บท 2: Rebirth

Near Belmont sub-continent. Seashell Island, Pearl village.

It was a cloudless night with moonlight sprinkling from the gaps of cracks in the wooden wall, but Alex's mood was terrible, and he was feeling very depressed.

He swore that if he ever returned to Earth, Alex would torture that dogfuc*k electrician a hundred times, and every time he would torture him differently.

In the previous world, Alex was an orphan staying in a two-bedroom house that he got as an inheritance after his Grandfather and grandmother passed away. Everyone from his family before passing away was somehow in the military or military-related organizations. His Grandfather was a respected retired general while his grandmother worked in military logistics.

Alex's father worked for some secret organization defending the country from the shadows, and this he came to know from his Grandfather after his dad died on duty; he never told him how, as this was also highly classified information.

The only one in his family that seemed reasonable was her mother, she was a housewife, but Alex knew that no ordinary homemaker and a mother would teach her son how to assassinate someone using various techniques, skills, and poison. He easily guessed that his always smiling sweet mother might be a retired Assassin.

She vanished right after his father died. Alex still clearly remembers that night. His mother dressed in some skintight black suit; before leaving, she tucked him in bed while giving a kiss on his forehead before saying, "Sleep well, my child; I have to go somewhere so I cannot stay with you right now. Take care of your grandparents and learn well from them; I promise I will be back someday after I finish my work. And don't stop practicing what your father and I had taught you. Also, remember always to brush your tee...blah, blah, blah," the other part is not essential as this is just some embarrassing reminders that every mom would give their son if they leave them alone in the house.

Alex was usually very interested in fighting, strategy, adventure games, web novels, and surfing the internet. That is because of the knowledge and skill he had learned; it cannot be used generally in his everyday peaceful life. He never wanted to use it, so he tried to be as healthy as ordinary teens should be, doing everything he found interesting.

He had friends, both online and offline. He also had a crush on a beautiful girl in his university and was soon going to ask her on a date, but fate has other things stored for him as he reincarnated to this backward land.

Alex was muddleheaded for a long time before he realized that he had crossed over and possessed a person with the same name, Alex, as himself.

He would have been able to endure it if it were a regular reincarnation. Still, whom among the reincarnated did not end up being competent and arrogant, capable of singlehandedly defeating countless experts with their bare hands and sending crowds of beauties into screaming delirium with a wave of their hand?

Not to mention, he should have compelling plot armor, but it has been a week since he came here, and there is no sight of heavenly treasures, system, or any other gold finger.

This place was an island and that he came to know from this body's memories, but that was not all. From the memories, he also found out that this world was where the strong were respected, feared, and worshiped.

The weak people in Kingdoms would have rights on the surface, but in reality, those rights and laws to protect the vulnerable were just like a string for the influential people, they could easily break it whenever they wanted.

However, the person whose body he possessed was frail concerning his peers in the village. He was already fifteen years old, yet he still had not entered the first realm of body tempering. At the same time, some talented ones have even achieved level 2 and 3 of the Body Tempering Realm.

Of course, not every person has the physical body to cultivate; these people are ordinary and cannot achieve anything significant in their life unless they are highly educated and have a high IQ. Otherwise, they will live their whole life in a small place without knowing how big it is the world.

Alex would love to have a carefree life, but then he had to have internet or some entertainment, or else this modern soul will go insane. For the whole week, Alex had gone through memories of this body, and he came across some awful scenarios which in the previous world you won't see in daylight. Alex saw how a merchant had made a family of three of his slaves just because they couldn't pay their loan for one day. That was ridiculous, and even the village head, who was at level 6 of the body tempering realm in the village, didn't do anything. He also invited that merchant to his house as a guest.

There are many such cases where girls have been kidnapped and raped behind some trees or in the bar by some mercenary or some Noble master who passes by the village.

They even killed a boy of his age just because he spooked horses of a Noble kid accidentally. It was quite a dark medieval world, but it's not like there aren't any good people. But all these people who could stop such thing happening in front of them had one thing in common they were all strong or had persuasive authority in their hands. If a weak good-hearted man confronted such a villain, then he would either have his head cut off from his body or have his own family replace the victims.

It is what made him the most depressed about because in the previous world, he was protected under his family, and even after that, he could live alone there as law and order were at least passable.

'No... I can live well here as well as I am from the modern world, not like these uneducated, common people, and even if I can't cultivate, I can still protect myself from skills I had learned from my family and also the internet. I can become some noble advisers on military strategy or manage some logistic or hell; I can even become rich with my modern world knowledge.

Excitedly, Alex closed his eyes to act like he was sleeping. His face was towards the bed where his Uncle and Aunt would sleep at night, his bed was only a meter away from theirs, and the only thing which separated their bed was a transparent linen cloth hanging between then them from the roof.

Uncle Jack and Aunt Meg had adopted him after they found the previous person as a baby in the swampy marsh forest all alone while they were hunting. They didn't have a child of their own, so they had taken care of him till now. His uncle Jack was in the 5th Body Tempering realm while Aunt was in the 4th Body tempering realm. It was because of them that the people in the village did not bully him. The previous body was quite an introvert, so he will also not come in front of a wicked noble young master or anyone powerful.

Some people even thought that he was dumb, but Alex found out from his memories that this guy was instead quite intelligent and because he couldn't cultivate, he remains to himself to not give any worries to his Uncle and Aunt, but of course, they knew how he was at home.

So they never minded how he shows himself on the outside. But they were quite fearful of his future. Because of that, both his Uncle and Aunt would hunt Demon beasts with abundant QI in the swampy marsh forest in the hope that he would someday break to the 1st level of Body tempering realm. There were cases when even a person of age 23 had entered Body Tempering Realm by eating meat with abundant Qi over the years, and from then they could cultivate usually.

An average person would live around 50-70 years naturally. Still, if that person entered in Body tempering realm, then he would add 5 to 10 Years to his life after every level he crosses in the Body tempering realm and with the hope to live a better life after getting stronger.

Anyway, Alex was not thinking about this right now, nor was he in a position to even have any other thoughts because he was busy seeing a live-action show in front of him. ' I died as a pure virgin in my previous life, maybe because I was so pure god gave me new life after death' thought Alex shamelessly.

Alex was quite excited about the scene that was happening in front of him.

In front of him under the bright moonlight, his eyes filled with a view of the bed and Aunt Meg walking over to it. She was wearing a short red robe and sitting on the edge of the bed, gave her long, dirty blond hair a toss.

"What is it, honey?" she asked Uncle Jack with a big smile.

"Just wondering if you're ready for bed." Uncle's deep voice came from behind her.

"For the bed, sure," her smile turned mischievous, "For sleep? Not yet."