When the evolution of mind magic is mentioned, every single intelligent being in Empiria remembers about two people. Alan Badley, a natural legilemens and occlumens, spent his entire life researching these two kinds of magic and left more than a hundred valuable books and instruction manuals. His books are still used as basic course material and references by university students. The Supreme Guardian found an entirely new route in this field of magic, and his mind magic is comparable to the thousands of years of legacy of all mind magic masters. The ones who want to be famous for their mind magic use his method of manipulating mana to create illusory structures in their minds. His way of mind magic is still being researched by thousands of scholars at the Academy.
Excerpt from "Mind magic: origin and application" by Zariel Smith, Senior Teacher of Emrys Imperial University.
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(MC's POV)
My days as a baby started. Life feels too simple. I (pretend to) sleep most of the time and cry whenever I feel hungry or, you know, for excretion purposes. I'm fed 5–6 times a day, by the way. Ms. Harper stays with us and helps Mom take care of me. Sometimes Dad or Grandpa visit us. The most important news is I have a magic family. They have taken out their wands a few times. They don't use flashy magic at all, just simple telekinesis for summoning items or cleaning the room.
Okay, now. Enough blabbering. Let's get serious. The task is to learn mind magic. First question: what is stopping me from learning it? The answer is that I need someone to use my legilimency against me in order to test my occlumency.I cannot directly attack the minds of my parents or Ms. Harper, right? It's too risky. If they have trained occlumency (which I'm sure of), then I'll be exposed. I know that there are natural legilemens, but I'm not gonna take the risk at all. It may be harmful if they have no occlumency experience.
So, yeah. I'm kinda stuck. It doesn't mean I have been slacking off. These days, I have been making my detection screen. Are you wondering how on earth I would know about that? Yeah, it's not written in the official series. But we, the true fans of Harry Potter, have another weapon if we ever come to the HP universe (which I did). And it's called FANFICTION!If you are looking for good fanfiction, I recommend "HP: The Magical Journey." It had yet to be finished when I died. *Cough* Begone evil memories! I'm fit and alive now!
In short, that book taught me a lot about mind arts. So, for the basics, my knowledge is enough. I've already finished my detection screen, which will alert me if a legilemens attacks me. However, my mood has not increased at all. If you can do nothing when you're attacked, why would you need a burglar alarm system?
That's why I have been trying to build my occlumency shields. The problem is, that I cannot find its faults on my own. If someone were to feint attacks on the shield, I could find the weak spots easily and repair them. But I cannot ask my family members to use legilimency, so that I can build my shields, right? It's okay if I am a genius, but being a monster is not allowed.
I have been pondering over this issue for days already, but I'm yet to find any solution. What can I do?
As I am contemplating, Ms. Harper is pouring tea for Mom. I think it has some kind of tonic in it. I can guess from the smell...
My eyes fell on the cup, and a bulb lit up in my brain! Eureka! I have found the solution I needed!
What if I design my shield like a ball of water? I'll just put the mana in from one spot, and it can flow around to block all the defects. There will be no need to double-check. And as the amount of mana increases, the difficulty of breaking into my mind increases. It can even push the attack out rather than passively blocking it, similar to how water pushes everything that enters it.
Okay, it's decided then. Let's build the most resilient and unique shield ever!
After this little incident, I started building my shield. It's a little troubling, actually. I wanted to use my intent on mana and make it like water. Using the intent to command mana proved to be a little troublesome, though. My ability to command mana is not strong enough, so it gained the fluidity of water, but didn't flow like a ball. Instead, it flowed down. I guess I need some kind of skill that allows me to command mana at will.
I have been using mana manipulation more often as my mana pool is bigger. So I gained 3 levels, and now my mana can move with a +16% speed. Maybe, if it reaches higher levels, this skill can gain new effects. I mean, it's called 'Manipulation', right?
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(Third Person POV)
"Your child is so quiet, Adeline. Logan was a crybaby, and I think this boy got his character from you," said Ms. Harper while resting in the recliner chair; a teapot and a cup hovering beside her.
"Don't badmouth him, Ms. Harper. His character is also quite good. It won't be a problem if our son is like him." Adeline answered.
She was in front of the mirror, combing her hair. Occasionally, she couldn't help but peek at her cute baby, who was sleeping soundly in the crib after a session of squeezing ches...
*Cough, cough* Why the hell is this perverted MC corrupting an innocent and pure third person? Judge, I want to sue him for this unholy act of his!
"Okay, I have no intention of being the third wheel between you and your dense husband. Have you decided on a name yet?"
"Not yet. Logan stated that Father wanted to name 'the genius who will only be born once in a thousand years and who will begin the revival of our noble family' so we are still waiting for his decision."
Saying so, Adeline giggled. Seeing the dignified old man, who kept his calm even in the face of death, pacing up and down and looking over ancient books just to name a child seemed really amusing.
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"Dad, did you also sense it? There seems to be some magical power in him." Logan said with a bit worried tone and thought: 'How can this brat be this worrisome? Before being born, he was too active instead of just lying there. And now there is even magical power in him! I'm gonna beat him up after he is a bit older. Just you wait! I will...'
Slap!
"Are you a fool? Why are you angry instead of happy? If he has magical power in him, it means he'll be a great wizard. You don't have to worry about it! I have found him a good name."
Still dissatisfied, but now calm, Logan asked, "What's it?"
"It is ...."
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