A night passed.

  As the m sun's rays appeared from the other side of the horizon, Alex finally sorted out the memories in his mind, crifying the sequence of events.

  First and foremost, he was indeed dead. This left Alex speechless, as he always sidered himself a cautious person.

  He had always made a habit of preparing for various ued risks, from breakups to pany bankruptcies, from financial crises to partners absding with funds, from robbery to being hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street.

  Alex would sider every possible risk and make corresponding preparations. He enjoyed a life where everything was under trol; his philosophy was to remain unged amidst ging circumstances. It was this philosophy that had led to his success.

  But Alex never expected that the world would always be so uable, full of unimaginable surprises.

  For instance, when he jumped into the river to save someone, he hought that after successfully resg the person and watg them leave in an ambunce, he would be struck by a high-voltage wire that suddenly snapped overhead.

  What he found even more ued was that not only did he die, but when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that he had been reborn in another world.

  The situation of the body he was reborn into left Alex quite speechless as well.

  In essehe situation wasn't plicated. The small noble family where he now resided possessed a secret treasure.

  Retly, a group of knights from the Holy Kingdom approached this small noble, g that the treasure passed down in his family was evil and ominous, demanding its surrender.

  Naturally, the small noble refused and drove the knights away. Initially, the noble didn't think much of it, but to his surprise, that very night, the knights unched an atta their manor, sughtering everyone.

  This small noble, named rad, was merely a minor baro who had never seen such a se before, and naturally fled with the family's secret treasure.

  He hoped to seek help from other noble families iy, only to find that the Holy Kingdom had publicly decred the rad family in collusion with a cult, beling them enemies of order and issuing a warrant for their arrest.

  The Holy Kingdom held a prestigious status on this ti, and a small noble like rad was no match for them.

  With no other choice, they tio flee, but ultimately couldn't escape the Holy Kingdom's pursuit and perished.

  From a third-party perspective, Alex would undoubtedly think that the Holy Kingdom ocritical.

  But after abs rad's memories, Alex frustratingly discovered that the arrest warrant from the Holy Kingdom wasn't unjustified at all.

  Acc to rad's memories, while his family outwardly worshipped the Goddess of Order, they were actually devout followers of a cult called the "Church of Doom."

  This cult believed in the end of all things, g that one day all creation would be destroyed, even the gods would fall, and the God of Destru would rise to rule the world.

  The followers were tasked with weakening the forces of order as much as possible to await the return of the God of Destru and other suonsense.

  Naturally, rad's family was involved in various dark and dirty deeds. From Alex's point of view, even without the Holy Kingdom's intervention, the ws of his own world would have sentehis family to death a huimes over.

  How did he end up being reborn into such a character?

  Thinking of this gave Alex a headache. Other people who transmigrate either bee characters with deep grudges or those with hidden heroic qualities. Why did he end up in the body of a cultist despised by everyone?

  To make matters worse, by abs rad's memories, Alex relutly discovered that not only had he bee a wanted criminal in the Holy Kingdom, but he couldn't even remain with the Church of Doom.

  The reason was simple: acc to rad's memories, he had damaged the so-called cult treasure during their escape!

  The process of damaging the secret treasure was hardly worth mentioning. Faced with the pursuit of the Holy Kingdom's soldiers, rad decided to make a desperate move and activate the treasure to eual destru.

  However, whether due to a mistake in the procedure or sheer bad luck, as rad ihe treasure with magic, it shattered with a "pop," and rad immediately fell unscious—this was wheook over.

  "Serves yht for being hunted for life!!"

  Alex could imagihat if he were found by members of the Church of Doom and couldn't produce the secret treasure, he would be dead for sure.

  Cults, no matter the world, are the same—filled with endless and grotesque tortures that make you wish for death. In this light, being captured by the Holy Kingdom might even be preferable; at least they'd give him a quick death with one swift stroke...

  Moreover, through rad's memories, Alex learhat this was a world with a highly developed power system.

  Not only did it have magid knights, but alsons, undead, and all sorts of other creatures and beings.

  Not to mention gods and their emissaries... Uhe religions in Alex's world, which were mainly scams to swindle mohe cults here had actual divine bag!

  In parison, while Alex himself had some skills, he was far outcssed by the magid extraordinary swordsmanship in this world.

  As for this reinated body? Heh, Alex already khat rad only had the strength of an apprentiight.

  The Church of Doom he believed in hadn't given him any divine blessings or the like. If nothi wrong, any one of those knights Alex saw earlier could easily defeat him ten times over.

  But fortunately, this world cked nothing except for the ued.

  Thinking of this, Alex raised his hand, and as he did, the previously vish and heavy book appeared once again. Only now did Alex take a closer look at this book that had appeared out of thin air in his hand.

  It looked as thick as a diary but was uedly light as a feather in his hand.

  Och-bd heavy cover, a luxurious gem that shoh a multicolored brilliance was set in the ter, surrounded by silver circles expanding outward like the orbits of ps in the universe.