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Chapter 10: “Luck” Strikes Again

After I got the answer from Emi, I decided upon preparing ourselves for the short journey. My father and Lisa wished to come but I thought better of it and decided that this would be the time to set off on our own, Emi and I. To see the world by ourselves and perhaps experience new things along the way.

So after talking to Emi about going together by ourselves and her subsequent agreement and a rather long conversation convincing the worrying family members to let us go alone, spouting things like, “We’re old enough to use common sense” and “Our fighting abilities are already good enough to defend ourselves” they relented.

The weeks before we set about preparing ourselves for the short day journey to Paolona and the tournament. The tournament was set for a month from now but I thought it would be best to go earlier and look around Paolona and get used to the surroundings before entering the tournament.

So we packed a day’s of supplies and enough money to last us until fighting in the tournament. Lisa came over and brought over Emi and with her a sword.

“Hi Clover, I just wanted to wish you and my sister luck in the tournament. I know you’ve trained hard these past few years so I wanted to give you this sword as a gift.”

“Thanks Lisa,” I was rather surprised as even on my birthdays she had never given me a present, “I’ll do my best in the tournament and do you proud.”

“I believe you will, remember all your practice and use your instincts to decide what is the right way to fight your opponent. There will be many more experienced people in the tournament so you must use your mind to beat them.”

“I will do, thanks for the advice.” Though I already expected the tournament we would be fighting in would be fairly challenging, using my wits would be the best way for me to win. I was neither the strongest not the most experience so I would have to use every bit of preparation to win.

My parents also came in while I was preparing the supplies and packing.

“Son, I’m proud of you and the work you’ve down to get up to this point. Do your best and that is all a mother can ask for.”

“Thanks mother I will do my best I think all this preparation that I’ve had all these years will pay off in the end.”

“Clover, I want you to keep this Magic Tag with you, not to remind you about not being unable to magic but rather to get past obstacles in your way. Magic is neither the be all or end all, it is not all powerful and with hard work it can be overcome.”

“Thanks mom, I’ll keep that in mind. When I face obstacles I’ll have this Magic Tag on me to remind me of that.”

Afterwards they began the whole parent bit about keeping safe. After my parents had left I set about finishing my preparation for tomorrow morning. I had already set up the rental of horses to use for both Emi and I so that we could travel there by horse otherwise the journey would take far longer.

The night before we were meant to leave there was an almighty storm and it rained down very heavily. Nevertheless Emi and I decided to start our journey anyway otherwise we would lose the deposit on the horses and cost our parents even more money.

So we set off in the rain with our parents and Emi’s sister waving us goodbye. I was in fairly good spirits as I had planned where would stay and budgeted how much we could use per day.

As we were walking down the road that connected Trinia to Paolona I noticed that trees had fallen in the night and that the road had been closed off. While I was trying to brainstorm ways to try and move the fallen trees, Emi suggested the idea of going through the forest as she and her sister frequented the forest to go hunting for the family.

Emi took the lead as she had more experience on these roads, as we traversed through the forest road to get to Paolona I noticed that the ground was getting rather more wet and muddy as we continued along. I suggested to Emi that we turn back but she refused,

“We’re doing it today otherwise we’ll lose another day and have to spend more of our parent’s money. We just need to be careful.”

The rain continued to pour down heavier and heavier I saw our horses struggling to get a foothold in the ground but we pressed on.

Emi was in front leading the way through the road, as she pointed and looked back to tell me which way would be going, her horse lost grip on the road and fell off the road’s edge

I panicked for a second as I saw Emi fall from view. I got a hold myself again and immediately decided to save Emi. I slid down the slope and tried to catch up to Emi as she was falling.

20 meters In front of her I saw a rather menacing large rock. I was 5 meters from her, I immediately sped up running down the hill even faster. Trying to close the gap. The rock kept coming closer and closer and Emi was unable to chang her direction.

Just as I she was about to hit the rock I jumped at her and launched her with me past the rock and we rolled down the hill. There were many rocks and stones and the world became rather a blur, I likened the feeling to being on the most terrifying merry-go-round. I caught glimpses of the edge of the cliff as we were approaching.

I braced us for going over the edge, praying to all the unknown gods and the god I knew personally to help us. We were two meters from the edge when suddenly we dropped down through a pile of leaves. I pushed my body in front of Emi and the ground to make sure that she would be okay and tried to relax my body as I remembered I had read before woman who was so relaxed after being kissed and she fell of a cliff she managed to survive so I calmed myself and tried to put the fear out of my mind.

We finally dropped down to the ground and luckily landed on some leaves that cushioned the fall a bit. I fell into the darkness upon impact and fainted. Just as I was about to lose consciousness I saw a blue box appear.

*Tring* New Stat Created: Heroic Stat+1

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