ISEKAI JOURNEY OF THE MAGIC ARCHER

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“Tell me about the forest, big brother.” An innocent request of the innocent little one. There’s no way the doting big brother could ever say no to that request now, can he?

“Sure thing, little love.” He smiled at her warmly and caressed her little head as he looked at the window on the other side of the room.

-Swiiiiiiiish…

Calm winds were blowing outside as serene moonlight illuminated the room they decorated just for their little angel.

She had worked hard today as well, learning from her elders and siblings the things that she had always wanted to learn… today was also the first time she manifested her Arcanum into a spell-like structure, so she was happy tonight.

She had worked hard and she deserved a reward. Eon could not say no to a request that had come after she had achieved something, so he nodded as he looked at her with another warm smile.

“The forest… the great forest of Kamut is… well, how do I say it?” Eon thought about it as he looked around the small room of his little sister.

There wasn’t much space in this room even though most of the rooms in this tower were spacious and well-arranged.

This particular place resembled the room Anna had back in the capital of Roxanna. A small room, a small table in the center.

Walls covered in shelves filled with books and stuffed creatures, most of which weren’t simple creatures but artificial creations used for various things.

The color theme of the room was also on the lighter side. The minimal things and the small bed were much more comfortable to her than most other places in this tower.

“The great forest is like a ferocious representation of natural law, the survival of the fittest.”

Instead of the big rooms filled with all kinds of different things, Anna liked this small place. She had everything she needed here, and if she needed anything else, the entire tower was open to her.

For food, there were different floors. For music, for books, for reading, for spending time, and for doing many more things, the tower was big so she could just go to those places if she wanted anything else.

Still, this small room was one of the best places she liked for sleeping.

Listening to stories from her big brothers and sisters was also one thing that she loved, and today she had her big brother for the storytelling.

She was always happy to have him since she rarely got him at these hours, but today she was happy. Today, she was going to listen to the stories of the forest that they were soon going to enter.

“When I was younger, when I first fell into this forest, I was at the lower ends of the food chain.” Eon always hesitated to tell her about his experiences in the forest, but he knew she was going to see these things when they took her to the forest.

It was better to tell her and prepare her for things that she would witness soon, things she had not been exposed to.

She was understanding and would learn quickly thanks to her skills, but she still needed to know the truth, the raw truth of the kind of forest the Great Forest of Kamut was.

Her curious question simply gave him the opportunity he needed.

“In the first few hours, I was attacked by a wild boar,” Eon remembered his first days in the forest, the dreadful days when he did not have anything but a few powers and a storage device that couldn’t store much.

“I was almost killed… It was perhaps pure luck that I was able to survive my first night in that forest, in a hole of a tree that the creature had almost trashed.”

Eon did not hesitate this time and told her how dangerous the forest was, how there were things that would kill someone as weak as her in the blink of an eye, and how one must not spend nights in that forest by themselves, especially if they are as weak as she is.

“The time I spent in the forest was never easy. There were many times I died, many times to things that might seem just too simple.

To make things worse, there was almost never any food or water to drink. For a good amount of time I lived there, I had to live without proper water.

I still remember drinking from the small springs in little caves, storing as much water as I could, or doing anything just to secure some drinking water.

There have been times when I didn’t get food either. I had to carry days worth of food with constant fear of the predators. There have been times when I had to fight ants and Ents. There have been times when spiders of different sizes, shapes, and strengths came after me.

I don’t even know how many times I stole the houses of the spiders that usually came to kill me, oh, there’s also the time when I made a hot-air balloon just to get to the top of a great tree to get the sap of the tree… let me tell about that as well.”

In the few years that Eon had lived here, he had to move very carefully.

He had death waiting for him at each step of his life. There were times when he could neither move for days nor get anything to eat or drink.

If it had not been for his smartness, his experiences from his previous life, or the quick thinking that he possessed due to his experiences, he would not have been able to survive the harsh environment of this place.

It was nothing less than a miracle that he survived there… though, a big thanks also went to Celes.

“I met Celes in one of the caves belonging to these spiders. Well, the spider was something I defeated with much struggle, but meeting Celes was a unique experience in itself.”

Looking at Anna with a warm expression, Eon called Celes out and allowed her to tell the little one about their first encounter.

[{ It was a darrrrrrk place~. }]

Celes was almost always cheerful, like Anna. She had also matured a lot over the years, but she had been a unique entity back then and she was a unique entity right now.

When Eon met her in that cave, he didn’t simply meet a crystal butterfly, a rare creature that was one of a kind, he also met a being that might have passed away had he not been there.

Their meeting was fate. Both of them were unique entities, and while Celes possessed many powers right now, had it not been for her and her ability to perfectly disguise someone or something, Eon would not have been around.

“Celes has saved my life more times than I can count.” Coming from one that possessed a perfect memory, those words meant a lot more than just how they sounded.

They weren’t simply appreciation for a familiar, he was thanking the savior of his life, the being that had saved him, and the friend that had been with him for a great part of his life.

[{ Hehe, master, I would not even have been alive had it not been for you. }]

Celes was a unique entity so had it not been for Eon, she would not have been alive. It was a fact that all of the people who knew about these two knew well.

The Crystal butterflies, by nature, were dependent on others for energy. There are few of them in the world, and if they were born naturally if they don’t find someone that matches their innate disposition perfectly, they do not survive.

There were special cases of butterflies having the ability to use the energy of other elements that weren’t bound to them, but they were very small in number.

Celes certainly was a simple one among her kind. So, Eon’s presence in that forest cave was a fate-driven encounter… or perhaps it was also an anomaly, like them and their existence.

“Anna?” The little girl was stunned and silent after listening to just that much.

“Ah, yes… big brother. I’m listening.” She was not ready to listen to his big brother’s struggles.

Eon was not leaving any details so he told her about the battles that he had as well as how much he was hurt during those battles.

He had just told her how he had used each one of the potion bottles that he possessed when he came here, and listening to all those wasn’t the best bedtime story she was expecting.

But this was the truth that she was eventually going to know about anyway.

“The great forest is just that kind of place, Anna.”

As if frozen in time, the great forest of Kamut was an ever-dangerous place filled with things that could kill you at any moment if you weren’t careful.

There are dangers and poison everywhere. Each creature you pick will do you harm, if you aren’t aware of the unique natures of some of the creatures, you will never get to witness their dangerous sides.

“Looking back, I had suffered quite a bit, right?”

“Of course you have! Big brother!!!”

He didn’t think much about those painful times. If it wasn’t when telling Rein, he would not thought back to his bad days.

Perhaps it was because of his time spent in this magnificent tower… or perhaps it was also because of his master.

Perhaps, meeting her far overwrote his experiences in that forest.

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