Chapter 1511: Natural Followers, Nameless

But regardless, the fact that the scene of the village within his soul space is synchronized with the situation of the real village is advantageous for Xia Duo.

Besides not needing to wait for opportunities to travel to the Projection Plane as before, it is also convenient for him to judge the state of this Netheril Village on the Boundless Wilderness of the Outer Planes through his observation of the soul space.

Otherwise, if there were still discrepancies like before, it would be a bit ridiculous if he thought it was safe here one day, only to teleport over and find that it had turned into the Abyss.

……

Looking around for a bit, Xia Duo does not intend to try returning immediately; instead, he wants to see the people in the village. Just now, while in the soul space, he saw some villagers working in the farmland on the other side, while others were resting in the village.

Among them, the four brothers he had seen before were in the village.

Of course, the four brothers now are somewhat different from the last time he saw them, but they still possess a certain resemblance, allowing one to see at a glance that there is no essential difference from before, only their appearance has changed.

At the time, Xia Duo guessed that after he left, the village here might undergo some unknown changes, and now, he is even more certain of this.

After approaching the village, Xia Duo saw two of the four brothers lounging on reclining chairs at the village entrance. Upon noticing Xia Duo approaching, one of them just looked up and then lay back down.

The other one stood up to greet him and politely said to Xia Duo, "Hello, traveler, we meet again. Welcome to our Homeland!"

The other party was still speaking Netheril, which is also the biggest basis for Xia Duo to judge that this is a Netheril Village; it is just unclear why it has not migrated to the Netheril Kingdom established by the Princess.

One must know that after the Princess's Shenguo Chu Xing was established, even people in the Kingdom of Radiance sensed the Netheril Kingdom and migrated there.

Although Xia Duo had previously asked the four brothers about the language issue and learned that in their concept, language is something they are born with, and it is not called Netheril.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo could not help but ask, "Do you know Netheril?"

"We do!"

The young man did not seem to notice anything wrong with this question, treating it just like when Xia Duo asked about the Kingdom of Radiance before, and even pointed out the direction for Xia Duo, saying:

"Netheril is over there. Do you want to travel there?"

"Uh, no, just asking."

Xia Duo noticed that the direction the young man in front of him pointed is almost opposite to the direction of the Kingdom of Radiance. If the Kingdom of Radiance is to the east of the village, then Netheril is to the west.

Of course, Xia Duo knows that no matter which direction he heads, as long as he sincerely recites the Proverbs, he can eventually reach Netheril.

It is just that the positional differences between Netheril, the Kingdom of Radiance, and this village in the eyes of the locals still gave him some associations.

Generally speaking, after a person dies, their soul will be attracted to the Outer Planes; those whose concepts highly align with a True God will enter their Shenguo directly, while the rest might drift in the wilderness and reincarnate on their own.

And this village before him, its cognition and persistence regarding Faith and belief, might be somewhere between the Kingdom of Radiance and Netheril.

Or more bluntly, the villagers reincarnated here might align more with Xia Duo's own philosophy!

With this thought, Xia Duo suddenly felt that this is no wilderness village at all; it is clearly his Shenguo Chu Xing!

Thinking back to the village scene in the soul space that has already synchronized and become stone-like, even if Xia Duo finds it incredible, it is hard to completely rule out this possibility.

It is just that he is currently an ordinary person; is it good that he suddenly possesses a Shenguo?

This is not good!

Not to mention that the village itself might become a burden to him, the potential danger of "abnormality leading to bias" alone makes Xia Duo somewhat hesitant and resistant.

But many things do not stop happening just because one does not want them to. No matter how hesitant or resistant Xia Duo is at this moment, he cannot change the fact that he most likely already has some connection with these villagers.

Even if he could kill these villagers now to perform Trace Erasure, there might be more people from the Main Plane reincarnating here after death in the future.

Does he have to kill these innocent people, who should have been his steadfast followers, every single time?

This does not align with Xia Duo's nature.

Then, according to his usual approach, since this matter cannot be avoided, it must be planned for in advance and faced proactively!

For the present, Xia Duo does not intend to do anything out of the ordinary; he only needs to perceive his soul from time to time, judge the situation of the village through the scene within the soul space, and rescue them in time when they encounter danger.

In the longer term, Xia Duo plans to take a trip to the Kingdom of Radiance to understand how the Mages there study Magic on the Outer Planes, or rather, to learn the Magic of the Outer Planes.

The Magic Net he currently perceives is neither here nor there. Although his own Spellcasting is not significantly affected (though there is an impact, which is fatal at critical moments), he is more inclined to believe this is corrected by his own strong subjective will; if it were someone else, they probably would not be so lucky.

Without Magic, it is probably difficult for ordinary people to survive stably for long on these Outer Planes where gods and demons are everywhere. Although even with Magic, it is difficult for ordinary people to face such a situation, having it is better than not having it.

As for bringing these people back to the Main Plane, Xia Duo has also considered it; after all, this could incidentally solve the problem of insufficient population in his Territory on the Main Plane.

But this is highly unlikely to be realized. A simple thought experiment is enough to understand: if the threshold for dead people to return to the Material Plane after reincarnation were low, the Material Plane would probably have been crowded with these Reincarnated Persons long ago.

This might also involve the issue of soul balance within the Universe; such a topic is truly too large and also very sensitive, and Xia Duo does not want to touch it for the time being.

……

Realizing that these reincarnated villagers are very likely his natural followers, Xia Duo's mindset toward them is no longer like how he viewed passersby before, but rather he sees them as his own subjects.

"What are your names?"

"Names?"

The young man in front of Xia Duo immediately showed a puzzled expression, and the young man lying on the reclining chair also sat up straight immediately, blinking a pair of puzzled and expectant eyes as he looked at Xia Duo:

"Traveler, this question of yours is very strange. Could it be that you have a name?"

"Of course I do. Don't you?" Xia Duo asked in return.

"No!"

Xia Duo was immediately astonished.

If they don't have names, then for the four brothers before, and now a village of nearly a dozen people, do they not communicate normally?

Or rather, how do they distinguish each other usually?

In Xia Duo's view, if there are few people, perhaps one does not need names to clearly refer to someone, but when there are many people, how does one refer to them?

This one, that one, or the one wearing leather, the one with a beard—can't those be considered names?

Xia Duo recalled carefully; he seems to have indeed never heard these people call each other by name, and they even have almost no basic communication usually, as if they were robots with pre-set programs.

It was only when they came into contact with him that their intelligence was triggered, and after this Bloodline Awakening, the village synchronized with the soul space, and these villagers all became much more lively, as if they were in contact with him at all times, yet they still have no names.

"Could it be that I am meant to name them?"

Xia Duo could not help but think.