A Trip to another world

Chapter 18

It was finally the next day, and it was an emotional day as Grey's mother was leaving on the trip. They both hugged and cried a few times before Clara finally left.

When Clara left, Grey went back into the small house and lay on his bed thinking about what to do as he was suddenly missing his mum.

"Grow up Grey, she will be back soon. For now, I have to focus on the task at hand." He said as he stood up from the bed.

"I can't believe that lady luck decided to bless me with this opportunity. I didn't have to worry about the excuse I will give mum as an opportunity presented itself." He smiled.

Quickly, Grey packed some clothes into his small back then he left the house while locking it up. He rumnaged his pocket as the five silver coins jiggled in it.

"Alright, I got everything I might need. Clothes, check. Money, check. Spell books, check. Earth dagger, check." Grey said as he checked his bag again seeing if he forgot anything.

"Alright, seems everything is here and I'm not forgetting anything. I wi just have to head off to the forest to start my travels." He said as he steadily jogged towards the forest where his hideout was kept.

He occasionally propelled himself using wind magic to make his journey faster.

"It would have been much faster if I had clown using wind magic but it will seem suspicious to the people." He said as he kept running at full speed.

After ten minutes, Grey was now in the forest and he didn't waste anytime in casting a wind spell that allowed him to float above the ground and he was propelled like a rocket towards where his hideout was located.

'This ability is really handy.' He thought as he was now in front of the cave.

Looking around for anything suspicious and seeing none, Grey headed into the cave, went into a spot, inputted his mana and the wall moved.

Entering in, it snapped shut and he was met with the view of his hideout. Happily, Grey took three pieces of white chalk and tossed it into his bag. Then he went towards the runes drawn on the floor.

"Getting back won't be a problem as I have studied the runes to draw in order to get back. And it is much easier to do than the one to head into a planet." Grey mumbled as he sat in front of the runes drawn on the floor and with a sigh, he poured his mana into the magic circle and it lit up.

"Here we go then, a trip to another world." He took a breath, grabbed his bag and then leapt into the lit up circle.

Immediately the circle registered that someone had gone through it, it closed the portal up and then the lit up white light faded and the circle dimmed down.

Meanwhile, after going through the portal, Grey experienced a euphoric sensation as the feeling of going through the portal was somewhat blissful as his senses were heightened and he only saw white for a few seconds then he was suddenly thrust out.

Before he hit the ground, Grey quickly regained his footing and looked around trying to see if there was anything different and there was as when he looked up at sky, rather than seeing the normal blue sky he was used to, Grey could see that sky was orange.

And the air smelled heavy but the good thing was that Grey was able to see mana around the world as he had activated his appraisal eye to see it.

Then looking around, Grey could see that he was in a cave of some sorts but the cave had an open ceiling as there was nothing covering the top of it.

Quickly, he got to work as Grey started drawing magic circles around where he stood on and when he was done, he started drawing illusional runes to hide the magic circle.

"If I hadn't drawn those magic circles on where I stood earlier, and I drew it on another place, I would have been teleported to another place different from my hideout." Grey said as took his bag and left the cave.

But before going far, Grey marked the place by inputting a high concentrated amount of mana on the cave entrance.

"This will let me know where the cave is as I will be attracted to my mana when I need to head here." He said as he totally left the cave entrance and was about to take a step forward when he suddenly stopped.

Looking below his feet, Grey could see that there was a deep hole in the ground underneath the cave. Looking closely, Grey noticed that it looked like the cave was placed on a high place.

"Phew! If I hadn't been careful, I would have fallen to my death." He said as he looked outwardly and he was now confused.

"Huh? What's going on? Why are there mountains and caves all around this place with a little bit of forest area?" He asked as it was only mountains Grey could see along with some caves.

The good thing was that the caves were farther from his own cave so he didn't have to worry about someone mistaking his cave for theirs.

"Alright, time for some exploration." Grey said as he activated his wind magic and cast a spell that allowed him to float a few metres off the ground.

And like a bird, Grey flew off from his cave and was heading for the small forest he could see off in the distance. Without slowing down, he had crossed the so many mountains and caves.

And finally, he stood in the midst of tall trees.

"When I'm done hunting, I would love to explore those caves some more." He said as he removed his small Earth dagger and shaped it into a small sword.

"Alright beasts, where are you all hiding?" Grey asked and he was soon met with a response as a loud growl was heard coming from his left.

"Hunting time!" He smiled.