Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube

In the wooden cabin alight with fire, everything had returned to calm.

Reiger, who had extended his finger toward the shattered window, witnessed the ghoul's demise and slowly lowered his arm.

Turning around, Reiger looked at the unsightly pot and sighed after a while.

"I suppose this counts as avenging you, rest in peace."

After uttering those words, Reiger walked out of the cabin while swinging his hand, casting a gust of wind that blew the fire from the pot onto the wooden floor, walls, and ceiling.

By the time Reiger had walked a distance from the cabin with his back turned, flames soared behind him, engulfing the entire cabin and setting it ablaze against the darkness of the night, dispelling the darkness of the mountains.

Only then did the sounds of birds, beasts, and insects gradually begin to emerge.

Reiger did not look back, following the mountain path that led down from the cabin and left the mountain.

...

The day gradually brightened.

As sunlight dappled the earth, a small town at the foot of the mountain slowly bustled into life.

People gathered in twos and threes, chatting together or working at the market, creating a lively scene.

At this time, this world finally seemed a bit lively, not so eerie anymore.

Reiger, descending from the mountain, entered the small town, attracting quite a bit of attention.

"Who is that man?"

"I've never seen him before."

"Is he a merchant from outside?"

"Not sure..."

People stealthily watched Reiger, who was walking down the middle of the street, murmuring among themselves with curious, puzzled, and wary glances.

"Do I look that strange now?"

Reiger was somewhat puzzled.

Because he was materialized from a consciousness entity, each time Reiger performed Dimensional Travel, his clothing was not what he originally wore, but the local casual wear provided by the dimensional cube during the materialization of the user's consciousness.

Therefore, Reiger's attire did not resemble that of a noble young master from his original world; instead, he wore a very inconspicuous kimono.

He naturally was not accustomed to wearing a kimono and wanted to change it, but he hadn't had the opportunity yet, had he?

Logically speaking, Reiger, being dressed like this, should not seem different from the people around him.

When he had previously traveled to the Earth Mistake World, appearing directly in Orare's city center hadn't drawn any attention, yet this time it attracted so much, which puzzled Reiger.

But then he understood after thinking it over.

"During the Taisho era, it has been over a hundred years since the era I was in before my reincarnation. In this era, unless it's one of those bustling large towns, places like small towns and villages probably have very few people, right?"

With fewer people, interactions become more frequent, and the chances of recognizing each other increase significantly.

This small town, located at the foot of a mountain, was likely far from major towns; residents usually saw familiar faces and rarely encountered strangers, so it wasn't hard to understand why his appearance would draw the distant town dwellers' curiosity.

With that in mind, Reiger dismissed his speculative thoughts about the reactions around him and stroked his chin.

"Where am I now?"

The most pressing issue now was to find out his current location, and ideally, to understand the time period he was in.

Is it the time period before the plot starts, or after the plot has begun?

"Newspapers for sale!"

Just then, a newspaper vendor passed by Reiger.

"Please, give me one."

Reiger quickly responded, stopping the vendor and requesting a newspaper.

As for the fee, Reiger casually tossed the vendor a gold leaf.

"I, I can't make change for this, sir!"

The vendor was immediately stunned by Reiger's generous gesture.

Who pays for a newspaper with gold?

Poor vendor, just a kid working a side job, how could he have seen such a scene?

He panicked on the spot.

"Never mind, keep it," Reiger said nonchalantly while opening the newspaper, "It's not worth much anyway."

Reiger wasn't joking; he genuinely felt that gold was worthless.

Because that was gold created directly using structure-based magic by Reiger.

When Yuri taught structure-based magic, she taught Reiger how to refine iron, silver, copper, gold, and various other materials, enabling Reiger to effortlessly create gold through magic.

Alchemy Magic is the most representative magic within the structure-based category; the Akasha Continent had already perfected this magical system. Using magic to create gold, even a rookie magician with a first-class aptitude in structure could accomplish it.

As a result, gold was essentially worthless in the Akasha Continent, not even qualifying as a precious metal, and the currency used by various countries was made from a special formula and a synthetic combination of magical gold, magical silver, and magical copper.

These magic metals held a higher value than regular gold, silver, and copper and could essentially replace them in all aspects of business and economy. When made into currency, they even included magical runes that made them impossible to counterfeit.

Therefore, on the continent of Akasha, magic gold, magic silver, and magic copper were considered precious metals, while ordinary gold, silver, and copper devalued significantly, almost to the worth of roadside pebbles.

So, ordinary gold really wasn't worth much on the continent of Akasha—it wasn't just Reiger babbling nonsense.

However, to the ears of the newspaper vendor, that took on a different meaning.

Anyway, he now looked at Reiger as if he were a nouveau riche, a major tycoon.

If this vendor had lived in the modern world, perhaps he would have enviously and jealously backbitingly complained that Reiger was flaunting wealth in "Versailles" style?

Unaware that he had already become a "master of Versailles" in the vendor's eyes, Reiger flipped through the newspaper.

It contained many pieces of information, such as the current era and time along with popular events in various major towns, ranging from trivial to state-level issues. Nearly everything was recorded.

After flipping through, Reiger's attention finally settled on one spot.

"'The Infinite Train resumes operation after inspection with no anomalies.'"

In that news font, the words "eats people" were specially highlighted, emitting a subtle hint of irony.

It was almost as if to say that the talk of it "eating people" was nothing but nonsense.

"The Infinite Train, huh?"

Reiger finally knew which time period he had landed in.

"I actually arrived during this storyline?"

This was quite a surprise to Reiger.

After all, the storyline of the Infinite Train occurred later in the original work.

But he had to admit—

"My timing really couldn't be better."

The Infinite Train was an important part of the original storyline.

It was from this point on that the upper ranks of demons began to appear.

There were classes of demons.

There were new demons that had just transformed and whose powers were not much stronger than those of humans.

There were lower-ranked demons who had been demons for a while and had eaten many people, gaining considerable strength.

Then there were the Twelve Demon Moons, the elite, brimming with concentrated demonic blood, ranking among the top in all demons.

The Twelve Demon Moons referred to the twelve most powerful demons, second only to the original source of all demons, the first Demon King.

These twelve demons were further divided into the upper ranks and the lower ranks.

The upper ranks consisted of six demons.

The lower ranks also consisted of six demons.

Six plus six made up the so-called Twelve Demon Moons, becoming the greatest predators and enemies of humanity.

In the original work, the upper ranks of demons began to appear starting from the Infinite Train storyline.

With this visit, Reiger had encountered this particular storyline.

"Being timely is sometimes even better than being early, isn't that what they say?"

Reiger confirmed the operating time and location of the Infinite Train mentioned in the newspaper and suddenly smiled.

Before long, Reiger folded up the newspaper, took a map he had bought from the market, and headed westward.

...

In the western towns, at the station.

When Reiger arrived, it was already dusk.

Mingling in the crowd, Reiger looked like a perfectly ordinary passenger, making his way toward the station. Along the way, he casually bought a lunchbox from a little girl who became so frightened by the gold he threw that she desperately called out "Grandma". Ignoring the girl and the astonished expressions of the bystanders, he walked into the station on his own.

The area was filled with people ready to board—some carrying large luggage, others with families in tow. Only Reiger was alone, empty-handed, looking less like someone about to take the train and more like a tourist.

Yet he queud up properly, bought a ticket honestly, and once inside the station, stood obediently on the platform waiting for the train. Nobody knew his identity, nor did anyone realize this seemingly young fellow possessed almost inhuman strength.

Honestly, Reiger quite enjoyed the process.

In his previous life, wherever he went, there were private cars and the need to maintain a showy presence; he could hardly squeeze into a train station like an ordinary person and buy tickets.

In Earth Mistake World, it wasn't so extreme; back then, Reiger had lived a relatively ordinary life, but he was solely focused on entering the underground city and defeating monsters without the leisure to enjoy ordinary life experiences.

In the continent of Akasha, it was even less necessary to mention. With Yuri by his side, he lived even more like a noble than many nobles did.

"Even though I was just a commoner."

Only at this moment did Reiger find himself wanting to say this to the non-existent Yuri here.

The only regret was...

"The journey that follows might not be so ordinary."

Looking at the ticket in his hand, Reiger murmured softly.

Soon, along with the blare of a steam whistle, a train rolled into the station.