Chapter 1 Return to Feinheim
Pure white sea.
It feels like floating in warm amniotic fluid, safe, comfortable, empty and smooth.
It has no weight, no specific shape, no eyes, nose or mouth, but it can see the white light and feel the invisible breeze gently caressing its soul.
I don’t want to recall the past, and I have lost the goals I want to achieve. I have no motivation to move forward, and no interest in thinking about my current situation.
I just want to stay like this, unchanged forever.
Ahh ...
Am I...really dead?
“──!──Chen! Xiaochen!!”
There was a noise that broke into the pure white ocean. At the same time, the comfortable feeling of floating was instantly lost, replaced by an overwhelming sharp pain.
“Woo—!”
All five senses returned to his body at once, and Beichen frowned and whimpered hoarsely because of the severe pain.
"Xiaochen!! How do you feel? Can you hear me?"
The sound became clearer and clearer.
She used her not-so-flexible mind to try to identify it, and it seemed to be Longyun's voice.
"Obscure—cloud?"
"It's me!! Great! You're finally awake!!"
A big hand reached out and patted Beichen's cheek lovingly.
"Damn monk! Naraka! Xifeng! She's awake!!"
A noise sounded around her. Beichen opened her eyes hard and saw a blurry figure swaying in her field of vision.
Gu Yinyue, Longyun, Naraka, and Xifeng.
He seems to be in good spirits—that's great.
But──
"Xiang Ying... Black Disaster... Su Jie..."
She opened her mouth, struggling to call out the names of her three most important partners.
"And... Atlas..."
Although I still don't know much about that extremely powerful, expressionless, yet spoiled Moon Envoy—
"They got separated from us."
Zephyr spoke from the corner of the room.
“—What!”
Beichen cried out in a hoarse voice and struggled to sit up, but was pushed back onto the bed by Gu Yinyue.
"When the Sky-Breaking Staff attacked us, I opened the dimensional gate. At the same time, Atlas seemed to have activated some kind of space-transfer photon field. Originally, you and your weapon were taken away by Atlas, but for some reason, the dimensional gate's teleportation took priority over his teleportation field. Since you happened to be in the overlapping range of the two teleportation fields, you were forced to separate from the weapon and then enter the dimensional gate."
Xifeng explained this and paused for a moment.
"Do you understand what I said? Do you want me to explain it in detail?"
"No... I probably understood the important parts, that's enough. ...Are you sure Atlas left with Xiang Ying and Hei Huo Su Jie?"
"Yes, Atlas's transfer speed is faster than mine. I only realized you weren't taken away after he disappeared with your three war machines, so I reconnected your coordinates to the dimensional gate at the last moment. ... Therefore, your injuries... are the most serious among us, because you were the last one to enter."
After hearing this, Beichen observed his physical condition.
My whole body hurts as if it's falling apart.
But other than that, there seemed to be no obvious skin injuries.
"My injury...?"
"There's a big hole in the abdomen, and the intestines are leaking out."
Naraka gave a deliberate sinister laugh.
"It took me over 70 large recovery crystals to save your life. Now my storage space for recovery crystals is completely empty."
"I only have 3 left."
Longyun spread his hands helplessly and looked at Xifeng.
"There are still a dozen or so."
Xifeng answered with his eyes closed, and Beichen twitched his lips in fear.
“…That’s so exaggerated.”
"Anyway, it's good to be alive."
Gu Yinyue touched her head as he spoke.
"So, what about everyone...is anyone injured?"
“…”
Gu Yinyue and the three warriors were silent for a while.
"We're fine...but there's one person who's a bit of a problem—"
Beichen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered:
"Ling Shuang?!"
"Yeah. He was already badly injured, and after taking a hit from the Sky-Breaking Staff... We've already used all of the Star Mineral Solution to keep him alive."
"—What's the result?"
Just as Longyun was about to continue speaking, a chaotic noise suddenly came from behind him.
“────She’s awake?!”
Ling Shuang's voice rang out, and then he was seen stumbling into the house.
"Why did you get out of bed?" Naraka yelled angrily, "You should just sit back and regenerate now. Don't waste our Protoss mineral solution!"
Ling Shuang didn't show any dissatisfaction with Naraka at all, but just stared at Beichen.
Beichen looked back at him with a wry smile, then was startled:
"Ling Shuang, your left hand...?!"
His sleeves are empty?!
"The tip of the spear hasn't fully regenerated yet. You..."
Lowering her voice, Ling Shuang took a few steps towards Beichen's bed, then stopped.
Beichen sighed:
"Okay... come on. We're all in trouble now, so let's just let go of what happened. How about reconciliation?"
As she spoke, she extended a hand to Ling Shuang.
Ling Shuang was stunned for a moment, a little flattered, and tremblingly held the hand, then... probably suddenly realized her own behavior, her ears turned red, she snorted, shook off Beichen's hand, ran to the corner of the room and sat down with her back to Beichen - but the corners of her mouth curled up involuntarily, and she couldn't control that silly smile no matter how hard he tried to suppress it.
Seeing him like this, Beichen couldn't help but laugh.
Then she turned around and looked around, and found that she was in an unfamiliar room.
"here it is……?"
"This is my and Redis's base in Feinheim."
"What is Feinheim?"
"The name that the residents of Senagard use for this world is an ancient word, which roughly means 'paradise' when translated." Xifeng answered with a faint mocking smile.
"Senagarde... is that the world over there?"
"Yes. By the way, that's also an ancient language. It translates to 'graveyard of the gods'."
“…”
"Paradise" and "the cemetery of the gods"...?
Unable to figure out the reason, Beichen gave up guessing:
"So, is this T City?"
"……Yes."
"……Yeah."
As a result, I returned to T City.
She shook her head, trying not to dwell on the past.
"I'm worried about Xiang Ying and the others. When can we go back?"
"Wait until I'm healed."
"Ah? ...Are you injured too, Zephyr?!"
"Yes. But because there is no life-threatening danger involved, the Star Spirit Ore Solution will be given priority to Ling Shuang." Xifeng said as he conjured up his own weapon - many parts looked damaged. Although the damage was not serious, Xifeng's weapon was assembled from precision components. It would not be able to function properly unless it was repaired to perfection.
"What should I do then... There's no Moon Envoy here, Xifeng can't advance, and the Star Spirit Ore Solution is out..."
"The only thing left is to sharpen the blade."
Longyun tilted his mouth and looked at Xifeng with a bit of gloating.
"Sharpening the blade—yes."
"I'll figure this out myself, you don't have to worry about it."
Xifeng interrupted Beichen's question.
"Anyway, a complete restoration will take about twenty days. We must stay in Feinheim until then."
"Wait! In that case, won't Longyun and the others starve to death? None of them can store more than twenty days of star energy!"
"Don't worry about that. In Feinheim, the astral power consumed by the weapons is half of that in Senagard. They won't starve to death."
Xifeng said this and retreated to the door of the house.
"I'll contact Redis. You're all free to do what you want. But in this situation, it's best to minimize your energy consumption."
After saying this, he closed the door and left without caring whether everyone agreed or not.
"Whoosh—" Longyun whistled. "As expected of a Star Vein species, you seem to be able to navigate a completely different world with ease."
Beichen frowned with mixed feelings:
He said he wanted to contact Reedus? Was Reedus here too? She didn't really want to see his face.
She moved her body in distress and it seemed that the pain was not as severe as before. She tried to sit up carefully, then slowly got out of bed and walked a few steps with the help of Longyun.
"How does it feel?"
"Hmm... okay, how long was I unconscious?"
"One day and one night."
Beichen laughed dryly and touched his stomach: No wonder I feel so hungry.
"Uh, is there any dry food in your storage space that can be eaten directly—"
"Oh, yes, yes. I'm the one who manages the dead monk's food and supplies."
As Longyun spoke, he took out some dried meat from the storage space and handed it to Beichen.
Beichen, who was extremely hungry, said "thank you" and started eating. As a result,
“Pfft!? …&…&%￥%%!?”
She first spat out the dried meat in one mouthful, then made a strange and meaningless sound from her mouth and choked loudly.
"This... this strange smell, sour, smelly, spicy, and bitter, like meat soaked in rancid water and then air-dried—how on earth is it made?!"
"Uh, this..." Longyun scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I did it."
"You did it?!"
"Hmm... but, as you know, we weapons don't eat human food, and we don't know how to season it to taste better—just like you don't know which tastes better, iron or copper."
Longyun explained with some grievance, and quickly took back the remaining dried meat.
"I've been trying really hard to read those human cookbooks, but I'm a giant sword! I don't have the delicate nerves to make exquisite dishes!"
Beichen twitched his lips and looked at Gu Yinyue:
"Then why don't you do it yourself, Senior Gu Yinyue?"
Gu Yinyue also nodded seriously: "Yes, indeed──"
"No no no no no no no!" Longyun shook his hands with a pale face for some reason. "Let us warriors do the cooking. How can we let the master work so hard?"
"Woman, don't be so nosy! Do you know that guy's barbecue can cause forest fires? We almost became international criminals several times!"
“…”
Beichen looked at Longyun and Naraka's green faces with a bit of sympathy. She probably understood what was going on.
etc? !
"By the way, Mr. Gu Yinyue!? So, you've been eating that aqua regia (?) jerky until now?! You... you haven't had any psychological trauma or life shocks?! Haven't you ever had self-destructive thoughts like, 'It's better to destroy this world,' while chewing the jerky?"
"Xiaochen, is the jerky I made really that bad?!"
Gu Yinyue pondered for a while, then looked down at Beichen.
"It's true that it doesn't taste very good, but wasting food is disrespectful to the prey, and I won't do that."
Beichen was so moved (?) that he looked at Gu Yinyue and was speechless:
Really, what a perfect ascetic! !
After feeling weak for a while, Beichen stretched his limbs, soothed his stomach, then opened the door and looked out.
"Oh! There's a kitchen! Let's see if there's anything to eat—"
Since Redis is here too, there should be some food reserves from humans.
I opened the refrigerator and saw it was full of food, but unfortunately - tomato sauce, raw tomatoes, cold tomato slices, instant omelet rice, and spaghetti bolognese.
"Hey, Redis... How much do you like tomatoes? As a prince, why are you so picky about food—"
She held her forehead and complained softly, then reluctantly took out two boxes of instant omelet rice, unpacked them and put them in the microwave.
"What is that...?"
Ling Shuang, who had been grinning foolishly enough, came over at some point, pointed at the microwave, and asked curiously.
"Ah, that. An iron box that heats food—I think that's easier to understand."
"I see," Naraka stroked his chin and observed the microwave oven for a while, "This thing is also a support weapon."
"No!" Beichen couldn't help but smile bitterly, "This thing is completely different from you! You are living beings, but it is just a pure tool."
Ling Shuang reached out to open the small door of the microwave, but was stopped by Beichen:
"You can't open it yet, and don't put your hands in it, it's heating."
"Tsk, I know! I-I just wanted to touch it!" Ling Shuang said stubbornly while taking her hand back.
At this time, Gu Yinyue suddenly spoke from the side.
"So, Beichen, you... are indeed from Feinheim?"
"Ah?" Beichen was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses - indeed, Gu Yinyue and his group and Ling Shuang did not know that she was from another world.
"Well, yes... I didn't have time to tell you. I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter," Gu Yinyue shook his head. "We heard about it from Xifeng when you were unconscious."
Beichen was suddenly a little angry: Xifeng was too frank. She had originally wanted to leave these things to herself and Gu Yinyue and the others to discuss clearly.
With a "ding" sound, the microwave oven rang. Beichen hurried forward to take out the omelet rice, handed one to Gu Yinyue, and then happily sat down at the dining table on the side to prepare to eat.
Gu Yinyue followed suit and picked up the spoon to take a sip - then his expression immediately changed, he nodded, and began to swallow it in big mouthfuls, his speed no less than that of Beichen who was wolfing down the food out of hunger.
"Hey hey...that's great."
Longyun supported his chin and watched the two of them eat.
"Human food is so diverse and it tastes so good."
"After all, they are the race that loves and pursues pleasure the most in the world, and are willing to devote a lot of energy to this meaningless, willpower-weakening behavior and never want to stop."
Naraka was complaining at the side, and Beichen almost choked on his omelet rice - why talk about such profound and heavy issues at the dinner table.
“Is this really that delicious?”
Longyun came over and put his finger into Beichen's plate. Ignoring her objection, he dipped it in the ketchup, then put his finger to his mouth and licked it.
"Hmm."
"How about it?"
Ling Shuang asked, but Long Yun just shook his head.
"I don't feel anything, just like how humans can't tell the difference between the flavors of star power."
Gu Yinyue had finished a plate by this time, put down his spoon and nodded seriously to Beichen.
"Your cooking skills are superb. Thank you for your hospitality."
"Oh, that's not my skill. I didn't cook anything... But if you really want to eat my homemade food, it's okay. I can cook home-cooked simple dishes!"
Beichen said this, and Gu Yinyue opposite him immediately nodded.
"Okay. What materials do you need? I'll go hunting for you."
"Uh... no need, just buy it."
"purchase……"
Gu Yinyue looked embarrassed and took out a few gold coins from his pocket.
Then Beichen discovered a serious problem: although she was already a wealthy woman in Senagade, in her original world, she was still a poor ghost! 517Ζ Not to mention that all her belongings were now in the distant city of A──!!
"Is it time to do odd jobs again..."
As she spoke, she let out a low cry of exhaustion.
No matter what, in order to see Xiang Ying and Heihuo Sujie earlier, I must get through these twenty days!
Beichen, who was thinking this, did not realize that she used the cruel word "endure" to describe her stay in her hometown world.
Perhaps, before long, she will no longer call this place Earth, but will call it the same as the west wind—
Let’s call this place Feinheim.
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