Chapter 120 Awakening from Sleep
The reception room was bright and spacious. Byrne, who was sitting on a soft sofa under the crystal chandelier, was shocked. The fat old man in front of him had actually successfully reached the middle level of qualitative change?
He knew that for traditional extraordinary people starting from the second level, it would become increasingly difficult to become stronger and reach higher levels.
First of all, it requires personal talent and persistence. In addition, it requires the support of resources and inheritance. Finally, it even requires a bit of luck, which is absolutely indispensable.
Baron Leander is a person who has never fought in his life. He relies entirely on his wealth of potions to reach the level of qualitative change. Reaching the lower level of qualitative change is basically his limit.
He could actually successfully advance to the middle level? According to Leander himself, it was because he gained some extremely huge benefits from the spirit world.
Byrne heard about a thing that the secret organization called "Black Eyes" that specializes in selling intelligence, their people are constantly spreading the method of how to enter the spirit world stably in Syat.
The sea merchant John once said that it might be possible to obtain the stable method of entering the spiritual world, which should also be this way.
I guess Baron Leander also bought the information from "Black Eyes". Byrne was calm enough and did not show any surprise or confusion on his face.
"Baron Leander, congratulations! I think you won't stop here. Sooner or later you will be able to go one step further and achieve a qualitative change. By then, you will be able to sit on equal footing with those bigwigs in the East Coast Province!"
There was little sincerity in his words, but Baron Leander found them very comfortable, with an unconcealable smile in his eyes.
"Haha, maybe. Who knows? Maybe that day will really come. After all, the world now is different from the past."
“The major churches and pillar families control almost all resources and inheritance, but the spiritual world is full of endless opportunities, and our future is unpredictable!”
When Baron Leander said this, there was a hint of anger in his tone, which was the annoyance at the big forces monopolizing the space for improvement.
Byrne was also very clear about what the other party was talking about. The important resources and powerful heritage of the four eastern countries were almost all controlled by the ten pillar families and several major churches.
Everyone knows that monarch-level strongmen are extremely rare, and they have always only been born in pillar families, several major churches and secret forces.
For hundreds of years, even if members of certain small and medium-sized families had extraordinary talents, amazing wisdom and perseverance, they had no chance at all to reach the third level.
They were either absorbed into large families through marriage or entered the clergy system of the church, and from then on were separated from secular forces under the watchful eyes of God.
"They will be afraid of the existence of the spirit world." Byrne said this in a deep voice, and Baron Leander was stunned.
He suddenly smiled, looked at the puzzled Baron Leander, and continued speaking.
"For a hundred years, the situation in which the Ten Pillars have completely dominated the eastern part of the continent will sooner or later be broken. The man-made 'barrier' has been destroyed by the existence of the spiritual world."
"The kind of extraordinary person who does not need the support of pillar families, several major churches, and secret forces, but reaches the monarch through gifts from the spiritual world will appear sooner or later!"
Baron Leander stared for a while, then burst into laughter.
"That's right! This is an era of unprecedented change! They should be afraid since they have already become corrupt!"
"If there is a first one, there will be a second one. Sooner or later, everything in the entire Siat and even the Oden continent will change completely!"
Byrne smiled and said nothing more. He had just expressed what Baron Leander was thinking.
In fact, even if a powerful monarch who does not belong to a big force appears in the future, it is impossible for him to be Baron Leander, and he has nothing to do with him at all.
But these words did make Baron Leander, who had just broken through to the spiritual world and whose power and status had increased and whose mood was unstable, extremely excited and happy.
As a result, he began to like Byrne more and even had the strange illusion that the other person could understand him.
Baron Leander narrowed his eyes and began to talk about business: "Actually, I came here to discuss one thing, which is to take people into the jungle near Urd Village."
The jungle is now controlled by the Fisher family, and outsiders cannot enter without their permission.
Although Baron Leander's strength has been raised to the mid-level of qualitative change, he obviously has no experience in sneaking and hiding.
He also didn't know whether the Fisher family had set up a warning barrier in the jungle. He didn't want to trespass and cause too much trouble by accident, and then be caught by the Fisher people and cause misunderstandings.
Byrne smiled, and instead of rejecting or agreeing immediately, he asked, "Why? I need a good reason."
Baron Leander hesitated for a moment and continued:
"Actually, a mysterious creature ran into the jungle. I was chasing it, but I accidentally lost it and it finally ran into Fisher's sphere of influence."
"Well, that's a 'gray-horned deer'. Its horns and skin are both second-level extraordinary materials. I can give you some of them."
He paused and added, "It hid in the jungle near Urd Village and never came out again. In order to avoid a conflict with you, I came here to communicate with you in advance."
Byrne nodded, feeling as if Baron Leander was lying.
If it was the former Baron Leander, he would not let others discover his lies easily, but now his hands kept shaking, his eyes were erratic, and his expression was a little distorted when he said those words just now.
The old man in front of him was in a very strange state. Byrne silently wondered why. He must have encountered something.
Baron Leander saw that Byrne did not reply, and was silent for a while, then suddenly said:
"The spirit world is a really wonderful place, you know? I actually died there once."
Dead?
Byrne was slightly stunned, knowing that there are many kinds of situations that people's consciousness will encounter after death in the spiritual world.
But, the results will never be good.
Some people will be in a coma for several months, and after waking up they will be distracted and need a long time to recover, while others will suffer a mental breakdown and become completely crazy. The most serious cases will even have their souls completely destroyed and completely cease to exist in any world.
There is also a special situation where some people will suddenly undergo very strange mutations when they wake up and degenerate into some kind of mysterious existence.
They are not just dead, but also contaminated and parasitized by the "residents" of the spiritual world.
The spiritual world contains all kinds of incredible things and endless hidden treasures, but it also always has a large number of dangers of the same scale.
"That feeling is really strange..."
Baron Leander seemed to be muttering to himself, his tone was strange, even giving people a creepy feeling.
"I experienced a wonderful death in the spirit world, and when I woke up, my family and friends said that I had changed. Some even said that I was a little crazy, but I felt good, better than ever before."
"Something in my mind that had been suppressed, inhibited, and even restrained in the past was finally broken, and I felt that my whole body became more relaxed all the time."
He stared into Byrne's eyes, his smile containing undisguised madness.
"It is said that some people who experience death in the spirit world will suddenly become crazy or even become terrifying monsters when they wake up from their dreams."
"I don't think it's actually them who have changed. Maybe, those people were just sleeping in a daze for decades before, and they have only truly woken up since then!"
Sitting on the sofa, Byrne listened quietly to Baron Leander's words, feeling a slight chill on his back. The old man in front of him with a strange smile on his face was very strange.
There was definitely something chilling and inhuman in that twisted smile!
Is he really Baron Leander?
Or is it that the real "him" has woken up?
Byrne took a deep breath and nodded, "I agree that you should go to the jungle near Urd Village to hunt down the mysterious creature, Baron Leander. I don't want any reward. Just consider it a gift to celebrate your successful arrival at a new level."
"Really? That's great! Hahahaha! Thank you, Mr. Byrne!"
The old man showed an expression of great joy, and he was so happy that he almost jumped up.
Byrne felt more and more that something was wrong. This man wanted to enter the jungle not just to hunt some ordinary mysterious creature.
Baron Leander left happily, preparing to send people to the jungle of Urd Village to hunt mysterious creatures.
Byrne was silent for a long time and asked Vanessa to call Chris from the manor.
After Chris arrived at the reception room, he talked about the strange feeling he had just had and whispered:
"Chris, let's go to Urd Village first, and then wait there quietly for a while to see what Baron Leander wants to find or what he wants to do."
Chris, dressed in gray, nodded slightly with a blank expression, not prepared to ask any questions.
"Be prepared for a fight, Chris. Baron Leander may be trying to perform some kind of evil ritual. I know Leander's mind is a little off."
Byrne even suspected that Baron Leander might have become a heretic of a secret cult and was fraught with danger.
"Fortunately, we are also full of dangers."
(End of this chapter)
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