Miracle

One year has passed since Jon was born as a baby named Merlin.

Now, Jon is able to walk and starting to understand his parents' words. He even can reply with some words, although not as fluent as his parents. His neighbors call him the miracle baby.

However, one year has passed and Jon still doesn't realize that the world he lives in is not the same as he knew before. Jon hasn't realized that in this world, there are various creatures and races living in it.

A world that is very different from Earth, a world that has never been imagined by anyone. A world that can be called a dream within a dream. And that is the world that Jon currently occupies.

One reason why Jon hasn't seen any other creatures for almost a year is because his current place of residence is mostly inhabited by humans. Jon lives in a small village called Railis, which is inhabited by farmers and humans.

It's not surprising that Jon doesn't know about the existence of other races in that world. Although there are other races passing through the village, Jon, who is still young, of course can't go anywhere, not even outside his house.

The most important thing that Jon doesn't know about this world is magic. Magic is the main source of power for the inhabitants of that world, but Jon hasn't realized its existence yet. Every day, Merlin's parents occasionally use magic, even the midwife who assisted in his birth used magic. However, Jon hasn't realized all of that, his brain can't hold so much information at once.

More precisely, Jon's focus is on his own development, making him unconsciously ignore those things. But one day, when Jon was over one year old, his parents took him to the capital to sell the harvest to a collector. They used a horse-drawn carriage to go to Merlin's kingdom capital. In the middle of the city, on the side of the road, Jon's mother woke him up.

"Honey, wake up."

"Hmm ... huaaah ..."

"Hey, wake up. We've arrived." "Uhh, I just want to sleep," he replied with his still unpolished speech.

"But-"

"It's okay, let him sleep. Besides, we won't leave him too far from the carriage, only three meters away."

"But we still have to go inside, right?"

"Would you like to wait with him? Let me take care of everything," Merlin father asked.

"No, I'll come with. He'll be okay," his mother replied.

The two of them got off the horse-drawn carriage and carried the vegetables they were ready to sell to the collector.

Their one-year-old child was left in the carriage, fast asleep.

"The Demon's win, the king's the winner, everyone wins, except the sinners. Before he dies, he met the Dream, the guard of night, to do the vengeance. But at what cost? But at what cost? He lost the most, he lost the most."

A voice singing could be heard from inside a bar, loud enough to reach the child's ear and wake them up.

"A song? I haven't heard one in a long time," the child whispered.

Slowly, he tried to stand up and quietly got off the horse-drawn carriage, searching for the source of the song. With his small body, he walked in the middle of the crowded city filled with people passing by.

Even though his only about one year old, he already walk smoothly and even speak. As he tried to find the source of the song, they were distracted by something else he just saw.

The air was cool, clean, peaceful, and a serene environment that they had never encountered before in his life.

"What is this? Where am I? This is all so hard to believe, I have never seen anything so beautiful, is all of this real?"

The buildings in the city had a European style from the old days, there were no vehicles like cars and motorcycles that caused pollution in the air. The only vehicles they used were horse-drawn carriages with various types of carriages, as well as the animals pulling them having different types.

"Wow!! What kind of animal is that!?"

Not long after, Jon saw one by one living creatures other than humans who were busy doing activities like humans in general, such as elves, dwarves, ogres, animal-human hybrids, humans, and so on.

"Huh?"

Jon rubbed his eyes with his hands, trying to convince himself of what he had just seen.

"Did I see it wrong? That dog is walking on two legs, and also... what creature is that? Why are the human's ears so long? Woah!! What bird is that? It's huge."

Suddenly cold sweat drenched his body, Jon felt really scared. This fear arose from his ignorance of this world. However, all those feelings only lasted momentarily. Jon quickly adapted to his fear.

"Where am I actually?!"

On the other hand, people were quite surprised to see Jon getting off the horse-drawn carriage and walking around. After all, people saw Jon as a small baby who had just learned to walk.

Jon, who was walking aimlessly, became the center of attention for many people. Some were worried about him, some smiled fondly at Jon, and some were indifferent and didn't care about him.

Not long after, while Jon was still carried away by the atmosphere, he did not realize that there was a tall, big adult carrying a lot of baggage in front of him. The person in front of him did not realize that there was a small baby walking towards him right underneath him.

Accidentally, his foot hit baby Merlin hard enough to make Jon thrown backwards.

"Arghhh!" The person who hit Jon also fell away.

Realizing that he had hit a small child, he quickly tried to avoid Jon's body lying under him for a moment before falling. He tried as much as possible to fall on the other side.

However, even though his body didn't hit Jon, it's undeniable that one of the belongings he carried before would hit Jon.

-Im fucked.

At the same time, someone quickly swooped in to lift Jon's body from the ground just before the objects hit him, while another person helped catch the almost falling items. The people around were suddenly shocked to see what happened.

Unexpectedly, two of the best kingdom's wizards came to help Jon. They were Pure and Astra, two young and talented wizards who were predicted to become a great wizard in the future. The people around suddenly turned their attention to the two who came to help Jon, gathering and cheering their arrival.

The same goes for Merlin's parents who came after realizing their child was missing and a commotion had occurred not far from their carriage. Pure, the male wizard, was slightly angry and warned Jon's careless parents about their child.

He also scolded the stranger who carried too many items that obstructed his view and posed a danger to other road users, including himself.

Astra, who was carrying Jon while casting a healing spell on him, seemed confused. Astra was amazed and fascinated to see that Jon appeared calmer than others, even though his nose was bleeding.

On the other hand, Jon seemed to be amazed and fascinated by Astra's beauty, he was really in love at first sight. And yes, Jon was still unaware of what he saw. Even right in front of him, Astra, who was performing a healing spell on him, seemed invisible to Jon. His eyes were completely focused on Astra's beauty.

The reaction of Jon is a natural reaction that anyone can experience when they see the figure of Astra directly. It can be said that Astra is a valuable asset to the kingdom and the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. Everyone who sees her seems to be frozen by Astra's beauty.

Shortly after the commotion, someone arrived who made everyone bow instantly upon his arrival. He is the Wise King, the Unifier of the Nation, the King of Peace, the King of Elves, the King of the Merlin kingdom, King Theoden.

Following the King, there is the Queen with their Princess who is pushing a baby carriage. They were followed by several royal guards who were guarding the King's entourage. The King asked what was happening, and Pure and Astra explained the situation. The King was quite surprised, especially when he saw the baby named Jon or Merlin who was still very calm, even after the previous incident.

When he learned that the baby's name was Merlin, the King smiled widely while lifting the baby and praying for him, because he felt that the name was very suitable for the baby. However, Jon, who was being lifted by the King, was very uncomfortable with the situation.

Although Jon was a baby, the soul inside him was actually a teenage boy named Jon. However, when lifted by a woman, Jon would not protest at all and accept it happily.

"Hey, put me down, you damn old man! Your mustache, you fucker! Keep that away from me, you bastard!" Jon felt very uncomfortable and just blurted out those words.

"Smart boy, he can speak a lot, even though I don't understand what he's saying," said the King.

"Who the hell are you, you dog! Pedophile old man, just disturbing people's happiness!"

Shortly thereafter, Jon looked at the twin babies in the baby carriage, and suddenly felt something strange in his body, but Jon didn't think too much about it.

A year later, Jon was already two years old.

And at that age, for the first time, Merlin cried. Even for Jon, it was one of the most embarrassing things he had ever done in his life. Seeing his son cry, both parents actually smiled with relief and didn't immediately calm him down.

They had finally dispelled the negative thoughts about their child, which previously made them think that he had lost the ability to feel emotions and would never be able to cry.

It was revealed that the reason Jon was crying was because his mother suddenly stopped giving him breast milk.

The novel continues a year later, where Jon is now three years old. At this very young age, Jon was already able to do many things like walking, running, and even realizing the existence of magic, which he had never thought of before.

Jon realized about magic after seeing both his parents and his neighbor do strange things that he didn't understand. Jon's interest in magic grew when he heard his neighbor talking about magic school.

However, Jon had to learn magic secretly because his parents forbade and kept him away from such things. There was a myth that children under the age of six should not use magic because it could be very dangerous and fatal.

The requirement for using magic is to have mana or magic energy. A newborn baby only has a small amount of magic energy in their body, and the magic energy in their body usually increases rapidly when they are six to eight years old.

However, the explosion of magic energy in their body can be very dangerous and fatal. This is a very rare and seldom occurrence, and no one has ever seen or heard of such an event for hundreds of years.

An explosion of magical energy within the body occurs when someone is unable to control the magical energy within them. This happens when someone utters a spell for the first time in their life, and after that, the magical energy within their body will always be active. However, if the magical energy is not controlled, it will overflow and explode like boiling water in a tightly closed small container.

In the end, the myth remained a myth, and the event never happened, so people had forgotten about it. Additionally, no foolish child would try to utter a spell before they are six to eight years old.

On the other hand, Merlin's parents knew that Merlin was not a normal baby like other babies, but they did not tell him anything about magic. However, Jon would not be Jon if he did not break all those rules. Jon secretly studied magic in the middle of his family's plantation by reading stolen magic books from his neighbor who studied in a magic school.

Without knowing what magic spell he was trying to utter, Jon tried and failed. Although he was sure he followed the instructions in the book, Jon continued to try every magic spell until he suddenly released a huge aura of magical energy around his body. The aura was pitch black with a little red color that was not so dominant.

Even though Jon thought he succeeded in using magic, the magical energy surrounding his body was very torturous. Shortly after that, Jon heard a very clear whisper in his ear, "Who are you?".

Jon or Merlin lost consciousness.