Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting

It had been just about an hour since we started walking away from the cities. However, it seemed like that time was about to end soon because I could see a new army of demon beasts on the horizon. 

"Woo! Finally saw something that is not ground," Req said happily. 

"Well, good for you," I replied nonchalantly while I began to think of a way to fight against this new wave of the beasts. 

My physical condition was a bit better now, so perhaps that would help. Granted, it didn\'t mean that my wounds had healed or anything, it\'s just that I had gotten used to the pain therefore it was not distracting me anymore. 

Other than that, with my status getting increased I had more mana and stamina. I haven\'t used any magic at all during the time we were walking so it was safe to assume that I had recovered some of my mana as well.

I tried to use [Foresight] and it seemed to work—although I still felt pain in my eyes, it was not as bad as before. 

"Req, are you able to use any spell?" I asked. 

"Huh? Of course I can, didn\'t you already know that?" she replied.

"No, I meant to ask if you can use any spell without the Requiem sword," I clarified. 

"Hmmmm. I don\'t think so. I mean, I mainly fight with Requiem so I never really cared about learning individual spells. Also, did you forget that our mana is different from normal people\'s? Both you and I can\'t use magic without relying on Requiem," she explained. 

"Different mana huh," I mumbled. "What was it again?" I asked. Of course, I remembered what she had said before, it\'s just that I wanted to check again.

"Don\'t tell me you forgot already?" she looked at me with a horrified face and then sighed. "I told you, didn\'t I? Our mana is at a different frequency compared to the rest of the people. All the magic circles and incantations were created for people who have their mana on the normal frequency, that\'s why we can\'t cast spells using those."

"Ah yeah, that was it," I said while I cracked my fingers and stretched my body.

Just as I thought, that explanation was not entirely satisfying. It did clarify the reason why I wasn\'t able to use magic circles or incantations to cast spells, but there was a bit of a problem with that. 

When Req had told me about this before I went to the academy\'s library. But out of all the books I read, not a single one of them mentioned that mana had a "frequency". 

I wanted to know what was the case with my mana so that I could improve upon it. Being thrown into this calamity had taught me well that I was nowhere near strong enough to survive in the world that was taking birth right now.

The post-calamity world and the pre-calamity world were two entirely different things. 

\'Sigh, troubles never end huh,\' I thought to myself. 

Passing the Requiem sword to Req, I created the ice swords for myself to wield. Honestly, it would\'ve been better to fight using the Requiem sword but she didn\'t have any other means of fighting other than using the sword. 

I could tell her to leave her physical form and turn into a sword, but then I\'d have to fight alone. She was able to take thousands of demon beasts on her own so fighting alongside her was logically the better option.

As the demon beasts grew near, the ground beneath started rumbling. The screams and roars of the beasts echoed in the empty lands.

"Let\'s gooooooooo!!!" Req said. She was clearly excited to kill the beasts after being bored for so long. 

"What a pain," I sighed, taking a battle stance. 

The beasts came close and Req was the first one to act. Kicking off the ground she launched herself toward the beasts. Her speed was so fast that for a while she was basically levitating above the ground. 

She collided with a group of demon beasts and with a single swing, put an end to their life. She was having fun, after all. 

I reverted my attention back to the beasts around me. Four of them were coming toward me. They were big, probably thrice as big as me. 

I reversed the ice sword in my right hand and then raised it toward them. 

"Maelstrom: White!" I said. 

***

"Anya? Are you alright?" Leon asked, patting Anya on her back. She was spacing out again. 

Right now they were inside a building that had been allocated to the students for spending the night. It was quite big, and just like everything else in Havenreach, this also looked more modern than anything they\'d seen. 

It was made with bricks and concrete while the floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with metal. 

At that moment, Anya was standing in front of the room she\'d been given. Ellyn and Leon were also with her, all of them were talking about how things would go on from now on when she suddenly stopped replying and started staring into space. 

"Y-Yeah, I\'m fine," she replied, finally coming back to her senses. 

"Are you still worried about your parents? I mean, I don\'t mean this in a bad way but they seemed like they were in a rough state," Ellyn said. 

"Hmmm," Anya nodded. 

After meeting up with Anya, Ainge and Ron—along with all the other civilians—had been moved to the refugee area. It was a place made for people like them to live, who didn\'t have enough money left to buy a house in Havenreach. 

The place was enough to live in, however, it was just that. It was a place where you could only live. There were no other facilities or privileges you\'d normally get in a house.

Although just being alive at this time was considered lucky, no one had room to complain.