It's been six years since I have been reincarnated into this world. A medieval world of mythical beings, monsters and most importantly MAGIC!
Let me tell you how I got here and what my life was before all this.
I'm not a big fan of self-introductions, never have been to begin with. But anyway, my name is Ishii Tetsuya. Well, technically it was Ishii Tetsuya. I was the most popular kid in the class, had the best friends and my grades were even the best of the best. That was till Class 5. I never got where things went wrong.
Anyway, after that my whole life was just too much average to be deemed average. Nothing good ever happened after that. Even my high school days were just a day to day survival of boredom.
Well, could be worse. For I have my days as a university student waiting for me. I felt a joy surrounding me as I was surviving the last day of my high school. That is when it happened.
Yumi san, one of the most beautiful girls in our class, told me to wait at the rooftop after class. Having watched a lot of movies, I was already practicing my replies when Yumi san tells me that she loves me.
I met her at the rooftop. I saw her friends watching us from the half closed door to the roof. Yumi san was looking down at my legs.
I was ready for her proposal of love to me.
' Tetsuya kun, I wanted to say this to you since quite some time.'
' What is it Yumi san?' I asked with my cheeks red as an apple and my heart running faster than an 8 cylinder engine.
'I…I'm sorry.' she raised her head up and stared at my soul with the coldest inhuman gaze ever.
'Eh?...E…h?.....E….!!' I wanted to ask why but, before I knew, my chest was met with a throbbing pain. Might be because of my first heartbreak? That doesn't even make sense. And that's when I looked down. My eyes widened at the sight of blood on the floor. I have been stabbed.
Before I could defend myself, all her friends came running in and started stabbing me.
'Why?...Why?....WHY?' I kept asking myself the same thing as they kept enjoying while stabbing me. Keiko, Yui, Mio, Nao, Daiki, Yuki and Sora. Those were the ones which were in my line of sight. I saw even more of them but it was too blurry from the tears in my eyes.
Well, this might be the end. How can my life end now? ' Aaahhhhhh….This is not fair. I thought there might be at least some joy in my life. What was I waiting for?'
And all of a sudden a darkness engulfed me. Nothingness, a feeling of loneliness and hopelessness surrounded me. So, this is the end. My vision has faded and my sense of hearing was getting weaker and weaker with each stab.
And then there was LIGHT.
Well what a bad life to live. Nothing of importance ever happened throughout my life. It was a life with nothingness and loneliness. So this is what death feels like. Wait, why is there a light?
Am I in heaven?
I opened my eyes there were some humanoid light forms looking at a giant eye. The rest of the face to which the eye belonged was covered by clouds.
'The conditions have been met. All those present here will be reincarnated with your memories intact into the world of Azedia.' said a voice from the face to which the eye belonged to .
The humanoid figures of light started entering a white portal beside the eye.
Everyone entered the portal and in the end, I was the only one left to enter the portal.
Before I got a chance to enter, the portal turned black and an eye from the portal stared at me.
The giant eye looked at the portal and then looked at me and said in an enraged voice. ' YOU… YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. HOW…-'
The eye from the portal kept staring at me. I heard a voice from the portal 'RUN'
I ran inside and on my way, I heard the groan of the giant eye and then a giant hand tried to catch me entering through the portal. Well, I slipped past just in the nick of time. And before I knew, I was met with a dark fog.
'If there was a second life, I promise to myself that I will enjoy each and every moment of it. Make some good friends, start a family and live life in peace and happiness.' I kept repeating that in my mind till there was light.
When I opened my eyes, I was here. REINCARNATED as an orphan in the Misty Valley orphanage of the Azure kingdom.
I regained my consciousness at the age of 5. And I have no recollection of my life till the age of 5.
Although the language in this world was quite difficult to learn, I was able to learn it easily by reading most of the donated books in the library. From the books, I was able to learn 3 things
First, unlike Earth, this world contains MAGIC. Due to the presence of magic, this world is quite different from the typical novels and mangas that I've read. For example, some parts of this world is more advanced than the other parts. It depends on the people who live there.
Secondly, the magic in this world is quite unique in its own way. No two people can have the same magic. There maybe variations but, no one will have the same type. For example, if a fire mage is born, only he would be able to use the fire magic and no one else. But variations can occur like a person who controls temperature can also control fire when it manifests if he gets too much proficient in it. Such cases are uncommon but not rare.
Third, people are able to advance in magic only when certain conditions are met which differ for each and every individual but the basic being surviving a deadly and life threatening situation.
I also got to know that children can only use magic after the age of 7 after their manifestation ceremony. It can be triggered early in rare cases.
Such a rare case happened in the battle at the Misty Valley.
The greatest genius of all time was born approximately 2000 years ago. He was born in the village of Misty Valley which was torn down by war between the demi-humans and the mankind. A monster tamer born within the demi-humans, tamed all the monsters and created havoc for the mankind.
Amidst the battlefield, a baby was born who awakened his magic within minutes after being born. He created a mist with his magic which lead to total confusion among the enemies and helped the mankind to shoot down all the enemies. Although, the projectiles killed almost all of the living beings present there, it didn't even made a scratch on the baby.
He was later to be named Nebel. He started fighting in the war from the age of 7 and was able to end it at the age of 20 after forming a peace treaty with the demi-humans.
The demi-humans complied due to their strength being reduced to that of one-tenth.
After the death of the monster tamer, all the monster started causing havoc and the people of all the kingdoms started killing them for the resources and battle experience.
I lived my care free life helping out the nuns in the kitchen and helping out fellow orphans. The oldest among us was Haziz. He and some of the older boys went out for small jobs and provided the basic necessities for the orphanage. Haziz was lean with golden hair. He always looked after us like his own brothers and sisters.
Haziz used cleanse magic and usually had lots of work from the tavern and the shops. He helped out the adventurers in the adventure guild for some coins.
'You could never be like me. For you should be better than me.' that was the last word I heard from Aziz before he went for a work to the tavern. We never got to hear from him again.
The nuns kept on asking around if anyone had seen him but everyone among the villagers never had a clue to where he went. He must've gone on his own adventure cause, he used to tell us about all these crazy stories of adventurers whom he met and how he longed to go on such an adventure.
People move on pretty fast and before long Aziz was forgotten and it was time for my 7th birthday.