Volume 1 - The Leaf in the Wind and the Wandering Man Chapter 20 - Once Upon a Time in the Void (I)

The frog that had been cornered shook even harder.

Of course, it remembered what had happened a month ago, and it had been a nightmare.

In fact, it had been observing Samuel in the oval gem for a long time before forcing him to sign the master-servant contract. It found that Samuel had a high status in human society, and if he could force the other party to serve himself through the soul contract, then he could struggle for an unknown number of years.

That night, it finally struck at the unsuspecting Samuel. It was soon pleasantly surprised to find that Samuel's spiritual power and soul strength were not very strong, and he did not wear any soul-level protective equipment, so it was almost impossible to resist the power of the master-servant contract.

It turned out that its judgment was not wrong, and it channeled the power of the contract into the core of Samuel's soul, and the next moment, Samuel would become a slave who could not disobey his orders.

Then it encountered the law of terror against it. It is well aware of the reason for this backlash: the creatures it seeks to enslave have higher legal authority than it has.

The legal authority of the individual has nothing to do with the actual power of the individual, but is an intrinsic attribute of the soul. For example, in ancient times there were many gods who bonded with humans and gave birth to children of demigods. Many of these children of demigods were superior in strength, even surpassing some of the weaker gods. But no matter how weak the gods were, even if their strength was far inferior to these demigods, their law authority was still higher than that of the demigods. If the demigods tried to force these weak gods to sign the master-servant soul contract, they would inevitably incur a backlash from the law.

This black "frog" itself is a void creature, and it is a high-ranking void creature, its law authority has reached the same level as those powerful gods in ancient times, but when he forced Samuel to sign the soul contract, he was actually attacked by the law, so who is Samuel? Or rather, what is Samuel?

The question made it feel a great horror, and it had a premonition that he might have offended something terrible.

Samuel didn't know what the culprit in front of him was thinking, and in fact he didn't know much about the concepts of void creatures, law authority, etc., so he didn't realize what the contract counterattack a month ago meant. Samuel was very happy to see the culprit wake up, and he could now ask the strange creature in front of him what he had not been able to figure out from his adoptive father. He picked up the chair he had just kicked over, ready to sit down and interrogate the strange creature.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking at all, Samuel could only speak first:

"No matter what your purpose was at the time, now that you are my pet, and I am a person who cherishes my possessions, I will not do anything to you. ”

When the black frog heard this, Samuel was not angry at his actions a month ago, and instantly breathed a sigh of relief, and it immediately nodded its head with a strong desire to survive, and then realized that the wording of "property" was very strange, and immediately shook its head like a rattle.

Samuel saw that his demon pet nodded at first, and then suddenly began to shake his head vigorously, thinking that there was something wrong with this thing, but he still patiently continued to negotiate with the other party, but this time he chose a more relaxed topic:

"What's your name?"

Seeing that Samuel finally asked a less dangerous topic, the frog immediately grabbed a life-saving straw:

Jia ...... Abdul-Jabbar, my name is Abdul-Jabbar."

Samuel was pleased with this opening, and then asked:

"Tell me where you came from"

"I ...... It's a newly-awakened void creature, and this is my first ...... I don't remember the first awakening, but this is the first awakening in hundreds of years. ”

Samuel instantly grasped the key points: the void creatures, the awakening, and the fact that it was not the first awakening. This short sentence made Samuel, who was already full of doubts, have more questions, but he did not immediately start asking questions, but planned to solve a few basic problems first.

Under the gaze of the black frog, Samuel's body gradually swelled and deformed, eventually turning into a massive creature with seven tentacles. Abdul-Jabbar, who had finally breathed a sigh of relief, trembled uncontrollably again.

"You...... You're a Void creature too!"

"Also?"

It seems that the strange frog in front of him is also a void creature, so the other party will definitely be able to answer the questions in his stomach.

"Let's start with a simple question...... Like what...... What are Void Creatures, and what are Awakenings?" Samuel asked a few questions at once, "And the 'first awakenings' you just mentioned, can Void creatures still awaken many times?"

"Huh, you don't know anything?" Abdul-Jabbar was stunned.

Only then did it realize a problem, although Samuel was likely to be a frighteningly high level void creature, but after all, he had just awakened not long ago, and now he was at the level of a fledgling rookie, and he couldn't compare with an old void creature like himself, so he didn't need to be so flustered. And it seems that now that the other party has a request for himself, why not take the opportunity to fight for some benefits?

Thinking of this, he shook his head and replied:

"Change the contract of our master and servant to an equal contract of companionship, and I will tell you"

Seeing that the other party actually dared to put forward conditions, Samuel sighed in his heart, as the master of the master-servant contract, the other party could not disobey his orders, so he could directly force the other party to answer.

So he responded with a sneer: "As a servant's side, what qualifications do you have to put forward conditions?"

Jabbar was also undaunted: "Our master-servant contract is the result of the law backlash, you can also feel that this contract is incomplete, although I can't disobey your orders head-on, but if you force me to tell you about the awakening of the void creatures, I really can't keep silent, but you can't guarantee that what I tell you is the truth." ”

Samuel thought to himself that if Abdul-Jabbar deliberately left out some crucial information, or even lied in the most critical part, then Samuel would probably be in huge trouble.

However, Abdul-Jabbar is not the only one who can provide information about the Void Creature, Samuel can ask his adoptive father for clarification, although it may take months or even years, but it is better than breaking the master-servant contract for the sake of asking a question, without the constraints of the master-servant contract, Samuel does not know if he can still restrain this strange void creature.

Seeing Samuel acting completely non-negotiable, Abdul-Jabbar immediately took a step back: "Then we can add a non-harm clause to the master-servant contract, and then set a time limit for the master-servant contract, such as automatically converting to an equal companion contract after 100 years?"

"There may be some people in this world who know more about the Void creatures, but it's hard for them to know more than I do, and finding them and convincing them to tell you the truth is a time-consuming and laborious task, and you don't necessarily guarantee success. But as soon as we change the contract, I'll tell you everything you want to know in no time. ”

Samuel was a little moved. Judging from what his adoptive father said to him in that strange dream, Safron was not a void creature, so it was likely that the other party didn't know as much as Abdul-Jabbar. On the other hand, it is not unacceptable to set a 100-year period for the master-servant contract, after which you should be strong enough to deal with the evil intentions that Jabbar may hide.

And choosing to cooperate with Abdul-Jabbar is indeed beneficial to both parties, and the drive of interests can ensure that the other party honestly tells the truth to him more than the compulsion of the master-servant contract, rather than mixing some false words with evil intentions in the truth.

So Samuel quickly made a decision:

"I agree"

Then, after the two reached an agreement on some details of the contract, they began to work on a series of tedious work to revise the soul contract, and when these tasks were completed, Abdul-Jabbar finally breathed a sigh of relief. After 100 years, the clause of the master-servant contract was terminated, and the non-harm clause ensured that he would not be killed by the other party before the contract expired.

Now Abdul-Jabbar is starting to make good on his promise:

"To put it simply, a Void creature is a general term for a creature with a series of Void Privileges, including the ability to manipulate the Void power that pervades the Void, the privilege to interfere with the laws of the lower levels, and so on. ”

"The awakening of the Void creatures is more complicated, which involves the origin of the Void creatures, do you know where the Void creatures were born?"

This question really stopped Samuel. He knew that powerful beings were often not born in the main material plane, such as gods were often born in the realm of consciousness. Elemental creatures are born on the elemental plane, and some powerful spirits are born on the shadow plane. As a powerful creature, the Void creature should have been born in a similar plane.

"No, Void creatures were born on the main matter plane. Abdul-Jabbar replied in surprise, "We are called the Void Creatures because of the Loya civilization, who first discovered us in the Void that connects the worlds, so they gave us this name, but in fact we were born in the main material plane, and we can only move in the Void after awakening. ”

Samuel was very concerned about the term "Loya civilization", and under Abdul-Jabbar's explanation, Samuel knew that this was the civilization of the ancient gods, and he couldn't help but be amazed. The mortals of this world only know the existence of gods, but they have never heard that the gods also have their own social structure and civilization behind them

Even apart from the topic of "civilization of the gods", the amount of information in the other parts of Abdul-Jabbar's words just now can be said to be very large, thinking of his own awakening experience, Samuel came to a very surprising conclusion, many void creatures were ordinary mortals before awakening, so it is easy to deduce - many mortals may be hidden void creatures!

"That's right, void creatures often spend several lifetimes as members of ordinary species before awakening, and this ordinary life includes not only higher intelligent beings such as humans, but also lower creatures such as mammals and amphibians, such as me, before this awakening, was just a frog in the swamp of sorrow. ”

"How many lifetimes?" Samuel spotted a key point.

"Yes, unlike the teachings of the major religions as you know, the vast majority of creatures do not go to hell or the kingdom of the gods after death, and the soul does not eventually go to an "eternal destination" as the major doctrines say, in fact, whether it is the kingdom of God or hell, the imprisoning of souls is not justified. ”

"After the death of a living being, the soul should go to the Sea of Thoughts, rejoin the soul cycle, and after erasing all memories, reincarnate as a new biological entity and start a new life. ”

Samuel didn't answer, but chewed on the information contained in this passage. However, there have been some religions in the world that have put forward the concept of "reincarnation", and even the clergy of the mainstream religion have put forward similar ideas, but those who hold such ideas are often regarded as heretics or heretics by the mainstream religions and are exterminated.

Most of these leading deities declare to their followers that if they do not believe in a god, their souls will not be able to enter heaven after death, but will be exiled to some terrible places to be punished for eternity, including, but not limited to, hell, the abyss, or the eternal prison of the soul, the Soul Wall.

Although the concept of "reincarnation" has always had a large number of followers, no one has ever confirmed its existence. But now, Jabbar told himself that reincarnation does exist and that it is the right way for the world to work. This news was enough to send a major earthquake to the entire world of theology and arcane science.

So far, Abdul-Jabbar's words contain a lot of valuable information, and Samuel is sure that this is just the beginning.