Part 1: Fate
The scene shifted completely away from the training grounds and focused entirely at Haruto.
Haruto and Mrs. Flora was currently sitting opposite each other on a wooden chair and table inside a quiet room.
Flora looked across the table and directly asked Haruto about his specific combat abilities and current powers.
Haruto calmly told her absolutely everything about his inner powers and also openly explained that he generally can't use standard rituals like normal residents do.
And he also explicitly told her about his recent unique cellular mutation that occurred when he interacted with the Lizam artifact.
And he described how he now uses Ritual arrays through that bypass channel.
Flora listened intently, analyzing the description until she could fully understand Haruto's immense strong point and critical weak point at the same time.
"As I carefully see your current physical condition."
"It's honestly much better for you to exclusively use the legendary South swordstyle."
"As this specific style uniquely contains a flawless mixture of Ritual execution + advanced swordsmanship at the exact same time."
"So you would be perfectly able to smoothly use both of them without straining your mutated channels."
"All though I must warn you beforehand that it is kinda tough to learn this complex Style," Flora says seriously.
"But if I switch to a blade, then how I would properly use my primary staff?"
"As I absolutely have to use my physical staff to perform some of my best combination ritual configurations," Haruto says, pointing out a flaw.
"Don't worry about that minor detail, it's not a real problem at all."
"We will simply transform your existing staff into a fully functional sword."
"Then you could fluidly use both of them as a single entity."
"Which will naturally contain your old staff's original powers also within the new blade."
"It would take some days for the blacksmiths to finish the altering process."
"So in between that waiting time, you can steadily learn the basic swordsmanship stances."
"And gain some valuable historical knowledge about it," Flora says smoothly.
Haruto thoughtfully agreed with her logical advice.
Then, haruto stood up and give Flora his valuable staff.
"I am leaving this castle for sometime right now to personally send this staff to the master forge."
"While I am gone, you can visit the grand kingdom's library."
"And you can read up on the official records about the South swordstyle," Flora advices.
"Okay," Haruto says, nodding his head.
Then, right before his eyes, Flora completely disappeared in the empty air.
She skillfully uses a swift, high-tier wind Ritual for this instant movement.
Haruto then turned around and started to walk out of the quiet room.
He goes out of the massive stone castle gates.
And he walks through the busy, winding public streets of the capital.
He was walking slowly, taking in the daily life of the citizens.
Then, after a few minutes of walking, he found the massive royal library standing right Infront of him.
Haruto stepped into the silent, cold library building.
Then, he walked up to the front desk and asked the librarian where he could sit down to study.
Then, the busy librarian pointed out a direction and shown him a comfortable seat near the back.
Then, Haruto goes through a big, towering bookshelf filled with ancient texts.
Then, he is started to carefully scan the titles to find a proper book to read.
Then, his eyes caught a spine, and he finds out a book of south swordstyle.
But right before Haruto gonna extend his hand and take it off the shelf.
A another random person quickly reached out and took it for themselves.
So haruto now turned away and started to find a another book to satisfy his task.
Then, while looking through a dusty, forgotten corner shelf, haruto finds an extremely interesting looking book.
The title printed boldly on the old cover was named.
"Hermit Zero's Diary"
It was a translated historical text based entirely on Hermit Zero's personal Diary entries.
Haruto become instantly curious about the contents.
Haruto already knows a little bit of general information about the legendary Hermit Zero from his previous conversations.
Hermit Zero is universally known as the absolute strongest South swordstyle user to ever exist in the 4th era.
And Right now in the current timeline, is it the 5th Era of the world.
And now haruto thought it would be a perfect opportunity to read his book to understand the deep roots of the South swordstyle.
Then, he firmly graps the old book with both hands.
Then, he goes directly back to his assigned seat.
He sits down on the wooden chair.
He slowly opens the thick book.
Then, Haruto started to carefully read the book word by word.
After reading continuously for about 1 hours in deep concentration.
Haruto was completely speechless and frozen in his seat.
Haruto learn one of the massive things from the text that made him completely surprise.
In that old book.
Haruto learned about many hidden historical things regarding the past.
The first thing he discovered.
When the massive, apocalyptic fifth Great war of Tenzu happens in the ancient days.
That specific times, 3 massive global empires shines the most on the battlefield.
The Sharron Empire.
The Asura Empire.
And the Leon Empire.
But absolutely not this 3 empire was the only empires of that warring era.
The diary stated there was also the.
William Empire.
Jason Empire.
Overnight Empire.
Mike Empire.
Wilson Empire.
And the Jackson Empire.
And the grand Overnight Empire has the absolute strongest person to ever exists at that time in history.
It was the mythical Sword God himself.
Who powerfully wields the Legendary sword Calvation.
It was widely believed by scholars that the Sword God was so terrifyingly powerful that.
A entire pair of global Empires named the Jason Empire and the Jackson Empire got completely wiped off the map by the sword God himself in a single battle.
He was the true, ultimate founder of modern swordstyle systems.
And the universal Godfather of Swordsmanship.
And to finally defeat the overwhelming threat of the Overnight Empire, the Leon, Sharron, and Asura Empire all united into one massive alliance.
And they desperately fought a bloody war against the solitary power of The sword God.
Unfortunately for his domain.
The mighty Overnight Empire eventually got utterly defeated by the combined global alliance.
This is exactly what Hermit Zero explicitly mentioned in his records.
However, Hermit Zero doesn't mention what happens with the other smaller empires after the collapse.
The second massive thing Haruto read.
Hermit Zero was originally born under the territory of the Leon empire.
And he was an Elf by race.
And right after the miraculous birth of Hermit Zero.
The Leon empire, who was severely struggling and losing in the global empire war.
Suddenly and miraculously started to completely dominate all other rival empires.
And they flawlessly won that grand war of Empires.
That's the exact reason why everyone called Hermit Zero the.
"Fortune child"
And not only that single feat, Hermit Zero then personally invented the modern south swordstyle directly from studying the remnants of the old sword God style.
And every other modern swordstyle such as the Demon style, Beast style, East style, West style, and North sword style derive directly from that same original Sword God style source.
And Hermit Zero created the branch from the sword god style.
And he also personally introduced the entire world-famous sword Saint title system in the lands of Tenzu.
He later naturally become the absolute strongest warrior of his entire Era.
The third shocking thing.
After reading a huge, dense paragraph near the middle of the diary.
Haruto find some hidden, messy notes of text written directly by Hermit Zero.
Where the author specifically mentioned in a side note that only those people can read this section who truly understand this specific language.
But the absolutely shocking part is that is the secret notes where written completely in Japanese characters.
That single thing makes haruto completely shock to his very core.
From the very beginning of his arrival, Haruto was deeply confused how on earth his friends and all people's could automatically able to read, speak and write the native Tenzu language.
Like they all automatically learn this foreign language the moment they stepped into this world.
Haruto was always intensely curious about that strange phenomenon.
But now, he got a physical piece of Hermit Zero's personal notes written clearly in Japanese.
"Wait a single minute."
"Why on earth this ancient notes are written in perfect Japanese?" Haruto says in a quiet whisper.
Haruto then read the previous historical paragraph again very carefully, and then he suddenly realised a hidden truth that everyone missed.
People call Hermit Zero the Fortune child not only for the simple fact that his empire won the war.
But because there also existed for one more bizarre medical reason.
That is.
Hermit Zero goes from a 100% medical death possiblity stage where he would die instantly right after his birth.
And also this happens when Hermit Zero borns, his infant body clinically died for exactly 1 minutes.
But right after another minutes passed by.
The dead body of Hermit Zero again miraculously wakes up.
He doesn't cry like a normal newborn infant.
He just quietly looks at everyone around the room like a completely healthy, conscious person.
That's the also a hidden reason people calls Hermit Zero the Fortune child.
Haruto carefully connect those separate things in his mind.
And haruto find out Hermit Zero's recorded behavior extremely weird for an infant.
Because from the very beginning of his life.
Hermit Zero acts completely like he is a fully grown adult man trapped in a child's body.
He never cries like a normal child.
Or he never do silly, childish things like a regular kid would do.
He was always extremely, unnaturally mature.
Haruto things deeply about something.
"If the common people thought Hermit Zero simply got revived."
"From a 100% death situation at birth."
"Then I am absolutely sure the real, original infant Hermit Zero died during that single time minute."
"And a completely another foreign soul enter it's empty body."
"It is none other than the exact phenomenon of transmigrate."
"Also it proves beyond a shadow of doubt by Hermit Zero's private notes that was written clearly in Japanese."
"That means Hermit Zero is originally an individual from Japan."
"But how does this mass world hopping happens across eras?" Haruto says, his mind racing with questions.
Then, while he was staring intensely at the page, a librarian came their to his table.
And the librarian looked at him weirdly and asked.
"Young man, why exactly are you sitting here reading a completely empty book?"
"What do you mean by calling it an empty book, I am clearly reading what is written right here on the pages," Haruto says, pointing at the visible text.
"Do you have some sort of severe mental problems?"
"Because their is absolutely nothing inside those pages."
"You are literally reading a completely empty book with blank sheets," the Librarian says with a frown.
Haruto become deeply confuse and startled.
Haruto quickly took the book and asked other nearby people in the room too.
They all looked at the pages and replied the exact same answer.
"It's just an empty book."
Haruto sat back down and finally realised the terrifying reality that only he could able to read this book.
But how on earth is this possible?