Supreme Beast: The Book Of Souls

"Where...where am I?"

Grabbing his head and trying to sit up, Nux reeled and fell back to the ground with a loud thud, earning himself more pain to his already battered body.

He glanced at his hands that were slowly being healed, and sighed.

"So that Vampire actually killed me huh?... It didn't really feel nice to have my blood being drained out of my bo... WAIT!!! MY HANDS ARE HEALING!!!" Nux exclaimed in sudden shock.

Indeed, his hands were healing at a frightening speed, and on a closer look, he realized that his beerbelly that he usually sported was no more. His skin was pale, and a long blue hair kept blocking his view from time to time, annoying him greatly.

Shortly, he sat up and assessed the situation properly. He felt different… as if he wasn't himself—and by himself he meant his bodily structure.

He was known to be fat—too fat for his age even. But his pale skin, lithe body and blue hair, that kept annoying him, were new to him.

Getting up to get a good look, a sudden headache assaulted him and knocked him back to the ground, causing him to groan as he landed gracelessly. Luckily he landed on a 'soft' part of the 'ground'.

The pain lasted for a minute straight, and by the time it was over, he was smiling like a retard even though he just had the worst headache of his life.

"I reincarnated..." He muttered as his smile widened further. "...in a magical world!"

Nux laughed out loudly, his happiness knowing no bounds. He had lived his life reading novels about reincarnation, transmigration and stuff like that, but reading about it and experiencing it were two different things. He had the chance to experience—firsthand—what it was like to be sent to another world, and he had to say…it was fun—though weird at first.

Standing up from the ground with a smile still on his face, his gaze swept through his surroundings. Then, his smile froze, slowly retreating, before his expression morphed into one of terror.

Around him were bodies, dead bodies of humans, and the soft cold ground he had landed on turned out to be the corpse of a fallen warrior.

As the sight and strong smell of blood settled in his mind, he staggered backwards before emptying the contents of his stomach.

The information that had flooded him previously was beginning to be processed properly.

"This body's owner is the son of a merchant, bandits attacked, and the two parties wiped each other out." He said with shock on his face.

"But the merchandise wasn't stolen either!"

Nux got a hold of himself, his mind nearly forgetting the bodies around him as he thought of the loot to be salvaged. He smiled and walked towards a big carriage that had crashed into a tree ahead of him. It had one of its wooden wheels torn from it and was laying somewhere behind, broken.

Nux stared at the carriage in awe. It was as big as an elephant from his world, was four meters long and two meters wide. It had green leaf-like patterns on its body, giving it a serene look that made one calm by just staring at it. There were windows on either side of it with green wooden frames and a green silk curtain blocking the view of the inside.

Nux paused. Judging by the way the bodies were positioned, they had been killed the moment they had exited the carriage. Their death was swift and most probably painless—a sharp strike to their necks was all it took to end their lives.

Nux, still feeling a bit lightheaded from the gruesome scene, moved his eyes away from the bodies and stepped cautiously into the carriage. The inside wasn't filled with strewn intestines and body parts like outside, but it wasn't tidy either.

Owing to the crash, everything inside was capsized and out of place. There were pieces of broken glasses and ceramics—that he didn't know where they had come from—laying around, and what looked like scrolls mixed in with broken wooden jars that contained alcohol, littered the wooden floor, causing the smell of alcohol to linger in the air.

Several small wooden boxes were lying open, some were broken and some were tightly sealed without a scratch on them.

"This kid's father has a lot of good stuff," Nux muttered.

In the memories that he received, he had recalled a conversation the body's owner had had with his father.

His father was tasked to deliver a beast equipment from a high ranked blacksmith, to a prince in the next kingdom.

His son who knew how important the task was decided to help his father, but his father disagreed vehemently, knowing fully well that it was impossible to avoid a bandit attack that could potentially kill them both. But his son was just as stubborn as he was, so they ended up dying to those bandits just as the father predicted.

"What a drag," Nux sighed.

There were lots of boxes that needed to be opened before he could find the real deal as most of them were just filled with useless stuff like Ivory flower pots, Expensive Jewelries, Bronze Sculptures and tiny Jade statues.

His aim was the artifact that was meant to be delivered to that prince, if he could just get the artifact to him, then he might get a favour from the prince.

"Hehehe," Nux laughed slyly and began to search the boxes thoroughly and eventually found a black box with a 15x15x15 inches volume.

He picked the box and examined it from all sides, scrutinising it carefully.

It looked nothing special to him. It was, for some reason, cold, heavy, hard and... soft. It was an inexplicable feeling to say the least.

"I hope this is the real stuff," Nux eventually said and glanced at all the opened boxes around him. "Because this is the last."

He carefully opened the box with a knife that he had obtained from one of the bodies outside, pried the box open, and gently took off the lid.

As he slowly opened the box—to create some dramatic effect—a golden ray of light suddenly shone from within it, the dazzling light momentarily making him close his eyes. But what he saw inside the box when he opened his eyes made his breath hitch.

Inside the box was a gauntlet. The gauntlet was large, too big even for an adult. It had deep dark lines running through it, which created an inviting feeling that made you just want to keep staring.

Behind each knuckle, there were 1 inch deep holes in it, one hole each behind a knuckle and then an extra one in the center of the backhand.

Nux's mouth opened and closed. He stuttered, not believing his eyes before eventually making out some words.

"The... the.. THIS IS THE INFINITY GAUNTLET!!!”