Forest of Jura

Flesh moved as bones reattached themselves in a disturbing display, and something that barely resembled a humanoid corpse was restored to normal a few seconds later, frightening the wolves back. I felt a suction force from the body and willingly moved towards it, The next thing I knew everything went black and suddenly, I could feel my body.

Emotions exploded within me... horror, disgust, and shock... I had just died painfully and returned to life, My spirit form didn't feel emotions but now I felt everything double as strong.

Red flames slowly formed around me, triggered by my mental state, I could just summon flames and do with them as I wanted, it was a strange sense of control.

Balls of fire formed above me as the grass and soil beneath me burned while I sat up, looking at the wolves, I aimed and fired them one by one mentally. The fireballs moved and hit the targets easily, exploding in showers of flames and starting to spread with wild abandon, burning everything.

Wolves wailed and screamed as they burned, the rest escaping, while I stood up. The trees began burning. Smoke was spreading, and I could smell the scent of ash already.

I simply stood there naked, looking at what I had unleashed in seconds with just a few mental thoughts.

At that moment I understood just how powerful and lethal I already was, back on earth this level of power was enough to easily kill hundreds, by being smart and hiding, I could burn cities to the ground... and knowing that I was still even more insignificant than an ant in front of most demon lords of this world, I felt fear.

Just what would high-level fights even look like? In an anime it is all fun and cool, but realistically... I shuddered.

To survive I needed power, and to have power I needed time. My magicule capacity was not small since I felt nothing by using this much fire, but I needed to increase it, or maybe cheat it... Everything led to one conclusion.

I had to head to the safest place in the story and lay low, but before that, I needed to know what part of the timeline this was and where I was. I needed information.

I closed my eyes, feeling my flames almost like they were extra limbs, like a distant part of me, I willed them to not exist and they were extinguished. The last thing I needed was a forest fire setting monsters and humans in a frenzy.

I slowly activated my other power, and my weight slowly vanished as the shackles of gravity were shattered, I felt free and light as my feet slowly separated from the ground.

I began rolling slowly mid-air out of control, maneuvering was difficult...

After hitting my head and other parts of my body on the branches and leaves for a few minutes, I got the general hang of how it worked, it was like trying to pass a thread through the hollow part of a needle for the first time.

I stabilized, looked up, and accelerated.

The wind rushed past my ears as I rose above the trees, and then above the waterfall, and soared high.

I forgot all my problems for it was the best feeling I had ever experienced. Delight filled me as I freely reached as high as I could go, a while later I was above the clouds and looked down.

It was very easy trying to find a human settlement from such altitude, unfortunately, I didn't find what I looked for.

To my north in the far distance was a mountain range, and to every other direction thick forests as far as the eye could see. The river had come from the north and extended to the south.

I faintly saw a bunch of what could only be dragons in the direction of the north, which prompted me to fly south, as far away from those as possible. I did not want to find myself inside the stomach of a dragon.

The air was cold and I was still naked, so after the thrill died down a bit I lowered my altitude and continued flying south.

I saw all manner of strange beasts in the hours that passed, from giant centipedes to bears, what could only be goblin villages and even huge ants. I shuddered whenever I saw those, they looked extremely terrifying up close.

The night was approaching and I did not want to sleep in a forest filled with monsters and unknown insects...

Thankfully I spotted an unusual structure.

'Is that a gate?!' I saw a huge gate on the side of a cliff.

I flew in front of it, the gate was open, and behind it was a cave, it looked a little familiar to my eyes.

Looking at the setting sun, I gritted my teeth and decided to enter the cave. I had not seen a monster for a while as I had approached this place, and from the looks of it, this was Veldora's cave. This made the most sense, the endless forest could only be the forest of Jura, and the mountains must have been the Canaat mountains.

'There are two possibilities here, Veldora is either here or not, If he is not then good, and even if that is not the case, It is safer since monsters won't approach due to his aura.'

I opened the gate and flew in and was instantly sure this was Veldora's cave due to the glowing crystals and the generally familiar environment. After finding an okay-looking spot near the entrance, I cut down tree branches with the help of fire, and an hour later I had a temporary place to sleep.

I was hungry, thirsty, and mentally tired after the long flight. I hid under the branches to sleep, while swearing to use a shard to make clothes tomorrow.

"HELLO THERE!!!!" An extremely loud voice exploded near me, I instantly woke up with my ears hurting like hell, I quickly jumped without even looking due to fright and flew as fast as I could, I hit my head and lost consciousness.

'Note to self, never fly max speed in confined environments...' I thought and prepared to wake up as spirit but I did not.

A bouncing blue ball greeted me when I woke up, and that was all I needed to know about where and when I was for certain.