I make my way down the valley, then the hill with little issue, used to climbing for almost a week makes it much easier, but I don't really notice it as I continue an internal debate about what the system said. All this knowledge about magic, what I am, and the lack of knowledge about what to do now is very conflicting.

The knowledge I got was very specific to what I am, and what I can do, which was mostly the fact that anything to do with my affinity, or element, was practically second nature and extremely easy to do. For example, to do anything in regards to wind, water, and lightning, my primary affinities, all I had to do was practically will it to happen.

Of course, I haven't actually tried any magic yet, because I didn't know what would happen, to rectify this when I get down to the bottom of the rocky hill I turn to one of the many loose rocks and try to do something nice and simple.

I use some wind magic, I think, and get it to fly into my hands. On one hand, it works. On the other hand, it flies straight into my hand so fast I get thrown to the ground.

The worst part is, I didn't get to figure out how I did it, magic should be something hard to learn and I stick by that statement.

I get up with a grumble, glaring at the rock before I acquire a new target.

Trying the same tactic, I simply try to will it to go slower, getting a better picture of what I want as it slowly, but surely, floats towards my hands. I make it float slower as I try to figure out what is happening, but as I watch nothing seems to happen, there isn't any mystical energy surrounding the rock or anything dramatic like you would expect.

It just feels like the wind and air itself is making the rock move, and to make it hard is the fact that I don't have any mana bar to know if anything is happening, Hernon was right in some regards it seems. Quickly getting sidetracked in going towards the floating island, I sit down on a nearby rock with some moss on the edge of the forest and begin making more rocks float towards me, in an orbit instead of simply to my hand to try and figure out this magic nonsense.

Hours pass, and I'll be honest when I admit that I don't understand what is happening.

I don't know enough about video games, anime, or other fantasy stuff to explain it or 'sense' the energies, no visible magic is seen so I tried to feel or open my mind to it, but that doesn't work either, so I quickly gave up on this line of thinking.

So I tried my way of looking at it, bringing it near to feel for anything, thinking on the lines of feeling it like static electricity on a balloon, but didn't know where to start so when it doesn't work too I also gave up on this line of thinking.

By all intents and purposes, the rock is simply floating with my will alone, which makes no sense and would be known by many friends of mine as 'OP'. My frustration grows as I realise I am not cut out for a fantasy world reincarnation story, I simply don't know what I'm doing, which I guess would be a good thing in some situations, but not this one.

Maybe my friends Hernon and co are probably what stops this from being OP, if someone went around with complete control over their element and wrecked havoc, then someone with equal control over a different element with better morals would fight them.

Nah, no way that's really it, the more likely option is that I just don't know what I am doing, which I will admit I don't.

Wind magic is a bust and is more wind control or manipulation instead of magic, so I go onto my other two affinities, water and lightning. Storm as a concept is just a mix of the three elements, so thinking about how to do magic, my thoughts lead me to the realisation that it is also the same with fire. Fire as a concept is just a mix of heat, light, and fuel, which when done together make fire.

Now storms are a little more complicated than fire, but if you really break it down and ignore some science, it is just water, wind, and lightning.

But getting sidetracked, again, because of the boredom of not knowing what to do, I try to use my other elements to see if it is the same. Water effortlessly gathers among the numerous orbiting floating rocks, different sized rocks from ones that fit in my hands to nearly half the size of a person are joined by water droplets as they rotate around me.

Frowning, I use try using lightning, and just like that sparks and streaks of lightning arc between the rocks and water, creating a captivating scene if I wasn't so focused on how it is even happening.

It's as easy as if I had been doing it my whole life, it makes no sense, even after doing this for hours I don't feel like I am running out of energy, mana, or whatever it is that powers this.

So I sit there for an unknown time, with a grimace on my face as I try to work out what or how I am even doing this, I am not running out of energy nor could I work out what is happening. Eventually though, I click my tongue before sighing in resignation, deciding to just accept this before losing my mind and reassuring myself that I would figure it out eventually.

It feels so... Unearned, sure I fell off a cliff and died, but no one should get power this easily. Especially those kids I was reborn with, Hernon and co are so young, I think, and power like this corrupts.

With a wave of my hand, everything ceases as all the rock and water fall to the ground like their strings were cut, with a shrug and another heavy sigh, I head towards the floating island that I wasn't too sure had a forest underneath it when I first saw it, but can't be bothered at the moment to think about it too much.

Barely noticing the crunch of leaves, sticks and dirt below me, I pass by trees that are too big to be normal while planning different ways to use my magic. Of course, I don't realise that even fully occupied in my own thoughts I effortlessly travel into the forest and past obstacles like I was being led.

I briefly attempted to use the staple fire magic used in pretty much every fantasy thing I know about, but unlike my 3 effortless types of magic it didn't work at all, not even a hint of fire showed itself and it was the same for anything not related to wind, water, or lightning.

Ok, so there are limits after all.

Starting to get a proper idea of how my magic works, it finally comes to my attention that the suns are setting, I am deep in a forest in another world, and Hernon mentioned that monsters are usually present in fantasy worlds.

I shrug, continuing towards the giant island floating in eerie silence, casting long shadows across the forest.

I don't know why I feel so drawn towards this island, is it because it shouldn't exist? It looks cool? Or something else?

Paying more attention to my surroundings now that my mind isn't completely occupied, I notice that I have finally heard the sounds of birds and insects, and the forest only sounds more lively as I get closer towards the floating island.

Will there be a giant crater under it? There should be, but then how did it start floating in the first place?

So many questions, a scholars dream this place is.

Without a care in the world, lacking it after dying, I continue to slowly meander on what feels like a preset path through the forest avoiding surprisingly few fallen trees and undergrowth and just admiring the landscape and nature.

I even spotted quite a few colourful floating lights hiding up high in the forest cover, the feeling of being watched drifts in and out along with the lights, this rings alarm bells, so I keep an eye out but decide that I could make it towards the island before whatever happens, well happens.

The crunch of leaves and twigs below me slowly become more sinister as the number of floating lights and the feeling of being watched intensifies, I consider that I may be instead heading towards where the lights come from, that being able to make things float doesn't exactly translate into being good at self-defence, and that I should probably head back and reevaluate why I am doing this.

So I do.

Turning on my heel, I start tracing my steps back and notice that, worryingly, the amount of multi-coloured lights continue increasing, plus that the path I was following in my head doesn't work backwards somehow even though I am walking away from the floating island, I still end up walking towards it when I look back up a second later.

Well, this ain't good.

Shifting gears, I instead try to work out and see if I see any magic that was causing this, and groan when after a while I still can't see anything happening.

Screw this, if I am going to be led somewhere, I am going to at least go on my own terms.

I stop in place and tilt my head towards one of the closer floating lights.

With a purplish colour and a rather dim colour compared to the other lights, I directly address it with a neutral expression, "Hey, so what do you guys want? I know somethings up here."

Wait, do these light things even understand me? Why would they? They probably speak 'colour' or some shit.

Thoughtful expression plastering my face, I bring a hand to my face and I bring my eyes back to the purple light, only to find out it isn't there anymore.

None of them are there anymore.

Every single light has fled in the few seconds I took my eyes away to think. On one hand, they heard me, even if they didn't actually understand me, the other hand is the fact that they all left and I have yet to know whether that's a good thing or not.

I stand there processing the sudden lack of the floating lights, the sudden darkness and isolation does little to calm my nerves and reaffirms my decision that whatever shit-fuckery is going on, I want no part of.

Since, once again, I am facing towards the floating island, I turn on my heel and try in vain to leave. Taking the social cue that since everyone else fucked off, I should too.

That's why I was extremely surprised when I heard a voice behind me.

"Hello?" I hear, the voice sounds weird, it's not English, I don't actually know if it was any language, it sounded more like a hot agitated spring breeze with the underlining of grand bell towers with the meaning of 'Hello', instead of actual speech.

What's weirder is the fact I understood it, it doesn't sound happy though.

I turn and am greeted with a small flower sized person, floating up to eye level, with teel coloured hair that has a bright green sheen. Dressed with what looks like gigantic flower petals of different colours, that somehow look grown together in a bright and well-done arrangement, somehow isn't even the most surprising part though.

The most surprising part is the bright colourful blue and gold wings, surrounded by radiant green outlines and looking similar to butterfly wings, it is quite the sight to behold.

I am quite surprised, but with all that has happened, the surprise doesn't last too long as I quickly get a hold of myself and try to speak, though not really knowing how to speak seasons, I just try to do what I did earlier.

"Hello? What do you want?" I ask, tentatively while waiting to see if they understand me.

The reaction isn't exactly what I wanted as they flinch, shudder, then glare at me, confusing me slightly.

I open my mouth to ask if they're ok, but when the glare intensifies at me, I take it as a subtle hint to shut up and close my mouth again.

"Stop. Fix your presence, think about lowering your volume and pressure." They say, slightly disturbed but somehow still angry.

Going along with it, I shrug and use the image of turning my volume down on a knob and just will my 'pressure' or presence to turn off since I am not in the need of pressuring anyone.

I think it works, as they immediately breathe a sigh of relief and relaxes on a visible level before looking at me again with a lot more friendliness like a switch was flipped.

"Hi! Welcome! And since you didn't seem to know about your presence I will assume you are just a newborn elemental. Exciting! I haven't seen an elemental in ages." They say flying around me with a lot more speed than expected, but somehow not surprising me much.

"Cool, nice to meet you," thinking of appropriate questions, I go off simple, "What do you want?"

They put a finger to their cheek and hum thoughtfully, floating as if they were reclining in a chair, "Weeeellll. With your presence leaking out and being advertised so broadly, I originally thought you were some monster or bad person, but when I got a proper view of you and you started talking I immediately knew you were just some new elemental".

"What's 'presence', and how'd you know I was an elemental." I ask, raising an eyebrow at the repeated mentions of 'presence'.

"It's simple, it's the presence you have silly! Every being technically has a presence but it is mostly used for the fae, elementals, and other beings of magic." They say, lecturing, "And it's because of your type and amount of presence that I knew you were an elemental, elementals are hard to miss, especially when you're a fae".

"Oh," I respond simply, that explains why the group and I didn't see anything the whole time, and why there were so many lights, everything was either drawn to us or repelled by us.

"But wow! Now you turned off your presence completely, not to me of course, but close enough for most people. I guess they were right about pure magic beings..." They muse.

"Wait, what? Who's what about who?" I ask, before being cut off.

"Doesn't matter! You were coming to the Node right? Come! I'll show you." They say suddenly, somehow grabbing me and pulling me with more force than I thought possible.

"Hold on, I don't even know your name yet, I have questions damn it!" I say exasperated.

"Shhh! Questions later, Node now!" They ignore.

This person's behaviour changed so quick, whatever, this Node thing is where the island is so I win either way.

But, now that I think about it, what will I even do after I see the island, so far my mission was to get to the top of the mountain then get to this floating island. What is my purpose?

Easy, exploration and history, I will figure out what I can from these fae and just enjoy my freedom. Maybe I'll stick around for a while too, they know more about the world than I do and they seem fine.

So there I am, being led through the forest by a fae, surrounded by the numerous myriad of lights once again, very quickly losing my common sense. It only gets worse once the sun fully sets, giving me a grand view of the moon, the gas giant, and the absurd amount of lights in the sky.

The suns light stopped me from seeing them well, but there are thousands right now that I didn't even notice.

Every colour imaginable, greens, yellows, reds, blues, and everything in between, I guess each colour means something, as purples and even a few whites are greatly outclassed by the sheer amount of the primary colours. They range from as dim as a flickering candle to as bright as a campfire, and they outshine the stars as they move all over the place, some move slow and purposeful while others look like someone started dancing with a sparkler on fast forward.

I'm getting a headache at looking at that latter one, I need to concentrate on moving, lest I fall over.

Bringing my attention forward again and regaining my balance, I notice the look of my guide as they giggle slightly before quickly concentrating on bringing me to the Node.

The trees and bright disco lights above me only grow in amount and intensity as I get closer to the hulking island floating up high, the trees especially as they seem to grow even taller, going from redwood size to definite fantasy size going into the hundreds of meters, even their leaves start taking on the colours above, but only in the primary colours I notice and not the in-between secondary colours I see above.

Hmm, am I being too trusting? If any human on Earth did this or saw this they would think I was about to get kidnapped. But this isn't Earth, this is not only a different world but a completely different species that was very friendly when they found out I came in peace.

Besides, not like I could get out on my own anyway, every time I tried to leave I would go in a circle and the thousands of lights above me would make escaping pretty hard.

It's like the age old question, would you rather face 100 small so and so's or 10 larger so and so's, I don't remember the original but this is a good example right now, it's just right now it is only the small option available with no help, preparation, or backup.

And it is a lot more than 100.

Entertaining and distracting myself with what was once an impossible question turned reality, I enter the shade of the island and the guide lets me go as treck up a slight incline and clearing to what looks like a cliff, into what I thought would be a crater.

An impossibly deep crater.