His heart throbbed hotter and hotter. His body sweated heavily, his breathing became irregular as he saw himself facing the monstrous best.
Huff, haah, huff. He came out of his mind world.
'Still too much for a one year old', Cain sighed.
He wiped up, rested for a while and moved to practice his magic.
After the incident, Cain had felt as if he was missing something. His body felt empty and his was no longer strong as before. But at the same time he also felt as if his blocked veins had reopened kinda like how one would feel when their runny blocked nose due to cold reopens. He would feel hungry for something but he didn't know what.
Over the days the hunger slowly subsided. His vigor came back and he no longer felt weak.
Months after the incident, after looking through some books and deep thoughts Cain came to the conclusion that it was simply due to the mana depletion when he forcefully used magic.
Since then Cain would be eager to learn more about magic. He went through the books he would find lying on the shelf. Surprisingly, he didn't have much difficulty in reading the book. After l through it several times, now he had some understanding of the core concepts.
Magic, a mysterious power that's has been the primary topic of research and use since forever. Many believe that magic was not naturally present in the world. It's believed to have been introduced when two universes collided into one during the beginning of time itself. When that happened the universe got ripped revealing a new dimension called the void. All the magical energy is said to have come from the void.
As for the magic itself, it exists in intermediate dimension between the real world and the void. It can seemlessly transition between the two to fill the gap. Over long periods, the mana density had come to an equilibrium but with external drive it can changed. This external drive can be any sort of energy that initiates the magic, whether it maybe the electrical impulses in our body or the sunlight. This is called activation or casting. The mana may collide with another one or be timed to release a lot of energy.
Though, historically magic was of fire, air, earth, water, shadow, light, summons and void magic types.
The new classification however divides magic mainly into two; physical and spiritual. Physical magic includes use of magic to change the physical surrounding. It includes anything from telekinesis, pyromancy, cryomancy etc. While spiritual magic includes phenomenons that can't be explained easily by normal physics but instead is causes due to the void dimension. Spiritual magic are rather unique magic possessed only by the few experts or once in lifetime geniuses. Some magic are void storage, teleportation magic, summon magic, necromancy, revival etc.
Spiritual magic is much unknown but for t physical magic, mages have separated it into several levels. With each levelr acting on smaller scale than the previous.
Level 1: Macro scale magic. This involves manipulation of objects on large scale. It includes magic of scale that can cause tornadoes, storms, floods or kinesis magic like moving heavy objects at incredible speeds.
Level 2: Micro scale magic. This involves movement of particles of an object in larger groups. It includes sound magic , pressure magic and vibration magics in general.
Level 3: Molecular scale magic. Manipulation is done with molecules usually involving their movement and arrangement. It's includes enhancement magic that changes the molecular structure of object to change it's properties like hardness, flexibility, strength and durability or movement like increasing molecular vibration to increase temperature and to meltdown or vaporize objects.
Level 4: Atomic Scale magic. With use of magic, new level on even smaller scale was observed and applied to create unique spells. It includes lightning magic and combustion magic.
Level 5: Quantum scale magic. This is where researchers shove all the magic that they haven't figured out.
Level 0: This is mythical magic and said to contain gravity magic among few others.
Well this is what I got from reading books. Different levels are useful for different stuff. If there is a boulder blocking your way then
level 1: telekinesis is more efficient than trying to melt the entire boulder with level 3: pyromancy. It's like trying to chop a tree using a sewing needle. But if you want to light u a fire or heat something up, using level 1 magic is like using an axe to sew clothes instead of needle.
Level 2: magic would be more useful in demolishing large structures using vibrations. Like how some can break a glass with just their sound, this level of magic allows for forced vibrations and resonance, resulting in destruction.
Level 4: magic is best for quick release of high density energy. Using molecular association and dissociation, exothermic reactions can be carried out releasing large amount of heat quickly. In another way, it can be used to produce electric discharge i.e lightning magic.
Isn't that obvious? I didn't need to read 4 books to know something that obvious. But it did make me sure. Reading the books I got the procedure for mana channeling and mana storage. The feeling of mana expulsed out from my body when encountering the monster was still vivid as day. I would try to get the same feeling as that time when I trained.
Cain sat down with his legs crossed and concentrated in silence. He calmed his breathing and began perceiving the surroundings. He could feel the chirping of birds far away in the forest, the ant colony rightinfront of his house, the gentle breeze grazing his skin, his heartbeat and the blood flowing through his veins. At that very moment, he could feel the roaring in his arms. He could feel the blood pushing against his blood vessels add he bit his lips and held back his screams of agony. His arms were trembling, and felt as if his arms were going to explode. His palm felt as if hundreds of needles are piercing him. Then it finally happened. With an expulsing feeling, a slight breeze blew from his palm.
Cain's disappointment was immeasurable and his day was ruined. All that pain for just a light breeze.
"Those bastards lied to me", Cain cursed the generic Isekai protagonist and their easy going with all the blessings from gods. And Cain here felt like dying just for a small breeze.
"Fuck you and your harem." Cain cursed then. He was filled with jealousy that they got to enjoy overpowered powers, lineage and harem but he didn't. Born in the boonies, his only blessing might be his good-looking face. Without power to protect himself even his handsome face might get punched by street thugs. Cain was not stupid enough to find it out though.
Cain decided to let his thoughts go. Such thoughts were just a hindrance in his mental fortitude training. He stood up and went back to training his mind.
"I will end it at this much today", Cain decided to let his body rest for today and decided to read some books and was just about to open up some book when his dad Myles showed up.
"Cain, I am home", Myles said.
"Daddy!", I jumped in excitement and ran towards my father.
"Hahaha, My boy. Today we are going outside"
"Yaay, outside. Yaay Yaay"
'I'm dying from cringe but have to keep up the act.'
Myles laughed loudly and carried Cain on his shoulders and took him out to the village.