巫师世界(Wizard World) by 滚开(Go away)
Synopsis: The soul of a young boy from a technologically advanced world crosses over into world of magic. The boy walks on his lonely path to the peak of power.
Note:A mix of Western Fantasy, Horror, and Xian Xia elements. Not for the faint of heart.
Category: 玄幻魔法(Magical fantasy)
Chapter 1 Crossing
Pale blue sky streched as far as the eye can see, without the slightest bit of cloud, like encircling imaginary sapphires around.
Several black birds screeched across the sky.
Underneath that sky lay a lush, verdant forest. Inside, a twisting road curved out. A horse slowly pulled a carriage filled with gold coloured hay forward. The horse hooves carried a reverberating rhythm upon the small road.
On top of the hay lay a teenager, who looked 13 or 14 years old, with short brown hair, not handsome or ugly. He had no particular features.
Both of his eyes were closed shut, like he in sleep.
The horse driver, in the front, very carefully controlled the old horse, spending a lot of effort to make the horse's trot more cautious. He appeared to be anxious of disturbing the youth in the back.
Bang!!!
A loud sound came from the horse carriage, as the wheels had hit a sharp stone. The entire carriage jolted. The carriage immediately stopped.
Song Ye's whole body jolted. Mid-dream, he woke up.
He scrunched up his pallid forehead, and he slowly open his eyes.
"Where is this?" The boy's voice was very faint, sounding like someone gasping for breath.
He sniffed the air a few times, smelling the clear taste of fresh flora.
After that, he cast a puzzled look around.
"Sorry second master Engel, the carriage hit a rock, which disturbed your rest. " The middle-aged carriage driver had a robust body, which looked full of energy. However, he was dressed in lower quality fabric, gray and dusty.
Seeing that Song Ye woke, he quickly offered an apology. At the same time, he took out his tools to check for damage to the carriage wheels.
"Second young master Engel?" Song Ye paused, looked around left and right, and became certain that no one else was nearby. Only then, with a finger pointed at his nose, did he answer, "Are you talking about me?"
"Yes". The driver inspected, while honestly nodding his head. "Sir, you just fell from atop the horse, so you should rest for a bit more, since you appear hurt. Earlier, by myself in the city, I could not find a good horse carriage even after searching for a while. I have wronged you, sir." The middle aged man with dark skin nervously laughed a bit.
Song Ye's facial expression suddenly changed, as if he became aware of something.
"No, it can't be...." He said, in a low voice. He quickly looked over his body.
A black jacket perfectly fit on his body, a red belt wrapped about his waist, and a black whip hung on his side.
Thin body, white palms. Also, bursts of pain came from the back of his head and his knees.
Suddenly, a sharp pain rushed up his head. Bits and pieces of memory, in pictures of events, flowed into his brain.
Song Ye's eyes rolled around, and he stiffly fell down on the hay. Vaguely, he heard the driver's anxious, panicking calls.
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An indeteminate amount of time has passed.
Song Ye slowly wakes up again, and turns over on his back.
His mind has a section of memories that are not his.
This body originally belonged to a boy, of rural nobility, named Engel Leo. A countryside noble's ordinary second son.
Because he went horse riding with a peer during his free time and fell down from the horse, a weak point was created, allowing Song Ye to possess the body.
At the same time, memories regarding life in the current world also flowed through Song Ye’s mind.
This is a world very similar to medieval Europe.The country where he is at is known as Luden kingdom. This is an extremely large country. The Leo family, in the Luden kingdom, can actually be considered a rather prosperous rural aristocratic family. Not comparable to the upper families, but better than lower families.
The family lands are located on the edge of the Yala province forest. In Engel's memories, he only knows that his father, the baron Leo's lands encompass three other knights' lands, and five small villages. The yearly population counts totaled at least about 5,000 people. On horseback, with a good horse, travel from one end of the territory to another as fast as possible would still require at least one hour. So these are very large land holdings.
Engel, Baron Leo's second son, is also the one with the highest authority, of his age bracket, in the family. The eldest son went to join the army, but never returned, so the entire family inheritance is very likely to fall into the hands of Engel.
"A small noble.....Unexpectedly, I have crossed over into another world..." Song Ye, while rubbing his head, finds out that he is lying on a small bed. His clothes had been switched by someone to white pajamas, and he is covered with a thin white blanket.
This is a spacious and brightly lit bedroom. There is one bed, a wooden writing desk, and two high-backed, white chairs.
From the open window, a strange, faint sound came in, from the streets. A faint breeze carried in the sweet smell of biscuit pancake. Song Ye inhaled a breath, and suddenly realized that he was hungry.
"Anyone there"? Fact checking with his memories, Engel realized that this was one of the family owned houses.
The door made a scraping sound as it opened.
A solemnly dressed, middle-aged noble, clothed in red, walked in with large steps. He carried a silver bowl in his hands. A meaty flavor wafted out from it.
"Engel, are you feeling a little better yet?" Frowning, he walked to the bedside, putting the bowl on the bed drawer above, and put out his hand to feel Song Ye's forehead.
"Hm, no fever. But drink the meat soup anyway. Your physique is too bad."
Song Ye mind quickly recalled his memories about the man in front.
Kyle Leo, the head of the Leo family, who is also this territory’s governing baron. In front of Engel, however, is merely a loving father.
"I remember what I said to you before." Baron Kyle lowered the tone of his voice, "I told you to stop spending so much time with those city brats. Even if they are knight training students too, you do not need to get so close with them."
"It is my fault, father." Song Ye unconsciously bowed his head, responding in a small voice. This was not his intention, but more like his body’s conditioned reflex..
"Falling from a crazed horse, you unexpectedly did not break any bones. It looks like your luck is not bad." The Baron slightly relaxed his tone. Watching his son’s head down in guilt, he unconsciously felt a bit of remorse.
"Your brother went to join the army, and he probably will not come back, by now. My Leo family future rests entirely upon you. If anything happens to you, I cannot imagine the..... " The Baron sighed, and no longer spoke.
Song Ye, from Engel Leo’s memory, knew that his father always had this kind of character..
To the outside world, he is the strong baron of the Leo family, intimidating and cruel. In the family, he had executed quite a few people, for minor mistakes. He did the same thing for many of the territory’s residents.
The Baron would take in pretty women from the territory every few years, so he had a lot of children.
Of more importance, last year, after a bit of scheming with his advisors, the Baron had sent soldiers to the conquer a nearby baron’s land, and as a result, his own land had nearly doubled.
People outside his territory talk of his cruelty and his arrogance. His cunning and his treachery. His cold-heartedness.
And they speak of what a pity that only his affections for Engel are unrivalled. Or they speak of how his feelings for Engel’s dead mother were very special.
Therefore, Engel’s position of all his sons and daughters is the highest.
No matter what his request, the Baron would use his full force to complete it.
"Remember, Engel. No matter what, as the future heir of the Leo family, you should not act without wisdom, and before you do anything, you should carefully consider it clearly and thoroughly." Baron Kyle gravely said to Song Ye.
"I remember, father." Song Ye solemnly nodded.
"Katherine is already enough to deal with, for both you and me. Still, I have brought you the other girl you wanted in the past. I have sent her to your room. Your body is small right now, and you can play a bit, but if I find you addicted to this type of activity ....." The Baron suddenly paused. His eyes displayed a trace of viciousness. "You know what will happen."
"I know." Song Ye’s heart tensed up a bit as he quickly nodded. Although the Baron was very affectionate of him, this time his mistake was a little bit too big.
"Good. Drink the rest of the soup and rest. I still have things to deal with. When old Howard returns, he will find someone to come send you back to the castle. I am leaving." The Baron ended. He turned to leave.
In the moment the bedroom door was closing, Song Ye glanced at the fully armored knight standing outside the doorway. He knew him. It was the Baron’s strongest fighter, knight Otis. He liked to use his armored boots to viciously squash the enemy’s head, like a watermelon..
The territory residents called him devil knight.
The bedroom door shut with a bang.
From the courtyard came the Baron’s whispering voice and steps. They became gradually smaller, until Song Ye could not hear them anymore
Song Ye turned and looked at the broth above the cabinet.
He knew, if it was only ordinary meat soup, the Baron would not personally take it over.
The meat in the soup came from a fish species known as the Huan Huan Ding Ding fish. In folklore, it is said that evil wizards stole lost children and used wizardry to turn them into this type of fish. When he was injured in the past, he also drank this soup.
Song Ye carried the bowl in both hands, and looked inwards.
In the middle of the milky white soup, a small silver fish the size of an index finger was faintly discernable. The fish head, astonishingly, resembled a human face.
"Fish with children’s faces ...." Song Ye murmured, looking at the child’s suffering facial expression in the bowl. Suddenly his stomach churned a bit.
"This world, is truly not the world before ah, ...." This thought popped up in his head.
Sitting on the bed, Song Ye hesitated quite a while, but still pinched his nose and drank the soup. As for the child-faced fish head, he broke it off and left it in the bowl. He could not eat this kind of thing.
After he finished drinking the soup, he laid in the bed and rested for a while.
Song Ye began to organize his memories.
The former Engel had a laid-back, unassertive personality, but because he was his father's favorite, he was no less skilled than the Baron’s other children in the ways of personally enjoying and entertaining himself, even superior to them in some ways.
No matter what things, pets, others’ possessions, and even people, as long as he wanted them, the Baron would find ways to satisfy his desire. This also led to Engel becoming more and more unrestrained in his conduct. As long as he saw anything he liked, he would want to reach out and take it.
In other words, he was the stereotypical son of a rich parent.
After all, the Baron’s territory was the equivalent of a small city of Song Ye’s past life Earth. Although the Baron’s territory had a much smaller population, the Baron’s authority and privilege was much greater. As the powerful head of the territory, the Baron was able to manipulate the public better than a powerful city official.
In this chaotic era, in the Luden kingdom's current state of turmoil, aristocrats were, in the end, the representatives of power and wealth.
However, regardless of how much fear Baron Kai Er’s might could induce, spoiled Engel, this time, in fact, did get into some trouble.
Engel, who was sent to study in the knight training program, came to fancy, at one glance, an aristocratic girl who was also in the program.
That girl's name was Katherine Kandia, the most beloved granddaughter of Viscount Kandia, who was under Baron Kyle’s jurisdiction in name only.
Engel, in order to express his affections for her, had a horse race with another boy. The result was, as shown above, due to the fact that his saddle was tampered with, and his carelessness, the former Engel had disappeared forever from the world.
"This is actually because of a man’s jealousy of a rival for a woman’s love..." Song Ye silently looked over his memories again. "This world can really make a person speechless.....Only 14 years old, yet knows of how to strike down a rival in love...."