Chapter 7: My Savior

“Holy shit”

The dark elf vanished into his evil looking portal and my nerves finally calmed down

[That was crazy intense. Hey Crystal, do you think I scared him away?]

[You can scare anyone away with that body odour of yours]

[Hey, that’s rude! I don’t smell bad at all!]

[Of course you don’t]

[Sarcasm?] I asked

[At its finest] she responded with a slight chuckle

I turn around to see the king-looking dude lying on the floor with blood trickling from almost everywhere I can see on his body

I begin walking towards him and for the first time I notice my surroundings. It looked like there was a war here, a gruesome one.

I could see the remains of armour, mutilated human corpses, blood and innards everywhere. I could also see the body parts and corpses of creatures considered mythical in my previous world

I saw the bodies of goblins, trolls, ogres, orcs, manticores, basilisk, chimera, werewolves, minotaurs, skeletons and many more monsters.

I finally got to the royal dude, he was pretty banged up

[Hey Crystal]

[What now]

[Please teach me magic]

[No]

[Please, at least just healing magic, so I can save this man]

[No]

[Please Crystal]

[No]

She’s being serious, she’s not gonna teach it to me. Damn her, who needs her, I’m a protagonist, I can figure this out.

I lay my hands on the man and close my hands, concentrating my mind on just one word

HEAL

After a minute or two of intense focus, I feel a warmth envelope my hands and flow out of me, I open my eyes and see a green glow flowing out of my hands and into the man.

You have acquired Heal LV1

I believe I have a basic understanding of how magic works, just like in most anime I’ve watched, it’s a three step process, Imagination, Will, and Concentration. You have to be able to vividly picture what you want mentally, you have to want it to happen and then concentrate on it happening.

I see his cuts closing up, and even hear his cracked and fractured bones heal, his bruises disappear and his overall form looks as good as new except his armour which was still heavily damaged. I need to take him away from here, if I truly am in my own isekai story, then the kingdom shouldn’t be too far away

[Crystal, how far is the nearest kingdom from here] I asked with a hint of anger in my voice as I am still pissed that Crystal refused to teach me how to use magic, thereby putting this man’s life in danger

[It is a few hours away from here. If you walk through the forest in a straight line, you’ll get to a pathway that’ll lead you to the Kingdom] she answered

She wasn’t being sarcastic or rude, that’s a surprise. I hoist the man across my shoulder and start walking through the forest. I walk for about 45 minutes before the trees started thinning out. After an extra 10 minutes, we got to the end of the forest.

I exited the forest and before me was an enormously vast meadow with beautiful and colourful flowers, a beautiful sky that was dyed red due to the setting of the sun, puffy clouds that spread out across the sky, absorbing and radiating the same red glow of the setting sun. I could see two moons, one bigger than the other, it so beautifully adorned the sky that I couldn’t help but stare at them. Birds were returning to their nest to rest from the day, and a cool evening breeze caressed my skin. Something about the air here felt different, it felt, pure, clear. This slight but pure breeze made the air that existed in my previous world feel fake and bland.

While I was busy admiring the view of this surreal world, I could hear the royal dude groan a bit while I carried him like a sack of flour over my shoulder. Speaking of sacks of flour, I’m really hungry and I never even thought of it, I mean why should I, I’ve been dead, reborn and sent to another world, hunger would be the last thing on my mind. The man begins to groan again, he is regaining consciousness; I need to put him down. I lay him on the lush grass beside the pathway and he shuffles a bit before slowly opening his eyes.

*Jasper’s Point of View*

Everything is dark; I guess that demon elf really did me in huh. I look around me and all I see is darkness. I look at my hands, I can see them and I can see that they did not have the bruises anyone who has used a sword for years would have. Not only that, I seemed to give off an ethereal white glow. When I looked down, I saw ripples as though I were standing on a body of water. The only light source in this void is the slight glow emanating from my body, or rather, my soul.

I just hope the kingdom will be ok

While these thought are going through my head I suddenly feel a soothing sense of warmth envelope around me and begin to seep into the core of my very being. I feel light, very light, too light, and I feel as though I’m being lifted from the ground, it’s not like there was any to begin with. A foreign force sucks me out of the darkness and all of a sudden the environment is switched from pitch black to pure white. I can still feel myself being pulled by this unseen force to an unknown direction and somehow the already bright white environment becomes even brighter. The environment becomes so bright that I had to shut my eyes tightly and expect anything, suddenly I feel myself flip mid-air and slam into something with my back.

I feel… alive

I groan a bit as I immediately feel the weight of my body and armour, I try opening my eyes and then I see a silhouette of a man leaning above me, staring at me intently with his gleaming ruby red eyes.

My saviour, the Hero of Prophecy