Hello... i don't have much else to say. Oh wait i do, go visit the topic i made for my drawings. I will try to draw how i think my characters look and the locations and please tell me how you think they look for you so i can get ideas of their appearance [th_084_.gif] here is the link to my bad drawings My bad drawings
EDIT:I have exams coming up so.. yeah and sorry for the mess of an chapter this chapter was, I will most likely redo it later on
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CHAPTER 3 HEADACHE
Mother is still searching for a suitable teacher for me, looks like it will take some time and Isaac is gone. He must have went somewhere, i haven't seen him for over week now,
Not much has changed except mothers unending questions, mostly about which books i have finished reading and the contents of the book.
Surprisingly i remember almost everything perfectly must be because of this infant body, the bodies learning capacity is at max when one is young. Oh i forgot to say, i turned 1 year old just yesterday.
It seems like birthdays aren't celebrated like they do in my previous world.
Yesterday i got named, the name is Arthur. I asked mother why i was named whole 1 year after my birth day. She said at age of 1 you give name to the children, at age of 5 you celebrate child's birthday with a big party of sort with a lot of guests and that age of 10 the child chooses what he or she wants to become like if you wanted to become healer you would go and get taken as disciple in some church and if you wants to become sword fighter you go to battle school or get taken as apprentice under a sword master. These were the usual ways.
At age of 15 you are no longer child and is counted as young adult and is allowed to start working, get married and almost everything an adult is allowed to do, but most of the times people stay with their master or church till age of 20 and is really allowed to stretch their arms and leg as far as they want.
One day when i was taking a walk around the mansions garden soaking in the beautiful scene with the maid Isaac told to follow me wherever i go, fainted all of the sudden.
I got the first person i can find and told her what happened and rushed her to the unconscious maid in the garden.
I was bit worried for her, she seems to be very ill. I asked mother if she will be okey " Its okey, don't worry about it. She will get better soon, i called in a doctor, so go to bed" she said hugging me softly and telling another maid to take me to my room.
It was day later that i was starting to sweat a lot with a huge headache, that felt like my head was going to explode. I think whatever happened to the maid must be happening to me, maybe when we were in the garden we caught it together, i thought.
Luckily doctor was here and was treating the maid when i fell ill as well. The doctor came to conclusion that the maid was mana poisoned and the same thing has happened to me... or so he thought.
To get mana poisoned one must drink from the spring effected by low mana density in bad way or eat something effected by it.
Curing mana poisoning was easy, just cleans the body of the person poisoned with ones mana. It was done by driving every mana out of the persons body with ones mana, just with that you would recover from it in few minutes with your natural mana filling the body again.
The maid was cleansed of the poisoned mana and had recovered but not me, every time they did mana cleansing it would get better, but not for long. The doctor and mother were panicking trying to figure out what was wrong.
They searched the garden for the cause of the mana poisoning but found nothing.
The mana cleansing was done correct, that was proven by how the maid recovered from the mana poisoning.
It went on for a while and finally doctor said that it wasn't mana poisoning i was having, but very rare case of having to much mana for my body to handle. Only C rank mage or higher could do anything about it.
Mother told one of the butler to take the fastest horse and leave to the Mages Guild in the city to get highest ranking mage there, so he did. When he arrived after 1 or 2 hour later with a highest ranking mage he could find, the head of the Mages Guild of all. Mother quickly dragged the old mage to the room i was resting in.
I was in even worse condition than before, the old mage was baffled at what was happening in front of him.
People with this affliction would die not even reaching age of 1 and was amazed that i had survived till today only getting effected now.
It turned out that i was the reason that the maid was mana poisoned, it happened so that my body was leaking the mana to protect itself unconsciously and because the maid followed me everywhere she was intaking fair share of my mana to herself every day.
The older i became the more mana i was leaking out and at last the maids body couldn't take it anymore and got mana poisoned, because there is still limit to how much mana my body could leak by itself there was always mana bottling up in my body and i got ill off of that mana bottled up inside my small body.
Figuring that out the mage told everyone to get out of the room, mother did so with very worried face almost crying.
The mage opened the window and put me by it, while laying his left hand over my small chest and pointing his right hand out to the sky through the window.
He started using flame thrower spell which spewed out fire like flame thrower, it went on for couple of of hours.
When it was finally done the sun was starting to rise from the horizon, the old mage told the people outside that it was done and that they can come in.
So did mother rushing into the room while crying, trying to hug me when the old mage told her its not over yet and that if they didn't do anything about it, because how he forced my mana open to turn it into an spell which in turn released the bottled up mana in my body. I was now releasing mana unconsciously and not just leak it, that would make me potential walking high mana density zone.
Before the old mage opened my mana forcefully, my body was only leaking that of low mana density in small area. That was the reason why the maid got mana poisoned.
He told mother that he will go back to the Mages guild and get something that will help me little bit and that he will put spell that slows down my naturally high mana output.
The old mage left to get what he said from the Mages Guild saying that he would be back as fast as he can and using air magic he flew off to the direction of the city in blazing speed.
When i opened my eyes i could see couple of maids and some butlers in back of the room and mother crying few steps away from me. I looked at her crying face, my chest felt like it was under pressure of kind and almost made me cry as well but i knew better and told mother "Please, mom don't cry. I will be okey" in turn made mother cry even more, so did i.
In my previous life, i could count the times i cried on one hand and here i was crying like little snot. I cried for little while and stopped looking at my mother crying, it didn't sit well to cry and make mother cry even more so i stopped.
It felt like something lifted from me, it felt good... it was not so. The thing lifted from me was the seal put on me, so i started to pump out enormous amount of mana.
The maids said "Please madam we need to leave now and wait for the mage to return" but my mother crying didn't want to, so the butlers and the guards lifting her up carefully and left the mansion.
I thought 'Well this is stupid, i get another life but it gets wasted like this?' bit upset. Second after second my mind was fading away so was the surroundings around me, the wooden decors to my room started to rot the windows cracking and shattering.
The whole mansion was starting to rot away and some parts started to collapse not being able to support any weight with its rotten condition.
That was it, that was the last thing i remembered when i suddenly woke up in the dream i almost forgot about. It was the same place of pure white, no is this pure black? I couldn't tell and yet again there they were my previous body with my new body but this time my previous body was holding my new body like that of when old man meets his grandchild for the first time.
It was a nice scene yet sad, it gave me conflicted feelings. I remembered the being that was there before and looked around for it, to my surprise it was right beside me, turning its head towards me. I couldn't really see it but i knew it was there and it didn't do any movement but i knew it was looking at me.
If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.
I thought i might have died but i knew i was alive, i didn't know how but i just knew. After little while the ... place i was in started to shake violently and i was pulled out forcefully by something.
The first thing i heard before opening my eyes were that of the old mage shouting "WE ARE ALMOST THERE! DONT FALTER KEEP CHANTING HE IS ALMOST BACK! WHATEVER YOU DO, DO. NOT. STOP." and i opened my eyes.
What i saw was the face of the old mage with dead beat face and some people behind him, some laying on the ground breathing loudly as if they had ran a whole marathon and most of them just standing there almost falling sleep.
I just noticed where i was, it looked like someone had dropped not so small bomb in the place. Everything was charred black except the old mage and the people behind him.
The old mage lifted me up wi his hands and started to walk passing the heavy breathing people with black with golden lined robes, soon after the heavy people in robes started follow after me and the old mage.
Walking for few minutes we arrived at the house by the fence from way back when Isaac came to talk with some merchant. There i saw mother with all the maids, butlers and the guards.
Seeing me mother ran towards us and hugged me and started to cry again, i told mother "See I'm okey now, so please stop crying mother" hearing me mother sniffled little and wiping her face stood up bowing at the old mage and said "Thank you! thank you so much for saving my little flower" and almost started to cry again, righting herself she said "I Lucia Liafael shall be forever in debt for what you have done for us, please tell what you want and if its in range of my grasp i shall do it" and bowed again.
"No no its fine. What i did was for good of all people and i didn't do it to receive anything, what i would like to do is that i would like to take your son as my apprentice" the old mage said.
To his words everyone was shocked, he was head of the Mages Guild and never took any apprentice at all. Mother said "Yes i will do so gladly, knowing my son is in good hands. Now lets leave to the city, we need to settle in to the castle" and everyone started to move.
Mother, the old mage and i was in the carriage, everyone else was on a horse or was sitting in some cart behind and in front of us.
The guards made circle around everyone and we set off to the city arriving after few hours. It was pretty big city with the castle we were heading in the center of them all.
The walls surrounding the city was very impressive with well maintained look and guards positioned on top of it every few meter and the we went through the gate, the guards stationed at the gate stopped us but seeing the carriage we were in and the banner that was on it let us through bowing and apologizing for not recognizing who we were.
When we entered the city we met with curious eyes looking our way and some people bowing, seeing that everyone else started to bow at our carriage.
Mother told the maids and the butlers to go to the castle and get ready mean while we would go to the Mages Guild to drop off the Head of the Mages Guild. Seeing our carriage and the guards, one person from the Mages Guild came out with 3 other following him, one man, one woman both around age of 30 and one small girl clinging to the women.
The old mage stepped out of the carriage and waved goodbye to us and entered the building with the 4 people that came out of the Mages Guild.
So we headed to the castle, after few minutes we were there. It was very large castle with grand entrance. Arriving there i was showed to my new room and changed to new clothes, the one i had was very dirty and torn here and there.
After arriving at the castle we spent few days getting used to the castle and so on, it looks like Lucy is learning from the church of this city and would come to the castle from time to time and keep me company.
This family wasn't just rich but was the ruler of this city, so i guess that would make me some noble or of the kind. I didn't care much and was happy that i got huge library to read new books in again, this castles library was as large as the mansions library but was bit bigger.
The days of me reading books non stop begun, again. The books in this library was more about magic and the known creatures on this world.
How magic worked was simple, to put it simple you use the mana in your body to materialize any of the main elements, the elements went like this Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Arcane. Light and Dark were just personalty of kind, if fire with light personality were to be cast it would do more damage to undead or if you cast fire with dark personality it would be more damaging to live things and be harder to put out.
There were ways to change the main element, first and the easiest were to use the element with Arcane element, for example Water with Arcane could freeze the water and make ice or make it vaporize and make mist of kind and so on.
The second and the harder way, was to combine elements without Arcane element, to make the result naturally, for example Fire element with Water element to make the mist, to make it you had to control at least 3 element at same time.
Control the 2 main element you are using to great different element and to control the element that was being made by the 2 element. Combining element with Arcane element, you would be only controlling the 2 element you were using. The element being made in process would be controlled with the Arcane element.
That was the reason why almost everyone used the first method more widely. I didn't want to try using magic, i knew i was capable because of the huge mana I'm supposedly harboring.
I didn't because i did not know what might happen, using something while not knowing what it would do was very stupid. Anyways i would be taken as apprentice under that old mage so i can afford to wait a little for a safer introduction to magic.
In mean while i can study more about this world and its way of life, there is right now Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs and Beasts civilizations that have founded their own country and are recognized as the main races. The minor races were Red Goblins, Fairies, Salamanders and other small and new races that are treated badly by most.
Every main races had minor factions inside them. Humans were Black skinned, Red skinned and the White skinned. Elves were High elves, Dark elves and the normal elves.
The dwarfs were divided in to The dwarfs and the halflings. The dwarfs lived underground mostly under big mountains. The halflings did live under ground but no so far down as the dwarfs and had features like that of small child.
Orcs were depended on their location Sargur Orcs located at Sargur forest region, the Halh Orcs from the Halh mountain region and some other, they all looked about same but still had different like Sargur Orcs having little bigger ears and leaner build to Halh orcs having flat face with bigger rougher build. They would be in almost unending wars agains each other.
The beasts were divided by what kind of animal they looked like so they were divided in many small faction but still mostly lived in harmony with each other.
The minor races weren't much studied so there were not much about them, in the books.
Isaac arrived after few week and is taking care of the destroyed mansion and us. I'm getting used to the castle and nothing much is happening, oh and I'm going to finish the books in the library in couple of months id this keeps up, so i told Isaac if he could get me more books to read in which he said "Don't you worry, i have already dealt with that" and patted me on my head.
Soon after the rebuilding of the mansion was done and library in the mansion was moved and now had its own building beside the mansion, i was very excited.
The new library was huge, it was almost as if Isaac had moved every single book in the world into this library, it was as big as the mansion and had endless books for me to read. Isaac told me that i would be starting my apprenticeship with the old mage after i hit age of 5, so right after the party.
Mother told me that i could only read as much as i want if i studied about ethic and manners from the teacher coming to the mansion soon, of course i said yes. I didn't loose anything and it was easy enough.
Chapter 2
Chapter 4 Daily life