Pov: Vik
After leaving the mouse couple alone I went on other side towards a small lake in west side of forest this lake is very small in comparison to other lakes in this forest and it is a temporary one which formed after rain but that is good for me as it does not hold any big predators like other snake or crocodile, it hold just some small lizards and some small animals come here to drink water.
It is a ideal position for me to hunt small mammals and frogs as they are the most common snake diet after hiding myself in lake shore such a way that animals drinking water won't be able to see any oddities I stooped any moment and started focusing on current predicament soon a small frog jumping around came close to the shore as it come in my attacking range I quickly jumped at the frog using my body to coil around it and bit it's neck. Soon it stopped struggling clearly dead after that I swallow his body as snakes don't have teeth to chew their food.
After filled my empty stomach I climbed a tree from where I can bask in sunlight as it comforts me maybe because snakes are coldblooded creatures. From what I learn in this time frame of ten days in surviving in this forest is that apart from magical powers possessed by animals they share almost identical biological characteristics from the animals found on earth.
I also made a new discovery that this body of mine or other animals in this forest are different in a certain biological character and that is their hunger, take me for example snakes or any other kind of reptiles can survive a week without needing to hunt as they generally don't need to eat that much but I need to hunt a prey in every two days because of my hunger and not just me other creatures in this forest also hunts a prey daily making them more dangerous that animals on earth. Maybe this hunger is reason for their rapid growth and big size.
I changed my focus from the issue of hunger towards the magical energy flowing in this world and start thinking if this world allowed it's inhabitant to harness this unscientific power than I can also harness it after I came to this conclusion I tried many methods to harness it like visualising fire to summon it like wizards or trying to feel energy and trying to absorb it cultivators do in cultivation novels I read. But nothing worked maybe there is some other method or I am not correctly executing this method whichever was the reason after trying a new method every day for five days I start trying a method I am familiar with. I tried observing nature trying to uncover the laws on which this world is working, because in my previous world humans with their mind deciphered the laws of physics and used it to complete their needs just like using a controlled combustion to power a car engine. I know laws of my previous world may not work in this world but just like my previous world have four fundamental forces this world should also have some fundamental forces or laws which I can use to harness magical powers.
And this scholarly approach seems to work as I realise that this world also has many similarities with my previous world as it also has a sun and moon but different planetary systems as I can see a big purple planet in distance night sky in darkness of night. So this world should also have forces like gravity and centripetal and centrifugal forces to make this planetary system stable, now moving to next force I started rubbing my body against a tree branch and after some time I also feels a bit of heat this also proves that this world has electromagnetic force, as for other to forces I don't have enough knowledge or equipment to prove their existence but they should also exist now as for the difference I observed this world has a fifth force that makes these four fundamental forces easily bend and used by inhabitants of this world as long as they have enough will to visualise their desired action I named this force "force X". Now moving to part where this force X bends normal laws I still don't know how does it works but I have an idea that it is related to the consciousness of the creature.
For previous five days I tried visualise fire to make this force bend normal laws and summon fire for me but that never worked. Now after experimenting with this visualisation method, I feel that I am half way to success I just need to take that one last step to organise this visualisation method.
Now changing my mind I completely focused on executing my plan first I calm my mind and body then in a relaxed state I ignored all of my surroundings whether it is noise of animals or whistling of wind my complete focus is on visualising fire.
Fire I started thinking about fire as far as I know fire needs three things to start first is air, second is enough temperature and third is fuel in which it can burn this triad when completed starts fire. Now that is the scientific term for fire but along with it I need to visualise fire but I am not going to simply visualise any kind of fire I am going to visualise fire in its truest and most primordial form not the one that burn in stars, not the one that expands in supernova but the fire that humankind first saw, I visualised a landscape with grasslands and forest on land with sky brimming with dark clouds, with thunder flashing time to time. I stabilised this image in my mind I focused completely in this image and then I started my final step with a flash Thunder struck a tree and with it rain started falling but the most I catching thing in this image is the tree struck by thunder now in flames, a kind of fire that burns without any concern about falling rain a fire that is not too flashy, not too hot just burns, it is deep red in colour with orange embers arising from it time to time. A fire that make those who see it may it a normal beast or a big predator felt extreme fear from depth of their soul as it is all consuming only letting ash in its path.
I focused my all consciousness in that flame and soon I felt heat in my body and after some time I opened my eyes to see that the branch in front of me has been burnt by fire conjured by my visualisation.
I feel a sudden sense of euphoria as my experiment result in success but along with it came extreme weakness and I blanked out, I know getting unconscious in this forest may akin to death as it made me venerable but my body felt extremely sore and my eyelids slowly fell down.
After Vik blank out something strange happened the fire he visualised started to burn with more intensity soon it burned the whole branch and moved towards the main trunk of the tree where Vik slept without any sense of world. It moved slowly and soon engulfed the place where Vik is but rather than burning Vik it felt like fire simply engulfed him in it's embrace not a scratch fell on his body but same could not said for tree as it started burning with a fire that is something out of this world a fire that is as ancient as the concept of fire.
After engulfing whole tree in flames it started to move towards other trees in the forest and soon it stated to burn in vast area of forest with burning anything that came in it's way be it tree or beast, and now it grows into a colossus fire that makes real behemoth of forest feel threat from those beast with intelligence tried many things like making rain from clouds, shooting columns of water towards fire, throwing tornaados of wind in it and some powerful beasts even thrown mountains made up from ice towards it but nothing able to stop. Not wanting to stay near this anomaly they evacuated this great forest and made a wall of soil and rocks reinforced with ice to contain it.
This anomaly of fire forced many behemoths and large masses of beast to migrate into other parts of forest and some large groups even moved in human territory starting a war with nearby human civilisations. This anomaly that can be seen from miles away in future will be known as great fire calamity.