23. Harmful information

It's been a month since we've been on this bandit hunt with Huldra, we've been getting closer all these days even though I still wouldn't trust him completely. We share a lot of things with her but I know her goal is ultimately to control me. The adventure for the moment has been quite funny except for the combat, Huldra told me that my boots were light elf artifacts from alfheim but she didn't know what ability she contained under these enchantments, she only knows the magic of nature the runes have never been its trick.

Over time we tracked down a lot of bandits who weren't all unrelated to the group we were looking for, one of the bandits brought us back a place that could contain what we were looking for we were heading towards that place now. He reported to us that strange events happened in this group, he became erratic and all looking for lots of things. Ever since a man had come to meet them he acted even more cruelly, he was never so tight-knit as since he was commanded by this man.

The man did not know the exact place they were, but he did know the general direction of the place. He just told us that its far enough away and that it was far away from there because he was feeling an ominous pressure coming from that far away direction. We let this bandit go because he had given us good information but above all because seeing the fear in those eyes his should calm him down for years to come.

Izel "So you still want to come with me?"

Huldra "Why wouldn't I just follow you? Don't you want me to come with you?"

Izel "That's not what I'm asking myself the question because it could be dangerous and I have no right to ask you to put yourself in danger for my personal quest."

Huldra "You never told me it was a quest, it was given to you by who exactly?"

Izel "By organizing the mages on this planet, this is my initiatory quest to begin to rise in rank."

Huldra "So you're doing all this for your training?"

Izel "Exactly my training as a wizard will begin if I succeed and I can find my children."

Huldra “Your children? What do you mean your children?"

Izel "Yes my daughter and my son also had their initiatory trip but they are not humans like me, to be exact they are a buzzard and an elk I have is taken in and have been my companions since then."

Huldra "You took in animals, it hardly surprises me."

Izel "Why are you telling me that?"

Huldra "One of the reasons is that I always felt the nature coming from you, the other I will keep the mystery."

Izel "Why haven't you told me?"

Huldra "For the same reason as you for your children I guess."

I don't know exactly which ones she's hiding from me, but I'll find out eventually. She knows a lot more about me than she suggests. She had to rest or rather connect to these sisters as they all do, I see a link that comes out of her when she rests I know very well what kind of link it is, the link that I have with my companions is similar but more primitive I think the wizard who created this ritual is inspired by these creatures. My master told me that often in primitive magic it was inspired either by natural phenomenon or by magical creature and that it was almost always the case, either that or it is innate magic.

Since the start of my trip I have accumulated quite a bit of energy, at this point my whole body has evolved once. When my cells were changed a hundred percent of the capacities of which I have no knowledge arose, for example my cell multiplication which is constantly over-revving or this capacity which causes me the most problem with astral travel. She is a problem for me because I do not know how to control her she can activate when she wants but only at night so normally it's fine. I don't understand this ability I can get out of my body, when I get out I see my body lying on the ground but I can't get away from it.

The first time I left my body it scared me very much, it made me think that I suffered death in my sleep. Trying to get into my body I couldn't do it at first, it took at least an hour of trial and error. Not being able to control an ability is really terrifying, it drives you crazy because you wondered when it will do its own. I don't trust magic that I can't control, it made me think of abilities that can become dangerous because they can't be controlled.

Another ability that I unlocked is a slightly more useful ability although it's not really powerful, I could now create micro sparks with my fingers. It allows me to light campfires for example, it is already more useful than the trip out of the body. Lighting a fire with flints or sticks takes too long, the spark saves me time to warm up. My traveling companion is not too afraid of the cold, but I fear it a little more and above all it is warmer and sure to have light.

My lady is waking up we can start our journey towards the giant worshiper camp, that worries me because according to the bandit there is a lot of evil going on I hope I am strong enough to fight. Trees and more trees I can not wait to finish this quest because so many roads that were similar are starting to bother me, the bandits I have met until now were not good enough in martial arts to be a good workout.

We continued on the path without encountering any resistance until we felt an evil energy in the air, this energy affected much Huldra, the nature around us became more and more sinister as we went along. I told her to stay here because the more she goes the less fit she gets, I didn't want her to get hurt unnecessarily and even I couldn't protect her by fighting. She looked like she didn't want to be so weak because seeing her grimace I could feel him, too proud to recognize him of course, a real ass.

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