I injected my mana into the the mana stone and it shone and broke down into 4 pieces, one was red, one was green and two others became black mist and evaporated.
' That's good, I have two highly compatible affinities and whatever the other two are'
I heard a notification sound again, but for now I let it be and looked at my parents with hopeful eyes. They had their jaws dropped and John and Mary too. Is it so surprising that I have 4 affinities?
Elicia POV -
Today Asta will checked for his affinities. I watched him inject mana and into the stone and it broke into 4 pieces, well having 4 affinities is rare but not that rare. Just when I was about to speak to him, two of the pieces became black mist. I couldn't hold in my shock
'How is this possible, I'm sure I've never heard anyone talk about to dark affinities. Having one dark affinity is already incredibly rare since they work differently from other affinities and must be trained differently as well. What are these affinities? '
I looked over at Wilson and saw he is shocked but somehow his eyes are..... shining? I have a bad feeling about this.
Wilson POV -
'Two dark affinities? how is this possible? I'm sure one has to do with his eyes since their mentioned in the records, but what's the other one? Ohhhh is it a double blessing? '
I'm getting excited. I looked over at my wife, and I noticed she a frown on her face, oops can't let him know yet, I don't want to face another 'punishment'.
Asta POV -
I was waiting for answers when I noticed my father's eyes were, shining? Does he know something, no I'm sure he knows. And my mother is frowning? What? Is it something wrong? what's happening.
I didn't have to wait long, my mother placed her hand over head and started talking about affinities
"Son, you have two compatible affinities of Fire and wind. You also have two darkness affinities"
Wait! Darkness?
"Darkness?" I asked worried if it something evil or forbidden
"Yes son, darkness, the reason they're called darkness is not because it is anything bad, byt because there's very little information about them and having even one is rare, so you having two is extremely rare and you'll have to keep it a secret okay?"
I nodded my head and now I understood why my parents were so shocked, well since it's not anything bad, I'll let it be. But I'm excited, since one of them is the space attribute, I'm sure it's a rare attribute because it is very versatile and also very difficult probably.
I then informed my parents I still don't know what my attributes are and left because I was feeling tired and went into my room and immediately looked at my System, I'm sure I'll get all the information here.
Status -
Name - Astarot levathian
Race - human
Age - 8 years
Title - Young master of the levathian house
Stats :-
STR - 9
VIT - 12
DEX - 7
MIND - 13
PER - 8
MANA - 20
Traits :-
Zephyr Eyes (locked) - unlocked when MIND crosses 15
?????? (locked) - conditions unknown
Affinity :-
Fire - I
Wind - I
Space - I
Body - I
Inventory :- 10 slots - empty
A flood of information passes into my mind about affinities and their types. There's Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Light, Darkness, Life, Death.
Among these, light and dark affinities are mostly blessings or fortunate encounters. Light is when a higher being provides blessings for faith, though the larger the number, the weaker the blessing.
Darkness is also similar, but here only compatible ones are received by the person.
My dark affinities are similar, One is body or in this case, my eyes which is a blessing though I don't know who or what the blessing does. But once I reach 15 points in Mental fortitude, I guess I can unlock it. It was stuck at 12 until I awakened my affinities and it went up by one, so that's neat.
Now, my space affinity, this one is a bit of mystery, since it doesn't seem to be part of the blessing, it feels more intune and natural. Like I was supposed to have it regardless of anything else. I also now understand what this 'blessing' is, it's the system itself. It's more of an inheritance by someone, like all the knowledge accumulated and passed on to me step by step. And I don't feel any connection so far, with the blessing, so it's probably the eyes. And thats how I know that space affinity is not part of the blessing. Though it did fuse because they were compatible.
'I think my father knows something about these eyes and so I can tell them about it for now. But my affinities changes things, I can be a lot more versatile and find a lot of uses for it'
I even got my mana stat, that means I can now use it much easier and it's quite a lot as well, according to the system it'll only grow from here on, I can't wait to test the applications of mana and affinities.
I slowly drifted off to sleep while thinking about my future. I'll start my training for real now so I will rest for now and be in top shape.
General POV -
After Asta awakened his affinities, it was spread around the territory that he had awakened fire and wind affinities but the dark affinity was kept a secret for now until he's strong enough. The newspapers also announced that different nobles would be visiting the estate because of a party. This news made everyone make the city more flashy and vibrant. More merchants also visited the region because the rumors were spread around by Elicia's subordinates to make trade bloom for the territory.
In the evening, a few smaller nobles, knights and messengers of s few nobles visited the manor and congratulated the family. They had some food and drinks and kept up formalities and left. Asta was actually quite surprised that there were no 'young masters' among the few nobles that visited. Apparently this was just to keep up appearances so when they're invited, they'd go to attend as well. Like an exchange so they don't face and reputation by hosting empty parties. And nobody paid much attention to Asta since he wasn't a heir and only the eldest son, which he didn't really mind.
After the party was done, the family was exhausted and they all the ended the day with a small celebration and thd kids were sent to sleep. The parents went to celebrate on their own, which confused Asta because it was his birthday not some anniversary. Well his parents probably had a lot of pent up stress.
Asta POV -
After the party was done, we were literally just thrown out of my own birthday party, I mean I understand that they've been pent up but atleast show some restraint, sighhhh
My siblings went to sleep early as usual, quite the disciplined kids. I would've gone to sleep but I've already had my rest, so might as well do something productive. I opened up my system, so clicked on the mana stat to get some information.
Mana is basically present in every living being in the planet. Be it plants, animals, sentient beings or higher beings. They allow the user of mana to be more resilient, more efficient, quicker, stronger and any other way it can be used. When a being dies, it also disintegrates all the mana accumulated during it's lifetime back into the surroundings. When it's in the body, it's a bit restricted and adjusts to the body making every living being have their own mana signature, but when they're released they are released in their natural form so the signature gets erased so they become one with nature.
'So, having unique mana signatures means that most people will be recognised by their signatures more often than not. And mana being recycled is honestly shocking, so if a very strong being passes away, they'll probably release a lot of mana. Mana is honestly more interesting than I thought, it's like technology but way more versatile'
I then clicked on the affinities, and it was mostly just the basics of how to move Mana in your body so you don't hurt your channelling pathways and how to utilize affinities. All the basic affinities don't really have anything important that needs attention except for lightning, it is said to be the most volatile and different control. Light affinity being blessing, dark affinity being inheritances, life energy is basically healing magic which is also a very rare affinity. It has powerful healing factor, which lead to inventions being made to replicate the effects by providing Mana. Elves have a similar affinity for plant based energy and that is why they're known to be almost invincible inside their forests.
'Elves? ELVESSS? why has no one told me about them? is it forbidden? or is it because of human greed that they hide from the world? interesting, gotta visit there someday. I know for a fact that there's a dwarven kingdom next to the Blaze kingdom, figures Since it is a kingdom blessed with fire attributed mages'
And death affinity is basically anything that has to do with death, a natural process of life. Life and death are two sides of the same coin and they're usually used when an ailment caused by certain evil dark attributes like curses and necromancy is used. They are also used to make contracts and such.
Honestly death affinity is very important if you ask me. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who are prejudiced against them. And they both have a God they worship to, though I'm yet to figure out what these 'Gods' are. All in all this was good information for me and helpful when I start my training.
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