Ysmir mountain, one of the mountain that are located in the country of Loredon. It tallest peak could be compare to the Mt.Kinabalu from the south eastern region of Asia. Its higher region wasn’t fully explore by the adventure of Loredon, most of the stories gather by the adventurer who attempted the exploration came to be a failure that result in 98% death. Some of them who survive report about a large mysterious being reside on those stone cold mountain peak.

Returning to our hero, he strides along the ground to the path of the mountain that was in sight. His memories regarding mountain wasn’t really pleasant, most of them involved him being in a tattered state residing on a bed in a hospital. Fracture leg, fracture arm and you know name it, every history of fracture on his body was from the mountain trails. But that doesn’t stop him to come back to those mountain ridges. Behind Red were two siblings, a boy and a girl. Based on their appearance, they are at most 9 or 10 years old. After releasing them from their restraint, they were at first baffled by Red’s action but after seeing Red heading toward the mountain they silently follow him from the back. At first they were a bit skeptical about this weird stranger who without any reason came to help their master. But after a few friendly conversations with him, they were now more open to him or to be exact too open.

‘heyy Lizi, don’t eat that you never know if its poisonous or not’

‘but the nice mister gave it to me’

‘heh don’t trust him too much, what if—‘

A flick was given to that poor young boy’s forehead, a slight scream echoed on that lonely road.

‘yaa cant you guys keep it down, im trying to think here especially you Cole’

They both went silent after being scolded by Red, this remind of Red of how he always handle his younger siblings during his younger days. But still these two were a lot more problematic than his sibling. Lizi was a gentle girl, she always show consideration toward others even during the attack toward Red she was hesitating to attack a person. Different from her brother, Cole was a hot tempered lad, always resorting to rash decision making. They both complement each other like both side of a coin. Thou Cole shows the most earnest sibling love to his sister, they still bicker a lot.

After warming up to Red, Lizi start to open up to him and start talking about their master. Based on her story alone, this master of theirs has taken care of them since they were a baby. Red wonder if they were abandon by their parent but he thought it was not wise to ask those question to these bright and lively children. But one thing certainly piques an interest to his mind, how the hell do these kids learn to use a bow. Their skill with the bow was certainly can be compared with an intermediate level archer. Red wonders if this master of theirs was an expert marksman, but a few bandits wouldn’t be a match to an expert archer skill. Something odd is going here, that’s how Red deduced that the scenario doesn’t really fit in. saving that question for later, he first see the progression of his skills and status.

NameRedAge23GenderMaleLevel4ClassThe AssistStrength13Vitality13Resistance13Agility13Magic23Magic Resistance23Skills• Comprehension of Support Magic

• Munus Fabula

o Hawk Eye Lv8

o Shout of Couragelv5

o Extunsus velocitas Lv7

o Extensus potentia Lv7

o Extensus defensio Lv7

o Lesser Heal Lv9

o Detox Lv6

o Resistentia oriri magicae Lv6

o Shield of Maria Lv7

o Wise of the Predator Lv5

• Unable to learn Main(fire/water/earth/wind) elemental Magic

• Language Comprehension

This was the current status and skill of Red. Contrary to others, due to his skill Munus Fabula his skill description is different from others. The normal example would be how other adventurer skill name is as such; “Hawk Eye” while Red was “Hawk Eye Lv1”. The present of the level makes the difference between them, through this leveling status Red can closely monitor how efficient his skill was and through the availability of spamming his skill, it allows Red to level up the skill thus increasing it power and efficacy. While adventurers on the other hand and his fellow heroes, the lack of this leveling cause them to master their skills in the old fashion of hard work and training that encompass understanding the basic of it. But for the genius however, they can easily escalate their prowess in their respective element with little or no effort.

Looking at his status, Red was satisfied with his current progression but he still need to continually spam his skill for them to reach the level of the other heroes. He still has a long way to go. With the extra 10 points for status distribution that he obtain after killing the goblins, he evenly distributed it between magic and magic resistance. While deep in thought he wonders if he could learn a passive skill to add in to his repertoire. Pondering about the passive skill, the noise at the back keep becoming louder causing Red to become irritated. Turning around, again he scolded those two children.

After a while, the group then arrived at the foot of the mountain. The group was at awe seeing the magnificent mountain up close. But still their purpose was one and only to save a person life. With the inexperienced Red and two children they really do not know where to start for their search. It was like searching a needle in a haystack. Racking his brain on top of a boulder, he silently thinks while the other two kids with nothing to do start to wander around the area. Practicing their archery, they both show good skills in wielding the bow but then an arrow flew over the target. Lizi then run to pick up her miss shot arrow. Searching the arrow around the bushes, Lizi then spotted a few mens wearing ragged clothing, from their appearance alone it smell like bandit to Lizi. In a way it’s not really good to judge a book by its cover, but in this world the appearance really was everything excluding a few of them. A scar on their faces and accompany by a nasty smile, a weird stench loom on the trail that the bandit go through causing Lizi to instinctly pinch her nose to block the smell from entering while hiding under a bush beside the trail. Her instinct told her to follow them while crawling under the bushes. It’s not an everyday situation to see a lovely girl to be crawling on the ground but her circumstances make her to do so. Crawling on the ground with her cloth started to get dirtied by the soil she then saw it, the bandit’s stronghold.

Located at the other side of the mountain, the base involved the inner cavern of the mountain thus providing a natural barrier. While at the outer side a large row of wooden fences with a height of 4 meters served as the wall of the stronghold. Connecting those walls were a few watch tower that held a single man as a watchman. Based on Lizi observation, it was certainly an impenetrable fortress if the opponent was the three of them. After a few minutes she thought it would be wise to return back, Cole must be looking for her and if Cole found her here he would have rashly barged in alone.

Returning back to the location of Red, Lizi drag Cole along as he was annoyingly bombarding her with question that wasn’t relevant with the current situation. Staring at Red with earnest eyes, it makes Red wonder if something happen;

‘okay so whats wrong?’

‘i… found it…’

‘oh!’

She then told him about the stronghold that she discovered while searching for the arrows. Impressed by her action, Red nonchalantly patted her head gently. A blush could be seen reddening her whole face, Cole tried to retort but unfortunately for him, he met with demise as the one who flick him was now Lizi. Red displays a bewildered expression, these kids starting to get more unpredictable. Putting their erratic behavior aside, he then proceed on making the plan for the stronghold infiltration. Red wanting not to involve both of these kids in the infiltration came with a fault. Based on the description of Lizi, the defense was quite loose with only 3 watch tower that surround the stronghold. Lizi also spotted one of the watchmen to always casually fall into a sleep. Before beginning the plan making he asks them for both of their status description. They were blank at first at Red’s question but after Red shows his Silver Shield, they got the idea of what he was talking about. Taking it out from their pocket was small size bronze like mirror that was in the shape of a circle. With a confused face, Red wonders if there was many type of status shield. Focusing on the task on hand, he saw the status of both of them;

NameLizi LazardoAge10GenderFemaleLevel16ClassArcherStrength15Vitality10Resistance10Agility65Magic25Magic Resistance10Skills• Basic Archery

• Song of the Huntress

• Focus shot

Wait?! What? Red’s mind clearly depicts those two words. Her overall status clearly overpowered Red by a large margin, now he was even more confused being that how the hell did he defeat both of them while he was only at level 4. Red then shifts his sight to Cole’s shield.

NameCole LazardoAge11GenderMaleLevel12ClassArcherStrength20Vitality20Resistance15Agility40Magic8Magic Resistance8Skills• Basic Archery

• Focus shot

• Bow’s Strike

Seeing his brother status, it wasn’t really on par with her little sister. It clearly show his laziness in training or perhaps. But still does it really hurt being flicked by a man who possess 10 STR. Red now was starting to get suspicious, was Cole acting when being flicked or was Red forehead flick was really that awesome to begin with. Ignoring that part he begins to plan the ideal way to infiltrate and rescue their master. Questioning on more of their skills description, Red then figure out the extends of their skill to add on to their plan.

The plan was as follow, using Lizi’s skill Song of the Huntress it will increase the maximum distanced for them to aim their target while also increasing their percentage of hitting a critical hit. The next step was for them to properly position themselves in each and every front of the watch tower. Every individual is needed to kill the watch man that they are assigned to. After that Red will then run along the wall of the stronghold and infiltrate it. The other two will stay outside without involving themselves in the enemies manifested stronghold.

At first they object to the plan because of the leaving behind scene but after multiple forehead flicks and persuasion Red managed to let them agree with the plan. Red doesn’t want to feel guilty as it is because asking them to kill a person at a young age doesn’t seem right to him. He asks of them about their task on hand, they happily agreed with it. Red question whether the felt any burden of hurting someone. They casually said;

‘Master said if someone hurt you or bothers you, it’s okay to retaliate and disposed of them’

Shocked by the words that came out of a young little girl, Red was perplexed being not able to understand the norms of this world. His morale in the original world plus the study of helping those in need, build his character unconsciously to be a good will and non-violent person. He needs to adjust fast to this new found world if he wants to survive long enough to return back to his love one.

Before the sun sets, Red went to observe the surroundings of the stronghold. Leaving behind those two kids with their task of training their aim, he wanders around the forest surrounding the bandit’s stronghold. Crouching behind the bushes, his eye was eyeing the wall in front of him. Thinking about it he never tried to run any wall even a 2 meter one. But the wall in front of him was intimidating, running above the 4 meter prove to be the next obstacle that he need to overcome. He was now not very confident to run above it, he now wonder why his plan was so crude to begin with he could have lure one of the bandit to open the gate but seemingly is killing the easier path? He certainly has confused his own mind. But nevertheless he needs to increase his extensus velocitas to a higher level if he wants to go above those walls. Walking back to his base camp, he continuously cast the spell until his mana run dry. His mana regeneration was posing as a problem to him, if he has higher regeneration rate it would solve the problem of wasting time to wait his mana turn full again. Returning back from his dazed, he look around to see his surroundings and one word came out of his mouth;

‘Shit!’

Red was lost, since he was too occupied thinking about his problems, he now wanders around the unseemly forest who looks all the same. Sighing to his own misfortune, he need to find his own back fast as the clock was ticking. If he was late the plan wouldn’t be able to proceed. With a slow pace he try to find his way back, the unfamiliar greens surrounding him made him unable to discern the way to return. Trying not to care about it he walks around while enjoying the scenery with his mouth mumbling the incantation of his spells. His eye then caught something glimmer in the dense forest. Intrigue by the shimmering light, he went toward it with a cautious mind. Seeing the light up close, it was a gem like a diamond embedded in the bark of an old tree. The tree was the most aged tree compare to its brethren surrounding it. He was no arborist to begin with but the sheer magnificent of the aura this tree exude overwhelm him in such a way that it cannot be compared to the other trees.

Reaching slowly to the gem, his gentle touch makes the gem to release a bright glow. Engulf by the light he was then vanish into thin air leaving only the glow of the gem to fade into darkness.

Opening his eyes to the surrounding, it was pure white light. As the light fades into the background, in front of him was a statue erected that seems ancient in appearance. It stands above him with a height of 2.5 meter. The ancient statue was modeled based on a beautiful woman, the statue was carved with exact precision that it seems to be alive. The curves of the statue were covered by another layer of material that resembles a flowing cloth depicting a women embrace by the cloths protecting them from embarrassment. On the pedestal where it resides, a description was written on it, as Red swipe off the dust around it, he read it out loud;

‘Beauty only exist for a fraction of the moment, people grows old and disappear through time but love itself was timeless preserved by the memories that was created and cherished together, Love is eternal’

Without knowing it tears run down Red’s cheek, his bottle up longing for his beloved from the original world start to pour out in the form of tears of yearning. Red drop down to his knees, with tears raining down on his face. Memories of their moment flashing in his mind, the stress accumulated from this world hinder him from remembering all those time he has with his cherish one. Then a voice was heard echoing in the enclose space.

‘ooo young one please held up your head high for this moment is for you and you only’

Looking upward, the statue was now alive and real. Its beauty transcends the word beautiful itself. Red not given care about it because of the feeling he was experiencing face the statue. She then spoke;

‘for you the one who has the heart of love, the immeasurable love that transcend time and world. I allow you to see your beloved one’

With a whisk of her hand, a circle emerged in the air. The image projected in front of him was his beloved. Unconsciously he reached for the image in the sky but to dismay he could not touch it or felt it. The image was her in pajamas lying on a bed preparing to sleep, with the sound of rain falling down in the background. The woman was staring at her smartphone, looking at the picture of a man eating a burger. It was none other than Red, it was a picture he sent a week before he was teleported here. The woman caress the picture with her gentle hand, tears was forming on her eye. Closing her eyes, she then slept while tears run down her face. The projection then disappears, burst itself into thin air.

The statue could only apologize to him;

‘im sorry my young one, my power could only show you that brief moment only, I only desired for you relieved your longing.’

‘no it was enough, I now remember. I know now what I need to do. I need to go back and find a way back to her’

An eye of determination can be seen deep in his eyes.

‘I thank you statue? May I know the name who have help mending my broken heart ’

‘im the goddess Daenale, that governs love. Due to your sincere love I have manifest into this form’

‘I see, can you return me back goddess, I need to help a few people before embarking the goal of returning’

‘that I can’t help you young one, this space itself was not to my bidding. It seems you are entrapped in this space closure’

‘Wait what?? Then how I can return back’

‘all my power have been used to project the image that cut through dimension but do not worry my young one, this space closure was made by the high density of mana that was accumulated through the years that reside in this closure by the age oak tree’

‘so it was because of that tree, do you know any way for me to escape from this place?’

‘I could only advise you my young one, utilize the mana itself and absorb it into yourself, may luck be at your side.’

With the end of her speech, she then returns back to its original statue appearance. As hard as stone, it was now unmovable. Eyeing around his surrounding, he sees the walls was pitch black with a green hue that glow every now and then. The floor of the space was presumed to be made out of collection of vines swerve together. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, he closes his eyes and starts to cast his spells continuously. Noticing something estranged, he could cast the spells without stopping. Opening up his parameter window he saw that his mana bar wasn’t decreasing after casting a few spells. Not wanting to miss this opportunity, he then continues to cast his spell in the position of mediation.

Times flew by, without the aid of a watch he could not tell how much time has passed. Hunger was not a problem as the time he spent here he has not felt hungry at all. Remembering the words of Daenale, he continues to cast his spells and try to felt the mana around him.

As time pass by, the air around him thin down. Then a rumble can be heard, opening his eyes the sight was pitch black but then a white glows envelop him and again the feeling that he felt so familiar with transported him. The white surroundings fade and there he was right back at the same spot where he vanishes. Turning around he saw the old oak tree whither dropping its leave into the ground. The gem embedded in it lost its shine and crumble into dust. Then a pop up open in front of him;

Due to long exposure within a high density mana space, you have absorbed most of it and retain within your body

Mana 50000+

Over exposure within the high density of mana and continuous filling of the mana container within yourselves, you have learn Aid of the Old Oaken Tree(passive) Lv1

At last he has earned a passive skill; a solemn smile was expressed on his face. You can’t even decide whether it was joy or sadness. Only one thing was on his mind, to return home!