1 Chapter 1 DragonFort village

Endless mountain. Like its name, this place is filled with mountains as far as the eyes can see.

Rumor has it that one can walk any direction for their whole life but will never reach the end. Flat land is a fantasy for the people that live in it.

This place filled with mountain range as tall reaching the cloud and as low to be called hills. This is a popular destination for immortal.

Somewhere in south little corners of these mountains, there's a small village called Dragon Fort. It's not a fort but there used to be a fort here belong to the clan called Blue Cloud Clan. Normal people call this clan as immortal clan that flying in the sky, spewing fire and lifting a mountain.

The village is surrounded by a mountain and barely have any flat ground for them to use as farmland. The villagers is self sufficient with crop of vegetable and forest plant including wild animal.

On this day, there's a youth with a body full of injuries walking towards the entrance of this village attracting a lot of attention from the kids on the village.

Every step he took making him look like he's about to fall down. Looking closer to his hand, there's still blood dripping from it. Even his black jacket is smeared with burn, scratch and mud.

His appearance instantly silenced the entire group of children.

"mom, mom, there's uncle coming" shout one of the kid while holding a lot of small stone on her hand. Her face is dirty with mud and her clothes have patches everywhere, the color of her clothes already faded beyond recognition, the very image of poor and fit with all the house design in the village. It's mud wall with straw.

"stop playing outside and come inside." shout the women from inside the house, barely paying attention to what her daughter said. She start to get tired by these kids running and shouting all day.

"auntie look, he's injured." one the boy holding a branch with both hands walking beside the small girl.

When the woman heard what the boy said, she quickly ran outside. Sometimes the farmer in the village get hurt by monster in the village. She need to act quick and hide everyone in the house in case the monster follow the blood back to the village. It's happening one or twice every month.

The uncle the kid talking about is Vidar, 19 years old youth wearing tattered black long jacket with a hood. He's disciples from Norse Lightning Clan that located in the far north in this Clouding continent.

He's originally a trial disciples from Norse Lightning Clan but force to flee the entire country after some incident organize by the Elder of trial disciples.

The elder accidentally found an ancient cave belong to one of the legendary cultivator in the past. Because of some trap and hidden danger, the elder use the trial disciples to scout the way or to be said, cannon fodder so he can obtain the treasure in the cave.

Out if the 30 people he send, only 9 survive and Vidar is one of them.

But out of the elders expectation, Vidar, thought have the most average talent among the recruit this time, actually smarter than the rest in terms of survival. He's originally come from earth. A 40 years old introvert died from cancer. As usual, transmigration and the stuff.

He's an orphan from certainly town recruited by the clan elder to be a disciple of NorseThunder Clan. Sadly, his spiritual root is one of the worst ever and he's force to be a servant for 8 years until he finally managed to sense and absorb the world energy. One year ago, during the process of forming his denive consciousness, he accidentally obtain his past memory.

He use all his past knowledge to avoid the trap and proceed the deepest in the cave among the other. After he found some treasure, he hid it in his private part and leave the rest of the treasure for the elder.

But the wick elder behave out of his expectations and murder everyone to silence them from leaking the news about the abundant treasure and hogging all the treasure inside for himself.

Luckily, vidas manage to trap the elder using one of the mechanism in the cave and ran for his life with some of the survivors.

At first, 5 of them manage to ran to the forest, but not long after that, the elder start hunting everyone and force Vidar running for a whole month for his life.

Not knowing how many of them still alive, he keep running for 3 months turning him almost like a zombie but he still saw the elder flying up above from time to time hunting them like they have 7 generation grudge or something.

On the 4th month, he stumble an old teleportation in the plain near the border. Gambling with his life, he use all his magic stone saving to activate the teleport platform and arrived at the endless mountain region.

Maybe the God just in the mood to play around with him, in the last moment before he's transferred, the wicked elder found him and blast him with magic injured him to near death state. Luckily, the magic attack destroy the teleport platform and force the elder to end his endless hunt. Actually the elder name is Wicken, similar to his wick nature.

Vidar use the remaining energy in his body to enchant his strength and destroy the portal from his side before another round of endless chasing by wild beast happen. It takes him another week before he finally manage to lose the beast and found a road leading him to Dragon Fort village.

At this moment, Vidar vision is so blurry that he barely see what's happening around him. Dragging his feet following the road and the blurry sounds of people shouting around him. Before long, he finally lose consciousness and fall at the gate of the village.

His arrival cause quite a ruckus in this small village, all the adult hurried back to see what's going on. The only visitor they have so far the traveling merchant or hunter and all of them is familiar with the villagers. The arrival of stranger causing them to panic, after all, this is the poorest village within this mountain region. It's been 30 year since they have any new face around, more over an injured person.

It's almost sunset before Vidar regained consciousness and slowly opening his eyes again. The first person he see is an old man around the age 60 or 70 standing beside the straw bed where he's laying on. Behind him is the adult in the village looking at him curiously like they're in the zoo.

"can you tell me what's your purpose coming here?" the village chief is rather wary of Vidar appearance in the village with all the wound on his body.

Vidar scan his surroundings and look at all the villager around him. Even with his tattered clothes, the villagers clothes is more tattered than him and look dirty full of patches. All of them look skinny and lack the tough body even if compare with earth people. Clearly they live a tough life here.