The Soul Wanderer （part 1）

Lin Tan floated in the air,looking at the lifeless young body lying on the ground and shook his head.

He was a soul,to be precise,a very special soul.Because no one could detect him,not even the most proficient soul masters or legendary necromancers could trace his soul.And he had been wandering in the world of Orudick for over a hundred years.

Lin Tan had no idea why he had become like this.He was a small clerk in Beijing,working from nine to five every day.After graduating from university,he had struggled to find a job that was neither good nor bad.His remaining goal was to buy a house,get a wife,and have a child.However,a sudden car accident completely took him away from that world.

When he woke up,he found himself in this fantasy-like world.There were mages,knights,and various magical beasts,including the legendary dragons.But he didn't have a normal穿越(crossing over)experience;instead,he became a soul entity.Despite having his own thoughts,he could pass through any obstacles without any scruples.Even the magic barriers set up by great archmages couldn't stop him.He didn't need to eat or drink,and his soul never dissipated.He just kept floating.

At first,Lin Tan was very excited.The闷骚(hidden骚,meaning secretly naughty or playful)heart deep in his chest made him do a lot of absurd things.Of course,in reality,he couldn't actually do anything.He couldn't even blow a speck of dust.However,peeping was incredibly easy for him.Even the sacred church's saintess was watched by him without any obstruction while she was taking a bath.He was even bored enough to measure the diameter of the saintess's certain female-specific organs.God,if any hero really did that,at least more than half of the young knights in the world would duel with him!But no matter what Lin Tan did,it didn't matter at all,and the victims didn't even know that such a猥琐(猥琐,meaning猥琐,which implies being despicable or mean)soul had done such a猥琐 thing to them.

However,Lin Tan soon grew tired of this kind of life.

No sense of smell,taste,or touch,unable to enjoy delicious food,unable to listen to music,and even unable to engage in sexual activities,as he couldn't get aroused...Apologies,as a soul entity,he didn't even have that thing that could become hard or soft!

After floating for a few years,Lin Tan didn't want to live anymore.He really didn't want to live.

He wanted to die.When a legendary necromancer was conducting soul experiments,he was nearby.But no matter how powerful the forces were,they couldn't affect him at all.Even when the legendary mage destroyed himself and countless strong souls he had captured in a massive explosion during an experiment,it didn't harm Lin Tan in the slightest.

He was desperate.

He just kept floating in every corner of the world,having almost traveled to every place in the world over the past hundred years,from the Endless Sea in the west,the boundless Great Wasteland in the east,the Agus Ice Plateau and the Permafrost Sea below the cliffs in the north,to the fertile Golden Gulf in the south...

He just kept floating in the world of Orudick,watching the daily sunrise and sunset,and the changes of the world,while he remained unchanged.Sadness?That emotion had already disappeared twenty years into his floating.He witnessed the development of this world over the past hundred years and knew many inside stories of the major events that had occurred on the continent.He wasn't exaggerating when he said that he knew even the super secret that the former pope had six secret lovers!

In recent decades,he had rarely paid attention to the lives of those big figures.Instead,the trivial matters happening in the mortal world could increasingly make ripples in his increasingly calm heart.He was very afraid that if one day,if he lost his human heart and remained indifferent to everything,it would be a terrible thing,something he couldn't even imagine.

And now,the young man lying in the garbage pile who had just died was one of his recent targets of observation.

The young man's name wasEdward Fleyg,a lower-class noble from the Liverpool Principality.His father,Old Fleyg Knight,was a brave warrior who,after retiring,relied on his own fief,a relatively prosperous manor,to raise a mercenary group active on the eastern front of the Holy Cross Alliance,fighting against the Orc Empire.