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Tooth, did you lose your parents too? Shire looked at the boar beside him and compassionately stroked its head. The little boar, which was about the same size as Shire, hummed twice as a positive response. Shire had never met his parents. As long as he could remember, he had been under the care of everyone in the village. Although the village elders always treated him well, compared with other children, Shire always felt that he seemed to be missing something. Not long ago, the village's number one hunter, Eagles Skullcrusher, brought back a small, lonely boar. This little boar became Shire's closest companion. It has two long teeth, so Shire named it Tooth. Because of his natural talent, Shire could speak with the mountain animals, and Tooth could understand what Shire said as well. The adults in the village said he must be a child of the mountains - when baby Shire was in an accident with his parents, it was the underground spirits who saved him and sent him back to the village. Perhaps that's why he was blessed by the underground spirits and was able to communicate with lives of the Gaulke mountain.

Children of the same age had gone to school, and the only one left was Shire. Let's go find them, shall we? Shire suddenly suggested. The adults said that Shire was not yet old enough to go to school, but even little Cole, who always had a runny nose, and Liz, who always cried when she fell, were at school. Why was Shire the only one who couldn't? Humph... humph. Tooth shook his head, showing a reluctant look. Coward! If get caught, I'll take the responsibility! Shire patted Tooth's little piggy head to assure it. Shire knew a secret passage that led from a small cave on the west side of the village to the side of the schoolyard, which he had heard about from the other children. There was a large gap in the roof of the classroom, and Shire removed the mushrooms covering it and quietly peered down. It seemed to be a magic class, and the teacher was talking about an advanced magic called resurrection. The teacher whispered a spell and a dazzling white light covered the dead lizard on the desk. After the light faded, the lizard miraculously came to life and slipped away into the wall in a flash. The students excitedly began to practice the spell, trying to revive the lizard in front of them, but no matter how they tried, all ended in failure. Shire was so fascinated and couldn't help but imagine himself doing this magic. Tooth beside him yawned, accidentally stepped into the gap. Tooth! Shire reached out and try to catch it, but fell off together with the boar.

Shire's sudden fall through the roof made the teacher shocked and the other children laughed. The good thing was that Shire and Tooth were not seriously hurt and had struggled to stand up from the dust. The teacher's eyes turned from panic to concern and then to compassion as she knelt down to straighten Shire's messy hair and collar. Shire thought he was going to be scolded. But to his surprise, the teacher did not reprimand him. She looked at Shire and Tooth with slight hesitation, and finally spoke: "Shire ... Since you saw it all, how about having a try?" Hearing what she said, Shire was frozen for a moment. Adults never told him anything related to magic, let alone let him try to learn magic. Tooth gently pushed Shire from behind, pulled him from his thoughts. He started to chant as what he had seen from the roof, drawing shapes in the air with his fingers. To everyone's surprise, the dead lizard really came back to life in a glow like the teacher had just demonstrated. It was from this moment that a thought came to Shire's mind, and even he was frightened by this thought. The power of this magic might be able to bring back his deceased parents.