Desert Tribe

Upon waking up, he arose and, took off his red Canada Goose jacket, putting it into his backpack that he laid his head on when he was staring at the sky last night, Tselmeg found himself being refreshed. His all body cells were nourished by the extraordinary effect of the mysterious energy he felt in the air on the previous night.

Looking at his cheap watch closely, Tselmeg found himself to have only '8 hours of meditation', yet the outcome is marvelous.

When he closed his eyes and tried to feel the mysterious energy again, he could sense the streaming river like energy across the air. The energy that spans in the air felt like it crosses the entire desert, as well as the entire universe.

Soon, the beautiful yet deadly sun would rise again. Seeing the marvelous shining sun again, Tselmeg found himself feeling challenged, yet motivated because he has his own way not to die due to dehydration.

"I wonder whether I can simultaneously walk and absorb the energy into my body?" Tselmeg continued to walk and tried to absorb the energy into his body.

But to no avail, walking and absorbing energy into his body seems impossible affair to accomplish. Tselmeg recalled on the previous novels that he has read Main characters would usually sit down and attentively meditate to absorb energy to their body.

"Damn, to survive the entire day, I would need to have something to drink. Otherwise, under this torching sun and on the blazing sand, I would be cooked alive. How could I meditate and absorb the energy?" Tselmeg claimed the difficulty he is facing now.

After walking, and having occasional rest to meditate under the hard circumstances, Tselmeg would barely recover his lost strength. Even so, the mysterious energy would not let him last for long. After absorption of energy into his body, Tselmeg realized that his kidneys started to hurt and felt like needles are passing through his body. He understands that a human body needs materialized water in order to keep its organ functions and keep the body alive.

'At this rate, I would die. Seriously, I need to find an escape from this desert, or at least an oasis where I can drink water and eat some coconut' Tselmeg put his left hand on his eyebrows to block the bright sun from his sight and started to far see the barren landscape of the desert.

Looking at the far far away, he saw some brown dots above a mirage in the direction of the sun. Perhaps it is a tribe or oasis in the barren lands. He would try his luck by walking to the brown dots above the mirage in the far distance. Upon nearing the brown dots, it would become more clear that the dots were tents. Besides the tents, there were dozen white camels sitting on their laps, enjoying the heat of the desert.

Delighted Tselmeg has made a joyful expression which indicates his hope of survival. Getting more nearby to the tents, he noticed that there were 5 men sitting around a fireplace, grilling some meat and drinking wine joyfully.

Unfortunately, it was too late to notice that there were 19 young men with iron collars around their neck were sitting in a squat position, next to the fireplace. It was obvious that those 19 young people were slaves. They had depressed expression and their body was skeleton-like skinny.

When Tselmeg noticed that there were slave merchants, he tried to quietly escape. But no avail, a bald bulky man with a scar on his left eye has noticed him trying to escape. "Ralph! Look at that man. Seems he is lost in the Abraham desert. Since one of our slaves died during the road, we can replace him and sell as a slave. Hurry, bring him now!"

Just as the bald bulky man finished his sentence, a young man with cotton bondage on his head noticed Tselmeg and jumped to him. Even though the distance from Tselmeg to the slave merchant was around 50 meters, the sole jump made the slave merchant Ralph reach Tselmeg in one go.

Just as Tselmeg wondered whether the slave merchants noticed him and tried to look backward, the last thing Tselmeg noticed before he passed out was a hand that grabbed his neck as strong as lion biting its prey's neck.

A short a while later, after Tselmeg waking up, he found himself among the nineteen slaves that were sitting in a squat position naked, and stripped from its possessions.

"Papa, the strange brother has waken up" a young skinny girl hurriedly went to his father pulling from his torn shirt.

"Young man, I don't know who you are, but how unfortunate you are. Being taken by the Tiger brothers. What's your name?" a brown man with tired eyes asked Tselmeg.

Shocked to the core, Tselmeg understood that he was in a dire situation. Just as when he transmigrated into this world, a slave merchant has taken him and put a collar around his neck.

'Right, even though I am in a dire situation, I need to know where I am, also whether this is a Xianxia world or not, let's pretend to forget my memories during the previous attack, I can't just reveal myself as a person from a different planet anyway' Tselmeg thought to himself.

"My name?" holding his head confusingly, and locking his eyebrows, Tselmeg said

"Um, mister I am sorry. It seems that I happened to forget my memories. Where am I?" Looking apathetically at the slave, trying to act like he is wondering what is happening right now and where he is Tselmeg found his way to the Oscar nomination.

"You forgot your memories? Right, to have nothing to be bound with is easier than having your precious memories and grieving every day as a slave. Young boy, let's name you as Aster in the future. My name is Tony." Stretching his hand towards Tselmeg, Tony smiled and patted his back.

"Daddy, daddy, is the brother alright?" Looking curiously with round big eyes a girl around 8 years old, with red color hair looked at Tselmeg worriedly. She looked very malnourished, even so, if you carefully look at her, you can see that she is quite beautiful facial features.

"Mina, it's alright, he just seemed to lost his memories." Tony smiled at his daughter and stared at Tselmeg apologizing.

"Mister, can you explain where we are and what we are doing at the moment?" having an innocent face, he wondered whether this universe really does have mysterious energy and other supernatural people among them.

Touching his chin, looking serious, Tony looked at Tselmeg and opened his mouth, but after a while, he swallowed his saliva and closed his mouth again. Repeating this cycle for a while, Tony started explaining. "So young Aster, we are currently in Lenox planet, as well Mitgar continent's most dangerous place Abraham desert. We are slaves, enslaved by the Tiger brothers and are currently being delivered to Warren Lands' duke's youngest son Alexander as his personal slaves."

Opening his mouth, gaping Tselmeg found it more interesting than it seems to be. Feudalism and slavery still exist in this universe. Even if there are no opportunities, he as a person from an advanced society Financing, Banking, Insurance, Electricity, Construction materials etc., he can make his opportunity by himself He has many things to implement to this world. Unfortunately, his starting point is now slavery. Therefore, he needs to bite his teeth and wait for a while.

"Mister Tony, is Warren Lands' duke's youngest son Alexander a gentle and kind person?" Tselmeg curiously asked. Because to implement his plans, and to achieve great things in this world he needs to be strong and unyielding. In order to do that, whether it is Warren lands' duke's youngest son or so who it may be, he needs alliances.

"That is a difficult question, and yet interesting question. As far as I have heard, he is a young lord who has just reached 22 years old this year. Comparing to his brothers who are 50 years old, and 120 years old, he is just a newborn baby." Tony laughed out loudly.

"What 50 years old, and 120 years old? Howcome can a person age this long?" Tselmeg almost bite his tongue by his surprise.

"Ofcourse, since you have lost your memories, it is a common sense that you don't know about Mana and Qi. So Aster, listen carefully. It may save your life in the future. I am originated from Golden eagle tribe in the Abraham desert. My tribe clan elder Otto has once told me about Mana and Qi that exists in this universe as well as the powerhouses in this world.

Once upon a time, when people lived in this planet, along with many magical creatures and other animals, they have created magical techniques as well as cultivation methods that suit them more well by imitating the movement of various magical creatures. As I have mentioned that I am from Golden eagle tribe in the Abraham desert, our ancestors have respected and imitated the movement of Golden eagle in order to become warriors and cultivate Qi.

In this world, there are two types of energy which is Mana and Qi. If you focus enough, and meditate for maybe 10 years, you may feel the trace of Mana in the air. Due to most people are not sensitive about Mana, they can even not trace any mana for their entire life. Therefore magicians are rare as finding a Pheonix feather and Qilin horn.

But Qi is something you can produce entirely by yourself. When you eat meat or drink water, your body automatically absorbs the essence of mana resides into this world and converts them to your own body Qi. As you cultivate and train your body, you can become a warrior. Therefore, my young friend, seeing you become a slave and looking at your fragile body. I would like to suggest you to train in the future to become a warrior in order to get rid of this slavery"