I opened my eyes as the morning rays of the son pass through the window and wake me out my sleep, I than get up from the bed, as my eyes fall upon the reflection of my body on the mirror at the side of my room, in my reflection I sees a 4 feet tall child with brown hair and eyes and a lean muscular body and a handsome face.
It had been five years since I was reincarnated into this world. Normally it wouldn't be possible for a five year old to have such a tall or muscular body but thanks to the super soldier skill and daily training I was able to achieve this, it is also thanks to that same skill that I was able to walk easily from such a young age
My thoughts than wander to how I got reincarnated in this world.
Flashback
I had found myself floating in an endless sea of golden light, with no knowledge of who I was or how I got there.
The only thing I could remember was general things and his knowledge of anime, which must have been from my previous life. I was than brought out of his thoughts by a majestic voice.
Voice " you have two choices, move on to the after life or be reincarnated in a world of your choosing, as the person of your choice with three wishes"
At first I was surprised that I could choose to be reincarnated, but then hI started to think deeply about my choices, then answered.
Me " I wish to be reincarnated in the world of '8th son are you kidding me' as wendelin vonbenno baumeister. As for my first wish I want immortality, for my second wish I want a skill creation ability, and for my third and final wish I want a magic capacity, one thousand times greater than climt von Armstrong "
As I finished speaking, I heard no reply from the voice and in the next second lost his consciousness.
The next time I woke up, I was in the body of a newborn and realised that his wishes had been granted. I than felt very tired, so I went back to sleep.
Flashback end
I see the door of my room then opening and my mother johanna standing there. She was a women in her mid forties with blonde hair, blue eyes, an oval face and a well maintained figure especially for some one in his forties. She looked at me and said in a motherly tone.
Johanna "come wendelin its time for breakfast".
Wendelin " just a moment mother, I will come as soon as I'm done changing my clothes" I replied.
my mother seemingly satisfied with my answer went ahead to the dining room.
After I was done changing my clothes, I followed after my mother and went to join my family in this new life in the dining room.I then take my seat at the edge of the table.
I looked down at the breakfast served at the table, to see minced meat seasoned with salt, a bland soup coupled with a vegetable salad and some stale bread.
Seeing this I am only reminded of the poor financial situation of our family. Although we are a noble household our rank is olny that of knight and we have olny three villages in our territory whose total population amounts to no more than eight hundred people.
We are also at a disadvantage when it come to trade due to our remote location at the southern frontier.
The baumeister territory is located at the foot of the southern mountain range which cuts it off from the rest of the kingdom. This also makes it extremely difficult to engage in trade with the rest of the kingdom.
Our territory is only accessible through a narrow mountain pass but the mountain range is filled with nest of wyverns which makes it extremely dangerous to travle through so the merchant caravans passing through the mountain pass, have to spend money hiring adventurers, so to make up for this losses they increase the price of their goods.
This makes all import goods that come into the territory extremely expensive, moreover only one merchant caravan comes every few months.
In this way the remoteness of our territory hinders the trade in our lands, also father cannot even put tarrifs on the merchant caravans, since the merchants will stop coming to our territory if he does that.
The ringia continent is ruled by two countries the holy urqhart empire and the kingom of helmuth in which the baumeister territory is located. These countries until two hundred years were at war but since then the war has ceased and a peace treaty was sighned. In which both countries disbanded their standing armies and started engaging in trade with each other. Right now both sides are in the middle of developing their frontier terratories so they can't afford to go to war.
The baumeister terratory is on the sothern frontier surrounded by untamed savage lands. Before our ancestor who was a hedge knight, with the help of ten peasants actually managed to start a village here, this place was believed to be impossible to settle. It was only after receiving reports of the settlement did the royal palace add the name of the baumiester family to the list of noble households.
All of these factors combined and it's still a wonder how of our territory is still functioning. I was contemplating this as I hear my father, Artur who looks like he is in his late forties with black hair and eyes, a average face with a strong jaw line and a beard coupled with a tall slim body, speak while sitting at the head of the table with a frustrated expression on his face.
Artur " the adventurer guild has declined our request to set up a branch of the adventurer guild in our territory once again"
'well of course they would decline' I think to myself, our territory is extremely remote and although we have an extremely large monster den which the locals call demon forrest, as a part of our territory. We lack all the necessary infrastructure required for adventurers. I mean we don't have any inns, tavers, or a high level of the churches presence to help with the healing.
Adventurers tend to spend their money and make their base in the closest city to the monster territory they explore, so it's common sense that the adventurers would want a nice place to rest and relax, while their not working. Our territory is far from nice, add to that the fact we are one of the most remote terratories in the kingdom, it's no surprise that the adventurer guild does not want to build a branch here, plus it's not like were the only choice. There are many monster dens big and small, all over the kingdom.
As I was contemplating this the eldest brother kurt whose appearance was the same as my father's but without a beard, ask father with a questioning look.
Kurt " father why don't we depend on the royal palaces help in developing our territory "
Artur" they still remember the disasterous defeat of the briechraider household that happened five years ago in the monster territory " father relpied to kurt.
I already knew about this from my knowledge of the plot, but I needed to make sure that my knowledge of the plot is correct so I ask father
Wendelin" father I am curious about something "
Artur " yes wendelin what is it"
Wendelin " what is the disaster you're talking about father".
My father with a grim face starts telling me.
Artur "you see five years ago the forces of the duke breithild household, along with the forces of an alliance of weak northern noble's and a hundred men from our own levies entered the demon forest to liberate the monster territory. The result was a disaster the former duke breithild lost his life, it was only due to the two magicians under the service of the duke breithild household that two thirds of the army was able to make it out of the demon forest alive. Out of the hundred men of our household that joined the campaign olny 68 returned your grand uncle who led the troops in my place was not among them neither were his sons"
'wait wait wait, shit this is different from the cannon' while I was worried on the inside my face was calm on the outside. I then asked my father about the two magician, although I had an idea who they might be.
Wendelin "father do you know anything about the magicians in the employ of the duke breithild house hold"
father than replied with a neutral face
Artur"yes one of them was Alfred Reinhart and the other was his former student berkhart ringsted"
I see so I was correct, it was them since they both worked for the margrave briechraider household in the original time line. But here brantag is alfred's student, it was the opposite it cannon, Well this doesn't really matter. Actually it will be more fun this way since things will go differently now from what I remember and I don't have to worry either since this isn't one of those dangerous worlds, as I was pondering this my father's voice interrupts my thoughts.
Artur"since you seem so interested in them, than you'll be happy to know that they will be coming to our territory with in the next month"
'wait, what, no calm down' I then after calming down on the inside asked my father.
Wendelin " why would they come to our territory father",
Artur "duke breithild is sending them to retrieve the lost belongings and bodies of the people that perished in the campaign 5 years ago"
Hearing this I got really excited,' learning magic would become a lot easier if I get them to agree to take me in as their apprentice' I ponder, I was already planning to learn from them but not this soon. Also it's a good thing that alfred didn't die like he did in cannon.