"So you are the kid that I've been told about, huh?", he questioned while keeping and intense gaze on me. "I'm sorry to inform you, but we won't be able to send you back to darrigan, this has multiple reasons.", he added.
I opened my eyes and spoke, "Huh? May I know why?", I stared back at him, he had something around him, something telling me he's powerful.
"Very well. The first reason is...", he took out a map and handed it to a follower to show me, "The teleporter is right here, we're north, another kingdom is south. The teleporter needs two stones to activate, which we and the other kingdom have. Sadly, we're currently at war with the other kingdom so I suppose the teleporter won't be able to be activated.", he grumbled. "And there's an even worse... reason why. In Darrigan, ah, how do I put it... there's currently a civil war... rumors say it is caused by a strange cult... also a student from the magical academy from there... was... wait.", he looked me up and down. "Are you... Jin? In like, the kid that got teleported away from the academy, Jin Smith?", he looked shocked, "You have to be... black hair, blue flaming eyes, according to your classmates insanely strong... would explain your story with the dragon... so you're the real deal.", he said as a slight smile grew on his face.
In the meantime, my mind was just going wild. A civil war? What does that mean? Caused by that cult? Is Aria perhaps part of the cult? I made that my friends and family don't get killed... how are they doing?
My train of thought was disrupted by the king speaking again. "Well, Jin Smit-", I interruped him. "Just Jin is fine.", I said, "Very well, Jin. So, you have two options. First, stay here until the war is over and we can teleport you back, or you go by horse, by foot, or whatever and go back to darrigan yourself.", he said.
I pondered a bit in my mind, on one side, I could maybe get home faster by walking since I don't know how long this war will take... on the other hand, I could wait here and finally start reading my magic books I gathered in the library. I sighed. "I'll stay here. It gives me more time to learn new magic... spells.", I remembered in the last second that not many people can use many kinds of magic, so I decided to say to learn spells.
"So that is your choice? Very well. We can offer a room for you to stay in... in the adventurer's guild house.", he smiled at me as some guards escorted me out of the room. I arrived at the guild house, went up the stairs and entered my room. I decided to sleep for now, since my sleep was interrupted the last time.
I woke up the next morning to a nice sun, seems like I slept for about 15 hours. "Is there breakfast... here? Doesn't matter. They always serve food... and I'm fucking hungry...", I thought as I got out of bed. I opened the windows and let the fresh air fill the room. I put on my shoes and put on some new clothes. I walked down the stairs and already heard the lifely atmosphere down there.
Once I sat down a waitress came, "What are you doing here, little man?", "Waiting for your family, aren't you?", she asked as she smiled, "No actually. I'm alone here. I'd like to order something.", I said but instead she looked at me confused, "With what money... and what is a kid like you doing here alone?", she asked.
"Okay, first, I have enough money for your whole money", that was a lie by the way since the food was way too overpriced, "And second, I was the one who was teleported away in darrigan.", I answered her, she looked shocked, "In that case, you are the kid who got send here by the king, right?", she asked which I answered by nodding, "Well, then get anything on the menu, he said every bill he will pay... which I don't quite understand to be honest... but oh well.", I picked out a simple breakfast, bacon with eggs and a little piece of bread. To put in perspective how overpriced this shit is, it would've cost 1 gold coin. I finished eating and went out, I wanted to go to a quiet place to train in.
"Hmm, what would I wish that the system had...? Perhaps a music player with music from my old world... nah. Maybe a crafting menu or something? Shit, no, we're not in minecraft.", I thought as I walked along the street, carriages passing beside me. "Despite this kingdom being in war, it's hella active...", I thought as I dodged a incoming carriage.
"Ah, right, training... maybe a field? Or somewhere in the woods? Ah, how great it is to be undisturbed...", I thought as I went out into the woods. I took out my first book, the gravity book... "Okay... what can I do with this shit...", I said as I started to read. "Used to create forces... I mean, kinda obvious...", I continued to read. "Aha... so that's how that works... there aren't really that many attack spells or useful spells in there... but who said I have to use them if I can create my own...", I smirked.
"Aaaaalright. First test of my own barrier. By creating multiple forces around my body, one pressing away, one down and one up... I can shoot away incoming projectiles or whatever.. if I'm fast enough and also create a force pressing in my direction, I can stop it's movement and shoot it way whenever I want...", I did what I just described and it worked, "Fuck... this shit drains a lot of mana... but if I can optimize it.. it could become a valuable asset in fighting... hmm... if I lower the forces it also takes less mana.", I said as I removed it from around my body. "Have to keep that in mind."
"Aaaand now onto test two. Compression. By applying the same thing, just way stronger, I can compress materials... but seeing how much mana the version before took... with which I pressed with 35 Newton... which should be enough to stop a flying arrow...", I pondred a bit... "So... if I would want to compress a square meter of stone.. I'd need...", I quickly did the math, "Fuck. 200 MILLION NEWTON TO COMPRESS A SQUARE METER STONE? I'D FUCKING DIE IF I TRY THAT IF 35 NEWTON ALREADY TOOK ALMOST ALL MY MANA!", I dropped to the ground. "That... that's just impossible... the amount of mana you'd need...", I sighed, "Well, what about a square centimeter?", I did the math again, "Ah hell nah. Still 200 thousand newton. Well, there goes this idea. Atleast the previous one should work in theory with a usual wooden arrow, so if I strenghten that...", I lay down, "My mind is completely fucked with all that calculating...", I said out loud.
"Maybe... maybe I'll stop for today.", I stood up and made my way back into the kingdom, I walked straight past the guards and continued down the road to the guild. "Oh, lunchtime...", I said as I entered. Everything smelled delicous, men and women were already eating and having a great time. Each of them were with their teams. I ordered a simple pizza and sat down to eat it. I handed the plate back and went up to my room. "I'll regenerate and then I think I'll try to understand this language on the other books.", I said as I sat down on the bed.