My head was throbbing, and I was covered by sweat, everytime I recall memories of Blake this happens, but today it was quite severe.

Perhaps it's because this is his last memory?

I lay down again to recover from my headache.

it is odd.

The last memories of Blake were out of place, why was he in my world? It's obvious this is another world, no way would magic exist on Earth, so how did he get there? Before he passed out he was hit in the head, does it have to do with that? But it doesn't make sense...

Also he can't talk in the language I know of on Earth but I still understood him, and he understood me, why?

From the memories, people seem to be unable to see him at all, so why could I see him?

And this is his body; so why am I controling it, why isn't he the one in control?

I rubbed my head, frustrated.

These questions aren't going to answer themselves; so I should stop asking them, getting more confused would make it harder to survive this place, I am to focus on my goal of finding a way out of this forest.

I started searching Blakes memories, I wanted to find if there would be any useful ones to help me, though I wasn't hopeful, because this Calliope tribe never left their village for decades.

hmm... he loves his mother and father, he likes to play with other kids in the village, he's a genius as adults in the village said, he has the wind and the advanced wind attribute which is sound and has a strong afinity to them, but he doesn't like his attributes, he wants cooler ones like fire, he practices magic and ikes to read stories at the chief's house...

As I went through his memories my feelings were being swayed, I felt elated when I thought of his parents, but bitter at the same time.

Do his feelings affect me?

I was also disappointed, I knew his memories weren't going to help me but I thought he would know more, you know, like about the environment around the village, the monsters and such, but his parents kept everything vague while teaching him they would say: 'don't go out too far from the village or else the demonic beasts will eat you', 'never trust strangers because they would kidnap you' or 'there are races other than humans like elves, spirits and dwarves, we live in a forest near the Elven Kingdom'.

What type of demonic beasts? Near the Elven Kingdom? To the North? South?

Hahh, but it makes sense, I wouldn't teach my kid every detail, they would be curious and would probably cause trouble.

The only thing left were his memories of practicing magic, but I ca- hold on, maybe I can? I probably can use magic! this is his body and he can use magic, it is only right that I can use it.

I always regarded myself thus far as an Earthling, I knew there was magic but I never thought of using it, because it wasn't real for me before, it would be absurd if I could use it, or that's what I thought, but this is Blakes body, the body of a genius in magic.

I was thrilled about the possibility of using magic, it would be very helpful if I can find a way to defend myself other than a knife and a couple of classes of self-defense that only work on humans, yesterday's encounter with the horned rabbit was almost the end of me, which is embarrassing.

To think I would die to a little rabbit with a horn... no way! I'm not gonna die a pathetic death again, my first death was already quite pathetic, I couldn't even stop someone from jumping off of a building and died trying to save them... I hope she's alright though.

I was feeling better so I got up, used a cloth I had that I wet with water to wipe myself and get rid of the sweat, and changed to the other set of clothes I had.

I would really like to take a shower or bath right now, but this will have to do, I can't have that luxury yet.

Okay! Let's try out magic!

I sat down on a high rock nearby and started doing what Blake usually did to train.

According to the memories, I closed my eyes and tried to feel the particles of mana around me, I didn't know what to do, there weren't any steps further than that, Blake just saw the light gray and transparent particles after a couple minutes of concentration, light gray were for wind and sound, and the transparent ones were pure mana, so I focused and tried to imagine the particles floating around me.

After a minute or so, I started to see transparent and colorful orbs floating around me, though I got a bit too excited and lost concentration, I couldn't see them anymore.

I pinched my cheeks Focus!

I tried again, this time I didn't lose focus, and attempted to make the orbs fly closer to me, there were more colors than what Blake used to see; there was the transparent and light gray ones, some of the light gray ones distorted while floating, they were sound attribute mana, however there were also, purple, green, blue and a bluish gray?

What does that mean? I have more attributes? but this is the Blake's body, and it only had wind and sound, is it because I have a different consciousness from Blake?

Blue is water, fire is red, wind is light gray, and brown is Earth, there are advanced forms of each basic attribute but Blake only knows of the advanced fire attibute which is lightning the color representing it is yellow, there were unique attributes like light which Blake's mother had, it's mana particles are white, blake didn't know of other ones because he only pays attention to afinities he thinks are cool (fire).

I pinched my cheeks again.

Blake you were supposed to be a magic genius why don't you pay attention to your lessons?! The only color floating around me that corresponds to his memories is blue, water.

What about the bluish gray, advanced form of water? Or wind? The green? Is it an advanced form of earth? But I don't have earth to begin with, same with purple, are they unique attributes?

ah I'm doing the same thing again, I can't get more answers, so I have to work with the information I have and leave finding out more to later.

since Blake was good at magic, he never studied any theories behind it, he could do it easily and instinctively, however I couldn't, my body was 'sensitive' to mana, as told by Blake's parents, the process of seeing mana takes around 10 minutes or more to normal people, I saw it but I couldn't influence it like Blake could.

I sat on top of the rock for a long time, trying to move the sound mana, I chose to do that since Blake had a strong affinity to it, I made minimal progress, but I was determined to do it, after trying over and over again, I could nudge the mana to move slowly to the right or left.

that's enough, I'm tired.

haah hah, I definitely made progress but that's hard, how could Blake do it so easily?

Tch, geniuses.

I wasted a lot of time today, so I gathered my stuff a made my decision to go through the dense forest, I cannot waste more time.

It was harder to go through the dense trees, but thanks to my small body, it wasn't that bad, the scary thing was my limited vision, I moved for a while until it was starting to get dark, I made a fire and found a secure place to sleep, not forgetting to mark the direction I was heading with an arrow carved on a tree.

I made good progress today, I hope I'm getting closer to some place with humans, or any smart race really, unless they're hostile towards me.

There was that technique Blake uses to make his ears enhanced, How do I do it?

I was meditating or that's what I'm going to call it right now, around the fire, I tried to move sound mana to my ears, slowly, I made one tiny orb touch me right ear and it got absorbed, I immediatly felt a difference in my right ear, I could hear sound from everywhere, leaves rustling, wind whislting, and crickets, I was overwhelmed, but that was only for a brief moment because my ear went back to normal.

woah! That was cool! But it hurt. Blake used to filter out the sounds by commanding the mana to exclude them, as if the mana could listen to him, and it did, Magic is amazing!

Time to sleep.

Days went by as I walked through this huge forest, I found a river on my way that I used to soak in and wash my clothes.

Since I could influence mana more due to practicing every morning and night, I could use the the sound mana to enhance my ears, I could filter out the sounds just like Blake did, and I felt safer, everytime I heard a living creature close by I moved away from them, I could use wind mana to make a breeze that I used to dry my clothes, and the blue mana the create some water that I used to drink or wipe down, mana was really convenient, you just tell them what you want in your mind and they will listen, although I still couldn't create anything strong enough to defend myself.

I also found out what the green mana is for! Plants!

I was meditating one day and moved one of the green orbs to the ground, I commanded it to do something related to earth, nothing happened, but when I got distracted by a falling leaf the green mana grew a little sprout.

I have not found out what the other two colors were for yet.

It was getting colder with every passing day, and the food I had was running out, it was a big problem.

I purposefully got closer to any sound a creature made, I decided to hunt, since I was prepared, I hunted the horned rabbits relatively safely, I did get a wound once though, and I still felt bad and dizzy everytime I killed one.

I found out that this place was sparse with living things, there were only horned rabbits, and they were rarely found, if I couldn't search for them using the sound mana, my food supply would have vanished already.

I was getting used to this tiring life style, to be honest, I was even a bit excited, the only downside was having to kill things.

After 37 days.

I have no more food! What do I do? I haven't eaten for two days, I could manage with hunting horned rabbits but they disappeared with the weather becoming cold.

I tried to search around for anything, but nothing was there, winter killed all plants and every creature is hiding.

I walked around for a while, trying to pick up any sound.

bang. I heard a low sound in the distance, it was different than the usual sounds in the forest.

I turned towards the sound and walked quickly I couldn't run and waste the energy I have left.

it sounded like a door shutting! People!? People!! Yes! Finally! I hope they aren't hostile to me!

After walking for a while, I found a large tree compared to the other ones that were already big, there was a door on it's trunk.

Elves? They usually live in these sort of places.

I was very excited to have my first interaction with someone of this world, but I was still cautious.

what if they don't like me? I have no other choice but to ask for help though, I can't keep on surviving in this environment with this body.

I moved towards the tree house and lifted my hand to knock, but before I could, the door opened with a creaking sound.

Creak...

I was stunned, I looked up and saw a beautiful young man who had long white hair, and eyes each with a different color, one red and one blue, and pointy ears.

"Oh my, I have been expecting you, Blake, or shall I call you Noah?" He asked with a smile.

Huh?

Huh?

"Huh?"