Time passed and soon it was my 4th birthday. By this time I had read almost all the informative books in our house and had a considerable control on my magic, of course no one knew about it. So I asked my dad for a new book as a present. My parents were happy that their son was showing an interest in knowledge so they accepted my request without hesitation.
On my birthday, the house was crowded. Many people had come to celebrate my birthday. Most of the people were colleagues or friends of my father. Since I had not been allowed to go outside of my house I had no friends. This was also a very big opportunity for me to get friends.
As soon as I got ready and came to the living room, the greetings started. Many people came and congratulated me on my 4th birthday. I got to know some kids as well. The most notable ones were Max, a 4 year old boy with blonde hair and Seraphina, a 4 year old girl with beautiful red hair. These two were the ones I got along the most with.
I had received many gifts but wasnt expecting anything useful. What I was excited about was the book my parents were going to give to me.
After the party, I opened my gifts. I left the book, wrapped in a black sheet, for the last. Most of the gifts were story books of old legends of this world. Then, at last I held the book my parents had bought for me. I opened it with a wide smile from excitement on my face. It was a book about dark magic. I was interested in this topic even in my previous life. I hadn't got any information about this for the past 4 years but finally I had a thick book, with about 300, pages in my hand that had the title of " THE USE OF DARK ARTS, PROS AND CONS" .
It had been a long day and I felt very tired. So I left the book for today and went to sleep. The next morning, as usual, I was woken up by my father at dawn for some exercise. We went for a jog, then my father taught me the use of sword. After that I did some breakfast and sat down to read the book. First off they introduced what dark magic is.
Dark magic enhances your ability to a very frightening degree. It is said that one can even destroy a country if all the conditions of dark magic are met. In this world, dark magic is by no means forbidden. It is pretty dangerous for the user as well. That is why the dark magic users are very rare in this world. Dark magic becomes usable to a person if he has a strong hatred towards anyone or if he is selfish as hell and doesnt even care about his own family as long as he gets what he want. Dark magic can also be used if u vow to use that power only against some specific foes. For example I vow that I'll not use the dark magic if it's my foe is not after my life and if I do take one of my arms. The stronger the consequence is the stronger the power will be.
Now this last condition seems pretty easy that as long as you make a vow, you can use dark magic. Well it's not that simple. Dark magic only becomes available to those who have killed at least 50 people before. This is a thing no ordinary man has done. In this world, war is not something that happens every now an then. The last time a war broke out was about 50 years ago. Thus not many of the soldiers have been involved in a war. The ones who seek the dark magic, commit crimes and murder people just to get their hands on the dark magic. There were many people like that in the past but now the number of people seeking dark magic has decreased considerably.
To use the dark power, one needs to have full control over his/her magic. If he doesnt, the power will be too much for him and he will be consumed by it, normally resulting in death.
After reading some pages I put the book aside, thinking that itll be quite a lot of time until I'll be able to use dark magic.
In the evening I was lectured about magic. In this world, once a child turn 5 he/she is taken to Imperial museum where he/she is tested, as to what type of magic he/she will yield. Since I was 4, itll only be 1 more year till I'll be able to know what kind of magic I can use. The thought of the excites me.
After that I sat down with my sister Luna to hear about the Magic Academy. She told me that you'll enter at the age of 13, then study there for 5 years. During those 5 years, you'll have different tournaments, exams but you wont he able to come back home. Then she told me about her personal experience. It was really exciting for me to hear about the Magic Academy and I cant wait to go there.
Then we all ate dinner, talked idly to each other and went to sleep. Looking forward to a new learning experience tomorrow.....