Four Split Personalities

Once upon a time...

On a stormy night, acclaimed as the Lion of Caselo, Di Hart Diesel took his first tumble in life, primarily out of fright.

After all, it was rare for a baby’s cry to overpower thunder, penetrate the delivery room, and startle its anxious father into a complete stupor.

This was Jadka Diesel’s first achievement, knocking down a knight lord just seven seconds after being born.

The man, over fifty years old, practically rolled into the delivery room, excitedly picked up the infant, and with eyes as large as copper bells that could silence the entire prairie, he searched intently, and finally saw his child’s miniature figure.

"Ancestors bless!"

Di Hart knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his face as he hoisted up his squirming son in swaddling clothes, shouting, "It’s a boy! A boy! It’s a boy!"

The child’s mother weakly smiled, watching her husband, who was nearly twenty years her senior and whom she had idolized since childhood, she threw him a reproachful glance, and somewhat laboriously sat up shaking her head, "Boy or girl, what difference does it..."

"It’s a boy! How wonderful!"

"I’m telling you..."

"Crying so horribly, imagine if it were a girl, how on earth would she get married! Thank goodness!"

"..."

Right after giving birth, Bella Dina was stunned for a long while, then silently picked up her beloved hammer, "Mountain Crusher," from beneath the bed. She gently took the child from her husband to hand over to a maid, and then even more gently swung her three-hundred-pound two-handed hammer around four and a half times...

Everyone agreed that, had it not been for the lady just having given birth, Master Di Hart would have had to lie in bed for at least two more weeks.

Ultimately, mother and child were safe and sound, a joyous and congratulatory occasion indeed.

By the way, the main reason Bella Dina considered Di Hart her hero was precisely because he could beat her.

Indeed, this gently looking lady was also a grand lord, a top-tier personality in the knight’s career pyramid. Her weapons were "Mountain Crusher" and "Mountain Breaker," both three-hundred-ninety-pound two-handed hammers, and before marriage, no one on the Caselo Prairie could handle her except for Di Hart Diesel. After marriage, no one on the Caselo Prairie could handle her at all. Her temper was fiery to the extreme, nicknamed "Bella the Hammer," known as the "Walking Black Gunpowder," whose personality had only softened slightly after getting pregnant, yet she still could cheerfully swing her hammers and send her husband flying.

Returning to our story, after recovering from his injuries, Di Hart was so thrilled he nearly flew, and for some reason hit upon the idea to summon all the prophets, diviners, priests, and even two shamans from Sumer he knew, to perform an elaborate divination, and they reached a shocking conclusion.

All the results showed that this child’s achievements would match those of his most excellent ancestors and perhaps even exceed them!

Since the world did not condone misleading the masses as a group, what initially was just a father’s doting behavior somehow inexplicably spread around...

The name of Di Hart’s son swept across Caselo while still in swaddling clothes, and lords for hundreds of miles around worried that this child, once grown, would become a hegemon, leading the Diesel Family’s iron cavalry to conquer or flatten their castles.

As this child slowly grew up, the initial prophecy increasingly seemed plausible. Jadka Diesel’s unparalleled talents gradually became apparent. At nine, he blocked charging horses, at ten, he killed wild oxen, and by twelve, he could fling his father five meters away in a wrestling match. Soon, praises and countless assassins came flooding in, who mostly ended up as bones outside the Diesel castle moat.

Seventy years have passed to this day, and sixty-two years have elapsed since this person named Jadka left home. He had not forgotten the classic exchange at his adulthood ceremony...

Di Hart: "My son, Diesel’s pride, you have turned sixteen today. Would you like to inherit my mantle and become a mighty knight who makes our family proud and shakes the entire continent in awe?"

"Uh, no, father, I want to be a Mage..."

...

From that day, Jadka Diesel became a Mage.

Long afterward, still bearing the title of a junior adventurer, he gripped his magic wand, standing upright as he entered the Anka Market’s Adventurer’s Guild. Yet, no one dared to treat him as just a common, insignificant mage, especially since, during their first meeting, he warmly shook hands with the Great Sage of Starlight, an exceptional and usually stoic Magic Master, one of the three most prominent figures in the Adventurer’s Guild, who excitedly trembled all over! This displays the terrifying power of the man, later known as the "Ancestor of Battle Magic," when he ultimately met the young hero who could change the world, worthy of showcasing his talents and assisting him to stand at the pinnacle of the world. He no longer hid his aura, and wherever he went, commoners scattered. The elder strode forth, his eyes twinkling with wisdom:

"Hey~ young man~"

—— "Speculative Epic • Hero Volume: Jadka Diesel"]