Reborn As A Wizard

Chapter 3: The Forest of Death

Thus we started our journey towards the forest of death. As we entered the forest, Alice seemed very scared but as I petted on her head, she felt more relaxed and comfortable. Inside the forest, we noticed that a whole group of some huge creatures wielding axes named "ogre" were targeting a girl of about my age who had long ears, exactly like an elf.
We decided to help her. I quickly used the red card and produced fire from it and as soon as the ogres saw it, they fled away. I still couldn't control the amount of fire produced though. The elf thanked us for saving her and told us that her name was Meril and she was from a village that was destroyed recently by a huge fire dragon. Hearing the word dragon made both me and Alice shiver in fear but I calmly asked her what was she doing here and she replied that she was searching for the dragon that killed her family and village and told us that her mother even sacrificed her life just to protect her.
Hearing this we asked her where was she headed to and she replied that firstly she would gather information about the dragon from the capital city of Sofya. We invited her to come alongwith us as we were headed towards the capital too. Seeing that we saved her earlier she decided to come with us. The three of us spent the night together inside the forest. Since elves of this world are exceptionally talented magic users, Meril showed me how to control my magic. At first she was shocked too that I could use all kinds of magic including the void magic!
The first task that she gave me was to produce a campfire using the red card on the woods. On the first try, the fire was too large that if Meril wasn't there, the whole forest could have been burnt! But since Meril was there she controlled the fire. After many failures, I finally learnt to control my mana efficiently. Now I could use any of my magic in a proper amount. Using my void magic to bring out tent and rope, we camped and ate marshmallows too using my void magic.
The next day as we were near the end of the forest, we encountered the largest beast I have ever seen : A rock golem which is made using sand magic. So this time, a human was attacking us. Meril used her water and soil magic combined to perform wood magic and a huge hand appeared that totally crushed the golem!
So that girl didn't need our help anyway! She was alone powerful enough to beat some meagre ogres if she was capable of doing magic like this to beat a golem. It's a good thing that she is on our side. I also learnt that various magic could be combined to perform new types of magic. That elf Meril really is something else. But still their whole tribe couldn't beat the dragon, just how powerful was it?
Moving on, we saw the human who attacked us, more accurately, the witch who attacked us. She was wearing a long purple robe alongwith a large purple hat and had a broom with her.
I tried to start a conversation with her. I asked her why she attacked us. She told us that it was humans who feared her who started attacking first. She has been attacked for many centuries by humans and now she is so angry that she will destroy any human as she sees. So she was the reason why the persons who went into the forest never came back. I tried to explain to her that revenge would attain nothing but she didn't even listen to my words. She started attacking. I too had to use my magic. I used a blue card and a huge amount of water started coming from it. Remembering my training, I reshaped it into a water ball and trapped the witch inside it. Then I used a green card for wind magic to produce air bubble inside the water ball so that the witch could breathe. Seeing how much mana I had and the control of my magic everyone was surprised, including me.
Then we started talking to the witch and seeing that she had no chance of beating me, she agreed on not killing anymore humans who do not attack her first and she agreed to answer one of our questions. We asked her about the fire dragon and she said to meet her friend Jay in Sofya city. Now that the forest is over, we are near the capital city of Sofya.