CH 32

[A gloomy, dark cloud condensed on the sky, and a little bit of autumn rain fell, but it didn’t destroy the enthusiasm of the expectant audience sitting on the muddy road.

"Have you heard? Roya Circus is about to launch a new show! I heard great!"

"That's right! It is said to be a freak show! Haha, dear Bob (lit. Bao, abalone), don't hesitate, come with me, I'll ask for the ticket fee! As long as you agree to introduce me to your cousin ...

Huge circus tents were set up in the entertainment district of the small city of Toria, and the attendees were endless.

At this moment, the audience’s cheers were already ringing inside the tents of the ornately decorated and colorful venue.

A huge iron cage was pushed out by a hot blonde onto the empty stage under the VIP booth seats (set up on high (idiom), aloof and remote).

A monster with a horrible face, tall, with a body full of stitches, curled up in a cage, eyes full of fear.

Don’t! Let me go! Don't abandon me, my father! 】

——From Cthulhu’s Wrath

Zhou Yu gasped heavily, pale skin glistening, sweating as if his body had just been hauled from a lake.

He looked at his blood-stained hands without knowing what had happened, his eyes filled with confusion.

Who had he become this time? (S:（Ф0Ф) hmmmnn)

Combing the sweaty hair on his forehead behind his head, Zhou Yu began to observe this strange place.

It seemed to be a basement, with some huge pipes running through the ceiling of the room, which looks like they were connected to the sewers.

There were many kerosene lamps in the room, which made the whole room so bright that you couldn’t see any shadows.

In the corner of the room were two huge wooden shelves, one filled with quaint and heavy books full of history, and the other filled with glass test tubes containing unknown liquids. The liquids in these test tubes had different colors. Due to the refraction of extremely transparent glass, it gave off a magical beauty.

In the center of the room was an enormous operating table, covered with blood and taupe of unknown liquid, which looked very dirty. He didn't want to know what had been placed on the bed earlier.

And beside him was an examination area full of silver utensils.

Zhou Yu frowned as he looked at the scalpel, long needles, pliers, and other strange tools that could not be named on the operating station.

It appeared that this was a very informal private laboratory.

When Zhou Yu woke up, he was lying on the ground. Several test tubes were broken beside him, and there were some messy marks in the room. It was like the original owner was doing some dangerous experiments and then a small explosion occurred.

Well! !! !!

There was severe pain in Zhou Yu's head, as if a small hammer kept pounding into his skull. Zhou Yu, who was in pain, had to hold the test bench to even barely stand up.

The memory belonging to the original owner surged like a tide, impacting Zhou Yu's still weak soul. He clenched his teeth and endured the inhuman agony.

The memories gradually merged, and Zhou Yu's frowning brows slowly smoothed out.

The original owner was a young man named Cariell, with a paranoid and crazy personality, which was not bad as had Zhou Yu expected. He did fall into a coma due to a dangerous experiment, falling into this secret underground laboratory.

The original owner was born into a small, declining aristocratic family in a capital city called San Lorenzo. Because his mother died in childbirth, his father, Baron Barrow, was always cold to him. When he was two years old, he married another woman, one from a Viscount family. The lady became his wife and gave birth to his sister Catherine in the same year.

When Catherine was born, she was much loved, but he, who should have been the rightful heir, was treated with disdain. With the deliberate disregard of his stepmother, he grew up malnourished. Such an environment made his personality very distorted, wanting to take revenge on his father's family.

He originally went to a nobles’ school with the support of his mother's family. He was expected to become a new member of the aristocracy after graduation, but when he tested on spell application, he was found to be a magicless conductor, unable to learn spells at all. Originally, this was fine. He could go to the alchemy college to study mechanics, which was also a way out.

However, his sister was found to be a casting genius, and was also accepted as an apprentice by an affluent caster. She was directly designated by the Baron as his heir. The Baron also forced Cariell to drop out of school and leave the capital in order to maintain Catherine's position of succession.

When it came to this, the context of this world has to be mentioned.

This world was similar to the European Middle Ages on Earth, and technology had only developed to the extent that steam engines were everywhere.

The usage rate of steam engines by people in this world could be described as peaking. Steam airships, steam submarines, and steam-powered robots had all appeared in the world, but there was no indication of the arrival of the electrical era. It can only be said that the technological capabilities of this world were completely separate from Zhou Yu's own. However, the world moved on.

In contrast, the popular topics of mysticism, spellcasters, evil spirits, and Warcraft, all still existed in spite of their scarcity.

And this world was very big, much bigger than Earth. Just looking at the country the original body belonged to, Tolia had a population of nearly 500 million, but was only a middle-ranked country on this continent.

Tolia would have occupied nearly two-thirds of the landmass that was Z country, but it was less than half the size of Faroan, the most powerful empire on the continent, and only occupied a small part of this continent.

Not to mention that two-thirds of the area on this continent has not yet even been explored by human beings, and the people here had not yet detected whether or not there were other continents on the other side of the ocean. This alone shocked Zhou Yu.

The vastness of this world could be called a miracle. It was conservatively estimated that it could be nearly the size of two Earths!

Closer to home, the consequences of occult mysticism is that human beings were extremely appreciative of the casters who could use magic. Once you become a magician’s apprentice, even the city lord would treat you well.

Therefore, being a great caster was Cariell's long-cherished dream and the most important prerequisite for his revenge, but just half a year ago, that dream was completely shattered.

His mother's family dissolved his financial aid. After all, they were just a wealthy, middle-class merchant family. At first, Cariell's mother was married to the Barrow family in order to obtain the protection of the nobles. Now Catherine had become the heir. Naturally they would no longer risk offending the Baron to help a waste such as him.

In this world, the aristocracy had the highest status besides the sorcerers. All people had to live under the rule of these two major classes. The bourgeoisie was far less powerful than in his previous life. (S: which life though?)

Zhou Yu was very interested in the number of unscientific magics in the world and the existence of casters. From the memory of the original owner, this world was weak, the civilians as long-lived as grass.

Although the law protected the interests of civilians, compared to nobles, civilians were still insignificant. A noble who killed a civilian could be exempted from retribution by paying fines, but if a civilian hurt a noble, he would be convicted with capital punishment.

This world could achieve explosive population growth under such brutal ruling, and no revolution had yet occurred. You had the caster class to thank for its deterrent power and the high yield of this world's agriculture.

Cariell, who knew the power of the privileged class, was naturally unwilling to be reduced to a mere commoner.

Fortunately, he did a good job in alchemy, and he rejected his father’s suggestion to send him away. He took the initiative to ask the Baron, who had never seen him as family before, for a sum of money, and promising that he would never return to the ancestral house and would not shake the status of Catherine being the heir, he left the capital safely.

After that, he was admitted to a remote alchemist college. After consulting a lot of tomes in the college library, he decided to create his own beings from myths and legends. As long as he could recreate them, he would be famous all over the world! Completing his revenge on his cruel and ruthless family!

To this end, he asked the college for leave, rented a house in the slums with little money left, and conducted secret experiments in the basement of the buildings.

He earned money by selling banned alchemy potions to the black market, buying the bodies of strange creatures slaughtered by adventurers, and stealing the corpses from nearby cemeteries to complete his crazy and unsupported experiments.

As a matter of course, he failed.

Today, the creation he spent two months making awoke, triggering an explosion in the laboratory, stunning the crazy scientist silly.

Perhaps it was because he was so full of excitement during the creation of this creature, he didn’t pay attention to how terrible the creature was and how it didn't conform to human values. So he was dazed as this thing woke up.

When he read the spell from an ancient book, the faint blue light was a masterpiece, and the monster on the operating bed opened its eyes and looked at the original owner.

That terrible being had an exaggerated figure, sharp claws and teeth, and a malicious expression on its face.

The original owner completely fainted when he saw those demonic eyes, and fell into eternal darkness.

The original body’s memory ended there. 

Zhou Yu rubbed his temples and looked lonely.

In fact, he didn't want to be reborn again and again like this. He didn't know why such a rebirth was justified.

All he knew was that the person he loved had left him, and he was back to being alone.

Zhou Yu remembered that when he was at the end of his last life, Feng Xing deliberately became old in order to accompany him for life.

That possessive pervert, Zhou Yu didn't know how sad he would be ...

He blinked, clearing the water vapor from his eyes.

It was all because he lived to his 80s in his previous life before he died, being spoiled by Feng Xing all his life, resulting in his character becoming weaker and weaker.

I guess being old inside makes you want to cry as you think of sentimental moments passed ...

[Senior! I will recognize you! Wait for me! !! !! We! Will always be together! 】

Suddenly, in his mind, Feng Xing’s words suddenly came back to him. Zhou Yu took a moment, slowly took off his dirty white coat, and forced himself to calm down.

Yes, maybe Feng Xing is here too! He must find him!

Looking at the blood and other uncomfortably-looking colors on the coat, Zhou Yu took out the wallet and other things in his pocket disgustingly, and then threw his clothes on the ground.

Go back and rewash everything!

By the way, since he was here, where was Cariell’s Franken?

Cariell called his creation Franken, which meant "miracle thing" in the common language of the mainland. It could be seen how many expectations Cariell had for this monster of his.

Zhou Yu thought for a moment, but eventually decided to get this “Franken” back.

You need to know that on this continent, human experiments were forbidden. Once discovered, the offender would be blacklisted by all alchemists on the continent.

In case this if Franken ran out and was found, it was hard to guarantee whether or not Cariell would get off scot-free.

But looking at the clothes that were torn up due to the explosion, and the wounds from test tube fragments on his hands and face, Zhou Yu had no choice but to go back to the room to take some water to wash his face and clothes, before dashing out of the building.

After leaving the house, Zhou Yu saw a line of footprints that seemed to belong to Franken. He immediately followed the footprints’ trai, hoping that the monster had not run too far.

In the evening, few civilians traveled the road. This was because the slums were very unsafe as soon as night fell. After all, this was a habitat for thieves. Chaotic nights were an ordinary occurrence here.

Anyway, human life wasn’t valuable. Every morning, a special corpse collector would collect the bodies that had piled up in the slums to prevent a plague. At least two corpses were picked up each day. Public security tended to avoid this area.

Zhou Yu had just arrived in this world and was still very vulnerable. He didn’t have much energy and could only try to walk quickly to find Franken. If it became pitch black and he still couldn’t find it, then he would give up and return.

Compared to finding Franken, his own life was more important, he had to save this life to wait for him..

Similarly, if Franken was very aggressive, he would just leave it, so that he could escape a little earlier and not be found to be conducting human expirements.

"Hruooar!!! Let, me, gooo!"

A strange beast-like cry sounded. Zhou Yu rushed over and saw a group of neatly dressed beating a monster tied to a rope.

That's - Franken!

"What are you doing?" Zhou Yu shouted, frowning.

"This lord, we are catching the freak who escaped from the Roya Circus!" This group of people glanced at Zhou Yu and found that his person was a little healthier from the malnourished people that normally resided in the slums. His momentum was also aristocratic, so instead of yelling at him for being nosy, they replied a little respectfully.

"Why was I not informed of my brother Franken becoming your cash cow?"

Bound by rope, Franken lifted his head that was covered in stitches, his expression showing longing to be closer.

He recognized him, this was his creator, his father!

In another corner of the mainland, on a small island in the sea, a group of people in black robes with strange patterns on the back of their hands read long hymns and prayed for a response from their god.

"The greatest being that has ever existed! The Lord of the Deep Sea, the master of the sky and the storm, the great ruler of the last era, the eternal god of the ocean, our souls belong to you, and we are willing to offer sacrifices. We only ask you to respond to us pitiful followers! "

In the distant darkness deep below, under the endless cold, in the shadow world that never saw light, a tentacle a size beyond human imagination slightly reached out.

That indescribable deity whispered in their deep sleep.

Who is he?