Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting



It had been two days since I woke up. Right now I was standing outside the cave-like structure Req had brought me to. 

It had been well over a month since then so the demon beasts had already died. The proof of that was that I could see their corpses lying everywhere on the ground, as far as the eye could see. 

My wounds hadn't healed but they were at least in a better condition now. In this world, due to mana circulating inside your body, wounds heal themselves a little faster compared to how it was in my previous world.

Basically, the pain was still the same but the bleeding had stopped. I had gotten used to the pain as well thus I was able to walk around. 

Although I still had to get this treated as soon as possible or it'd prove to be a problem later on. 

Though it didn't seem like I had to wait much since during these days I had completely recovered my mana and was ready to cast the teleportation spell.

And I was just about to do that. After all, I was a month late. I couldn't imagine how worried Anya and my parents would be. 

"Are you ready?" I asked Req when I saw her coming out of the cave. 

"Yes," she replied while she handed me a book. Her usual childish smile had returned. 

I took the book from her and flipped through the pages. It was the book I'd stolen from Ryfin and fortunately, Req had kept it safe while I was unconscious. 

"Let's get this done with," I mumbled as I looked at the magic circle drawn on the center two pages of the book.

Afterward, I went and placed the book on the ground with those pages facing toward the sky. I raised my hand in Req's direction, she held it and then transformed into the Requiem sword. 

I put the sword in its sheath as I prepared myself to cast the spell. The only reason I had told her to change into a sword was that I thought then it might only count as teleporting one person and reduce the load on me. 

Bending my right knee I sat on the ground and put my palm on the pages of the book. I closed my eyes and visualized all the mana stored up in my body and then directed it all into the magic circle on the book.

The runes on the magic circle slowly lit up and then with a strange sound it expanded outside the book with me at its center. 

When the circle shone in a brilliant blue I stood up and began to read the incantations that were written in the book. The runes started moving and the circle expanded even more, creating three outward borders. Two of them moved anti-clockwise while one in the clockwise direction. 

I soon felt that my mana was being sucked at an alarming rate and then a few seconds later a blinding, bright light spilled out of the magic circle.

All of my vision turned white and for a split second I felt like I was floating in space, and then something unexpected happened.

According to loli_pop's novel, the receiving magic circles should be built on the ground inside a big hall. 

However, when I finally regained my vision I didn't see any walls, nor did I feel any ground beneath my feet. 

Instead, what I saw was the sky, and rather than standing on the ground I started falling down at an insane speed. 

"What the hell?!" those words came out of my mouth on their own. 

This was not at all what should have happened. I mean, this could kill me. I was falling down straight to the ground from a very high point. 

I would have liked to use my elemental magic and save myself just like I did before but after the teleportation spell, I didn't have enough mana left to do that. Apparently, this time the teleportation took even more mana than last time. 

I faced the ground as I continued to fall down, and that's when I saw it. I could see the safe zone, the city named Havenreach right below me. 

'Why the fuck am I here?!' 

There was no magic circle in the sky. In fact, it would be ridiculous if there was one. I had no explanation for why I had been dropped right in the middle of the sky. 

I tried using elemental magic but couldn't create enough water, it was a lost cause. 

I would have made a gamble and tried to land directly on the ground hoping that I would get away only with broken bones but my body was already wrecked. 

[Don't worry.] Req's voice resounded in my head. [I promised that I wouldn't let you get hurt again, didn't I?]

'But what will you do?'

[I'll use Requiem's full power again.]

'But didn't you say that it will probably take half a year before you can use it again?'

[That's right, but I still have some mana left. It will be enough to protect you from this fall. Although…]

'Although?'

[No, it's nothing. Get ready, I'm going to start.]

Right after she materialized herself, holding my hand. I released the seal on the Requiem sword and once again I felt an enormous amount of pressure coming out of her body, but this time it was less than before. 

The pitch black outfit started forming on our bodies, but that too was not like before. Only my hands, legs, and chest were covered. Everything else was left in the open. 

[Worry not, even this much is enough to absorb all the damage from the fall.]

As we got closer to the ground, Req used the flying ability of the outfit and brought us outside the city, near its border. 

I was thinking of doing that too. After all, it would have been troublesome if we crash-landed right in the middle of the city.

The ground got even closer and was only a few hundred meters away. Right at that time Req used the flying ability again, decreasing our speed before impact. 

But all it did was slow the speed, in the end, we still ended up crashing right on the ground. A loud explosive sound was released in the surroundings and a dust cloud surrounded us, but somehow I was alive.