Chapter 1 The Cursed Territory of Death
Recently, a ridiculous farce occurred on the northern wasteland.
It is said that half a month ago, it was located in a mangrove forest in the northern wasteland of the Tulip Principality, which was the junction of the territory of the "Baron of Black Hawk" and the "Baron of Graystone Castle".
The Baron of Graystone Castle brought his men to collect two cans of honey in the mangroves, and was discovered by the Baron of Blackhawk Town who was inspecting the territory.
So, the two lords actually fought for two cans of honey.
This war, triggered by two cans of honey, led all the main forces of the two lords, each leading dozens of troops to set up a formation, and decided on the ownership of the two cans of honey in the wilderness outside the Red Pine Forest.
The Baron of Blackhawk Town dispatched one heavy knight, ten trainee knights, and forty temporary pieces of militia.
The Baron of Greystone Castle opposite sent one heavy knight, sixteen light knights, and more than thirty guards holding spears.
The military strength of the two sides seems to be almost the same, but who would have thought that the Baron Black Hawk was beaten by Baron Greystone Castle and abandoned his armor with just one charge.
The forty militias that the Black Hawk Lord temporarily pieced together instantly collapsed and fled in an instant, facing the charge of the Greystone Fort army. Even the Baron and his team of knights were all injured and captured.
The Graystone Castle was still a little unsatisfied, and they didn't even exert much effort, so the war was over.
Originally, the Baron of Black Hawk Town only wanted two cans of honey, but he lost his wife and soldiers. Not only did he not get the honey, he and his knights even got it in.
Sadly, in the dungeon of Greystone Castle, our Black Hawk Baron suffered humiliation and finally had to ask his father, Earl Ryan, for help, and then spent a lot of money to redeem the body of freedom.
However, this is not the most embarrassing thing.
The most embarrassing thing is that when our Black Hawk Baron was sent back to the Black Hawk territory, after passing the mangroves that day, a wild boar that protected the cub suddenly rushed out of the forest, and knocked the miserable Black Hawk Baron away on the spot, causing the Baron Graystone Castle and others to laugh so hard that they could not even straighten their waists.
Faced with such humiliation, the grief-angry Black Hawk Baron was so angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma.
After returning to the territory, something even worse happened. The awakened Baron Black Hawk suddenly became nervous and sat on the roof every day and was talking nonsense, yelling about what to return to Earth.
Such a bizarre farce soon spread throughout the northern wasteland, becoming a joke for countless noble lords and knights and civilians after dinner.
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The cold wind was everywhere, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was a bit gloomy, as if it could pour a cold and heavy rain on this cold and desolate border wasteland at any time.
The serfs in the Black Hawk territory were ragged and dull, like puppets controlled by invisible ropes, working numbly day after day, year after year, without seeing a trace of hope and light.
Their mood was like the dark and gloomy sky above their heads, full of depression and despair.
黑!黑!黑!
The loud and melodious bells of the church spread throughout the Black Hawk territory along the town center square in the early morning. In an instant, a short and hopeful spirit flashed in the eyes of everyone in the territory.
Many people in the Black Hawk territory, whether they were serfs, free men, knights, or maids and servants in the lord castle, stopped busy, their eyes closed, their hands tightly held on their chests, and they were praying with a pious expression.
God said: Each of us comes with sin. Only by constantly praying for God’s forgiveness and clearing sins can we escape from the purgatory of humanity and allow our souls to enter the Pure Land of Heaven after death.
"Yes, God is right. This world is indeed a miserable purgatory. Since living is for atonement, I only want to be liberated after death..." Each of them thought so, because this is their only faith and hope.
Of course, some people don’t think so, such as our Black Hawk Baron.
Inside the shabby Black Hawk Lord Castle.
The thin baron stood in front of the mirror, staring blankly at himself in the mirror.
The mirror shows a tall and thin young man, at most about twenty years old.
His slightly curly golden hair, towering nose bridge, and extremely pale face, especially his azure blue eyes, were deep and bright, and looked extremely eye-catching.
"Why did I become like this..."
Looking at the stranger in the mirror, Sean's mood was a little complicated. Three days passed, but he still did not fully accept the fact that he had traveled through time.
Seven days ago, on the way back from get off work, he was knocked unconscious by an iron box falling from a high altitude. After waking up, the whole world changed.
Strange environments, strange people, and strange self, everything becomes very strange.
As the memories of the past few days were slowly merged, he had no choice but to accept reality. He had really traveled through time, not dreaming.
According to the emergence of memories in his mind, he gradually gained some understanding of the strange world after traveling through time.
This is a fantasy world similar to the medieval European era, with lords, nobles, knights and prophets, as well as the Holy See and Mage. What’s even more outrageous is that there are giants, magic pattern masters and divine calligraphers here.
After being reborn, he was called Sean Nicholas, a baron lord on a certain border of the Tulip Principality. He also had a father, named Ryan Gulachi, Earl of Snow Wolf City, and was a big lord on the northwest border of the Principality.
After traveling through time, as the son of the noble earl, the lord of Black Hawk Town, and with his young and handsome noble status, he should be grateful for such a high starting point for rebirth.
However, this is not the case.
At the beginning, when Sean learned that he had been reborn as a baron lord, although he was still a little panicked at first, he was a little excited and a little grateful inside.
However, as time went by, the memories of the ex-baron slowly emerged in his mind. After he figured out his situation after rebirth, he could no longer be happy.
It turns out that Black Eagle Town is located in the northern wasteland of the Tulip Principality. It is a bitter and cold place, with scarce supplies and very poor and desolate. Not only is the low agricultural productivity here, but it is also very dangerous and chaotic.
Outside the border of the Principality, there is a dark forest that cannot be seen at the end.
It is said that in that terrifying dark forest, there are often monsters, barbarian tribes and vicious thieves. In winter, those barbarian tribes and vicious thieves often attack the manor towns on the border of the Principality.
Like those small towns with weak armed defense, they are often looted, and the money and materials in the territory are plundered completely.
Especially the Black Hawk Town Territory governed by Sean is located at the most border of the northern wasteland. Every winter, it will face plunder and invasion at any time. The serfs living here and the lords and nobles are worried and miserable all day long.
In the past ten years, the Black Hawk Town Territory has replaced seven lords, and no lord can hold on here for more than two years.
Because the lords of the Black Hawk Town before were either attacked by barbarian tribes or slaughtered by the thieves group, none of them could leave here alive.
The territory of Black Hawk Town has become the cursed "death territory" in the Tulip Duke, and Sean is the latest lord of this "death territory".
According to the memories after the integration, Sean's origin was actually not glorious.
His mother, Cathy Nicholas, was a Verne singer. Because of her beauty, she was attracted by Earl Ryan and became the Earl's lover, so he was born.
Strictly speaking, he is an illegitimate child.
Due to the lowly identity of the illegitimate child, Sean could not inherit everything from the "Gulachi" family, including the great surname "Gulachi", and could only follow the mother's surname "Nicholas".
Originally, with the lowly status of Sean's illegitimate child, he could not become a baron, nor could he have a territory fief, but God favored this lowly illegitimate child very much. So when Sean was fourteen years old, he unexpectedly awakened and became a junior "summoner".
According to the unfamous rule of this world, anyone who can awaken and become a divine calligrapher is a child who has been kissed by the Father God and deserves a noble identity and treatment.
So under the dual verification of the Holy See and the Grand Duke of Tulip, Sean Nicholas was awarded the title of baron and was lucky enough to become a nobleman.
Although the Black Hawk Territory is located on the border of the Principality and is bitter and cold, it is not something that he, who only has a nominal title, can own. After all, no matter how bad it is, it is still the territory of the Gulachi family.
Over the past decade, the Gulachi family has sent nine family children to Black Hawk Town to serve as lords, but without exception, no lord was able to leave alive.
However, the Gulachi family could not give up this territory. According to the agreement with the Grand Duke of Tulip, the Earl of Snow Wolf City and the Marquis of Chilan Mountain must defend the northern wasteland for generations, jointly build border defense lines, and resist the invasion of neighboring countries and alien monsters.
So under the Countess' sinister intention, the illegitimate son Sean was thrown here by Earl Ryan.
In fact, Sean knew very well that what he said was to be a lord in Black Hawk Town was actually an irrelevant piece of the Gulachi family or a small handful of cannon fodder.
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Sean dies in the Black Hawk territory, the Gulachi family will soon select new cannon fodder and unlucky ghosts to come.
If you guard the border, some people will not die in one year.
Otherwise, if there is such a good thing, why didn't Earl Ryan let his direct children come? You should know that Earl Ryan has three sons and two daughters.
It is now winter, and the Black Hawk Territory may face the danger of looting and attack at any time, but so what?
Black Eagle Town is not a military fortress. As the little lord of this border town, its main responsibility is to build defense lines, patrol the border and transmit early warning information, and to expel some lonely monsters roaming into the territory from time to time. For no special reason, he cannot give up his territory easily, 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 finally reborn for a while, so I can't arrange a better place for me? Being a lord in this cursed death territory is clearly what makes me wait for death!"
For the first time in his life, he felt so desperate and helpless.
Suddenly, Sean saw the black iron box on the table, and couldn't help but feel moved, "Hey, I was knocked unconscious by this iron box that night. After waking up, it also traveled with me. Could it be that this iron box was the one that made me? It can make me travel here, I wonder if I can send me back?"
In an instant, Sean's eyes became hot.
He quickly walked to the desk and picked up the black iron box that was only the size of a palm.
The black iron box is dark all over, looks very strange, and doesn't feel like a product of modern technology.
As he smashed and knocked, the black carrying box opened with a "click" and a silver-white necklace was stored inside.
"Why is there a necklace inside?"
Sean took out his necklace curiously and observed it carefully.
At the bottom of this silver-white necklace, there is a thumb-sized crystal ball pendant. Inside the transparent pendant, there seems to be a small black square object embedded.
Because the black object inside the transparent pendant was too small, Sean couldn't see clearly with his naked eyes, so he picked up the magnifying glass on the table and started to study it carefully.
Through the magnifying glass, Sean finally saw clearly what was inside the pendant.
It was a miniature building with nine floors in total, with glass windows, stairwells, elevator doors, rolling gates, and various pipe lines, which looked very realistic.
It's like someone used the shrinking technique to shrink a giant nine-story mall and put it into this thumb-sized transparent pendant.
At the top of the miniature building, Sean also saw six red fonts: Wanjie Weapons Mall
"Warm Mall of Ten Thousand Worlds? The name is so strange?" Sean was stunned for a moment, feeling something was wrong with the necklace, but he couldn't say anything wrong.
Why is there a necklace inside the iron box, and there is a shopping mall sealed in the transparent pendant of the necklace? Yes, that's right, it's a seal.
He held the necklace and the iron box in his hand and studied it for a long time, but still couldn't find any good news.
It seems that I can't go back.
At present, we can only accept reality. From now on, we will spend one day in this Black Hawk Town, and forget about being a baron little lord.
Sean sighed helplessly and prepared to put the necklace into the black iron box.
Suddenly, the familiar knocking sound of the housekeeper John, "Master, your breakfast is ready!"
Sean's heart moved, hurriedly hid the necklace on his neck, and stuffed the black iron box into the drawer. He didn't want anyone to find these things.
After doing all this, he sorted out his clothes and instruments, then took a deep breath and said lightly: "Come in, John..."
Just as the castle housekeeper Old John pushed open the door, a faint light suddenly flashed in the silver-white necklace worn by Sean in his neck.
Chapter completed!