Avatar: Mage of All Elements

Running away was a hasty decision. The thing was, I had the impression that everyone in the Fireland colonies wanted to see me off. And the only ones who wanted to see me off were the fire mages.

They even asked me to stay, but they did it in a strange way, and they didn't care what state I was in, alive or badly fried, as long as I stayed. And from the place where I was discovered it was a hundred kilometers to the front line, and at the end of the race I had forty people on my tail.

I urgently needed to master the magic of fire, because I could not always dodge, and I had to either divert the fire guests or scatter them. The techniques of earth and water magic helped a lot.

But the hardest part was when I was near the front. The thing is, using fire magic was a direct ticket to the prison of the land, which I really did not want. I had to wriggle like a frying pan, but escape without magic.

It was difficult and painful, but I did it. Not without injuries, of course, but thanks to minimal training in the basics, I was able to minimize the damage.

Of course, I was interrogated and even treated a bit after fighting off the fire warriors. Finding nothing suspicious, they sent me away. I was again faced with the difficult decision of where to go. I remembered that I wanted to visit Hama.

Then we're on our way. Later, I could go back to Kyoshi Island and wait for the Avatar there. What's next? Join his group? I'm almost 30 years old, and I probably won't fit in. Go with them as an Avatar teacher? Why should they go anywhere? Eh, it's all so complicated. It's better to take things as they come.

The place where I first woke up in this world was not far away, and it took me two months to get there. Thanks to the efforts of my group, the Earth Army was able to reclaim a decent amount of land. It just so happened that my house was right on this reclaimed territory, so I crossed the front once again.

Only there was no one home. The house was completely empty. Interestingly, there was no damage, which means that Hama left here quietly and probably of her own free will.

Where to look for her now? She could be in either the Land of Fire or the Land of Earth. Her absence is not critical, just inconvenient. But since I can't meet Hama, I'll go to Kyoshi Island. At least there I'm known and welcome.

That's what I did. A little time and two days at sea, and I'm back on the island. And I was remembered there, so I was welcomed with joy. Which is a relief.

***

Back on the island, I quickly solved things like the treatment and training of the younger generation. And then there was the question of what to do with the Avatar. From the history of Kyoshi Island, which I had read in the local library, I knew that an Avatar must learn the elements in a certain order. Air-Water-Earth-Fire. I remembered that the Avatar had to be an air magician, but I didn't know what other elements he possessed.

I didn't care about any of that. That's not what I'm worried about. How do I join to Avatar team? I've thought long enough, and I've come to a simple conclusion. I'm just too old for them. It follows that I need to look younger. How do you do that? I have no idea, but I think magic can help me.

There's a reason I want to join their team. The thing is, they're going to find some kind of ghost library on their journey. I remembered from the cartoon that it contained a lot of knowledge. And I wanted to go there. And that's why I have to join their team.

I had plenty of time. And as soon as my water magic was back to normal, I began my experiments. It wasn't hard to dig a few rooms in the rock, and it wasn't hard to equip everything there. It was more difficult to get the merchants to send me prisoners. But that wasn't a problem, and soon the experiments began.

In my previous life, I thought all experiments on humans were immoral and cruel. It wasn't until I was here that I realized it wasn't. They brought me all sorts of people. They were usually not the noblest of professions. That's what I mean about pirates. I interrogated every one of them and picked out the worst of them. They were usually either murderers or rapists. But even such people I didn't torture, I put them into a deep sleep, close to a coma.

The victim would dream and feel nothing. I used magic to keep them alive. I had only eleven subjects. Three women and eight men. They were all between thirty and fifty years old.

The work was slow. I had to find out what was responsible for what and how the magic affected the body. I also tried to experiment by using healing magic in different ways. This way I realized how I could harm or even kill with a treatment. I achieved results within a year. Through a complex set of healing magic, I was able to change my appearance. This way I could not become a child, but I could still be eighteen or twenty years old.

But having achieved such a result, I wanted to go further. So I continued my experiments. At the same time, I lived a fairly quiet life, changing my appearance very slowly. I did this for six years, until I was about sixteen years old.

Except that one day everything changed dramatically.