Chapter 1: Transmigration

"Master, Master, it's time to get up and have breakfast."

An old but stern voice sounded in Zhao Hai's ear. Zhao Hai didn't pay much attention, just feeling an excruciating headache. He thought his computer was still on, and the TV drama inside was reciting lines.

But the voice continued, "Master, it's time to get up. As a noble, punctuality is a good habit."

Zhao Hai was stunned for a moment because this voice didn't seem to come from the computer. It was right next to his ear, and it was very real, definitely not from his broken speaker.

Despite the headache, Zhao Hai forced his eyes open. What he saw was not the white ceiling of his room but a silk canopy.

Zhao Hai was stunned again. He turned his head and found himself lying on a large wooden bed. Next to the bed stood a man in his fifties, with neatly combed gray hair, a stern face, and a calm expression as he looked at him.

Zhao Hai stared blankly at the stern-faced old man, then shifted his gaze around. This was a stone house, very simple. Apart from the large bed he was lying on, there was only a desk and a chair. The floor and walls seemed to have been recently cleaned. The window had a wooden frame with a layer of white paper pasted on it. A glowing stone hung from the ceiling for lighting. There was nothing else in the room.

At this moment, the old man said again, "Master, you are fine now. Please get up quickly. As a noble, you should have a regular life. It's breakfast time, please get up quickly."

Zhao Hai's eyes turned to the old man, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: Transmigration! Then he felt a sharp pain in his head and fainted.

When Greenbuda saw Zhao Hai faint, he was slightly stunned and quickly walked out. Outside the room, four people were standing: two men and two women. The two men were not very old, looking only in their teens, but they were both over two meters tall, with muscles like iron, dark skin, and short hair. They looked identical, a pair of twins, but their expressions were a bit dazed.

The two women, one older, around forty, was very fat, with blue hair and a kind face, now looking very anxious.

The younger girl, only sixteen or seventeen, had long green hair, an oval face, a petite figure, and fair skin, a rare beauty. She was now looking down, with a blank expression.

Seeing Green come out, the older woman immediately asked, "Green, how is it? Is the Master awake?"

Green nodded and then shook his head, saying, "He woke up, but fainted again right after. Merlin, is your magic ineffective? Or is there a problem with the medicine? Did someone tamper with it?"

Merlin's face turned cold, "If that's the case, I'll fight those bastards. Although the Master is a bit of a scoundrel, he is the last bloodline of the Buda family. Have the bastards in the empire forgotten what the Master did for the empire? These ungrateful bastards."

Green said sternly, "You should still go in and check. If it doesn't work, use water magic to treat the Master. No matter what, we must protect the last bloodline of the Buda family."

Merlin nodded but then glared at Green, "If the Master gets better, you're not allowed to impose noble requirements on him. We're already in this hellhole, what noble etiquette? Let them all go to hell. Just looking at those noble faces makes me sick."

Green looked at Merlin helplessly but still said sternly, "No, the Master is still a viscount. He must act like a noble. I must teach the Master to be a true noble to repay the Buda family's great kindness."

Merlin glared at Green, "If you dare to treat the Master like that again, I won't cook for you. I'll starve you to death. We don't know how long we can survive here, and with those people in the capital, do you think the Master will have a chance to return to the empire? Stop dreaming."

Green smiled bitterly and didn't say anything. He knew Merlin was right. The reason they were sent to this desolate place was because of the emperor and the leading nobles. If it weren't for the Buda family's glorious past, they might have been exterminated.

Now, although the Buda family still exists, it is impossible for them to re-enter the noble circles of the empire. People will deliberately forget that such a family ever existed.

What made Green feel most disheartened was that the emperor, fearing the Buda family's resurgence, had the Master, the last heir and the last hope of the Buda family, Adam Buda, drink the Void Water.

The Void Water is an unparalleled treasure, each drop of which is priceless. This Void Water has only one effect: to nullify one's power.

Just one drop of Void Water can turn a mage with the power of a Divine Mage, a warrior with the power of a Divine Warrior, or a Divine Knight into an ordinary person, making it impossible for them to use any magic or martial arts ever again, and there is no cure.

Although this potion makes it impossible to use magic or martial arts, it does not affect the body in any other way. It simply turns you into an ordinary person.

If the person is already an ordinary person, the potion is no different from ordinary water. But if the person is a noble or a strong individual, it will instantly turn them into a useless person, a waste, making them fall from the heights to the depths of despair.

Adam Buda was ordered by the king to drink this potion. He will never be able to learn any magic or martial arts and can only be an ordinary person.

If this happened to another noble family, it wouldn't be a big deal. They could just live as ordinary people, without any thoughts of power.

But for Adam, this was a matter of life and death. He is the last heir of the Buda family, and he needs power to revive the family's glory and bring the Buda family back to the stage of the Aksum Empire. But he drank the Void Water, and now he can never learn any magic or martial arts, making it impossible for him to revive the family. The last hope of the Buda family is extinguished.

If it were just a lack of power, Green wouldn't be afraid. After all, he is an eighth-level warrior, his wife Merlin is an eighth-level water mage, and his granddaughter Meg is a sixth-level wind mage. With them, the Buda family still has enough power. If they were still in their original fief, the Buda family could easily flourish again. The original fief of the Buda family was in the south of the empire, with a main city and four medium-sized cities, a large population, and fertile land. As long as they developed quietly for a few years, the Buda family could flourish again.

But unexpectedly, the king changed their fief from the south of the empire to the Black Earth Wasteland in the north.

The Black Earth Wasteland is a notorious dead land on the continent. Although it is vast, covering about one-third of the Aksum Empire, nothing grows there. Even plants that grow in deserts will wither here.

Legend has it that the Black Earth Wasteland was once fertile land. Later, several Divine Mages used a super-large forbidden spell, turning this land into a dead zone where nothing grows.

If it were just a dead land, Green wouldn't be afraid. As long as the transportation was convenient, they could do some business and at least support themselves. However, the Black Earth Wasteland is surrounded by an abandoned dwarf iron mountain. Beyond the mountain is one of the five forbidden zones of the continent, the Corpse Swamp, which also belongs to the Buda family's fief. In fact, the Buda family's fief is the largest in the entire Aksum Empire.

The only exit is next to the territory of the Vansel family. Although the Vansel family has a marriage alliance with the Buda family, given the current state of the Buda family, how can they talk about marriage with the most powerful Vansel family in the empire? This place has become a true dead land.

Fortunately, this area was once under the control of the empire, so there is a small castle on the abandoned dwarf iron mountain. Since the mountain was not affected by the forbidden spell, there is still some land that can be cultivated, so they won't starve to death.

When Green learned that their fief had been changed to this place, he immediately exchanged all the Buda family's money for slaves, living supplies, seeds, and tools. Then he led Adam, who had been in a coma after drinking the Void Water, to this place and settled in the abandoned but usable small castle.

Those who came with Green included his wife Merlin, his granddaughter Meg, and a pair of twin orphans, Wood and Stone, whom Adam's father had adopted, plus a hundred slaves, and no one else.

During the journey from the empire to the Black Earth Wasteland, Adam remained in a coma. Fortunately, Merlin is a mage and could use magic to treat Adam, allowing him to arrive safely. Yesterday, she checked Adam's condition and believed he would wake up today, which is why Green was calling Adam to get up. However, they didn't expect that the Adam lying in bed was no longer Adam but a transmigrated Earth otaku, Zhao Hai.