Chapter 33: The World Of Three People
The news brought by the Snow Beauty had turned everyone silent. Duwei's heart felt heavy; He frowned and pondered.
A monster that can easily swallow a dragon!
A monster that can easily beat a dragon and a level 8 magician!
Duwei left the two sisters; went to the seaside himself, tried to use the cool sea breeze to calm the upset thoughts in his mind.
Ah, A monster...A place that suppresses the use of magic...Cannot use magic...no food, no fresh water...
Duwei sighed, muttered "Seems like it is the only way..."
Then, he turned around to the woods, back to the side of the two sisters. This time the snow beauty and Vivian were intensively arguing about something.
Well, maybe not the word "arguing", because it is only the snow beauty who was speaking. In fact, with Vivian's stutter problem, it is simply impossible to start a war of word with her.
"You should have given me the damned goblin! You know what? That old man doesn't even know where we are now, and you still expect him to come and rescue you right? Hmph..."
"What's the problem?" Duwei walked over, took a glance at Vivian; Vivian looked grievance, her eyes are red, cautiously looked at Duwei said "Not…..nothing."
"I said what's the problem with you two sisters? One is honest as a young fledge, the other is violent as the mother of a dragon." Duwei sat down, stacking the branches himself, prepare to start a fire.
The snow beauty snorted, although she is a bit annoyed about Duwei's bold thoughtless words, but as Duwei had saved her life once, she promised that she will leave him alone, it is too embarrassing to go back on what she had said, so she pressed her temper and tolerated it.
Vivian took a glance at her sister, then took a glance at Duwei, and shifted her body a bit closer towards Duwei.
The snow beauty looked, cursed in low voice "A little villain who abduct girls!"
Duwei shows no weakness, instantly returned said "A female robber who steals people's goods."
This time the snow beauty went mad, pop-eyed staring at Duwei, looks like she is about to rage...
But coincidentally, a discord voice has dispersed the snow beauty's anger and momentum all in a sudden.
Goo...Goo Goo...
Duwei couldn't hold his laughter; he took a glance at the snow beauty.
The snow beauty's face turned red, this time the anger on her face has reduced a bit, left with 70% of shyness and only 30% of anger, she is no longer scary anymore.
"Hmm...That's very strange, did I hear it wrong? What was that noise? Was that a howling from a monster in the island?" Duwei deliberately muttered loudly.
The face of the snow beauty had turned even redder, she stared at Duwei and whispered "It's...It's me!"
"You?" Duwei deliberately widened his eyes.
"..." The snow beauty felt like her lung is about to explode due to anger, finally she shouted "It's me! It's my stomach! I'm starving! The sky is almost dark! Don't you all need to eat?"
"Eat, of course." Duwei lazily stretched his body, and said "If there's food, of course I want to eat."
Meanwhile, Vivian on the side touched her pocket and started searching, as the snow beauty popped her eyes, she took out a black and strange looking plant roots and whispered "Sis, sister...if you are hungry, you can eat this first."
"What is that?" The snow beauty frowned, then she suddenly became angry, she jumped up and stared at Duwei and said "Damn you brat! This is what you let my sister eat! This plant roots??!!"
Duwei coldly replied "It's fine if you don't want to eat this, then you can starve."
The snow beauty became angrier "Asshole! Can't you just go and catch a few beasts?"
Duwei laughed "beasts? You can catch it if you want! If you can catch one, I'm sure I will praise your greatness to the almighty God! Go for it!"
Vivian secretly pulled the snow beauty, whispered "Sister...This island, has nothing at all..."
Duwei had already turned his body, his voice is unconcerned "You can either solve it yourself, or you can eat this thing, or you can starve. Then I can wait until tomorrow when you have no strength, I might take the opportunity to revenge and kick you into the sea."
This speech was more effective than anything.
The snow beauty immediately grabbed the plant roots Vivian passed her and put it in her month, and started chewing.
She frowned and chewed at the same time...Thinking it must be the worst thing she has ever eaten! God! Can't believe a person like me...is eating grass? Am I a horse, or a cow!!
She got angrier as she eats, and she ate faster and faster. At the end of the day, the feeling of hunger is not good. She couldn't believe she ate the whole plant and felt a little bit full in her stomach. She looked at Vivian and asked "Anymore?"
"...No more." Vivian looked helpless.
"...No more?" The snow beauty rattled.
What has this world become! Forget about fish and meat! I can tolerate to eat this plant roots, but can't I have more?
"Listen." Duwei turned around, his sight is cold, stared at the snow beauty and said "I think you should be cleared about our current situation! We are in an island, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink! Do you know that the thing you just ate, Vivian had been saving it for today! Do you know in order to get this thing; I've been running searching the whole afternoon. And you? You just sat there and ate what you were given. You ate all of your sister's food, you didn't even feel guilty. Not even a little bit appreciative. Instead, the only thing you did is complain... Let me tell you, if you ever feel hungry, you have to find your own food! I hope you won't be taking other people's food tomorrow. In here, no one is noble, not you, me, nor Vivian! No one has to serve you!!"
Supposedly, Duwei's impolite expression would make the snow beauty very angry, and his blame would make her feel embarrassed.
However...the snow beauty looked at the serious expression of Duwei, and found herself couldn't even say a word to refute him. This weak young boy, supposedly she can kick him with one leg, but at this moment, facing his blame, the snow beauty suddenly felt a little bit guilty...Yes, it's guilty! So guilty that she couldn't look him in the eyes.
The first time in her life, the snow beauty suddenly felt that she didn't have a single thought to face this kind of impolite exhortation. The weak young boy standing in front of her, his sight is this calm and indifferent, his body is weak but in this dark night, it looks like a big tree!
"I...I know, It...It wasn't my intention to eat all of Vivian's food, I..." The snow beauty only spoken half of her speech, but suddenly felt that her tone is so weak...so weak that she didn't recognise herself!
Why do I have to give in to this kid!?
Duwei gently smiled, turned around and looked at the sky.
The fog has not yet dispersed, there's not a single star in the sky...
Duwei sighed "Sleep, we still have a lot of thing to do tomorrow."
He added a few branches into the fire, and looked at Vivian sitting quietly, felt soft-hearted, and automatically extended his arm to Vivian's head and hit lightly, softly said "Silly girl, are you hungry?"
Vivian was shocked, first shaking her head, followed by embarrassedly nodded.
"Sorry, I'm the only man in here; supposedly I should take care of you." Duwei smiled bitterely "Unfortunately, I am the one who makes you starve. Hum! So be it, let's sleep, imagine this island is a huge piece of cake, all the tresses around here is the candles, you are lying on top of a sweet piece of cake...Sleep, you can eat in your dream."
Cake? Vivian eyes had widen.
Duwei had already turned his body, Vivian quietly looked at his back.
...
In the morning, Duwei woke up.
Precisely, he was woken by his hunger. He only had some awfully tasted fruit, his stomach is empty, those fruits are sour and bitter, on top of the stomach acid, Duwei was tortured the whole night he couldn't sleep well.
He found out the snow beauty had already woken up, wrapping around her belly and just sat there.
"Awake? Hungry?" Duwei felt sorry about what he said last night, at the end she is a woman who didn't know about the situation on an island, so he tried to be a bit more friendly.
"I'm not hungry!" The snow beauty shake her head, obviously she is lying, then she said "Where's the water? I need to wash my face!"
"You can go out a little further to the sea."
"...You told me to wash my face with sea water?" The snow beauty was shocked.
"I'm sorry, we only have limited fresh water, just enough for drinking."
This time, the snow beauty didn't argue with him, just sighed, then stood up and walked towards the sea side.
In the morning, Duwei searched for food again, this time, he spent more time, it's because there are one more person in the group means another month to feed. He brought back a bunch of plant roots.
This time, the snow beauty didn't say a word and ate straightaway.
Duwei smiled "Hey."
"What?!"
"Actually..." Duwei suddenly felt that the woman was not actually that flagitious...From what he saw, she is just being childish. Duwei controlled his laughter "Although the food is plain...at least you can wash away the mud before you eat."
"..."
Seeing the woman's face started to turn dull, Duwei immediately changed the topic "Now we are trapped, we are a team...I still don't know your name."
Then, he stood up, acted like a standard nobleman and smiled "I am Duwei Rawling; Son of Earl Raymond, current Patriarch of the Rawling family, Deputy Commander of the Imperial High Command."
The snow beauty hesitated, it's cleared that she is unwilling, but said "My name is Joanna."
Joanna...What a great name.
Vivian on the side looked at Duwei and her sister who are finally not arguing anymore and said "You can ...you can also call her JoJo."
JoJo...What a weird name.
"Shut up, Vivian." Joanna shouted, then looked at Duwei "That name, only my parents can call me that name, if you dare to call me that, you are dead."
"OK." Duwei didn't mind "Miss Joanna, now we know each other, next, it's working time."
"Work? What work?"
Duwei put away his smile and said "We need to find a way to leave here, I have an idea in my mind..."
Chapter 34: Leaving the Magical Island
"What? You mean we made a raft to leave here?" Joanna frowned, and questioned Duwei "So this is your idea? You plan to sail on a sea with a small raft, and take us back to the mainland? You must be crazy!"
Duwei smiled, and slowly spoke his plan:
"I believe we have hope. You and Vivian, both are powerful magicians, you both can use any tools or mounts to fly far away! Am I right? If you still have your power, you would have used your power to leave this damn island already, right?"
"Of course!" Joanna said "If I still can fly, I would have gone already."
"The question is" Duwei said, "You have lost your magic power. But according to my guess, the reason is not because of you, it's the island itself! I suspected that there must be something in here that suppresses the use of magic, such as some barrier, or magic forbidden area, these kinds of things...most likely has something to do with the scary big monster you saw. So...I think, the barrier that suppresses magic...How big is its reach? Does it cover the whole island, or including some part of the sea? At least I'm sure is that the field cannot be too big.
Joanna finally understood and there was no need for Duwei to carry on explaining, she continued "So, you did not plan to use the small raft to take us back to the mainland. You wanted to use the raft to sail away from the barrier, if Vivian and i can then restore our magic powers, then we don't need the raft and can fly back to the mainland. Right?"
"Exactly." Duwei nodded.
"What if it doesn't work?" Joanna frowned "What if you were wrong? I mean, even though Vivian and i both got our magic spells, but if we cannot restore our magic power even though we leave the island? Or if it takes a few days, or even months until we can get it back? Then what? Even if we can sail away from the island, we cannot fly. Just by the small raft, we are sure to be dead in the sea."
"Well, it's just a different method of death." Duwei raised his eyebrow "I can clearly tell you that...If we don't leave this island, by 2-3 days at most, we will starve to death. Although there are a lot of trees in the island, but there are only a few plants whose roots we can eat. I've found that when i was looking for food, i can't guarantee if i can find any more food tomorrow."
"We can fish!"
"Haha!" Duwei laughed "What fish? You can try! God...Those big waves produced by that monster we saw yesterday, also the earthquake...With these huge movements, even if there were any fishes in the sea, they must have been scared and left.
Even though the idea sounds a bit risky, after a careful thought, Joanna thinks that what Duwei said makes sense.
You either stay here and starve to death, or you go out with the risk.
Next is to find out how to make a raft.
The hardest thing is...There's no tool!
Even if you want to chop woods from trees...you've got to have an axe right?
Even if you don't have an axe, at least a knife would help!
But don't even talk about the knife, they don't even have a dagger!
Even though Joann is also a warrior, unfortunately, the only weapon she uses is a long flute!
Without tools, chopping woods with bare hands? Unfortunately, Duwei can't do that.
Even though Joann is a swordsman, she does not have the power to chop a big tree with her bare hand.
Duwei started to turn his focus onto Joanna's armor. Armor is made of metal, if you can get a piece of iron, sharpen it, reluctantly it can be used as a knife.
Unfortunately, Duwei was disappointed.
It is not because Joanna was stingy about her magical armor, but because her armor was full of hollow patterns, they couldn't even find a piece of iron that is the size of a palm!
After consider again, Duwei still got another idea!
Dragon scale!
Not matter how much she loves her pet, Vivian had to agree with Duwei to peel a few pieces of the dragon scales.
The scales of dragons are extremely strong and hard, in the past legendary heroes even used dragon scales to make solid shields.
Vivian used her last bit of her magic to appease her fire dragon, Duwei bravely peeled off two pieces of dragon scales.
They spent another day to find a big piece of rock by the sea side and used the rock to sharpen those palm size dragon scales into sharp knives.
Those two girls and the boy had spent two day to work.
Duwei and Joanna chopped a few big trees, Vivian was responsible for binding those vines together.
Duwei even used those tree trunks to make a few paddles. He then ran and brought back some huge gourds looking things. Those things not only be used to hold some fresh water, but can also be combined with the raft to increase its buoyancy.
Lastly, Joanna donated her white cape, and turned it into a sail.
When everything was nearly finished, Vivian suddenly remembered a very important question!
"My...my...what about my dragon?" Poor little Vivian suddenly remembered a crucial question!
A raft cannot take a dragon!
Actually, Duwei and Joanna had already thought about this question, it's just that they found it very hard to explain it to Vivian.
It's Vivian's pet, originally she could have used her magic power to create a magical seal and summon it when needed.
Unfortunately, without her magical powers, she cannot seal the dragon and bring it with her.
Duwei and Joanna looked at each other, struggled to answer Vivian's question.
Vivian suddenly understood, the silly girl shed a tear "No! No! I...I...I will not leave...leave my dragon!! My Burning Sun!!"
She cried and ran to the dragon, thrown herself to the sleeping dragon, tightly holding it.
Duwei sighed, looking at this pure little girl, Duwei felt a bit guilty.
But what can they do otherwise?
They cannot take a big dragon like this!
Not to mention, in the bottom of Duwei's heart...he is not like this world's people, treating a dragon like a strong, superior creature.
In Duwei's mind: talented people are the most important. No matter if it's a dragon, or a snake...they are just "animals" to him.
Human life is the most important. Sacrificing a human life for an "animal", it is something that Duwei will never understand.
Furthermore...Hum, if it is not because it's Vivian's pet, he would have slaughtered that big "animal" and ate its meat.
Of course if it happens, Vivian will cry and die of sadness on the spot.
In spite of Vivian not wanting to leave her darling dragon, Duwei and Joanna had to force their way.
What surprised Duwei is, that ferocious woman had rarely shown a tender side of her to her sister.
"No need to be surprised." Joanna had already known what Duwei was thinking by looking into his eyes "I've also lost my dragon, I can understand this poor girl's feeling."
Duwei could see from Joann's eyes that show a little bit sadness.
Two girls sat on the raft, Duwei was pushing the raft at the back to the sea, then he jumped onto it. Joanna controlled the sail, Duwei picked up the paddles and started to row.
Only the poor little Vivian, was forced to the raft, silently tearing looking at the island on her back...as well as her pet dragon.
The wave is lowest, this is very lucky.
But Duwei and Joanna were nervous.
They prayed...
They prayed for the following journey, to not meet that monster! That monster could lurk inside the sea and attack a dragon...which means if the monster wants them; it can flip this little raft with no difficulty.
Duwei only hoped that they can leave the island quietly to certain distant, and then hope that these magicians can restore their magic and fly.
"The Almighty God, bless us..." Joanna muttered.
For a weak young boy like Duwei, he struggled to row the raft continuously, he is determined, to leave this island, although his arms are tired, he persisted.
Visually, it's been about 200 meter from the seaside.
"How do you feel?" Duwei asked Joanna loudly.
"No, still nothing." Joanna tried to summon a wind magical spell to strengthen the sail. Unfortunately, it still did not work.
"Carry on." Duwei gritted his teeth and said.
Seem like the God in this world does not protect a heretic like Duwei.
As the little raft sailed to about a hundred meters further...
Suddenly, a big wave set off from the sea! In an instant, that scary roar appeared again.
Soon after, you can see from the eyes of the three scared people, a humongous wave that was about 4-5 meters high suddenly setting off from the peaceful sea.
Thud! With the waves hitting in, the vines from the raft fractured, the raft turned into pieces, the three people fell into the sea at the same time...
Duwei felt that the moment his body fell into the seawater, it feels like there was a force from the sea bounding him!
He could not move his body, the moment he opened his mouth, the sea water gushed into his mouth. Duwei thought he was dead, his sight turned dark, inside the water, a swirl wrapped around him, rapidly pushing him down...
Duwei felt that he sank...and sank...
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