my name is Arowen, i was a living in a planet called earth where science played an important role in human life, it helped people understand the mysteries of the universe, and manipulate the elements to ease human life
in that world i was, and yes i was because i died in that world, i was a normal student in my third year of uni, i liked to read novels, manga and watch movies, tv shows and anime, i wasn't outstanding in my studies but i was good, i had a good brain. i was quite smart if you ask me but novels took most of my study time, i was addicted to them
enough talk about who i was, in the end i died and i don't even know how or rather i can't remember, so let's start talking about who i am now
i reincarnated into another world, the people here call it spirit world, i was born as a boy(thankfully), and unlike what you may be thinking, i wasn't self aware from my mothers womb or anything like that, you could rather give the credit of recovering my memory to a random monkey throwing a rock at me after me and some kids annoyed it, it happened like this;
i was 4 years old at that time, me and some village boys were playing, when we got this crazy idea to go to the nearby forest and throw rocks at the monkeys there, but who would of thought that they would start retaliating, well..hehe definitely not 4 years old kids, and as it so happened while we were busy running away one lucky shot met its target right onto my head, and i was in a coma for a couple of days while i was remembering my past life and when i woke up, lo and behold as i made full physical recovery
i found out later that the village purged that monkey community after the incident and that my fellow trouble makers were punished by their parents, as for me i took a good beating from my father and a long session of scolding from my mother, my ears are still ringing as proof of what happened
anyway, that incident went well and i am back to my usual self, with a little change, i got really curious about this world, as no normal human being would recover from a severe head trauma like a little scratch, receive a beating from his father afterwards and still live to tell the tale with no long lasting injury or becoming a retard, and here i am running as if nothing happened at all and it was considered normal
i once saw a young man who broke his leg after a 10 meter fall and breaking his leg, one week later he was up and running again with only a few brunches serving as a plaster to hold his leg bone in place
i guess it is some kind of magical world, so i started snooping around and asking all kind of questions about the world under the pretext that i wanted to be a traveler, but i was disappointed as the adults would just ignore me and shew me off or just give me some vague answer, that is until i found what looked like a school where the young villagers would go and learn to read and write as it is a necessity in this world for everyone to be at least literate
so i joined the group of youths learning under the old teacher josh, he was an aspiring scholar that couldn't even make it past the preliminaries to join the government and so he came back to his home after some time wondering the world and started teaching the young people of this village to sustain himself and his family
my first objective was to learn how to read and write in this world language as it too important for when i go out of this village, and the sooner i learn this basic knowledge the better it is for me as i could learn faster and wider variety of things from books than from one person
i joined the group of young people to learn from josh, the ages of students ranged from 7 to 12 years old who were all held in a room that could hold around 50 people inside, the room housed a small shelve that contained thick books and a single chair for old josh while the kids sat on the ground and a blackboard where he would write the words and letters of what is called common language
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it has been 6 months since i joined the mini school of the village and i can already read quite a bunch of words, seems like my past worlds sharp mind is still the same even in this world and i think that i got better as i don't need to write down what is taught, i could remember it just fine after learning it the first time, i feel like a sponge whatever i a learn i remember perfectly
so what i learned in these months is that now i live in a world called the spirit world, it is a world filled with essence, widely known as essential energy, this essence is what warriors use to strengthen themselves using mystical techniques ,
this world is ruled by the strong, only the stronger warrior could have the final say, in this world the strong feast on the weak, and for the weak to survive they either get stronger or go under the banner of someone strong
in this world their are two factions, humans and demons, they live with each other in strange harmony, humans like me start off from ordinary using mystic techniques to reach higher realms of power, but the first hurdle is to become a warrior and to do that one must strengthen their body so that it could harness essential energy(A.N: from now on i will call it EE) from the environment and thus start the journey of a warrior
in this world their exist two types of warriors, those who have a spirit and those who don't, when a child reaches 7 years old his spirit will automatically awaken, for at this age their soul fully mature and thus give birth to a spirit, a manifestation of their soul, those who awaken their spirit have an easier time becoming a warrior, while those who don't would have to put more efforts in their training depending on their talent
for those who don't awaken a spirit they can only acquire one by hunting demons and absorbing their spirit but that can only happen after becoming a warrior as for the specifics it wasn't mentioned in the small library of old josh, but what is certain is that it is the only chance for one who hasn't awaken his spirit at 7 to acquire one, there is no impact to the training, one could advance in realms even without a spirit, but what is special about spirits is that at each realm the spirit provide the warrior an innate skill that could give the warrior an advantage over the others, that's why every spirit awakening is a huge boon to the future warriors
in addition to that it is said that when one is at a certain stage they could even summon their spirit into the physical realm to aid them in combat but no further information about the subject could be found
as for demons, they start off as normal animals and if they get strong enough and could sense EE they become demons and slowly gain intelligence as they advance in realms, at higher realms they could even take a humanoid form, demons have very powerful bodies and not all of them start as an animal some demons are born demons and some are even born at higher stages of cultivation plus warriors could only get spirits from demons if they didn't reach maturity as it is easier to tame them and integrate them to their souls
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demons also have different social structure than humans, unlike us human who are social animals and prosper as we unite the demons have a very territorial mind set, be they lone demons or pack leaders, each demon govern vast territories, and the higher the realm of the demon the bigger its territory and the more lower ranked demons are under its reign
that's you would find that most of the spirit world surface is ruled by demons while what is left is ruled by humans, but that doesn't mean that humans are inferior to demons,or that the territories they rule is small, it is just that the demons are much more numerous than the humans but in the overall strength structure the humans and demons are similar
more detailed information is not available to me now, but i will get it in due time, i am only a 4 years old so needn't fill my mind with that much concern my only goal for now should be to strengthen my body and mind, and hope that i awaken a spirit
as for the place i live in, i already knew that i lived in a mountain village called nisdou, don't ask me what it means that's its name
this village belong to a kingdom called Zueru and this kingdom in itself belong to an empire called northern Renecos and as it's name indicate the empire is in the north of the main continent under the rule of the Renecos council
the worlds landmass is composed of a main huge continent and many other subcontinents with various sizes and countless islands
the main stage of this world is the main continent while the others are not that important, the main continent is not only the biggest but also the strongest and has the highest concentration of EE, and i am living in this continent so i have a better starting point than those who are born in the other subcontinents as the strongest warrior of an empire of those subcontinents may only be as strong as the village chief, and he is considered a weakling in the outside world, so you could say that one subcontinent is like a small town or a big village in the main continent
in the main continent know as "martial mainland" there exist 4 empires, one on each of the cardinal positions and each empire houses a lot of kingdoms of which the kings of these kingdoms form a coalition which they call an empire
so unlike what is understood in my previous world, an empire here is formed from the alliance of multiple kingdoms who are in constant war among each other with breaks in between, its like those kingdom building games in my previous world, but more brutal and deadly, so these empires witness the rise and fall of multiple kingdoms
this world is quite complex if you ask me i couldn't grasp the complexity of the social construct of the empires or how they are still standing but i shouldn't bother myself with these things, just thinking about it gives me a headache, heck even thinking about thinking about it gives me a headache
anyway these 4 empires are divided by large amount of land which contains a lot of danger that makes the transport of large amount of troops an impossible task otherwise we could be on the brink of a world wide war of mass destruction if we are not already in the middle of a world war already, after according to my past worlds logic this world is already in the state of world war for centuries and maybe more, so just throw fucking logic out of the window and by the way time is like my old world 24 hours a day 7 days a week etc...
now i should really stop thinking about the vast outer world and concentrate on the now, after all i am just 4.5 years old and far from becoming a warrior
now that a little bit of background and world building is done, i should go back to my own little person
after 6 months of information collection, i have an extremely vague sense of the world i was reborn into
next step should be to make priorities:
1-become a warrior
and then . . . . . . fuck that is like the ultimate goal for now and the only one at that
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in the fields of a village you could see a young boy scrunching his face and holding his head, obviously deep into thinking while muttering strange words out of his mouth unlike any language known to the spirit world
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now that i don't have any idea about what to do other than becoming a warrior, i should focus on that
so what do i need to do to become a warrior, i should probably train, but how do i go about doing that??
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*ding*
a bulb lights up on top of the boys head
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yeah, how could i forget about, almost all the adults of the village are warriors, so i should ask my father and so i happily run back home and by the time i was their the sun started setting so it wasn't strange to see that the whole family was at home as it was dinner time, my mother was preparing dinner with my big sister, my dad and big brother were both taking care of their weapons
"dad dad!! tell me, how can i be a warrior?"i asked of my dad
the whole family looked at me surprised as all the kids my age would only think of playing a giving their parents a hard time, and it was also the parents who brings this topic to their children and start teaching them about training
"hmm! you really want to learn about training?" he asked me
"yes" i nodded my head repeatedly showing my excitement
"son, so why do you want to be a warrior"
this was a tricky question, but i already have an adequate answer to it taking into account the situation and my current age
"i wanna become strong like dad, and so those stinky monkey will not bully me again"
it seems my answer satisfied my dad as he nods and laughs "ha ha ha.." and the rest of the family follows in the laughter
"good, tomorrow i will teach you, you are still young but it want hurt to start early "
at that time mom and big sis isabel brought dinner over
"now eat well, and sleep early, tomorrow you will wake up early in the morning to start your training"
and so i ate my fill and went to bed, which was not as comfy as my previous world, but when in Rome so as Romans do