Chapter 1: Harvest Day
Chapter 1: Harvest Day
The moment before bidding farewell to his beloved gaming desk forever...
He had been gaming for 61 hours straight, his mind fixated on the boss's attack patterns, muttering to himself. He watched as the boss unleashed a swift strike, followed by a block—
The game character died.
And so did Lin Sai.
When he opened his eyes once more, the memories of a game player awakened within him, reincarnated into Lin Sai, a child from another world, a farmer's son.
"I... Lin Sai..."
"Earth..."
"Anville Village..."
Lin Sai's vision blurred, and his head throbbed.
He clenched and unclenched his fists repeatedly.
Memories from two lifetimes swirled in his mind, forming a massive vortex that made everything around him seem surreal.
As the vortex in his mind calmed, he finally had a moment to realize his current situation.
Lin Sai was sitting in a town square.
The air carried the dampness of post-rain humidity and the scent of wheat from the fields.
This was Anville Village, an agricultural town under the rule of the Law Capital, located on the Rye Plain beneath the Forbidden Mountain Range.
A frontier land.
A majestic straw deer, woven from wheat stalks, stood tall and imposing, measuring between five to six meters in height.
Below the deer, Lin Sai and a group of children surrounded an elder who was telling a story. The old man's voice was hoarse, but his storytelling was lively, narrating an ancient legend from the Law Capital—The Chronicles of the Young King.
"As the old king lay dying, the young king-to-be received the mark of the Thorn Law Sword. At that time, followers of a raging war were massacring the innocent within the city. The young king's determination was unwavering, and the time for action had come..."
Lin Sai blinked.
The atmosphere clearly indicated that this was no ordinary day.
He carefully sorted through his memories and then, his eyes widened as he realized the uniqueness of his current situation.
"Today is... the eve of Harvest Day!"
In the world he now lived, there existed extraordinary beings known as Awakened.
Harvest Day was a festival celebrating the abundance of crops and also the awakening of new Awakened.
However, unlike the annual harvest of crops, the awakening of the Awakened occurred only once every ten years.
"Ten years?!"
The situation didn't seem very optimistic.
Lin Sai, now with the souls of two lifetimes, naturally didn't want to live an ordinary life in this new world.
But if he wanted to become an Awakened, this was the only chance he would get in ten years.
Did that mean he only had tomorrow left?
And if he missed this chance, the next awakening would be in ten years!
"Starting at thirteen and twenty-three years old, is that the same?"
Lin Sai's brows furrowed.
But in his current identity, he was just a rural child.
After searching his memories, it seemed there was no tradition of testing magical attributes or qualifications for awakening in this world.
"So... becoming an Awakened, or finding a way to become one, is probably not something ordinary people can easily achieve."
Lin Sai continued to recall and organize information that might be useful to him.
First.
In Anville Village, this frontier town, there were only two permanent Awakened residents.
One was the Village Elder, responsible for managing village affairs, and the other was White Pine Master, who tended to the crops.
The Elder was widely respected, akin to a guardian deity of Anville Village;
White Pine Master, on the other hand, was dedicated to agriculture. During the recent stretch of rainy days, he used his mystical skills to protect the entire plain's farmland, ensuring the rye crops, about to be harvested, remained unspoiled and unharmed.
"Perhaps I can start by approaching the Village Elder."
"If I'm not mistaken, the Elder loves children and is a gentle person..."
Lin Sai organized his memories while pondering the matter of becoming an Awakened.
At that moment, the elder telling the story beneath the straw deer took a brief rest, and the children listening to the story started to play.
"Did you hear? A mysterious person entered the village today, claiming to be a big shot!"
"I know, that's the Law Knight heading to the Royal Capital!"
"The Law Knight from the Royal Capital... If we could become Law Knights, how awesome would that be..."
"That's impossible, stop dreaming!"
The children's discussion interrupted Lin Sai's train of thought.
In the frontier land of Anville Village, where daily life revolved around farming, even the children of these farmers were aware of one term—Law Knight.
In the Law Capital, the ruling city of this world, Law Knights were the guardians of the King and the enforcers of the law. They executed criminals and slayed rampaging dragons, both in legends and reality, embodying the highest echelon of the Awakened, akin to heroic figures in mythical tales.
And now, such a person was right here in their village!
Lin Sai couldn't help but have a thought.
Could he possibly connect with this Law Knight and become one himself?
For an ordinary farmer's son, this might be a challenging feat.
However, with the knowledge from Earth stored in his mind, Lin Sai felt a glimmer of hope. According to his memories, while this world possessed Awakened individuals with extraordinary powers, its productivity was still far from an industrial revolution.
What if he introduced the concept of steam engines or shared the skills of a time traveler, like soap-making, perfume, and salt, sugar, and alcohol production? But what if sharing these technologies brought him danger? Lin Sai's mind raced with these thoughts, leaving him in a dilemma.
Reality, however, unfolded abruptly.
As Lin Sai pondered these thoughts, with the children waiting for the elder to continue the storytelling, a middle-aged woman responsible for preparing the festival meal approached.
"You bunch of rascals, always playing around!" she said, her hands on her hips as she looked at the children listening to the elder's stories. "There's a guest at the mill. Who's going to deliver food to them?"
Upon hearing this, the children scattered, some continuing to play, while others went to eat. Lin Sai initially intended to leave with them.
But having been sitting for a long time while organizing his memories, his legs had fallen asleep, and he couldn't stand up.
"Lin Sai?"
"Be a good boy now."
"Come, help me deliver the food."
"..."
"I actually..."
Lin Sai wanted to decline, but under the 'kind' smile of the woman, he ended up taking on the task of delivering food.
The mill was located on the northern edge of the village.
It was the night before Harvest Day, and the village of Anville was bustling with festivities that would last until midnight.
Houses made of wood and stone stood side by side, each with a lantern hanging at the entrance, illuminating the village paths like a cluster of stars.
Upon closer inspection, every household had a small channel for wastewater, and the villagers' faces were filled with joyous smiles.
Lin Sai made his way to the mill, soon hearing the sound of the water wheel as it turned.
"How can a guest be accommodated in a mill?" Lin Sai muttered as he pushed open the mill door, and then...
"Ah?"
The moonlight was soft as silk, intertwining with the festival fires burning in the village. And there, leaning against the wall of the mill, was a blonde maiden.
She heard the sound of the opening door and turned her cerulean eyes towards him. Her pristine white face was dust-free, and her soft pink lips curved into a smile like the warm sun of early spring. Her clear eyes seemed to hold the world's most sincere emotions, like morning dew falling upon a person, bringing with it a sense of determination amidst the clarity.
"Hello, are you here to deliver my dinner?"
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