-I'd really like to know how good I am with magic. Mr. Cacklemi doesn't teach me, Anthony said he's average, I'm already better than he is, besides he is only interested in weapons and battle strategy, if he wouldn't need it for that, he probably wouldn't even learn magic. And I don't see anyone else using magic, I mean some maids us it for cleaning, but that doesn't give me a clue on what my level is. I can already cast easy spells silent without using signs at most I need some coordination with my hand, in what direction the spell should go. So how advanced is my level and how much am I allowed to show? Hahhh I just hope that I'll get soon some lessons about magic.
At the beginning of my training with world mana I only used light magic, I still do. I think that that would cause the least damage if it turned into a sleeping spell (a spell that was cast with world mana and starts to collect mana for a long period of time and comes into existent when it was already forgotten). Back to studying, I'm more diligent in this live than in my last, probably because I've always been fascinated by magic.. –
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[15 minutes left till lunch]
-Well that's it with studying then, let's go eat. Food, food~. –
"Anthony let's go to the dining hall."
"Alright."
With that we returned our books back to the bookshelf. I practiced in the book Mr. Cacklemi gave me, which I took with me.
On our way to the dinning hall we met our father and like always we greeted him, but he only greeted Anthony back.
-I really don't get it, what's wrong with him? –
***
After dinner
-Back to my room some mana sensibility training and element magic training and then sleeping. –
I sat on my bed and Zero started the timer.
-It's still impossible to see them but, I can feel the mana grains. It's like a beautiful night sky. Just that the stars are blue. I'm not sure if that works, anyway it looks beautiful in my mind. –
[10 minutes are over]
-Finally, it really gets hard at the end to stay concentrated. Around 5 min are easy afterwards the difficulty just explodes. At the beginning I lost focus after 5 min, by now I can fell them for 10 minutes but there are less and less the longer I try to feel them.
So, then some element magic training. First some wind magic. Just sweeping the floor. At first, I still needed to use hand signs, later I could reduce it to just moving my hand and by now I can do it with just a thought. Then water, moping the flower. This is quite difficult, and at the beginning some wooden blanks have been exposed to the water for too long. The difficulty of mopping is higher than that of sweeping, I need to be fast enough not to damage the wood. As for earth, I dug some up in the forest and took it back to my room. –
Now I try to make some miniature walls and sculptures out of it.
-At first, I already had a hard time to make the earth shift just a bit, by now I can make a wall and some sloppy sculptures. They don't look great, but you can guess what it's supposed to be. Next would be light. –
I make some light-yellow stars flow in the air around my room… Sweat starts to form on my forehead
-20 are my limit. Afterwards when I try to make one more 3 vanish. And it takes a tool on my focus to have all twenty under control. Just a bit longer, just a bit…. –
[20 minutes are over.]
-Huh, finally. –
I told Zero to set the timer for this exercise to one minute per star.
-This is so exhausting. But I still have fire. I can't train darkness in my room for fear of destroying more than intended. I have some bad experience of darkness magic when I trained it in the forest. –
-So last but not least fire. –
I have 6 candles on my desk and try to light them first all at once than in different sequences.
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–So now changing color by infusing them with different elements. First would be red for fire. –
I lit a candle like I did before. But this time a mad a bigger flame.
-Second light-yellow for light. –
The flames became smaller and the color of the second one changed to a light-yellow.
-So now I need to keep both candles lit. The next one, grey for air. –
The next candle lit up afterwards the flames of all candles grew smaller, then the flame of the last candle changed color from red to gray.
-Alright, next. brown for earth. –
The same happened. The candle lit, all three flames grew smaller and the last changed color to brown.
-Arg, the flames are already quite small, and I still have 2 elements, the most difficult ones. So blue for water. –
The candle lit, all four flames grew smaller and the last one changed color to blue, but then the water vapored, and the flame changed back to red.
-Shit again. –
The sweat ran down my forehead
This time I managed to do it, but the flames grew smaller again.
-Alright, I got this. Black for darkness, the last one. –
The flames were already so small that they would go out alone in no time, if done nothing. Still I tried and lit the sixth and final candle.
-Now, changing color. Infusing some darkness and... –
The flames grew even smaller and the last one changed color bevor all flames went out.
"Gasp, gasp… I… did… it…"
-I never before managed to light all candles with different elements. Till now some or all went out bevor the last one got even lit. I am so proud with myself. I really accomplished something with my training. I'm still curious of how good I am compared to other noble children my age. –
I washed my faced and crawled into my bed.
-Now catching some Z's…. ZZZZZ Zzzzzzz zzzzz-
****
The next morning.
First the same training as yesterday evening.
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Afterwards using Charge to regain my stamina and focus.
-For a better sleep I don't use Charge in the evening. You sleep the best exhausted. –
[Wrong circulation, depleting stamina and mana, restoring focus]
-Arg, as difficult as ever, but the good part is that I managed to do it about one-minute right. I need to be happy about the small successes. –
When I had used charge after one of my magic training sessions, I found out that it also restores focus.
Then breakfast with Anthony afterwards dagger training, this time he had time to teach me then a shower, lunch and waiting for Mr. Cacklemi in my classroom.
-I always use Charge on my way to the bathroom and while I shower so now, I only can train mana sensibility. –
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Knock knock
"Good afternoon."
I greet him back and make a curtesy.
He takes a seat in the other chair.
"We have already finished about ¾ of what is taught on a primary magic school. After today we'll make a break for the rest of the week and start afterwards with the basics of magic."
-Yay, finally magic lessons. –
"Um, Mr. Cacklemi isn't a primary magic school for both, nobles and commoners, for which you only need talent to be allowed to attend?"
"Yes officially, but in reality, it is for neglected or poor noble children who don't get a private tutor."
-Also, a political plot to shut up the commoners. –
"As for today I want to confirm my theories I have about you, for this we need to go to the trainings ground."
-Huh, theories… about… me? Huh???!!! Am I in trouble? –
He walked to the door and I followed suit.