Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Lollister, who had just transmigrated, used the two months he spent recuperating from his injuries to read all the history, geography, folklore, and travel notes he could find in Galinthea.
This was a world similar to medieval Europe on Earth. In Lollister's memory, knights and suzerains only existed during that period. He had even imitated a few sets of knight armor and sold them for a high price on the internet.
The people here were like Europeans, all white. However, he felt that this world was much more civilized than the dark and ignorant medieval civilization he had learned about on the internet. Perhaps it was only in terms of food that compared to the medieval period. Oatmeal, black bread, mashed potatoes, and salt everyday made people feel like they were dying. He really wondered if the chubby caretaker had secretly eaten the delicious food in his food to become so fat.
With this suspicion in mind, Lollister asked the caretaker, Kelly, if she could change her diet.
Kelly replied that this was the academy's food for the sick.
Lollister said that he should not eat the food for the sick, and eat normally.
Thus, the next day, Kelly brought over black bread and mashed potatoes. The oatmeal was gone, replaced by a vegetable soup with two leaves.
Lollister ate until tears streamed down his face, and he was in so much pain that he wanted to die.
Unlike the white Europeans in his previous world, the people here were used to putting their surnames first and their given names second, just like how people in China used their given names. Lollister had read in a book about the origins of the nobles that in the Thousand Years of Darkness, the elders of the tribe would bestow names upon those brave and courageous warriors who went to kill magical beasts on their own. Names like White Mountain, Big Tooth, and Flying Eagle were placed in front of their names, and over time, they became surnames. Norton, for example, meant angry bear in the ancient Elven language.
The biggest difference was that Galinthea had two moons. The first moon was called Daphne, which was silver-white. She was called the Silver Moon Goddess, or the Goddess of Love. The second moon was the much smaller Su Fenna, which was blood-red. She was called the Blood Moon Goddess, or the Goddess of Vengeance. She hung in the sky at night, revealing a red crescent. According to the legends of Galinthea, if Su Fenna revealed her entire body to the full moon, it meant that a large-scale war would break out in the human world.
In the legends, the Silver Moon Goddess and the Blood Moon Goddess were the wives of the God of Light, the God of War, and the Sun God, Higgva. Thus, in Galinthea, it was natural for a man to have two wives. Everyone recognized it, provided that one could afford it. Since there was no difference in status between the two wives, the betrothal gift of the second wife could not be less than that of the first wife. Therefore, for the sake of the peace of the family, many people, even the nobles, would rather only marry one wife to avoid trouble.
The more history books he read, the more confused Lollister felt. Because the Galinthea Continent was very large, humans only occupied a little more than a third of the continent. The rest were either wastelands, forests, or mountain ranges. Those were places that humans had never set foot in. However, it just so happened that many history books, geography books, and other miscellaneous books had maps of the entire continent of Galinthea, and they were all similar. It was said that these maps were left behind from the era of the Magic Civilization, and were maps of Galinthea surveyed by the Mages.
There was also language. The language was the so-called common language. All the humans in Galinthea spoke this language. There were no dialects, just one language. The language was a pictographic alphabet. There were a total of 32 letters, and two or three of these letters formed a diamond-shaped font. It was not difficult to grasp. The books said that this language and script were specially created and promoted by the Mages for humans. They had also mastered the Ancient Elvish, Draconic, Gnome, and some other magic languages.
What surprised Lollister the most was that many of the maps in the books depicted the Galinthea Continent as a round ball. Moreover, the people of Galinthea knew that they lived on a planet, but they did not call it a planet. Instead, they called it a plane world. Some of the books that described the Magic Civilization mentioned many so-called plane worlds, and these plane worlds were also round planets in the void.
Unless the legends about the Mages were true history, it was difficult to explain the language of this map. If this was true history, then it meant that the development of Galinthea's civilization took a different path. First, there was magic, then there was Combat Energy. They focused on individual strength and cultivation, unlike the Earth civilization of his previous life, which took the path of scientific and technological development.
Lollister began to become interested in Combat Energy. He carefully studied the handwritten book of Inferno Combat Energy, and after his own cultivation, he understood that the key to Combat Energy was blood circulation.
The people of Galinthea called the places where the blood flowed through a person's body nodes. The human body had 72 large nodes, 360 small nodes, and 1,080 odd nodes. The so-called Combat Energy was to sense the vitality in the air and increase the speed of blood circulation. It allowed the blood to flow according to one's feelings through a few nodes to form a special cycle that produced a sense of Qi. This allowed one to obtain explosive strength, speed, and reflexes. This was Combat Energy.
There was one thing that Lollister was surprised about. Combat Energy had attributes. Just like the Chinese medical books he had memorized when he was young, the human body had five elements. The skin, nostrils, lungs, and large intestine were metal, the tendons, eyes, liver, and gallbladder were wood, the bones, ears, kidneys, and bladder were water, the veins, tongue, heart, and small intestine were fire, and the flesh, spleen, mouth, and stomach were earth, just like how Combat Energy was divided into more types.
For example, from the perspective of Combat Energy, the blood circulation from the top of the head, eyes, and several blood nodes below the jaw would produce Combat Energy of the light attribute. The Combat Energy from the back of the head to the tailbone would produce Combat Energy of the dark attribute. The blood nodes that flowed through the kidneys and bladder would produce Combat Energy of the water attribute. The blood nodes on the right chest that included the liver and gallbladder would produce Combat Energy of the wood attribute. The right abdomen would produce Combat Energy of the fire attribute, the left abdomen would produce Combat Energy of the metal attribute, and the left abdomen would produce Combat Energy of the earth attribute. There were also a dozen blood nodes from the shoulders to the thighs that produced Combat Energy of the wind attribute. There were also Combat Energy of the blood attribute, Combat Energy of the ice attribute, and other uncommon attributes.
Generally speaking, the training of dou qi was to form a pentagram or a hexagram with a few large blood vessels in the body. Then, within this pentagram or hexagram, a few dozen small blood vessels would form a new blood circulation. Then, by increasing the speed of blood circulation, it would produce the feeling of dou qi. Mastering this sense of Combat Energy was the goal of Combat Energy training. From this point of view, Lollister felt that the training of Combat Energy was similar to the training of inner strength in his previous life.
However, there were many limitations in the training of Combat Energy. Combat Energy of different attributes could not be trained at the same time. For example, if you had Combat Energy of the earth attribute, you could not train in other attributes. Even though it was not considered Qi deviation, it was true that you would not be able to advance to the next level. There were also many types of Combat Energy. There were more than ten types of non-elemental basic Combat Energy. Just like the Combat Energy in the military, they were all low-rank Combat Energy. Training these Combat Energy up to Iron-rank was already the peak.
However, the advantages of Basic Dou Qi and Military Dou Qi were that they had no elemental requirements and could be trained by anyone. Secondly, it was easy to train and could sense Qi faster. Most of the blood nodes were in the shape of a pentagram, and there were fewer blood nodes inside, which made it easier for people to control the flow of Qi.
The popular Combat Energy Initiation Classes in the academy basically taught students basic Combat Energy first. When they reached Iron-rank, the students would then choose mid-rank or high-rank Combat Energy based on their elemental attributes to train on their own. However, most of the mid-rank and low-rank Combat Energy manuals on the market were Silver-rank. There were very few mid-rank and high-rank Combat Energy manuals that could be trained to Gold-rank, and they were worth thousands of gold coins.
Laurist was very interested in this body's Inferno Combat Energy and was determined to train it well. He was not worried about the lack of Combat Energy above Silver-rank. Anyway, his memory told him that this body's third uncle would come over every year to check on little Locke's situation and send him a year's worth of living expenses and tuition fees. So, when his Inferno Combat Energy reached Iron-rank, he could ask his third uncle to bring the second half of the secret manual over to continue training. However, who would've thought that after only three years, he would suddenly disappear without a trace. Then, a year later, a war between three princes broke out in the Crisen Empire. The war lasted for six years, and he completely lost contact with his family in the north.
Laurist didn't care about losing contact with his family. Instead, he was secretly delighted. The original owner of this body had been exiled, and now that he lost contact with them, he didn't have to worry about people suspecting him of being an imposter. The problem was that his living expenses and tuition fees were gone. Food wasn't a problem, though. He could eat at Fatty Madoff's house, who set up a stall in front of the academy every day. At the very least, he could eat at the academy since the tuition fees included the cost of three meals. Although the three meals were a little unpalatable, the tuition fees were still a headache.
At that time, Laurist had already been in Dawn Academy for three and a half years. He had already passed the certification for accounting and knight training, so he could graduate. However, Laurist had just transmigrated here. In the past three years, he had made friends and was familiar with the environment here. He had long regarded Morent City as his home. Where could he go after graduation? He was only seventeen or eighteen years old and had just entered Iron-rank. Wasn't it a little too early for him to explore this unfamiliar world with his strength?
In order to understand this world, Laurist had signed up for two specializations in the second half of last year. One was pharmaceutics and the other was knowledge of major monsters. He subconsciously thought that the more he learned, the better it would be for him to integrate into this world. Fortunately, Laurist had transmigrated to the most flourishing and civilized city in Galinthea, and not some desolate mountain village. This saved him the trouble of exploring this world in confusion, and if he was unlucky, no one would know where he ended up hanging in a corner.
A semester's tuition fee for each specialization was five to eight gold fords. Knowledge of major monsters was easy. Basically, he had to learn how to draw from pictures and understand the characteristics of various monsters, which could be destroyed, which parts of the monster were useful and valuable, and so on. As long as he memorized this specialization well, it wouldn't be difficult to pass. The worst part was pharmaceutics. Not only did he have to identify various drugs, but he also had to learn how to process them and synthesize them. All of these required money for experiments.
For the past three years, his third uncle would buy him clothes and delicious food every time he visited. He would also leave around thirty gold coins for his tuition fee and living expenses for a year. Sometimes, if the caravan's business was good, he would even give him a few more gold coins. Laurist didn't usually spend lavishly. Other than buying books, food, and hiring servants, he didn't have any other expenses. He only had twenty to thirty gold fords saved up.
Perhaps in the eyes of Madoff, who had a food stall at the entrance of the academy, twenty to thirty gold fords was a huge sum of money. However, for Laurist, who had to continue his studies, this amount of money was only enough for him to study for another year and a half.
Since he didn't want to leave Moronte City, he had to think of ways to earn money. Laurist was brought to the mercenary union by a few friends in the academy to register as a bronze-ranked mercenary of the lowest rank. Then, he started running errands for others.
However, Laurist had the experience of his previous life, so he was smart. He found a business opportunity when he was running errands for the mercenary union. He contacted a few friends, pooled a few gold coins, and bought a large number of low-rank major monster pelts. He asked someone to tan them and process them into the backpacks that were commonly seen in his previous life. When he brought them to the mercenary union, the design was novel, and it didn't affect his movements. It was convenient to carry, it was fast to load and unload, and it had a large capacity. Three to four hundred backpacks were sold out in one go. Laurist and a few friends each received around ten gold fords. They struck while the iron was hot and earned another seventy to eighty gold coins.
Just as Laurist and his friends were about to open a leather factory to produce these backpacks, they suddenly discovered that there were many imitation backpacks on the market. Not only were there many different styles, but the prices were also greatly reduced. They were so angry that they cursed and cursed, but there was nothing they could do. They gave up on the idea of opening a leather factory.
This incident made Laurist a little famous in the mercenary union, and he also gained some prestige among his friends. In fact, Laurist had many ideas to earn gold coins, but he didn't want to attract attention and keep a low profile. The gold coins he had were enough for him to live a carefree life. He would go to the academy to study, and in his free time, he would go to the mercenary union to take on some small missions and run errands. During the school holidays, he formed a small adventurer team with a few good friends to explore and kill a few low-level magical beasts. His days were leisurely, and in just two to three years, Laurist had become a wily old fox among mercenaries.
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