The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Just like before, after his third death, Rein was given a little time to think about all the choices he made in his last life and then he once again started to lose consciousness as his fourth life was going to start.

He was looking forward to seeing what type of life he would end up living this time.

After opening his eyes, Rein found himself inside a wooden house that did not look too extravagant. So he must not have a rich and powerful parent this time, which he was happy with.

Then suddenly Rein realised that he still had his memory intact in this round, so he tried to think about many things and noticed that he could not remember most of it. He just had a general idea about his situation. Then the baby Rein once again felt sleepy and closed his eyes.

When he woke up, he realised that his memory had become even more fragmented and incomplete.

So, Rein started his fourth life with very fragmented memories of his true self. He was born in a villager which was located in a domain ruled by a count. This area had very good weather and fertile soil.

So this was a perfect area for farming and almost 90 percent of the villagers here were farmers which included Rein's mom and dad.

Rein was the second son and he had an elder brother, an elder sister and a little sister. So his family was a happy family of six. There was nothing special about this family and it was just like the other families of this village.

Rein was not going to inherit the farm of his father as the second son. So the career choices in front of him were, either to become an adventurer and leave the village or to work as a farm hand for a farmer with land rights.

He could also join the village guards but very few villagers were able to join it and only people with a high background in this village would get a chance for that.

That was because the village guards were directly employed by the count family and the elders of the villages were only willing to send their own sons for the post.

Without a letter of introduction from a village elder, it was impossible to even get a chance to join the guards, so actually the most probable option in front of Rein was to become an adventurer.

All of this changed when Rein awakened this magic affinity at the age of 6. A messenger from the noble family himself came to meet him and was even more astonished to learn that not only Rein had truly awakened an affinity, he had actually awakened dual affinities of earth and fire.

That was unbelievable.

Rein was immediately engaged to the daughter of the count and became the son in law of the count family. When he was 12 years old he was sent to the magic academy of Donbulf to study. He had also been learning about magic for the last six years and had mastered quite a bit.

After studying in the magic academy for three years and breaking all the records there, he finally returned back to the village. He was not the same village boy anymore. His while demeanour had changed and he had become more noble looking than actual nobles.

While studying in the academy, other than the count's daughter, he also got engaged to the third princess of this country and the only daughter of a powerful duke. So he was currently an actual heir to a powerful duke family. He came back to his village to take his father and mother to a better place.

They were extremely happy and agreed to his proposal. His two sisters who had a crush on him were also overjoyed with the fact that they would get a chance to live together with Rein again as the last three years with less Rein had been very painful for them.

The only person who was not happy about it and rejected his idea was his big brother.

At first he was always very condescending and looked down on Rein for being the second son and he would not get to inherit the farm.

Then when Rein awakened to his magic affinity, he was extremely displeased and even wished for the noble ruling this place to get angry with Rein for getting something that mostly only nobles had the privilege of getting.

So once again he was disheartened when the nobles became his allies instead of enemies.

Then a very beautiful girl visited their village, and Oliver, the big brother fell in love with her at first sight. But it turned out that this girl was the daughter of the count ruling them so she was way out of his league.

But when it was declared that she was here to officially become Rein's fiancee, Oliver became extremely angry and destroyed everything in his room.

Just like that Oliver's hatred for Rein just grew and grew and very soon, it became unbearable. So when Rein came to offer him a better life, he was unwilling to accept it. So he rejected the idea.

That night Rein was staying in his childhood home for the last time. Tomorrow, his father would officially hand over the house to Oliver and then all of them would leave it except for him. As everybody was going to bed, Oliver left the house secretly.

Outside the house, he met up with three more men. One of them was the son of the village chief and he was supposed to be the most important person of this village. But Rein had stolen that spotlight from him and that was the reason why he was angry.

He was also in love with Rein's big sister and Rein was going to take her away. So he wanted to do something drastic to prevent that.

The two men who were with him were just his bootlickers and they followed him in doing whatever they wanted. As Oliver also hated Rein, this chief's son teamed up with him to obstruct Rein.

What they did was simple. They secretly sneaked into the house with Oliver's help and released a very valuable poisonous gas inside the room where Rein was sleeping. Even if he did not die because of this, he was definitely at least going to be paralysed for a few weeks.

That could use that time to make a new plan.

But after getting out of the house, that found Rein standing in front of them and all the other members of the family were also standing beside him. The room where Rein was staying, he was not alone there. His little baby sister was supposed to stay with him in the same room.

So by targeting Rein and poisoning that room, Oliver was ready to sacrifice herself little sister to get back at Rein. It was acceptable.

Rein was not a foolish person to stay in a place without having some countermeasures in place. He was continuously using his earth magic sense everything around him and his flame familiars were also keeping a keen eye on everything. That's how Rein immediately got notified when Oliver took action.

Rein could have killed Oliver and he would not have minded that and the same was true for the sisters, but his father and mother would have definitely minded that.

So for that reason, instead of killing him, Rein handed over Oliver, son of the chief and his bootlickers to the village guards for punishment. All of them were also able to avoid the death sentence as their crime was an attempted murder and not a real murder.

After taking his whole family to his new comfortable home, Rein started to think about his future.

When he released he was losing more and more of his memories everyday, he decided to engrave some important messages in his mind so that even if he forgot it in the future, his future self would be able to take the action that was best for him.

As this was a new life, Rein wanted to do something he had not done in any of his previous lives. That way he would be able to maximize the benefits of his current situation.

In his first life, Rein had experienced how he should manage a domain and how he should fight when fighting against a lot of enemies like in a war. And the most important thing he learnt in that life was that he should never compromise with gaining strength.

At the end of the day, strength was the most important thing.

Then in his next life, Rein had visited many places in the second half of his life and learned a lot about dungeons and monsters. That knowledge would be very important to him even in his real life. And the most important thing he had learned here was the value of a family.

Then in his third life, the thing he learnt was mostly about how to seduce girls and how to take them to the high heavens in the bed. And the most important knowledge that he got from that life was that, he should not create too big of a family.

He had so many wives in that life that he was unable to take care of all of them so quite a few of them died way before him. He did not want to repeat such a situation again.

So what he wanted to do in this life was to try his hands on alchemy. It was something that a person needed years to learn and this was the best thing to try to master in this life of his.

With that in mind, his fourth life continued.