The shoes were simply a worn pair.
Even if he took them outside and sold them as second-hand goods, they probably wouldn’t fetch more than a few Galleons.
Trash!
As for the pistol, it was just an ordinary firearm.
Its model was a customized M1911A1, a gold-plated pistol whose collectible value was greater than its practical value.
There were five bullets in the pistol, with three spare bullets included.
That was at least somewhat decent.
The longsword was also extremely ordinary, without anything special about it.
It was simply a common longsword from the era of cold weapons.
In terms of quality, it might have been somewhat better than average, but it certainly couldn’t be considered a legendary weapon.
Trash!
And finally, there was the tree branch.
It was not a branch from the Tree of Life, nor was it a branch from the World Tree.
It was simply a branch from an ordinary tree.
Looking at these few items in front of him, Ternas inexplicably felt as though his gums were beginning to ache.
Disappointed by the results of his subsequent sacrifices, Ternas no longer had any interest in staying there.
With a single thought, he left the altar space, pulled the blanket over his head, and went to sleep.
Overall, this round of sacrifices was not a loss.
In fact, considering his long-term development, he could already be considered to have profited.
It was just that, aside from the first sacrifice, he had gained nothing else of value, which left Ternas feeling rather depressed.
After experiencing his first sacrifice, Ternas naturally began looking for things to sacrifice in the days that followed.
However, the times when he managed to obtain good items or things that were useful to him were ultimately few and far between.
Most of the time, all he could obtain were insignificant and worthless things.
Time passed, and another three years went by.
During those three years, Ternas’s family education had gradually increased.
The pressure of studying each day also grew little by little.
However, none of this was a big deal to Ternas.
After all, in his previous life, he had successfully made it through twelve years of exam-oriented education and managed to get into a reasonably good university.
This kind of early education was child’s play to him.
Even though much of the knowledge was something he had never encountered in his previous life, learning it again was no different.
As for Neville, with Ternas taking the brunt of everything ahead of him, his days were much more relaxed.
Aside from the necessary early education every day, he spent most of his time sitting beside Ternas and listening to the lessons.
He listened to as much as he could take in, and the family had no intention of forcing him to learn more than that.
Of course, if he became bored, they also allowed him to go outside and play.
After all, everyone in the family knew about Neville’s situation.
The fact that he was willing to accompany Ternas and listen to some lessons was already enough to show how close the two children were.
There was no need to force him to do anything more.
Normally, Neville was always very quiet whenever he played outside.
But this time, something seemed to have gone wrong.
Neville’s screams could be heard coming from outside one after another, and he seemed to be extremely frightened.
Sensing that something was wrong, Ternas hurried to the window and looked out at the garden.
There, in the garden outside, Neville had somehow ended up flying into the air while sitting on a flying carpet.
The flying carpet seemed to have been affected by something, and its flight was extremely unstable, which naturally frightened Neville.
Moreover, whether there was something wrong with the flying carpet or Neville simply had not controlled it properly, Neville could not remain seated on it.
He was constantly being tossed around in the air along with the carpet, and it looked as though he could fall at any moment.
Just as Ternas looked outside, Neville could no longer hold on and fell from the flying carpet.
Watching Neville begin his free fall, Ternas felt his heart rise straight into his throat, as though it might leap out at any moment.
There was nothing Ternas could do about a situation like this.
Although he had learned some magic over the past few years and had even obtained his own wand ahead of time, it was a twelve-and-three-quarter-inch pine wand with a dragon heartstring core.
But with his current level of magical ability, trying to stop Neville while he was rapidly falling was simply impossible.
Watching Neville continue plummeting toward the ground, about to crash into it, Ternas was extremely anxious.
Yet at this moment, there was nothing he could do.
Just as Neville was about to hit the ground and be injured, something incredibly strange happened.
Neville’s body, which was only moments away from hitting the ground, suddenly bounced back upward under the influence of a mysterious force.