It's been a few days since I've awoken and quite frankly, I've been having a hard time adjusting to my new body.
Because lately every time that I try to open our wooden door, it's either I destroy the doorknob, or I just completely rip the entire thing off, which was definitely not normal for a five-year-old kid.
C-Crack!!
The sound of the doors delayed breaking while I just stood there, frozen, and looked behind me as my mother slowly woke up from her afternoon nap, made that memory much more fun to look back at,
"M-Mom!?"
Meanwhile my father who was out to hunt for food and gather firewood dropped everything, unsheathed his sword and came rushing towards us.
He was really worried that someone dared to attack us-
Even my mother who didn't know what was happening, as she just woke up, was ready to unleash a magic spell, because even before I could explain, she saw my father ready to fight, and she panicked too.
It was really hard getting them both to calm down, I was bewildered the first time that it happened, I couldn't believe what was happening. But as much as I was surprised, both my mother and father were even more shocked than me.
So, I had a difficult time trying to explain everything to them, that there was nothing to worry about and that it was all false alarm.
But to my surprise, they were actually proud of me.
Hence why, when it happened again and again for the tenth time, no one was even surprised in my family and we just looked back at it as a fun memory...
Another change that happened to me, which was what I first noticed when I woke up, was the nauseating effects of my senses being abnormally sharp.
For example, I could hear or eavesdrop on our neighbor's conversation for about five to six houses away-
"How much for the potatoes?"
"I can give it to you for one bag of your salt"
"What? is that true?"
"Yes really! no kidding apparently, they've recently discovered a new magic element. I've heard that one of the noblemen son's awakened it. The whole territory was in shock, that even the capital's top mages visited them out of curiosity.
"Wow, that's amazing! For the kid to awaken such a rare element, that kid's future sure is going to be bright. So, what was the element?"
"Nothing's been confirmed yet, I only got that information for letting the kind Surveyor stay the night at our barn for free, He said he'll tell me on his next visits, once he confirmed the rumors."
"Anyways, earlier this morning when we were having another conversation, the surveyor told me another rumor that the kid already received an invitation to study from all the top five conquerors academy."
"I-I see, I hope that my kids awaken something similar to that kid too, so that they don't rot in this place!"
"Hey! Shh... tone yourself down for a bit, do you want the whole village to hate you"
"So what? I'm just telling the truth; It doesn't matter whether they hate me or not"
"Sheesh, honestly? Why am I still friends with you?"
"Oh, shut up! we all know that I'm your only friend, that's why you're stuck with me HAHAHAHA!"
"HAHAHA..."
Then as I covered my ears and tried to lessen my focus, I thought that I would stop hearing those loud overlapping loud voices.
But my brain just shifted its focus on the background noises of the people working, like the sound of the metals clanking, the blacksmiths hammering with their tools, and even to the faint sound of a seamstress weaving.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
BANG!... BANG!
Snip! Snip!
"BURP!!!!!"
And that even made it much worse and even more annoying rather than just hearing the sounds of the humans chattering, I felt like a deaf man who all of a sudden have been able to hear.
Eventually, I just gave up and stopped covering my ears...
***
It would've been great if my sense of hearing were the only one to improve, but my sense of sight, sense of smell, and sense of touch were all heightened to a degree that at the time I felt something that only humans would describe as being drunk.
First, my heightened sense of sight wasn't noticeable at the beginning, but when I sat down at our dinner table, I managed to zoom in and see how all of the flies moved around us, it was like they were moving only as fast as humans, so I got rid of them...
Pwwwwk! Pwwk! Pwwwk!
The sound of my hands decapitating and slicing the body in half of all the flies, left my parents in awe. I was like a certain comic book character that was accidentally bitten by a spider and gained the impossibly fast reflexes of spiders.
Then as I tried to eat the supper prepared in front of me, that is when I noticed how my sense of smell increased, I could smell the lack of sanitation of the people at the village, especially those who recently just got out of the lavatory. So, I lost a little bit of my appetite.
"What's the matter, do you not like the food?" My mother worriedly asked me.
"N-No that's not it mom" As I tried to force myself to eat the food in front of me.
The increased sensitivity of my sense of touch was something that I noticed last; it was tricky detecting it since I was able to adapt to it unconsciously. But I was able to detect the temperatures and heat signatures of both objects and people from a limited distance.
***
It took me a couple of weeks to completely adjust to my new senses, and during that time period I became a klutz, who can barely even get out of bed and walk straight.
But what made me broke out of that phase was, when I realized that every time, I would focus on something like at that time when I killed the flies at the dinner table, my brain would adopt to my other senses and recognize them as something necessary to complete the task at hand.
So, in the moment, the answer to what I needed the most to adjust, was harmony. I needed to maintain an equilibrium between my body, mind and senses.
Ergo I practiced by shutting off my senses one by one through meditating, to maintain better control of the three.
And finally, when I managed to regain full coordination of my body, when I reached the harmony that I was trying to achieve-
I thought to myself, 'I feel light like there were restrictions that have been lifted off of my body, like some part of me had been corrected.'
And I couldn't help but just say "Throughout the heavens and earths, I alone am the honored one."
As I ran like the wind and beaten the other kids at the simple game of race, at that time, I felt like I was truly king, no one could beat no matter what they did.
However, most importantly of all, the thing that I left out for last part, was the fact that-
I can finally use magic...
(The as if Philip was trying to rap during his narration, he said everything in a zippy manner, without pause.)
I can use every basic magical element known to humans, ranging from fire-water-wind-and earth-Even those rare ones like lightning-nature-enhancement-and healing magic etc...
There are those that are not even known by humans that I could use-But the only drawback is the amount of magic that I can even manifest during this time was so miniscule that I can only control a drop of water or a spark of lightning and fire.
But I am only just five-years-old, my mana will increase in time,
Right?!!
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