Becoming a mage

"Move!"

One of the bandits shouted at John, who followed his order, but in reality, didn't hear a thing, he was still thinking about what happened 20 minutes ago. He was watching the massacre that happened to his family in this world. Even if he didn't think about them as his first mother and father, he still got attached to them after spending four years of his life together.

'Mother, Father, it's my fault. If only your true son stayed here, no one would have died. It's all my fault.'

John started blaming himself and began sobbing silently. As they went further and further away, he watched as his home was disappearing from his sight. Finally, when he couldn't even tell how long they were walking because he was too immersed by the problems he saw a camp defended by five muscled men.

"Take him to the rest of the kids."

'Rest? Rest of the kids? Th-They did the same thing they did to me to others?'

"Ugh" John was pulled back to reality by the pain he felt after being thrown beside nine other kids.

"We have ten this time! We stroke a fortune!"

' I understand now! It isn't my fault that my family died! It's them! It all happened in other places too! And they are responsible! I swear someday I will get revenge on you somehow!'

"Okay boys, we are going home! We have enough. We will be back in a month. I'm sure we will be rewarded generously by our boss!"

After shouting and laughing for a while, they started preparing dinner. "Don't look at it, or it will make you feel even more hungry than now."

Boy with red hair around nine years old was standing before John blocking his way.

"You should get used to it. We get what was left, after dinner for breakfast and if bandits see that we can't go on any longer, they will give us bread to eat."

As the boy turned around to walk away, he suddenly reached out his hand "Oh, by the way, I'm Finn, and I'll be turning ten by the end of this year."

John looked at him but was still replaying the same scene inside his head, and his hatred to those bandits was still rising.

"Come on. I'm trying to help. Everyone here is going through the same. We should stick together to survive this."

'How laughable, I thought that thanks to my previous life I'm mature and know everything, but now I'm behaving like a child.'

John ridiculed himself but still nodded his head. Then everyone was introduced to him by Finn.

"This blonde girl is Clara she's six years old, and she joined us as 9th, just before you. This highest boy here is Luke he's eight years old, he was 8th and beside him is his twin, his name is Leo. This boy with black hair is Thomas he is seven years old, by the way, don't try to force him to talk because he's taking what happened especially bad and can even attack you if you anger him. Sitting closest to him is Grace she's seven too, she's from the same village maybe that's why he allows her to sit closer, but as you can see she still needs to keep a distance. Further away, you can see Elizabeth and Emma they are always together. Emma Is younger she's four. Elizabeth is two years older. At the end is Arthur he came here right after me. He's seven years old. As you have heard, we are going somewhere far away so we will spend some time together. Now I won't bother you any longer because I know you certainly want to stay alone and sort everything in your head."

After John was left alone, he tried to think about a solution to free himself before laying on this cold ground and falling asleep. Then he had a nightmare about this whole situation, and he woke up scared, but what filled his head after waking up he wasn't sad, rather he was rejoicing because he was a step closer to his revenge! He became mage!

'It won't be long before you all will be suffering! Now, what my power is' John tried to imagine his power, and he didn't know why but two images appeared in his head. The first one showed John moving small rocks without touching them, and the second one showed a man sleeping beside John having a good dream and then it changed then they were both asleep. John had a nightmare and slightly affected person beside him. Besides this, when John was using magic inside these imaginations, his eyes were different. There was a dim glow in them, he saw it clearly in the first image, as for the second one he felt it was the same even if he couldn't see it.

'I have two different types of magic! I don't know how rare it is or if it is even rare, but I know how useful my first ability is! I saw it! But how can I train while there is always someone awake around me? I think it's impossible for now, and I don't even know how to train I have a simple guess, and it's probably right, but how can I know without trying? I need to find a moment to prove it, but first, I need to check my body.'

John started to think quickly and was awake now. There is no way he can go to sleep at the moment like this! He examined every part of his body by touching himself and tried to imagine something happening. Finally, when he imagined something happening in his head, he felt that there was a small fragment of the earth around one m² on which a tiny ghost was floating. He didn't have any special features, but when looking at him, John felt a chill running down his spine, he felt like all his nightmares were forming this creature.

'So that's where my power is stored. I probably spent too much time reading novels about cultivation in my previous life, thinking that I will have it in my stomach or something. Finally, I've got a way to defend myself and truly get stronger. My power is lacking since I can move a small pebble while they can create big walls, but I have a month to figure out what they need us for more clearly and find a way to kill them or at least escape from them. Father, Mother, don't worry, I won't let people who killed you walk on this earth for too long.'