Magic Of Mana Book 1: The First Tragedy
Chapter 7: Ogre and Centaur (Part 3)

Chapter 7 (Part 3)

Ogre and Centaur

The night has come. Shumi and Shukoi decided to rest first in the middle of the forest which happened to be this time the trees around them were no longer very lush trees as they had originally entered. Many pine trees, spruce, and other types of trees whose habitat is in cold temperatures.

That night the temperature was very cold. Shumi was actually used to this kind of weather, but this time the temperature was two to three times cooler than the city of Throttling which is usually low air temperature.

The thick robes that Shumi used seemed less thick. Fortunately, in front of him now there is a bonfire that is quite large and very warm body.

To his right, sat Shukoi who did the same. His palms tried to absorb the heat radiation released by the fire they kept staring at. Tiredness is beginning to feel in their bodies.

In front of them, sat also a man who had a gallant body, his height was like Zain, his skin was bright white, his eyeballs and hair were stretched out along the neck were both black in color. His face is quite handsome, according to Shumi, but there is a scar on the lower eyelid of his left eye along one finger. The upper right ear leaf also looks torn scars that are not sewn, so it looks a pretty terrible hemisphere behind the strands of straight hair.

“We're going through the night just quietly like this, aren't we? It's been almost an hour we've been like this” he said breaking the silence and daydreams of Shumi and Shukoi.

Shumi turned his head. “I don't know your full name yet!” shumi's voice is a bit haughty. He was still a little annoyed by what the man had done before.

“You're still angry huh? I'm the one who doesn't know your origin yet! From the first acquaintance, you guys who kept asking me like a news hunter” reply tried to avenge Shumi's arrogance.

Unfortunately, Shumi and Shukoi were both silent and did not speak. The silence happened again and made the man he gave up.

“Alright!” he said slightly exhaling, “meeting two beautiful women who were a bit angry was a little disturbing, but during my long journey alone, meeting them was like meeting two heavens! Okay, I give up! I'm sorry!”

This time Shumi beat him. “Newly now you are aware, Huh?!” he said with a rather high tone to hold back the upset. He still occasionally recalled how the man had killed the centaur that was about to attack him. “If you are indeed strong, why not just make the centaur distracted, so that at least the attack will miss?!” snapped it.

“Wah, I'm really in a difficult position, huh?” the man replied, “ya, maybe you really don't understand the magic he wants to release, huh? If he took off the pull of his bow, that darting arrow would continue to chase after his target! It's disaster-level magic, you know! That attack can only be resisted or pitted against even higher defense magic, and it turns out that you guys are not magicians, right? How could you do that? It was lucky that the time he needed was quite long, so I could immediately thwart him! You should thank me!”

“You not only thwarted him, but also killed him!” reply Shumi, “when he has asked for forgiveness, you know!”

“Oke, I'm sorry! Unfortunately I don't have the magic to turn on a dead creature.” The man began to get annoyed and said, “inally I was quite impressed by the reason you guys are protecting the ogre it” he said as he pointed to the back of Shumi where there are ogres who are asleep, “but now you're defending a creature who wants to kill them!”

Shumi paused for a moment and said, “I just want to give a lesson, so that when they return to their place, then they will not intimidate the ogres anymore!”

Hearing that, the man laughed, “ha.ha.ha...,” he laughed long and hard.

Shumi looked even more upset, “apanya funny, huh?!”

“You are like a princess locked in peace in the fairy tales of a child!” denounce the man.

Shumi was silent as if frozen suddenly. He never told the man who he was, but why he said that.

“You, what was your name? Yes anyway you should know, yes!” continued the man, “we cannot teach a lesson in such a way to a murderer! If you do something like that, it will only take revenge and even make things worse! He will vent to the other ogres that are in his place! And you wouldn't be there to help them, would you? After all, he really intended to kill you! Sometimes killing guilty people even makes a lesson for them!”

Shumi was still silent. He thought that what the man said had a point too, although to him, killing centaurs in such a way was still not the best solution. He felt he did not deserve to be a good successor to the throne, because he still could not protect in the right way and provide the right solution. What a valuable lesson for him.

“Still silent?” ask the man again, “hei, you help your friend understand what I mean!” he turned to Shukoi.

“Yes, I get it! I can't protect you in the right way! But for me there is still a way without killing like that, it should be!” answer Shumi, “but, alright! For now, I guess I should take it!”

A smile was clearly visible on the man's face. “Very diplomatic! Ha..ha.ha... Alright! My name is Ricky Zabura! I am a traveler who wants to visit the Holy City and enter from the northern side of the White Forest Country”.

“I'm Shumi and this is Shukoi! We also want to go there to see my sister. We enter from the north of the earth kingdom” Shumi replied.

“Shumi? A familiar name? Emm...” Ricky thought.

Shumi and Shukoi looked at each other. They do not want her identity to be known, but Shumi has already introduced herself. After all, Shukoi had previously called out Shumi's name several times with Miss's call.

“Yes! Shumi is the Crown Princess of Earth Kingdom right?” guess Ricky.

Shumi slightly flinched, then he laughed a little made-up. “Ha.ha.. Yeah, similar, right? Maybe my mom was inspired by him! The Princess's name is Shumi Mediane, while I'm Shumi Venezia!” shumi said lying.

Shukoi looks relieved. “And even though I was older, I was his nephew, from the family lineage, you know? So I always respect him” added Shukoi.

“Umm... Venezia, yes? From South Earth Province huh?” guess Ricky again, “I've been there a few times, many elves right there?”

“Ya, a province that has a beautiful city” welcome Shukoi, “the Elves there are very friendly and cooperate with the residents there”

“Yes, indeed the elves of Elf Island are already under the protection of the Earth Kingdom. The agreement to protect each other from the military side makes them close friends huh?” sahut Ricky's.

“Military agreement?” shumi said in her heart. Yeah, he almost forgot about it. A special treaty on Sigma Island allowed the elves to live and socialize with the inhabitants of the Earth Kingdom there. Maybe this is similar to what the centaur said in the Space Country. They work with centaurs and protect each other. That is, if the Space Country knew of this, they would be in deep trouble.

“Means, we're in trouble with the Space Country, huh? The centaur's death?” ask Shumi.

“Take it easy! Their agreement was unlike those elves and the Southern Earth Kingdom! The centaurs were originally beings who did not want to join any party, they were too haughty! Until finally many want their blood as medicine and talismans! Their horns were also of fantastic value, so many hunted them down. To protect that, they asked for the protection of the Space Country and they granted it as long as the centaurs would submit to the orders of the Angkasa” Country, Ricky replied.

“Yang likes to hunt them also the residents of the Space Country, right?” ask Shukoi.

“Ya, right! The country's inhabitants love magical things like that! So yes the agreement is only so that the residents of the Space Country do not hunt them anymore!” answer Ricky.

Shumi understands now. This was never discussed in his country. But, world info like this was extremely important to him. Shumi is now interested in Ricky's background and asks, “what is your reason for going to the Holy City? Are you a descendant of the Quartzt? You wouldn't be able to get in there if you weren't a quartz?”

“Emh...”, Ricky seemed a little surprised by Shumi's suddenly veered question, “I want the witch there to heal my ailing mother! In this world, witches who have healing powers are only white quartz right?”

“So yes?” sahut Shumi who slightly reminisced about Queen Stephanie.

“Yes, every kingdom in the world does have a quartz magician representative who is assigned to be a healer,” Ricky said.

Shumi only found out about this information. He wondered why in his Kingdom there was no such thing? He also recalled his father's words that he had tried to enlist the help of witches in the White Forest Kingdom, but to no avail. “But in our kingdom there is no such white witch?” ask Shumi.

“Yes, except Earth Work and the Black Forest Kingdom! They had a dark problem in the past with the quartz, right?” answer Ricky.

Shumi remained silent. “Ya, indeed a very dark problem,” he said inwardly, “lalu, instead?”

“For his pay, all the needs of the holy city are supplied from the countries that use his services,” explained Ricky, “but, because I am a nobody and have no money to pay on the kingdom, then I want to go to the city itself and ask them.”

“Lho? Can't you ask their representatives in your kingdom directly?” shukoi asked suddenly.

“I've tried to do, but not allowed by the kingdom! I came here, because of the generosity of the white witch who suddenly gave me a letter to meet her in the Holy City to be free of charge,” Ricky explained.

“I don't think the White Forest Kingdom is that bad, huh?” shumi Sahut. He had several reasons why King Victor failed to ask for help from the White Forest kingdom which was actually a friendly country. There are many very strong reasons.

“Yes, I also hate that White Forest Country!” reply Ricky. This time his hatred was felt by Shumi.

A moment of silence, until Shumi finally said, “ alright, we will go there together.”

“Oh yes, did you say you wanted to see your sister? Then you're a quartz guy? But why do you live in the earth kingdom?” ask Ricky.

“Erm...” Shumi tried to think of finding the right answer, “ya, I have a dark history.. Me...”

“Miss Shumi's parents are one of them is a descendant of the quartz,” cut Shukoi, “I don't know how, but my parents once told me that when his mother visited the White Forest Country, she married a witch there, and then, yeah you know! He never knew his father!”

Shumi smiled looking at Shukoi. All her lying stories have a point and this makes her eyes tear up.

“Oh, forgive me!” said Ricky, “but, that means I have hope of meeting the person I'm looking for too, right?”

“Yes, let's get there together! I hope your mother can be healed!” shumi looked back at Ricky.

“Thank you!” said Ricky who looks happy, “ alright, you guys better rest first, let me take care. Winter nights last longer, right? Later if there's something or I'm tired, I'll wake you up!”

“Ti--” Shukoi was about to refuse, but Shumi cut him off.

“Alright, we trust you! Shukoi and I really need a break! Thank you!” shumi said, then stood up to take Shukoi. “We will rest under that tree,” he said again to Shukoi while pointing at the large oak tree on the south side of the bonfire.

“Alright,” Shukoi says.

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