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TBE Chapter 17
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 07:55:05 +0000 UTCChapter 17
The next day Ezekiel woke up early so he decided to cook instead of waking up his brothers. When he was on Earth sick, a co-worker from Asia brought him a chocolate rice porridge topped with evaporated milk called Champorado, and for some reason, just like Arroz Caldo, it brought him feelings of warmth and healing. He checked the recipe online and saw how easy it was to cook so he started cooking it once in a while until it was one of his best dishes.
So for a copper coin, he brought the ingredients from his system shopping site and started cooking the dish. He stored the remaining ingredients in his 4th tab space and figured that the remaining ingredients were good for cooking 2 more Champorado pots.
Then he spent another couple of copper coins to purchase eggs, bacon, and pancake mix and began cooking them. Once they were cooked, he stored them in a huge box to be brought out whenever he wanted but since they were breakfast meals, they would probably eat them during breakfast. The bacon, egg, and pancake meal should probably last a while.
Soon the boys woke up and Ezekiel cleaned the sleep out of their faces by using his Prestidigitation spell. Then they all had bowls of the chocolate rice porridge called Champorado topped with milk after drinking their vitamins. Ezekiel also prepared hot milk for them that he spelled to taste like chocolate milk. After that satisfying breakfast, he cast Mage Armor on all of them then they went to the village.
“What are we going to do there?”
“I need to learn my letters, while you play outside.”
Before they left though, Luke suddenly threw a tantrum saying that he wanted to stay and play. Ezekiel then bribed his brother that he would carry him using magic and that intrigued Luke that he immediately acquiesced in going to the village.
Ezekiel purchased the 1st level spell Tenser’s Floating Disk for 1 silver coin and put it on the 1st level spell slot. He cast it and a translucent blue colored disk 3 feet in diameter appeared where he cast it. It was floating 3 feet above the ground. The appearance of the disk answered the debate about whether the disk was invisible or not but based on what he had read, it was usually based on the Dungeon Master, in this case, his system was the dungeon master so it was probably his system that designed it that way. It could even be an unconscious result of his desire for what the Tenser’s Floating Disk should look like.
He then checked his remaining coins and he saw that it was 47 silver and 70 plus copper coins.
Robert and Luke gasped when they saw the floating disk. Ezekiel carried the two boys and put them in the disk and commanded the disk to follow him.
Soon the boys were traveling to the market. Ezekiel was walking while his two siblings were floating behind him sitting on Tenser’s Floating Disk. Robert and Luke kept yelling that they were flying and their laughter floated in the air.
When they reached the place where there would be people, he dismissed the spell to the disappointment of his brothers.
“Sorry about that but when once we go home or if we’re going inside the forest, I’ll cast the spell again so you can ride it, okay?”
When they got to the village the three brothers headed directly to Mr. Duvon’s house. In Ezekiel’s teacher’s door, he knocked but the one who opened it was a middle-aged woman.
“Oh, hello. I’m Zeke and these are my brothers Robert and Luke. Mr. Duvon was supposed to teach me.”
“I didn’t know that you’ve become so polite Boy, or should I say Zeke. I did hear you changed your name. You don’t remember me, do you? I’m Lena and I’m one of the village’s healers. Mr. Duvon fell and broke his hip so he wouldn’t be available to teach you anymore. I’m sorry.”
Ezekiel was taken aback. He knew how vicious an injury could be to an elderly person but he needed to learn how to read and write and Mr. Duvon was his best option right now.
“Can I talk to Mr. Duvon? I have something here that might be able to help him with,” Ezekiel asked.
Lena the healer just nodded and Ezekiel told his brothers to wait in the courtyard. Robert nodded and his two young brothers started playing with the ball that Ezekiel retrieved from the 4th tab. Thinking about how difficult it was to make sure that others were not looking before he could retrieve items from his inventory, he thought of purchasing a bag pack so he could use it as a cover while getting things from his 4th tab space.
Ezekiel then followed Lena to where Mr. Duvon was resting, which was his room on the second floor of the house. When they arrived there, Lena knocked and opened the door.
“Norman, you have a visitor,” Lena said to the old man who was lying on his bed then the healer left, closing the door behind her.
“Zeke, it’s you. I’m sorry I will not be able to teach you anymore. I think I’m too old to recover from this injury,” Mr. Duvon said weakly from the bed.
“Mr. Duvon, before my parents left us they left a treasure for me. I was supposed to use it if any of us brothers got injured. It was supposed to heal any injury and my father told me that if we’re truly desperate we can sell it. I’m willing to sell it to you for 1 gold coin and you can pay me if you get healed. The reason I’m doing this is I truly need to learn my letters since I’m planning to leave this village with my brothers and you’re the only one I can think of who can teach me,” Ezekiel said to the old man trying his best to sound sincere.
Ezekiel knew that the 1 gold coin was affordable to someone like the old teacher and he didn’t want the Healing Elixir to be thought of as something not valuable.
The old teacher stared at him for a couple of minutes then simply nodded. Ezekiel then turned his back on the old man and cast the Healing Elixir spell then he showed the vial of potion to the old man. He opened the vial and helped the teacher to drink it.
After a few seconds, a look of amazement appeared on the old teacher’s face.
“I’m fully healed!” The old man said and Mr. Duvon stood up from his bed without any help.
“I don’t feel any aches or pain in my body! I feel like my body turned 20 years younger! The potion that you gave me is not an ordinary potion young Zeke and you wasted it on me. It’s more valuable than a gold coin,” Mr. Duvon said.
“You don’t need to worry, Sir since my parents left me three of them. You only need to pay me 1 gold coin since that’s what I have said. In exchange, please keep it a secret and teach me everything that I will need to know to survive in a city. For free of course. I’m truly uneducated and need to learn as much as I can.”
“Okay, young man. I’ll meet you downstairs. I just need to convince Lena that I didn’t break my hip and just experienced a very mild strain so she would leave.”
Ezekiel nodded, went outside the teacher’s room, and headed downstairs. He then told his brothers that they would need to stay and play in the courtyard for a few more hours so he gave them the skipping rope, the badminton set, the Rubix cube, and the Snakes and Ladders board game. He then returned to the living room to wait for his teacher.
Soon, Ezekiel saw Mr. Duvon and Lena walking downstairs.
“As you can see Lena, I’m just acting up so rest your mind,” Mr. Duvon said to the healer and the old man even jumped up and down a bit which made Ezekiel a little nervous.
He then thought if the old teacher injured himself again, he would just feed him another healing elixir.
“I swear if you do this to me again, I’ll hit you on the head!” The healer said then she exited the house without even looking at Ezekiel.
Mr. Duvon just laughed. Ezekiel saw that the old teacher was happy.
“I want to thank you again, Zeke. My body never felt so good in decades! Here’s your gold coin,” The old man handed Ezekiel 1 gold coin.
He thanked the old man and accepted the coin. The payment for the elixir made Ezekiel happy since his total coins went up to 1 Gold, 47 Silver, and 70 plus copper coins. Their lesson then started and lasted for three hours.
Once the lesson ended, Ezekiel requested the old man to switch the lessons to afternoons since he admitted to the old man that he planned to roam the forest in the mornings to hunt for animals to sell.
“I understand. I even heard that you’ve been very successful even managing to trap and kill a huge bear. Just take care of yourself okay,” Mr. Duvon said and Ezekiel just nodded.
After that lesson, the three siblings went to the village park and ate their lunch there consisting of fried pork on top of a bowl of rice and a glass of water spelled to taste like fruit juice.
