Regius had never had the thought cross his mind of any other path other than the one of vengeance but here he was as a new road opened to him for the first time and in it, he saw a life of thrill, of adventure, and battle. Regius' mana started to leak from him unconsciously as he pondered on it while inside his mana space an excited Link stomped around his mana space and Regius had never seen him so excited before.
It was valid though what was he gonna do after he got revenge for his family just hang it up and leave his mother to her fate? Regius could not remember the details but there was something that he remembered fondly and that was on the days of his childhood when he'd come back home tired there was always this warm pair of arms waiting for him as he got there they'd wrap around him and he'd fall asleep right there.
It was the safest he had felt in his entire life so what if this path made the entire Myriad Realms his enemy he would simply carve through them and in the process he would fulfill the wishes that Earth had. He would carve out space for humans in the Myriad realms while he made his way to the world that currently held his mother prisoner and by the time he completed his mission he would declare the stance of humans throughout the Myriad Realms but that wasn't it. He could make it so that the tragedy of his family never repeated itself.
His mind whirred with the possibilities and the mana around him roared to life as his mind began to grab ahold of each possibility shining through him like stars in a night sky and finally, he fixed his eyes on Merlin whose eyes stared into his with light and flaring mana to match. Merlin offered Regius his hand from across the table for Regius to shake and look at him with the same eyes they had just reflected at each other.
"So how about it, Regius? Would you like to be a champion?" Regius laughed to himself and gripped Merlin's hand "Why would I want to be champion when you've gone ahead and shown me such a grand path? I will be your champion but that is only a single step in what lies ahead for me. I wish to be a conqueror."
The handshake seemed to form an invisible bond around the two almost as if the strings of fate wrapped around their hands and sealed their handshake as if it was a true agreement set in stone by the world itself. Regius sat back and his usual attitude slowly began to return "So then what happens next?" Merlin fixed his clothing and sat back as well
"Well I mean you go to the school of course. You did go through the trouble of enrolling and the path to champion is not so simple. You are merely rank 4 and the path ahead shall be very long. The school will give you knowledge and opportunity while I will personally guide you and help you set goals that will further that. I will be your master and you will be my disciple. I will teach you everything and I will lay the secrets of mana bare before you as the world itself has taught me but the school will serve to set your foundation and teach you basics because although I will teach you I too have things I must see to. The world is still not stable and as the current head of the Union I am to see to a lot of things and when I am not doing that I have to pour what energy I can into maintaining the spell that keeps us hidden."
Regius nodded at his words "My father left notes and guides that will maintain most of what I need and I get you'll be busy but before anything teach me how you did that, how did you create things like I do." Merlin twisted one of his hands and more minor creations came into existence. There were children's toys and eating utensils but none of it was anything major, the table would have been his biggest creation that Regius had seen.
"To maximize the potential of each human, Earth gifted us with attunements making masters of one instead of masters of none but attunements don't mean that you are locked into that element. When you reach the demigod rank you will be able to sense the other elements in the air and with enough practice, you will be able to manipulate them. It isn't anything as extreme as what you are thinking the manipulation is slight but with enough practice, you can gain pretty decent compatibility and do some simple things. I have been training for many years and can do these slight things but you are different. Your creation mana attunes you with the mana through your creations. It is an attunement that not even I had managed to do anything with but you have succeeded where the others have failed."
Regius nodded at this, Merlin had created things but not anything that was out of this world and now that he thought about it they seemed to lack any real substance but then Regius thought of the drinks and snacks that had appeared on the table. "Then what about the food? How did you manage that?"
Merlin smiled "That leads us to your second lesson and the last one we have time for. There are the base elements of water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and metal. The four advanced elements are light, dark, time, and space. The final two elements are the alpha element creation and the omega element destruction. Everything past the base elements becomes increasingly rare in humans with some being even rarer than the others. Humanity in this new age has begun to mix these elements with technology to create wonders I could never dream of but only recently have they begun to use the element that I was born naturally attuned to and that is space. Think of the space element, not like that of outer space but actual space. It is like the bracelet that you wear around your wrist. My mana allows me to create my own space in any and everything"