"Big brother, the teacher is calling you."
"David, answer this question."
"Again! Mr.Abra call someone else."
" You brat. Daydreaming in my class and now ignoring my order." The teacher, Abra, tone sounded like he was angry but he was not, It was the type of speech under the years of military life.
After so many years of fighting and training, the man was now very happy by simply living his live comfortably teaching, talking and playing with the kids. "Teaching children the things I knew and helped them grew, what a peaceful life. I already forty but maybe I could have one for my own. If it was a boy like this I would surely be proud." He thought of David in high regard, whenever he taught David swordfight and close quarter combat technique the boy always learned with enthusiastic, he knew David was a real prodigy and would surpass him in a few years.
"If you answer this questions right, I will dismiss the class now."
David looked at the chalkboard, it reminisced him of his past when he was young and a chalkboard was used in every school. The students in 21-century usually used whiteboards but during his youth chalkboards was still the main thing for a teacher to use in school.
"Chalk is mostly biodegradable, requires no special care, easily erased and cheap as hell compared to their chemical markers counterparts, the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard and a mild smell of chalk are unforgettable, ah.. the former is really irritating and unforgettable. I don't understand, why would we change to the chemical product if we care for global warming." David thought.
Well, he already adapted to his life in this new world, there was no point thinking about his former world.
From the way he looked, this world did not seem to worry for another two or three hundred years, it not otherworlder responsibility to worried over these problems. Even if he rushed everything by digging petroleum or coal, it won't be a problem in his life for sure.
"I guess most of my elder thought like that and it was us who had to endure with haze." David thought.
"Hm… Are these question too hard? Well, this is an equation, but I believe that you could do it if you practice for a few times, see if you just use this number to first multiplied with this…."
"Oh sorry!" David paid attention back to the questions on the board and he quickly answered all the question in high speed. Well for someone with modern knowledge these simple math questions were very easy.
"I thought you found it too hard, in fact, you just daydreaming." Mr.Abra hit David's head but not intended to really harm him just knocking him some sense as a form of soft punishment, he then told the class that class was finish.
""Thank you, Mr. Abra."" The whole class said and children ran to do what they wanted.
"You take care of her, and told my mom I'll be back soon, Okay?" David told Solo.
"Fine."
David asked Mr.Abra for a bow and arrow and then ran off toward the forest.
"Hey, kiddo! Beware of tiger and wolf, there was some deep in the forest. Huhu… I will go on a date in the forest. If you are chased by them tried to call for me I would show you my real skill for free. "
David knew his teacher now tried to hook up with miss young ex-adventurer who came to live the rest of her life farming here and the conversation was more likely a joke than a serious warning.
When David arrived at the point he usually set as his hunting ground, he looked at the trap but could not see any result.
"Hey Iris, is there a boar nearby?" He talked inside his head.
"No" Iris answered
Iris was not a human, it was a system created by Gods to help David with his life in this world. There was a mission for David but the punishment was not hard like self-destruct or something similar.
David could live his life freely if he wanted but if he wanted the reward he must complete the quests.
However, the system must be a secret between the host and the system only. The system did not have a name, but David found it hard to interact so he called the system "Iris" by making a pun from some a.i. of his world. Thanks to Iris, David start to learn new thing like magic from a very early age.
Iris told David that in order to cast very powerful magic the one who cast it must have a clear image and enough force to create such a phenomenon. Iris told David that the real reason commoner could not use magic was because of they just afraid to use it and they had no time to enhance their force capacity when they were young since the force capacity grew quickly during their growth period. Even if the force capacity was low, there was another way to use magic by improving caster proficiency, this need to be built over a long period of mental and practical training.
Since most common people could not use a powerful spell, they just ignored it and used their force to help with their job by circulated it into their needed part of the body, such as a blacksmith could put his force to his arms improving his performance. The more force they got the more power they had, but since the way to improve force capacity was hard and the result could not be seen in a short period of time, no commoner care to do it.
However, David was not a normal child, he spent most of his baby time practicing magic until he collapsed since birth, this improved both his capacity and proficient at the same time. Therefore at just the age of seven, David became a famous prodigy even to the surrounding village.
Normally, those with high status would not care for this rumor about commoner child.
But not only David, the king of Vatsa too was not an ordinary king. Yes, he was a king but he did not believe in blueblood superior. He believed in merit and performance of any individual than the bloodline, if not for this how could a small kingdom on the blink of collapsed rose to an upper-middle size kingdom in just one generation.
When the king of Vatsa heard about the prodigy birth from commoner family in his direct control land, he decided to lay off his older knights provide them with another role as a teacher and put them across his domain with land and retirement fund. Whether the king knew about the method to improve magic capacity or not, the result was showing itself and surely in the next decade, the result would bring magnificent harvest for the next king. However, the smart king had one serious problem, he had no son and his two daughters were too young.
David would not think that he was under someone watching but for them to meet will happen at a later time, for now, David must first overcome this situation.
David walked into the deep part without fear, he knew he was strong and he came to this forest much time. The forest was like his own backyard, he really underestimated the forest, an easy mistake for a "full of himself" boy.
"Hey! I want to find another cub, help me with it." David found a cub last week and since he could sell them to a peddler at a high price, he hoped to find some again. He also sold the tiger pelt but the price he got was not good, the pelt was cut half at the stomach and many places were torn apart.
David asked Iris but he did not think there will be any, tiger normally lived separately and tigress would take care of her child alone.
"It's should be good if I can find a pack of wolves, their fur could be sold at a high price too if I'm careful enough."David thought as he walked deeper into the forest.
"I don't know why but I want to get some popcorn if possible." David grumbled.
There were 3 things David didn't know or maybe forget; First, a tiger holds their territorial as a forbidden area but in case the one was female, the other male may live close by and some report claimed that male tiger helped protected its cubs from afar. Second, Tiger was a very good solo man-hunting animal. Third, a tiger's spray had a butter popcorn smell…..