novelMemory Fragments
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The youth made some items appear in front of the few inhabitants of the village. In fact, all of them belonged to the same family.
Initially, there was only one house, but they constructed two more when their descendants grew up. That was quite a normal thing in the area as they had a lot of space for construct new houses.
The items offered by the merchant to them were for cooking, agriculture or hunting, the people in the village wasn't practitioners, so those things were the most useful to them.
The itinerant merchant had at least one spatial artifact, and as the middle-aged man from before didn't seem surprised, Yale thought that it was normal for itinerant merchants to have one.
"In Nacesai City those items were invaluable treasures, but the people in a village without any practitioner aren't surprised that a young merchant has one."
The merchant was young, but given his age and realm, his chances of reaching the rank one before sixteen were too low. However, he didn't seem worried about it, that seemed strange.
Yale was starting to suspect that he didn't appear in that hill due to random teleportation while leaving the special realm, his situation wasn't normal.
He had appeared in a place without people or danger, and in the area, there was an easy method for a foreigner to create a new identity as an itinerant merchant.
Even the itinerant merchant who appeared to have the same age as Yale after he matured faster due to the essence, didn't seem strange as no one was surprised by the merchant's age.
In that situation, if Yale said that he was a merchant, it wouldn't catch too many attention.
The situation was too good to believe, everything was coincidentally ideal for Yale.
"Probably all of this is part of my previous life's scheme in collaboration with Tofesh. There aren't any other logical explanation. I can't believe in such amount of coincidences happening near me without reason."
If Yale previous life had planned to go to that region after leaving the special realm, the realm's true exit leading to that place wasn't anything strange nor random like it seemed at the start.
"In my previous life, I should have intended to do something here and thus planned to come here after retrieving the sword."
Yale felt that the guess was correct as if his actual situation was planned from beforehand, all these coincidences would have sense.
"However, what I wanted to do here? I can't remember anything."
Yale felt that in such situation following his past life's plans, having lost his memories was a huge inconvenient as he didn't know what he wanted to do.
Yale had no doubts that all his previous life's plans were created to increase the chances of his next life to become strong faster, no one would try to harm himself after all.
However, due to the lack of clues, it seemed that the previous Yale didn't think that he would lose his memories after the forced reincarnation.
The strangest of all was the Quest Menu, which only helped Yale after he fulfilled some conditions, it was as if it exists to help Yale with his lost memories.
There was a huge contradiction between the unexplained plans of Yale's previous life of his previous life and the Quest Menu's quests.
"Maybe the new sub-quest had some meaning behind? It didn't turn normal again as I thought, but is it guiding me to complete my previous life's plan?"
Yale started to suspect about the sub-quests as they had guided him while he was in the special realm, the sub-quests were the main reason Yale managed to improve that much inside there.
If he thought about that, it seemed that his previous life considered the chance of losing the memories, but there were still points that didn't make sense as it would have been easier to explain the details of the plans in the Quest Menu instead of letting the current Yale in the dark.
Yale's head was starting to hurt as he was trying to understand the situation better, but due to the lack of memories, it was extremely difficult.
He tried to remember something with all his strength. Yale wanted some replies to his questions.
"Obtain it... merchant association... Zuatania..."
Some words appeared in his head as a result, but those words appearing provoked an intense pain in Yale's head, he had never felt something that painful.
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 14."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 15."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 16."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 17."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 18."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 19."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 20."
"The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Pain Tolerance] to Level 21."
The system showed all the notifications successively while Yale felt his head was almost to explode from the pain.
He had forced some memory fragments from his previous life to appear, but the consequences were unbearable even if he had only managed to remember some unconnected words.
Yale's Body Illusion had faded due to the pain he felt, but Wyba was also capable of using the spell, and she felt that Yale was suffering. Thus, she cast another Body Illusion just before Yale's one ended, with that she had avoided that the villagers and the merchant discovered their presence.
Yale managed to remain conscious even at that level of pain, but it was mainly thanks to the leveling up of Pain Tolerance.
Yale wasn't paying any attention to the merchant or the villagers after that. His mind was focused on those words he obtained. He had suffered a lot due to them, so he needed to get some profit from them.
"Indeed, that was all something I had planned before dying... From those words, I wanted to obtain something that belonged to some merchant association. I don't know the meaning of Zuatania, probably is the name of the place where the merchant association is situated."
Yale was confident in his deduction.
"Since I wanted to obtain it in my previous life, I should also try to obtain it even if I don't remember the reasons. If the benefits from the item my previous life had planned to obtain after reincarnation are similar to the ones I have obtained in the special realm, my chances of reaching the Rank 1 will increase a lot."
Yale had obtained a lot of benefits from the special realm, which was also something planned from beforehand by Yale's previous life. Thus, even if Yale didn't know anything about the thing he should obtain, he was ready to try it. In order to successfully surpass the mortal rank in the Origin Path any help was welcome.
After obtaining those words, Yale didn't dare to try to remember anything more because he didn't want to feel that pain again. Furthermore, Yale also felt that he could die if he tried to remember more.
Since Yale had heard from Tofesh that his previous life's soul was dissipating before he forced his own reincarnation, Yale had attributed his lack of memories to it. After trying to remember forcefully, he had felt that forcing his soul to remember something else was dangerous.
Yale decided not to show himself in front of the villagers because Yale doubted that they knew anything about a merchant association.
On the other hand, he was planning to meet the merchant youth after he left the village. However, as that guy seemed to have a good ability in discovering lies as Durgan, Yale would need to be careful with his words.
After making his decision, Yale observed how the guy made trades with the few people in the village. Everyone with some basic knowledge would see that the merchant was making an enormous profit, but as the weak members of the village had no other way to obtain the items which the merchant was offering to them. Thus, they needed to accept the merchant's trade offer.
The middle-aged man who was also the oldest in the village was in charge of doing the transactions, the others didn't seem used to it, and they were only observing the trades with resigned faces. The man's wife even felt like she was receiving a punch each time her husband made a new trade with the merchant.
The merchant only stayed in the village for an hour before leaving. Yale decided to follow him as he was determined to obtain information from that merchant.
Yale looked at the village, even if he didn't interact with them, he managed to obtain some new memory fragments there.
Yale felt that even if it was coincidence, he should repay them after managing to complete his previous life's plan.
Yale had seen a newborn in one of the houses. Yale had thought that if he really obtained great profit due to the words he had remembered in the village, he would gift an ordinary training method and he would also use the appraisal to the kid telling him his Innate Talents. That was enough to give him the possibility of changing his future.
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