“It seems…there no danger around here”

I don’t know how long I have been walking, I have trouble walking due to my injured leg, and catching my breath is getting more of a challenge.

I tried to cast [heal] on my leg but it doesn't work.

"Danm it!!"

I immediately take off the black jacket after I have enough distance, it looks fancy with many artistic lines and flowers but it is not important. I wrap it around my leg and close the wound tightly, the pain is reduced a bit. I’m not sure if it even helps but I can’t think of any other solutions.

I try to avoid any creatures regardless of them being harmless. After a while, I notice that the animals in this forest aren’t normal. I spotted a few horned rabbits while I was escaping the wolves, while some horned rabbits are normal, even in my world there are many horned rabbits in different regions, but there are some with unusual orange blowing rock that grew around their body. They're bigger than the normal ones and act more aggressively toward other creatures so I try to avoid them.

I don’t know what those rocks are, but I'm sure that it gives some major effect on the animals it grows on. I have too little information of what it is, I don’t even know what going on. I continue to walk while thinking, then I found a river behind a large bush.

“Ha…a river!?”

Without thinking, I rush to the river and scoop some water to drink.

“Refreshing!!” I say it out loud while I take another scoop, I was so tired after hiding from other creatures in this dangerous forest.

When I finally calm down, I notice a reflection in the water, a young face, probably around 18 years old. Black hair with small white parts grows mainly from the left side, both eyes are black which is the same as mine……mine?

“Is this…me?”

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I asked but then jump a little, now that I pay more attention, my voice became younger, and the clothes I'm wearing, what is this? what going on? why am I looking like this?!

“AGgh!” the pain in my leg starts to come back, as I look down and hold my leg, I see blood leaking down and absorb by the sock but some still leak to the ground.

“I guess I need to find a place to rest”

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The sun has gone down, I found a tree with a hollow trunk just 50m from the river, I set up a fireplace just outside the entrant and start the fire with fire magic [heat] but it doesn’t come out.

"Eh?"

I tried multiple times but fail, I thought it was because I'm weak with magic so I can't cast [heal] back then, but now I start to suspect something else. I decide to go back to the river and pick up some dry stones and start a fire successfully.

After eating the fish and mushrooms that I collected on the way back, I look back at the event that just happened.

I woke up in an unknown forest and was attacked by rock wolves (I will be using rock before their name if the creature has blowing rock grown on them for now), I found out that I’m in someone else body, someone who died if I’m correct. I also found out that I can’t use any magic that I previously could like [heat] which can be universally cast by anyone even if they are weak with magic.

"Is this a different world..."

A thought crosses my mind, if I'm in a different world, that would explain why I'm here with a stranger body. But that is a wild guess, there are just too many questions so I will leave it at that.

Though I am certain that my body has a slight reaction when I activate my magic, so it is not impossible to try and relearn them. Even if I’m not good with magic back then and now, it's not like I have a choice if I want to survive in this forest.

“Hoo ho hoo” (???)

“WOOOOOH!!!” (???)

“GAAAH GAAAAH!!” (???)

Strange noises appear around the forest, making my heart skip, I hastily put out the fire and put some leaves and dirt at the entrant, I move to the back and use some leaves to cover my body to cover my smell even by a little. There are many dangerous animals at night, I can hear howling from one of those noises. I try to sleep to save up energy for tomorrow's journey but I need to be on guard for surprise attacks. I start to feel tired and slowly close my eyes.

“I guess I should get a rest for tomorro…”

I close my eyes to sleep, hoping that the next day, I can find an exit to this hellscape.