Prologue:
The Yulan Continent. The only remaining continent on the Yulan plane after a massive war between deities ravaged it. After thousands of years, the continent was divided into various regions dominated by humans or magical beasts. It possesses multiple kingdoms, empires, and wild areas.
The Mountain Range of Magical Beasts divided the continent from north to south into a 70-30 land ratio.
West of the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, there are twelve kingdoms and thirty-two duchies. Within these kingdoms and dukedoms, there are two major divisions. The first is the Holy Union, with the kingdom of Fenlai being the principal kingdom. The second is the Dark Alliance, with the kingdom of Heishi being the principal kingdom.
East of the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, there are four empires, six major kingdoms, and countless duchies.
These four empires are enormous and are not influenced by the Holy Union or the Dark Alliance. The four empires are the central Yulan Empire, the southeastern Rhine Empire, the eastern Rohault Empire, and the northern O'Brien Empire. At the far northern end, the Holy Union shares a border with the O'Brien empire. While at the southern end, the Dark Alliance intersects with the Yulan Empire.
It has a size of thirty thousand kilometers.
Our story begins in the Yulan Empire.
Similar to the Obrien Empire, the Yulan Empire uses 7 Administrative provinces to organize its land. The Obrien Empire actually took inspiration from Yulan to implement their ideas. The main difference between these two empires is that the Obrien Empire follows the deity Obrien on the path of a warrior and believes in might makes right. In contrast, in the Yulan Empire, they follow the deity, the High Priestess on the path of a mage, and believe in patience and wisdom.
Under the rule of the high priestess and her mage disciples, the Yulan Empire became a peaceful, patient, and wise empire with very little corruption. After all, with the high priestess, a deity of life, watching over the empire with her divine sense, she would order her disciples to eliminate the worst of the corruption. Along with the rule of wise emperors who truly cared for the empire and were ruthless in tearing it out by the root, less and less became willing to conduct shady business inside the empire.
At the southwesternmost point of the Yulan Empire was the Southwestern Administrative province. This province was in charge of watching over the connecting channel to the Dark Alliance as well as the first wall of defense for the empire from the mountain range of magical beasts as well as the mountain range of the setting sun.
The family who ruled this province was the Walsh family. They were high up on the social latter due to their generations of wisdom as mages, scholars, and generals. The current patriarch of the family was even an archmage.
Deep inside the Walsh Manor, inside the womb of the patriarch's daughter in law, a baby's body had just finished forming.
Many scholars, over the years, always wondered when exactly a soul combines with the physical body. Does it come from the seed or egg? Does it occur when the brain develops? Does it happen when the body is formed? Is it before birth?
Not much was known, but it was during this moment when the body was formed that an incident had occurred that had .000001 chance of ever being possible.
Two souls were moving toward the empty body in the cycle of reincarnation. Usually, if two souls or no soul ever reached a baby's body, it would result in the body failing and a miscarriage.
In this incredibly rare moment, the two small souls smashed into each other at high speeds. They somehow managed to merge with each other, gaining the base traits of each one while becoming slightly bigger. This medium-sized soul entered the baby and changed the destiny for one man who was considered a side character on the path of others.
This man's name was George Walsh, the bro of Yale, Linley, and Reynolds.
This is his journey.