Reincarnated in the Magical Realm

Chapter 3

It has been half a month since the funeral. On this night, Angelina took out a somewhat outdated book with a worn-out cover and partially missing text in an ancient language. It was thin, with only about ten pages, and Angelina could barely make out the words "**Forbidden Techniques" on the cover.

Apart from the cover, the content inside the book was also incomplete. The background, history, and other parts were unclear, but the sections detailing the spell-casting process were relatively intact.

This was a spell that could be completed by a practitioner using a complex magic circle drawn with the practitioner's blood and a string of ancient language incantations. There were no identity requirements for casting, and ordinary people could achieve it.

This seemed like a window fate had opened for her. Angelina barely identified the last line on the last page, softly pronouncing, "Peering into the past to rewrite the future."

As the last syllable ended, an unbearable piercing pain exploded in Angelina's mind. The intricately drawn dark red magic circle, made with blood, instantly lost its color, and Angelina fell into a deep sleep.

The sound of knocking on the door awakened Angelina. Rubbing her forehead, she sat up from the floor. It was already quite bright outside. She also heard the loud voice of Maria's grandson, Jack, shouting that a grand sorcerer had come to the Kslang church today, accompanied by a particularly beautiful magical apprentice.

Upon hearing this, Angelina's still bewildered eyes instantly widened. Today was undoubtedly a turning point in destiny.

Angelina still held the broken book in her hand, and it suddenly fell apart, with pages fluttering to the ground. Overnight, the damage to the book had spread to the pages with the magic circle, and the once recognizable patterns were now indiscernible.

Given this situation, undoubtedly, this book was at least a top-grade magical tool.

(A magical tool refers to a tool that inherently possesses magic and only consumes the magical elements stored within the tool during the casting process.) Angelina could determine that this magical book, with its contents now invisible, was a top-grade tool because she discovered that it was a tool book with time-backtracking magic.

During the night of deep sleep, Angelina dreamt of a segment from her previous life—a period born in an era of declining spiritual energy, a mediocre cultivator with five spiritual roots.

It was an era where spiritual energy gradually declined, and fantastical things disappeared with the dissipation of spiritual energy. Cultivators, the special group with an aura of immortality, became increasingly rare and gradually turned into legendary figures in the eyes of the public. Technology replaced the status of magic, becoming the mainstream.

In such an era of technological rise and spiritual energy decline, Angelina was the sole daughter of the last sect master of a thousand-year-old cultivation sect. While disguised as an ordinary person receiving a scientific education, she continued to receive teachings in cultivation arts from her old father. Her mother, to give birth to her, had depleted her cultivation, and around Angelina's second year, she reached the end of her life, undergoing reincarnation. Since then, her old father became even more determined to pass down the cultivation techniques to his only surviving heir, unwilling to let Angelina neglect her cultivation.

However, with a five-spirit-root aptitude and the scarcity of spiritual energy, at the age of sixteen, she had barely reached the level of spiritual energy entering the body, practicing Qi at the second level. By that time, her father, in his two hundred years of foundational cultivation, had already entered seclusion to attempt the Nascent Soul stage.

She had to rely on herself, balancing high school studies while practicing cultivation at night, occasionally reading various strange fantasy novels in her spare time, searching for inspiration to break through...

...Reading novels was also a method suggested by her old father.

In this age where orthodox cultivators have become mythical figures, the once prestigious sects have vanished, and cultivators have faded into obscurity. However, some cultivators still strive to preserve their sect's legacy, weaving stories with their unique techniques and turning them into novels for widespread dissemination through the developed network. Before her old father entered seclusion, he also left behind a novel with personal touches as evidence of the grand existence of his sect (although not many people read it.

Fortunately, Angelina is the sole remaining disciple and heir of the once vast cultivation sect since her old father. She enjoys all the benefits left by the sect to aid in her cultivation. Although there hasn't been much progress in her spiritual energy reserves, she can still practice a unique spiritual consciousness technique, making her mind and body more developed than the average person. She could continue living like this...

Yet, inexplicably, Angelina passed away early and was reborn in this magical land.

In the nightly dreams, Angelina did not display her entire previous life. She couldn't recall the name and the reason for death in that life. However, she vividly felt as if she had gained memories of an otherworldly sixteen years, along with the cultivation techniques imprinted in her mind.

More importantly, Angelina remembered some details related to her current life. She had read a widely circulated fantasy novel in which a prominent character was a noble lady named Maria born in the Aist Empire.

Angelina's first turning point in fate occurred at the age of five during the magical detection in the imperial palace. The memory of that day was etched vividly in her mind. The dazzling girl Maria in the palace perfectly matched the initial appearance description of the female lead in the novel...

When Angelina realized this, she became somewhat lucid even in the dream woven by magic. She tried hard to remember the plot of this novel. However, her past self had read the novel only to find shortcuts for cultivation breakthroughs. After roughly confirming that most of the popular Western fantasy female lead novels revolved around romance, she gave up reading.

In the dream, Angelina repeatedly recited the content she had seen in the book, only confirming that she was now a minor character in the book. She appeared in only two scenes mentioned in the book.

The first time was at the palace's magical detection, where she appeared as the fallen duke's heir with no affinity for magic, providing a contrast to Maria's entrance that caused a sensation. The second time was when Maria, at the age of ten, traveled with the family's magical tutor to a small town's church just before entering the academy. There, in the church, she obtained the magical notes left by the Odyssey Duke family, the greatest magician in history.

Angelina surveyed the attic's environment. The attic, now solely hers, had been neatly arranged by Fiona. Important items were stored in the magic stone, and Angelina could confirm that the mentioned 'magical notes' in the book, if ever kept by Fiona, could only be stored in the magic stone space, which could only be opened by her blood.

Hearing Jack's description of the church visitor from Maria, which remarkably matched the book's description of Maria's entrance, Angelina wanted to confirm it with her own eyes.

Jack continued knocking on the wooden door, and Angelina opened the door skillfully, dodging Jack's body as he fell over without support. As usual, Angelina smiled and greeted Maria at the door, accepting the breakfast basket sent by Maria and gracefully showing a ladylike gesture of thanks.

"Lily looks much better today," Maria also smiled cheerfully, exchanging pleasantries with Angelina according to tradition. "The church will be much livelier today, and Lily, with this outfit, doesn't look any worse than that magical apprentice."

Today, Angelina wore a waist-cinching dress with a white base and black lace edges. Her hair was braided and tied with a white decorative ribbon. She even put on the small leather shoes she rarely wore. Her entire outfit was primarily black and white, exuding an air of ordinary elegance, suitable for appearing in the church.

After agreeing with Maria to head to the church at noon with Jack, Angelina returned to the attic alone with her breakfast. She searched for her nearly new shiny gem accessories from her small treasure chest, tirelessly adding splendor to her attire for the day... For some strange reason, Angelina had a peculiar desire for victory in this church visit. As a character with only a minor role in the novel, she felt she should now embark on a storyline worthy of remembrance.