It's been a while since I'm in this world and I'm already 1 year old, I don't know when I had birthday, but people from orphanage told me so. it was hardest time in my life so far, now I can walk, understand their language and also speak, but it's hard to understand, because I am still a baby. as the matter of fact the first word I learnt was 'sorry' it was also the first word that I said, you ask why? of course you would ask that, the first word should be 'mommy' or anything else, why would innocent baby say 'sorry' as his first word? well, that is because the girl named Minaris, whom I first met in this world was saying it almost all time, before grand headchop landed on her head, anyway, I can also read some words, I could probably learn more if I had better book , in this orphanage there are several books, but they are hard to understand and with no pictures, I also stopped my mana training, because Minaris said that when she's with me she can feel large amount of mana around me, so I practiced for a while and now I can hide it, well more correctly I'm not letting it ooze out, it was pretty hard, but I did it, as expected of me...
while I sort my thoughts Minaris come to pick me up, looks like it's time to play. almost every day she takes me out to show off her magic and every time I see it I'm in awe, magic is amazing, I mean watching water ball appear out of nowhere and float in the air is impressive, not only that, after seeing my reaction on her magic she hugs me tightly saying that I'm cute, am I cute? of course I am! I'm a baby for reasons! but sometimes she's overdoing it and almost suffocated me.
now that I think about it I have never described her, she will turn 16 this year, I guess... has blue eyes accompanied by the hair of the same color in two braids.
we are already outside, she put me down and
"Ein-kun, today I will show you something amazing!"
she said cheerfully.
by the way in this world my name is Einhard and she calls me Ein in short. thank god that my older sister from my previous life don't know that this is my name, I'm sure she would laugh and tease me all day by calling me 'ain't hard'...
regardless, she started chanting, when I first saw her chanting it took quite a long time, but day by day she is shortening it, she's talented, I think.
hmmm...
it's strange, today's chant is different than other days, is it a new spell?
as I was thinking, she finished chanting, as usual, water ball appeared and its shape changed into...a puppy? wait, is that really a puppy!? agrr~ whatever it is, it started circling around Minaris, amazing... magic is amazing! I want to do it too! I wonder when can I do it? or will I even be able to do it at all? ok, enough of negative feelings, I can do it, if I say so myself then I can do it... I hope...
"Ehehe... it's my new spell, Elena-san taught me recently, do you like it?"
She asked me with eyes full of expectations
"Ohh! big shis minais you are amashing!"
i said in awe, my sentence was disordered, but Minaris understood me
"Kyaa~, you are so cute!"
And again a deadly hug... my face have already turned blue and I'm trying to free myself, damn, she puts to much power for a simple hug! Ah, somebody save me!
As if to answer my plea for salvation the beautiful headchop without any unnecessary movements made its way toward Minaris head and...
Bonk~ It made a splendid sound.
"You should release him, can't you see he can't breathe?"
"aw~, sorry..."
Minaris said with teary eyes.
The one who saved me from choking hug was Elena, she is founder of this orphanage, her eyes and hair are the same color as Minaris, so she teaches her water magic, Elena is a nice and gentle woman and is in mid of her twenties, but I heard that despite her looks she is older, the beginning of the thirties, I guess, well it's rude to guess women's age, so lets leave it at that.
"It's time for breakfast, take Ein in the dining room, you both look hungry"
Guuu~
As she said that, a loud sound of grumbling could be heard, the source was Minaris, her stomach to be specific, she blushed and
"Haha, Ein-kun must be really hungry"
She said that with straight face, Elena was looking at her with a lukewarm gaze, so did I, upon noticing Elena's gaze she said panicky
"Let's go, don't make food get cold, we should eat it while still warm!"
"Oh, I wonder, when did you last seen our breakfast being warm?"
True, our breakfast in the morning is some bread and vegetables, as for the worm food, we had soup for dinner, to forget something like this, is it so embarrassing to admit that she's hungry?
"can we go already?"
she said with a red face, I don't understand why she looks so ashamed
We moved out and soon arrived at the dining room, everyone was already there, the children younger than me were drinking milk, other at my age or older were eating the usual food.
During breakfast, Elena stood in front of us, with Minaris next to her
"Everyone, today I have to tell you some news, tomorrow Mnaris will leave us and join adventures guild, so be sure say farewell"
Everyone was speechless, no, not everyone, only children, well despite her looks, Minaris was idolized by children here, so it was surprising, even for me.
"Everyone, please don't worry about me, I will definitely come and see you guys once in a while, so don't be sad, OK?"
she said with cheerful words and a wide smile.
That night orphanage was full of crying faces of children.
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Its been a year since Minaris left, the orphanage was not as cheerful as it used to be. after that I trained my body and soul, understanding my own abilities...
"Today is the end for your wrong doings! I'll end it myself!"
Said magical girl in front of me, while pointing her magical stick towards me.
"Come with all you've got!"
I replied with a smirk on my face
As I said that magical girl, the hero of humanity charged forward, the distance between us narrowed instantly and
Pomp~
the wooden branch, that you can find everywhere hit my head...
Agrrr~ I'm tired of this! I don't want this anymore! I hate this game!
As you can guess it was everything a child's play, literally.
In this orphanage there was a blonde girl 1year older than me, she likes role-playing and every time we are playing she gives me a weird roles, like last time I was black slime pet, now I'm evil and she's a hero, this games aren't even entertaining, so why should i play it, and what's the worst is that I can't refuse, well, when I do Elena is telling me that I should not isolate myself from others, but I'm not isolating myself! Is she trying to bully me like this?
oh, she's done, finally. She looks tired, is she tired just from swinging wooden branch? kid, you should train more.
"You know, it's good to play and all, but why are you giving me this strange role?"
I asked the question that was on my mind long ago, and her answer is...
"Because you have black hair!"
"...."
I was speechless, I was playing this bullshit because I have black hair?
you know what? I hate this kid, as to why? Well, she's annoying, clingy, but not towards me, only the ones that are older than her, well I don't really care who she likes and not, I just don't want to play this thing anymore.
Okay, enough of this little brat. In this world I have black hair and eyes, it was the same in my previous life, but instead of black eyes, I had brown.
In this year I learned a lot about this world. First, this world is called Altas, there are three races: humans, demons and demi-humans. In this world elves, dwarfs, and a beast race is united in demi-humans. Now about black hair, it's rare in this world and most of them are bullied, I don't know much, but I'll say what I know: many centuries ago, black-haired people were not rare, but then they were hunted down by church, because they could use dark magic, then dark magic was banned, the ones who could use them went extinct, well nowadays the harassment is not big, because one black-haired young man saved many lives in this kingdom, around 10 years ago, oh, by the way, that man was half human, half-elf and his name was Kirion.
Now about magic, there are seven(excluded dark) attributes: wind, water, earth, fire, lightning, ice and holy. In this word there is nothing like 'you can't use magic that is not from your attribute', people don't have any of this attributes, but there is one among them that any human can use easier than other, this is called 'highest compatibility', so you can basically master any magic you want, there are also non-elemental magic, for example gravity and space. Gravity magic can control gravity and with space, you can do many things starting from expanding space from teleportation, with expanding space I mean making bag where you can put items larger than the bag itself with great quantities.
As for me... I can't use any of it, well I can use magic, but they are not from the ones above, but spells based on mana, one of them is 'impact', this spell is just a mass of mana compressed and thrown at high speed and when it makes contact with physical object it explodes creating an impact.
I wanted to use some flashy magic but... I guess I can't do anything about it, so I decided to become a swordsman, I also have a huge amount of mana and can create massive impact, but I still want to use magic...
In this year I learned to read better and I was able to understand what my skills were and you know what... I take my words back, I don't know who reincarnated me or why but thank you for this awesome skills.
And my skills are
-Mana master
-parallel thought
-appraisal
-body strengthening
-fast mana recovery
-fast health recovery
-poker face
They are good skills, especially mana master, at first I didn't know what it was but when I checked it using appraisal I was shocked.
The first thing, it isn't exactly a skill, but a title and as mana master I will get skills that are connected with everything that works on mana, the first skill I got was 'mana manipulation' i got this because I was trying to control mana, but the only reason I could control it was because I'm a mana master and with training it became a skill
With this I have my theories of how one gets a skill, well when you are good at something and you can do it on reflexes you get a skill, for example, when you master the certain technique in swordsmanship it will be assigned as your new skill.
Now when I have this skill I don't need a chant, so I can create impact instantly, it would be good if I could use some other fancy spells but I can't, haa~ what a disappointment.
Then, once I knew this fact the skill screen changed and become something like this
Titles:
-Mana master
Skills:
-Mana manipulation
-parallel thought
-appraisal
-body strengthening
-fast mana recovery
-fast health recovery
-poker face
So mana master is really cheat and I think I can get many more useful skills, ohhh! now I'm getting excited!
Parallel thought, at first i was confused as to how should i use it and before i noticed I was thinking about two different ways to activate it at the same time, and that's the answer, you should just try and think about two things at the same time, not only thinking but I could do two things at the same time, for example drawing the circle with right hand and triangle with left at the same time in the air, I was astonished, the next thing I tried was to move my eyes in different directions and I did it, my vision was distorted and when Rebecca saw me she fainted. Oh, Rebecca is the blonde girl that i don't like, now that i think about it, it was after that time she started giving me weird roles...
As for appraisal i just needed to think about some item deeply and very simple description was written on skills screen, and after first try i already knew how it worked and i activated it easily.
And body strengthening, it was most challenging one, i didn't know how should i do that and i have never been strengthened to know how it feels, and after several hours i understood something, skills can be activated with skill screen, you just need to say skills name and 'activate', i will leave it in my dark history, anyways, after activating it several times i could already do it without skill screen, my body felt so light and powerful, what's better is that more mana i use higher body strengthening level was, i could even lift bed with ease.
While playing around, I also understood one thing about body strengthening, it doesn't just rise ones strength, it depends on your body how strong it will get, it means the stronger you are strengthening will also stronger, for example, man can lift 50 kg and with strengthening he now can lift 75 kg, but if he trains and can lift 100 kg with strengthening he will be able to lift 175 kg, well i don't know if my numbers are accurate, but the principle is something like this, it also depends on how much mana you use, people can't manipulate mana like me so I don't think they care about it, but as for me, it is the most important thing. After knowing all that I need to train my body more, well I've already been training more than a year, but because I could not move as I wanted, there was no significant progress, but now I need to train more!
The other three skills are really simple to understand so I won't waste time explaining them.
it was already around 5 pm soon it will be time for us to go in, before that I have something to do.
As I thought that, I left other kids and started to run, they were looking at me confused, but I need to train!
that day I ran, did pushups, squats, and sit-ups.
When I came back to the orphanage I was covered in sweat.
From today on I will do this every day without using body strengthening, that's because if I did there would not progress and also I like when my muscles ache, I feel that I'm getting stronger.
I'll be the strongest swordsman in the world!
I thought with excitement and determination.