Eldrea Academia and The One That Stars Chose
Chapter 1: The Bird Demon

cream, kreeek, bruk!

“OK, this should be enough,” I said after cutting down trees.

I cut down some trees to renovate Grandpa's hut, after leaving it in a very bad state within the past 2 years.

During these 2 years I was only able to patch a few holes that were in the grandfather's hut with simple wooden planks because in addition to having to look for materials to fix it I also had to keep looking for food for myself, although in fact most of the time I spent reading all the books on the shelf owned by grandfather.

“Well, cut it!” After chanting the spell, I managed to cut the tree I just cut down using an axe into 5 neat wooden planks per tree.

Although now I can use magic after copying it from the books left by my grandfather, I still have to train my body because somehow I live in the forest, magic alone can't help me survive if my body is weak.

I don't really understand why I can use magic. But when I imagined myself using magic, all of a sudden magic started coming out like I thought. But as a consequence I became very easily mentally exhausted when using magic.

Therefore, I should be able to use my mental strength as best as possible and of course I should continue to strengthen my body in order to sustain all of that burden, thus creating my own method of training.

I practice while doing daily chores like cutting down or hunting. I balance the use of magic and my body while doing my daily work. A very effective method for me.

Heck, Tok, Tok!

I began to repair every part of the grandfather's house manually, because I didn't feel myself capable enough to maintain such powerful magic to renovate the grandfather's house.

Time goes by so fast when I'm focused.

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It didn't feel like it was evening, but in the end I had finished fixing all the leaked parts. Not only that, I also finished replacing every fragile part, although not perfect, but at least I don't have to worry about the house collapsing when a storm comes.

I decided to go fishing in a lake not too far from my grandfather's house.

The atmosphere of the lake that was so peaceful and filled with the sound of birds chirping was really like a gift after all the hard work I did, especially the beautiful sunset that really amazed my eyes

I managed to get a lot of fish to the extent that it filled the bucket I was carrying.

Without waiting for a long time, I immediately made a fireplace and burned 5 fish at once. Not only that, I also made a seat from 2 wooden blocks that form the letter L, with the intention of one bench for me to sit on, and one for me to store my belongings.

“Now what should I do?”

I questioned what I should do next, considering that I now live alone in the woods and have no reason to stay here any longer.

But even so, I also do not know the way to the city center, my preparation is also not much. If I forced to go down the forest wrongly I could end up in the belly of a monster if I didn't have a proper plan.

I looked up at the fireplace in front of me while waiting for the fish I burned to mature. I also trained my magic skills by flicking my finger and making fire magic come out at the end of my index finger repeatedly.

“The books that Grandpa left behind I have read all .... there is nothing else I can learn from those books,” I murmured.

I have indeed read all the books belonging to grandfathers who each of the books I have read as much as 5 times, so I have really memorized out of the head of each of the contents of the books.

There was so much information I got from the book, other than the magic I learned from the first book I read. I also got a lot of information about various things that are out there, for example like a new kingdom that is close to the forest where I live today.

“Eldrea ... how about the kingdom? I heard downtown Eldrea it looks very beautiful.”

From what I read in the book, Eldrea is a kingdom built by heroes after a great war against demons. They also built a hero academy there with the aim to strengthen the military strength of humans if suddenly bad circumstances happen again.

Therefore, the kingdom that has just been established for 30 years can already be a big kingdom more than other kingdoms on earth today. It was all thanks to the academy that was really in demand by all young girls from all corners of the world.

Because of this factor, the kingdom's economy became better and made the kingdom of Eldrea could increase very rapidly to rival other kingdoms that have long stood.

“Why? Are you curious about the outside world of the boy?” suddenly there was a voice that stopped my daydream.

“who is it?”

I tried to look around but there was no one around me but a bird I had never seen before sitting on a log I had placed for my things.

The bird has a black head and wings, its upper body is dark blue and its lower body is white.

'As long as I lived in the woods, I never saw a bird like that. Is it possible that this is a rare bird that is almost extinct?' my inner.

The bird just quietly remained as if it was not afraid of humans

“Kayaknya I've never seen this rich bird of yours before here, you just made a nest around here right? Well, there's no way you can answer my question, haha.” I laughed a little because I felt stupid to talk to a bird.

“what if I could talk?” The bird suddenly started talking.

“AAaahhh!, his b-b-bird, his bird just spoke? Just right?” I jumped away from my seat and made the wood I used to burn fish start to splatter in panic.

“Hei! Don't suddenly jump in and make my dinner messy!”

The bird flew straight towards the fireplace, plunging itself into it, but instead of burning itself to death. The fire turned into a human form and immediately walked towards me.

“AAaahh! Whatisthis? Who are you?” I was further shocked by it and immediately picked up the stones around me.

“Quiet boy! after all what kind of magician looks for a stone when the situation is desperate, ck,ck,ck.”

The flames that burned his body suddenly began to disappear and revealed the figure of a woman in her 20s.

She had red hair and eyes, wore black clothes, a long dress, and a knee-length boot that looked like it was made from the skin of a powerful monster. On his left arm was a red tire

Hearing his words made me realize that I could use magic. "Oh, that's right, I can use magic."

I started to get up and immediately stuck my hand towards her. “Watterball!” I immediately shot a water ball at him with the thought that he was resistant to fire, so at least a water attack would be effective against him.

Byuurs!

“Fucking boy! How dare you make me drenched in these nights, where my dinner gets messed up because of you, you fuck!” cursed me.

It is true that in addition to flushing it soaking wet, the water ball I shot was also hit by the fireplace behind him and messed up the dinner I was preparing.

“But it was me who made it, and I also fished those fish for me to eat!”

“Basic boy .. Hey, listen to this. If there's a beautiful woman like myself visiting you these nights, you should treat me with food, okay?” he said with a proud tone.

I don't know where this guy came from or how he went from a bird to a human, but his haughty nature really pisses me off.

“Heee, whereas only bird stealth ...”

“What you said was a jerk!” he jumped straight at me and hit me on the head.

“Aww, sick shit!” I complained while trying to escape from his grip.

Her behavior was really like a wild animal, even though she said she was a beautiful woman who visited me at night. To me she was just a shameless haughty woman who could attack anyone regardless of the age of the person she attacked.

“Hoo, look at this boy, even though he was scared to death, now he started to fight yes,” he said in a mocking tone, “relax the boy, you don't need to be careful like that, you don't need to be careful like that, if I really wanted to hurt you, you should have been reduced to ashes for now,”

Without needing to find out, I understood that his words were not a mere bluff, because even though I had never seen a witch before, the aura he exuded was truly extraordinary.

“Then why are you here?” I asked while trying to calm myself.

“Have you talked for a minute?” the woman smiled. “Drain” He then cast a spell that made his body dry instantly.

“Why didn't you answer my question? Why are you here?” ask me one more time

“Sabarlah boy, first try to start burning again the fish that you have caught,” he said while pointing to the bucket that still contains 4 fish caught by me.

"Alright, but you have to explain everything after we finish eating, okay?"

"yes, you chatty brat." he sat down on the wooden block he had previously visited as a bird.

I had no choice but to follow his wishes, other than due to the fact that I was much weaker than him, but I also had a premonition that he was not a bad person. At least for now.