Chapter 30. Enchanting

POV: Unknown villager

It was a hot day as usual in the desert. I drank a bowl of water from the fountain while looking at my son practicing his swordsmanship, he started to get better by day.

I'm sure his father would be proud once he sees him finish. While I was watching my son training a servant came up to me.

"Miss Beatrice, you've been summoned by your husband to the study room."

"Did he say the reason for his calling?"

"I'm afraid not Miss, but he said that you should come as quickly as possible."

The servant responded while bowing her head.

"Ferdinand! I'll be going to see your father keep up the good work."

"Ok, Mother!"

He yelled then went back to his training.

I also got up from my chair and went towards my husband's study room.

After a short walk, I arrived at a wooden door where I gently knocked.

But no response came, I knocked again with more force, with the same result.

"Honey I'm coming in!"

I then opened the wooden door only to be greeted by darkness.

This was unusual to see, the room was supposed to have windows and even at night, it was illuminated by lanterns.

I slowly stepped out since this was not normal for sure, but I was suddenly pushed into the dark room by an invisible force followed by the door closing leaving me in complete darkness.

"Hey! How dare you do this to me, open up the door and I'll kill you quickly!"

I tried to open the door but it was firmly held from the other side. I tried to break the door with an iron sword from my inventory but even when I managed to do it, instead of a hallway I only saw two stone blocks blocking my exit.

While I started to wonder who would do such a thing, I heard a growl from the darkeness.

I quickly turned to bearly see a zombie coming towards me. This made me panic, I didn't have experience fighting with monsters and I was not looking for a fight in the dark.

The zombie came closer to me and I held the sword to stop him from coming closer. The zombie didn't seem too fazed by it he just pushed the sword to the side.

In a panic, I just swung the sword and I managed to wound him.

A growl of pain was the following noise. I tried to get as far as possible from him only to be struck from behind.

I felt the teeth biting into my flash which made me scream in pain.

I turned quickly only to see empty air.

"An invisible zombie? Who would do such a thing? Oh no, I can feel the infection spreading."

I started to feel weakened, the zombies came closer to me hungry for more flesh.

Suddenly I could hear someone from outside trying to break into the barricaded room.

But it was too late, when the light of the sun finally entered the room the zombies started to catch on fire including the invisible one.

My husband entered quickly in the room and saw me on the ground slowly turning into a monster.

He yelled something to the guards that I couldn't understand anymore, I was in pain, and I started to feel hungry.

I was picked up by two guards and guided to the cells, the sun started to damage me, so when I was finally underground I felt cold but better.

Chains were put on my arms and legs so I couldn't move.

I felt that I was losing my sanity, hunger started to overtake me, and I lost the notion of time.

Days started to merge, they tried to talk with me but with no success, until one day someone new came.

I was hit by a potion which took me by surprise, and before I could process what happened something attacked my mouth which I instinctively bit.

It was a big mistake. I could feel my mouth burning and the rest of my body started to tremble in pain.

I screamed in pain until I lost my voice. And I could hear cheering from outside for some reason.

But surprisingly after a few hours of torture I could feel a change, I could feel the never-ending hunger leaving me, and I could feel my heart beating again.

And finally, I felt like I could talk, I felt human again.

And my husband was there in the room with me, waiting patiently.

Once he saw that I didn't tremble anymore he came with an impossible speed and hugged me tightly.

Then in a broken voice, I heard:

"Welcome back."

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The party was wild, to say the least, there were songs, dances, food and animals all in one place.

Everyone seemed happy to have the lady of the house back.

They showered us with food and compliments. They even showed us a little fun game of theirs called "Drink the bowl" which consisted of drinking a whole wooden bowl of suspicious stew.

I was hesitant at first, but I gave in to all the pressure and drank it.

And I could safely say that I'll never do that again. Once I drank one sip I could feel the effects of the soup taking place.

I never got drunk in my old world but I think it's pretty similar to the nausea effect that I just got. The room started to spin around me, my insides were not doing any better either. I didn't even know suspicious soup had this effect.

But after everyone had their laugh at my suffering, they gave me some milk to wash down the debuff.

The rest of the party was crazy until the end.

Once the sun come out the party was finishing. We were tired from all the activities, so some servants showed us the way to our rooms.

This time we had our own separate rooms. It was a big room with a golden bed, red carpet, and a balcony where I could see the beautiful city.

But I couldn't enjoy the view for too long since I fell asleep once my head touched the pillow.

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Once I woke up it was getting dark outside. I then got up from the bed and washed my face with the water in the cauldron that was in the room.

After feeling refreshed I finally got out of my room and walked through the big halfways until I saw a person to which I quickly asked where I could get some food.

They were kind enough to guide me to the kitchen or the storage area where I had some cooked chicken and bread.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your meal sir, but the head of the household has requested to meet with you in his office."

I swallowed the last piece of bread that I had in my mouth and nodded my head in understanding.

The servant turned and started to walk away, and I quickly followed him.

After a few minutes of walking, we arrived at a wooden door which the servant knocked on a few times before opening it.

"I brought the hero, sir."

"Thank you, Jeremiah, is the second one still asleep?"

"I'm afraid he's a heavy sleeper sir."

"Thank you again, you can leave us."

The servant proceeds to do a small bow before leaving the room.

The noble then told me to sit down on the chair, which of course I did.

"I called you here so I could teach you about enchanting, I won't share everything since I'll get in trouble with the other nobles, but I can help you level up your skill until level 3. You do have the option to choose that skill right?"

"Yes of course! But where is the enchanting table?"

He started to laugh once he heard that.

"Looks like you do know something about enchanting, but it's not that easy to level up the skill. The process of enchanting something is to write the enchantment on a paper, then you can use the enchanting table to bring the paper to life."

"I didn't know about that. I thought you had to enchant a book, not a piece of paper, and how about tools and armor?"

"I'll be surprised if you did know. As for why paper or book there's a simple answer for that. You first need to enchant a paper, which would be a temporary enchantment that would last a day before losing it's effects, that's why well transfer it to a book where it can be enchanted indefently, or you can use it on an item for the same results."

"That sounds convenient, when can I start?"

The noble started to laugh loudly.

"I like your enthusiasm, but it's not as easy as you think. Take a look at this, can you guess what it says?"

He then headed me a book which I quickly opened. I don't know what I expected but for sure not this.

The book was filled of an unknown language that I didn't understand.

I looked back at the noble and saw him smiling at my reaction.

"It won't be as easy as you think. Usually, I'll teach you the language so you can grasp it better, but since you'll only go until level 3 I'll just teach you the enchantments that you want to know and you'll memorize them."

"I guess that's better than nothing. What can I do at level 1? "

"That's a good question. At level 1 you can use almost any enchantment one time per item, at level 2 you can put two enchantments on one item. And finally, at level 3 you can put three enchantments on one item."

"Does this go all the way to level 7?"

He just smile but shook his head.

"Not really, at level 4 things start to get more complicated that's why we'll stop at level 3. Do you know any enchantments that you'll want to try?"

He didn't seem too keen on sharing too much about the higher levels, and I don't think I could force him anyway. So I started to think about what enchantments I'll want to learn for my future use.

"I'm thinking about protection, unbreaking, sharpness, fortune, and can I do mending as well?"

The noble looked shocked once I said that.

"I'm once again taken aback by how much you know. Protection, sharpness, and unbreaking are possible, as for fortune we don't have a copy of it in our library, there's most likely in the Royal Library though. As for mending, which I'm surprised that you even know about, it's a level 5 enchantment together with silk touch."

I listen carefully as this was a different enchanting system than the one that I was used to. I don't know if it's better or worse, but I could lean towards better since I can enchant what I want instead of gambling on it.

"I'll learn what you have then."

"We shall do that then."

He then proceeded to take out 4 enchanted books which he handed to me.

I quickly took them and looked at their enchantment.

It was protection, efficiency, sharpness, and unbreaking.

I opened each one of them and it was full of the unknown language as the first one that I saw.

"I do appreciate the high expectations of me. But I don't think I can memorize a whole book."

"You don't need to memorize the whole book, of course, otherwise nobody would be able to enchant. You only need to memorize the first page, and the rest I'll show you what to do once you finish."

He then headed me a book with a pen and told me to write specific letters of the weird alphabet.

Of course, he was looking intensely at my writing, he pointed out if a letter was too large or too small. Apparently, the letters have to be pretty precise to be recognized by the enchanting table.

And after a few hours, I finally managed to finish my first page.

"Congratulations, you did a great job. Now it's time for the magic to happen."

He then got up from his desk and proceeded to show me the way to the enchanting room.

Fortunately, it wasn't too far, and after a bit of walking we arrived at a room full of bookshelves, and in the middle was the legendary enchanting table.

It gave a faint blue light on the library's floor, and once we got close enough the book opened automatically towards us.

"This is the enchanting table. We use it to enchant our items, take this lapis lazuli and put it in the enchanting tables tab."

I took the magical ore and entered the tab. But it was different than what I remembered, the design was similar to the game but it didn't have the space where I could choose the enchantments, I only had a box where I had to put the lapiz with my levels below.

"How many levels does it say you have?"

"50."

"That's pretty impressive, you must've been fighting with a lot of monsters to get so many levels."

"I guess you could say so. Where do I put the paper now?"

He then took my paper and put the page in an empty book, and then gave it back to me.

"Just gently leave it above the enchanting table and leave it to its job."

I looked confused at those instructions but proceeded to do it anyway.

Once I did that, the book started to float, pages started to flip rapidly and letters started to gather from the nearby bookshelves towards my book.

And after a few moments of gathering holographic letters, the book started to glow stronger and stronger, until it suddenly stopped, closed and just lazily floated above the enchanting table.

I was still stunned by these visual effects, but I was interrupted by a voice praising me.

"Congratulations on making your first enchanted book! Let's keep going."