Ilmora Plane, Kingdom of Kreimhild.
Near the Valley of Sorrows.
A carriage protected by dozens of mercenaries was slowly travelling towards the valley of sorrows.
Most of the mercenaries were rugged men, and each one of them was highly experienced and giving off a powerful aura.
The mercenaries seemed to be escorting the carriage while protecting it in a tight formation.
There was a paladin riding a horse and protecting it from close vicinity; his face was hidden under his white helmet engraved with gold designs.
The carriage itself looked extremely luxurious and was plated with gold and silver all over.
Even wild animals ran away after sensing the powerful aura of this entire convoy.
The bright moon was shining in the starry sky, and the moonlight was making the carriage shine like a gem.
And just like its exterior, the interior of the carriage was just as luxurious.
A young man with an extremely handsome face was sleeping on the comfortable seat of the carriage.
A frown appeared on the handsome young man's face as the carriage rocked and swayed due to the uneven road.
"ugh… hmmm…"
The young man slowly opened his eyes in a daze, and it took him a while to fully wake up from that deep sleep.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes slowly and he finally noticed that something was wrong with the environment he was in.
'Hmm… what?'
For a while the young man could not understand what was going on; he looked around him and found that he was sitting inside a carriage and everything around him was shiny and luxurious-looking.
He looked at his hands and found that they had shrunk.
"This is!?"
The first thing that came to mind was that he was kidnapped once again.
As a top-level scientist who's been researching things that threaten the dominance of big companies, it's nothing new for him to be kidnapped.
In fact, he had a record of getting kidnapped and beaten every year or so at least once.
With every new invention, he was destroying one or two more companies, so it was not too surprising that thugs were hired to beat the sh*t out of him on a regular basis.
Thankfully, police were quick and strong in their nation, and the government was highly protective of their valuable scientists, so he was usually saved most of the time.
'Err… but I got killed by a police officer… not to mention that was my own friend… Wait! I was killed! How am I alive!?'
Only then did the young man realize that something was very wrong; he should have been dead by now, but he's still alive.
No medical technology can save a person who's suffered wounds as serious as his! He was shot directly in the head! There's no way he can be alive even after that.
'Could it be I have some hidden powers that I don't know about? No way, right?'
As a person who was used to getting kidnapped, he was very calm even in this situation; he knew that being calm and not panicking is the best thing you can do in such situations.
'I need to gather intel on my current situation-'
Just when the young man was about to start considering how to escape, his eyes fell on a mirror hanging nearby.
The entire interior of the carriage was rather luxurious, so it was not surprising that there was a mirror inside.
What was the most surprising was the face that was being reflected in that mirror.
"Wha!?"
The face in the mirror was insanely handsome; he had silver hair and golden eyes.
The young face in the mirror resembled that of a teenager, but even at that age, it was exceptionally handsome.
Just when the young man was about to scream in shock, a sudden headache assaulted him.
"Ugh!"
The young man closed his eyes and clenched his head with both of his hands as he endured the sudden outburst of pain.
A massive amount of information and memories started to rush into his mind.
'This is!?'
He became a bystander in those memories, watching them play out at an insanely fast speed.
He almost felt as if he was being forced to watch someone's life documentary at 10X speed. The headache was so strong that he felt as if his brain were splitting apart into tiny fragments!
He lost control over his body and fell down on the floor like a lifeless corpse.
His body had decided to focus the entire body's energy on the brain, and he momentarily lost control of his limbs.
"Ugh! Ah! Sh*t! oh sh*t!"
Tears appeared in his eyes, and he almost fell unconscious many times, but every time he was about to faint, more knowledge would rush into his head and forcefully wake him up again!
The endless agony lasted for half an hour.
"Huff… pant… huff… what the actual f*ck is… sh*t… this… huff… huff…"
The young man weakly got up from the carriage floor and sat back up on his seat; he found a handkerchief and wiped his tears and snot with an aggrieved look on his handsome face.
There was a leather water bag nearby, and he grabbed it to drink the whole of it in one go!
"Phew~… that was intense…"
He leaned his back on the seat weakly as if his entire body was devoid of energy, and he was feeling so hungry as if he hadn't eaten anything in ages.
But that was not the main thing on his mind at the moment; the words that kept revolving in his mind were.
'I f*cking transmigrated into someone else's body!!?'
Thankfully the carriage was fully noise-proof and enchanted; thus, no matter how loud he howled inside of it, there was no way anyone could hear his howls outside.
If not for that, the convoy would have already stopped moving the moment they noticed him screaming due to a headache.
"Err… What kind of movie plot is this!?"
A look of shock appeared on his handsome face as he looked at the mirror once again.
"This handsome face… I ended up in a really handsome dude's body, though… Is this because he's from a wealthy family?"
As a scientist who grew up in poverty and came from a rather humble background, it's impossible for him to understand the lifestyle of a wealthy, spoiled kid.
He looked at his own clothes and realized that they were quite luxurious, with even the buttons made of gold and diamonds.
'This attire… it's very flashy but… why is this thing so difficult to move in?'
"Ugh… what an unlucky day… first I died a sh*tty death and now I am in the body of some other dude… Everything's shrunk, even my pitiful little brother... sigh... what a sad life..."
Although he was a scientist, he had read his fair share of novels and had played enough games to know about things like transmigration and reincarnation.
It was a very popular trope used in many light novels, so he was able to accept his situation pretty quickly with his quick adaptation skills.
He closed his eyes and entered a meditative state to digest all the knowledge and memories that had suddenly entered his brain.
This was an old habit of his; he liked to close his eyes and meditate in high-stress situations like these, but before he could do it today, a knock on the door of the carriage jolted him out of his meditation.
At some point the carriage had come to a halt, and someone was knocking on the door of his carriage.