Chapter 1 I must have woken up the wrong way!
I feel drowsy, did I sleep for too long? I have been in the game illusion for too long, so it is time to exercise.
Woo... my chest is so stuffy, my breathing is not smooth... I am suppressed by something... so uncomfortable...
Link opened his eyes in the pain of almost suffocation.
"Oh!!"
The terrified scream was as if someone had a high-powered speaker turned on in his ear, making his head even more dizzy.
Link looked in the sound, his eyes were sore that he couldn't see clearly. Everything was a blurry shadow, swaying around.
"Bang!"
Something touched the back of the head, and the sharp pain was accompanied by the fluid flowing out.
"Bloody..."
The pronunciation is very strange, a bit like Latin. Did I not come out of the fantasy?
Link tried to stand up, but there was a thick thing pressing on his body and it took a lot of effort to push it away.
His vision gradually became clearer from blur, and he suddenly found that he was in a deep pit of more than one meter. The soft soil that had been pushed away before was the pressure of him breathless. Not only that, he was wearing nothing, and there was a group of people around the pit, old or young, staring at him with horror.
"What's going on?" Link asked.
"They don't understand what you said." Someone pushed the crowd away and walked over. He was the only young and middle-aged man among the group. He spoke Chinese with a straight-talk, and his appearance was also a standard yellow man.
Link was stunned. Isn’t there any appearance correction in the game? The young man hurriedly put on the shirt he threw for himself, and with his help, he climbed out of the pit. The people around him scattered and were afraid to avoid it.
"Okay, okay, it's all gone, it's a living person." The young man clapped his palms, and the onlookers left one after another. Many of them turned around while walking, their eyes were really like watching the plague, full of fear.
"What the hell is going on?" Link could understand what he said, but was sure that it was not any language he knew.
"Are you sure you want to talk about it here? In this way?"
Well, this place that looks like a cemetery is really not suitable for long talks, and Link doesn't want to talk to people in just a piece of clothing that can barely cover his butt, and he accepts the youth's proposal.
There is a small village hidden in the forest near the cemetery. There are not many residents here, and only a dozen wooden houses are closed. The air is cold and humid, and the weather is gray. I can't tell what season it is. I guess it is from the thick clothing... either late autumn or early spring.
The young man stopped in front of a larger wooden house, pushed open the door, nodded at Link, "Come in."
A shabby wooden sign hung on the wooden stake outside the house. Like the language, it was clearly a text I had never seen before, but Link understood the meaning of those characters at first sight, Ronno's grocery store.
The room was not large, and the burning fire pit in the middle dispelled the chill. There were several large wooden boxes piled on the right side of the door, and a small shelf filled with items on the left. There was a strong smell of bacon in the air. When I looked up, Link saw hanging meat skewers on the beam of the roof.
The young man entered the inner room and searched for a while, and brought a set of clothes that were as beautiful as a mountain man. "This is my clothes last year. Although it is a little smaller, just let it go."
But now is not the time to care about this, Link took it, said thank you and changed it quickly. Fortunately, it was not very tight, so it was okay to make do with it.
Pour Link a bowl of hot soup cooked on a fire rack, and the young man introduced himself, "My name is Finn, here is Edgar. Maybe you have heard of it. If that's the case, I can save the energy of explanation."
What an Edgar? But... haven't I finished the task?
Link still remembers that his body was suddenly lifted up after being wrapped in a light source, as if it was flying up, and then he felt it disappearing little by little. He thought he had returned to reality, but he didn't expect that he would still be in this damn game when he woke up.
"I infer from your expression you know." Finn shrugged, "Hey, it's almost done with a sieve."
Wear? This word gives Link a very bad premonition, "You mean I've traveled through time?"
"Or where do you think you are? Medieval cosplay?" Finn picked up the shirt that Link changed and put it back on.
"But your appearance..."
"I came here ten years ago. I almost forgot about my childhood, so I gave a name that everyone can accept." Finn paused and said, "In addition to the people on earth, there are many creatures from other planes in this world, and they are not as unfriendly as us."
"Wait!" Link stood up from the stool in front of the fire pit, "Are you saying I traveling to a different world called Edgar?"
Finn took off the charcoal fire and said in surprise, "Why, you haven't accepted the facts yet? I thought those who came from the exile would soon enter the situation."
What the hell is going on? Not a dream? Not a game? It’s a real world?
Link grabbed his hair and paced around the house.
Am I wrong, not summoning the gods, but counter-summoning?
"What's going on in the exile?"
"How do I know, I only heard from other time travelers. It seems to be an illusory space exactly like this world."
"Other? Who else?" Link grabbed Finn's arm excitedly, and then he suddenly felt something, turned his head suddenly, and a man covered in a gray cloak stood a meter behind him.
When did this person come in? Link glanced at the wooden door he had closed himself, and it was unknown when it opened.
"Let him go." He said that he was an elderly man with an accent.
Realizing his incompetence, Link hurriedly let go.
The visitor took off his hood and it turned out to be an old man with white hair and beard. He glanced at Link's clothes, then turned his gaze to Finn who rubbed his shoulders: "Is this the dead and resurrection guy in the village talking about?"
"Yeah~" Finn replied with a strong nasal voice and underestimated it in a low voice, "It looks like I do, why are you so strong in your hands?"
The old man sniffed, "There is no smell of corpses from the dead, it is a living person."
"Of course, how dare I bring him back if it's a dead person."
Link looked at the two of them coldly, and was shocked and suspicious, obviously not recovering from the time travel.
"What's your name? Where did you come from?"
"Don't waste your time. This guy came from another world like me." Finn spooned a bowl of soup and handed it to the old man.
After taking the soup, the old man did not drink it immediately, but looked at Link steadily.
Knowing that he was on guard against him, Link sat down slowly, and the old man drank the hot soup and fell into a brief silence in the room.
Finn's eyes glanced back and forth between the two, and he also felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
"You fellow villager is not an ordinary person." The old man, the owner of the room, Ronno. He removed the weapon on his waist and placed it on his legs.
Finn touched his nose, obviously not expecting that Link, who looks similar to his age and figure, had anything special. In the past ten years, except for himself, he had seen five time travelers, two monsters and three humans. He always felt that there was something different in front of him, but he couldn't say anything wrong.
After calming down slightly, Link asked Finn: "Can you tell me what's going on here? I want to know the part about time travel."
"Well... why do you say that this is a planet with an environment similar to that of the earth. For some reason, there will always be some creatures from other planes visiting here. According to the name of the earth, it is time travel. Generally speaking, there are three types of time travel. First, ordinary people like me who come here inexplicably and have no superpowers. Second, they are some other creatures who travel through planes through special methods. Third, they come from the exile place like you. Alas~ Don't look at me, I really don't know the specific situation. I also said that a person who passed by last year, and he took away another earthling from here like you who came from the exile place like you."
"Why do time travelers always appear here?" Link immediately captured the key point in this passage.
"Because this is Mount Olasio, near the pillar of the earth. It's no secret that travelers always appear near the pillar."
Link was shocked. If it weren't for the old man beside him, he would have almost stood up excitedly again.
"This is... River Valley Town?" No, he still remembers that it was a village with a population of over 100, with many streets. How could it become so dilapidated that it is unrecognizable?
"You really came from the exile place?" Finn came over curiously, but was stopped by Ronor halfway.
"It's 116th year of the Black Iron Fen Winter, and the town of River Valley has turned into ruins during the orc invasion sixty years ago."
Link stared at the old man who was talking, and his brain was blank for a few seconds.
Black Iron Age? 116 years of Winter? Orcs invaded? What's going on?
At Ronno's gesture, Finn took out a book from the inner room and handed it to Link. The title of the book was his familiar "Continental Chronicle".
Opening the catalog, Link found the history he was familiar with, the Silver Age.
[In the 1215th year of the Old Calendar, the 337th year of the princes, the Northern Battle, which lasted for fifteen years, ended with the victory of the Immortal Empire led by the Lich King Shuanghan. The history of mankind occupying the rich inland for nearly a thousand years ended here.]
[With the loss of Jing Yao and Kolk, the undead destroyed the seven autonomous lords in the north and central areas in a destructive manner. The disaster did not go alone. The southern Longyan Fort collapsed due to the betrayal of the traitors. The orc cavalry broke through the defense line and separated the remaining land that had not been submerged by the storm sea with the remaining humans retreating to the south.]
[The glow elves who lost their homes have obtained the approval of the Pillars of the Earth and established a new royal court on Mount Olasio. With the assistance of Hornheim, the remaining dominions formed the United Kingdom of Aiden as the capital to fight against orcs and undeads. Since the rebellion of the gods at the end of the Golden Age, this is the second extinction crisis faced by mankind.]
Link was stunned by Edgar history he had never experienced before.
Chapter completed!