Screw my old life . This new world is awesome

There's an entire world out there, and no one has ever bothered to write its full story. Eleven races. Continents separated by seas and magical barriers no cartographer dares cross in full. Calendars that differ for every people, because not even time flows the same for everyone. Over two hundred cataloged skills, from the humblest — a whisper that catches a lie — to legendary weapons that choose for themselves who's worthy to wield them. Familiars, beasts, dragons that rule entire seas or sleep beneath forests as old as the world itself. Festivals, customs, hierarchies that shift from kingdom to kingdom, because every people has built its own way of living, quarreling, loving, and surviving. This is not a fast story. If you're looking for a protagonist who breaks the world open in three chapters, Gardenia isn't for you. But if you want to discover a world — one piece at a time, one city after another, one race after another — you're in the right place. Simon is no hero. He has no written destiny, no power that makes others envious at first glance. He has only two things: he understands any language and dialect spoken in his presence, without even knowing why himself, and sometimes — not always, never on command — he learns something from whoever he touches, if the moment and the bond are right. There will be battles that take your breath away. Intrigue moving in the shadows of every council, every guild, every court. Wars born from religious schisms centuries old that no one has ever truly closed. Blood, betrayal, real consequences. But the purpose, always, is one and the same: to look at an enormous world through the eyes of an ordinary man, who never wanted to save anyone — he just wanted to understand where the hell he'd ended up. Welcome to Gardenia. Starting with Chapter 43, one chapter will be published each day. At this time, releases are scheduled through Chapter 65 (October 29, 2026), and I am currently working on Chapters 66 through 75. I expect to finish the first book around Chapter 150. The average word count for the chapters to be released is 2,150 ± 500. In the appendix you'll find a bestiary, the magic system with the full list of skills, a calendar of festivals, trade routes, and a map of the continent. Material for anyone who wants to understand the world's mechanics down to the last detail — not necessary to follow the story, but there for those who can't help themselves.