" Daman , let's get in", I said and he nodded .
As we took a few steps , my protective barrier activated automatically . Daman walked beside me . I can't even see a living thing, in this village . Some people are seeing us , but they're afraid and didn't approach us ;
They were nothing but skin and bones.Their skin are dried and covered with lines, their lips are cracked , their eyes are red and swollen . Their appearance is so bad, how did they manage to survive till now . I have to ask with some people.
But ,as soon as I approached them , they're getting in their houses and shutted their doors . Am I scary? . No , it's seems , there's another problem here. I searched for people ,but no one came out .
I walked along and a found a small child , she'll be just 7 years old , I think ; She's so weak . I think she's still in the beginning stage . I bended towards her and took a bottle of holy water .
"Here" , I poured some of the holy water . After sometime , she recovered her normal skin , eyes . It seems working , but like others she didn't even flinch by my presence , her eyes were looked like dead . I don't know how much this small child suffered ? .It looks like now she's back to normal . Her eyes changed back to normal.
She looked at her arms and legs ; touched her skin . Her eyes filled with tears .She came to hug me ,but instead She bowed towards me , just because her dress was not clean . I pulled her towards me and hugged her, because I want to thank her for managing to survive until now , without giving up.
Then , the little girl went to her house and brought her sister , who's 15 years old ; Her condition was exactly like her little sister. She thanked me for saving her little sister . She didn't even ask Medicine for her ; I volunteered to see her family . She hesitated first , then she led me inside her house ; There's isn't anything much to eat , just some pieces of bread with mold in it.
"Emy , could you wait for me sometime ?," he asked and didn't even wait for my reply and teleported somewhere. I gave holy water to their family ; There's a lady in her thirties , I think she's mother for these two kids and there is an elder in his sixties. The woman said that he's her father -in -law .
"Emy , here !", Daman shouted outside . We went outside. All the people in the village are gathered and here we're in a gape . What's he thinking about doing this? It's truck of breads , vegetables and Fruits . It's more than enough for 3 months . But , it seems he really wanted to help them. I tilted my head and smiled at him .
I looked up the sky ,the dark black clouds are increasing , while the wind is blowing to the direction we came .My eyes widened by seeing the horrible sight . 'What the.... What's happening , did ,just the blow caused this ? The green where I stood blackened ; all the plants are rotten in that direction . How is it possible ?
"Daman", I turned towards him , he is furrowing his brows by looking at the sight. I think he's doesn't have any idea about what's going on here.
"Daman, if the wind blows in our direction , the food is going to spoil , we have to find a way to preserve the food"; I said and he nodded. After seeing the sight of the food , the people in the village were less aware of us .
I asked the village members , is there any basement here , but they showed me a basement , it just size of single bedroom ; there's no way to store all the food in this basement .
"I have a way to store and preserve the food ", Daman said as he was not sure by rubbing his chin. But this isn't a time to think about this rationally. We have use all the method to find a solution for this situation.
" it's okay . It's not like we have many choices .What is it?" I asked and other peoples nodded as they're agreeing for what I said .
"Okay , then I will just show you"; he said and chanted a space enlargement spell . The basement restored in the size of an entire house. But Daman went weak and fell down . I ran towards him and laid his head on my lap .
"What happened ? Are you alright?" I asked him anxiously . he just smiled and said he was okay .But, I know he isn't okay at all.
"You're the world's 2nd best magician .How could you be so weak?" I took medicine which restores energy and water . He ate the medicine and drank the water .
"What are you talking about weak , it's just I'm suppressing my power." he said and sat down in front of me and explained me.
"I suppressed my power , so I can use ice magic for preservation of food ; Normally an ice attribute magician doesn't need to be this careful . I'm a fire attribute magician , so I need to store more power to release ; it's because my attribute is complete opposite of ice attribute."he said.
I see because I left the novel half -read , I don't know anything about Daman . But the thing that's confusing me more is , if it's according to the novel , he should be appeared after my age of ceremony ; is it because I appeared in his dream , he appeared soon. It's nerve-racking . Let's not think about this now.
As soon , Daman restored the place , the people in the village ;only a few were able to carry the food supplies and started to stored it in the basement ; where others are so sick . Daman can't use his magic for a while. So , I went outside to help them to carry the food supplies.
There was fifteen people at most . I made them stand in a line till the basement from the food supplies . Then , we passed the supplies to the next person ;so there's no need to waste more time and energy . We finished storing the food supplies in the basement within an hour.
Daman also energized after half an hour and helped us with the carrying of food supplies. Then he went down to the basement and I followed him back , there was light lamps on the 2 ends of the room.
"If I install a ice enhancing device here , the light lamp won't able to withstand , so we shall change it into magic stone", Daman said and took a magic stone and chanted a spell on it ; it started to glow ,the room became so bright than before it was.
Magic stones are expensive items only found in the Royal palace and seen in the mansion of higher nobles. Then he took five magic stones at once . I looked more surprised and let a gape. He smiled by seeing my expression.
"Don't worry , I didn't steal it ; I took it from my master" he said with a smiling face .Does he think I bought that excuse ? Which masters give their Lackey so much expensive stuff ? Wait , did he just said 'took it from my master' ? What's the difference then ?huh. Whatever let's talk about it after finishing this matter.
He enchanted a spell on the five magic stones and placed it all the corner and one in the roof of the basement.
"It should be okay for at least a month", he sighed after fixing it.
"Really ; it's good . Are you okay? Do you feel dizzy?" I supported his arms and placed his hands on my shoulders. He's already losing his feet ,so I took him out of the basement by supporting him .
The villagers provided us a shelter and gave us food . I wait for Daman to wake up ; while his forehead is burning, because of his fever. I placed a wet towel on his forehead and wiped his sweat for an hour . It's already going to be evening. I have to return to the mansion.
But I still can't visit the river. Wait , I have to investigate the people in the village .I asked that little girl , the one who I gave holy water first ; to keep an eye on Daman and went to talk with the villagers.
I went to talk with the lady , mother of these two children. Because she is the one , who will able to answer me even if she hesitated.
"Excuse me ,I want to ask you about something . Can we talk in private?", I asked her and she nodded and took me to a room in her small house.
"You can sit here ; Miss", she showed me a place in the small cramped bed . I sat down and made her to sit with me , though she hesitated, I forced her to sit .
"I know it's difficult for you to say ; but I want to know what happened here ? Please tell me , so we can help the villagers"; I said by holding her hands as assurance .
"Some weird people came here and took some of our sick people;" she hesitated and bit her lower lip.