BOOOOOM
A deafening explosion occurred in the cafe I was in. I tried running away before it caught me but not everything turns out how we want it to. Everyone in the cafe died immediately. Apparently someone left the gas stove on when the fire wasn't lit and when they went to turn it on an explosion ensued.
"Finley! Get up! you're supposed to be going to the Menguire Empire today."
'what empire? More importantly how am i still alive? Where am I?' Finley thought as he got up from bed. After Finley did that a sharp pain shot threw his head and his eyes went blurry for a while. when Finley finally regained his composure he realized that he had new memories in his mind. They weren't of earth but here. His name was Finley Porter, The worthless son of Duke Porter. Unable to cultivate and unable to wield a sword due to his physique he was cast away by his father into another part of the mansion and the only ones allowed to see him were the maids.
While he was recollecting my thoughts he was interrupted by a lady in front of him.
"When are you going to stop being in a daze and actually start dressing. You have a few hours before you have to leave so pack your things and go to the main hall."
"Okay, I got it. I'll see you in the hall then Millie."
The lady's name in front of him was Millie who was his personal maid. She was a little older than him and would always take care of him when "he" was growing up. She was a big sister to him when "he" was growing up.
He quickly packed the things he needed according to the previous owner of this body.Before he left he looked in mirror to see what he looked like, He was around 2 meters tall and had above average looks. .He left and went to the main hall as Millie instructed. He waited for a few hours before a carriage pulled up before him and a man hopped down from the carriage.
"young master Finley it's nice to see you doing well."
The man that got off of carriage was a servant of his father. His name was Harry, he had a scar over his left eye because of Finley. When Finley was 6 years old hie father found out about him being unable to cultivate and lashed out at him. Luckily, Harry stepped before my father but he suffered a gash on his eye because of it.
"Let's set off to Menguire Empire Harry. We need to hurry in order to get to the banquet in time."
Harry nodded and after Finley got on the carriage they set off for Menguire Empire as fast as they could. The trip to Menguire Empire was a months time on foot and at least a week by carriage. Finley was planning to use this time to adjust his mental state so that he could better merge the memories of the previous owners with his.
A day or two after they set off Finley was finally was able to combine all of the memories from the previous owners body, according to his memories the continent he was on was called Rodria, and was one of the smaller continents of the world. There were also the Demon continent, Ipas, and the Central Continent, Hisera.
The Empire he was from was called Regin.
A few days passed and they met with a couple of bumps across the road as some people blocked the road and demanded a fee in order to pass, they paid the fee and passed through without trouble an continued on.
"Everybody come out of the carriage and put your hands behind your head!"
The carriage abruptly stopped and ten people walked out in front of the carriage. They demanded for everyone to get out of the carriage but the only one in it was Finley. In the carriage Finley was going through all of the things this situation could end the worst one being death.
Finley calmly walked out of the carriage and faced all of the bandits and started to walk towards them with his hands behind his head. He knew he couldn't do anything because these guys were phase 1 cultivators.
"All we have to do is kill a useless brat and be rewarded hundreds of Emerald Marks. (Emerald marks are basically Gold coins.)
'They're here just to kill me? Who would want to kill-' His thoughts ended there and he thought of his father instead. He wanted to see whether his thoughts were true or not.
"Did my father send you?"
"Oh, this kid isn't that dumb now is he?"
After he confirmed his thoughts and he got an answer he felt despair, He only had one question though. 'WHY?'
"He's pretty smart for being useless if he can even find that out."
"Everybody shut up!"
A shout came from one of the people in center and he focused his gaze onto Finley. As soon as Finley felt the mans gaze he froze.It felt like he was being stripped naked and stabbed.
"Although he won't be able to escape we shouldn't just expose ourselves in front of our target. what if he manages to escape?"
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's begin."
They all nodded after hearing the mans words. The all started to walk towards Finley with a large amount of killing intent. Finley wanted to run away but couldn't due to the immense amount of pressure being exerted onto him at the moment.
One of the men drew a sword from his waist and slashed at Finley's right shoulder. With a plop Finley's arm fell to the ground.
"AHHHHHHHHHH"
A scream of pain came out of Finley and due to the pain Finley's body went into flight or fight mode. He stood up despite all of the pressure exerted on him.
"Oh, well look at him, he's able to stand because we cut his arm off."
The man who cut off Finley's arm laughed at him while licking the blood off his sword.
Finley looked for a solution to his situation and found a gap in their formation. In a desperate attempt to escape he quickly rushed towards it and passed through them. To his surprise the one closest to him actually let him slip through ans just stared at him.
"A feisty one. I like when my prey run away before we kill them."
One of the men said excitingly. He started to chase after Finley but was held back by the on in the middle of their group.
"You aren't allowed to chase because you toy with targets, allowing them to escape. I can't count the amount of times you almost caused us to get exposed because of that."
After saying that he looked at the people to his left and right side.
"Number One and Two follow to make sure he dies but don't engage."
"Yes sir!"
Two of the men from their group ran after Finley and the man who wanted to chase could only wait for their return. He simply pushed the men holding him back away and sat down by a tree.
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Meanwhile, while those two were still a bit behind Finley, Finley stopped in front of a cliff. This cliff was really deep, deep to the point to were he could only see around 10 meters or so before it turned pitch black. It was basically the void past that point. Finley picked up a rock and threw it dwon hoping to judge how far it went but after ten minutes he didn't hear anything hit the ground.
Number two who was waiting in a bush behind Finley got tired of waiting for the kid to bleed out so he was getting ready to jump out when number one stopped him.
"Number two, what are you doing? He told us not to engage!"
"Whatever, Number One, he would never just die willingly so i'm just going to help him a bit."
"Number two wai-"
Before he could finish Number one jumped out of the bush and silently walked up behind Finley. Since Finley wasn't a cultivator he couldn't sense if anyone was behind him or not. He stood there looking into the darkness stupefied. 'Just how deep is thi-' Before he could finish the thought, number two pushed him into the cliff. all he felt was a nudge on his back and then weightlessness.
"Number One, Were returning to the squad."
"Okay"
The two rushed off into the forest and quickly disappeared out of sight.
"Dammit am i going to die just like this? I never even got to live my second life and i'm already dying again!"
"Why father! Why..."
His voice faded and he passed out from blood loss soon after saying that and was left in a free fall. Unknowingly a shroud of white encompassed Finley in it and....