A giant Shark, waking up Korvaurora saw a giant shark, she find it strange she never went to see the sea in her life. Her whole body hurts. She remember began training her spellcasting, fighting against her tiredness and all turned blank in her mind. Now she can tell that shark is a cloud, an very realistic cloud. Korvaurora raise up her upper body, sat down and analyze where she is.
"Ooh! She wake up", said a elderly voice.
In front of Korvaurora are the four seniors who still playing card games. One of them is an Entomo that by his face and the form of the wing that she can see is more like a cicada. In front of him is a male human using a orange beret and two Quillins, that she presume be a couple, the male has characteristics of a monkey with golden fur and goat horns, and the female is more like anteater with horns with the ends facing backwards.
"So they put me on top of this sheet when i was unconscious? I think this was the plan that was covering the table", thought Korvaurora.
"Are you ok girl?", said the female quillin.
"I've been better but... thank you for taking care of me", said Korvaurora.
"So besides reckless you are rude too?", said the Cicada like Entomo.
"John stop try to upset the girl", said the old man wearing a beret.
Korvaurora appointed her finger to the grumpy old man and said in a accusatory tone, "You are the old man who was pissing me off when a was running!"
"You meaning when you was almost having a stroke? Yes, it was me", said John.
Korvaurora face looked like she was forced to eat mud when she heard john, she said, "If you had stopped bothering me i wouldn't get angry. would breath correctly and wouldn't have passed out!".
John putting his playing cards on the table, he turned to face Korvaurora and said, "In fact what you should say is that you would have passed out a few minutes later".
The female Quillin said aloud, "Stop you two! Young lady don't pay attention to this geezer complaints, and John you are really arguing with a child?".
Hearing her John frowned and looked away, Korvaurora continued to stare his back.
"Young lady, my name is Arlene. What is your name?", said the female Quilin.
"It's Korva", said the young lady sited on the ground.
"What a beautiful name. This in front of me is my husband, Tristao". The golden monkey like Quillin nodded his head. Arlene smiled and continued, "As you can see, he can't stop talking. This human at my si...".
"Norman Smith at your services", said the human.
Arlene acted as if she hadn't even been interrupted, after years of being friends she got used. She moved her hand in the Entoma direction and said, "The whiner at my left is John". Arlene murmured to Korvaurora, but all the table could hear, "He act like this but he was the first to repairing your fainting, he ran in a way I haven't seen in years".
John pretended coughed in a way that shows that he has no talent or experience with acting. Tristao, Norman and Arlene giggled at this. Arlene seeing Korvaurora tired face said, "Kid, why you are struggling to the point of passing out?"
Korvaurora looked for a excuse in her mind, she don't like the idea of reveal what is happening with her to strangers, but it was too tired to get some. In the end she gave up and told the truth, "I need defeated someone who is way out my league, and I don't even know if I will be at his league on day. So i am training the shit out of myself".
Norman Looked at his friend and said aloud, "Hey John why you don't help her?"
John who was pretending not to be paying attention, answered outraged, "Do I look like a teacher ? She can look on the internet how train properly".
Arlene said to Korvaurora, "John here was a adventurer, he know a thing or two. Help her your bum, is not like you have something more to do in your retirement". Hearing it John just snorted.
Norman shook his head in in disapproval to John behavior, and said to Korvaurora, "Why don't you go to a gym?".
Korvaurora turned her face up to the sky, looking for another shark like cloud, saying, "They have a minimum age to enter and, is fourteen, i still thirteen". Her legs still a bit weak, nonetheless Korvaurora stand up and said while turning around, "Thank you for the help, i'm going".
"See you Kiddo", said Norman
"Bye", said Arlene
Tristao waved his hand
Korvaurora is going home, she has a lot to do and don't wanna keep bothering the old people. Thus, she need to take care of things by herself and can't stop her training to talking with strange, even if they are nice. Maybe she can throw some spells in her backyard, Louis's plants appear to be very resistant.
Before the girl took another step, a voice said, "Your determination is good, i don't know your reasons but if you gonna train without supervision you need to search how do it thoroughly or you only hurt your body. Above everything have patience, power does not come overnight".
Korvarora stopped and said, "But I did my research".
John smirked and said, "Let my guess, you studied the first ten links of a search site?".
Korvarou thoughed for some seconds and maybe she despaired by a bit, and overdone the limits of her body. Korvaurora didn't look behind, after some seconds she spoke softly , "... maybe".
"Girl you need be more careful with your body. By the way that you treated your body today, you will have five days until you body don't be sore enough for you to train again. Take this time to prepare your schedule and truly do research. See books, how a professional recommend you begin your training, read a book about basic mana manipulation, this kind of thing", said John.
Seeing her don't will answer him anytime soon, John said, "What is your mana's affinity?".
Korvaurora turned around and said, "Er...".
John said with a incredulous voice, "You wish to be a mage and don't even know it? This explain why you was training a spell that uses mana construct and not one of your affinities".
Korvaurora scratched the back of the head and said, "I read something about affinities, but i thought that it wasn't important so don't payed attention".
John sighed and said slowly, "Do you thought that Marshal Idris, the calamity, wanted be know by make his enemies die from dysentery? Of course not! It kills any public figure reputation. However that is his affinity. In which world did you live until now?".
"And how i discover it?", said Korvaurora.
"I said it before. I aint a teacher, go see on internet".
Korvaurora stood still for a few seconds and made thankful face. She thought, " probably i should had made more researches before do something reckless like today. What is happening with me?". Korvaurora sighed and said "Make sense... Again, thanks for your help. Bye".
Korvaurora made a 180 degrees turn to walk away, and after two steps, she did another turn in the seniors direction and said, "Before a go. Why are you guys playing cards at this time of the morning?"
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"Do you think that when you are old you don't have challenges?", said Arlene.
"We need train our cards abilities every day, so we can win in Drumbea's annual truco tournament", said John.
"Yeah! We need to show those snobs from the Central Park that the title of champion will not be of them forever!", said Norman.
Tristao didn't say anything, slammed his fist on the table and made a face that say, 'We will crush them!'.
"Oh! Now i understand. I just asked because i saw that someone who isn't a teacher has two sevens and a one in his hand. Bye!". Korvaurora ran like she wasn't dying a few moments early.
A vein appears in John face as he shouted, "How dare you do this to me! Hey Kiddo! Come back here!!"
...
At the night Korvaurora continued her research.
Exist many types of mages separated by their kinds of spell. A battle-oriented mage can follow two main paths. The wizard, that is concentrated in big spells and, the Warlock, who use fast small spell. In both the first part of the training is the same, even for the fighter is the same.
What keeps a consistent flux in the mana system of a body is the mana hearts, it's half of the size of the heart and is on the other side of the chest. Normally it is very slow because people don't have enough mana in their system to it be capable of beat quickly, takes more time to the mana heart accumulate the quantity of mana to trigger his beats. So the first step is train their mana system until it's mana density reach a point where their mana hearts can to beats at the rhythm that a normal hearts do, it's called the 'Heart as Heart' stage.
What controls mana is a person's brain, and every brain has a unique way of thinkings, that varies per individuo. How a person's mana behaves is interconnected to how she thinks. Basically a person affinity depends on the person personality. If she change herself, her mana attribute changes too. When someone reach's Heart as Heart point, their mana gets back to their brains fast enough to it don't lose the attributes that the brains give it, so all of her mana has her affinity.
Mana affinity determined if someone can skip the part of a spell that converts the mana for another element and certainly types of spell works best with certain types of mana. So a spell of person affinity can be cast five to ten times faster than one that she don't have affinity.
Has two ways of learning your mana affinity. You can discover it before complete the Heart as Hearts stages, but Korvaurora would need a device to do this, and she don't have that amount of money. But she don't is bothered about it. Eventually she will learn her affinity after her reach 'Heart as Heart', and there she can discover by herself using a spell that helps a person determine it. The testing spell is the most practical in Korvaurora case.
Actually exist another method that is by trial and error. Learn a spell of a specific element, cast and analysing what is the quicker. It can take one hour or one week.
"Alright I knew more. But I still need to determine what i need to do to make my mana dentity grow and what is my training schedule", thought Korvaurora.
Korvaurora looked by the window and saw the moon surrounded by stars, she smiled and said, "Those geezers are to dramatic. My muscles just are in a little pain and sore. I will be as strong as a bull tomorrow and I will run again".
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"Or is that what I thought", said the old Korvaurora to Maryanne.