The Great Wizard

“A golden Bracelet here for 2 dollars and 50 cents” a middle-aged man with a leather bag hanging by his waist screamed above the voices of over a thousand persons present in the Market square. It was a market day for the people of Reek and that meant it was going to be a busy day for the residents. They held market days on the first day of every month and various kinds of stuff were sold in that market. The people of Reek made a living out of their markets. They were mostly farmers, and therefore, they had the best crop sales in the whole of Ekiboh.

But what was special about the Reek market days was that special artifacts were being sold. Artifacts of over a thousand years, depicting the history of the people of Reek.

Reek was once home to Sorcerers and Sorceresses of all kinds. A magician was born every 30 years in Reek and you could find up to 4-5 wizards alive at once in Reek. It even had to be named the City of Wizards.

It was the smallest City in the whole of Ekiboh, but it was the most important of them all. Every king that ruled Ekiboh acknowledged Reek and placed a magician from there as his advisor and confidant.

The magicians that existed in Reek possessed powers such as teleportation, invisibility, and invulnerability. They were able to cast protection spells and most of them had healing abilities.

It was this ability that made Reek a popular visiting site thousands of years ago. Ailments of varying kinds were been cured in Reek. The magicians also spent their time teaching their people herbs and mixtures that could bring an end to some deadly diseases.

This was one major thing that had been passed down from generation to generation in Reek. The people were very good at medicinal cures, and even when civilization had already kicked off, people still came from far and wide on market days to seek cures to their ailments.

“I’ve been married to my husband for 15 years now and I've not been able to conceive,” a lady said, with tears pouring down her cheek from her eyes. It is going to be okay, a young man from Reek replied while directing her to the house of one of the famous fertility doctors in Reek.

Back in the days, the magicians were able to help a lot of women who couldn't conceive, and a thousand years later, the people of Reek were still making barren women smile. “I'm very grateful,” the lady said with a lot of tears and smiles of hope as she was leaving Reek.

The people of Reek have gone 1000 years without a Sorcerer born to them. A prophecy had come from the mouth of the last living magician, Agabos before his death. “Like a cloud filled with rain waiting to pour, so shall the people of Reek wait for a Sorcerer to be born. He shall bring the people life and his birth to the world, Delight”. These were his last word before he passed on.

And that was what kept some of the people. The hope that one day, they would again have a Sorcerer born amongst them.

Reek was one of the most underdeveloped places in Ekiboh. The world had undergone civilization and soon people began to forget the existence of magic. The beautiful City of Reek was now despised by Kings that ruled Ekiboh.