Physically and mentally exhausted, Silas Frost struggled to move. In this nearly ruined village, he searched every corner with care.
Perhaps the heavens really were watching over him. In a dilapidated, shaky room, a large piece of bread lay quietly on the ground.
It was clearly in bad shape and soaked through by the rain, but for the extremely hungry Silas Frost at this moment, it was undoubtedly a lifeline.
He threw caution aside and pounced on the bread like a starving wolf, snatching it up from the mud.
Then, like a ravenous fiend, he chewed and swallowed, taking mouthfuls as big as a spoon. He did not even stop to shake off the water, gulping it down together with the rain.
As the food slowly filled his once-empty stomach, Silas Frost finally felt a long-lost vitality stir within him. It was as if he had been given a new life.
In this half-damaged house, waiting for the rain to stop, Silas Frost searched through the ruins and managed to find a few pieces of dry bread that had fallen and become dirty. At the same time, he also discovered a few books and some broken wooden boards with writing on them. Although the script was unlike anything he had ever seen, Silas Frost could still understand the meaning. He figured this must be a native ability that came with this body.
From these writings and books, Silas Frost pieced together some information. First, his current location was a small mountain settlement called Rosemary Village. Second, this world revolved around magic and magical objects. As for the last piece…
Silas Frost looked down at the grimoire in his hands. It had been hidden well and had luckily escaped the disaster. As he studied the methods for learning magic recorded inside, he finally understood which world he had crossed into.
"So this really is the Fairy Tail world," Silas Frost muttered to himself, sorting through the clues in his head. "Rosemary Village, Fairy Tail… oh, this is the village where Erza and Kagura lived when they were young."
Given the village's current state, Silas Frost had little trouble guessing that Rosemary Village had been attacked and captured by a Zeref-worshiping dark cult.
The people of the village had basically been taken to the Tower of Heaven to build the R-System.
Silas Frost let out a bitter laugh. If he had not crossed over, the original owner of this body would have had only one ending.
Never mind how he had ended up hiding in a dry well; a drop that high was enough to kill a child.
Even if he had survived the fall, with this body's strength it was basically impossible to climb out of such a deep well.
Left like that, this body would only have slowly starved to death at the bottom of the well, and no one would ever have found him.
"If that is the case, then there is only one path in front of me." Silas Frost found a piece of rag and set the bread neatly on it.
In front of him there was only one way forward, and that was to go and ask Fairy Tail for help.
This world was still very dangerous, and the overall combat power was very high.
He could be considered a blank card right now, and even after feeding it to the limit he was still only a relatively strong child.
In such a world, If you do not find a safe place, you will probably die very quickly.
Of course, besides Fairy Tail, other wizard guilds are also options for Silas Frost. But since the story clearly centers on Fairy Tail, not joining would always feel like a disadvantage. Moreover, Fairy Tail has many beloved heroines. If you say you have no interest at all, even ghosts would not believe it.
"What a pity. If I had arrived a little earlier and formed a bond with Erza and Kagura, I could be living by a lake, enjoying the moonlight." However, Erza had been taken to the Tower of Heaven, and Kagura had probably already joined Mermaid Heel, so that hope was basically gone.
Silas Frost left Rosemary Village along the dirt road, joking bitterly to himself: "If this one does not have Erza and Kagura anymore, that one still has Mirajane, Lisanna, Cana, Wendy, Lucy, Evergreen…"
After a while of teasing himself, Silas Frost finally sighed. Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Right now, he basically does not even know where Fairy Tail's Magnolia is. He only knows it is somewhere in Fiore.
Rosemary Village was fairly close to the coast, so Silas Frost could only take things one step at a time, first finding a coastal city, then figuring out a way to take a boat to Magnolia.
... After walking for a full day, Silas Frost's feet were soaked several times, yet even after following the path to the main road he still did not see any sign of a town.
The good news was that he encountered no dangerous creatures along the way, so Silas Frost was safe.
The bad news was that the remaining bread was quickly eaten, and on the second day the free draw did not appear.
For Silas Frost, that was a bolt from the blue.
Originally, if he had one free pull every day, with a bit of luck he could have filled his six card slots in five days.
Even if they were all white-rarity cards, he would have accepted them.
Just the extra attributes would have been great.
But now his dream was shattered.
To protect himself, Silas Frost turned his attention to the grimoire, which recorded methods for acquiring magic.
Learning method.
In canon, Mirajane awakened to Take Over magic, while Elfman and Lisanna learned Take Over through training.
Silas Frost did not hold out hope for awakening magic on his own. Now that there was a way to learn it, he naturally chose that path. So, as Silas traveled, he would also take out the grimoire and flip through it, hoping he could learn Take Over.
That is to say, if you want to learn a specific type of magic, you must invest a great deal of time and effort.
But when Silas Frost decided to start learning Take Over, he suddenly noticed that a new status appeared on the character screen's skill bar: Take Over (1%). And as Silas flipped through the grimoire, this percentage continued to rise.
This gave Silas Frost great encouragement. Perhaps this golden finger was not as bad as he had imagined. Perhaps he could rely on this advantage to learn even more magic.
Thinking this way, Silas Frost began turning the pages of the grimoire even faster.
Wait.
Silas Frost spent an entire day hurrying along while flipping through the magic book. After reading the whole grimoire, the skill bar showed that Take Over had reached 100%.
In the next moment, countless strands of information poured into Silas Frost's mind like a blessing, flooding in wildly. He understood it all with ease, as if he had practiced hundreds of thousands of times.
"Take Over • Heroic Spirit Soul."
Silas Frost digested all the information and at the same time understood the specific method for using the magic he had learned. But once he knew everything, he felt upset. His Take Over was tied to his golden finger. In theory, the only beings he could Take Over were the ones from his own cards, the so-called Heroic Spirit souls.
On the bright side, this greatly reduced the danger. He knew how risky Take Over could be after seeing Elfman's Beast Soul. But it also meant that if Silas Frost did not have any good cards, this Take Over would basically be just for show.