“Jour… nal?”
Unknown characters, through some miraculous connection, directly conveyed the meaning held within the pages to Selunia’s mind.
This was a type of writing Selunia had never encountered in all her years of study at the monastery, never mentioned by her ancient literature teachers.
It was somewhat like abstract pictograms, but more systematic… every stroke… even the force seemed to be intentional…
Complex… full of a wondrous beauty, yet this overly intricate script, when connected, made Selunia feel as if she were in the very maze she found herself in…
She couldn’t imagine what kind of civilization… over how many years, could have created such characters, seemingly imbued with profound heritage…
The unified script of the current era seemed overly simple in comparison.
Even the complex divine magic runes could only be said to pale in comparison…
But for some reason… she was able to understand the meaning contained within them.
Perhaps it was one of the truths from the previous era… completely swallowed by the Ideal Kingdom? Which led to this ancient script being unable to be exposed to most people in the world?
But why could she understand it?
Selunia’s temples throbbed slightly; a malevolence from the depths of the world seemed to have fixated on her since she began to understand the information on the paper.
However… that malevolence couldn’t harm her…
Even if this was a forbidden maze… it was still under the protection of the Holy Celestial Ring Barrier, under the gods’ shelter.
Underneath.
So, she temporarily composed herself, intending to continue studying the golden page in her hand that had guided her here.
【Eighteen years old】
【The chronology of this world is truly chaotic; each region has different ways of recording dates and years.】
【People living under the protection of different world pillars have their own different understandings of the world’s composition.】
【Some regions use each runic outburst on a world pillar as the beginning of a new year… others use bloody sacrifices as a new beginning, for example… sacrificing a newborn to the pillar god for every hundred infants born…】
【Each world pillar possesses different blessings, which may also be the reason for the differences in each region.】
【In short, I learned a lot about this world from the villagers I met along the way. One hundred and eight world pillars divide the sentient beings of this world into groups with incompatible cultures, languages, and customs.】
【A fractured world…】
【It’s hard to imagine that next to a nation still in slavery… drinking blood, there exists a society that has already entered the industrial age.】
【There are also theocratic nations established based on the worship of world pillar gods.】
【Different pillar gods mutually devouring consciousness and merging, and their subjects warring among themselves is also common… It’s a world rife with constant warfare… and extreme danger.】
【I heard that in a time when the world pillars had not yet revealed themselves to the mortal world, there was a unified civilization.】
【According to the old-timers who love to explore various places, it was because of the shenanigans caused by that powerful civilization of the past that this world is in its current state.】
【The old-timers are good people; they reminded me that there’s been recent warfare and to pay more attention to my safety… Hearing a familiar language in a foreign land truly puts one at ease.】
【Fortunately, the village I’m in is quite stable, and the villagers are very friendly.】
【Never mind all that for now! Anyway, I’m eighteen!】
【I’m too lazy to learn this world’s way of calculating; I’ll just use my original world’s method, three hundred and sixty-five sunrises and sunsets, to calculate my age.】
【This diary, or rather, annual record, will be used to record my life in another world.】
【Now I have become the strongest swordsman within a hundred-mile radius!】
【As for why I chose to become a swordsman… there’s no way; the methods for getting rich that transmigrators use… simply don’t work in a world where the laws of physics are completely different.】
【The seasonings that can make food taste better here simply cannot be grown… Although many old-timers are researching, most of what they research still has a strange taste.】
【So, I became a swordsman.】
【I can only rely on the lightsaber in my hand to carve out a place for myself in this other world, to repay the villagers who adopted me.】
【Tomorrow, I will set off for the local lord’s mansion!】
【I heard there’s a martial arts contest to win a bride there; I must marry the lord’s daughter!】
【So that all the villagers can live a good life!】
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【I won…】
【I felt the affectionate gaze of the lord’s daughter when she looked at me…】
【The life of a consort is beckoning to me.】
[…]
【The young lady was taken by a vampire.】
【I promised the lord I would rescue his daughter… but he said it wasn’t necessary. He was prepared to marry his younger daughter to me.】
【I think the lord was afraid I would provoke a powerful bloodline, so he decided to give up his eldest daughter.】
【But how can I tolerate this indignity! How can a transmigrator be cuckolded!】
【Besides, the lord’s younger daughter is only eleven… I’m not that much of a beast.】
【However, I could consider it when she grows up.】
【After all, as a transmigrator, dreaming of being a harem king is essential.】
【I bid farewell to the lord, took the best sword from the village, and headed towards the land of eternal night belonging to the blood kin.】
【I heard that the world pillar in the blood kin territory has no consciousness, and eight blood ancestors jointly wield the dark pillar with the authority of night.】
【A terrifying race that feeds on human blood.】
【They are the natural enemies of the shining sun in my hand.】
【But I am fearless; I will make the light in my hand the eternal nightmare above those vampire monsters’ heads!】
【I have a premonition that my adventure in another world has begun.】
[…]
【I almost got killed…】
【Fortunately, I discovered that vampire loli shouting “Muda Muda”… maybe she’s a fellow countryman… and I prostrated myself quickly enough…】
【My adventure in another world almost came to an end…】
【As for the blood kin loli who threw me out of the castle like a stray dog, and then publicly flirted with the lord’s daughter right in front of me…】
【Haha, I don’t hold grudges at all.】
【Isn’t it just being cuckolded by a little loli?】
【The lord’s eldest daughter was willing too.】
【This small matter…】
【I should be more open-minded; isn’t yuri pretty good too? I should respect and bless it.】
【Our original world was so inclusive; some countries even have hundreds of genders. It’s just girls being close…】
【But… that arrogant brat said I was overconfident… said that because the girl looked at me once, I thought she had fallen for me.】
【Tomorrow, I’m going back to challenge that arrogant little brat again, ahhhhhh!】
[…]
【My leg is broken…】
【At the bottom of the cliff.】
【Night and stars.】
【I look at the castle, impossibly far above… and the endless night.】
【Girls’ clear laughter came from the castle… I wonder if they were mocking me… or playing some game with that brat…】
【Hmm… I hate lolis…】
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