The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 13: The Past and The future.

Town LeonBrave, Night.

Townhead’s house.

"So you will be standing guard outside the entire night?... aren’t you tired too? You should take some rest too, you know..."

At Alex’s words, Ethan shook his head and replied with a confident voice,

"I rested plenty in the day to make sure that I can stand guard for you, your holiness! Don’t worry about me and take plenty of rest..." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"We will head towards the city of Ilma tomorrow morning so you need to rest properly..."

Alex nodded his head and stopped arguing.

He had lost a lot of blood yesterday and needed plenty of rest to return to his peak condition.

Although he got to eat plenty today, he still hasn’t taken a proper sleep until now.

After Ethan left the house to stand guard outside, Alex put away his traveler robe and sat down on the crudely made bed that was brought for him by the people of the town.

There was no such thing as a comfortable mattress or anything like that; it was just a hard wooden bed with a pile of old sheets on it.

But Alex didn’t care about it.

He was already too tired and didn’t have the energy to worry about comfort; he just lay down as he covered himself with an old blanket and laid his head on a hard pillow made of stuffed clothes.

As Alex knew that even the old town head was sleeping on the floor with just a few sheets, him getting this bed was already quite a luxurious treatment.

"Yawwnnn~... the sky here is nice... it’s clearly visible as there is no pollution..."

There was a window nearby, and Alex could see the sky outside while lying down.

’This world is fascinating... but just as cruel too...’

He has the memories of the original Alex, and he knew that this world is definitely not as simple as his previous one.

In his previous world, everyone was equal; at least in terms of physical power, all individuals were just normal human beings at the end of the day.

But here things are different; there are superhumans in this world capable of flying, lifting boulders, and doing inhumane feats!

’The original Alex was also quite lacking in talent and mental fortitude...’

According to the memories in his head, the original Alex is a child born from the third concubine of the Emperor of the Kriemhild nation.

The emperor has one empress and four concubines; in total he has five women.

Including Alex, the Emperor has seven children in total, and Alex is the second youngest among them all.

’So, this time I have got siblings heh...’

In his previous life he was from an ordinary family and was the only child of his parents.

His parents died by the time he became an adult, and he was left alone in the world for most of the time.

He went on to become a top-level scientist, but he had no family or anything of his own.

In fact, he couldn’t even date a girl because he was always too busy or was never at the stage of life that he wanted to be.

Until he died, he barely had only one or two friends, and he was just busy with his work most of the time.

’Sigh... in the end, I couldn’t even complete my work and didn’t even manage to achieve my dreams...’

His dream was to be the best scientist in the world; his dream was to be the most knowledgeable man in the entire world!

For that he had studied every single day and had tried many different fields of knowledge, but he was still far away from his goal.

’There was a person with 71 Phd’s... I was still quite far away from him...’ (Indeed! There is in fact a person in the world with 71 Phd’s! He’s called Dr. Sagi Satyanarayana! And in total he has 111 degrees!)

Aside from knowledge and research, he only managed to get quite a lot of money, but there was not much fun or enjoyment in his dull life.

’Sigh, I might not be able to have fun in this life either...’

He was now in the body of a prince, and he knew that he was bound to get involved in many political clashes and situations eventually.

All of his siblings are either talented or have tremendous support backing them; he alone is the lacking one!

The oldest among his siblings is his brother, who’s already been chosen as the crown prince of the empire and is next in line to inherit the throne!

Not only is he the son of the empress herself, but he’s even got all the ministers and army generals supporting him.

The rest of the siblings either have the support of their mother’s noble families or are very talented from the start.

Only Alex is an oddball.

His mother was actually a knight and the direct subordinate of the king who once went with him on a secret mission.

The two ended up having a relationship when they were alone on that covert mission, and thus, she became the third concubine of the king.

She was just a commoner; she became a knight for the king due to her extraordinary talent and strength!

’Mariel the ’Crimson Moon’... You had such a strong woman as your mother; how did you end up as an immature brat, little Alex... sigh...’

The biggest problem was that Mariel was also the commander of the royal knights; she had to go on missions even though she was weakened after giving birth to Alex.

She was one of the strongest knights in the kingdom, and she left for an urgent mission when Alex was only ten days old.

Mariel died in the battle of the ’Purple Seas,’ and thus she was eternally separated from her newborn child.

Alex had grown up alone; he wasn’t talented in anything and wasn’t motivated to improve either.

He was given the title of saint, and his daily needs were taken care of by the maids and butlers; he obviously grew up to be a spoiled brat.

Immature and weak, arrogant and impatient.

Thus, his father didn’t favor him at all and didn’t even hear his request of not kicking him out from the palace.

’I am given the title of the ’saint,’ and I am an illegitimate child, so there’s no way I can ever dream of inheriting the throne...’

’I should shift my focus towards the ’church of wisdom,’ then...’

Although Alex had no power, authority, or subordinates, he still had the option to be a ’saint’ and rule the church of wisdom the way he wanted.

’As they say, every person has a reason to be born and a place in the world, and if you don’t have it, then you must make your own ’place’ in the ’world’ yourself!’

There will likely be many troubles waiting for him in the church too, but he didn’t have the option to retreat now.

He has received the chance to live once again by some kind of miracle, and he can’t let it go to waste.

’I need to become so strong and influential that I don’t need to depend on this title of a ’prince’ to live... that is the type of future I should aim for...’