Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 119: Ch-119 What Is Fire? -3

The village people were a bit confused about what he wanted to do, but they still followed his request and got him what he wanted.

After getting what he wanted, William arranged the items in a weird formation on the ground as he started spinning a twig on the dry leaves and twigs.

The people were confused about what he was trying to do, but they didn't interrupt and instead just watched in intrigue.

And before long, smoke formed around William.

~cough~

~cough~

A few men and women coughed as they inhaled the smoke and tried to stop William, but they were stopped by the men around them.

A bit after the smoke, a very small and fragile fire burned.

The fire could be extinguished at any moment due to a lack of fuel to burn and the wind.

But William had no intention of letting such a thing happen, as he brought out even more dry leaves and fed them to the fire.

And before long, a proper, big fire capable of burning on its own was created.

"How?"

"This is magic."

"Gabura is God himself."

"I'm sorry for doubting your divine will, my Lord."

It should go without saying, but the villagers were completely enthralled by what he had done and how he had done it.

To them, William had created something out of absolutely nothing. If he wanted, William could have explained how he had done it, but this misunderstanding worked out in his favour, so he didn't bother.

After that, William taught the villagers how to create fire and how to cook meat, and the more he talked, the more divine he looked into their ignorant eyes.

William wanted to teach them a lot more, but before he could, a villager came running in panic as he shouted.

"A saber-tooth tiger is here."

As soon as he finished his shout, an orange-furred tiger with long fangs rushed inside and plunged into the villagers who had just entered the settlement.

Panic spread among the villagers as they saw the gory and bloody sight.

But before they could start to run a voice, the person they had come to put their full faith in stopped them.

"No need to run; I'm still here," William announced, catching the attention of the villagers and the tiger.

The villagers went behind him, and the tiger rushed towards him to devour him before feasting on all the other men and women.

Seeing the tiger rushing towards him, William didn't panic and instead lit a stick near him on fire using the fire he had created earlier and, with pin-point accuracy, threw the burning stick at the tiger.

Once the stick fell on the tiger, it fell back as it rolled in agony, crying and roaring in pain as it burned alive.

And after a few agonising minutes, it was dead.

Seeing this, the villagers cemented Garuba as the vessel of God and declared him as the new chief. Exclusive content from m,v lem|p,yr

But that wasn't what William cared about, and instead, in his mind, a single thought surfaced.

'With just fire today, I completely changed the fate of these people, first saving their lives from the tiger and then later from all the diseases they were going to get from eating raw meat.'

For the first time, William realised how influential fire was in the course of human development as he muttered

"Fire is development and protection."

He didn't know why he said it, but after saying it, his vision went black, and once it returned, his surroundings had changed.

**

'So cold' William thought as he looked around.

This time, he looked to be inside a little hut.

It looked much better than what the village people he taught about fire were living in, but it was still primitive.

There was this sort of cold sensation on his body, just like when he woke up in the cave before, except this time the sensation was even stronger.

And just like before, he forgot about it almost involuntarily.

Instead, he went towards a nearby mirror to take a proper look at his new body.

From the mirror, a brown-haired kid with chestnut-coloured eyes stared back at William.

The kid was even younger than William himself, looking no older than 8 years old.

'Just what is going on?' William wondered.

He had no clue about what was happening or why.

But he did know that the porter probably played a role in it.

'I will kill that bastard,' William thought as rage filled inside him.

William wasn't able to see everything that had happened, but he did know that the man called Sung had betrayed them and almost killed him.

William still wasn't sure about the status of his mortality.

For all he knew, he could be in hell, suffering for all his sins.

However, almost instinctively, William lost all of these thoughts as a motherly voice called out to him.

"Maran, dear, are you awake?" said a pretty woman as she entered the room.

She had brown hair and chestnut-coloured eyes, which were very similar to Williams's current body, which led him to believe that she was the mother of his body.

"Aww, look at my little prince waking up on his own," the woman said as she lifted him off the ground and spun him around.

In her eyes, the boy looked like the most precious thing in the world, and she felt pride in having birthed him.

Normally, William would feel angry at being treated as a kid by someone he didn't recognise as his parents.

But strangely, he felt happy at being treated like this by the women.

'I love my mother'

What Williams didn't realise yet was that this wasn't his own thought but rather the thoughts of his body.

The more time William spent inside these scenarios, the more his personality was getting affected, and it was only a matter of time until he lost his sense of self.

And once that happened, he was going to die without even knowing how or why.