Wizard, I Have Another World

Karl Bergman is a City Patrol Officer in Signo City of the Kingdom of Gando, born in the Swick region. His father died in a fire while fighting Fire Thieves, and Karl himself suffered burns. His soul was replaced by a transmigrator from another world. Without the baron title inherited from his father, he would remain a commoner. He goes to the church to handle the title handover. Father Vic tells him that his father lacked piety toward the Morning Sun, and the title cannot be inherited. He gives Karl time to show piety by paying thirty gold coins. Karl has savings of just over one gold coin, as his family has no talent for financial management. His grandfather sold the territory, and his father spent heavily to secure Karl’s position as a City Patrol Officer.Karl has the ability to transmigrate through a mysterious place. When he goes there, he gains absolute rationality and fine control over his body, allowing him to master the Gale Slash combat technique from his family’s Gale Swordsmanship. This place also leads him to another world: Black City, a mining city rich in blackstone minerals. The city is controlled by Duke Taidal, who forces all inhabitants to mine blackstone. The environment is harsh, with gray fog, a shattered crimson moon in the sky, and death energy leaking from the mines that resurrects corpses into half-dead creatures. Karl comes to Black City to obtain a breathing technique that would allow him to become a knight, something that is easier here than in his own world.Karl visits the Laca Market and meets Colon, a one-eyed trader. Colon tells him that a breathing technique is hard to get; the seller only wants a way out of Black City, which requires two thousand blackstones to join Madam Butterfly’s caravan. Karl cannot afford that. Instead, he trades a pail of fresh milk and five pounds of cured meat for a hidden arrow that can fire three bolts, plus extra bolts, capable of threatening even a knight squire. He also trades the rest of his meat strips for a few exquisite trinkets, including a gold-plated clock, intending to sell them in Signo City for money.On his way back, Karl is attacked by a half-dead creature that looks like a hound with rotting flesh. It moves at high speed and feels no pain. Karl uses the hidden arrow to wound it, then finishes it with the Gale Slash, shattering it into pieces. Exhausted, he quickly gathers his scattered items and returns to the safe room where he enters his own world. Once back in Signo City, he hears a voice from the living room: “Uncle, why is he here?”