Chapter 21: Shield

Around 4 pm.

Ava and Evelyn were reading books.

Elias was looking at the Ava and Evelyn.

He felt great to enjoy this scene.

Pretty girl.

Nice.

Elias just finished his book.

He wanted to go home already.

Then, he packed his things.

Ava noticed that Elias was packing his thing.

Then, she saw that Elias got a book, that she was looking for.

"Elias, you still need that book?" Ava pointed at a book and asked.

"I looked for this book for a long time."

Elias looked at the book Ava pointed at.

It was a book named

It was a book written one century ago by a magician.

Elias bought it from an old bookstore.

"I read it a few times already. I can borrow you. " Elias said.

"Remember to return it ya."

"Yup" Ava said.

"Thank you."

Then, Elias left the library.

After Elias left the library, Evelyn looked at Ava with a playful look.

"Weihhhh, borrow books," Evelyn said.

"Today borrow books, tomorrow discuss the book, 1 week later get together."

"A beautiful love story."

"Ehhhh, you don't simply say."

"This book is really rare. It was a book about magic written 100 years ago." Ava said.

"Ya ya ya. You are here for knowledge, not for love." Evelyn said it sarcastically.

"You read too many love novels," Ava said.

Then. she started to read the book.

The book was full of Elias's notes.

Elias wrote a lot of his own thinking inside.

...

1 week later.

Elias and his family went on a family trip.

It was a place called 'Stone Cave'.

Looking from far, there was a long long staircase at the left side of the cave.

There were some monkeys on the tree nearby.

Many people were climbing up the staircase to visit the cave.

On the right side, there was a big gold color statue.

It was the statue of a great magician.

There was a myth that a long time ago there was a magician.

This magician lived in this cave and protected the villages nearby from beasts.

The villagers loved and respected the magician, so they made his statue here.

Elias and his family were climbing the long staircase. 

David and Sarah were walking in front.

Elias was holding Marcus's hand, following their parent.

"Elias, look after your little brother ya," Sarah said.

"Yeah, no worry," Elias said.

Elias planned to stay with Marcus every second.

To protect him from the monkey and prevent David from falling down.

After 15 minutes of walking, they reached the cave.

Inside the cave, there were some stalls selling food and drinks.

Deep inside, there were some posters introducing the cave.

They walked inside to look at the cave.

It was a nice cave.

Elias felt good to be in touch with nature.

This was his second time here.

The last time was in his previous life.

30 minutes later, they walked 1 round in the cave and returned to the entrance.

David was buying some drinks and ice cream for his family.

Elias, Marcus, and Sarah were waiting aside.

Soon, David passed the drinks and ice cream to them.

They were taking a break and enjoying their drinks at the staircase.

Marcus was having his ice cream.

Elias was glancing around.

He was looking around to find a monkey.

He wanted to prevent what happened in previous life.

Suddenly, a monkey jumped from the tree toward Marcus' direction.

The monkey opened his mouth big, aiming at Marcus's ice cream.

Marcus was focusing on his ice cream.

He didn't notice the monkey

David was chatting with Sarah.

No one noticed the monkey was coming, except Elias.

Elias mumbled.

"Shield"

Elias enveloped his fist with a translucent shield.

This was defense magic. 

It doesn't have any attack ability. 

But it could protect what is inside the shield.

Elias stepped in between the Marcus and the monkey.

He crouched slightly.

Then, he turned around and swung a heavy punch on the monkey.

He knocked the monkey back into the tree.

*bommmm

Marcus still eating his ice cream.

He didn't know what happened.

He was too young to know about what happened.

He only saw that Elias suddenly move to his left side.

David noticed what happened.

His eyes widened with shock.

Sarah heard the sound.

She turned around and asked.

"What happened?"

"A monkey tried to eat Marcus's ice cream." 

"I drove the monkey away"

Elias scratched his head and said.

"You got injured?" Sarah asked.

She was worrying about Elias and Marcus.

"Nope, I used the 'Shield'." Elias said.

David said with pride

"Good job Elias, you protected your little brother."

"Lucky that, I sent you a magic defense tuition class. Now, you can fight."

Starting from 7 years old, David sent Elias to a magic defense class for Elias to learn defend magic.

It was like a sports class that taught defend magic.

Sarah took a quick glance at David and slapped his shoulder.

She was afraid that Elias would fight around.

Elias agreed with David on this.

"As a man, there will be a fight that we must face. Just fight." Elias thought.

"No worry, just a monkey" Elias smiled and said.

Actually, anyone could drive the monkey away.

Just that with the magic shield, Elias won't get hurt by the monkey.

So, it was a small case.

1 hour later, they finished their trip and went back home.