Chapter 2: The Power of the Plane
"I heard that you picked up a noble young master and came back?"
"When you're gathering firewood...... What are you doing! Stop!"
In the midst of Catherine's scolding, Lear sees a tall man suddenly lift the tent and look at him.
"Cruise!" Catherine angrily called out to the man.
Lear squinted, looking at the man in front of him. Cruise was very tall, at least two meters tall, and his hair was golden in the setting sun. He had been a handsome young man, but his face was distorted by the anger on his face.
Cruise's gaze fell on Lear, judging that the other party was just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old.
"Sure enough, it's a useless little white face, huh!" With that, the anger on his face turned to contempt and he left the tent.
Outside the tent, Catherine glared at Cruise, her fingers on the hilt of her sword turning white from too much force.
"Catherine, your vision is getting worse and worse. Cruise looked at Catherine with a smile on his face, his eyes like he were looking at a glamorous prey about to be caught.
However, he never imagined that his actions would anger Catherine.
"As the deputy leader of the Flame Mercenary Regiment, you broke into the camp tent of the group leader, violating Article 3 and below, Article 6 and intending to attack the group leader, and Article 16 invading the private space of the members. Now, I exercise the power of the head of the regiment to confiscate all the reserves belonging to you, and cancel all your bonuses for the next three years! If you violate any of the first ten rules within three years, cancel your position as deputy head of the regiment, and violate two of them, I have the right to expel you from the Flame Mercenary Group. Catherine said coldly, and took out a notebook from her leather pouch and wrote down what she had just said.
Cruise was furious: "Are you crazy to punish me for a child of unknown origin?"
Catherine sneered: "I'm not for him, but for maintaining the order of the Firelight Mercenary Group, and for the dignity of me, the head of the group, not to be trampled on by careerists and conspirators!"
"You ......," Cruise turned his head and pointed to the tent and scolded, "Dog, mother, we'll see!"
Lear was still lying in his tent, his mouth full of bitterness. No matter how stupid he was, he could have guessed that his appearance had induced a conflict between the chief and deputy commanders. The contradiction between the two may only be hidden under the undercurrent, but Catherine, who is despised, is forced to intensify the contradiction.
"You have a good rest and don't worry about anything else. As long as I'm the head of the group, no one can hurt you!" Catherine whispered outside the tent and returned to the newly built makeshift tent.
At first, she just wanted to save a poor child and make extra money, but now, Catherine has to protect Lear in order to preserve her dignity.
"Gurr......" Lear's stomach rattled, and hunger made him sit up immediately, grab the bread and sausages, and munch.
"If you don't want to suffer, drink some milk first, then eat it little by little, chewing slowly. This new body of yours hasn't eaten for days. The old female voice rang in his ears.
Lear hurriedly looked around, terrified, and the standard Chinese and the words "new body" made him feel like he was on pins and needles.
"It's good to know that you're scared. Why did you come to the unknown...... No, it should be called an alien plane here, it was the old body that saved you. You don't have to ask why, you just need to know that old age won't hurt you. Otherwise, there are many ways for the old body to make you die. The old voice sounded again.
Lear sat for a moment, anger flashing across his face.
"If you say it's true, first of all, thank you for saving me. Secondly, even if I am just an ordinary person with little power, I don't want to live under the threat of death. So, if you threaten me again, I'll put away my gratitude and ask you to let me die. β
Lear is not afraid of death, he says this because of the anger in his heart - living in an unfamiliar world, saying goodbye to familiar relatives and friends, is no different from death.
At this moment, in his soul, a little girl gritted her teeth and scolded: "Okay, you Lear, don't say anything about my innocent body, and dare to talk to me like this, I ......" The little girl clenched her fists and waved, and finally sat down decadently, admitting that her "puppet plan" had failed, and her new master was not a person who could be controlled at will.
"Human beings are really complicated...... the little girl frowned.
"If he knew that I was a child, he would have despised me, and it would have been better to continue to lie to him. Anyway, without my consent, he couldn't have sensed the Ancestral Sword!, as long as he cultivated him slowly, and waited for him to break through this plane and enter a stronger ....... The little girl stood up again, smiling like a little girl in a new dress.
Lear took a few sips of milk and slowly chewed on the bread and sausage.
"This sausage, so fishy and spiced?" he frowned. He had eaten a lot of red sausages, dried sausages and other foods before, and he had never been so fishy.
He didn't know that whether it was the Starry Sky Continent or some Western countries on the earth, the livestock they slaughtered there were not castrated or bloodletted, plus the breed problem, so the smell of meat was very strong. His sausages were already the best in the Starry Sky Continent, and the sausages eaten by civilians had a greater fishy smell because of the lack of spices.
However, he didn't pay much attention to it, and the more he ate, the slower and slower he ate, and on the surface he seemed to be eating seriously, but in fact he was thinking about the voice of the mysterious man.
Prompted by the mysterious man, combined with the common sense he knew, he only ate sixty percent of his fill and stopped.
He didn't know the process of transforming the jade pendant into a sword, and he couldn't even remember that he had devoured the soul of the original owner of this body - he simply thought that he was dead, and then took over the body of a dead man in a strange world and came back to life.
However, while eating, he kept speculating.
"The two ears of the human body can locate the source of sound through the propagation of sound waves, and even if there is an error, it is not too outrageous. And the voice just now made me feel like it was coming from both of my ears at the same time, and even if it was an invisible person, it would be impossible to do this. That is, the sound is most likely caused by a mysterious force. β
"The voice is pure Chinese, and knowing that I have crossed over, then it is very likely that she is also a life on the earth and will travel with me......"
He whispered, "Old woman, are you there?" Such a low voice would never come out of the tent.
"Humph!" the voice rang in his ears.
He was slightly startled, and then scolded angrily in his heart: "You shameless old woman!"
"What do you say, I ......" A completely different voice exploded in his ears than just now, and the new voice was as crisp as a wind chime.
Lear gasped.
"This man is in my body!" he concluded incredulously.
If he knew that there were other people in his body before the crossing, he would have panicked, but now, he could control his emotions.
"She can sense what I'm thinking in certain ways, but only what I want her to know, and if I don't want to open up what I'm thinking, she can't sense it. He breathed a sigh of relief.
"Clever boy, the old man has lived for tens of thousands of years, and he didn't want to be careless, and he was deceived by you. You are just an ordinary person with no power now, I will not tell you the cause and effect of the matter, and when you are really strong, I will tell you the ins and outs. But don't think I can't deal with you!" As soon as the old voice faded away, Lear felt an invisible force pressing down on him.
Lear sneered: "This is the second time you have threatened me! Don't think I can't see it, if you were really capable, you would have completely controlled me a long time ago, in fact, you should be restrained by some kind of force, either you can't do anything to me at all, or you need my help! I warn you for the last time, no matter what kind of existence you are, don't try to control me! I've already died once, so I don't care about dying a second time! If you dare to threaten me again, then, I will treat you as an enemy!"
No one wants to be threatened and enslaved by strange and unknown forces, and neither does Lear. What's more, he is full of resentment about coming to a strange world, and even if he dies, he will not let others step on his head.
"Wait and see, arrogant fellow!" the old voice was angry.
In the depths of Lear's soul, before the ancestral sword, the little girl sat down angrily, just angry at first, but after a while, her heart was full of grievances, and tears fell down her eyes.
"Villain! Obviously, someone else saved you, and if no one else consumes your strength, you will definitely die even if you take it, and you are still so fierce to me, and you will die! Even if you are the master, I will not help you in the future, never!" The little girl cried and wiped her tears.
Squire's mood swings were too great and were immediately perceived by Lear.
Lear had just vented some of his grievances, and his mind was calm, and the two of them had a mysterious connection, and under the influence of the sword's emotions, he suddenly felt that he was in sympathy with the owner of the voice.
Lear whispered, "I...... I just don't like the tone and attitude you speak, since you are also from Earth, we should help each other instead of fighting for control. If you still want to control me, then don't talk to me again. Also, you must have helped me resurrect, thank you. β
His heart was full of confusion.
No matter how much he hated death and the unknown world, he now faced one of the most serious problems, survival.
said that he was not afraid of dying a second time if he died once, but he was angry after experiencing a setback, but in fact, he still wanted to live.
He concentrated, looking for his own path to survival from the memories of the hapless boy.
The hapless teenager's name is Charlie Lear, and he is very ordinary in terms of first name and surname, but his grandfather, Garenne Lear, is a legend.
Garen-Lear was originally just an ordinary lord, but in the war with the Orc Empire, he was very lucky enough to kill an otherwise wounded orc prince and capture a piece of information that could turn the tide of the war and save 100,000 soldiers, so he was awarded an amazing feat.
Garen-Lear fought with the previous Archduke Barlow, and the political intricacies led to the Grant the Great, who granted him a fief, a small fishing village by the sea, and a total of 5,000 square kilometers of land around it.
This is not the small and pitiful countries and places of ancient Europe on the earth, the area of the Starry Sky Continent is very large, so the fiefdom of the nobility is also very vast.
Garen-Lear's extraordinary flair for business has transformed a small fishing village into Port Lear, now one of the largest seaport cities in the southeast of the Starry Sky Continent, in just fifty years.
In the twentieth year of the establishment of Port Lear, in recognition of Garen-Lear's fight against piracy, Emperor Grant made an exception to promote Garen-Lear to the rank of earl, and spent money from his private treasury to buy 25,000 square kilometers of land from the Archduke of Barlow, and rewarded Garen-Lear.
The so-called fight against piracy was only a pretext, but the actual reason was that Grant the Great coveted the wealth of Port Lear, and passed a special bill during a war to make Port Lear a national port, with a monopoly on 70% of the revenue. In order to compensate Viscount Garenne-Lear, Grant the Great was able to make him an earl by all odds.
Garen-Lear is a cunning and rude nouveau riche who has almost forgotten the decency of the nobility in order to develop Lear Harbor - at least so the noble blue-blooded nobles think, and the Lear family has dolphins on their coat of arms, so he ridicules Count Garlene-Lear as Count of Dolphins in the great aristocratic circles. The dolphin on the coat of arms was originally a symbol of mercy and love, but the Count Dolphin was actually mocking the Lear family as fishermen.
Garen-Lear had two sons, the eldest son, Arthur Lear, who inherited the title and domain, and the second son, Alan Lear, who was only a lord and owned only three estates and five shops in Port Lear.
Arthur Lear's eldest son died in a shipwreck, while the second son and youngest daughter died with Arthur Lear's entire family from a plague in Port Lear half a year earlier.
The Horman Empire's aristocratic law stipulated that blood relatives within three generations could inherit hereditary titles, so after the death of the Arthur-Lear family, the lucky Alan Lear should inherit the earl title - but the Alan Lear family was attacked by bandits on their way back to Lear's port from the royal capital, and none of them survived.
Charlie Lear is the luckiest and most pitiful, because it is now Lear who controls the body.
Lear "flipped through" these memories and felt chills all over his body.
"This can't be an accident, there must be a huge force to destroy the Lear family, I must not admit that I am Charlie Lear, and I will not have this person in the future. As soon as this thought came to Lear's mind, he suddenly had a splitting headache, and his soul seemed to be about to detach from his body.
"Town!" the little girl in front of the ancestral sword snorted, stretched out her delicate index finger and a little void, and a mysterious golden fairy appeared, relieving Lear's pain.
"What's going on, is there any after-effect of possessing someone else's body?" Lear thought bitterly.
"Fool!" said the squire continuing to pretend to be an old man, "you don't remember that when you took possession of this body, you promised the original owner to avenge him, and this soul contract is bound by the power of the plane, and unless you leave this plane, you must fulfill this contract, or die." β
In this way, he could no longer escape.
"Old boy, can you break this contract?" a vague image flashed through Lear's mind, and he subconsciously felt that what the mysterious man said was true.
"What do you call the old body!" the sword furious.
"Sometimes you're an old lady's voice, sometimes you're a child's voice, and I can only call you an old child. Lear took it for granted.
"Call me mother-in-law! the old man is an immortal who has lived for 10,000 years!" the sword waved his little fist, and he didn't blush at all when he liedβof course, if it was the age of the ancestral sword, it was indeed enough.
Lear suddenly realized, and believed the mysterious man's words in his heart, and he didn't think that there was any power that could bring him back to life except for the immortals. The rebirth of the soul and the rebirth of the soul are originally common things in the mythical fairy tales.
"Granny Fairy, what kind of power are you trapped in my body now, right?" After Lear finished speaking, he suddenly felt hairy all over his body, and anyone who found a 10,000-year-old woman parasitic in his body would not be comfortable.
"Hmph, you are not qualified to know about this Immortal Gu, and when you are strong, this Immortal Gu will tell you the truth. Squire Jian was overjoyed when he heard the title of "Fairy Mother-in-law", and his grievances and vows not to help Lear were all gone.
Lear was silent for a moment before he said, "Then what kind of plane power do you old man say?" β
"Now you have asked for this immortal girl, right?" said the sword proudly, "The power of the plane is the name of this world, we immortals call it the way of heaven, and I follow the customs of the country, so I say so." For this plane, you are a creature from an alternate plane, which may cause plane disorder and will inevitably be erased by the power of the plane. "She really thinks of herself as an immortal.
"Then why am I still alive?" he asked.
"You are lucky enough to make a pact with the native humans of this plane before being erased by the power of the plane. As long as that person's wish is fulfilled, the power of the plane will fully accept you and treat you as a protist of the plane. If you don't actively follow the contract, you will be punished by the power of the plane. At first, it was just a warning that if you don't fulfill the contract for a long time, the power of the plane will judge you to break the contract and completely wipe you out. Do you think that the power of the plane will let other creatures into at will, and don't imagine the will of the plane to be as stupid as you!" said the sword.
"I see, I see. "Lear accepts the brutal truth.
He was silent, involuntarily thinking of those experiences on Earth, thinking of his parents, he suddenly knelt down with his back in the direction of the setting sun, kowtowed three times seriously, and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm sorry for you. I ......" he choked up.
After his death, the saddest thing was not him, not the mysterious fairy, not the murderer, but his parents who were sent by the white-haired man to the black-haired man. He couldn't forgive himself for the debt he owed his parents.
After sitting for a long time, he wiped away his tears and officially accepted the world.
"Now that I've survived, I'm going to live better!" Mom and Dad will say things like I wish me peace in the next life, I can't let them down......" he clenched his fists.
There was silence inside the tent, but there was a bustle outside.