Back in my room I sit on my bed cross-legged and begin to feel the magical energy in the air which ill call mana. Feeling the mana in the air I then begin to feel the mana inside of me which if I'm, to be honest, is smaller than I thought with it only being at the level of a mid-class devil.
It's in the center of my chest in what I believe to be an extra organ devils have in order to store mana. Though it's not that big and I'll need to come up with ways to store more for the future. For now, I need to work on increasing my control over mana so I can use the same skills with less mana.
I begin by manipulating the mana outside of my body since the mana in my body is already mine it won't help me that much to train with it. that's when my third wish began kicking in, I quickly began developing better mana control. I got lost into my training and the next thing I notice someone's knocking on my door.
"Young master it's time to eat breakfast." Came a female voice from the other side of the door. Saying I'll be there in a few minutes the person or devil acknowledges my response and leaves.
Now that there are no more disturbances I begin to see how much my control has increased. To my surprise, it increased much more that I thought it would and that's with taking into consideration my third wish. In a numerical sense if before it would cost me 10 mana to launch a spell it would now take me 6 instead. Feeling satisfied with the results of only one night of training I get up and change into a different set of clothes. However, looking into my closet, I begin to feel the urge to go shopping.
Letting out a sigh I decided to go shopping with my sister in the near future.
Going downstairs to the dining room I see my parents and sister already seated waiting for me. seeing me arrive Ravel motions for me to sit next to her while looking a bit nervous.
She looks so adorable so while giving her a large smile I go towards her and take the seat she was pointing at. Seeing me sit next to her she gets reassured that yesterday wasn't just a dream she had but reality making her have the biggest smile I've seen on her.
Seeing her smile, I can't help but pat her head. The cute moment was however ruined by a cough. I was a bit annoyed but seeing it was my father I just let out a sigh and stare at him.
"So, Riser, how have you been." He asks now that he has my attention.
"I've been good father, much better than before since I can finally be myself." I begin to implement my plan to make it seem like my past personality was there for a reason and not just because I was a b**** which the past Riser was.
Hearing me both my parents have a somewhat startled and confused expression and I'm sure if I looked Ravel would too.
"Sweetie what do you mean by that. Why can you finally be yourself now but couldn't before." My mom asks with worry covering her tone.
"I'll tell you later but for now know that I'll be a good son from now on and won't cause you two any more trouble as I have before," I say this while giving them a large smile to which my mother begins crying and rushes to me and gives me a tight hug. My father on the other hand while not crying his eyes look a bit watery and has a smile on his face.
After calming down my mother and promising her that I will tell them everything we have dinner and now I'm back in my sisters' room with her.
We begin playing like we were yesterday but after two hours I ask her how strong she is. She tells me she's still only as powerful as a low-class but is close to being mid-class level in power. Well considering she's currently 12 while mi 18 yet she's almost at the same level as me I don't know how to feel about myself but I'm happy for her.
I ask her to manipulate the magical energy in the room. When she does, I see that she has very poor control over mana. Before I trained for the night it would take me 10 to cast a certain spell say a fireball while it would take her 35. I tell her to keep trying to improve her control over mana.
She looks at me confused since the only things she's ever been told is to try and increase her maximum capacity over mana. That's when I remembered that the Beings of this world don't know that by increasing mana control, they can use the same abilities for less and instead just associate it to their increase in power.
So, I explain to her how if you have greater control over magical energy you could use the same abilities for less which in turn means that you could use more attacks in total.
She looks shocked but then becomes happy saying she'll do it if I want her to. I tell her that I do and that if she can reach a certain level in control, I'll do something for her as long as I'm able to. she gets excited at my comment and I begin to wonder how the previous Riser could be so such an a**hole to such an adorable creature.
For the next 3 hours, Ravel and I stay in her room working on our control. I manage to get mine to increase to 5 if I continue with the measurements, I used earlier today, and ravel gets it down to 33. I tell her how much she's improved by telling her the comparison using numbers to which she gets happy knowing she's getting better. I do tell her that the better control one has over magical energy the harder it gets for one to improve.
For the time being, I decided that when she gets to 20, I'll do whatever she wishes for. We go down for lunch then go back to her room where we continue training our control. By the time for dinner, I'm still on 5 while Ravels went down to 32. After dinner, Ravel and I spend the rest of the time playing together. After playing for a few hours I put her to sleep.
Upon exiting her room, I see my parents there waiting for me. my mother has a smile on her face while my dad has a serious look. I nod and follow them as we make our way to my father's office. Once inside he places sound barriers and motions me to sit. Once where all sitting, he asks me to explain what I said earlier.
I tell them that unlike the rest of the clan who's only inherited the powers of the phoenix on a minor scale I've inherited the soul of a phoenix. To say they were shocked would be an understatement. Once they calmed down my father asks me to continue. I tell him that I didn't have full control over my powers so to not hurt any of them I needed them to stay away so I acted like a snob to make sure they did. My mother begins crying and saying "I knew my baby was a good person" while my father looks more serious than before.
I tell them that now my body and soul have merged successfully, and the power won't go on a rampage anymore and the only thing left for me to do is train with it so I can use it as my own. My father says that I should have told them earlier so they could have helped me.
I tell him it wouldn't have helped since the outbreak was random. Sometimes it would happen once a month other times it happened once a day. I then tell them that whenever it became wild, I could feel myself burning and that my body began to literally melt. My mother's eyes open wide while she begins to sob even louder while my father begins to look teary-eyed. I tell them how sometimes the only thing that would remain of my body would be my bones and that sometimes I hated the fact I was a Phenex since I would always regenerate instead of just dying.
This was the breaking point for my mother as she jumped at me hugging me and sobbing out loud. Even my father started crying. we stayed silent with the only noise being my mother's sobs. About half an hour later my mother calms down enough for me to continue. I tell them that each time my body was broken down it was being regened closer to the type of body needed to house a phoenix's soul.
I could tell since I would always be in pain but after each outbreak and body regen, the pain would decrease slightly until 2 days ago when after regening again the pain disappeared. I looked inside of my soul and instead of raging fire trying to devour everything there were small flames of all colors just burning but not destroying, they were… calm.
Hearing all I just told them my parents remain shocked for a while trying to take in everything they were just told. My father was the first to recover followed shortly after by my mother. They looked at each other and apologized for thinking less of me well more so my father who received a death glare from my mother after saying that while my mother apologized for not being there for me in my time of need.
I told them not to worry about it and that I wanted to keep it a secret that I have the soul of a phoenix. They looked at me with a bit of confusion since if I revealed it I would no longer be looked down on to which I tell them that I wanted to make a big impact when I revealed it and that I'm currently not powerful enough to protect myself or those I care about and might be targeted myself.
Both of them release killing intent at my words my mother more than my father and they said that they'll kill anyone who tries to make a move on me or anyone else in the family. smiling at their words I wish them goodnight give my mother a hug and kiss on the cheek and my father only a hug and head back to my room.
Once in my room, I begin to practice my control over mana again since I want to get it to 1 before I begin to increase my reserves.
Back with my parents after I left.
"I never knew our baby was going through so much. I just wanted him to be a cheerful kid but instead, he was going through so much pain all by himself." Says my mother to my father while starting to cry at the end of her words.
"He's strong to have gone through all that on his own, I'm proud of him for that. Sigh… I used to think he was a useless brat but now I feel horrible for having thought that when he was just trying to protect those around him." After having said that he's slapped into the wall by my mother who's glaring at him while releasing killing-intent.
"My baby was never useless. It was us who were. If I ever hear you so much as say something along those lines ever again you can give up being a man." With that threat, she stomps out of the office while my father gets back up, pulls out a blanket from one of the cupboards knowing that he'll be sleeping on the couch tonight.