A Fantasy Nerd Transported To Another World - Volume 1 Chapter 5

Ethan wasn’t entirely sure how to get out of the mess he was currently in. The tight ropes that the knight captain had used to restrain his wrists were reducing his blood flow to his hands. The knights, who had just finished healing the fifteen unconscious knights with what seemed to be healing potions in small red bottles, and burying the five dead knights and setting some kind of circular symbol vaguely resembling a sun at their graves, were now glaring at him like he was some kind of a monster. They were speaking among themselves as well in harsh tones while pointing at him.

[You guys just fought an actual monster, so why are you looking at me like that. I didn’t do anything to you] he thought to himself.

It seemed that this group of knights who had captured Ethan intended to set up camp here for the night. The sun was starting to set, so the two knights that had led him to the center of the clearing were starting a fire. Most of the other knights were either setting up tents, or drinking some kind of potion in small blue bottles. The leader of the knights had just finished drinking nine of the small blue bottles of potion and was now chanting something, but not in the germanic language that Ethan had heard her speak in previously; this language sounded romance, almost like Latin. The chanting took over ten minutes, and when she had finished chanting a golden dome appeared above the entire encampment and then disappeared a few seconds later. She then immediately began drinking more small blue bottles of potion.

After that, one of the knights that had brought Ethan to the center of the clearing tied his left wrist to a tree while untying the right wrist. The other knight that had escorted him there kept his eyes on him and his right hand near the hilt of his sword as if being prepared to draw it if Ethan tried to run. The knight that had tied his wrist to the tree then handed him a canteen filled with a lukewarm liquid that smelled somewhat like beer, and motioned for Ethan to drink, so Ethan did so. It tasted like beer, but to Ethan’s surprise it didn’t seem to have a lot of alcohol in it, maybe only a small amount, Ethan figured. After Ethan drank a little bit of the beer, the knight handed him some hardened bread. It tasted a little bit stale, but as Ethan had not eaten anything all day, he didn’t really care what it tasted like, he ate ravenously. After he ate the bread he washed it down with the remainder of the beer in the canteen and then handed the canteen back to the knight. The knight then tied his right wrist to his left wrist which was still tied to the tree. Figuring that he would be here for the remainder of the evening, Ethan sat down at the base of the tree. The knights both seemed to relax a little seeing that Ethan seemed to have no immediate plans to attempt to escape. [I’m just a normal college student, guys. It’s not like I can overpower twenty one well trained knights who can use magic. If anything, I’m the one who’s scared of what you all might do] Ethan thought.

Just as Ethan was thinking that, the leader of the knights came over. She said some words to one of the two knights who were watching Ethan, and he untied Ethan’s right hand. The leader then turned toward Ethan, she held up one of the small blue bottles of potion, and then pointed at it and then pointed at Ethan. She pointed at the bottle and then Ethan several times while speaking slowly.

“I really can’t understand what you’re saying. Are you asking me if I have one of those? I don’t have anything on me, and your guys even searched me.” Ethan said while turning out his empty pockets.

This response seemed to frustrate the leader of the knights and she repeated the same words while pointing back and forth between Ethan and the bottle.

“I really don’t know what you’re trying to ask me. Maybe you want to know if I want that? I don’t even know what it is.” Ethan said while shrugging his shoulders.

The female knight had an exasperated look and put the bottle away. It seemed that she finally realized that this conversation was going nowhere. She then pulled out Ethan’s smartphone from her bag. She held it up to Ethan with the screen locked and she said some words to him in an inquisitive tone. [That’s weird. It has full battery life even though when I dropped it earlier it was down to only 20% battery.] Ethan thought.

“Are you asking me what it is? It’s a smartphone, although it only has limited use here where there is no signal. Here, I’ll unlock it for you and show you what it does.” Ethan said.

Then he took the phone from her and used his fingerprint to unlock the phone. He then opened the music app and played some classical music that he had previously downloaded. He figured that classical music would probably go over better among medieval knights than modern rap music would. That seemed to be the right choice because the knight captain, although greatly shocked by the sudden sound of music coming from the small device, seemed to really like the song. The young lady immediately grabbed the phone from Ethan. She then began shaking it and tried to look inside through the charging port to try to see what was making the sound. In her handling of the phone while doing this, she accidentally pressed ‘pause’ on the screen and the music dropped. She at first looked angry, but then realizing that she was the likely cause of the music stopping, she had an embarrassed look on get face and handed the phone back to Ethan saying something in an embarrassed tone.

[she probably thinks she broke it.] Ethan thought.

He then pressed ‘play’ and the music resumed with the knight leader grabbing the phone once more. She then muttered something quickly that sounded like it was in an appreciative tone but it was so quiet that Ethan figured that even if he understood her language, he wouldn’t have been able to fully figure out what she said. She then said something to one of the other knights and Ethan’s right wrist was restrained again.

“Of course.” Ethan sarcastically muttered to himself.

The knight that had just restrained his wrist then chanted some words in the romance sounding language while placing his palm on Ethan’s head. Ethan suddenly felt a warm feeling enveloping him and then he drifted off to sleep.