"Master! Master! Wake up! Your teacher is going to be here soon." pleaded Mary.
I looked to my right and saw four maids, two holding clothes, and the other two barehanded. Behind them stood Thomas with a small rolling table, there was a plate that had bacon, eggs, and a slice of toast with butter on top.
"Yah, yah, I'm up. What do you want." I groggily asked.
"Your teacher, she will be here in just a few minutes. Hurry up and get ready before she gets here"
I sat up with my legs hanging off the side of the bed. The four servants began walking towards me.
"Sorry Master for not introducing ourselves but we are here to get you dressed."
In an instant, all my nightclothes were ripped off and some shorts and a t-shirt were thrown onto me before I fully comprehended what they said.
I began to open my mouth to state my confusion but I was cut off by Thomas. "Master, would you like coffee or tea with your breakfast?"
"I would like a coffee please."
I ate my breakfast and was ushered out by Mary's towards the training room. Inside the room was a young-looking woman with long straight black hair.
She had her hands on her hips and she turned to look at me, "Ah, so you have finally come. You better not make a habit of making me wait. Even though you will be my only student for the next few years, I'm not a patient person."
I began walking towards her, "Sorry about that, I umm... got to bed a bit late."
Mary closed the door behind me and now it was just this person and me in the training room.
"Yeah I know, first-day parties don't usually end up going for as long as yours did. Well, because we got a late start we should begin right away. I'm Katamori and I will be your power trainer. Just so you know, it takes a long time to master these lessons so don't give up just because you can't get it during the first few weeks. This class will depend on your motivation to get better."
I bowed, "I am Lee, the Wishing man, I will try to not disappoint you. So how do we begin this training."
"Well I was sent some information on you from The Almighty and it seems as if you have quite an extremely strong but hard to master power. Mr. Lee, you are able to see the future and change fate, I have never trained somebody with a power that was quite like yours. This will be quite the challenge but I believe you might just be able to become one of the strongest Gods with enough afterlife points."
"I do hope so, but my powers seem quite complicated. How would I even begin learning them?" I inquired.
"Well I thought about it for quite a while now, and I believe that you need to awaken your power."
"What do you mean to awaken?"
Katamori pulled out a clipboard filled with papers, "Usually Gods have simple powers such as Uke, the Goddess of the harvest. When I taught her all I needed to do was teach her how to control her mana flow and how to spread her mana so foods will grow. But yours is different, your power to see the future comes from the mind. Your power to change fate should come from you just doing anything so we don't have to worry much about that.
I stroked my chin, "Wait you said that the power of seeing the future comes from the mind, right? So what if you teach me how to control my mana so I can send it to my brain."
Katamori did a golf clap, "Aha! So you figured it out all by yourself, congratulations."
"Alright, let's get on with the lesson, I would like to start my job as soon as possible."
"Then we shall begin. I would recommend that you take down some notes."
A servant walked into the room and handed me a board with some papers and a pencil.
"First we will begin with what mana is. Mana is the power source that is used by all Gods. Most Gods will absorb the mana that is surrounding them so they can use their powers. But high-level Gods are able to create their own mana."
"Is that why the high ranking Gods are almost impossible for the normal Gods to reach?"
Katamori smiled, "Yes, that is exactly the reason why. The stronger you are, the more mana you will use, so for someone like you, using your power will use up a lot of mana all at once. So using your power in quick succession is not going to be possible. The reason no God has the same power as another God is because of something called filtering."
I knew that this topic was going to be important so I began to create its own section on my paper.
"Filtering is what happens when a God takes mana from their surroundings. No God is able to make full use of the mana because part of it is left behind while only the part useable by the God is taken in. The only one that is able to make full use of mana is The Almighty."
"Ah, no wonder he seems so strong, if The Almighty is able to take in all mana does that mean that he can also use all powers?"
"Yes, that is why The Almighty is the strongest. So that is most of the basics of mana, so we should now begin with how to control it before our time is done. I would recommend that you put down the paper so you don't get distracted."
I put my board and pencil down on the ground as she walked towards me.
"When you are going to control your mana, you are going to try and find a wavy kind of feeling from within your body."
For the next few hours, I was practicing how to control my mana. But at the end of the day, I was unable to make any progress. I felt mentally exhausted, but I needed to keep going, it was only the first day. To think that this I will have to do this every day seems a bit overwhelming, but it should get easier. Hopefully at least.
"Well, we should begin wrapping things up for today Mr. Lee. You did quite well for your first day."
"Huh? I did well? I could not even visualize my mana."
"Nobody can do that on their first day. But your determination was quite admirable. Even though you were tired you did not take a break. That shows me that you are serious about these lessons. But not that your lessons for today is finished I will take my leave."
Marry opened the door and Katamori walked out of the room. "See you tomorrow, bye."