Otherworld Adventure 11 New World, Alterna

The books lined up on the shelves inside weren't all that much, but for a village, it was plentiful. The bookshelves lined up the 3 sides of the room.

The shelf on the left side of the room was pretty long, almost as long as the wall itself. This shelf had books about magic, mana, magic research and other hand written research doc.u.ments.

At first it made Cecil wonder why a fox village with their inherent magic had such a long line of books related to magic research and the modern magic system.

It turns out that Lucia's mother, Anna, was actually a very talented Spellcaster and magic researcher. She was able to adeptly use the modern magic system's magic spells as well as her own inherent magic spells.

She had graduated from a prestigious magic academy and continued with her research until she got married and settled down in Fauxe Village with her husband, Zaki.

She still does some magic research now and then when she has time, but she mostly invests her time to housework and teaching all she knows about magic to Lucia. Now it was with the addition of Cecil.

There were 2 bookshelves on the right side of the room and they were separated by a window. The shelf closer to the door had books related to history and geography, while the further shelf had books related to language and mathematics.

The small shelf at the far end of the room by the side of a window was small and it contained the story books that Lucia loved.

When Cecil first came to the library, the first kind of book Lucia showed him was precisely from this small shelf.

It made her a little upset when Cecil directly ignored it and pulled out a book from the geography & history shelf while telling her to read it to him.

At the time, although Cecil was already capable of speaking the language, it was still hard for him to read.

She complained for a week after that, saying that he was a dull and boring person. But what could he do? Cecil seriously needed information about the world.

Now he could read them by himself, but it was with difficulty. So in the end, Cecil still needed Lucia to help read the books for him.

"Okay, stupid Cel, what do you want me to read?"

"Hey, Lulu… can you please stop calling me that every time we come into the library?"

"Well, it's not MY fault that Cel can't READ, fufufu~"

"Hey, that's uncalled for!"

"Bleeehh~"

This always happens when they go to the library. Lucia now had the habit of calling Cecil, 'Stupid Cel'. It couldn't be helped that he still couldn't read well.

Silver, seeing them settled, goes over to the window and lays down to sleep on the floor.

"Just read me the books about the place we're at."

"Okay~"

Lucia and Cecil go to the 'geo-shelf' and grab a couple of books, after getting all the books about the topic, they come back to the desk and settle the books down. After picking a particular book, Lucia opens it up and waits for Cecil to finish preparing his quill and paper.

Cecil has to take notes of course, the notes were in English. It was a normal thing for Cecil to take notes and he would always use English to write them.

It was probably because she was curious, but Lucia had also started to learn English. Due to that, it was Cecil's turn to see her struggle like him in learning each other's' respective languages.

"Okay, let's start then."

"Un, the world we live in is called…"

The world Cecil had transferred to was called Alterna. It was a world almost like Earth. It had 6 large continents, but Alterna was at least 10 or more times the size of Earth. Cecil was surprised that this world had the "world is round" concept.

The 6 continents' names are the human continent Midgard, the fairy continent Faerholm, the beast-kin continent Urrugdrasil, the demonkin continent Helaife, the artic continent Aizlandia, and the dead continent Non.

The human continent was situated in the western hemisphere. Anyways, the Human Continent Midgard, as the name implies, is a continent where the majority of the population are human's.

The civilization there was also pretty advanced advanced, already having the technology to travel through the air on airs.h.i.+ps and such.

Cecil was currently on the Urrugdrasil Continent and was surprised to find out that the two continents were actually only separated by a 100 kilometer long 'river'.

Legend states that Urrugdrasil and Midgard was once one whole super continent. It was only because of the constant wars between races that a 'G.o.d', who was benevolent and wanted to end all the conflicts, used his/her sword and slashed a huge 100 km long and abysmally deep gouge across land, ultimately separating the two land ma.s.ses.

Of course, this was only a legend. The credibility wasn't all that good and it was the propaganda that the religion at the border between the two continents spread.

The two continents were peaceful in the coming days, even until this day, though this was only on the surface. There's no way it would be peaceful after all that history of enmity.

It was just like back on earth where wars were raged because of the differences between ideals and races. This applied even to the inhabitants of this world.

For instance, even though trade was open between the two countries and the people from the two sides could come and go as they please using teleportation formations that were situated in the couple of major cities that were located around the border, the tension between the two sides were on the rise because the human side had started to kidnap people from the beast-kin side to be used and sold as slaves and such.

Of course to prevent this, the beast-kin side would straight away kill the people who were caught kidnapping and even raid human cities to try and save their own kin.

This was the information obtained from the merchants who came to the village twice a week. They said that small scale skirmishes had already started popping up, with the humans saying that they wanted to enact justice towards the beast-kin who had raided their cities.

It was laughable considering that the humans themselves were the first ones who had raided villages and towns to kidnap the beast-kin.

As human himself, he felt very shameful and disgusted towards how hypocritical his own race was. When the merchants spoke of the news, the town of course was full with worry.

The merchants were even starting to worry about how the village was sheltering Cecil. The person who spoke up for Cecil was without a doubt Lucia. But Cecil for one, was even more relieved that the villagers themselves didn't condemn him for being a human, they even defended him, explaining how he was different from those despicable people.

It was also because of his contributions to the village that earned him the favor of everyone. Cecil was always helping out with the hunting and miscellaneous jobs around the village.

Next would be the beast-kin continent called Urrugdrasil. Fauxe Village was located out on the far east side of the continent. So Cecil was a long ways away from the Urrug-Mid border.

So why was the news about the conflict between the humans and already making their way far out here? This was because according to another rumor, there might be a war waiting to happen if things get too out of hand.

The situation was actually so bad that there were also rumors about other beast-kin actually cooperating with the humans in kidnapping their fellow kin and selling them to the human slave traders.

It was really cruel and hypocritical, but that's what greed does to people, human and beast-kin alike.

The Urrugdrasil had a variety of beast-kin species. This was the only continent that had the presence of dragons in it and also had their protection.

The huge tree that Cecil saw on the first day he was transported to the Alterna was unique to this continent. It was called the World Tree, Urrugdrasil.

The name of the continent actually came from the name of the World Tree itself. The World Tree was the guardian deity of the continent, and the protectors of the World Tree were the elf race.

This included every species of elf such as the dark elves, night/moon elves, high elves, wood elves, sun elves, and many others. They each had a specific region around the world tree that they would protect, except for the dark elves and sun elves.

The dark elves lived in caves that were connected to the underground and protected the roots of the World Tree from underground monsters while the sun elves lived directly on the large branches and leaves and tended to the trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits of the World Tree.

The other beast-kin races were scattered around the continent and most lived in harmony with each other. There were a few races who couldn't stand to even breathe the same air as their rival race.

One example of beast-kin races that were in constant war with each other was the canine and feline types of beast-kin.

This reminded Cecil of the love-hate relations.h.i.+p between cats and dogs back on earth. It was quite amusing to Cecil that the two couldn't even get along even in another world.

Also, it was exactly these warring races of beast-kin that was said to be kidnapping and selling each other's kin to the human slave traders.
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The very people of the continent might be the ones sparking the war between the two continents in the future.

'Hopefully this doesn't happen because I have to make my way from the east of this continent, to the west where the border is at.'

If a war were to start between the human and beast-kin races him being a human wouldn't really be a welcome at all if that time ever came. He might even be kidnapped or killed on sight.

Next was Faerholm. Faerholm wasn't a large continent. It was somewhat like Australia, just a couple times bigger.

It was located at the "root" of the world. On earth, it was located where Antarctica was. The outer area of the continent was protected by the snow and the constant blizzards that happened all year long. There was never a time when the blizzards and snowstorms let up.

The only reason that people knew it was the land of fairies was because old records stated that the land of the fairies were once a part of the demon continent Helaife, but because of the constant oppression from the demon-kin, the guardian deity of the fairies separated a portion of the land ma.s.s and moved it to the root of the world, cast an eternal spell of blizzard and snow, henceforth isolating and separating the fairies from the world.

Not much was known about this continent because no one has ever made it past the frozen area, but it was believed that past the blizzards and snowstorms, was a paradise. Heaven on earth basically, a Shangri La.