章 5: Death and Rebirth 5

It was a warm spring evening, the sun was beginning to dip towards the horizon and the hot air slowly started to cool.

Cradled in his mothers arms, was Lux. He was wrapped in a cheap cover that kept him comfortable as Willow walked down the village road to a mass gathering.

She trodded alongside a bunch of other people for the commute, farmers to be exact. To be even more specific, farmhands. Including his mother, they all worked on the farms day in, day out to keep everything ticking over.

However, Willow hadn't been at work for a while due to taking care of Lux.

Lux came to know of his mothers job when she took him outside the hour for the first time since he was reborn. Well second time, if the medieval hospital thing counts.

After she had fully recovered from her physically and emotionally demanding childbirth, Willow went round to visit the other farm hands with Lux in tow. They even went to greet the main farmer, otherwise known as the land owner whom they all toil away for.

Contrary to Lux's initial beliefs, the land owner seemed to be a fair, bubbly middle aged man who treated the farm hands with respect.

He also came to find out that the farm hands can purchase unused parts of his land to develop their own crops and so forth. If the farm hands buy their own land, he'd buy whatever they 're willing to sell for a fair price to add to his own harvest.

All in all, it was a decent system that kept the farm hands motivated and boosted the amount of money they all made. Of course, the largest portion of that went to the land owner, but it was negligible compared to what they'd earn working somewhere else.

Lux also came to learn the fate of his absent father.

Apparently he passed away during the months of his mother's pregnacy from a sudden illness that the village healers couldn't seem to treat. Lux never reacted much to the information, he never knew the man, so he wasn't going to grieve over his death.

Though he was grateful for what he left behind.

Having worked on the farm for a long part of his life, he was able to acquire a decent sized piece of land to work on. What was being kept there was what allowed Willow to abstain from working for so long to look after Lux.

Using the very small fortune he managed to amass over his lifespan, Willow paid the other farm hands to look after the fields and animals until she was ready to return to work.

This did eat away at her savings, but it all worked out in the end.

Right now however, all of the farmhands and thereby Lux were walking to the main area of the village to attend the annual spring festival. One of the two yearly festivals in Salix.

From the chatter going on around him, Lux gleaned plenty of information about the festival. Free food, free drink, performances and some sort of beauty pageant?

The last two aren't that important to everyone, they're all about the free food and drinks. A commodity for all commoners, and one they're willing to exploit to its fullest.

With a few months to learn the language, it's far easier for Lux to learn more about the world around him. He's sure to find out much more at the festival.

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Half an hour later, they arrived at the festival. The village house and streets were all decorated with cheap trinkets that mostly consisted of different types of floral bunches, and the villagers were dressed in their best clothes - which meant that the clothes were washed.

They passed by merchant run stalls that sold all sorts of different commodities that you would usually find in the village, and also the food stalls that were filled to the brim with hungry men, women and children vying for calories.

"Pastries! Get your freshly baked pastries!"

"Fabrics from Kandria! Two for the price of one!"

"Farming tools from Lutia!"

"Fine bronze utensils from Pabia!"

Merchants were chanting about their goods, and how affordable their prices were all around. The sound was quite deafening to be honest, and all of them shouting in unison made it difficult to work out who was selling what.

Though the snippets Lux managed to hear properly annoyed him to no end. It was like he's heard some of these places before but couldn;t seem to put his finger on it.

After breaking away from the other farm hands and filling her bags up with food that would suffice as breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days. Willow looked around before stopping at one of the fabric stalls.

"Like what you're seeing? Let me tell you lady, you won't find a better deal than this in the entire Distar region!" The merchant enthusiastically babbled.

There it was again. Distar. Lux was positive he'd heard of that place somewhere before. Did he go there on a mission at some point? Did he hear it while watching the news one day?

Giving the seller a grunt of acknowledgement, Willow continued to browse through the merchandise.

Not giving up in his sales pitch, the merchant continued, gesticulating wildly in the process, " I'm not joking, even Marchioness Distar once bought fabrics from my father. This stuff is top quality, the linen here can last for years after being woven into clothing."

While Willow began inspecting the line of linen that the merchant was advertising, a bomb went off in Lux's head.

Marchioness Distar, Distar region. Kandria. Lutia. Magic.

It all made sense now.

'Holy fuck, I think I'm on Mogar!'

In his mind Lux started rapidly comparing all of the similarities between what he knew of this world, and the world - Mogar - that the Webnovel Supreme Magus was based in.

And so far things were looking pretty fucking similar.

The time period seems to be similar, the location names are the same, the festivals are the same as well, even the way the main character reincarnated from earth was similar to his own experience.

Shit, the magic should be the same as well. Awakening as well, it would explain why he can do amazing things with the breathing technique he performs, and it would explain why he was able to sense his mana core after practising it.

All in all, it seemed more and more likely that his suspicions were true.

'If I'm in the Supreme Magus universe-galaxy-whatever it is. I'm almost positive that I ended up awakening myself. If my current line of thinking is correct, I should be able to use spirit magic.'

Darting his eyes around to find something to attempt spirit magic on, he locked on to the merchant's blue feathered hat that was perched atop his bald head.

The only problem is he's not really have a clue how to use spirit magic. From what he read, the basics of spirit magic relied on intent of some shit, nothing in detail beyond that.

Luc doesn't know the first thing about using intent for anything. It's not like he could use his intent to put a bullet through someone's skull! Magic wasn't a thing on earth, you aimed and pulled the trigger to get the job done.

Throwing logic to the wind, Lux tried his best to use spirit magic to knock off the Merchant's hat.

'Think man, think!'

Before the blood vessels going to his head burst, the mix of mana and overwhelming 'intent' directed at the hat forced a change in the world. Lux could feel the area surrounding the hat coming under his control, and with a final urging the hat was knocked off the merchant's head, revealing his bald scalp to everyone nearby.

While the merchant scrambled for his hat and the villagers nearby shielded their eyes from the sun rays reflecting off his head, Lux jumped for joy as his theory was looking more possible with every discovery he made.

Well, he tried, but all his weak body could give him was a wiggle.

At least ninety five percent sure that he was on Mogar, Lux sank deeper into his cover and mulled over the insane implications this would have for his future.

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