On the broad, solemn training ground, a boy from the Carterina Family stood alone in the center, holding a slender, pure-white one-handed sword.
The servants around him wiped the sweat from their foreheads, while his father, mother, and his father’s friends watched from the sidelines.
“Hah!”
A servant standing nearby gazed at the black-haired boy. Chang Xiongcai gripped his sword and gathered his strength before shouting loudly.
“Ahhh!“
Putting his strength into both legs, the boy stepped forward, moved swiftly, and finally swung his sword violently at the stone man.
The entire sequence of movements was powerful and fluid, flowing as naturally as clouds and water.
But had the stone man changed?
No.
And the sword?
“…It didn’t cut through.”
Several dozen meters to the boy’s left stood his older sister, Jieru’er.
At that moment, the sunlight happened to fall upon her head.
Her black hair flowed down to her waist like a waterfall, dancing gently in the wind. A few strands brushed past her still-youthful cheeks, while her red lips resembled two carefully polished gemstones, gleaming warmly beneath the sunlight.
She took a sword from the rack, seriousness shining in her eyes. The long blade swept through the air, its movements sharp and precise.
She wore a white combat outfit that ended just above her knees, revealing slender yet firm calves. A silver belt encircled her waist, outlining a figure that had not yet fully matured but was already beginning to take shape. The hem of her outfit swayed gently with her movements, like a lily dancing in the wind.
Under everyone’s gaze, this pearl of the Carterina Family bent sideways at the waist and suddenly swung her sword. Then, with a slight push from the soles of her feet, she stirred up a wave of air.
The entire training ground fell silent.
The next moment, accompanied by a soft sound, two traces of sword qi appeared simultaneously on the left and right sides of the stone man.
One second later, the girl’s figure shot forward like an arrow piercing the sky. Her body swayed slightly in the wind before she landed steadily atop the stone man.
But she did not stop there!
The stone man instantly split into several pieces.
Everyone held their breath. Such extraordinary talent was beyond the reach of ordinary people.
At that moment, Chang Xiongcai came running over eagerly, his eyes shining as he waved both hands wildly.
“Wow! Big sister is amazing!”
The servants immediately chimed in with their own praise.
“When the young lady enters Gilus Academy, surely no one among her peers will be able to compare with her.”
“The Carterina Family has a worthy successor! If she joins the Knights Order in the future, she will surely accomplish great things.”
His father nodded in satisfaction, while his father’s friends gathered around him, endlessly praising his sister’s swordsmanship.
As for Chang Xiongcai, he was equally delighted by his sister’s brilliant display.
‘It seems my control over power has improved further.’
He was now both Chang Xiongcai Carterina and Xiangye Xun.
But that was not a problem. His temperament remained the same and had not changed at all.
In the novel Brother’s Fantasy Land, there was a notorious, awkward villain named Chang Xiongcai Carterina.
Regardless of who he had actually been, the concept of reincarnation, combined with those familiar terms, made him quite certain that he had indeed reincarnated into the novel Brother’s Fantasy Land, which he had read just before dying.
After reincarnating, Chang Xiongcai had indeed changed somewhat.
But no matter what, his goal remained the same.
To become a passing “Shi.”
Returning to the matter of reincarnation, although Chang Xiongcai had not fully understood the situation, he already had a rough idea of his current circumstances.
This was simply incomprehensible. What kind of brain-dead person would come up with a plot that made him transmigrate into the body of this particular villain?
The villain he had transmigrated into was practically inhuman!
He went wherever the plot needed him, recklessly courting death in other people’s important storylines. He constantly made minor mistakes but never committed any major ones, opposed the protagonist at every turn, pursued him relentlessly, and wished to drive him into a corner.
If he had merely opposed the protagonist, that would have been one thing. But he was also a blond guy who particularly loved stealing the heroines around the protagonist, only to be caught red-handed and thoroughly humiliated by the protagonist.
Whenever he thought about what would happen next in the novel, Chang Xiongcai could not help recalling his own tragic future.
He would be suppressed by Feng Aotian, hunted by a Beast Clan girl who appeared out of nowhere, and eventually suspected of being a traitor by the very church he had joined.
He would be accepted neither inside nor outside the church, and in the end, he would still receive a severe beating.
It was truly too miserable.
However, Chang Xiongcai quickly calmed down again.
Moreover, the protagonist of the original work seemed to harbor a deep hatred for him. It could practically be said that the author had forcibly arranged a storyline in which Chang Xiongcai competed with the protagonist for various opportunities and created all kinds of obstacles in his life.
Given the protagonist’s petty and vindictive personality, he probably would not let Chang Xiongcai off.
But why? Could a child really have done anything that terrible?
None of that mattered anymore.
What mattered was that this was a rebirth novel. If he considered the worst possible scenario, the protagonist had already been reborn once.
That meant Chang Xiongcai could become the protagonist’s enemy regardless of whether he did anything at all.
And that protagonist was Feng Aotian.
Even if you did absolutely nothing, someone could still slap a label onto you.
Once that happened, there would be no way to explain yourself. The other party would simply tell you that no matter what you did, you were now a notorious, fame-seeking, heartless, utterly wicked, bridge-burning bastard.
In the end, the protagonist would appear like some mysterious powerhouse and demonstrate his strength before the protagonist and the great villain.
Since Chang Xiongcai had transmigrated into an awkward villain rather than the final boss who needed to be defeated, it was hardly surprising that a minor villain of his level would hide in the shadows and wait for an opportunity.
However, this kind of plot arrangement actually excited Chang Xiongcai.
Wasn’t this exactly the script he had dreamed of?
His own abilities? He would pursue them himself and suppress them himself.
He had never lacked such determination.
As for things like the will of the world or the protagonist’s fortune, Chang Xiongcai did not care at all.
After all, the life he dreamed of was one in which he became a passing “Shi.” He would absolutely not compromise easily over such things.
After maintaining his persona, Chang Xiongcai left the training ground with a foxtail grass stalk in his mouth and strolled leisurely out of the manor.
The day had finally arrived.
To be honest, compared with when he had first reincarnated, his current body had undergone some subtle changes.
Or rather, his starting point in this life was even better than that of his previous body.
Thanks to the training he had undergone in his previous life, he seemed to possess advantages far beyond those of ordinary people, whether in magic, Battle Qi, or other areas.
He was especially talented at magical power training. His body had an exceptionally strong ability to control magical power, and he had encountered virtually no obstacles.
In addition, magical power seemed to grant the body extra strength. For example, people in this world could easily lift someone of comparable size or even someone larger than themselves.
In his previous life, someone without training would have found such a feat rather difficult.
At the same time, the speed, agility, and jumping ability his older sister had just displayed were clearly superior to those of ordinary people.
Xiangye Xun believed that the strength of his current body would gradually increase alongside his magical power training.
Walking toward a rock not far from the manor, Chang Xiongcai extended one finger.
A faint purple light gathered at his fingertip. Then he casually flicked it.
The distant rock immediately erupted with a thunderous boom and shattered into powder before the boy’s eyes.
The resulting blast of air sent his hair flying.
Still not enough.
If his magical power remained at this level, he could not possibly withstand a nuclear bomb.
The appearance of magical power had rekindled Chang Xiongcai’s hopes.
But life could not be spent training every moment. Even a child had to deal with social interactions, and basic studies also took up much of his training time.
For this reason, he had begun researching Meditation Magic at an early age, gradually developing his own system based on it.
Chang Xiongcai continued to follow the Sleep Method, squeezing out time to study.
This allowed him to devote a considerable amount of time to studying magic even at night.
As for how strong he could eventually become, he still had no clear idea.
After all, the training targets available to him were extremely limited.
Basically, there were only two others: his father and his older sister.
Both were family members.
But because they were family, concealing his strength in front of them was inevitable. He had no opportunity to go all out, and the resulting sense of restraint gnawed at him until it became unbearable.
He had come to another world, yet he still could not live the “passerby” life he dreamed of.
What a failure.
It seemed he still needed to find some training targets.
One year passed.
In a remote valley, a crisp cracking sound rang out.
A boy with messy hair slowly walked out, while the goblins in the valley had already lost even the instinct to flee.
“Heh… Has this moment finally arrived?”
He slowly raised his hand, his fingertip tracing an invisible arc through the air.
It was as if some long-dormant power had finally awakened.
This body is the Judgment Blade.
He built up his emotions and the atmosphere before striking a highly imposing pose.
Leaning backward, he covered his face with one hand and extended the other outward, accompanying the gesture with a speech-like whisper.
“Everyone, are you ready to welcome your end?”
The torches in the valley reflected glimmering points of light. At some point, the entire space had become filled with invisible, transparent webs resembling a spider’s web.
As the webs gradually tightened, the goblins’ immobile bodies were bound firmly in place.
The source of the webs was the two fingers of the boy’s left hand, which swayed constantly.
Then he simply pulled them back a little.
The webs immediately tightened around the goblins’ muscles, and blood began seeping out.
Streams of power flowed from the monsters’ limbs and bones. Immediately afterward, the teeth-grating sound of breaking bones rang out.
The next second…
Complete silence fell.
Only scattered flesh and blood remained on the ground. Not a single intact figure could be seen.
Chang Xiongcai walked toward the goblins’ storage area, which was piled high with gold coins.
He could not help smiling.
What a rich harvest!
He took out the burlap sack he had prepared long ago and packed the valuables inside one by one.
After looking around and confirming that no one else was nearby, a smug look flashed across his eyes. He wiped the gold coins clean and then happily put away his spoils.