Five years have passed since Luke discovered that magic existed in this new world. He has also gained quiet a bit of knowledge about himself and his surroundings in these past few years. Luke had discovered that using magic is not unusual here, here healing someone by magic is same as taking a medicine in his previous world.
Luke has also gained knowledge about the geography of this place, he and his family lives in a small village called Dorset which is located in Hampshire empire, Dorset village has deep forests in the west, most parts of these forest are unscratched. People avoid going to these forests are various wild beasts roam freely in these forests.
Apart from this Luke has discover various things about magic. Mages were given great respect all around the kingdom, even the
royalty supported them. Every mage can use every magic element to a certain extent but there was one element towards which mage has a greater affinity than other elements. Luna had affinity towards fire which was considered the greatest element of all in
terms of destructive power. This made Luna a genius in eyes of Ella and Dan who hoped that their daughter would become a great mage and improve their living conditions.
No one hoped anything from Luke, as his parents believed that he had affinity towards no element which makes his just a normal person.
Luke's magic element was actully darkness and as far as he knew no one in the history of magic has ever had this magic element.
So luke decided that it would be better that de do not show any sign of magic to his parents as a strange magic element would just worry them.
Luke has make several discoveries but the most important thing that he discovered was a unique use of magic that probably nobody knew except him. Luke has spent these past 5 years doing various experiments with magic and his own body(he made sure no one in family noticed him), he has successfully developed two spells of his own, he called the first one 'anihalate' and the second one 'vanish'.
Developing spells and learning about magic with his little body and while hiding his talent from his parents was not easy at all.
He had spent many nights out of the house practising magic and training his body. 'It took me 2 years to create these two spells despite all the knowledge of human body that I possess' Luke tought while sneaking out of the house at one night when his whole family was fast asleep 'but now that I think about it, both of these spells are very advanced and would probably be very useful, especially vanish'.
He went to the backyard, collected some dry leaves in one place and then started to accumulate his mana on the tips of his fingers. 'I think I have enough mana in my fingertips to cast this' with these thoughts he pointed his forefinger towards the leaves. As soon as he did this black flames covered the leaves, these flames were not hot but they burned leaves really quickly leaving nothing behind. 'Guess I have mastered anihalate. '"Anihalate is a simple spell, it does not require much concentration but vanish is still a problem "Luke said with a serious expression on his face.
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Despite having great talent in magic Luna was not selfish at all. 'She was quite humble and helpful intead' Luke
thought seeing Luna cleaning the yard, according to luke being kind is not a good thing because he believes that
straight trees are cut down first. He has experienced this in his past life, he had been backstabbed the very people he cherished
the most.
Luke was quite frustrated nowadays, he was trying really hard to master his theoritical spell 'vanish' but had not accomplished anything despite hard his hard work.'Vanish is a really complicated spell, it requires one to absorb all the many the could and then compress it inside your body connecting it toevery single cell of your body, then you have to put so much pressure on each cell of your body that every cell of the body is seperated, but you have to keep them together yet a little seperate from one other using your mana which was previously connected by mana' Luke thought, "I guess that this theory still has many problems, how can someone disintigrate their vital organs" Luke mumbled while sitting on the wooden stairs of his house. "I guess it would take some more years until I could perfect this theory and create this spell. I don't have any doubt that I could get accepted in the magic academy but still things which are self created and learned are most important and I also don't have any books to read either" Luke said to himself.
There was only a single magic academy in the kingdom of Hampshire which only takes in the most talented young mages from all over the kingdom, one can apply for admission in this academy once they turn 13. "Once you get in the academy consider your life changed" Dan said to Luna "Dan stop it, you are just pressuring her" Ella intrrupted him. All the four family members were
sitting on the table and having dinner when Dan started conversation about magic academy. "Don't worry mom, I will not disappoint you" Luna said adjusting her blonde hair which were about to dip in the soup. Luna knew that she was talented and she wanted to improve
living conditions of her family. 'I would do whatever it takes to get accepted in the academy, I would give a better live to Luke, mom and dad' Luna thought.
'I hate this type of conversations, they talk like I am not even here' Luke thought 'I understand that you have no hapes from me
but at least try to hide that, I am just 5 years old after all'
Ella had affinity for light magic, Dan had affinity for wind magic and Luna had affinity for fire magic but Luke have no affinity
for any magic element, or at least that was what everyone in his family thought.
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Some weeks have passed and tutor for Luna has been hired, Dan has sold a piece of land that he owns for this. Ella had tried to stop him from doing so "we don't have much land dear, we should not take such a risk" Ella said in a low voice looking Dan directly in eyes. "Don't worry, once Luna graduates from academy we would not have to worry about tiny pieces of land like this" Dan replied.
After that chat Ella did not objected any of his decision.
Today is the day the tutor comes, Ella and Dan are waiting for him at the door. A man with silver hair and oval face and dark brown eyes came to their house, he greeted them with a fake smile "hi my name is Marcus" he said with a grin "I would like to see the little genius whom I would be teaching" he said with a sugar coated voice.
Luke and Luna came to the door on hearing the voices, in first glance Luke knew that this man was not trustworthy. Luke has met people like him countless times in his previous life. Without a second thought he went back inside the house ."I would kill him if he tries to do anything funny "Luke mumbled.
"Would you introduce yourselves please "Marcus said to Luna sweetly
"yeah sure"
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Marcus has been teaching Luna magic for past 6 months but according to Luke Luna was progressing at a very slow rate. Obviously Ella and Dan have not noticed this, they thought that just getting a tutor for their daughter was enough for her to get
accepted into the academy. Marcus knew about magic a quiet a bit, Luke would often listen to things he taught to Luna. 'He is teaching her the basics and some useless low level spells, nothing more' Luke thought while listening to one of the lectures Marcus was giving to Luna.
Luke had not been doing nothing or past 6 months, he was now allowed to play outside the house, he would use this opportunity to train his body and magic, he had also progresses in his spells a little, he had learned from one one Marcuse's lecture to strengthen one's body with mana. Luke had
modified this technique a little, he could now just strengthen one part of his body but the others remained normal, this allowed him to turn the strengthened part as hard as steel. He had given no name to this technique yet.
But the thing that made him most happy happened in the onset of the winters. Luke was sitting in the backyard, Luna was sleeping as she was exausted from her training (Marcus has now started to give her practical training).Ella and Dan were chatting in the kitchen about this and that.
Luke was thinking about theory of vanishing spell that he had recently created when a thought struck him. He stood up, started to absorb mana inside his body and when he could
absorb no more he started pushing the mana inside his body in the left side. He stood still for about 3 minutes trying to do something when black smoke started leaking out of his body and the next second he was he was standing 50 meters away from the spot he was standing at before .
"I can't believe I didn't thought of this before, you don't have disintrigrate your body at cellular level, you just have to create a layer of mana outside your body and from the inside push towards the direction you want to move to, the outside layer would protect you from any injury while the inner force will move your body from one place to another at a very fast speed even with all the knowledge I have I was still thinking of doing something which a living body can never do" Luke said laughing with joy.
"A few more months and then I would be able to control the distance I travel and speed" Luke said to himself before going inside the house.