Wicked Wizard

Real megic

I coughed out dust in my mouth. Every square meters of this house were covered with dust and spider webs.

“Huge mess, probably no one lived here for a decade.”

“Where should I start? Let’s take these stuffs out first then!” A small body of 16 years old boy begins to carry furniture in the tree house out one by one so he can start cleaning process soon as possible.

“There is an old cripple broom here, but it’s looks okay still.”

He started wiping the floor and took spider webs down. Once it’s cleaner than before, smell of pine tree were spread around in the air and cold fresh smell like an autumn emanated in a house every time he moved a broom.

This tree house has 4 rooms, or I should say 4 floors. Imagine there is a one big tree with four huge branches and every branch carrying one room. First room at the bottom is a living room and kitchen, they are together. It is wide and have enough space for fit ten adults in one room but still comfy. It was the room where I first got up in this dimension.

Second room is on a next upper branch and between the branches have wood stairs connected all rooms together. All over the stairs covered with leaves and small dead tree branches but it still strong and in a good condition because it have roof, just need a little clean up. I think this room is library and inside it is very big, you wouldn’t believed that the small room you saw outside will be this big inside it. I wonder how the person who built this house did it, It just amazing.

Cleaning the library was very difficult and it might take me all day to finish. This is almost noon, but I still didn’t eat or drink anything. I hope there is something that I can eat in this forest, so I won’t starving to the death.

I decided to stop cleaning and went downstairs to find weave basket that I saw during cleaning.

“Where did it go? I remembered put it somewhere around here.”  He frowned, bit his lower lip with back lean on the door and rest on one knee, looks adorable.

“Oh! Here it is”

He walked to the kitchen and stand on his tip toes, tried to reach a dishes shelf over his head. Once he got a basket, he then looked at the fireplace with regrets because he doesn’t know how to light up the fire in the ancient time like this.

What a sad life….

Ugh! I sighed heavily, thinking about my last life. Back then when I went to scout camp, I never pay attention to learned how to light up fire at all because a thing called lighter and a match. I didn’t know that one day I will end up in another dimension like this.

“This place should have berry or something else I can eat for living. I will bring a sword right there with me too then can makes mark on a tree, prevent myself from getting lost in the forest.”

He talked to himself, grabbed a weave basket and sword at the shelf nearby then walked out the door. In his mind expected to get something he can eat because hunger is calling and his stomach also protesting, try to digest its skin inside out.  

Most of trees in this forest are big and tall. Cold scent of pine leaves spread in the air when the wind is blowing the smell getting even stronger. There is another tree too not only pine, but it was the only one he knows. On the forest floor cover with green moss all over the forest, also have some ground orchids on the way but not much.

That! Is that thing…?

“Strawberry! Lucky me, at least there is something I could eat”

He quickly walked to an open area with a little bit of shade but on the floor were covered with small grasses and wild strawberries.

Wild strawberry is not big as the market strawberry in present time. It’s small like pinky fingertip, mild and very sweet. Once you put it in your mouth its fragrance will explode in there through nasal. I can’t tell much but its smell is intense just like… umm… strawberry perfume. Yeah, totally strawberry perfume.

I sat down and started picked up small strawberries in to weave basket, some of it inside my mouth. I very delicate, best strawberry ever had. Maybe because I’m hungry so everything gets hundred times better than it usually. Both of my hands strained with red from its juice. I took about one hour to filled up my basket, not easy at all to deal with these little berries.

“Apple tree?”

Not far from strawberry field, I found apple tree full of tiny apples all over its branches with yellow green color fruits similar size to mandarin citrus.

“Is it ripe yet?” I wonder if I can also pick it as its ripe stages, so I need to try one. “Very astringent and sour. I assume it might not ripe yet but who cares? I don’t want to be starving here so just pick it even it’s not ready.”

I filled my basket with small apples till it’s full. The sun was right straight to my head means its already noon and time to go back home. I walked back home the same way, following marks I created on tree stem.

Weather was warm because of sunlight but still cold for me who lived all my life in hot country and hot sun of Thailand. I am not used to it at all but good thing is Valentino’s clothes were white long sleeves shirt with collar tight around his neck, black long sleeves pant and covered with brown cloak also material were tick and warm, so it kept me warm. Anyway, I am sure that this is summer because all these fruits were fruiting in summer as I used to know.

It took a while to get home. I put fruit basket in the kitchen and started my afternoon mission again.

“What are these books? Magic in daily life? Hehe, everybody known magics are fake.” I giggled. This book is nonsense. There is no magic in this world. Even I thought it’s fake, but I opened it anyway.

“Magic in daily life. This book contained necessary spells in daily life. All of spells in this book are standard level suited beginners. Oh, sounds fun! I could read this language because Valentino’s memories. Excellent!” I nodded with myself, both eyes moving from letter by letter. I felt amazed by this body owner who studied ancient language and can perfectly understood it, so I got this skill from his memories too.

In this dimension has 2 languages, one was everybody fluent which is English, but they called it different and another one was an extinct language or ancient language that nobody used it now a day. Luckily Valentino wasn’t had much friends, so he spent most of his time in central library at Bowbert, Valadim Empire studied ancient language. Practice makes perfect and Valentino made it. He can speak, read and write it and it makes me such a clever man because I, Jaokeaw now the new owner of this body.

“This spell for call water out. It is common type of magic, beginner level. A trick of this spell is to combined small essential particle for water from environment surrounding you by using Mana in your body. This spell is useful during traveling through dry area and fat from water. Total Mana used is low and harmless to your stamina, but beginner might get a little effect from using this spell for first time.

I same like mixed Hydrogen and Oxygen together by using Mana right? But what is Mana? Is it like Mana in games that use for spelling magic?

“The spell for this is Vesi” Vesi means water. That’s it, too short.

Splosh!

Huge water ball like yoga ball appear over his head, it’s floating in the air for a little while after he read the spell but at one point, he opened next page it felt on his body made its wet head to toe.

“Ugh! So cold. Where is these water from?” He shouted out loud with his shaking body then he realized what was he just did, His eyes and mouth wide open like a goldfish.

Nah, it can’t be. It’s not magic right?

“Let’s try one more time”

“Wind spell, standard spell for beginner witch and wizard. Wind spell for making wind in specific area but can also use for fighting and attacking depends on Mana you spend. Let’s see its spell and manage Mana as minimize. Tuul puhub!”

Phew~

I felt the wind blowing to my body after I casted spell. I got goosebumps all over my body because of cold wet body attached the wind. It wasn’t blowing that strong but like you turn a fan at maximum speed.

“Very cold but it’s a real wind blow. Oh my… this dimension has magic. Amazing!” I was confused in my thought, so I checked this room again if there any window, but I found zero. It had only one on the roof but covered with see-through glass which allows only light to get in here but wind. There is no way wind can blow in this room unless magic effect.

Let’s try one more!

“Spell for making fire and light up fire. This also standard as well and for beginner but can use for fighting and attacking too depends on amount of Mana being used. Technically it used Mana to shake particles in the environment in specific area that I want, after that particles around the area will get hot and sparking then fire appear.” I looked at a fireplace and decided to set the fire there. I found old firewood near fireplace, so I put it in and walked back picked up the book.

My heart beating so fast and if the spell working well, this new world might not be too boring for me. Both of my eyes were shaking twinkling, can’t hold an excitement anymore.

“Tuli”

!!!

Orange color flame occurred on firewood in a fireplace right after I finished casted.

“It’s working. It’s really working. How crazy!” My voice cracking and shaking heavily. All my felling expressed out through my eyes and face. I could no longer hold it anymore.

But Valentino…

I then started to think about him. He shouldn’t die neither I shouldn’t be here nor took his luck that belong to him.

How crazy destiny can be…

He died here before knowing there is still have magic in this world because of poison he got from those evil bastards. My mood completely changed when I thought of Valentino’s story.

“I hope you be in the better place and thank you for give me a new life. I will treat your body very well.”

I don’t know which after world or next world Valentino will be reborn, but I hope he will be lucky and happy there. I don’t want him to remember all these worst memories. All his family are real toxic, what a cold blood and heartless. I think if somebody cut out their blood and measure it with thermometer its temperature will be below zero Celsius.

I will not revenge for Valentino because I never met them and they also never harm me as well so what the point to do all the pay back for person who I didn’t know even he gave me new life but I didn’t ask for it.

This world is big. I don’t think I will meet Valentino’s enemy on narrow lane and plus where I am living now is far away from Bowbert.

There is not a word ‘coincident’ in my dictionary. The probability of meeting those people were one in a million and it will not happen.

I took two days for cleaning library and managed books on shelfs. Most of books here written with ancient language and less than twenty were written with English.

In the passed two day I practiced using a lot of standard spell for beginner and looked up Valentino memories. In his memories there is witches and wizards but couldn’t see them that easy and it made people thought that they weren’t real.

People do believe that there is no witches and wizards left in this world and even if they are some of them left, they won’t travel around but are at Iden kingdom, a lonely kingdom in mysterious part of this world where only witches and wizards know how to get there.

The Iden kingdom were established 300 years ago according to what people been telling over years. In the era of Great Magic wars witches and wizards were used as a killing machine to fight in the war. There were a lot of them deprecated of being used for this reason, so they decided to left mainland and created new kingdom in mysterious island of west sea and no one knew where it was till now. People said Iden kingdom gathered lots of witched and wizards in their kingdom and if other kingdom want to live a good life, they shouldn’t look for it.

After the Great Magic wars done, all magic and spell books were destroyed in everywhere and had nothing left for future so the wars like this will never happened ever again.

Who said nothing left…?

There are tons of magic books here in tree house idiots!

After cleaning library, other two room were easy peasy work. A third room was bedroom with made it even more easy to cleaned and last room was a lab for making potion and medicine, this room was a cleanest and tidily in a house. I think I might start to learn how to makes potion and medicine soon so I can sell it out.

I got summery after been cleaning a whole tree house. I think I need to go to the nearest city so I can buy myself bed and other things too.

“Most important now is I want new bed.”

“Let’s see how much money you have. Oh! 30 gold coins, it is a lot and enough for new bed I guess.”