Sumdud

Hey, have you heard of a rumour floating around recently?

I heard that there’s this girl walking around, weird, right? She walks and just goes around the place, no one knows who she is, no one knows where she came from. Hell, I don’t think even she knows the answers.

But oddly enough, she never seems to age, does she? Of all the dragons, dwarves, elves everywhere, there’s a simple tale passed down from generation to generation.

Of a girl that does not age.

But...

How did it all start? In this fantasy world, how did this person come to be?

A world where humans isolate themselves within their walls, wary of the monsters that lie outside. A world of magic, a world of fantasy, but nothing seems carefree nor fun.

Dating back to one of the greatest disasters known to humanity, the disaster where many deaths were witnessed, life was made.

Living eternally, forever wandering about the world. Monsters do not attack her, no sickness plagues her, and time becomes irrelevant. Wandering from village to village, eventually, she comes across a group of excited people.

'Hey, take us out to the unknown, we want to see the world!'

This is a tale of finding the meaning of life in a world where nothing seems to go anyone's way.

*(Notice: The first part of the story is a backstory. If you don't really like the theme of the backstory, I understand if you just don't read it.)

Immortal Wanderer

Lily tried doing what Kakry was teaching her. She had been attempting to feel the warmth in her chest, so it was not too difficult to try and feel the earth in her arm. She noticed that the warmth she felt from parts other than her chest was not as warm. She felt the mana stored in her arm and attempted to move it up her arm. She then moved it down to her palm.

It felt as if there was something overflowing from her palm. She visualised a ball of water. Her arm shook as it felt like a torrent was flowing out of her arm. She tried to keep it in shape, but it began to go berserk. Water began to spray in all directions. The more Lily panicked, the more violent and uncontrollable it got.

"Calm down and imagine a ball," Kakry suggested.

S2-20: Fundamentals of Magic (b)