After getting back to the horse I once again started travelling towards the foot of the eastern range.

There was still about half a day’s worth of relatively easy travel left, after which the hellish journey would start.

After I reach the foot of the eastern ranges, what awaited me was about half a month of navigating through the mountains to get to the 2nd highest peak, funnily enough named 2nd peak, and about 2 months of climbing the almost 10 km mountain by foot. The horse wouldn’t survive climbing the mountain so I planned on setting it free before I started the hike.

Now, I don’t know how gravity worked in this world but this world had a diameter of almost 1 hundred thousand km. This would result in approximately 500 times the volume as compared to earth.

Maybe its because of the presence of mana that allows the use of magic that life is possible here.

Anyways maybe due to the increased volume, or maybe due to magic, but unawakened humans could survive without any additional support even at the height of 100km from the surface of the planet. Therefore breathing should not be a problem while climbing.

*Fwoosh* I heard the sound of something breaking through the air. I lowered my head and saw a small stone fly by.

Turning around, a goblin the height of a dog was in the posture of throwing another stone.

“Fireball” I fired one fireball at its head which resulted in immediate and hopefully painless death for the goblin.

It seems as though monsters were a lot more abundant in this forest than I thought.

If I had affiliated with a god and received a monster slaying quest I could have become a lot stronger in this forest.

A pity that such power seemed too foreign for me to accept.

By the time I reached the start of the eastern ranges, filled with rocks and trees of all sizes and a slight slope that lead to many towering mountains in the distance, the sun had began to set and I had killed 6 more goblins.

Looking around for a place to sleep I found a little valley like structure formed by 2 large stones . I could climb down to sleep but I couldn’t think of any other creature that could hurt me there except orcs and trolls, but those creature are known to sleep so soundly at night that they wouldn’t wake-up even if you put a feast in front of their faces.

I gathered some dry wood and twigs and managed to start a fire before the sun set.

Tying my horse near the fire I started warming my body near the fire. I would look for a place to bath tomorrow as I would most certainly not be able to bath in the chilling cold of the mountains.

At least the mountains will be full of trees for the majority of the journey.

“What are you doing here old man” A heavy voice suddenly came from behind me. I almost shouted fireball but seeing as the voice could have killed me anytime he wanted I scraped the idea.

Turning around I saw a middle aged man with black eyes, short brownish hair and a thick half white half brown beard. He was staring at my head while his eyes glowed an eerie blue color.

“Do I look like an old man from any angle?”

“Physically certainly not but your soul most certainly is older than me, maybe 80 years old. You reincarnated old man? Or did you possess this body? No that’s improbable seeing that you are not a mage.”

”Reincarnated” I said while feeling shocked that it took the man in front of me barely a minute to figure out that I was reincarnated.

“You here to defeat some evil mage then? Or are you here to challenge some ‘traitor’” he asked with a mocking smile on his face.

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“Ehh, you are not as wise as you think youngster, what makes you think that I am here for any of that?”

“You changed your tone pretty fast that’s for sure, what else could a hero come here for?”

The more he spoke the more puzzled I became. We are talking in the same dimension right?

“what are you talking about ? what hero? I was here to join Mr.Edward’s academy for magic studies”

He looked at me with a confused look for a few seconds, then started smiling and then started laughing.

“I see I see! You found out the truth then huh? Come here then old man, lets take you to see Sir Edward.”

He took my hand and suddenly we started floating in the air. My bag floated behind him almost as If it had a life of its own.

The world beneath me became smaller and smaller the higher we rose. By the time the 2 stones I was planning on sleeping in appeared as though they were grains of salt we started moving forward.

I looked down at the beautiful world beneath me, I looked at the direction I had come from and sure enough a bunch of buildings were visible. I felt so serene and… free.

“How old were you when you died old man?”

He looked at me and asked curiously.

“I was in my early seventies.”

“So you from earth or were you originally from prithyu?”

I once again looked at this man in shock, just how can he know so much?

“This is common knowledge amongst the mages oldie, we figured out long ago that if they want to make things more interesting for themselves they often reincarnate people from earth to Prithyu. Although most of these people are made into heroes and sent to either fight the poor demons who rarely even manage to have a legendary ranker alive for more than a year or sent our way in order to free the world of the ‘traitors’, some are told the truth by some lackey demigod and then they roam the world figuring out ways to get stronger without the system.

I think the warrior faction got some man who was a extremely skilled archer in his past life and they are now raising him as if he was the illegitimate son of the sole demigod they ever had”

I guess I wasn’t as unique as I thought.

“Did you people get some reincarnated person other than me?”

“We had the most number of people, but Sir Edward threw most of them out saying that those who love power can’t learn true magic. As for how many still remain you can ask him yourself.”

After this sentence silence spread. I looked beneath to see that the plains area was no longer visible and beneath us were various small mountains.

I had not paid that much attention to a lot of things due to that damned fireball but,

The world was absolutely gorgeous.

The sun was setting in the distance, the sky was a dull red. Behind us was green hills and in front whitish peaks as far as the eyes could see.

A hint of serenity arose in my mind. For the first time in a few months my mind was absolutely clear of any thoughts.

I just enjoyed the scenery.

We flew for about 2 hours more, each minute passing by in absolute silence. He dropped me off at a pure white mountain.

“Here’s the 2nd peak old man, come with me” He said and started walking, my bag still floating behind him.

I started following him and soon a small tower came into view, it was only one story tall and just as white as the snow surrounding it.

I hadn’t got the chance to wear the warm clothes in my bag but while flying I didn’t feel a tinge of cold. But now, I could feel the cold seeping in my bones.

“Atleast give me something warmer to wear from my bag” I asked the man in front. He just silently took out a robe from seemingly nowhere, classic mage, and handed it to me.

After wearing it I felt the cold immediately become bearable.

We entered the tower and he took me straight to the roof. On the roof was a empty round table with a single chair.

“Another reincarnator came sir” He said this and silently sat down after taking out a small chair out of nowhere, classic mage really.

“Where are you taking out all this stuff from?”

“You should have accessed your soul space as you are gathering some amount of mana unconsciously, every good mage usually carry atleast a house worth of items in their soul space.”

“You can put stuff in soul space? How?” I had to know how to put stuff in my soul space, imagine, if I am able to make stuff appear and disappear then I can be considered atleast half a real magician right?

“It’s something you can’t do without spending atleast a year or 2 learning magic oldie”

“Can you atleast stop calling me oldie? Even though I have lived for over 80 years by now I have only been in this world for like 12 years”

“Nah, I prefer to call oldies oldies,besides, other than me only 4 or 5 more people should be able to tell that you are in reality a oldie in these mountains. You are not planning on marrying anyone are you? I remember when a reincarnator came here to learn magic about 5 years ago, when we tested his soulspace it was the most dirty thing we had ever seen. And when we tested his mentality you know what his deepest desire was?”

“What?”

“To get married to 10 girls! And his physical age was 50 during that time, Truly a sick sick man, Sir Edward threw him in the prison. He is still in that same prison to this day”

“Dirty soul space? Also no I am not going to get married to children the age of my grandchildren if I had any!”

“Good to know, still we’ll see when we perform the same tests on you, soul spaces are the reflection of you consciousness on your soul, so the way a soul space looks is a good indicator on what kind of person someone is.”

“Who did you bring this time Elen?”

A man had appeared on the chair by the table, holding a tea cup in hand and taking a sip while looking at me curiously.