Freak. Good-for-nothing. The young man had heard those words so often that his ears had grown callused. Looking at the house, which had collapsed again not long after he had gone out, he sighed helplessly. "Boring."
On the Continent of Sword and Magic, where sword energy and magic each formed their own schools, the young man possessed both powers within him, though they had nothing to do with each other. Naturally, people called him a freak. But he couldn't use either power, so they also called him a good-for-nothing.
Yet he was born with incredible strength. Those who looked down on him couldn't beat him. He was the eldest grandson of the great commander of the Li family's sword sect, but the sect didn't welcome him. He had lived for sixteen years in a remote little hut on the back mountain with his maid.