In the morning, when the sun shone through the window, I slowly opened my eyes.
it's around 8AM, so it's not that hot despite it being summer.
By the way, grown-ups usually get up before 7, as for kids, they won't wake up for at least an hour, so that means, I'm the first one, but if I had to compare it to my previous life it's late, really late, before I was reincarnated me and my best friend would get up at 5AM almost every day and start training, I started doing so when I was on my second year of high school, while he started it during his first year, I want to go back to that lifestyle as quickly as possible, but with body that is of a 2-year-old I can't, kid needs to sleep properly damn it!
Well that aside, I should probably go and start my workout.
As I thought that, I dress up and quietly left the room to not wake up other kids.
While I was on my way to exit, I met with several grown-ups, but they are used to me going out this early, so they didn't say anything.
after I left the building I ran around 200 meters away from it and started to warm up.
By the way, if you want to build up your muscles properly, you should not do the same kind of training every day, you should dedicate one day to one part of the body and make a schedule, so today its shoulders turn.
After 30 minutes I'm done.
Now I should wipe my sweat.
I grabbed my shirt and ran to well, by the way, I was training without a shirt because i don't want to get it sweaty.
After I washed, I sat down and leaned on the wall with my back.
I still have 30 more minutes before others wake up, so I'll play with magic I guess.
3 month ago Minaris visited us with her party.
Besides Minaris, the party had 2 members, one swordsman(male) and one archer(female), it was an absolutely normal party if Minaris and the archer girl didn't act so strange around that swordsman guy, and when they were telling us the story of how they met, Minaris was really bashful and fidgety, she said that they had some kind of an accident several months ago, at this point I understood what kind of 'accident' they had there. Of course, that gut was dense as hell, looking at him I now fully understand how side characters feel, when they see these harem bastards, as expected of a fantasy world.
Knowing all that I asked her to lend me her magic book, but she refused, said that it wasn't for kids, so I had to ask her 'politely' to lend it to me, she was so moved that there were tears in the corners of her eyes while giving it to me.
The book was about beginner level magic, there were various spells from all kinds of attributes with their magic circles drown next to them, I tried chant some of them but, no avail, there was no feeling of mana moving, well it was expected result, it's still a bit depressing, I also can't draw a magic circle, even if I do, it's still useless, for circle to work it needs to be drowned by special mixture which I don't have.
But then, in my despair, I found a light! and I mean literal one, there was a 'light' spell, the description said that it was very popular spell among dungeon explorers because it's mana consummation is low, it's a safer way to light path than fire and everyone can use it as long as they have enough mana. So, when I gave it a shot and it worked! though, it wasn't the thing you would use to light your way, so, it tried several more times and I managed to successfully cast proper 'light'.
Then, I wanted to do it without chant but, I failed, no matter how many times it tried, I failed, even though I moved my mana perfectly, after that I tried to imagine light appear on my palm, but as I expected, it still failed, I knew from the start that imagining won't work, if it did then now I would be the strongest mage ever, as you know in previous life I was 3D modeler, the time that I've spent learning and making 3D aminations and models is long you know? I also have a pretty good imagination, so I can easily imagine something epic with open eyes, I don't even need high concentration for it.
For me, mana is something like an invisible limb and no matter how much you imagine moving, for example, your hand, it won't move until you actually move it.
Releasing mana from a body is imaginations limit.
Fortunately, after carefully observing the casting process I got it, the trick is to convert mana into the light and that's really hard, you know? the fact that I had to do it myself is what made it hard, it took me several days to master it.
And that's how I learned magic.
By the way, using 'body strengthening' was easier because there was no need to convert mana into anything.
This past week, I was thinking of ways to make this spell offensive, I can easily make the light so intense that everyone will be blinded, but this will affect me as well. That's why I came up with a new way to use this spell. I named it 'emission'!
When I first used the 'light', mana gathered above my palm and then converted into a light, what I did was to skip the first step, which is to gather mana above my palm. So, instead of doing that, I converted mana into the light right after it left my body and that's how 'emission' was born.
For now I can use it on one hand, but my goal is to do it on my whole body, so that, when I'm in trouble I can shout: 'feel the power of the sun!' and then release the blinding light from my body, but if it won't work on my enemy, if possible I don't want my head to get ripped off.
"come to think of it, I wonder if this thing is added on my skills screen(that's how I call it)."
As I thought that transparent screen appeared in my line of sight. And the content of it was:
Titles:
-Mana master
Skills:
-Mana manipulation
-parallel thought
-appraisal
-body strengthening
-fast mana recovery
-fast health recovery
-poker face
-body manipulation
-light
-emission
Good, good, looks like it was added as a skill derived from 'light'.
If you already noticed, there is one brand new skill. The description said that with this skill I can manipulate the density of my skeletal muscles and to some extent bones. It sounds pretty useful, I mean, manipulating density means manipulating size, which means that I can completely change my body type, I had many ideas in what way this skill could be used, but I do not wish to speak about that.
Well, a new skill is a use full and all but, the thing is... I don't know how to use it, I just don't get how am I supposed to manipulate density. In the first place, why did I even get this skill? Was there anything that could cause this? haa~ I don't get it at all!
Let's just stop thinking about that, others should be awake by now, guess I'll go and eat breakfast.
I put my shirt back on and went back to the orphanage.