The Wizard of Fairy Tale World

Chapter 20: The Magician of the Land of Oz (Part 1)

Lately, Rhine often heard distant voices of wishes being made.

Each day, he would pick the strongest wishes to listen to closely and make them come true.

Rhine didn’t need to physically go to where the wish-makers were. Instead, he would summon small natural spirits or birds or issue orders to local officials to indirectly provide aid.

Suddenly, he heard another voice of prayer from afar.

“What an incredible wish force!”

Rhine shuddered slightly.

This time, the wish-maker was a “Child of Destiny,” or more accurately, a “Protagonist of Fate”!

Rhine had long suspected that the so-called “Children of Destiny” were characters from fairy tales with significant presence. However, he had never had the opportunity to confirm this theory—until now.

“A magician and balloon operator named Oz? Works in a circus. Fears being implicated in the fake golden plate incident…”

Reading the details of the wish, Rhine chuckled softly.

“So that’s all? He’s just scared of this?”

“Well, since you prayed to me in your dream, I’ll grant your wish,” Rhine muttered with a small smile.

“The content of the wish: to escape the kingdom and find a safe place.”

As he thought about it, many connections began forming in Rhine’s mind regarding Oz’s identity.

The name Oz.

A Child of Destiny…

A timid personality…

Skilled in magic tricks and balloon piloting…

“Could it be that Oz?”

“The scammer king Oz from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Wizard of the Land of Oz!?”

In this classic fairy tale, the protagonist Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to a magical dreamland called the Land of Oz, where she embarks on a fantastical journey and befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

The Land of Oz is protected by powerful witches in the East, West, North, and South. Meanwhile, in the center of the land’s Emerald City resides Oz, a supposedly great and powerful wizard.

Of course, as the story unfolds, readers following Dorothy’s perspective discover that the so-called Great Wizard Oz is actually a fraud—his “magic” is nothing more than a collection of clever tricks and illusions.

“So it’s that Oz.”

“This must be Oz before he goes to the Land of Oz!”

“Well, it’s obviously not called the Land of Oz yet—Oz hasn’t even gone there yet!”

“Guess it’ll be a few more years before the Emerald City is built!”

“And a long time after that, Dorothy will finally arrive in the Land of Oz!”

“I can’t believe I’ve arrived in such an early era and met the future ‘Great Wizard’ Oz.”

This realization caught Rhine slightly off guard.

After all, in the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Oz’s hometown was Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States.

However, since this mixed fairy tale world didn’t have a country called “the United States of America,” it made sense for Oz’s birthplace and background to have shifted.

Rhine began considering how to fulfill Oz’s wish.

“In the original story, Oz ends up in the magical land due to a hot air balloon accident. So, let’s help him fulfill that prophecy!”

…

Today, the circus where Oz worked was holding a regular performance.

Before the show began, Oz sat in an ascending hot air balloon, attracting the crowd’s attention and gathering them together to buy tickets.

Suddenly, someone in the audience shouted,

“Wow, it’s the King’s soldiers! Are they here to watch the circus too?”

Peering out of the balloon basket, Oz spotted a small squad of soldiers approaching.

“Damn it, damn it!”

“My nightmare is coming true. They must be here on the King’s orders to capture me!”

The brilliant magician turned pale as a corpse, trembling uncontrollably in the balloon basket.

Snap!

Before Oz could react, the ropes tethering the balloon suddenly snapped.

“Ahhh! What’s happening? Why did the ropes break?!”

The untethered balloon, now at the mercy of the wind, rose higher and higher into the sky.

The balloon floated farther and farther away, carried by the breeze.

The audience below screamed in astonishment:

“The magician Oz is still up in the balloon! Someone save him!”

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