5 years later….
A lot has happened in these five years, I've been told that where we live is in the pendragon kingdom named after the royal family's name.
Also my father is apparently a count that gained some honour in some great war a few decades ago. He used to be looked up to as heroic man however he seems to have let greed and arrogance take over and now is treating our city we manage as his own personal kingdom.
I also found out I have 3 half brothers, two from my fathers first wife carol and one from his first concubine May. I guess my mother is also a concubine but is part of a foreign noble family in another kingdom. Seems to be a benifial agreement between two family heads rather than love but she doesn't talk about it much, not that I even care much anyways.
Although they somehow speak the same language as I did in my previous life they seem to talk about things I've never heard of.
Oh well I'm sure I'll figure it out later.
Right now I'm in my room getting ready for my birthday dinner with my mother. My room is fit to be called a nobles room with a king sized bed in the middle, golden trim like the mansion and has an area with chairs and couches, for entertaining guests. It also has a bathroom that's over the top in luxury but I won't complain. This room isn't part of the main mansion but a guest house that both my mother and I live in. My mother also has three maids with her that are from her family. Also two of their daughters are also my personal maids one is 16 years old her name is Bella while the other is 18 years old and her name is Ella… I don't know if their mothers did this on purpose or not but it seems weird.
Bella has blonde hair and brown eyes, she is just a child she is very shy but serious while Ella has black hair and emerald eyes. She is more playful but still hardworking, also seems to like teasing me. Every time my mother would feed me she would comment saying how much I seemed to enjoy it and would pout for a brief moment .. weird but they are nice.
I haven't met anyone else from my family and haven't seen my father since my birth. But he still decided to give me his last name so I guess my new name is now Xavier Winters.
I also found out this world has magic and each person is born with a core that will determine their affinity. It is usually passed down from generation to generation, and variants can appear in rare cases. Beacuse of this bloodlines seem to be very important to people.
I also find out recently that's why my mother was sent off to my father as she has a strong air affinity and a low affinity for fire.
The count has already found his heir with his other children that he passed down his ice affinity to so he wanted to experiment with other affinities to see what would come of it on a whim. Which is part of the reason why we are treated poorly as he has lost interest once I was born.
My father has the strongest known affinity for ice which is a variant of water, that was created through generations of planned out conceptions between families that best paired to build the path for the ice affinity.
Although my new family is by no means the only family with ice out there it is still one of the more rare affinity close to that of lighting, metal, magma and more.
The only other affinities that would be considered more rare are light which belongs solely to the royal family, the pendragons, darkness which there is no known person alive that has it but it has been documented throughout history, and life energy which is the only affinity that can heal and also curse which in the kingdom belongs to the dukes family named everland.
It was common practice before the Great War that you married or had kids with people whos affinities cloud create something better and also why it is common for big family's with cultivators to marry within the family and/or have many wives. The royal family is the best example of this as they have the purest bloodline going back to the founding of the kingdoms.
Also people like my mother can have more than one affinity and because of that they have more than one core. It sounds great however they are usually looked down upon the more cores one has.
I was confused by this but mother explained that a person has a fixed amount of mana before each break through and realm within their body's so unless they have a huge amount, having to divide mana to separate cores makes each core extremely weak compared to their counterparts that only has one core to fill and strengthen.
Also for them to break through each of their cores needs to be at a certain level, and while each core doesn't need to be equally as big as the size is determined by the affinity, they need to be equally strong and have purer mana the higher realm they achieve. This not only extends the time they need to break through but also since the amount of mana they have in their body per stage is fixed, until they breakthrough most will need to neglect their other core and focus on strengthen one at a time while their body will make the natural mana go to each core equal to their affinity. For example Elaine has her air core that will take up 70% of her mana to fill and her fire core takes the other 30% which means not only is she limited to the spells she can cast for air but her fire doesn't have enough mana to cast strong spells more than a few times without being depleted.
Once natural mana goes into your core it will turn into your affinity's mana and can not be changed which means she can not move her fire mana to help fill her air core when it's depleted and vis versa.
They say that most legends in ancient times had more than one core and were more powerful then we can even imagine, however to get that powerful it can take thousands of years specially with more then one core.
But it's said that once someone with more cores breaks a certain threshold and gains enough mana control they can become stronger than anyone on the same realm as them and even jump some minor realms which is huge.
Mother doesn't know all the realms possible or their requirements as most people don't know the limit even kings don't. However she told me what she knows including their stages;
Beginner
Stage 1
Stage2
Stage3
Apprentice
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Senior
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Cultivator
Low
Mid
High
Peak
Mage
Beginner
Apprentice
Senior
High mage
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Mage lord ——— requirement: unique spell
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Archmage ——- Requiremet: Domain
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Magus ———- ??????
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Supreme magus ———- ??????
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Apparently there hasn't been a magus known publicly for centuries so it's unknown how to go there let alone supreme magus. However many believe there are some in magus or even supreme magus realm but they chose to go into seclusion to break the mortal chains so they don't concern themselves with most people. It is said they are either hidden by the big powers or are in independent powers not known to most.
Mother also told me most commoners can reach stage two of the beginner realm just living a healthy life as until reaching cultivator realm it's mainly focusing on the body to build a proper foundation so it can handle the amount of mana your body will naturally hold in the higher realms.
This doesn't not mean you can't use spells or mana just that you won't advance with them and only advance once your body does.
But most military or people in power are at least in the cultivator realm. This is also the realm that I am expected to be in when I'm 15 if I want to attend the biggest academy in the kingdom named after the royal family named Pendragon academy, that's located inside the capital. As that is the prerequisite to enter.
The king and dukes are apparently somewhere in the archmage realm while most other nobles are in either mage lord or high mage. My father, Count Winter is stuck in the high mage realm and apparently has been there since the Great War decades ago.
The whole world seems to be stuck in mediaeval times so the common weapons are swords, spears, bows, daggers, gauntlets an so on. And from cultivator realm and higher they can use their affinity almost as costing to enhance their weapons. The people of this world call it aura. And will take the colour of the affinity being used.
There are also magic cannons but those are only in the capital or one of the dukedom's as they are super expensive and need at least two mage realm people to operate them.
"Young master, your mother is in the dinning room" Ella spoke while knocking on my door.
"Okay, I'll be there soon" I replied heading towards the door while putting the information I was thinking about to the back of my mind.