Water, the source of life, the liquid that makes living things live.

In a dark cave, lies a lake. But this was no ordinary lake, this lake, contains unimaginable amounts of mana.

And on the shore of the lake, lies a boy with his bottom half, still submerged in the rich mana water.

That boy was of course Harry.

After running away from the thugs and misteriously disappearing into thin air, the boy was misteriously here.

Waking up with a headache, he was shocked. He didn't recall getting into this place at all. All he knew, was that he was running away and was suddenly losing his consciousness from tiredness.

Of course he didn't know what brought him here. It seemed like a miracle to him. A one in a billion miracle.

 But the truth was, it was a wormhole that teleported him here.

In this world, wormholes are similar to portals. Portals are space magic that connects a space with another space, it often looks like a gate to another place.

Wormholes however, are different, they're invisible, unlike portals. They're also mostly natural magic occurences, and are rarely created by living beings.

Magicians also stapled that wormholes are inferior to portals, there's a reason to that, and that's because it makes the person using it unconscious.

"Hellooooo!!?? Hellooooo!!??"

Harry yelled, even though he knew no one was in there with him.

Still, he tried again and again. But eventually, he got tired of it and he began trying to find an exit.

It seemed that the lake in the cave wasn't that dark after all. Millions of luminescent worms lighted the ceiling of the cave.

Those lights revealed magnificent stalactites, stalagmites, and also crystal structures usually found in caves.

But these crystal structures were very beautiful, there were many of them, but almost each of them seemed unique and colourful.

Amazed by this sight, he made a note in his mind that he needed to come back to this place, if he made it out alive.

He explored the cave system, walking hours and hours without food and drinks.

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Luckily, he found a tiny stream connected to the lake, and with that, he drank loads of water.

Thankfully, the water was full of mana and that mana managed to supress his hunger.

So, he decided to follow the stream, and walk for many hours more. And every time his stomach was growling and his mouth was dry, he drinks the water.

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Finally, after an excruciating walk of what it seems to be, a few days, he saw daylight. 

It seemed that the water stream flowed through a crack on the wall.

Unfortunately the crack that the daylight reached through, was small.

Fortunately, it was enough for small children to fit through. And Harry, being only a thin 10-year-old boy, als managed to fit through.

"..."

He was speechless, it seemed that he found food.

His stomach growled, his mouth drooled, but for some reason his brain told him to be cautious.

It looked like the Microberries he used to eat when he was still little, but these berries looked enormous.

So enormous that one berry, was as large as an apple.

Being extremely hungry, he decided to push away doubts about the probability of it being poisonous.

And he happily munched away.

One berry, two berries, three berries, four berries. His appetite seemed limitless as he munched away.

But because he was a noble, he remembered being taught in the academy that overeating causes stomach problems such as vomitting and stomachaches.

After remembering that he might vomit, he stopped eating

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Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months, he now has a routine.

When it was morning, he takes a shower using the tiny water stream flowing out of the crack of the cave he was in.

 When it was noon, he gathers food, like the big Microberries and nuts. He eats lunch with the big Microberries and nuts he found, while also storing the nuts in case of emergencies. He named those berries Macroberries because of their abnormally large size.

When it was afternoon, he explores the area a little bit, finding other dangerous monsters in groups. Being scared of these monsters, he sneaks away every time he sees one monster while his heart pounded crazily.

One species of those monsters were Giant Mantises, their sizes were like the sizes of adult wolves, their colours were red, yellow, and green. Red seemed the strongest, and big like adult wolves, they were also the biggest. The tiniest were the green ones, they're about the size of a pitbull. And the yellow ones were in the middle.

When it was night, he tries to build himself a shelter, and managed to make a fire for himself each night. This was also the time he eats dinner.

But after finding out about dangerous monsters around the area, he mustered all his will, and decided that it was time for him to get himself a weapon and train himself with it.

Luckily he was in a forest with a bounty of plants and materials. Sticks and vines were easy to find, and rocks and pebbles were in large numbers inside the cave.

With this decision on mind, he cut a branch of a tree and shaved all of it's leaves and sticks using a sharp rock. He then cut it to about 12 cm in length.

Using that sharp rock, he split the top of that pre-cut branch, the split was about 5 cm deep.

After doing that, he forced the split top to the middle of the sharp rock until it reached a certain point.

And using the dried vines, he tied the split top of the branch, closing the split. He also tied the bottom part of the split, so that the split wouldn't go further.

He did this with strength that aren't usually available in normal 10-year-olds. But because he had lived in this forest eating nutritious Macroberries and nuts, while also drinking mana rich water, he had somewhat increased his muscle volume.

What he had crafted, was a primitive hatchet.