Chapter 1: The Cursed Realm of the Dead
Recently, a ridiculous farce has taken place in the northern wasteland.
It is said that half a month ago, in a mangrove forest in the northern wasteland of the Tulip Principality, that is, the junction of the territories of the two people, the Baron of Black Hawk Town and the Baron of Greystone Castle.
The Baron of Greystone Castle led people to collect two jars of honey in the mangrove forest, which happened to be discovered by the Baron of Black Hawk Town, who was patrolling the territory.
So, the two lords actually fought over two jars of honey.
This war caused by two jars of honey made the two lords use their main forces, each leading dozens of men and horses, to start a battle, and decide the ownership of the two jars of honey in the wilderness outside the red pine forest.
On the side of the Baron of Black Hawk Town, one heavy knight, ten probationary knights, and forty improvised militiamen were dispatched.
On the opposite side, the Baron of Greystone Castle dispatched one heavily armed knight, sixteen lightly armed knights, and more than thirty guards armed with spears.
The military strength of the two sides seems to be almost the same, but who would have thought that with just one charge, the Baron of Black Eagle was beaten by the Baron of Greystone Castle, and he lost his armor.
The forty militiamen improvised by the Black Eagle Lord collapsed and fled in an instant in the face of the charge of the Greystone Fort army, and even the Baron and his knight team were all wounded and captured.
On the side of Greystone Castle, it felt like there was still a little unfinished, and they didn't even exert much force, and the war was over.
Originally, the Baron of Black Hawk Town only wanted two jars of honey, but he lost his wife and soldiers, and the honey was not caught, not to mention, he and his knights also got in.
Tragically, in the dungeons of Greystone Castle, our Lord Black Hawk suffered so much humiliation that he finally had to turn to his father, Count Lane, for help, so that he could spend a lot of money to redeem his freedom.
However, this is not the most embarrassing.
The most embarrassing thing is that when our Black Hawk Baron was sent back to the Black Hawk territory, when passing through the mangrove forest where he had fought that day, a wild boar guarding his cubs suddenly rushed out of the forest, and knocked the sad Black Hawk Baron away on the spot, provoking the Baron of Greystone Castle and others who followed behind, laughing so much that they leaned back and couldn't straighten their waists.
In the face of such humiliation, the grief-stricken Baron Black Eagle vomited blood and fell into a coma on the spot.
After returning to the territory, something even worse happened, and the revived Baron Black Hawk suddenly went insane, sitting on the roof of the building every day and babbling nonsense, shouting that he wanted to return to Earth.
Such a bizarre and tortuous farce soon spread throughout the Northern Wasteland, and became the joke of countless noble lords, knights and commoners after dinner.
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The cold wind was blowing, the sky was full of dark clouds, and it was gloomy and a little scary, as if it could pour a cold rain on this cold and desolate border wasteland at any time.
The serfs in the territory of Black Hawk, their ragged clothes and dull eyes, like puppets controlled by invisible ropes, toiled numbly day after day, year after year, without a glimmer of hope or light.
Their mood was like the dark and gloomy sky overhead, full of depression and despair.
Boom!
The loud and melodious bells of the church in the early morning spread along the town center square throughout the Black Hawk Territory, and in an instant, the eyes of everyone in the territory flashed with that brief but hopeful look.
Many people in the Black Hawk Territory, whether they were serfs, freemen, knights, or maids and valets in the lord's castle, all stopped busy, their eyes closed, their hands clasped in front of their chests, and they pious in their morning prayers.
God said: Each of us comes with sin, and only by constantly praying for God's forgiveness and washing away our sins can we get out of purgatory on earth and let our souls enter the kingdom of bliss after death.
"Yes, God is right, this world is indeed a miserable purgatory, and since we live to atone for our sins, we only want to be liberated after death......" each of them thought so, because this was their only faith and hope.
Of course, there are also people who don't think so, such as our Lord Black Hawk.
Inside the dilapidated castle of the Black Hawk Lords.
The thin Baron stood in front of the mirror, stunned to look at himself in the mirror.
Inside the mirror was a tall, lanky young man, about twenty years old at most.
His golden curly hair, his high nose, and his extremely pale countenance, especially his blue eyes, which were deep and bright, looked unusually eye-catching.
"How did I end up like this......"
Looking at his unfamiliar self in the mirror, Sean's mood was a little complicated. Three full days passed, and he still still didn't fully accept the fact that he had crossed over.
Seven days ago, on his way back from work, he was knocked unconscious by a tin box that fell from a high altitude, only to wake up with a whole world changed.
Strange environment, strange people, and strange self, everything has become very unfamiliar.
As the memories of the past few days slowly merged, he reluctantly accepted the reality that he had really crossed over, not dreaming.
According to the memories in his mind that emerged little by little, he slowly had a general understanding of the strange world after crossing over.
This is a fantasy world similar to the European Middle Ages, with lords and nobles, knights and prophets, as well as the Holy See and mages, and even more outrageous, there are giants, magicians and spirit-callers.
After being reborn, his name is Sean Nicholas, a small lord of the barons on a border of the Duchy of Tulip, and he also has a father named Ryan Gulage, the Earl of Snow Wolf City, a large lord on the northwestern border of the Duchy.
After crossing over, as the son of the noble earl, the lord of Black Eagle Town, coupled with the young and handsome aristocratic status, such a high starting point for rebirth, it stands to reason that he should feel lucky.
However, this is not the case.
At the beginning, when Sean learned that he was reborn as a baron lord, although he was still a little panicked at first, he was a little excited and a little happy in his heart.
However, as time went by, the memories of the former baron slowly surfaced in his mind, and after he figured out the situation after being reborn, he could no longer be happy.
It turns out that Black Eagle Town is located in the northern wilderness of the Tulip Principality, which is a bitter cold land, lacking in materials, very poor and desolate, not to mention low agricultural productivity, and very dangerous and chaotic.
Beyond the borders of the principality lies a dark forest with no end in sight.
It is said that in the terrifying dark forest, there are often monsters, barbarian tribes, and murderous bands of thieves, who often raid the manor towns on the borders of the principality in winter.
Like those small town territories with weak armed defenses, they are often looted, and the money and materials in the territory are plundered cleanly.
In particular, the territory of Black Eagle Town, ruled by Sean, is located at the very edge of the northern wasteland, and every winter, it will face plunder and aggression at any time, and the serfs and lords and nobles living here are worried and miserable all day long.
In the past ten years, the territory of Black Hawk Town has changed seven lords one after another, and none of the lords have been able to hold out here for more than two years.
Because those Black Eagle Town lords before were either attacked by barbarian tribes or slaughtered by thieves, none of them were able to leave here alive.
The territory of Black Hawk has become the cursed "Death Territory" in the Tulip Principality, and Sean is the latest lord of this "Death Territory".
According to the memories after the fusion, Sean's background is actually not glorious.
His mother, Cathy Nicholas, was a Verne singer, and because of her good looks, she was favored by the Count of Lane and became the Count's lover, so he was born.
Strictly speaking, he was an illegitimate child.
Due to the lowly status of an illegitimate child, Sean could not inherit everything from the "Gulaci" family, including the great surname "Gulachi", and could only follow his mother's surname "Nicholas".
Originally, with Sean's lowly status as an illegitimate son, it was impossible for him to become a baron, let alone have a territorial fief, but God favored this lowly illegitimate son very much, so when Sean was fourteen years old, he unexpectedly awakened and became a junior "god caller".
According to the rules of this world that are not famous, anyone who can awaken and become a god caller is a child who has been kissed by his father and deserves a noble status and treatment.
So under the double verification of the Holy See and the Grand Duke of Tulip, he Sean Nicholas was rewarded with the title of Baron, and was lucky enough to become a nobleman.
Although the Black Eagle Territory is located on the border of the principality, it is bitterly cold and desolate, but it is not something that an illegitimate son like him who only has a nominal title can have, after all, no matter how bad this place is, it is also the territory of the Guraki family.
In the past ten years, the Gulaqi family has sent nine family children to come to Black Eagle Town to serve as lords, but without exception, none of the lords can leave alive.
However, the Gulaqi family could not give up this territory, and according to the agreement with the Grand Duke of Tulip, the Earl of Snow Wolf City and the Marquis of Chilan Mountain must stick to the northern wasteland for generations, and jointly build a border defense line to resist the invasion of neighboring countries and alien monsters.
So under the sinister intentions of the countess, the illegitimate son Sean was thrown here by Count Lane.
In fact, Sean knew very well in his heart that what he said to make himself a lord in Black Hawk Town was actually an inconsequential pawn of the Guraci family, or a handful of cannon fodder.
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Sean dies in Black Hawk territory, soon, the Guraki family will send new cannon fodder and unlucky ghosts.
Guarding the border, which year will not kill some people.
Otherwise, if there is such a good thing, why didn't Count Lane let his descendants come? You must know that Count Lane has three sons and two daughters.
Now that it's winter, the Black Hawk Territory could be looted and raided at any moment, but so what?
Black Eagle Town is not a military fortress, as the small lord of this border town, his main responsibilities are to build defense lines, patrol the border and transmit early warning information, and from time to time to expel some lone demonic beasts that wander into the territory, without a special reason, he can't easily give up his territory, otherwise he will be hanged.
Thinking of this, Sean sighed secretly, feeling very depressed.
"Damn God, do you want to play with me like this? I was finally reborn, can't you arrange a better place for me? Be a lord in this cursed death territory, and make it clear that I will wait for death!"
For the first time in his life, he felt so desperate and helpless.
Suddenly, Sean saw the black tin box on the table, and his heart couldn't help but move, "Hey, I was knocked unconscious by this tin box that night, and after I woke up, it also crossed with me, is it the ghost of this tin box? It can let me cross here, I wonder if you can send me back?"
In an instant, Sean's eyes lit up.
He walked briskly to the desk and picked up the black tin box, which was only the size of a palm.
The black tin box is dark all over, and it looks very weird, and it doesn't feel like a product of modern technology.
As he smashed and knocked around, the black suitcase "clicked" open, and a silver-white necklace was stored inside.
"Why is there a necklace in it?"
Sean took out the necklace with some curiosity and observed it carefully.
At the bottom of this silver-white necklace is a thumb-sized crystal ball pendant, and inside the transparent pendant, there seems to be a small black square object.
Because the black object inside the transparent pendant was too small for Sean to see with the naked eye, he picked up the magnifying glass on the table and studied it carefully.
Through the observation of the magnifying glass, Sean finally saw the contents of the pendant clearly.
It was a miniature building, with a total of nine floors, glass windows, stairwells, elevator doors, roller shutters, and various pipe lines, which looked very realistic.
It's as if someone has used a shrinking technique to shrink a giant nine-story mall and fit it into this thumb-sized transparent pendant.
At the top of the miniature building, Sean also saw six red letters: Ten Thousand Arms Mall
"The Ten Thousand Worlds Weapons Mall is so strangely named?" Sean was stunned for a moment, faintly feeling that something was wrong with this necklace, but he couldn't say what was wrong.
Why is there a necklace inside the iron box, and inside the transparent pendant of the necklace, there is also a shopping mall? Yes, that's right, it's a seal.
He took the necklace and the iron box in his hand again and studied it for a long time, but he still didn't find anything famous.
It seems that he can't go back.
At present, I can only accept the reality, and in the future, I will mix in this Black Eagle Town for a day, and be a baron and a small lord.
Sean sighed helplessly, ready to put the necklace in the black iron box.
Suddenly, the familiar knock on the door of the housekeeper Old John came from outside, "Master, your breakfast is ready!"
Sean's heart moved, and he hurriedly hid the necklace around his neck, and stuffed the black tin box into the drawer, he didn't want to be discovered.
After doing all this, he sorted out his clothes and appearance, then took a deep breath and said lightly, "Come in, John......"
At the moment when Old John, the castle steward, pushed open the door, the silver and white necklace that Sean was wearing around his neck, and inside its transparent pendant, suddenly flashed a faint light.