Reincarnation of the Hero
Ch.2 - Beginning After End (Revised)
Carol and Floren were bounced away because of the Demon King who blew up his body.
Carol set her body in the air, until her feet hit the ground, but continued to retreat making an elongated line.
While Foryn quickly used wind magic so that his body would not be thrown too far away.
"THE RAIZEN!!" They both shouted Raizen's name.
The two of them were very worried because Raizen was very close to the Demon King who blew up his body.
A moment later the body figure was thrown from the direction of the explosion, Carol who saw it immediately jumped up and grabbed the body that was none other than Raizen.
Raizen was severely injured, his right arm was destroyed, burns everywhere, obviously if he had been on the verge of death.
Both of them were very surprised to see Raizen, Carol carefully placed Raizen on the ground "Floryn, quickly heal Raizen!"
"Good!" Floryn instantly used healing magic.
"That's it... Floryn..it's useless.I have no hope anymore!" Shin said softly.
"Be quiet! I'm healing you!!" Floryn said in a loud tone, her tears are already flowing, not wanting to lose Raizen.
Raizen smiled, "You are my best friend before it's too late.I want to hear your last message so I can be calm in nature"
Floryn cried, she realized she would not be able to save Shin with her condition that was already that severe.
Carol sighed and said "Buddy! Until whenever I won't forget you, you've helped me a lot all along, I've considered you as my own sibling!"
Not having a lot of time, Carol just delivers a makeshift sentence even though she still wants to say a lot.
Raizen turned to Foryn.
"I. i..." Foryn is still sobbing, it's a little difficult to convey what he wants, but there's no time, Foryn has to say it before it's too late "I love you so much Raizen!"
Raizen smiled at Floryn's confession, his eyes already half-closed, trying to maintain his consciousness. Raizen opened his mouth, but had yet to say a single word, Raizen had breathed his last.
Floryn was crying hard knowing Raizen's departure, Carol also had shed tears that he had been enduring.
Raizen, a hero who saved all races, has now fallen in the final fight after completing his mission.
Life in the Stary Continent was peaceful after the defeat of the demon army and the death of the Demon King. Carol lives happily with her family, while Foryn chooses to remain alone, not choosing a life partner, because in her heart there is only a Raizen.
Floryn had previously promised himself to give his first moment only to Raizen, although now Raizen was dead but he would never give up his promise.
Although there were many men who proposed to Floryn, there was nothing she accepted, as there was no place for any man other than Raizen to be in her heart.
Until his death, Floryn never broke his promise.
***
Raizen finds himself now in a very dark place, nothing as far as the eye can see, he can no longer feel his limbs, being in infinite darkness.
"So this is death?" Raizen murmured in his heart "I originally thought I would go to heaven after death for always doing good! But it seems I was wrong, there is no heaven in this world!"
Raizen continued to be in the eternal darkness, for how long, Raizen did not know, he did not count the time, but he was sure the time had passed very long.
Decades, hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years, Raizen didn't know about it, which must have been a long time ago.
A few moments later, a speck of light appeared in the middle of Raizen's vision.
"After a long time I can finally see the light again" Raizen felt very happy to see the light after a long time, even though the light was just a speck.
A few moments later, the speck of light grew brighter, eventually covering Raizen's entire vision.
Raizen is confused about what happened, but he doesn't care about what happens next, he just resigned.
A moment later Raizen was able to feel his limbs again, all of his senses slowly returning again until the bright light suddenly disappeared in an instant.
Slowly Raizen opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the floor of a room with an interior design that was quite unique but unfamiliar in Raizen's eyes.
"Where is this?" Raizen murmured and tried to move his stiff body "What's going on?"
After a while, Raizen began to get used to his body, he then saw his hands "Am I revived"
Raizen hesitates a bit about his conjecture, but seeing his body now smaller than before, even looking thin enough proves that Raizen is alive again, but in a different body.
Raizen was actually still not sure about it, until then his head suddenly hurt.
"Aarrrggghhh!" Raizen shouted in pain.
After a few minutes, Raizen finally stopped shouting because his head was no longer in pain, he now also understood what was happening.
Raizen currently occupies the body of a child named Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang was a son of Xiang Han who was the 7th Elder of the Xiang Family.
The Xiang Family itself was one of the great families that controlled the Black Stone City.
There were 3 families who became the overlord of the Black Stone City other than the Xiang Family, namely the Li Family and the Chen Family.
These 3 families always compete to be the strongest among others, even though there has never been a fight in the city, although quite often there are small conflicts between family members, such as, but there was never a big fight.
Another story if it is outside the city, let alone fighting even the members of the 3 families often kill each other in case of conflict. Usually conflicts occur because of fighting over resources or mutual insinuation and the like.
"Hahah! This kid is so useless!" Raizen.
In his memory, Xiang Yang was 13 years old, considered as trash for not being able to cultivate, besides Xiang Yang also only had very weak spiritual roots.
The spiritual root is something that determines a cultivator's future based on the type and purity of the spiritual root.
Spiritual roots have various types such as fire spiritual roots or various other types of elements.
The purer the spiritual roots will be the higher the future of a cultivator. While Xiang Yang himself did not know what kind of spiritual roots he had, because his spiritual roots were so weak that they could not be identified.
For some reason Xiang Yang also could not cultivate, he had already tried various kinds of cultivation technique manuals but there was no match, he simply could not absorb the natural energy into his true Qi.
A cultivator would have spiritual roots after turning 8 years old and that was when they could start cultivating.
In this world there are 4 levels of cultivation and each level has 5 stages.
- Body Tempering
- True Foundation
the Spiritual Earth
the Spiritual Sky
In the Black Stone City alone the strongest cultivators were only at the 5th or late stage True Fondation level.
It was because the Black Stone City was only a small town in the Han Empire. For the Earth Spiritual and Sky Spiritual tiers there are only in big cities or big Sects.
The world has a concept of the law of the jungle, where the strong are powerful and the weak are always oppressed, only those who have power are respected.
It was not much different from Raizen's world before.
While Xiang Yang who could not cultivate was only always bullied by his peers, this made Xiang Yang always sad and depressed.
It had been 5 years Xiang Yang received all the ridicule from his peers until finally, Xiang Yang who could not stand it anymore chose to commit suicide using poison.
"Killing myself to escape reality is ridiculous, yes, even though I am still grateful for your death, I have come back to life" Raizen said "Because now that I am in your body, using your identity as Xiang Yang, I will start a new life as your self, she said, yet I will never want to be like your whiny, flabby self!"
Xiang Yang changed his position, sat down cross-legged then closed his eyes "Let's start gathering mana... I mean natural energy!"
Xiang Yang tried to absorb the surrounding natural energy, but when the natural energy had just entered his body, the natural energy instantly disappeared making Xiang Yang sigh.
"I don't understand why this is happening, but since I can't gather natural energy, then maybe I should just train my body to become stronger!"
Xiang Yang recalled Carol who had weak magic energy but due to having a strong physique, she could have strength equal to her former self. Now Xiang Yang might have to take the same path as Carol.
Physical training to its limits.
Xiang Yang imagined that if he had a body like Carol later, where having very large muscles seemed excessive, it made him goosebumps, he did not want to have such a physique, just wanted his strength alone.
"If I come back to life, are the two of them the same?" Xiang Yang remembered Carol, his best friend.
All were confident and always annoying, but Xiang Yang did not hate him, instead now he missed that person.
After that Xiang Yang recalled to Floryn, a very beautiful Elf girl. Remembering where Floryn expressed her feelings at the last moment made the Xiang Yang bitter.
"I haven't reciprocated Floryn's feelings back then" Xiang Yang actually loved Foryn as well, but didn't express his feelings due to the focus on the war.
"I'm sure that after my death, Floryn can get a better man! May she live happily with her chosen man!" Imagining Floryn living with another man made Xiang Yang's heart slightly hurt.
"Well, I can't do anything either!" Xiang Yang then stood up "Now it is better to start from the beginning after the end I experienced!"