Erich "wendelin did you stay up late last night? "
It is the morning of the next day, I am having breakfast with erich and master at the dining table in the living room of masters mansion. Erich guessed from my tired appearance that I had stayed up late last night.
Wendelin "yes, I lost track of time while reading the books master had recommended"
Alfred "oh really, how much were you able to read"
Wendelin "well, I am about a quarter of the way through both of them"
Master face showed a disbelieving expression, his expression than turned into a mischievous one which appeared as if it was saying 'I know your lying'.
Alfred "you wouldn't mind showing me what you have learned than, would you? "
Finishing our breakfast we moved to the sofa in the living room, while me and master were having our conversation erich had picked up the dishes and took them to the kitchen and started cleaning them, even though master had told him that it wasn't necessary, he just replied with 'its the least I can do since your letting me stay here for free', he wanted to help make breakfast but master had stopped him while saying 'there's no need for that' and then proceeded to take out breakfast for the three of us from his magic bag.
Master than took out some parts for making magic tools and assembled them on the table in front of us.
Alfred "now I want you to use these and make a basic magic bag"
From the smirk on his face master must believe, I wouldn't be able to do it after which, he probably intends to punish me for his amusement or it could be that he plans to enjoy himself by watching me struggle, but I don't plan to give him thay satisfaction.
I pick up the parts and start assembling them, as time passed my masters facial expression changed from the one of amusement to one of shock.
I completed the magic bag and then handed it over to master.
Alfred "wait, this isn't a basic magic bag"
Wendelin "yeah, I added an inventory function since I thought it would be useful"
There isn't only a single type of magical bag. The one master asked me to make was a basic one meaning the space of the magic bag would be proportional to ones magic power but this type does not have a inventory function meaning you can't organize the items you place inside it nor are you to select a perticular item to take out, this type of magic bag is only used for storing things that are similar or the same like the goods of a merchant or game which you have hunted. There are also magic bags used by merchants which have a fixed storage but are expensive since a magic gem has to be used for its construction,to provide it with mana, and it also lacks the inventory function since to use it one needs to be able to use the detection spell.
Alfred "well you have certainly surpassed my expectations, It also seems that you have a talent for magic craftsmanship"
Master said with a smile as he threw the magic bag back at me, I took it and attached it to my belt. As for my talent its all thanks to my 'magic craftsmen' skill.
Wendelin "hehe, I know I'm awesome"
Alfred "hey, don't think so high of yourself just yet, we have just started. Now tell me how do invoke your spells, do you chant them, use hand movements, make magic circles or do you perform them chantlessly "
Wendelin "I typically do them chantlessly, but I haven't tried any advanced spells since I probably would have ended causing damage to our families hunting grounds"
Alfred "I see if you can do them chantlessly than I wouldn't have teach you from the start"
Wendelin "what do you mean teach me from the start? "
Alfred " well, in combat you don't have time to chant the spells, plus its also better not inform your apponent of the spell you plan to use"
Wendelin "I see, now can we start training in actual magic"
Alfred "have some patience I still have a few things to share before we get to magic practice "
I nodded, seeing which he continued.
Alfred "magic can be devided into three main types body strengthening magic, elemental magic, special magic. Body strengthening is performed by using void magic it allows one to increase their bodies strength, speed and reflexes, continuous use of this magic leads to the permanent strengthening of ones body, also this magic requires a strong physical body and shouldn't be performed excessively by those still in their growth period, do you understand?"
Wendelin "yes master I understand, what about the other two types? "
Alfred "you should already know about elemental magic since it is written about in those magic books which the kingdom distributes, you basically use your magic to gather and manipulate the elements though that isn't all there is to it, you can also influence the power of the element you are manipulating, meaning you could possibly make a fire hotter and more destructive. The same can be accomplished with other elements the only limitation is your imagination"
Wendelin "my imagination?"
Alfred "yes a famous adventurer know as lisa the blizzard spent time on the peak of a mountain in the northern region of the kingdom. Her reason in doing so was to get an understanding of the deadly cold that is present there, the result was that her ice magic is the strongest in the kingdom"
Wendelin "wait does that mean I'm going to have to do that as well"
I already know that I don't have to that, because I have knowledge of modern physics, so I know that the temperature of a substance is dependent on its molecules kinetic energy, making my ice or fire magic stronger should be easy to accomplish by manipulating the kinetic energy of the molecules, but for the sake of pretending to be a kid I had to ask the question.
Alfred "well only if you want to be a great ice mage, now lets move onto special magic, this kind of magic has many different types, such as holy magic, teleportation magic and many other types are included in this category. I wanted to go over this information since its not mentioned in the regular text"
Of course I knew about this from the start but the basic magic books which the kingdom prints didn't mention everything, so master wanted to go over these topics before starting the actual lesson. He also probably wanted to give me a general overview in the unlikely case I didn't read any of the standard magic books.
Wendelin "yes master the books I had read before didn't mention anything about special magic and there was very little on body strengthening as well"
Alfred "yes that is often the case, now lets move on to today's lesson, first I want you to tell me the uses to mana exercises"
Wendelin "well they help you increase your mana capacity at a faster rate, also by performing mana exercise daily you can increase the size of your magic pathways, which would decrease the cast time of your spells"
Alfred "that was very good but you forgot to mention that they also increase your mana control, by increasing your mana control you can increase the number of spells you can use at a time, it also is useful in tricking an opponent in battle"
Wendelin "I understand being able to use more spells at the same time what you mean by tricking an apponent"
Alfred " let's say your fighting someone, and you start channeling your magic in to your right hand your opponent would focus on your hand and try to move in order to avoid it. In that instance if your able to channel you mana into another part of your bady, for example your leg and cast a spell from there, than you can catch your apponent off guard, and that would increase your chances of landing a hit"
Wendelin "but to accomplish something like that you would need an incredible amount of control"
Alfred "yes and for that its necessary to do mana exercises daily without fail, here's a book on mana control, it also has different types of mana exercises. Read it if you have problems with mana exercise, though I don't think you would need it"
He took out a book from his magic bag, amd threw it over to me, I grabbed it and stored it in my magic bag.
Alfred "alright now I'm going to teach you teleportation magic, but for that where going to have to go to a more open place"
I then get up following masters lead and walk to an open area of the house with master.
Alfred "I'm now going to teleport us to a plain about a dozen miles to the east of breitburg, try to focus on the feeling when I invoke the teleportation magic"
Our surroundings than changed and we found ourselves in a grassy plain with large boulders scattered about here and there.
Alfred "now remember when it comes to teleportation magic you have to know your current location, your destination and the distance between the two. Now imagine that rock as your destination, and will your magic to teleport you to it from your current location, while remembering the feeling you had when we teleported here"
I then followed my masters instructions and commanded my magic to teleport me to that rock, in that instance I appeared next to the rock. Master than appeared beside me and looked at me with a beaming smile on his face.
Alfred " now your among the only three people in the kingdom who can use teleportation magic"
Wendelin "what! only three people, than how did you know that I could use it? "
Alfred "the truth is I didn't, in fact I was quite surprised as well when I saw you using it"
At masters straight forward answer my face could only make a deadpan expression.
Alfred "haha, don't look at me like that, you should practice teleportation magic since the feeling of using it is still new to you, plus if I told you before that only two other people could use it, you would have doubet yourself and that would have made it difficult, for you to cast it"
Master laughed seeing the deadpan expression on my face, and told me to practice my teleportation magic, as I practiced my magic, master goed and sits beneath the shade of a tree. I then noticed something, the amount of mana I used for my teleportation, was five times more than when master used the teleportation spell.
'even with the mana efficiency skill the gap between us is still this large', I can't help but think this as I admire masters magic control. I've been neglecting my daily magic exercise because it was difficult to do it my families mansion, since I didn't want anyone to find out that I had magic power. It wasn't really necessary for me to do mana exercises either because, my magic pathways were really large from the start, due to my monsterous magic capacity, I had also created the 'magic efficiency' skill which increased my magic efficiency to its absolute limit, but it seems my magic now lacks control, due to which I'm using more mana than necessary, because of this even with my 'magic efficiency' skill, the magic cost is still greater than masters due to my lack of control over my mana.
I than used my skill creation ability and created the skill 'mana control'. Its a skill which increases my control over my mana and all the spells i cast. As soon as I create this skill my entire prospective of my mana changed. It was as if my mana had become a part of me, which I could control with a single thought, when before I had to make an effort to control my mana, now I could do it as easily as breathing.
I than try to use the teleportation magic again and the results had improved a lot, now my mana consumption was only slightly more than master.
'I can't overcome someone like my master, with my skills alone, seems like I'm going to have to those mana exercises now', these thoughts occupy my mind, as I realize that I'm going to have to put in more effort, If I'm going to be the strongest magician in this world.
Alfred "it seems like you have learned how to teleport, to a location that is within your range of vision, now lets start using teleportation for long distance travle, try to teleport back to the mansion"
I than try to remember the features of masters house, and focus on teleporting there from my current location. It took a few seconds for me get it to work but in the end, I succeeded in teleporting to the living room of masters mansion.
Alfred "another thing to remember when using teleportation magic is that it won't work if something or someone is already occupying the place where you intend to teleport to, it won't work and a general rule is that you shouldn't teleport yourself to a very busy area, since the chances of colliding into someone or the chances of the teleportation magic not working would be quite high, now lets get back to the training ground"
Master had arrived in the mansions study a second after I arrived. He then instructs me how to teleport, multiple people and than tells me to teleport the both of us to the training ground.
Alfred "I'm quite astonished that your mana efficiency with the teleportation magic has increased so much in such a short amount of time"
Wendelin "is it really that impressive?"
Alfred "yes it is, typically the more you practice a spell the greater control you're able to have over that spell and thus are able to cast it with increased efficiency, though what's astounding in your case is that you're able to cast it almost as efficiently as me, while just having learned that spell"
Wendelin "so what your saying is that I'm amazing~"
I say this as a playful smirk plastered on my face.
Alfred "hmph, you just have an amazing teacher"
Both of us than shared a laugh, but soon as we finished laughing, master starts looking at me with a serious face.
Alfred "wendelin you're an extremely talented young man but don't let that get to your head. I have seen many talented people become over confident and lose their lives as a result, always keep training and improving and never overestimate your own abilities "
I matched my own gaze with masters and nodded my head, to confirm that I understood what he was trying to say. We than get back to my magic training.
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Alfred" you seem to have a good affinity with every magic attribute though some of your affinities are stronger than others "
For the last two and a half hours, master had tested out my affinities for different types of magic, and just like wendelin from canon, I too had good affinities for all magic attributes, although a person having every attribute of magic was extremely rare, but some cases of having all magic attributes just like my master and me also existed.
My strongest attributes happened to be water, air, void and holy attributes, to gauge the strength of my affinities, he had used a magic tool to measure them, and then to confirm the assessment of the magic tool, he made me try out spells of each attribute. I had to put in a bit of effort to learn holy and void attribute spells since I didn't know any spells of these attributes.
According to master something like me not knowing any holy and void attribute magic was easily understandable, since these attributes were so rare that knowledge on them was not wide spread, they were also not mentioned in much detail in the magic books printed by the kingdom.
Void magic is used in body strengthening magic and can also be used for emission spells but since it doesn't give any advantage against other attributes and is also taxing when used in emission type spells, because of this it is typically used only for body strengthening magic.
Holy magic is used for healing people and purifying the souls of the dead, many types of undead exist in this world although very few of them can actually have a physical form so they are more of a bother than anything, they can only be dealt with holy magic, though even master doesn't know many holy spells, since knowledge on holy magic is mostly monopolized by the church. The church was also the organization which employed the mijority of holy magic practitioners.
Alfred "having all attributes is a good thing but it also has a downside"
Wendelin "wait! really, what kind of down side?"
Alfred "you have to spend a lot more time practicing, to master all those attributes"
My master said those words while smiling at me, 'I had honestly been worried when he said that' were my thoughts as I made an 'are you serious' expression at him.
Alfred "fufufu, well don't make that face, this is all for today and its also time for lunch so lets go back to the house"
Master than used teleportation magic to bring us back to the house, we saw that erich was seated on the living room couch while reading a book on economics from masters study.
Erich "so wendelin how was your day"
Erich asked me while having a tired expression.
Wendelin "it was awesome, I learned a lot from master, but you look tired"
Erich "It was really boring, since I spent my entire morning studying"
Alfred "ahh, you haven't seen the city yet have you, I'll take you on a tour after lunch"
Saying this he starts to take out food from his magic bag which included different types of grilled meat, a bowl of salad and chicken soup, and places them on the dining table, then after turning around to meet our gazes he is met with questioning looks.
Alfred "I have a local restaurants prepare and pack the food for me, I then store it in my magic bag for any time I feel like eating"
Both me and erich node at masters explanation, then we start hearing a beeping noise originating from masters robes, master than takes out a device which resembles a mobile phone, he puts it against his ear and starts to talk with the person on the other side.
Alfred "it seems I have urgent business with duke breithild, both of you should finish lunch and relax, I'll be back in a few hours at most than we can go on the tour of the city"
Master says this and departs via teleportation magic to duke brethild's mansion.