Josep POV
A week has passed by since my last spar with teacher Gene. Apparently, I underestimate the complexity of old tongue language. The more I learn new words, the more complex it is. Because of this, I need around a whole week to almost master the language.
During this time, My mother asked me about my progress. As I already can't hide anything from her, I told her truthfully that I would almost master the language in a few hours which she found surprising and tested me a little bit.
After a few inquiries, she praised me as the most genius mage in history and thought about something for a while. Later, she told me to notify her if I complete the mastery over the language while she walks away at the deepest part of the library.
After a few hours or so, I finally completely mastered the old tongue language and saw my mother come back with an old looking book that gave off a powerful aura.
Trying to ignore the book's aura, I told her that I already master the language and asked her about the spell formula as I really want to use magic as fast as possible after knowing the usefulness of it in my spar with teacher Gene.
She orders me to take a seat and calm down my excitement. Then, she told me that she actually plans to expect me to master the old tongue language in months before teaching him about spell formula and how to construct the spell diagram from it.
However, she decides to change the plan since I can master the language in a week.
At this moment, her expression became grave and told me that she will not teach him about spell magic and how to construct it.
Before I can argue with her, she continues that she will teach me another kind of magic which is called ancient magic, the second most powerful magic type in this world.
It really surprised me as my mother can use ancient magic. Then, she asked me to take an oath to never tell it to other people unless I found them worthy. Without another thought, I did immediately without any hesitation.
She explains the way to use ancient magic is different from this day's magic. That's why she does not teach me about the current spells.
Normally, magic uses spell diagrams as base to contain mageforce as the main source of energy before the spell is activated.
However, ancient magic is different. The user only needs to say the word of ancient language to take effect of the spells instantly.
The downside is just to vocalize just one word, it needs a tremendous amount of mageforce with corresponding elements.
To vocalize the word, the user also needs high comprehension over the word which only few people are capable of doing it.
The difficulty just to understand a single word of an ancient word is a hundred times harder than mastering an old tongue language altogether.
Most of the people cannot even comprehend one word completely and only get half of it. However, the spell itself is many times better than normal spells.
A legend said by completely mastering ancient language will make the user to access forbidden language.
The comprehension over ancient language also can significantly boost the power and effect of their ordinary magic. People with little comprehension of ancient word language can also easily learn or even copy other magic just by looking at it.
It's more like that ancient language is the correct guide over magic. Some people even said ancient and forbidden magic is a true way of using magic.
However, she also explains just to vocalize one word, it needs the same amount of mageforce to cast ten eight-star spells consecutively.
Even for my mother who hailed as a prodigy in her clan needed to rest for one week after vocalizing just one word of ancient language with little comprehension. The higher the comprehension also increases the consumption of mageforce.
Moreover, she can only use the word after getting a series of buffs and enchantments from various skill and magic items.
After explaining basic knowledge of ancient languages, she gave me a thick book which gives a dangerous vibe. Apparently, the mysterious book is contained the ancient language.
It startled me to find that the book is entrusted by her clan to her as the protector of this secret knowledge.
She is chosen to become the protector as the only magician with the highest comprehension over the ancient language in the past of her clan history.
This is also the reason that her clan is giving her so much freedom. The only problem is she also needs to take a vow to not let others know the existence of this book. She could only teach it to others if she finds it that they are worthy.
Even if my mother found it worthy, they still need to go through a special test. Since my mother already revealed such information to me, I guess I will also go through this special test.
Although, I am still too young for this ancient language knowledge. She still decides to take a gamble and put out her thrust on me.
She finds that my talent is already worthy enough to learn ancient languages. At this point, she still didn't tell me anything about the special test and only told me to just open the book.
Then, with some hesitation I slowly opened the old book that was covered with beast skin and using an unknown kind of paper.
I see some gibberish words which I can't understand. However, as soon as I look all over the page with Greed technique in an active state, I am entering into a trance state while various of information come to my mind
This feeling is very otherworldly that cannot be described by word. It feels like I become unconscious but also still awake.
Few moments later after entering trance state, my mother woke me up worriedly. From her observation, my focus became blank after opening the book.
Then, she asked me if I could understand anything about the word. I explained to her that I can't read the word from this page but I also somehow could understand the whole page. Hearing my answer, she smiled brightly and hugged me.
Then, she explains that I have a huge talent to learn the ancient language. If I can't understand anything at all on this front page, it means I don't have talent in learning ancient languages. It will take an entire lifetime for me to learn this single page.
It is also normal that people could not read the word in the book. Because the word is written using some sort of ancient language magic to teach one word of ancient language.
Apparently, the test has already begun since I opened the book. If I somehow didn't understand anything about the first page. My mother will be forced to erase my memory about all of this ancient language thing.
Then, she told me to comprehend the book in a week. She said I will understand what to do after comprehending the whole book.
If I can't even gain a little comprehension in due time, then she will stop me learning ancient magic for the time being and teach him to do normal magic. As I could relearn it again in the future.
Even for my mother, it takes months just to get a little bit of understanding about the book. However, knowing my talent, she believes I could complete this task in a week. Spirited from her thrust, I started to read this book enthusiastically.