As I was making my way to Leon's study I passed his room, he and Emma were discussing something.

"It's good to know that Arata is a normal kid. For a while, I thought there might've been something wrong with him." he sounded relieved.

"Yes, I agree." Emma said.

"You know why we had to move to this remote village. So before we reunite with the rest of our family we need to grow strong children to prepare for what's to come. We will be summoned to my father's mansion back in the capital soon." he said.

"Yes. I'll teach Hanna magic. While you'll teach Arata swordsmanship." replied Emma.

"That's the plan." He paused. "Where is Arata?"

"Sleeping, he and Hanna were playing outside all afternoon." Said Emma.

"Really? since when do the two of them get so close?" he asked. "I never see them spending time together."

They continued having small talk. Then I continued on my way.

hmm. based on what I just heard. Leon's father. My grandfather. is someone important, and due to an incident. He disbanded and isolated his family to recuperate from this problem.

I continued down the hall to the study. Passing through the small hallway balcony, where I saw the sunset, I opened the door into a rounded room where there was a long window at the back and a desk in front. the walls were covered in bookshelves but a lot of them were empty. Though there were some books.

I then looked through the books. Ever since coming to this world, I've been able to understand the language, since it's the same as my old one, and the same with its writing.

I found a book titled Magic Records. it didn't have an author, but instead a symbol of four crowns parallel to each other, one on top, the other on the bottom, and the other two on the sides. It looked sort of like a four-leaf clover. The book is probably from a library in the capital. I opened the book to look at its contents.

In it was written how to manipulate mana, and shape it. Referring to the four main elemental attributes fire, water, earth, and wind.

A person's affinity can be discovered by surrounding yourself with the four elements. Then by manipulating the mana around yourself, whichever element reacts to your mana, that is your affinity. some people can have two or more attributes. Although it is rare, there have been records of people being able to manipulate all four.

As for healing magic, anyone can learn it. Some devote their entire lives to healing, and with the highest level of healing magic, you can cure any illness, disease, and even regrow limbs.

There were also recordings of individuals who can wield unique magic like lightning, light, gravity, barrier, curse, ice, and many more types of magic. some were born with these gifts and others found ways to learn them, though it is unclear how. Because of how very few people accomplished it.

A person's mana capacity can grow the earlier you practice magic, but at a certain point in age, it stops growing. The normal age where kids are taught two manipulate mana is around 7 or 8, some earlier and others later. This is because to learn magic it takes patience to meditate. Most kids don't have enough self-control to take their time learning it. A person's mana pool stops increasing around 11 years of age. And that's when most parents send their kids to magic schools.

An average kid would take 3 to 4 years to increase their mana pool as much as possible. it can increase by exhausting every last bit of mana, or by using and refining spells.

If a person started manipulating mana at 7 years old and another one at 8, by the time they reach their limit. The person that started earlier would have a greater amount. A noticeable amount more, but not on a wide scale. And if two people learn to manipulate mana at the age of 7. By the time they're 11, they'll have about the same amount of mana in the end.

As for me, this body is almost two years old. So if I start now. I could have double the amount of mana than that of a regular person. No. The earlier the better. Since I still have a young body I could have more than triple the amount.

well no time to waste

So before I learn what my elemental affinity is. I need to learn how to draw out my mana from within myself. In this world, there is mana everywhere even in the atmosphere. Because of this if you take a moment to meditate, and look deep within yourself you should feel the flow of the mana inside of you. And then draw it out.

'Easier said than done

So I sat down, crossed my legs, straightened my back, and took in deep and slow breaths as I attempted to clear my mind.

' . . . '

after a while, I felt something

'I feel something. And now. DRAW IT OUT.'

"ahhh" I yelled aloud.

I failed. I tried again and failed again over and over.

Maybe I should get some rest and try tomorrow in the morning.

It is around midnight right now. I decided to go to bed. I put the book back on the shelf and headed to my room, and I quickly fell asleep.

The next morning I woke up determined to succeed. I sat on my bed crossed my feet and started the meditation. I feel way more relaxed right now than last night. after some minutes of inhaling and exhaling slowly my body felt like it was sideways, but relaxed. I held on to the feeling. Then I felt a flow of pressure inside my body. through force, I expelled that pressure.

I then opened my eyes and saw a white aura had engulfed me. It almost looked like mist, then I felt heavy and fell backwards laying back on my bed.

What happened? am I out of mana? It did say in the book that using large amounts of mana until depletion can have a strain on your body.

As I was laying back recovering. Emma walked in and happily marched towards me. She then carried me and started walking out of the room.

"It's time for breakfast." she said with a smile on her face.

She sat me down at the table and served my plate. Hanna gave me a smile, and Leon waved at me. We started eating breakfast. By the time we finished Leon walked out the back door, just like every other morning.

After a few days of constantly exhausting my mana reserves and waiting for them to fill. I had enough mana for me to manipulate at will. I surrounded my body in mana through the outside like a barrier and kept it tight to my skin. then I tried moving it to individual body parts, but using it this way only acts as a shield. If I want to increase my power I needed to move the mana through the inside of my body. which is still a mystery to me. The book said that to do this, instead of drawing the mana out, I needed to keep it in and control it through the inside.

One night after everyone was asleep I went back to the study and brought with me a candle, some small stones, and a cup of water.

I placed the candle in front of me, the stones to my left, and the water to my right. Like I was in the middle of a triangle.

I surrounded the small area with my mana. And then the fire in the candle reacted to it by growing in size. and then a gust of wind flowed around me. And that was it, fire and air were my elemental attributes. I threw the stones back outside, put the cup on the desk, and blew out the flame.

Then I raised my hand and remembered the feeling of how the fire reacted to my mana. I recreated it with my mana alone. After some attempts, a ball of fire floated in my hand illuminating the whole room. Then I added more mana to it making the flame hotter and brighter.

I stopped there because if I continued I would've run out of mana. I could've kept going putting up a mana barrier around my skin to protect me from the heat, But I needed to test out my other affinity.

The same with fire I did with air recreating the feeling of wind blowing against me, turning my mana into wind. I let out a small gust of wind that flew around the room. then I added more power to it and small objects started moving and falling over. then my reserves gave out. Turning my mana into fire and air seemed to have made me run out faster. After that, I went to my room for the night.

The next day after eating breakfast I went outside to the front yard because Leon was in the backyard.

I made a fireball in my hand and launched it. I could choose the size of a spell and the force of the launch. The fireball went flying in the air until it dispersed.

I did the same with my second attribute, with mana I compacted the air into a wind bullet at the tip of my finger. It was a small sphere only visible due to a thin layer of mana outlining it. I launched it into a cup I had set up knocking it back.

With charcoal, I drew targets on the stone wall. I used them to practice aiming with my fireball and wind bullet.

Every day I trained my magic. time flew by fast, and I almost didn't feel it. It had been months since I started training. The reason I realized this, was because my mother was about to give birth.

Leon called a nurse to attend to her at all times and help her deliver.

Then the day came when she gave birth. It was a girl. Leon and Emma were both happy. Both settled on the name of Mia Arumani. She had the same features as me. With black hair and dark grey eyes, she was like a female version of me.