Earth Mage

Leo Kolesnikov was an average middle aged man that lived in the cold weather of USSR in one of its norther towns called Yakutsk. The weather was very cold there. In the winter -40 was a pretty normal temperature for this place. Leo always wanted to move south and experience life but he was unlucky. After finishing his engineering degree with good grades and getting an engineering job he understood that this type of profession will not get him anywhere. He didn't made enough money for what he wanted to do in life and was, sadly very limited with his funds.

A few month after he started his work the war with Nazi Germany started and he was mobilized to fight for his country to the death. He did fight all the way from 1940 to 1944 when the war was nearing its end but was unlucky to not see the official victory of his country. He was an officer in one of the many engineering brigades in the USSR army. He was part of the second army which was getting closer and closer to concur the captured lands of the European continent from the German army. He was unlucky to step into a mine that took his life.

He thought that this was the end but in truth this was only the first chapter of his life.

He woke up in a chamber of a ship. Originally he didn't really understand what's going on and was very confused. Slowly memories from his new body flooded his mind and caused him a great headache. He remembered most of the things that happened with his new body in this world of sword and magic. His name in this world was Armis Gofes and he was a descendent in a lineage of high elf's from the elven continent. His family was well known in capital of Gladiolus . He was one of the few representative's of the young generation in his family. The high elves had a very low reproduction rate. His Gofes family was one of the branches of the royal family. Sadly, he was only the son of a side branch in this family. From the side this maybe still look good, but in reality it was not. His two brothers from the main branch, Oliver and Kenth didn't let him live peacefully. In the end of the day he had a chance to become a duke of the elven kingdom and that was not something his brothers will let him accomplish. His family branch was located in the outskirts of Gladiolus. When the main branch of the family was not targeting him or his family he lived a simple and happy life. He really liked the forest and everything that was connected to its beauty. Maybe because of that he was diagnosed to have a high earth magic potential when he was 5 years old. Also he had a low to medium potential for fire magic but it was less important for his family. Even with in the high elves it was quite rare to have a high potential to any type of magic. Generally elves would have wind and water magic attributes. Those were the main attributes for the elf's in this world. With his magic elements of earth and fire he was more of a dwarf then an elf. After this discovery his family tried to hire the best teachers to educate him how to manipulate the elements and become a worthy successor of his side branch family to the duke position.

Sadly this was not something that was bound to last for long. The main branch of the family hired assassins' from the assassin union to eliminate him and they almost succeeded. His father, Arthur Gofes fought for him until the end with all of the branch family under him. He was not very strong in terms of fighting capabilities. He was a wind mage. Generally his family lived a peaceful life after the end of the continental war 50 years ago. The grandfather of Armis was a high mage that died in this war and left the position of the side branch family head to his son Arthur.

When his father understood that they will not be able to hold those assassins he sent his son with one of his trusted men with the name of Elric to leave the Silvermoon continent and go to the human continent to live his life. Elric was an old Wind mage that was trusted even by Armis deceased grandfather. This is why he was the perfect candidate to guide and guard the young high Elf. His father used a strong artifact in his possession to make a clone of his son to imitate his death. Back then Armis was still hit by a poison arrow from one of the archers and drank the antidote too late to be saved. That's how Leo got to reincarnate in this body. He was only 6 years old now with his current body.

When he woke up in the ship he saw Elric looking at him worriedly.

"Young master, are you alright?" Elric asked.

"Yes, I'm fine uncle Elric" I said.

"Thanks god. I was very worried that the cure will not take affect in time." Elric said.

"Young master, we need to hide for some time to be sure that everyone in the Silvermoon continent will think that you are dead. There is no going back." Elric said.

Armis scratched his head and sighed. He understood that he will need to find his way in the human continent. Elric got them both a bracelets that changed the form of their ears to human ones so they will not attract unnecessary attention. Also he got a few storage rings with different necessities that he got from Arthur before they departed.

"Also we should change our names now so it will be Harder to spot us in the future. What name do you want to pick, Young master?" Elric asked.

After a couple of minuets of deliberation Armis came with a simple name that he wanted to have.

"I will got with the name Leo, uncle Elric. How should I call you from now?" Armis asked.

"Call me David from now on." Elric said. (From now on I will call Armis as Leo and Elric as David to not complicate things).

"Okay, uncle David." Leo said.

He did not have any problem calling himself Leo because it was his name in his last life. He was used to it.

"Young master, we will go to live in the "Forbiden Forest" in the Usman empire until I teach you how to use magic. After that we will move to one of the smaller villages so you can still find friends and interact with people. The "Forbiden Forest" danger zone is of a low level and it will be a good training ground for young master to hone his skills." David said.

"Okay, uncle David." Leo said.

After the young elf got to eat and rest for more time he got some information from his guardian.

David told Leo that they been sailing to the Usman Empire of the human continent for almost 3 weeks and that they will arrive their after around one more week of sailing.

Leo was surprised by the amount of time that he was unconscious. David, on the other hand was surprised by the pretty calm expression on the boys face. He was not aware that Leo saw many death and killing in his last life so there was not much that could surprise him in this regard.

After 6 more days of sailing without any problems the duo arrived at their destination.

The weather was good. It was summer time and the sun shone brightly in the distance.

The harbor was quite big. It was surprising because they arrived at the outskirts of the Usman empire. Still Leo could see many people going on and of the different boats and ships. Also he people trading. He was interested to see what kind of merchandise is popular in this new world on the human continent but David told him that they should not stay in this place and move quickly.

After hearing this Leo agreed to go begrudgingly. He still wanted to see what the world had to offer, but he understood that he had a long life ahead of him. He knew that elves could live for few hundred years and high elves could live few thousand years. That's why he was not in a hurry. The long life of elves compensated for the low futility rate among them. The elf race had the least amount of citizens among the different races. The reason why no one tried to do anything funny to them was because they had generally good magic aptitude. Having magic aptitude was rare case by itself and with all the old geezers that were among the elf race there were a lot of monsters that no one wanted to provoke. No one wanted a Frost Nova spell to fall and oblitirate their cities. Frost Nova was one of the mass destruction spells that Grand mages could cast. The other races also had their Grand mages in a smaller amount that could fight back but the losses were not worth it.

After accompanying the young master out of the town connected to the harbor and checking that they were not being followed David used one of its wind movement spells and disappeared along with Leo..