Chapter 5: A World of Blended Fairy Tales?!
The hooded youth pored over the docunts scattered across the table.
His fingers moved across the map, connecting the nations depicted with the content of the texts.
In this era of limited productivity, the maps were painfully crude—chaotic drawings, distorted scales, and large areas purely imagined.
But with enough docunts and records to cross-reference, they weren’t entirely useless.
At first, Rhine read the docunts with a calm expression, a faint smile on his lips.
But as he continued reading...
His smile gradually froze, his expression turning increasingly serious. By the end, his hands holding the book trembled, and cold sweat poured from his forehead.
“Why is it like this?”
Rhine had assud he’d traveled to the story of Sleeping Beauty.
He thought the world beyond the kingdom wouldn’t be particularly unusual—just a typical Western fantasy setting.
But after learning about the continent’s broader landscape, he realized how wrong he had been!
The known world consisted of a single continent.
The west was fragnted into countless small kingdoms, like stars scattered across the sky.
The Kingdom of Sleeping Beauty was just one of these many kingdoms.
In the eastern regions, the culture resembled the Arabic culture of Earth.
As for the far east, the court docunts were vague, ntioning only a distant and prosperous empire with a mysterious and splendid culture.
Why does this sound so familiar? Rhine’s mouth twitched slightly.
What truly shocked Rhine, however, were the details where folklore and reality seed to blur:
“Historical records suggest that castles built by giants can be found on certain thick clouds…”
“In the vast ocean, there exists a kingdom inhabited by rmaids and sea witches…”
“A world traveler claid to have fallen into a rabbit hole and accidentally entered a bizarre and wondrous realm…”
“A traveler from the Middle Eastern deserts spoke of their land’s extraordinary marvels—flying carpets, giant eagle-like beasts, and powerful spirits trapped in vessels who grant wishes to mortals…”
“An elder from a distant Eastern empire said that immortals dwell in their mountains, and the flow of ti in their caves differs from the outside world…”
What kind of patchwork world have I ended up in?!
Rhine couldn’t help but rant inwardly.
One familiar story title after another surfaced in his mind:
Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little rmaid, Alice in Wonderland, The Fisherman and the Genie, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp...
“I don’t even know what era this is.”
“Have these stories I know so well from my previous life already beco history? Or are they, like Sleeping Beauty, yet to unfold?”
“The earlier the era, the more freedom I’ll have to make an impact!”
“Once I’ve resolved the matter of Little Princess Aurora and beco a more powerful mage, I absolutely have to venture beyond this kingdom!”
Rhine made up his mind.
He then picked up the spellbook from the table.
The Book of Transformation and Summoning.
Eagerly, Rhine flipped open the yellowed pages.
What greeted him were strange, cryptic symbols and text.
According to the King, this to had been passed down for centuries.
It was said that only those who truly understood magic could comprehend its contents!
Without a proper mage to claim it, this priceless treasure had been left neglected, sealed in the depths of the library.
When the witches of the kingdom showed an interest in it, the old King had offered them a deal: the spellbook in exchange for one of them serving as the court’s advisor for a few years. R̃АＮổВƐ𝐒
The offer had been unanimously declined.
Clearly, the book held so appeal for the powerful witches, but not enough to make them bow to royal authority.
This rejection had left the King so disheartened that when he invited Rhine to serve as the court’s advisor, he was especially cautious, offering the most generous terms from the outset.
The mont Rhine opened the book, he imdiately confird the legends were true.
As a true mage, he could automatically understand every strange and twisted symbol in the book!
Flipping through its pages at lightning speed, Rhine’s excitent grew as he discovered its contents were exactly what he had hoped for.
The magic Rhine had gained upon crossing into this world had co to him automatically, without a teacher. His knowledge of the occult and supernatural was severely lacking.
This book provided an extensive foundation in magical knowledge, perfectly filling in the gaps!
What’s more, it recorded nurous practical spells.
“Those 12 witches must be far stronger than I am right now, yet their pride stopped them from becoming court advisors, leaving this book untouched!”
Devouring the pages hungrily, the silver-haired boy’s grin grew wider and brighter.
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