My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World

Chapter 45: Fairy Island

Chapter 45 - Fairy Island After Vespera showed us around the strange little floating island that was right next to End Forest, I decided to take a dip in the water to see what exactly was keeping the island floating, since it looked like a rock basin filled with vegetation that absolutely should not be able to float around.

I took most of my clothes off, except for my pants, and jumped in.

I dived down and noticed that the island had nothing under it, at least not what I was expecting. I thought I would find some sort of magic propeller or arcane circle with an enchantment that made the island float. But it was just simply rocks, floating rocks, to be more precise.

I went back to the surface and climbed back onto the island, where the rest of the group was waiting for me.

"It really is just floating around. I don't see any spells or enchantments..." I said as I shook my head.

"Miss Vespera said she was going to look around again, just in case. Although, I don't feel any monsters or people near us." said the maid Carli.

"So, all we know about this island is that it floats, and the crops grow extremely fast..."

"It seems that way. Should we gather some of these fruits again?"

"I don't see why not... There is one thing bothering me though."

"What is it?" asked the princess.

"You said that your father used to get chocolate from another kingdom that suddenly stopped producing it, right? I mean, there is a small chance that they were getting their ingredients from this island, don't you think?"

"That's exactly my theory, yes."

"Well... What if I anchored the island here so that it can't move?"

"That would certainly be ideal..." said Carli.

"Alright then, let me try!" I exclaimed as I stood back up and walked to the edge of the rocky island shore before diving back into the water.

The island was floating on a somewhat shallow area. I could see the ground a few meters below, which meant my job would be easier.

I focused magic on my hands, then slowly began raising a pillar from the ground towards the rocky bottom of the island.

Just as the pillar began to combine with the floating land, it suddenly exploded, creating a shock wave that pushed me from my stomach, making me lose my breath.

The debris and dust that was raised from the explosion didn't let me see what was happening, and although I could've stayed underwater for another minute, having half of my air knocked out was a problem.

I focused magic on my hands again and imagined an unbreakable bubble. One that could cover my face and allow me to breathe underwater. I thought it would be harder to imagine, but I supposed the heat of the moment had my mind sharp, since the spell worked perfectly and the bubble that was created out of my right hand, slowly placed itself around my face, allowing me to breathe.

As the dust and rocks settled and sunk back down, I spotted the silhouette of an animal that was getting bigger by the second, until I was able to see it clearly.

A giant, glittering shark was swimming straight at me with its mouth fully open, so my only reflex was to raise my hand and expel a powerful force that could get him away from me.

However, as the wave made contact with the shark, it dematerialized and disappeared, leaving only a trail of glittering dust behind. At that moment, I pointed both my arms down, and used water magic to propel myself upward out of the water and a few meters into the air, making me land on the island, right next to the princess and the maids who were waiting on high alert after hearing the rock pillar exploding.

"What happened!?" asked the princess as they all approached me.

"A monster attacked me after I started building the anchor... It looked like a shark, but my magic didn't touch it..."

"Is that what made that loud noise?" asked Gina.

"Yeah, it destroyed the pillar like it was nothing, but then it disappeared when my spell hit it... Should I try again?"

"Hmm, I wouldn't recommend it. This doesn't sound like a normal type of monster," interjected Carli.

Although she was right, I still wanted to try one more time. Not because I had some sort of obsession with the island, but because I was incredibly curious about what that shark was.

It seemed to react when the pillar made contact with the island, but one attack from me was enough to send it away, which just didn't feel right.

("Is the shark protecting the island? How did it disappear?") These were the main questions that clouded my head.

"I'll try again... I just need to check something." I said as I stood up once more, and dived back in the water.

I took a look around and there was no sign of the shark. I used my "

Apparently, a few years ago she was stationed close to a city in a country called Tonaro Kingdom, who used the choco beans from the island to make their own chocolate, which was in fact the same chocolate that the father of the princess had as a gift a few times. Fairies like to trade their crops and plants for gems, or any shiny rock, so in return for her choco beans, the king would give her any shiny stone that he could find.

The king only had to give Ivy one crystal any time they wanted to harvest the island, which would grow back up again in one day. Even with a deal that favored him greatly like this, the Tonaro Kingdom tried to forcefully take the crops and anchor the island next to them without giving Ivy her respective shiny stone, so she left.

("Oof, that sounds kinda like what we were doing here...")