The Lord Legend Of The Raicarnated Lord
The First Days since Reincarnation

Chapter 7: The First Days since Reincarnation

For Lorist, the theory about the revival of the War Force could not be more wrong and he argued that the research effort in the revival of the War Force was heading down the wrong path. It was like one of the words of Confucianism in his past life: it all began pure and blameless until it was tainted by the wishes and agendas of those in power. Sycophantic [1] historian Grindian is somewhat like that. To get help from the nobles, they were willing to come up with absurd theories about the relationship between the rise of the War Forces and the lineage of noble families in order to justify the need for the existence of a grand and towering noble family.

Those lines of thought also contradict each other. If the history about the origins of the Battle Force was true, then it would mean that the Sword God and the Saints from whom the noble families had descended were only cannon fodder created by the magi. In the battle depicted in the 'War of the Gods', army after army of the Sword God was sent to die on the battlefield. There were thousands of Sword Gods in the army and easily most of them perished. Even most Holy Swords could only survive if they had miraculous luck. Lorist was really wondering what the nobles thought about the fact that their ancestors were created to be disposable human shields.

Although the original owner of Lorist's body was a noble, being raised in a society that was not based on family heritage but rather on individual abilities in his past life, he could not appreciate the difference in status between the nobles and commoners as its inhabitants. To him, he still felt like a small urban craftsman past his forties who was busy managing his small workshop.

That fateful night, he only met with his former comrade for a drink. How and why did he wake up in Norton Lorist's body the next day? The owner of the small workshop was shocked and panicked. Fortunately, the body where his soul was reincarnated had been severely injured and was unable to move in bed for two whole months, giving him enough time to change his direction and assimilate the memories of the owner of the body. And given the abhorrent personality of the original owner, his caregiver could not be bothered to pay much attention to him, allowing a sudden change in behavior to go unnoticed.

In his past life, he was born in a small town in Jiangnan Province in China into a relatively wealthy family, which, incidentally, also had a tradition of martial cultivation. His grandfather was a practitioner in the ancient Chinese medicinal arts and also a martial arts expert who had trained to the Dark level realm. He recalled that his house had an Eight-God Table [2] which had a small bump on the surface with a small winecup diameter. In his childhood, a red-faced man from Henan came to challenge his grandfather. His grandfather poured wine for himself and the man, toasted, and slowly pushed the winecup to a bump on the table until the table surface was completely flat and flat. The red-faced man stared wide-eyed, saluted his grandfather, and left without touching his wine.

His father always had a weak body and his second and third uncles worked away from home. His grandfather raised his father and brothers very strictly and forced them to study Chinese medicine from childhood. They practiced non-stop: in the morning, they memorized the meridians of the body while in the evening, they studied the recipes of herbs. Their days were hard, but still satisfying. During Lorist's childhood in his past life, he was very pleasant and caused a lot of trouble in the small town where he lived with his cousin.

But she is fed up with her bland lifestyle and wants to explore the vast world around her. Due to his poor grades in high school and his tendency to fight, he eventually quit school and joined the army.

His seven years in the army were not a difficult time. He rose to the rank of sergeant. But times have changed; the country wants peace and stability and society has shifted its focus to the economy instead. The army, once loved by the people, had fallen from the will of the people and slowly disappeared into the background, earnestly surviving and secretly protecting their country. When his next period of conscription arrived, he retired from the army after getting word of his parents' health and returned home to inherit his father's craft workshop.

The transition from a soldier to a businessman is not easy. From making souvenirs to forging antiques, he did everything he could as long as it worked. Thinking back, the hope his grandfather gave him to become a renowned practitioner of the art of Chinese medicine and perpetuate family traditions was never fulfilled. Years later, he made quite a bit of money from his business but gained quite a bit of weight. He could not remember how long it had been since he had last trained in the Aquametal Technique.

Even though she is married and has several children, has a luxury car, and lives in a mansion, she still feels her life is empty and meaningless. That was why sometimes, he would meet up with his old friends for drinks and talk about the good old days while they were nostalgic drunk. Who knows, at one of these drinking parties, he woke up in Norton Lorist's body the next day.

According to Lorist's memories, which were also referred to by many as Locke, his family had been bestowed power in the northern highlands of the Krissen Empire. Although his father was only a baron, the land inhabited by the Norton family was vast, although most were remote mountains and the population under their rule numbered only in the thousands. His family was not very wealthy, with only a small town and castle under their control as well as a small copper mine serving as their main source of income.

Originally a hunter, the ancestor [3] of the Norton family joined the army of the founding emperor, Krissen I, as a scout after hearing a call for a weapon echoed by a group of traveling bards. Since then he has experienced hundreds of battles and completed many acts, winning the trust and assistance of the emperor and granting the title of nobility, despite the birth of the peasant.

After a campaign that had stabilized the foundation of the empire, Krissen I asked his loyal followers what he wanted. The founder of the Norton family said that he wanted to return to his homeland and live the rest of his life there. Looking at the old knight whose hair had turned white, Krissen I let out a long sigh and took out a map. Seeing that the northern highlands were mostly desolate mountains, he withdrew a large area and gave the territory to the knights, who were then styled in baron style, who, and gave him the high-ranking Blazing War Force playbook, hoping that the baron's descendants would continue to guard the northern border.

In this day and age, seven generations had passed since the first ancestor of the Norton family. Lorist's father had two other brothers. He was the oldest among them and had inherited the land and title while his second brother, Lorist's second uncle, joined the royal guard in the capital. Lorist had never met his uncle. He only heard that his second uncle was fine in the capital. His third uncle was the head of the Norton family's business affairs and also the one who brought Lorist to Dawn Academy.

In his memory, Lorist's mother was a beautiful and gentle woman. His grandfather on his mother's side was a great merchant who happened to have used quite a lot of money to buy a degree for convenience in future business dealings. He also has another uncle, his mother's brother, who is a strict bibliophile. Lorist had a hard father, a careless and muscular older brother, as well as a loving mother. Her childhood was happy until that day when her mother died from giving birth to her younger brother, causing her to lose her mother for good. He was only seven years old at the time.

Lorist, who was no longer the center of attention in his family, had always blamed the death of his mother on his younger brother. He felt that his younger brother had taken his precious mother as well as the affection given to him by his family, and considered her to be the main cause of his misery. He hated his brother from the bottom of his heart.

It only took him a year to awaken his Battle Power at the age of thirteen after he started receiving the formal training of the Norton family, which earned him a lot of praise from his father who was usually harsh and serious because it far exceeded his expectations. Gleefully walking into the garden, he saw his brother sitting by the well, playing with one of the maids. Sensing the sudden hatred, Lorist pushed his younger brother into the well.

He woke up in the small bedroom and saw the butler, Gleis, looking at him with a look of disdain. He told Lorist that he was punished until his father decided his sentence. Before he left, he told Lorist that his brother had been rescued and had not suffered any physical injuries but was in a state of shock and fell down with the flu from being submerged in cold water for too long.

Three days later, a verdict has been set: he will be exiled from his homeland to the City of Morante where he will continue his studies. Without a summons from his family, he was forbidden to return to his home.

Neither his elder brother nor the butler pleaded for his sake, but his father was firm in his decision, arguing that in the harsh and desolate environment of the northern lands, he was, the Norton family would not have survived this long without the unity and harmony between them family members. "The thing Lorist did was a shock to everyone; he had tried to kill his blood-related five-year-old brother! Even if he was forgiven this time, it would only sow the seeds of conflict and disharmony in the family. That's why I decided to exile her, ” her father said.

Fear beyond his intelligence after waking up in the body of a fourteen-year-old young man, the bewildered workshop owner suffered from conflicting and intertwined memories and could not reconcile his two different identities. Ten days later, he managed to calm down and guessed that perhaps, he had crossed over into a parallel world, like the storylines of many he had read.

Although he inherited the memories of young Locke, the world he reincarnated in still fascinated him and inexhaustible understood him. Recalling his severe injuries, he was wrapped in bandages and looked very much like a mummy. Unable to move and wracked with pain, coupled with a longing for his past life, it was not uncommon for tears to flow from his eyes.

After more than ten days, the workshop owner finally accepted his predicament and steeled his resolve to continue living as Norton Lorist, or, Locke. To better understand this new environment, he paid for his fat curvaceous, took care of more money and asked him to read to him books on the history of this world. The original owner of the body was not interested in such a topic and had little information about it in his memory.

The fat female attendant brought her a book called 'The Ten-thousand Annals of Grindia'. Lorist was initially surprised by the title because a civilization that could have ten thousand years of recorded history had to be a rather advanced one. Although, after the guards started reading, Lorist understood that most of it was not an exact historical record but rather a collection of myths and legends one after another. Only the last two to three thousand years have sounded more accurate.

According to legend, the fairy race ruled Grindia a millennium ago and humans were just a small race living under the rule of the fairies. At that time, the fairy race had been in conflict with the dragon race for thousands of years and the humans, who were under their protection, also suffered from it. Amid the long years of war, a Gremlin tribe uses their wisdom and wit to create a kind of magic powered war machine never seen before and achieve victory for the fairy race.

However, the machines are heavily polluting and damaging to the environment and a faction of nature-loving fairies rebels, causing another conflict to erupt. What is surprising is: the nature-loving great elves who vow to teach other factions a lesson are destroyed under the power of the GREMLIN-made magical war machine. In the end, the gremlin rose to supremacy and became the ruler of Grindia.

Even so, the gremlin who was naturally curious and curious about the mysteries of technological discovery and discovery had no intention of ruling the continent. After a hundred years of chaos and anarchy, the beastmen from the western part of the continent invaded and brought with them a trail of bloody death and destruction.

The gremlin's massive war machines fell one after another into a blood-drinking savage suicide attack with his thick, hard skin, which ended the gremlin's rule.

The beastmen who had just ascended to the top of the Grindian continent established a reign of fear and violence, eventually encouraging all other races to unite and rebel.

This was the beginning of another war that lasted hundreds of years. Humans attempted to learn every kind of craft from the many other races that fought against ferocious beasts. They learn the mysterious arts of magic and war from the fairies, the construction and forging of the dwarves as well as the trade and engineering of the gremlin, and, by their large numbers, the, being an indispensable force in the war against the beastmen. When their ruthless oppressors are finally chased back into the wilderness in the west, the humans take the mantle of the strongest race of Grindia.

After that came the prosperous golden age of the magical civilization that lasted thousands of years until the witches started a large-scale war with the gods. The end of the magical age was suddenly when the magical energy in the continent began to shrink inexplicably.

[1] sycophantic: adj. behaves or is done in a way that is obedient to gain advantage.

[2] Ba-Xian Table Wikipedia (China)

[3] ancestors: ancestral nouns or parents