Who would have thought that going to sea would be so good choice. Why haven't I done this before this quest? There is such a calm and soothing solid atmosphere here, where no one can disturb me.
I also got some kind of sideline quest, which was called
[Survive at the Sea]
Will the sea try to kill me?
I was thinking about, what if I hadn't become a wizard and emergence a pirate and wandering the seas and oceans would be my goal after today. It was so good to just adrift, look at the moon and not rush anywhere.
I would buy a huge ship and recruit a small fellows team whom I could entrust my life.
Adjusting my single sail and moving ship rudder to the left side and looked at the sky and clouds that were sailing at their own pace and stream.
Going to take a sleep, I lay down, I suddenly started from the fact that my boat spun sharply and I almost fell out of it into the water.
This action completely destroyed my desire to sleep and made me alert.
What could it be? Big fish? An usual big fish or something even worse?
After I concentrated my glance on finding object, who disturbed my dream, my boat began to sway from side to side even more, further and further diverting me from right path, which I just couldn't allow, because I don't know how to navigate the sea.
With one eye I had to observe the barely noticeable star that accompanied me, and with the other eye to watch for a new coming wave, which came from a big whirlpool that was slowly but surely pulling me towards it, gonna to engulf my boat.
'No, no, no due, not on my time, I won't get wet and lose my boat here' - I said, quickly sitting down at the oars, trying to quickly swim away from this all-consuming whirlpool, which is about to swallow me because my actions at the oars due to my inexperience in this matter only pushed process of my approach to this funnel.
Uh, that's not why I obtain the system quest, right?
Trying to save my life, I cursed this system, which in my vision began to swindle.
'Well shit, now I'm really going to get completely wet. But I'm not going to die here, there someone worse than Gildarts that I'll have to deal with.' - I said to myself again when this big whirlpool finally defeated me in our battle and swallowed me and my boat.
Sinking to the sea bottom I had to come up with something or this thing will kill me to and no one will ever know about what happened to me, or I will beat nature force, so in order not to die, I looked around and began to look for a way that would allow me to leave this whirlpool.
My gaze stopped on the whirlpool walls, which will be my way out of here.
Concentrating my remaining strength from struggle with the water, I went to the nearest wall with sharp rowing movements and breaking as through a cardboard wall, I swam out of the whirlpool with one push, going up of the water surface
Turning my head, I tried to find the right star that was supposed to be the thing that saves me from this difficult situation.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I found it and slowly swam in this direction, trying not to think about, that this journey will take me a very long time because my swimming skills are not very good.
To my surprise, I really to do it on the first attempt and I aim hand forward releasing a lot of ice magic, creating a slippery path that froze the water and led me along the path of that right star.
'So, and now I have to move my legs slowly because this is a stupid ICE' - I started to move my legs slowly, but so that it seemed like the movements of a snail
A wide smile split my face because I won't get wet anymore and I can move like this on this ice.
While I walked, I began thinking about use copied magic and techniques which I got from the system.
Simultaneously
Could it have worked? After all, these are 2 different skills, magic and reward from system, which means that clash their magic circles shouldn't stop me
[Particle Style. Open]
A strange energy started flowing through me and I forming a cube in my hand, inside of cube was a sphere which should a explode.
It works. IT WORKS
Heh-heh-heh
I held this cube with one hand and tried to form other figure, while I continued to hold the other in an elongated state, freezing my way forward.
I opened my eyes and looked at the sun, which lit up the island and adorned it with new colors. Judging by sun position, it is now about 4 o'clock.
[Sideline quest completed
Survive in the sea 1/1]
[You have got the mastery of blue fire like Toya Todoroki]
Toya Todoroki? Who is it?
'System I hate you so much right now. Someday "thing" who gave me you, will regret it. WHO IS THIS TOYA TODOROKI? STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH ME. MY HEAD IS SPINNING FROM ALL THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE THINGS'
Well, it doesn't matter, I've already spent a lot of time sleeping after a long journey and must finally find a village, who submitted an application to the magic council. Therefore, after stretching my body and muscles, I went deep into the forest in search their village
As moving forward, I continued to enjoy the flora and fauna of this place. It was the most beautiful place with wildlife that I have ever seen.
Going further and further out of the angle of my eye I saw a large temple that reminded of ancient civilizations buildings.
Yes I was right, definitely the most beautiful island I've ever seen.
A big wooden gate with an observation deck appeared in my vision field, along with observers who focused their eyes on me.
"Who are you and why are you here?"
'I'm here on a mission that you sent to Era asking magic council to help you with your problem. I'm Luca Skliff. Here is my form and the seal of approval on it' - I waved form in these people direction and they opened a big gate giving me an overview of their village.
Passing inside, I noticed a lot of people with deformed body parts that look like demonic appendages.
At that moment, a little old man with stick and a strong man with a mustache and a hat on his head came up to me.
"Hello, traveler , I'm Moka. This is my son Bobo. I am the head of this village, and I hope that you can help us with our problem" - said old man, showing me his purple hand.
If I hadn't seen other this village people, I would have thought that this hand was an ordinary moulage or masquerade.
'I'm Luka, I hope I can help you with your problem. At least I'll try to do that.' - I said, bowing to him as of respect sign, and then pointing to his cursed hand, thrusting the other into my pocket and taking a relaxed pose with an interesting expression on my face.
"Which guild are you from? Show me your guild mark"
'Oh, I'm an independent wizard. Actually, this order has not yet been admitted to legal guilds because it was very little time after you applied on it. Could you describe to me the moment when this started happening to you'
"My memory may fail me, but it started a few months ago when the moon started to glow a different color than usual. After that, everything began to change, slowly, but all the villagers began to form horns, wings or additional pairs of hands." - sadly replied old man sniffing like a little child being scolded by his parent for a misdemeanor.
I just raised an eyebrow at that. Is the moon a different color? What kind of crap is this old man talking? I remember exactly how I looked at the moon last night while I was sailing here and it was a normal color. Their problem is definitely not in this moon.
'Are there any other prerequisites for this? Have you tried to solve this problem yourself? Anything at all? You shouldn't have sent this request without trying to find out the reason for such changes. Did you try to infiltrate into that temple on the island which located in the other side? Maybe the whole problem lies in it?' - I nodded at his answer and added another question, shifting my gaze from each victim of this curse.
"The temple? What temple are you talking about? Father Is there some kind of temple on our island?" - Bobo asked his parent with a puzzled expression on his face.
I just facepalmed in this moment
Eh? What a wierd place.
My eyebrow started twitching from their behavior.
Is the moon a different color? They don't even know about ancient temple on their island? What else don't they know about this island? Do they generally try to go beyond village? Ohhhh. It's going to be hard work.
Will they even be able to pay for its?
'Nevermind, just show me golden key so I can be sure that you will be able to pay for this mission' - I shrugged and demanded proof that they had this key. What if they just went crazy and don't understand what they're doing
Either they are showing me golden key now, or I will have to complete this mission just for money without desire and enthusiasm.
"BOBO, immediately show him the golden key" - this little old man shouted in his son ear, who simply flew away on his wings towards his tent.
My jaw dropped. Why is he controlled by these wings as if he had done it before and why I began to meet more and more dwarfs.
Makarov, Yajima, Moka
Thinking about this, and I didn't notice how Bobo came back waving a golden key to me. This was a Sagittarius key.
'Great, I'll leave now in reason of research of more information, but I can come back at any time, you just have to wait me. If any other metamorphisms happen to you, try to document them' - I put my other hand in my pocket and nodded to the guards who open the gate for me.
So, its him? I just had to go into it and look for something that could be connected with the transformation of these people into demons with wings and horns.
Ascending stairs, I went to the entrance and looked down at the green island.
From this height, almost the entire village and the beach where I spent the night were visible.
It's strange that Moka doesn't know about this island
Going inside the temple, I began to inspect the walls in search of writings that could indicate a specific problem
Going deeper into this temple, I saw many corridors in different directions, but I was attracted by the hole at the top of this temple, which was supposed to allow the lunar sky to see something that was under this building.
However, I will check it later, I now have to check this room where there is a pile of books on the table, a recently burned candle is near to them, and some kind of leaky sock is lying on the sofa.
All this indicates that in addition to villagers of this small town, there is someone else on this island who wanted to leave their presence anonymously from everyone.
Apparently he or they didn't do it very well.
What if he's responsible for turning these people into monsters.
Oh, there are also 2 wine bottles, great, just perfect.
Alcohol and books, what else could be better?
I am sure that I will find the answer to all my questions here.
After almost 7 hours, I studied almost all the books lying on the table with the help of quick-reading glasses and did not find anything similar to turning people into demons. This person or group is not responsible at all for what happened to the customers.
In these books there is only information about learning the moon drop ritual, a ritual that collects tof moonlight magic and turns it into magical power.
And it was a forbidden ritual, what are these people planning?
Why does someone want to amass this power? Since I'm here, I just have to find out by going down into that hole in the center of the temple.
Therefore, when I approached there, I chose the fastest way down and jumped into this hole in the floor, alternately pushing off the walls to slow down my fall.
Maybe I'm hallucinating, the system doesn't exist in my head and I'm dead at all, but how should I explain to myself the situation I find myself in now
'Hey system, if I'm dead, give me some kind sign, I'm ready to accept any quest. Even if you even give me a quest to find and kill Acnologia for the next year, I will accept it. Just prove to me that I'm not dead'
Silence? I hate you stupid creature from an incomprehensible world
If I didn't love my hair so much, I'd probably start pulling it out of my head because of the situation I found myself in.
'SYSTEM I DAMN YOU. WHAT THE HELL IS THE DEMON OF DESTRUCTION, DELIORA, DOING HERE? IF YOU WERE A LIVING HUMAN, THEN YOU WOULD DEFINITELY BE A WOMAN WHO CONSTANTLY ANNOYED ME.'
'[Archive magic]. Quickly find me all information about where this demon was last seen trapped in ice'
Well, I was right, place where it should be located should be Iswan. There it was defeated.
Deliora, I shuddered at the realization of this.
Never in my life would I want to meet it face to face. Right now, I'm not sure I have strength to stand up to him.
How did the magic council even allow this?
It's not just that it can't be true. No, no, and no again. If Deliora been here recently, and villagers have started turning into monsters at the same time, then it my target. Apparently demon aura even through this ice affects on people.
I have to make sure and find out if it's just a pathetic fake and not real Deliora
I walked up to this ice floe and touched it with my palm, after which I felt the heartbeat of this ice.
'Hmm. How is this possible' - I raised an eyebrow at my find.
This ice literally lived with this heartbeat.
Heh.
Ahahaha
Time to be bad
What if I use [Transfiguration Magic] which I received for a quest that took 2 years to complete and bring back the quasi-saint wizard?
She was strong, wasn't she?
Although if I do this, Deliora will be free and no one will be able to stop it until demon gets to the capital where the saints wizards will sit.
As a matter of fact, those who use Moon Drop ritual are still going to melt this ice, right? So they have a group that has a power to kill this demon. I'll just speed up this process and help them in this proble, but first I have to find out from them about this magic which could have affected on people who live in the village.
"Reitei-sama, how much more time do you think we'll need to complete this plan?" - I was still standing knee-deep in the water when I heard voices coming in my direction.
Reitei-sama? What is stupid name. But if he's strong enough, then his names don't matter.
I looked to the side and saw a wizard group led by a man in a cloak and helmet with horns and a purple tail.
So he is clown. I really doubt he's strong
"It will take a few more years Toby..." - oh, Reitei-sama saw me
"Reitei-sama whats happened?" - girl with pink hair asked him.
"Who are you?" - he asked me in a high voice three octaves higher, trying to seem more majestic.
'God, there are more and more dwarfs in my life, they really are chasing me' - I muttered in the range so that whole Reitei-sama team could hear it, at the same moment getting out of the water and putting my hands in my pockets
"I asked who you!" - masked guy shouted again
'Isn't it obvious? I am Zeref, I came here to bring back my demon' - I pointed my finger at the ice barely holding back my laughter