Chapter 3: The Beginning of an Otherworldly Life

Chapter 3 The Beginning of Otherworldly Life

Paul Greiman yawned, then stretched.

“Young Master Paul, please forgive me for speaking out of turn, your actions just now are really inconsistent with your status as the heir of your family.” The butler beside him, Philip, once again pointed out his “disorder”.

“There you go again.” After secretly slandering a sentence, he straightened his body.

Ever since he woke up in the morning, whether it was getting dressed, washing up or eating, this butler had always been very critical of his movements.

By the way, the “toothbrush and toothpaste” used for washing up was actually twigs and salt, and the “soap” used for washing his face was actually made from pig’s pancreas, which was purely natural.

Last night’s priest just came back to confirm that his health is no longer serious and then left.

Woke up after a sleep, his head even more of this body before the many memory fragments, seems to be what he is the son of the count, some of the usual behavior with the previous life cognitively uneducated playboy no difference, good body has not grown up, but did not do anything to harm the world.

Unfortunately, or to the present he is lucky, this body’s father a few days ago to lead the army crusade against the pirates, the count felt that his son as the family heir, to the age that should meet the blood, they will bring his son around.

Unexpectedly in the middle of the ambush, the count in the breakout in the martyrdom, the son was also the pirate’s throwing stones happened to hit the head unconscious.

Thanks to the family knights and guards fought hard, and finally killed a bloody road, escorting the old Greiman’s body and the unconscious young master back to the lord’s castle.

The young master continued to be unconscious, no sign of waking up, the castle had to hold a funeral for the old count in the absence of the young master, until Paul woke up that night, it has been a whole week from when he was injured.

The butler began to try to help him recover his previous memories, said a lot of previous events, because of the “memory loss” of all kinds of questions also know all the answers, which saves him a lot of effort.

“Are you saying that my father and I were ambushed by pirates, and that my father was killed?”

“Yes, those cursed, damned, hellish pirates, young master, you must avenge Lord Earl!”

The butler had served old Greiman in the castle in his youth, and when he thought of the tragic death of his old master, who he had lived with for decades, at the hands of the pirates, he couldn’t help but be overcome with grief and old tears.

“Don’t worry, father’s revenge must be avenged, I now can’t wait to peel the skin of those pirates and eat their flesh.” Paul certainly knew what to say now.

“That gang of pirates now had a lucky win, and now they are very arrogant, taking advantage of the fact that the territory is now swarming with dragons, they went ashore and plundered a lot of villages and towns.”

“Will they hit here?”

“The knights have already arranged proper defenses, and Lakeheart Town is not in any danger yet. However, given that you were in a coma before, everyone decided to wait for you to wake up before taking further action. I have already informed the various stewards of your awakening. They will come to visit in the afternoon, and I think you should discuss future countermeasures with them.”

“You’re right, Philip, first take me to my father’s grave to pay my respects.”

The old count’s voice and face gradually became clearer in his mind, and upon learning of his death, a sudden inexplicable sadness welled up within Paul.

With more and more fragments of “Paul Greiman’s” memories in his mind, he had been wondering whether he had taken over another person’s body, or whether he had been reincarnated and recovered the memories of his previous life.

When he had the idea of going to the grave to pay his respects, he felt that he and the old count did have a bond of kinship, and Paul was more and more inclined to the latter.

In that case, let’s live well in the new world as the heir of this family.

“It was my negligence. Young master, your health has just improved, please don’t be too sad. The cemetery is at the back of the castle, please follow me.”

……

In the afternoon, all the stewards who were still in the town of Lake Heart gathered in the castle hall, due to the lord’s new mourning, the atmosphere in the hall was very dull, everyone’s face wore a sadness, it could be seen that the old earl was still quite popular.

Paul sat in the lord’s seat, the inner incomparable nervousness, on the one hand, before crossing the company he participated in small and large meetings only in the corner of the silent note-taking part, has not had this in the eyes of the people sitting on the “podium” experience, on the other hand, looking at a room full of people dressed in medieval costumes can not help but feel a little unreal.

“Ahem……” he cleared his throat awkwardly.

Philip’s butler, who was standing at the side, opened his mouth and said, “Young master Paul has just recovered from a serious illness, and his physical condition is not very good right now. Since everyone is here, let’s confer together on how to deal with the situation at hand.”

The crowd began to talk in twos and threes.

“Then I’ll start, it’s time to regroup and teach the pirates a lesson, now that they’ve gone ashore and plundered everywhere, they’ve already stirred up a great deal of public anger, and if we let them continue to act recklessly, what face will all of you here have in the future when you have to face the lords.”

Finally, a burly man with a country face and a tiger’s back stood up and loudly voiced his opinion.

“Right on!” “I second the motion.”

The burly man’s statement gained quite a bit of support.

“It’s unusual for pirates to come ashore this time, they’ve never gone this far inland before. The morale of the army is low after Lord Earl’s call by the Lord’s grace, it is not a good time to act rashly, and we should ask for help from the neighboring lords as soon as possible.”

There were also voices of opposition.

“Leaving aside whether they agree or not, even if the nearest lord sends troops over it will be at least half a month or so later, right?” Soon around these two views of the crowd began to argue, looking at the crowd arguing, Paul wanted to intervene, but did not know what to say, so he had to pick up the water cup on the table to drink to cover up the embarrassment.

“Alright, gentlemen.” The country face who spoke at the beginning suddenly stopped the crowd from arguing, “We should listen to the young master’s opinion, and ultimately let him make the decision.”

A slightly shady man muttered, “But he’s just a half-grown kid, what can he know.”

“Watch your attitude, Paul Greiman is the sole legitimate heir to the territory, the lord to whom we are about to swear allegiance.”

The country face snapped to his feet and shouted at the man who had just questioned the young lord, and the vote of knights dressed as knights around him also glared at the man, some even resting their hands on the swords at their waists.

The shady man was so intimidated that he shrunk his neck and lowered his head, being stared at by a group of stout men was not something to be taken lightly.

Butler Philip hurriedly came out to round up the situation: ”Now that the enemy is at hand, everyone should not fight internally. Young master, say something.”

It looked like he couldn’t be silent, Paul stood up his chest and said in a loud voice, “Right, the more times like this, the more calm we have to be, unity is the only way to get through the difficulties in front of us.”

He turned toward the country face and asked, “So, you are?”

“Bryce, Bryce Alder, your military governor.”

Philip had already warned everyone about the young lord’s memory loss, and without thinking twice, the country face gave his identity.

“How many available troops do we have now?”

“Right now the territory has a total of 263 battle-ready soldiers, 15 knights including myself and 20 squires, and many villages and towns have organized their own militias, totaling about 300 or so, but these militias are a mixed bag of good and bad, and they haven’t gone through any formal military training.”

“Are our soldiers a standing army? Uh …… I mean do they train every day of the year?”

“How is that possible? These people are all important laborers in their families ah, they work in the fields on weekdays, as little as a month, as much as a quarter were organized and trained once, and now because of the pirate invasion were summoned to Lake Heart Town.”

“How many pirates are there?”

“According to the estimation at the time of the ambush, there are around 500 people. As far as past experience goes, pirates penetrating inland on such a large scale hasn’t happened before. I know we’re at a disadvantage right now, but they weren’t all out when they plundered the village and town, so it’s entirely possible for us to stage a handful of ambushes as well and give them some color.”

Bryce once again pushed his proactive point of view.

“How long will the current logistics …… food last?”

“That’s not a problem to worry about, on the one hand the soldiers brought some of their own rations when they were drafted, on the other hand the food in the town is still more than enough to satisfy a few hundred people to eat, besides we’re not under siege.”

……

A few of Paul’s questions made the crowd secretly nod their heads and put away the vague contempt within them, although most of the questions gave a feeling of deliberately pretending to be old-fashioned, but some of them were really to the point.

It looks like the young master is not the usual behavior that only know to eat, drink and have fun, knowing that the old earl is gone after the burden will fall on their shoulders.

“We can expand our army first, the size should be at least equal to the pirates, then drill for a month, then find a chance to annihilate the pirates, on the other hand, we also need to send messengers to the neighboring territories to ask for help.” Someone made a compromise suggestion.

“I think this idea is feasible!” Paul slapped the table, he neither wanted to leave an image of cowardice and fear of war, nor did he want to risk striking.

Since he was all for it, and no one expressed any opposition, some details on conscription were discussed next.

Finally, the people discussed the matter of letting Paul officially inherit the title and territory, in the sense that he is the legitimate first heir, this is nothing to argue about, it was quickly agreed down.

The Chief Seal will personally go to the royal capital to report to the royal family, and ask the king to issue a formal royal decree to recognize his title, and by the way, to ask for some assistance to deal with the pirates.

After some questions and answers and discussions, Paul gradually adapted to his new identity, after the tension subsided, he quickly remembered that he had been planning for most of the night last night, “grand plan” to.

A territory in trouble, a people without a leader, waiting for a man of destiny to save the day, what could be a better start than this?
Let me light up the light of industrial civilization in this barbaric land! He was suddenly energized.

Steward Philip approached him and said with his ear, “Young master, if there is nothing else, let’s adjourn the meeting first, the knights’ adults still have to go and inspect the defenses of various places.”

Right, right now the fight against pirates is the top priority, so Paul declared the meeting over, and everyone got up to take their leave.

“Wait, gentlemen!” Just as the crowd was about to walk out of the hall, another slightly childish voice came from behind.

“In light of the recent instability in the military, I’ve decided to pick a day to review the soldiers in the square in order to boost the morale of our army.”

He wanted to see what the army under his command was like first.

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