CHAPTER 2 - The Lost Identity

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*Cling!* *Clang*

I woke up at the sound of the battlefield, I look around and saw that my allies are wrapping up the war.

*Gasp*

I catch my breath after I killed the last enemy in front of me, I looked around and saw many people already looting the spoils of war.

Normally I would be the first one to loot and I would even start looting even before the fight ended, but the situation didn’t permit it because I was seriously exhausted after the fight.

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I came from this world 8 years ago, I had no recollection of myself and where I came from aside from my name Eroan Lewis. I support myself using my spear as I catch my breath.

I felt a gust of wind touch me, I see a girl jump toward me. She has this cheerful face as she hugs me, because of my tiredness I couldn’t support her weight and we both fell on the dirt.

*Ugh*

I think I hit the back of my head pretty badly. This girl is my childhood friend I met first in this world. She is Isabella Davidson she introduces herself as a humble aristocrat when we were children. Though I doubt the authenticity of her humble family because of our complicated relationship in the present.

She looked at me as she started pressing those soft melons into my body.

“How is it, fighting a person who got a Heaven-grade talent?

“So so”

I answered like it is a matter of fact.

“Hmmm, really? It was not what it looks like when I see the fight though.”

She grins and teases me.

I grumble as I push her and got up, I’m annoyed because I remember again that troublesome fight.

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We are tasked to defend a town from a company of troops that manage to cross on kingdom’s border. When I heard this from the town mayor, I’m already about to pack up.

Not that I am scared but the mission is just a one-sided suicide. Since this world has a thing called formation, which is a skill that converges the strength of multiple people into a single entity.

It sounds ridiculous I know but despite the pros, the cons are equally ridiculous that I back away from the military and choose to become a mercenary. The coordination training is one thing, but the ridiculous condition to activate it gives away the pros.

Formation skill assigns people who are trained for that certain position, to activate it all people should be relatively close in their assigned position. The catch is sometimes when marching the formation will unknowingly activate that the commander will find its troops tired and out of breath.

To avoid that they jumble the soldier’s position except they are prone to sneak attacks and ambush.

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That’s why we decided to ambush them after carefully deducing their path and we succeed. The enemy is in disarray after a bunch of mercenaries come out from a waist-deep rice field.

The first phase was a success and we were able to kill the core figures that construct the formation. All we need to do is kill them all and loot their belongings to put them on sale.

But we are mistaken, as suddenly, a storm forms and mercilessly sweeps the entire battlefield. We were taken aback since the smallest formation needs 50 troops to form, but almost all our enemies are engaged in the fight.

We thought there was reinforcement and our faces look grim. However luck was still on our side because it’s not that there was another reinforcement, there was just someone who has abundant energy and decides to give it for free.

So I called my friend Edward Stewart and my childhood friend for two years Isabella Davidson to construct a plan for how to remove that fool inside the formation.

The plan was superb Edward will deflect and knock back the Heaven-grade warrior while Isabella will shoot an arrow at its head, and I will take the dead warrior’s spoils.

But this muscle-brain decides to confront the formation head-on, this fool thought that he can block it because he is in Spirit Realm when he barely reached it after I taught him some tricks.

I picked up a stone and swathe it with my energy, then throw it. I plan to hit the spearhead since the confrontation between the two is so intense, that if a third party intervenes it will greatly distract both of them. But I saw the determination to die in the eyes of my friend, so I hit his leg to knock some sense into him.

Because of it, my friend Edward successfully knocks him into the air however when the warrior was knocked up, I realized my mistake because I hit Edward’s leg, instead of the warrior flying from the opposite direction towards Isabella he flew to me instead. I panicked because I’m just a Human-grade talent, rank 3 at that I can’t possibly try to fight him head-on.

Then a terrifying killing intent surfaces, it is Isabella! A terrifying arrow comes from where she is and it was fierce, that I imagined how a warrior’s head will burst like a tomato when it hit. Equally the heaven-grade warrior is terror-stricken he looks at the source of his inevitable death, however, the death just passes his eyes and it lands between my legs.

I was shocked and terrified that if my dong is erect and it hangs down it will be slashed by more than half. I looked into Isabella but she only responded with this cute annoying thing.

“Tee-hee”

‘Don’t tee-hee me you fucking psychopath!’

The heaven-grade warrior still not comprehending what’s happening because of the knock up but I know if the warrior clears his head up all of us will be in danger. As a Human-grade talent, I can’t kill this warrior singlehandedly in normal circumstances. But as the second counts, will also our lives be in more danger, that’s why when I saw an opportunity the moment the heaven-grade warrior lost his focus on me.

I activate the secret of my own, it is just that …

“Consecutive Normal Spear Thrust”

My existence as the youngest Spirit Grandmaster will be exposed.

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I regain my reactiveness again after I felt those mounds start to surround my arm.

"You're daydreaming again!" *pout*

I saw Isabella pouting beside me.

*sigh*

"It's not that I am daydreaming, I am just considering the consequences of my actions."

I looked at Isabella with a tiresome face.

"A lot of people here saw and felt the energy I release earlier"

I want to keep my power a secret as much as possible. You can't act all high and mighty in this world if you have no backing from an aristocratic family.

Hiding my true power is going well and it can go on for a few more years. Even if I was forced to reveal it at that time I'm powerful enough to defend myself even without the support of an aristocratic family.

But this girl betrayed me, I fell for her trap.

Sensing my stare, Isabella removed herself from me. She looks like a dog that does naughty things and gets caught by the owner.

But I continued to glare at her. I know her personality, and her cute act is only for appearance. She is more clever than she looks sometimes clever enough to put me in a trap or something like this.

Sensing that I won't budge she immediately changes her attitude.

"It's not that I wanted to harm you, It's because you don't want to deliver our life promise."

"That promise that we made when we were kids before you left?"

She look a bit guilty when she heard me say that but she still playfully smile and tease me.

"I did that thing earlier for you to remember the consequence once you disregard our promise, and to tell you that your time is not enough"

She made a scissor hand gesture and cut something.

"You'll lose half the reason why you should keep living if you are still resolute on not keeping your promises"

She then gives me a flying kiss and walks away.

While watching her retreating figure, I think about my memories of this girl, she changes a lot. Her figure is enticing that if she let you have her you'll instantly lose your sanity and become her slave.

But this girl put me in a conspiracy when I was still 10 years old, and now she's harvesting the fruits of her labor.

There's something that she covets in me that I don't know. This scheme is way more back when I was 8 years old. It's not something an 8-year-old girl can do alone.

It’s not like I don’t want to fulfill our promise, I will do so in the future. Because that promise will also cause harm to her if something not good happens to me.

I was just extremely curious about why me, it seems she wanted to tell me but can’t do so because there will be a great consequence when I learned the secret.

As my motto is to have a simple life, the problem is a great no-no for me.

Still, I haven’t given up and I will continue to try to uncover it in secret before the deadline of the promise comes.

I tried to recall back again all the memories of my younger self since the time I woke up from this world, and to get a clue what makes me special.