002: New Beginning
Arthur woke up after he landed on a mountain range when the sun was already high in the middle of the sky.
"Kuh! How long have I passed out??" Arthur stood up and stabilized his stiff feet after only gods know how long it's been he was lying on the ground.
As soon as he fully regained his consciousness, a stream of endless information surged his mind mercilessly.
He roared and flailed around as he felt his head was about to explode.
Memories of his future self were also included. From those memories, Arthur understands that the world that he transmigrated in was an unforgiving one.
"Huh! Cultivators, Magics, Magical Beasts and so on. A world full of wonders, truly." Arthur scoffed.
Later on, he checked his body as if there were any injuries and surprisingly there were none, even though he seemingly crashed hard into the tree lines, judging by how his surroundings looked like a vicious fight had occurred recently.
To his surprise, he was only wearing tattered short pants and shirtless, revealing his well built torso and arms. Arthur was also aware that his body was indeed 10 years younger.
His straight white-silvery hair was shorter, his body's figure resembled a young man in his 18 years old. Although he couldn't see how his face was, Arthur was pretty sure that he was more handsome since he couldn't feel any facial hair on his face.
Moments later, he realized something about his body. When he focused his Qi on his right palm, he was able to create 1 Star from the condensed Qi. "What?! 1 Star Realm?! Fuck me… It would take so much time, effort and resources to bounce back to my prime conditions!"
Although Arthur's cultivation was stripped till he was just a mere mortal, even worse… a freaking bumpkin. Nevertheless, his tempered body and his toughness was not that dwindled too much into a complete one since he was okay after that horrifying crash.
His body toughness was equivalent to 1 Star Realm warrior. Although Star Realm warriors were the bottom fodder in the Argoth Continent, at least they could still use themselves as front line soldiers, if they were lucky enough and survived the bloody battlefield, they could get promotion rank and receive a handful of resources to strengthen their cultivation.
Arthur was on the lowest status, However he stopped yapping and bitching, with the strength of 1 Star, at least he could defend himself if something goes south in the wilderness.
"System Call!"
After Arthur said that, A series of holographic screen displays appeared out of thin air and provided him with every information he needed.
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[Name: Arthur]
[Class : Beast Tamer- Lvl 1]
[Sub Class: Currently None]
[Cultivation Level: 1 Star Realm]
[Cultivation Art: Path of the Beast Monarch]
Tamed Beasts:
-You currently don't have any tamed beast.
[Skills: Appraisal-Lvl 1]
-You can appraise Common Rank Beasts and Items
-You can scan your surrounding 50 Meter radius
[Skills: Beast Imprint-Lvl 1]
-You can tame Common Rank Beast. Success Rate: 20%
[Spiritual Domain-Lvl 1]
-You can store and summon 2 tamed beasts on your Spiritual Domain and nurture them while they are sleeping inside.
[Increase your cultivation levels and collect the beast's core to unlock more skills!]
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Arthur's face grimaced when he read his status which was lower than a mere simple beast, like a slime or something.
"Yikes, those motherfuckers really gave the worst they could to me. Haahhh… Better than nothing I guess?"
The thirst came first and now his stomach rumbled loudly. Arthur started to wander around the vicinity to search for any water resources or maybe stumble upon an easy prey that he could ambush it bare handedly.
Long before he reincarnated to Argoth, Arthur was an orphan. Without family or any relatives, he makes his own way of living by growing up in the slum district of London City, he eats what he finds in the trash bin or left over food from the stalls or restaurants or steals anything worth the money to ensure his belly is filled for another day.
Later on in his early twenties, Arthur became a fiercest gang leader despite his young age. His cunning, wicked and ruthless personality made him feared and he climbed the ladder of gang leaders really fast. Until one day, he was betrayed and he was sold to his rival by his own sworn brother and died with a bullet in his chest.
Therefore, foraging and gathering food in the wilderness was akin to walking in the park for him. The fruits and edible leaves that he got were far better than scavenging foods inside a trash bin.
After he had enough of foraged fruits and edibles, his stamina was replenished immediately. He decided to hike up the mountain to find a vantage point and locate his whereabouts.
Half an hour later, Arthur stumbled upon a humongous tree, he couldn't even see the crown of the tree from below. From the look of it, Arthur was sure it was some kind of Banyan tree with its tens of meters long dangling roots from above.
He climbed to the tree's top and saw the majestic scenery of his area. The Mountain range was scattered across the land till the farthest point of the horizon. A flock of unknown aerial beast flew just above him and he almost fell due to the sheer power of the wind gust.
"Woah! That's Silver Talon wasn't it?" Arthur remembered the beasts' most distinct feature of those aerial beasts. Their talons were blinking bright when hit by sunlight.
When he panned his head, he saw a row of massive and huge walls that built from south to north. That row of walls was something that was called with; The Dragon's Spine. Such a massive construction that was built in the Ancient Era of Eastaros.
Arthur's mouth was agape, he couldn't believe what he saw. "Holy shit! This is Eastaros!"
Those walls were connecting hundreds of cities to ensure safe passage amidst the wild and unforgiving mother nature. With a hundred meters tall and fifty meters in width, The Dragon's Spine could accommodate the entire Eastarosian to safely travel between cities on the top of the wall.
But, only wealthy travelers or wealthy merchants who could afford traveling using The Dragon's Spine due to very high charged tax. Commoners had to travel through the wilderness below and risk their life if they wanted to sell or buy something in big cities.
Those people who couldn't afford living in the big city, choosed to build their own town and villages at the base of the wall's vicinity. Harsh life and constant danger was their daily basis, death due to hunger, by a beast or by a famine and diseases. That's all already the daily routines of those places.
"Hmm… as long as I remember. Eastaros has the finest warriors in the entire Argoth. Even 3 Star Warriors are the bare minimum to live leisurely in the big city, not to mention the expensive life-style and daily needs! I must reach at least 4 Star Warriors at least in a week so I can travel and live freely in this land!"
Without further ado, Arthur searched for a cave or maybe erect a temporary camp in order to cultivate [Path of Beast Monarch] as quietly as possible since that cultivation art was so difficult.
After wandering a bit, Arthur discovered a cave with natural water resources from the stalactites, dripping from above till eroded the stones into a big bowl in the middle of the cave. The sound of water droplets from above was perfect for meditating.
"Great! This is better than I expected!"
Arthur sat cross-legged and clasped both palms in front of his chest. After a few minutes, his mind was entering a meditation state. His consciousness was already inside a sub-dimensional space which consisted only of pure and dense white . That place what human called with; Well of the Yang Qi
The atmosphere inside that dimension was so heavy. Even for nudging a finger, Arthur had to muster his full strength. This cultivation art was once classified as forbidden art due to the massive backlash if someone's soul was not strong enough to withstand the sheer force of the Yang Qi.
'Hmmh! As expected! With a soul body of a mere 1 Star Warrior is just enough to enter this dimension. Better be careful to absorb the Qi or my soul would be crushed!'