The man, taking out of his coat a notebook of green leaves, and yellow seams, opened it and closed it multiple times, as if wanting to turn it on with sudden movements, it seemed an outburst of anger from a small child, but the face of the serene man seemed to have everything calculated and suddenly closed the notebook and on the cover appeared a black line, which occupied only a quarter of the length of the cover of this, the transporter saw it for a moment and said.
"We will reach the next city, city at dusk, there are no more towns in the middle of the walk so we should have no more delays." said the man while he kept his notebook and took out a map.
"Excuse me, what did you say the next city was called?" I ask Ophelia with some regret.
"Gaíshan, it is a very beautiful city, known for its tall buildings, I am surprised that you do not know it if it is very famous" said the carrier, while looking at his map.
"To be frank, I only know it by name, I spent most of my childhood and adolescence studying magic and I have ignored everything else, I think I will have its her name on occasion, but I do not remember well" said Ophelia with a tired face.
"It is clear to me that you have not traveled much truth, Miss Witch, but I am sure that you sorcerers, you traveled often," said the lord, as he put away his map and paid attention again on the way.
"Please! i already told him not to call me that way is embarrassing – said Ophelia
"In the previous town everyone called her that, and you didn't complain," said the man with a smile and a mocking tone.
"Yes, but I'm sorry to be called that, when we stopped to rest in the town in the middle of the road, everyone was excited when they knew I am a witch and I couldn't do anything to get rid of them, it makes me feel more important than I really am, and they make me feel like a fraud." I exclaim Ophelia.
"I'm really traveling for work, and to correct a mistake of mine and my colleagues, so I don't feel like the person who deserves all that attention, and I don't know if i am up to my assigned task," Ophelia said in a tired voice.
"You saved me from that illusion on the way, the truth is I do not know what would have happened to me, if you had not appeared, so I think you will be able to do that task that now seems so difficult."
"It was nothing, actually, the spores of the fungus caught me too. And I had to find a way out." Ophelia said while thinking that the carrier had not noticed that she sneaked into her wagon.
"I never thought that roads could be this dangerous, if they are not maintained, since I was a child my mother told me not to enter the forest alone, because all forests are enchanted by nature, but, I never imagined that magic could reach the fields and roads."
"Usually there is always a magician who walks the roads through every city and town, looking for magical plants that could grow spontaneously on the roads. Since in nature plants and rocks almost never control their magic, so they tend to react with everything." Ophelia said with the seriousness of a magician.
"That did scare me, the illusion felt very real, besides I can't realize at what moment, I transmigrated from realities, when I realized I was already in the middle of that cursed forest," said the transporter, while his body experienced small involuntary spasms, when remembering that moment.
"If to our bad luck we got the worst kind of color and living thing we could have found, on a road, but fortunately, we didn't waste as much time in real life as it might seem," Ophelia said.
"My body is still alert even though that happened several hours ago, although it relaxes me a little knowing that a worse experience than that, I can't live."
"If that fungus was very full of magic, the effect it had on us shows it, and as confirmation we had its purple color, what bad luck we had," Ophelia said as she looked at the sky.
"Are all purple plants so bad?" asked the carrier with a tone of disbelief.
"It's not that they are bad on their own, what happens is that they are volatile due to their great magical charge and that makes them very volatile and therefore dangerous for us and other creatures," Ophelia said.
"I'm going to give you a survival tip that can help you prevent this from happening again, magic is divided into spectrums of light that we can see, starting from the safest one that is red magic, to the most volatile one that is Purple magic, if you see a purple plant on the road again move away from it, and as soon as you arrive go to the city or town, let the magician know that he is living in that place, even if it is not a fungus, we do not know how he can react to you," Ophelia said, resuming her straight posture and clear and strong voice.
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"So magic is classified by its properties or colors, right?"
"Yes, both flowers and plants absorb the energy that comes from the sun and the atmosphere and transform it into magic, the color of their petals and stem serve to identify how much magic a plant has accumulated, from there we base ourselves to know its utilities in the world of magic, if its flowers are red, that means that the accumulated magic is very little so they are very stable flowers, but the more magic the flower absorbs, the color of its petals changes and over time, the being becomes less able to store all that magic, so seek to release part of that magic, with whatever it allows." "And they end up becoming plants, very reactive with their environment, which is a potential danger, since the effects of magic vary depending on the living being that releases that magic and the conditions in which it is released, that magic, that's why when she takes out the rose in the middle of the magical forest and bathes in spores, it reactivates and reacts violently." Ophelia said while seeing her travel companion.
"And why don't magicians look for these plants, if they grow anywhere?"
"When the roads were built, places were chosen where plants did not grow actively, only grass, but even then there were cases like ours and a charge was created that consists of wizards wandering the road in search of magical flowers, and collecting the flowers, or failing that they eliminate them if they are very dangerous, but it is kept secret so that people continue to use the roads normally, and avoid entering the forests."
"Then yes, all the plants have magic, right, but then how come the grass doesn't do anything to us?" said the man, turning to see Ophelia and staring at her as he asked the question, demonstrating his great interest in the subject.
"It's easy, what happens is that all living beings need magic to survive, and green is the color of life, of their life, the color of flesh shows it, that is also due to the amount of magic we need to survive, so as soon as we die the human body, it turns gray, since it lost its magic, its life support." Ophelia said a little uncomfortable by the look of the Lord.
"Although there are still many things that we magicians do not know about rocks and plants and their magical processes, we are not as able to understand one hundred percent the processes behind rocks and plants, their process of transformation of magic, or why? Humans cannot use magic naturally, and we must look for it outside." Ophelia said with a forced smile that betrayed her feeling of discomfort, because she had never liked being the center of attention.
"I guess after all magicians aren't all powerful yet." he said with a small smile, as the carrier's satisfied face returned to see the road.
Suddenly their conversation was interrupted by the noise of a very large camp, which took the transporter by surprise, as it was very close to the city of Gaíshan, so much so that the entrance to the city could be seen in the distance, if you stood on the roof of the wagon.
"you did not say that there were no more villages in the middle of the road, in the last village we lost many hours because of the people and I could not rest well, because of the people." Ophelia said strangely.
"That's not a town, that looks more like a camp, they're giving us a sign, I'm going to stop," said the transport man.
The man made a movement with his whip and the horses gradually slowed down, until they were completely standing next to the camp and a man in a gray suit and golden ornaments approached them.
- "Excuse me, where are you going?" the soldier asked.
- "We are going to Gaíshan" said the carrier.
- "We will have to check their cargo, there have been reports of contaminated food arriving in Gaishan, and the government has asked us to check every package of food, meat, fish, fruits or vegetables that arrives in the city, "said the soldier as he took out a sheet of paper and showed them the official statement issued by the government.
- "Wait, you said contaminated food, What kind of food?" Ophelia asked in an exalted voice, as she stood up.
- "Do you know something? "said the soldier as he looked intently at Ophelia.
- "Nothing official just made me curious, ”Ophelia said in a calmer tone and sat down again.
- "I don't know, they didn't tell me anything, "the soldier said, as he walked to the back of the wagon.
- "It's probably the meat contaminated by the Caxao worms, ”Ophelia said softly, to herself.
- "Don't you know if it's meat?" Ophelia asked the officer
- "I already told him that I don't know anything" the officer answered from behind "but apparently it is very dangerous, in addition the political environment in Gaíshan does not help, everything is very tense lately, with a Lord who went to a party, caused a disaster and escaped" the officer answered in a tired voice.
- "The Lords of the city fought at a party or something, and that makes it difficult for us to work, on personal requests from the upper classes, which we cannot completely ignore, but we cannot handle everything at the same time either, we are very few!" the soldier exclaimed in a tone of complaint, while he continued to check the cargo of food from the carrier.
- "This one cleaned up!" the soldier shouted at his companion in front, watching while the checkup was carried out.
- They can pass, said the other soldier who was with Ophelia and the lord in a soft voice.
Ophelia and the carrier, thanked the officers with a gesture of gratitude and with a movement of their whip, the horses resumed their pace, leaving Ophelia very thoughtful about what the officers behind said.
- "Is he behind the contaminated food, right?" the man asked.
- "Not only did it catch my attention a little, seriously!" exclaimed Ophelia.
- "I was only saying it because their expression suddenly changed as soon as they mentioned the food" said Mr.
- "I'm sorry it's secret, this whole thing" said Ophelia as she made a gesture to apologize.
- "The one who has to apologize is me for being indiscreet, don't worry."
And so with a small delay and more determined than ever to fulfill her duty as a magician, Ophelia kept silent the rest of the way, while mentally preparing herself for what might be found in the city of Gaíshan, and with a small delay they arrived with dawn at the great entrance to the city.