Kingly Adventures

Chapter 5: Arrival and Easy conquest ( Part -1)

Alexander woke up to the feeling of being trapped in a very fit box. He could not feel any sort of power in his body. His body felt like a dried husk then it came to him that he was inhabiting the body of a mummy so he literally was a dried husk. He hoped that the Chinese emperor body  would be revived soon as he would go mad if he remained like this for a long time. Even his sick hospitalised body in previous life was better than this. He strained his ears to listen outside to guess where he was but then felt like fool he was a mummy he cannot talk or see or listen. Alexander thought, " It seems that inhabiting a mummy is lowering my IQ, if I remain like this I will soon become brain dead." Alexander tried to meditate in order to retain his mental faculties, surprisingly being devoid of senses made it easier to meditate. Alexander thought about his invasion plan and started thinking about how will he deal with the protaganist of the story, the O'Connells and that immortal witch and her daughter.

While Alexander was rubbing his brain cells together to find a suitable conquest plan, he felt something seep through his body. His body absorbed the liquid and started to recover at a rapid pace. He was rebuilt from inside out to be more powerful and with the recovery of the body, he gained some of the martial prowess of the Chinese Emperor as even after his death his body remembered it's fighting instincts and the recovered brain give him some memories of the emperor related to fighting. Alexander theorised that all the memories of a person are within the soul but these memories leave some sort of imprint on the body due to repetitive actions. In this case, the emperor was fighting all his life so an imprint of his fighting style was left on his body which was gained by Alexander. Due to his king's bloodline, Alexander quickly learned it and adapted to it.

As Alexander was doing this, his body was recovering at a rapid pace. Soon, he felt that he would be able to break the statue, he was trapped in. As he broke free, he thought, " At last I broke out, I would have gone mad if I was trapped in there any longer." As Alexander observed his surroundings, a Chinese man
in military uniform came next to him and bowed and said in ancient Chinese, " I am your general, my emperor." Alexander simply noded and gestured him to hop on the chariot.   While he was talking to the General Wang, a beautiful chinese girl sneaked up to him and tried to attack him with a large dagger, Alexander who had absorbed the fighting style of the emperor quickly stopped the attack and quickly snatched it away from the girl, only then he threw the girl away. Alexander remembered that in original plot the Chinese emperor did not took away the dagger and simply threw the girl away. He was not going to make the same mistake.

Alexander commanded the horses to move and as he was starting to leave, the old man who betrayed the O'Connells tried to board the chariot. Alexander thought that the old man could be of some use and let him come aboard. General Wang was puzzled by his actions. Alexander seeing his puzzlement said, " I see you are puzzled General Wang. We will talk about this after we lose these people."

Alexander led the chase play out as it played out in the original plot but with the addition of the old english man coming with them. Alexander did not let the gunfight happen on the chariot and simply detached the back part as soon as he got on the road. But still that girl and the son of O'Connells continued to chase him by taking lift with the older O'Connells duo. Alexander thought, " Now, I understand the pain of villains, the protagnists of the story are more relentless than leeches. " Alexander then ordered the general to take care of them and simply concentrated on controlling the horses. The good general was very eager to prove himself and tried to kill them but was unsuccessful. By luck one of the bullets shot by him, hit the tire of the vehicle making their relentless chase stop. Alexander let out a silent sigh of relief and thanked the heavens for small mercies.

General Wang bought him and the betraying old man as deemed by Alexander in his mind to his military camp. The soldiers were surprised to see a living terracotta statue but quickly composed themselves. Alexander marvelled at the discipline shown by the soldiers. General Wang bought Alexander to the command center and offered him a seat and stood at attention in front of him.