Chapter 2: Transmigrating to Murim
Bozo found himself in something resembling a pond. It was calm, and quiet but not peaceful.
Weirdly enough, he could feel his heart beat rapidly, pumping rage instead of blood.
He opened his eyes, only darkness around him. He was confused but did not panic. He kept his calm, his eyeballs moving rapidly to analyze the place – yet, in the darkness, he couldn't see anything.
'This is…'
And just as he resumed his thinking, a light loomed right in front of him – it appeared with a sound.
Ding!
[Bozo, congratulation on activating the Villain Arc System.]
Hearing the gentle voice, Bozo straightened his gaze, staring at the small screen that appeared.
Even now, he didn't panic. Rather, he merely prepared himself, bringing up his voice to ask a series of questions.
"Who are you? No… what are you?"
[Me? I am Ego. I am the consciousness of the system that you inherited.]
"Ego? What is Ego?"
"What is system?"
A small goblin, no matter how smart, wouldn't be aware of such things! It was natural for him to ask.
[That's my name. I am Ego.]
[And a system is like… a magic power. It is a helper that will help you in different things. Right now, for your revenge.]
Bozo blinked once or twice, understanding what the system said. But he was curious about something.
"Didn't I die?"
[That, you did.]
"Then how will I take revenge?"
[By reincarnating back.]
"What?"
[Ah, reincarnation… it means, you can go back to your body.]
"You mean rebirth?"
[Yeah, similar.]
Bozo realized the situation. As he heard that, a smile came on his face.
With the smile, he faced the blue screen in front of him, intrigued.
"Then, take me back.", Bozo demanded.
[I'm sorry, but it's not that easy.]
"What?"
[I don't have enough power to do that yet.]
Tapping his chin, Bozo asked, "Then is there a condition to be fulfilled?"
[Y-yes. I'm surprised… you are definitely much more intelligent than any normal goblins…]
"Uh…Thanks? But leave that. Tell me, what is the condition?"
As he said that, all of a sudden, a portal appeared in front of him. Combined with that, Bozo started to levitate, now as if standing upright on the surface of the weird water like substance.
[The condition is to clear this world…]
"Huh?"
[You will be transmigrated… ahem, sent to a new world where you have to finish a set of tasks and missions.]
[Upon doing so, you will earn something called as Travel Points, or TP.]
[Using that, you can travel from one world to other.]
It was simple to understand and Bozo being smart, understood every detail.
'Looks like doing what he asks is the only way to return.'
Goblin Code, Sixth Fang: Do not trust anyone completely. Pretend to trust, and find out more of their secrets.
Bozo followed the codes down to their minute details and hence, right now, whatever the system said, he merely nodded in agreement – but that didn't mean he trusted it completely.
He was the owner of his body. Whatever the system asked, he would first question and only do what he would want to!
Either way, Bozo had many more things to be confirmed.
"Surely you will be there with me in that world, correct? I know nothing regarding it, so I would require a lot of information."
[Absolutely. You can count me on that.]
[Now, please enter.]
The system said, asking Bozo to walk forward towards the portal.
With a gulp, Bozo took his first step, entering the portal – so that he could somehow, get back to his world and tear the humans alive, who made their lives miserable.
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"Young master Chen…"
"Young master Chen, please forgive me…"
Lin Jing, a maid at the house of the Chen Family, bowed her head as low as possible – almost touching the floor as she knelt.
Her body trembled and her voice was wavy. It was a clear sign of fear.
In front of her, sat a young and handsome man, just twenty years old, his name: Chen Jie.
Of course, his body was now possessed by someone else, namely Bozo!
'Wha-'
'What the heck is this!?', Bozo trembled, anger evident as he clenched his fist.
'Why am I in the body of a human?!'
While he was angry on the system for not warning this fact earlier, the maid who peeked at Jie while kneeling thought that he was angry because of her.
'I-'
'I should have knocked on the door before entering…', Lin Jing's eyeballs trembled at the mere thought of her mistake.
'Dead…'
'I'm dead today…', she told to herself repeatedly, for right now, she stood in front of the cruellest man in the entire murim.
[Sorry… but, you need to live in this body and fulfil the tasks…]
The system made itself clear, it couldn't help with the situation.
'You expect me to live in this body!?', Bozo was angry, blood vessels bulging.
"You-"
Cough!
He ended up coughing a large amount of blood as his anger crossed the limit.
"Wha-", Bozo was confused about what happened.
He coughed up blood just because he was a little angry.
"Young master…", Lin rose up from her feet and rushed towards Bozo.
"Are you alright, young-", she was concerned and wanted to check, but Bozo was not ready to interact with any human.
"Stay away.", he swung his left arm, pushing the maid away.
"Ack!", she fell on the floor, twisting her ankle in the process.
"Go away.", Bozo shouted.
"F-forgive me…"
"I-", she didn't say anything else, stood up and limping, she walked out of the threshold, closing the door after leaving.
And now, Bozo all alone, merely stared at his hand again, re-realizing that he was a human right now.
"Explain yourself, Ego!"
[Yes…]
[Well, first, let's learn about this world.]
[Murim World.]
A world of martial artists where people train themselves as cultivators. They rise in status and power as they grow stronger, expanding their Qi and making their bodies durable and powerful. Some of them are so strong that people have started calling them Gods and Deities!
The main weapon used by most of them is a sword – and there are hundreds of techniques regarding the same weapon. But that doesn't limit one from using other weapons.
A martial art has six ranks: Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Ancient and Mythical.
As for a martial artist, there are seven realms: Foundation Establishment, Qi Condensation, Body Refining, Core Formation, Soul Transformation, Nascent Soul and Immortal Ascension.
Each realm has five subdivisions called levels termed as stars, 1 star being the weakest, and 5 stars being the strongest.
[That was about the world background, any questions about it?]
Bozo nodded his head, asking, "Can you tell me about the body I possessed?"
[Yeah.]
[Young master Chen Jie is the genius of the Chen family, one of the top three families in the city. Despite being just 20 years old, he has reached the fifth star level of the Core Formation realm, a step away from entering the Soul Formation realm.]
[But that's not all, he is also the most notorious person who has everyone in his palm. He is cruel, lustful, playful, a schemer, a plotter and a bad person.]
[In simple words, a villain, and a strong one.]
[But according to the plot, he is going to be killed by the main protagonist of the story, Fang Ryuo, tomorrow.]
"Wait, didn't you say he is strong?"
[Unfortunately, your body is poisoned. It has been like this for a month and that's the reason you were coughing blood. Qi deviation, that's what the poison did.]
"I have no idea what Qi deviation is… but poison, surely, that's worrisome."
[Yes, you-]
"No, before that…"
"Who poisoned me?"
[…]
[Your fiancée, Zhi Ning.]
Goblin Code, First Fang: Never betray anyone. But if you are betrayed, show no mercy.
The closer of the door had made the room dark and now, within the confinement of the walls, sat Chen Jie, his pupils having turned red and menacing, for, it was not a human, but a monster!
"Killing Zhi Ning, can that be my first task?"
[…]