Project Pegasus

V 1.1 Chapter 5: Programming and Magic.

Math can explain almost everything in nature: from familiar things such as how clouds drift and how waves move to things like the expansion of the universe and the effects of the elementary particles. Since the beginning of time, we have communicated with nature using the language called math.

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The next day, I asked Emily if I can borrow a book about rune writing. 

While reading the books I noticed something.

"I knew it! This is Russian."

"How is this even possible? I never even studied reading nor writing Russian."

Quickly, I looked for a pen and paper. After that, I wrote something on the paper.

"And I can even write like normal."

Unfortunately, my penmanship is the same as back in my world: it's still bad.

"Now that I think about it, why can I perfectly understand Emily? If I'm really in another world, shouldn't I be unable to converse with her? I mean, it's such a big coincidence for the two of us know the same language. No, that's not it. I just didn't notice it, but I'm conversing with her using this world's language. I just didn't notice because it seems so natural. Is there some kind of auto translate in this word?"

However, contrary to what I can read, Emily is not talking in Russian. Rather, in a language, I knew nothing about.

Anyway, I'll worry about this later. I have to master rune writing.

Hours later, I've finished reading half of the book.

"Okay, I kinda get how runes work now in a deeper sense."

Though there are still things I don't understand.

"I'll stop for a little bit."

Maybe I should read some history books to kill time

"It's a little late but, I also need to learn about this world. I've been too preoccupied with my training that I know nothing except magic."

Afterward, I grabbed a different book. "Hmm, this looks very old."

"Septem... war... Eteria... the Demons ... Humans... they... spell. The purpose... from another... weird weapons..."

"This book is too old. The pages are tattered, and some text were faded out. I can't get any information from this".

Walking towards the shelf, I grabbed another book, however, it was the same as before.

Moments later...

"Ahhrrg, all books related to history are too old... Well, at least I learned a few things: One, this world is called Eteria; and two, there was once a war between the humans and demons. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a decent map."

Also, what's the date today? I first thought this is Medieval Age due to the design of Emily's house yet why do the demons have clothes similar to the 19th century?

"Tsk. I'll worry about this later. My priority right now is to master rune writing. I need to get stronger."

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Night time, I went to the forest to experiment with magic.

I need to do this alone since this can be dangerous. Who knows what I might cast with this...

"For now, I'll try using Fireball for the base."

Too bad though, the book didn't explain how the writing of Fireball works. Let's try with trial and error.