Chapter 1
2021-01-05
Chapter 1 A New Beginning
The night was heavy.
In the slightly cramped room, the boy lying on the bed was brow beaded with sweat, his eyes rolled endlessly under his closed eyelids, and his face was even a little distorted, but he couldn’t wake up.
Clearly his dream tonight was not a wonderful one, or a nightmare would be more appropriate.
“Huh!”
Suddenly sitting up from the bed, the young man who had just escaped the nightmare looked extremely bad, his chest heaving and panting violently like a bellows. Silently wrapping his head in his hands, it took a while to come back to his senses from the horror of day after day.
Don’t want to sleep anymore, Alwin got up and got out of bed in linen pajamas, poured himself a glass of cold water, and stood in front of the window with dark eyes.
“Have that nightmare again.”
Alwin Garriott, whose identity is the descendant of the fallen nobles, more precisely the descendants of the former descended nobles. Since the night of blood and fire three years ago, the former honor, wealth and even family have been far away from this boy.
As the traditional Fiefdom nobles of the island nation of Ilya, the Garriott family with the title of Baron was also prominent in those days.
The starting point of the family can be called Legendary. As one of the leading figures that opened the era of great navigation, the civilian explorer Garriott drove his own expedition ship to overcome the reefs, storms, and the ferocious Sea Beast, crossed the sea of treasures, and took the lead in exploring Take a new route to reach Southern Continent safely in the shortest time possible.
The opening of the new route allowed Southern Continent’s rich precious metals, spices, agricultural products, and raw materials to continuously enrich the kingdom, and Ilya, who was at the bottom of the tulip alliance at that time, gained a lot of benefits and jumped to become a Regional power.
By virtue of this feat, the explorer Garriott was conferred as Fiefdom Baron by the Ilya royal family, from a penniless commoner to a Fiefdom nobleman, and also added the name “Garriott family” to the noble lineage of the Iliad kingdom. ” new member.
Unfortunately, this great explorer and navigator’s ability to manage the territory is far from his nautical exploration ability. The Garriott family under his lead has not only failed to bloom in the Kingdom of Ilya, but has been on the decline.
And since him, Baron Garriott of all generations is worthy of his descendants. All of them are adventurers in their bones. A person wants to manage his own territory well.
How can such an activity of ocean exploration be affordable to ordinary people? Great benefits naturally come with great risks. The wealth of the family and even the land has gradually filled into the bottomless pit of ocean exploration!
Ocean exploration is not only about ideals and persistence, but also strength and luck. This family seems to have exhausted all its luck in the battle of its rise, and there has never been another adventure since then that can bring this family enough glory and wealth to turn over.
After more than a hundred years and eight generations of Baron Garriott, the Fiefdom originally equivalent to at least 40 Knights has only one remote town – Black Stone Town. If it wasn’t for Elijah’s restriction of Fiefdom’s title linked to the title, it would be difficult to retain the title of this short Baron.
By this generation, there is only one father in the Garriott family who bears the name of Baron, living with two siblings who lost their mother when they were young. The only aristocratic pomp is probably the meticulous old steward Leo who still takes care of himself even though he is down.
Maybe the gods in the sky can’t stand it anymore, and when they are about to run out of water, things have ushered in a turning point.
A massive iron-rich mine has been discovered underground in Black Stone Town! You can imagine how ecstatic they were at that time.
It’s just too early to be happy.
Even if the king can’t deny the Garriott family’s ownership of this iron mine, the extremely weak Garriott family simply doesn’t have enough martial power and help to keep the wealth falling from the sky.
As long as you are willing to use your brain, there are always loopholes in the rules set by human beings, and the cost of even more how can be ignored.
At this time in the Kingdom of Ilya, the emerging business aristocracy has risen strongly, the personal liberation movement has intensified, and the power of the traditional Fiefdom aristocracy and even the king is not as strong as before.
A new revolution is brewing. In this storm, who are allies and who are enemies, it is difficult for even the most savage politicians to say.
A large group of stomach rumbling with hunger hyenas have already glare like a tiger watching his prey against the solitary Garriott. Among them are the emerging nobles, but there are also “old friends” from the previous family.
The ferocious predators are all waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that will not let the nerves of other opponents break out.
As a result, father Furman Garriott, a patriarch, died suddenly due to old injuries and heavy pressure from his early expeditions.
While Alwin and the elder sister were young, the title was temporarily suspended. The town of Black Rock, which lost its legal protection, was attacked by a group of well-equipped “robbers” like lightning.
The last foundation of the family is destroyed!
What happened after that was that as it should be by rights, the “robbers” who dared to attack the nobles’ territory were killed by the enthusiastic nobles. I don’t know what kind of transactions went through behind the scenes, the iron ore fell into the hands of this “good man”, and it was called the escrow of the Garriott family.
As for the search for the two legitimate heirs of the Garriott family who were missing in this incident: Anita Garriott and Alwin Garriott, tacitly no one mentioned it again.
In fact, by this time, the overall situation has been settled, and no one cares about their lives anymore.
Alwin drank all the water in the glass in one gulp, suppressing the thoughts that were surging in his heart. In fact, even if the family’s property is ten times larger, Alwin can’t keep Alwin in the back of his mind. What made him have nightmares was that he escaped alive, but his elder sister Anita, who was three years older than him, disappeared during that turmoil.
The old steward, who dared not be exposed to look for Eldest Young Lady, escaped Ilya with Alwin, who survived, and went to Leopold, a small seaside town in the Kingdom of Pharretis, which is also part of the Tulip Alliance.
Old steward Leo threw away the items that the overwhelming majority of the two might have exposed, and used the wealth he brought out and the knowledge of herbal medicine in his youth to open a pharmacy and settle down in a small town. day until today.
But just the day before yesterday, the old steward, who was seriously injured and left ill on the night of his escape, couldn’t hold on any longer. He grabbed Alwin’s hand and slowly closed his eyes.
The last relative passed away, and Alwin, who was overwhelmed with grief, cried out in grief.
When he woke up again, the transmigrator consciousness, which had been silent for thirteen years in the boy’s body, revived and reunited with the superficial personality of Alwin.
Different from other soul piercers who drive halfway and lack a sense of substitution for their predecessor’s experience, Alwin is transmigrator transmigrator is Alwin, and Alwin’s experience is actually his own experience.
Just because the body was too weak in the past to bear the huge soul and memory of adults, that’s the difference between the superficial personality Alwin and the silent conscious body traverser.
Alwin, who has become one, will not be as weak as a teenager, no longer afraid of loneliness and no longer confused about the future. With a strong enough heart and a broad enough experience, he has a clear understanding of what he wants and where his path is.
“I will live well!”
The handsome young man with brown hair, dark eyes and fair skin looked at his shadow on the window and said to himself softly.
At this time, the night sky outside the window is still starlight, and the small seaside town named Leopold has woken up and is gradually busy.
The Gothic architecture with black tones stands in great numbers, the gas lamps along the street sprinkle warm yellow lights, and there are curls of steam floating on the street, which is a prosperous scene of a Victorian port city.
The era of great sailing has begun for two hundred years, and the maritime industry and maritime trade have become an important part of the country’s assets. The invention of the steam engine seems to have added a powerful engine to this world, and everything is accelerating towards a bright future.
Well, at least that’s what it looks like, isn’t it?
(End of this chapter)