Two years passed by, It took me longer than I expected to break my core as surprising events kept happening. It is finally time to start rebuilding mana to make a pure new core.
There are no known ways to reconstruct a Mana core except for me. The only way to reconstruct a mana core is to quite literally glue your shattered mana core with mana. Since I don't have a mana core, I can't do that. But there is a spell that can make you get mana. This is a spell that does not need mana to activate but rather it has a unique drawing pattern to activate it.
For that, I need to be outside to not awaken anybody. For the past few months, I have been training myself to walk for this day. I quietly sneaked out of the palace and went into the beautiful garden that we have. For some reason, this palace is not heavily guarded, which intrigued me by how stupid it is.
I went to a secluded area to draw the spell. As I was making it, I felt as if someone was watching me, but ruled it off as me being absolutely nuts. It took me a few minutes to draw the spell as to how weak this body of mine is. In order for the spell to activate, the person who is getting the spell cast on has to sit in the middle of the spell. As I did, The spell started to radiate a blue color. I ignored it and sat myself into a lotus position. I closed my eyes and I was able to feel the mana particles coming inside of me. I focused myself and concentrated all the mana to go into the shattered mana core. One by one, I started to reconstruct my mana core.
It took a few hours until my mana core was able to be fully finished reconstructing. It was an exhausting and agonizing experience as reconstructing a mana core is very hard. if you lost focus, you could have killed yourself. Luckily, I was able to finish without any problems.
I headed up my crib quietly so as to not make a noise. After heading up, I rested and fell asleep.
Unbeknownst to me,
"Unbelievable!" a thought in someone's head said, " I must tell His Majesty about this!"
The figure hurried to His Majesty's office. "Your Majesty, A very important thing just happened."
"What is this about?" His majesty said in annoyance.
"It's the Youngest Master!, Your Majesty," He said excitedly.
"Oh?" He said, " What happened to you to be so excited about it?"
"Your majesty, The young master is a genius! I have never seen anything like it." The figure said.
"Oh you must have been drinking, Albert, there is no way a 2 year old can be a genius!" He said.
"No, no! Your majesty, my eyes do not deceive me, Young master made a spell and I watched him the whole time! I have never seen anything like it before." Albert said.
"Not now Albert, I'm working on some important stuff right now, come to me again when you give me real news." He said, waving him off.
Albert, deeply disappointed, left the room.
[Back to Aziel]
After last night, everything seems to be as it is and no one found out about it, which is nice. I did my normal things so as to not get any unnecessary attention to me. But those 3 brats kept toying with me. When they see me playing, they would take away the toys in my hands or either make bad remarks on my mother and I. But nonetheless, I acted as my age and ignored them.
A few years passed and I just turned 10. It is almost time for the Traditional ceremony, to test kids who are turning ten years old, into what kind of affinity they would get. Apparently in this world, Your affinity is not limited to just Fire, Water, Earth, or Air and you can also get an Affinity to two or more nature but only rarely does it happen.
There is no trick to getting more than one affinity other than a stroke of luck. Anyways, I don't have to worry about the ceremony which is next month. The 3 brats that I live with apparently have 2 affinities in which all three have the nature for Fire and Earth. They constantly follow me throughout the palace bragging about their 2 natures and telling me that I will only get one. One thing I found out is that those 3 brats are my half siblings. Probably should have known that because of how we can walk freely around the palace and people always addressing us as young masters. I was too busy with my own things anyway to even care about them.
My three other siblings and I would participate in Martial Arts and Magic Lessons as per instructions by father to get better at it. But since I have not yet taken the Ceremony, I will only be partaking in the Martial Arts Lesson.
Father was kind enough to give me, the youngest, his own private tutor to teach him Martial Arts. Father gave me one of the Head knights of our House to privately teach me the way of the swords. His name was Frederick, He was in his late forties but yet he has an aura that makes me feel he has killed over a thousand enemies.
But what was weird was how polite he was despite the difference in his appearance. Don't Judge a book by its cover, I guess.
He taught me multiple beginners techniques, such as Light steps, stab, Slash, and other moves. He was a very good teacher and helped me throughout the training and explained the moves to me in details that a kid could understand.
A month passes, It is time for the Ceremony to see what my affinity is. I went to a church, full of people and kids around my age also getting their affinity checked. I could feel the unease in the room as kids were nervous about what kind of affinity they would get.
A loud voice echoed throughout the room, " Ladies and Gentlemen, Please line your childrens in the middle to get the ceremony started!" So there I was lining up to get my affinity checked, it took a long time for my affinity to get checked as a lot of kids, I would guess about a 100, are lined up to get theirs checked. After about 30 minutes of waiting, It was finally my turn.
"Please put both hands on this Sphere to get your affinity checked" The priest said.
I put my hands on the sphere and after a couple of minutes, nothing happened. Everybody in the room now is starting to look at me wondering what is taking so long.
The priest said, " Please pour a little bit of your mana into the sphere to get your affinity!"
I got embarrassed and started to put mana into the sphere. The sphere started to flash different colors, Red, Blue, White, Brown, Yellow, Purple, and then it turned into a black sphere and then quickly vanished. Everybody was astonished as to what just happened except me.
"Was that supposed to happen?" I asked.
"No, this is new." the priest said, " But I am certain that you have an affinity for all nature!"
I looked at him in disbelief as to what just happened. Even in my past life, I only have 1 nature, but you're telling me I have ALL natures.
I came home and tested my natures. I tried to do simple 1-star spells for each nature and found out that they all consume different amounts of mana. Some natures need more control over another even if its a 1-star and some consume more than the other.
News travels fast in this world, so I was called by my Father to come to his office. I went up to his office and knocked on the door. "Come in.", Father said from behind the door. I came in and stood in front of his desk. He continued to read his papers for a few minutes until he looked up at me and said, "Is it true?" I replied , " What's true?" He sat straight up and said, "Is it true about what happened in the ceremony?" I nodded.
For some reason, unlike normal fathers that would celebrate from knowing that their son can control all affinities, he looked quite calm and unfazed about it. He then dismissed me and told me to stay in my room until I was called.
[A Few days later]
I was called out of my room and was told to go to the dinner table and meet with the rest of the family. So I walked down the stairs and to the dining table and sat myself down. It seems everyone is here including my mother. She seemed very worried.
The silence was broken by Father saying, " Aziel, Everyone agrred that you should go to the Magia Academy." I looked at him, not really surprised, and asked, " When do I leave?" He looked quite confused, probably wondering why I didn't really care about leaving the palace. But honestly, I would have left on my own with or without them telling me.
He told me, " You will be leaving in a week, so get your stuff prepared before then." I nodded my head and continued to eat my food.