The Mysterious Tribulation - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Extraordinary Perception (Seeking More Reads)

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Mother River, vast and winding, nourishes the fertile land of both the Upper Green Forest and Lower Green Forest.

At this moment, a team of dozens of people has arrived at a certain point along Mother River and begins patrolling along its banks.

Aaron Sotos casually picked a blade of grass from the side of the road, put it in his mouth, and displayed a carefree attitude: “Actually… Colin and the others were not entirely wrong, war is about hard power and the Davis family’s strength is something they must be aware of. Besides, their knights are quite experienced, at least knowing about widespread cavalier reconnaissance… If the Davis family took any action, such as an ambush, the chances of success would be slim.”

“So, the Davis family doesn’t have many choices left. Putting myself in their shoes, the only option would be to move through the battlefield as quickly as possible and attack the Sotos Family’s vital points. The forest isn’t suitable for large-scale troop movements, and it will take a long time. So the most convenient method is water transport!”

He gazed at Mother River, the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

The Davis family was upstream, and once they sailed down the river, they would be incredibly fast!

Though the main force was on the battlefield, a side force of about a hundred men could bypass the battlefield patrols, reach the Lower Green Forest’s territory directly, and even launch an attack on the castle!

“But if the sneak attack is discovered, it would be of no use.”

What Aaron had to do was straightforward: he would camp in a defensible location along the river and set up a river checkpoint!

In doing so, if the Davis family took action, their ambush force would have no chance of succeeding!

Even if it’s a false alarm and he was labeled as a coward, it didn’t matter since he had no plans to inherit the family business!

Avoiding battle was, of course, the best alternative.

“With this, the family’s weak point has been covered. The Davis family can only fight desperately on the battlefield, right?”

“Let me think a little further. Maybe there are individuals who have been bribed in the territory? But as long as they don’t have external support, there shouldn’t be any major problems, at least the castle would be fine…”

Aaron spat out the grass stalk from his mouth, wondering if he was being too scheming.

Or was it that the nobles in this Medieval Age-like period were still too naive and hadn’t reached his level of darkness?

Spit, spit, spit!

Aaron looked at Ba Zhi and Sanchez: “What do you think? Do you resent me for taking you away from the battlefield and losing the opportunity to gain spoils of war?”

“No, Old Master, we are all very grateful!”

Sanchez quickly bowed in response.

He spoke the truth; the spoils of war were concerns of the nobles and their knights. Their desire was simple: to survive!

Leaving the battlefield was, of course, the best outcome.

‘If my guess is correct, the dangers here may not be much smaller than those on the battlefield…’

Aaron muttered to himself as he turned around a river bend, his eyes suddenly lighting up.

In front of him, Mother River took a sharp turn, and this was the boundary between the Lower Green Forest and the Upper Green Forest.

Furthermore, in the middle of the wide river surface, there was a four-to-five-meter-high island made of sand and rocks.

“This is a good spot.”

Aaron glanced around, surveying the surrounding geography, and nodded with satisfaction: “We’ll set up the river checkpoint here to guard against any ships coming from upstream…By the way, does this place have a name?”

There was a brief confusion among the illiterate men, and finally, Green hesitated and said: “I think it’s called… Widow Bay?”

…

In his dream.

Aaron Sotos once again felt the energy from that mysterious unit.

‘Use all of it to strengthen myself.’

He issued an order in his consciousness.

The next moment, a refreshing sensation ran through his mind.

He had become familiar with this scene but what followed was slightly different.

Aaron suddenly felt a surge of intense heat, as if boiling water had been poured into his brain!

Pain!

The unbearable pain nearly caused him to lose his ability to maintain consciousness; if he had a body, he would have been rolling on the ground, screaming in agony.

Snap!

In the endless whispers, his memory suddenly shook, as if a crack had been forcefully pried open.

A large number of memories emerged!

He seemed to be a pure bystander, with his memories constantly rewinding, able to see himself pretending to learn to speak as a child and even going back to when he was 1, half a year old, and just born…

The torrent of memories did not stop there; it even went further back…

It was darkness, followed by light.

Those were… memories from his previous life!

“Why does it feel like hypermnesia?”

Aaron commented and suddenly began reciting an academic paper. This was a popular science article he had stumbled upon during college, and he had only glanced at it.

But at this moment, he could recite it word for word!

“Never Forget a Sight? Have I… finally crossed a certain threshold and achieved an extraordinary spirit?”

After all these years, Aaron’s memories of his previous life had become quite vague.

But now, it was as if he had a library in his head, with records of any information he had ever seen!

“This is amazing. I don’t know if I can bring this ability back to reality. Maybe when I wake up, my memory will become vague again, but that doesn’t matter… I can study slowly in my dreams, so… I’ve finally got a little advantage?”

A smile appeared on Aaron’s face.

But at this moment, his expression changed.

A sense of creepiness swept over him, like an icy hand clutching his heart.

“Danger!”

“No… not here!”

“It’s…dangerous for me in the real world?”

…

The night was quiet.

In the tent.

Aaron opened his eyes, and the eerie feeling vanished instantly.

“What’s going on?”

“Could it be… the danger was in my dream? No, my dream self has returned, and that world can no longer harm me.”

He wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead, got up, and tried to think carefully.

“This time I entered the dream, and I finally made my dream self awaken, gaining the abilities of [Extraordinary Memory] and [Danger Perception]… and then, I sensed danger? It seems to be coming from reality…”

Aaron took a deep breath: “If the danger is in the dream, going back would be walking into a trap. If the danger is in the real world…”

He gripped his cross sword and stealthily slipped out of the tent.

Because he had been wearing his outer garment during the march and battle, he had slept like that, making his actions very quick and simple at this moment.

Outside the tent, the sky was filled with hazy moonlight.

A few bonfires away, Sanchez and the others were sleeping soundly, even the night watcher had disappeared.

“Something is wrong!”

Aaron’s eyes narrowed, and he looked into the distance at the edge of the camp.

Under the hazy moonlight, it seemed that blurry figures were crawling on the ground, slowly approaching!

“Attackers!”

Aaron took a deep breath, immediately turned back, found Ba Zhi, and covered his mouth.

Ba Zhi struggled for a moment, unable to make a sound. Then he opened his eyes and saw Aaron.

“Don’t make a sound. We’re under attack.”

Aaron’s voice was cold: “We’ll continue to wake up the others and prepare for battle!”