Chapter 66 - 67. Magic Spell?
"Those are the list of questions we made for you. If you have some other more questions, please add them up," the man sitting near Yoru who I did not know spoke up. We give you one day's rest." And after that, they left me alone with Naar.
"Tha, do you feel like going out with me?" Naar said enthusiastically, "Common, let us go out for a while! There are some good places to visit around here. I am sure you will like it," His eyes reflected sincerity. I knew he wanted to console me.
I could not say no to his invitation because basically I just needed to rest today. Without waiting for my response to his invitation, he pulled my hand and dragged me out of that room with his long paces. I was half running to keep up with him. Some servants were looking at us in confusion when in the end Naar took me to run along the long halls of this building to reach the exit door.
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The place we were visiting was more like the downtown. There was a huge city square with a beautiful floor in flower motifs of different colors, a magnificent exhibition building, and a pyramid with the wall made of colorful soldered glasses like a collection of mosaic.
A big woman-like statue was placed in the middle of that city square. Towering buildings and a huge construction were not far from the downtown. I could see its roof was pointed, lit was like palace's roof shown in films.
"it use to be downtown," Naar tried to smile., "a very beautiful place indeed, isn't it?" his eyes ran around his surroundings.
"Yes, very beautiful indeed," I replied as I stood next to him. this place was located on high land. Over this high land, we could see directly to the landscape below it. I could see an unusual construction that was a bit stuck out, "What is that?" I pointed to that building.
"It is for all ships to dock, it is like a sea harbor, but only for sailing ships," Naar told me about ships that were generated by wind power. The place that used to be the center of the city has now been changed into a trading center. There were many ships dropped by to trade and tourists came for just a visitor had an adventure to the places around here.
We walked around that city square, enjoying the views for some time. Naar said that when the was no starlight, there would be many people flocking in this place and making a circle because music performance and art would be performed in the middle of it. it was different from the shopping area I had ever visited with Hana, most performers were wizards in the form of humans.
Meanwhile, located outside the center of the city was a savannah with purple flowers growing everywhere. We sat there to rest after feeling enough walking around the square, looking at the city view, and waiting for the starlight to go off.
"Tha, what is your place like? I mean does it also have a place like this?" Naar looked curious about what Euron was really like. I didn't even know how to tell him.
"I don't know much about the city where I live," I smiled at him, hoping he understood what I meant, "Now I live in Euron. I have been living there for five years, so I knew little about it. It was because I have no time for sightseeing," I could see the disappointment on his face.
"while my birthplace, a village called Sa'bah was located on the outskirt of Euron. It is a small village, the makers of marionettes. There are many doll artists who live in that village. And there are many fire trees found there," he looked enthusiastic this time after I told him slightly about Sa'bah.
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"Most of the people said that only some people remained who can carve on firewood, it is because the wood is very hard and smooth. But the uniqueness of that wood is that it is not easily burnt and decayed although it is soaked in water for a long time. That is why some artists are challenged to use it." my vision and imagination flew to that town of mine.
"There is a big theater building where a marionette performance is conducted every weekend. All doll artists gather to show off their own crafts. Villagers and visitors from the surrounding cities come so that it is very crowded," I told him more about Sa'bah, a village where I was born. It was just because I knew little about Euron, and I did not want to disappoint Naar.
The light in the sky was gone, so that sparkling lights from the buildings in the city could be seen from here. The light was blue so it did not blind the eyes. We could see its beauty. Faintly I could hear music coming one after another, it seemed that the show was to begin.
Naar took me back to the city. Before we went to the city square, we bought some snacks to accompany us to enjoy the show. Children were running here and there happily while taking something like a flashlight of purple color.
"Come on!" Naar instructed me to follow him.
We went down the stairs to go to the city square because its location was lower than other buildings around. The orange color was dancing in the middle of it, and some musicians were playing many kinds of musical instruments, some of them I was familiar with, such as violin and whistle, and some others I had never seen before. They were playing a song that for me sounded mysterious enough, "Is that a magic spell?" I spoke it out of my consciousness.
Naar looked at me in surprise, "You know that?" I shook my head, "It is actually a magic spell used to call the dragons," He said lightly as if he had used to seeing those animals.
'How possible such creatures to live in here? Aren't they dangerous? Why are they calling them?!' all such questions were just buzzing in my mind because I was quite surprised with my own voice and asked Naar about it.
"Once, there was a dragon that was pretty wicked due to wicked magic attacking this place. He burnt down all buildings and destroyed anything in front of him. none of the people here was able to stop him until there was an adventurer who helped the dragon free from that bad magic," Naar quite understood my unspoken questions through my expressions so that he told me that.
"the dragon realized what had he caused to the people. He apologized and helped them out afterward. But because too many important buildings were destroyed, the center of the city was moved and this city was only used for the center of trading," I thought such stories just happened in films in the cinema but now I knew that it existed in this dimension.
"After that, the dragon visits this city every year. But for a few years, he stopped coming. It was right after that adventurer passed away," I was stunned to listen to his story, "Tha, do you know that the adventurer was not a wizard? He was an ordinary man like you. He was the husband of Miss Younha, the leader of the south wizard."
This was the fact I never knew, that my grandfather was a great adventurer. Now I know why my grandmother loved grandfather so much. Perhaps it was not simply they had such a great story, but it was also because there was such a big and strong love for each other until they both died. It was proven by the death of my grandmother was only a few years after the death of her husband.
And at this point, I just wished that my father and my father were like my grandfather and grandmother. Although their personal life was carefully kept as a secret, to be honest, I envied my grandmother.
The calling spell that was being sung by a group of wizards in that city square was able to hypnotize me. I was carried away into it and did not want to flinch an inch from where I was sitting down until the song stopped. The song was able to make me forget my problems for a while, "I don't know what exactly is being delivered by this music. No lyrics were uttered but I am feeling so much at ease.
The weather was going down slowly as if to ask me not to go away. But some people decided to leave their place although the music was still on.
I wrapped my knees due to the cold when suddenly Naar wrapped me with his fur coat, "So that you won't freeze," He smiled funnily.
I looked at him in annoyance, "I feel like a little mouse being wrapped with your big coat!" ignoring his annoying smile I pulled the coat tighter to myself.. Man's scent was coming out of that man sitting next to me was stuck in that coat.