Villager B is from a village far south of Sword Metropolitan. He joined the pilgrimage for one reason— curiosity. His elders had a saying that it was curiosity that killed the cat, not that Villager B paid much attention to his elder's teachings.
The pilgrimage was undoubtedly difficult. The Desolate Mountain was so far out it took them months to arrive there. It wasn't really that far considering they walked on the whole journey.
There is another reason for Villager B as to why join the pilgrimage— he wished to join a sect and become a cultivator. The laws of the Biron Kingdom are very disadvantageous to sects. Village B often heard stories of how sects from the other kingdoms go village to village to recruit cultivators.
But not in the Biron Kingdom. The Biron King a decade ago declared that sects recruiting disciples directly in the villages are banned. If they wish to truly become cultivators, the person desiring to be a cultivator must travel on foot!
Just like in this pilgrimage!
Villager B isn't certain he will be accepted as there are too many participants. Surely, there would be an elimination process to this. But if that's the case. It isn't so bad either, as he was able to experience the novelty of applying discipleship.
Who knew? He might be accepted.
Finally, their pilgrimage arrived at the deceptively calm Butterberry Forest. Villager B thought of this as the exams of the so-called System's Providence Sect. If they were able to invite this many applicants, they must surely be a powerful sect!
There are many ways for a sect to invite cultivators. The Little General's speech is but one method. Villager B even witnessed many puppet plays, and minstrels singing the tales of the different sects. In fact, stories about sects in the theater are as much as popular. He might just be a villager teen, but he had the fortune of visiting the theater once in his youth!
Still, the System's Providence Sect is quite unheard arousing suspicion on Villager B. His suspicion just got stronger as he realized the Butterberry Forest is teeming with 3rd stage beasts which is insane! What kind of sect used 3rd stage beasts as a test?
It is a common practice to throw applicants into the forest, and see if they survive. Those who have good spiritual roots are already set for life, but those who have it worse still can try it! Well, if they do manage to survive…
But The System's Providence Sect seemed very different. They are too brutal! Villager B witnessed a 2nd stage young master who very specifically brought a Spiritual Root certification from the Biron Royalty to be shredded into pieces by a bunch of 2nd stage monkeys.
Villager B gulped as he hid under the mud pit.
Those who have Spiritual roots are not that rare either. In fact, they compose about 40% of the population. The only way to further differentiate their quality is through their status of influence thus where the Spiritual Root certification came to the place.
"THE PATH HAS OPENED! ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED SHALL THE PATH PRESENT ITSELF!"
Villager B stood from his mud pit, and just beside him was a white marble road. He was aghast and speechless. The voice in his head lingered and prompted him to follow this road.
Gulping, Villager B removed his clothes fearing that he might sully this road with his dirty cloth. The villager aware of his indecency strapped some leaves together improvising a skirt. It felt breezy under, but it was better than what he had.
Villager B ran on the white-marbled road disgruntled by the fact that he is alone.
"Is this the path? Am I enlightened? H-have I passed?"
Back in Villager B's village, it has been a well-known tale that he is kind of an eccentric. That was putting it in a good way. In a bad way, Villager B is just retarded, and tended to misinterpret and overthink the most common of things. He is a feared troublemaker who created more accidents than he can fix.
The Game Master doesn't know this though.
Villager B was welcomed at the sight of the grand palace standing above him. The white-marbled road continued upward in a series of stairs. Villager Bignored the 'Immortal City' that welcomed him after he accepted the baptism of the system.
He arrived before the other pilgrims two hours ahead of them In gaming terms, he had an early game advantage which Villager B took in great strides. Apparently, he was already at level 10 and doesn't need to unlock the full state of his main class.
He picked the main class 'Rogue' and subclass 'None'… Villager B definitely had plans of his own. Villager B is very good at trap-making. He noticed several traps in the Butterberry forest which were kind of low-level.
With his own hands, he started making ridiculous traps with the assistance of his attributes and skills. With his Fade Art, he was able to remain invisible to the many 3rd stage beast for some time until he made it possible to create one trap, another, trap, and another!
He knew about the reincarnation boon, but he doesn't trust it immediately.
Villager B is a cultivator through and through, and he quickly adapted to his new life as more people gathered in the Immortal City. The reason for Villager B's seamless integration into the cultivator lifestyle is his cultivator nerdiness.
He has read too many cultivators already, his brain is already rotting…
There was even that one time when Villager B kidnapped a poor pilgrim, and then sent him to the Butterberry forest. The guy definitely died. Villager B watches this coldbloodedness a little bit guilty of what he has done, but surely, the resurrection will revive him right?
After a couple of days of making traps, killing stuff, and waiting for some guy's resurrection, Villager B met with Lurker, a powerful senior of the sect. they quickly hit it off as the two seemed to share quite a lot— morals, philosophy, and even life.
"Man, I sent this dude to the forest to die… I hope he really was resurrected…"
"He will be fine, junior. I have already died more than once!"
The two even became blood brothers as the expert by the name of Lurker took quite a liking to him. The Immortal City grew bigger and bigger. Though it was still far from a 'city', it could be proudly called an Immortal Village already at this point as the first pilgrim was resurrected by the grand white marble stairs of the sect.
"Ok, I am immortal… That confirms it…"
The first thing villager B did after he learned this is to go deeper into the forest and search for more places where he can set up traps, and so he did. It was a brutal battle of stamina and focus.
He made traps this time far more deadly than they could ever be. The traps desired to kill in an instant now! It is vicious! If before, he only had flying logs, pits with manure, and sharp darts… Now, he has a spiky flying log with a stolen nest of eggs from dangerous birds, pits with protruding spikes in manure, and sharp darts with the combination of irresistible aphrodisiac and deadly snake poison.
There was one time when Villager B died, in which the next time he woke up, he is already a few levels higher than when he should be lower all thanks to the penalty exp.
This is all because of his traps!
The dart with aphrodisiac and snake poison is definitely his favorite. He cannot have the beasts they hunt go extinct! So, Villager B took it upon himself to repopulate them. Moreover, unlike cultivators who deemed aphrodisiac as poison and can be expelled, the beasts of Butterberry doesn't.
So the end result was their instinct to copulate overwhelms their reason they don't realize the danger, they'd do stupid stuff like go to a monkey herd's territory because that's where he remembered he fucked his wife or something.
It was masterful!
That is how the legendary Villager B's story started.