Chapter 7: Chapter 7 – The First Time

 

Baris barely contained his excitement, but when the wagon pulled out of sight, he grinned a big wide smile that you could put a fist through easily.

"Yes yes yes yes! Magic! Shit, I can now do magic!" He jumped up and down, and looked down at his foot in glee. Slowly, Baris took deep breaths.

"I've never done magic before, but I've played enough video games to know what my status tells me. I have manna. I also have magical skills." He frowned slightly. "I only have one so far, but that is because he let me see Arc. It is the low level introductory spell used in that video game, but a bit different in nature. It shocks the opponent, which can halt its actions. The true nature of shock and lightning styled offensive spells is to stun the opponent while doing damage. I have the spell, but haven't used it. I should try at least once, to make sure."

"Arc!" He said loudly, and watched as the spell arced from his hand to the nearest tree. That was when he started to wobble.

"Huh? Status on." He whispered weakly. "My manna points went down by one hundred?! What the hell!" He rolled his eyes. "Magic status. Hm, oh. Arc is an apprentice level spell, and has double the requirement if I was a beginner. Instead, I am a novice, with no skill at all. Crap." He smacked his lips as he suddenly felt incredibly thirsty.

"Water." He walked to the brook and drank a generous helping of water. "Ah! That's much better!" Baris sat down on the bridge, and frowned.

"Magical source is slowly draining, and refilling my manna? Now my water is draining, and refilling my magical source? So water refills stamina pools, and magical source pools. Magical source refills my manna at a rate of one point for every five manna." Baris thought for a moment.

"Maybe I should have a small nap. Replenish it all."

 

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After a short nap, Baris examined his status, and thought carefully about what he should do. Arc was a higher tiered spell, so he should try out low level ones.

"Okay, let me try some that I remember from that video game. No, wait." He thought for a moment. "Arc was a low leveled one, but is considered apprentice level here. Maybe I should go lower tiered. So what is lower then arc?" He thought carefully.

"Let me try fire based ones. Flames. Nothing. Too high tiered. It's probably apprentice, and unless I watch an apprentice level one, I would not be able to do it. So what comes before flames? 'Heat'." His eyes opened a bit wider. "There was a blast of heat! Status on!" He rolled his eyes. "Status, magic on." Baris grumbled at the sheer amount of details, and redundancy built in.

"Let me see. Heat. Novice tier elemental magic. Ten mana points. Okay, and it looked like that added to an overall elemental magic category. I now have two magic skills in elemental magic. Nice." Baris looked closely at the new category, and slowly came to a basic understanding.

"Freeze. Too high level. Cold? Wait, did I just ask a question? 'Cold'! YES! Okay, calm down. 'Breeze'! 'Static'! Okay, those are the basics of elemental magic. I now have four skill points too! I didn't get a single one as I only got magic skill experience for the amount of manna I spent, and since it was an apprentice level spell, I couldn't even move the meter one level." Baris firmed up his lips.

"That was a forty point manna expense, but I need some 'First Aid' or I will get hurt and not be able to 'Regenerate'." Baris frowned slightly. "What the hell."

 

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Baris looked at his foot, and put it back down. He walked to the stream, refilled his water supply, which had gone to half empty, and watched his Magical Source refill.

Baris climbed up a tree, and quietly chewed on some jerky, and assigned the five points to Intelligence. He looked at his foot again, and carefully felt the sole.

"Thirty years of suffering with this. Finally, it's gone." He stayed in the tree and quietly watched the forest that was the place of his rebirth into a new person.

Healed from a disease even the doctors couldn't identify as they only called it a collection of descriptive names rather then a formal disease.

Baris stayed up in the tree until he needed to drink some water, let out his urine, and walk around. Finally, when his mind accepted how easily that disease was fixed, he became extremely angry.

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It was at that exact moment that a blue wolf decided to come out of the forest. Two beasts looked at each other, separated by dozens of feet. One growled, while the other one tilted it's head in confusion.

Wasn't it, the blue wolf, supposed to growl?

 

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"Nuella, there it goes again! The mortality rate went even lower in around Noobville! What is going on over there?" She came over to her sister's screen in enough time to see Baris punch a blue wolf and watch it fly into a tree.

"What the devil." Ethys said in shock. "Isn't he only a level three?"

 

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"Jarbuk. Why are you back early?" Shaala had her arms folded under her large chest, and the look in her eyes made him frown.

"I live here, Shaala." He said in an unfriendly tone, which caused her to look a bit surprised. Normally, when she tried to intimidate him, he would just let her have her way.

"You're still pissed, I see." She said a bit peevishly.

"Just a bit. I came back because Zentha told me that I needed to return in order to meet someone on the trail." He watched as his fiancee's lips curled back in displeasure.

"That pair of boobs won't keep her eyes off you, and you listen to her!" She spat out.

"Nuella's orders. I suggest you rein in your tongue." Shaala paled as a large strong hand came down on her shoulder.

"Aleda." She chirped. Shaala was six foot five, and very much admired within the town of Steepbell. Her healing abilities had earned her quite a bit of respect in the guild, and so had her striking physique. However, like her sister, Alea, Aleda was over seven foot tall, and as muscular as a giant. Just like the other elves, she packed as much power onto her frame as some stone dwarves. Jarbuk wasn't her match as he was a wood dwarf, and only half as strong as some of his brawnier cousins.

"Jarbuk, come in and report. Nuella is quite interested in this stranger, and wants us to lend him a helping hand while he's growing, and clearing the forests for us." Aleda was about to move aside when Jarbuk lifted a large grey wolf out of the back.

"Did you go on a hunt?"

"No, Guild Master. That level three stranger killed it just before he met us. Just under four hours ago." He watched her lick her lips. "Should still be fresh, and not bled out." Shaala started to smile, and turn her way.

"Please!" She begged, and smiled wide when Aleda motioned with her hand.

"I'll send the kidneys to my wife, and hope they are still fresh enough to make her happy." There was one thing that most humans could not get over when it came to the elves.

They were carnivores, and they ate their meat fresh, and raw. This was a fundamental difference between the ones that Baris was familiar with in Earth's fantasy novels, and old mythology.

Baris would eventually find out that there were several other differences between Earth and Ceru.

 

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