Many years passed and I'd come to learn new things about this world. One being that the world I inhabited, had a name. Currently known as planet 'Lithel', a planet that has 4 major kingdoms, as I said before, the Kingdom Of Myura, is mainly the land of the Humans, with a type of monarchical system, it mainly being a ruler which is the King and Queen.
With the other 3 kingdoms, Vaun, Brav, and Numir, with each kingdom also having a monarchy. Vaun is said to rule the large forest in the top left corner of the map, secluded from the other kingdoms, but apparently there's still 99% that hasn't been uncovered which is why there's a large chunk of nothing on many maps continuing north east.
Brav, the kingdom of the dwarves rule the bottom right corner directly opposite of the large forest ruled by the elves. With the land of the dwarves having both barren and forests every 20 or so square kilometres, totalling to around 5 different forests in the bottom right corner of the map. The Kingdom of Numir, ruled by sea life, mainly with the ruler being a mermaid, from what the book said, they rule the entire ocean.
After a few years of having been born into this world, I had finally turned 7. I hadn't done much besides continue to read about this world's land, have my maid sometimes read bedtime stories, do some daily exercises with my Dad, eat and sleep. With the occasional outburst my Mom had whenever Dad did something wrong.
There were some other events that were notable with my Dad retiring as an adventurer and instead becoming a full-time Dad and helping me train in the way of the sword. My mother also birthed a baby boy when I was 4 so that was pretty cool. My Mom, of course, named him 'Zed', having dark red hair as well as red eyes just like my father.
My 'past life' continued to pester me every day, making me relive the same day over and over again. I tried to do something different within my dreams but to no avail I couldn't, I had to watch 'me' do the same thing over and over again.
On my seventh birthday, I also got a wooden bow from my mother, and a wooden sword from my father. It felt relaxing, being able to spend time with my family. I don't know whether or not I still had parents in my 'past life' but if I did, I hoped that they were doing fine without me.
"O■■h■■a? Oph■■ia? OPHELIA!"
"Huh, huh? Oh yeah, I was lost in thought sorry Dad, what were you saying?"
"Your mother and I have been thinking.." He paused briefly, "That you and I should move to the Kingdom Of Myura. Since we are a little far away from an academy, we were thinking of setting up base a little closer so that when you reached 15 you'd be able to start as soon as possible on becoming a mage just like me!" His hands gestured around, before leaning over the table. "What do you think?"
"Dad. I still have 8 years till I'm 15, isn't this a little soon?"
"Well Lia, It's never too early to plan your life."
"Dad, let's just wait a little longer, okay?"
Oh right, after a while, both my parents didn't like how long my name was so they opted for a nickname, which turned out to be 'Lia'. Anyway, Dad was right, I did like Aether, and I did wish to explore the world. But I felt as if he was planning a little too early, I still had 8 years before I actually turned 15!
Night quickly loomed over us while I slept onto a comfortable bed unlike my cradle that I had since I was 2, my eyes shut and I quickly fell asleep.
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"How long do I have to keep doing this, Dad?"
"Until I say you're finished, Yuralis."
"But I've already mastered my Aether Soul as well as Polaris, is it really beneficial for me to try to obtain something that's said to only happen once every era?"
"Of course it is Yuralis! Do you understand that? ONE person, you're a natural born prodigy! No, you're even better than a prodigy! A god-like talent amongst even the best of the best prodigies! You were able to master both your Aether Soul and Polaris at the tender age of 7! I know you can do it, I'll be back in 30 minutes-"
My heartbeat accelerated and from instinct I screamed aloud. I never had that dream before..
"AHH!"
My body began to convulse rapidly, like something was trying to tear me open from the inside! It was unbearably painful, sweat dripped from my forehead, my body felt hot, but I felt cold at the same time. What was this disgusting sensation? It felt like hundreds of swords impaled me in every direction!
Before I knew it, the pain was gone, the feeling of both a hot and cold sensation had also gone, the only thing that remained was the large stain of sweat on my bed. I could see.. Lights? Purple lights almost clustered around my new room, and I felt a weird sensation near my stomach area. The doors burst open as one of the maids came to my side.
"Lia! Are you okay?"
After hearing her dulcet voice, I had realized it was Fael. Fael was my personal maid, the maid's name that I had found out a while back. She donned a skinny build with raven black hair and chocolate-like eyes. She was middle-aged and her hands were also quite rough and dry, with calloused palms that were easily visible.
"Yeah.. I'm fine, just a weird dream I think..?"
Shortly after, my parents both barged in, wondering what had happened, before they dropped in shock. I didn't know what they were so shocked about, why did they fall onto the floor? Why was Mom's mouth so far open? Even my Dad's mouth flew open. A few seconds passed and my Dad was the one to respond first.
"My baby has.. An Aether soul..? MY BABY HAS AN AETHER SOUL?!? HAHAH, MY BABY GIRL IS A PRODIGY! HAHAHA, WOOO!" Dad boomed, it felt like he was trying to make everyone in the house hear him.
"Oh my god.. Honey.. Our baby has an Aether soul!" Tears flew down their faces, dampening my already sweaty bed sheets.
An Aether soul? I hadn't even sensed Aether itself and they were telling me I already developed an Aether soul? As well as the fact that I wasn't even at the normal age of when kids sensed Aether.. Maybe it was related to the dream I had.. Did my 'past life' and this life have something in common? I remembered that my 'Dad' talked about an Aether soul.. But what about Polaris? I had never heard of that in this world at all..
What had shocked me the most wasn't the fact that I had now developed an Aether soul at the age of 7, but the fact that after 7 long years of reliving the same dream, I had finally escaped the horrid death loop that continued to haunt me. As well as the fact that I had seen my Dad! I wonder what he was like?
Though he was a bit blurry, he seemed to have dark blue hair, a rather sturdy build and was much taller than me, though I do recall that 'Yuralis' was 7 at the time.. There was a possibility that I'd regain some more memories when I continued to age.
As the night ended on a rather unexpected note, the next day quickly arrived. With me quickly waking up as happy as a child can be! I didn't have a death loop happen last night, which made my mood all the more better than the last 7 years of my life, as well as the fact that I had now gained an Aether soul! Well is what my parents said.
Before I got out of bed, I stared into the ceiling before closing my eyes again, it was pitch black. But soon after, purple specks of glowing bulbs of light appeared, one by one, I don't know if they were able to stop, but after an estimated guess of 2 minutes, I could already see hundreds and thousands of the purple specks flying around me.
Before I knew it, I was able to visualize myself being surrounded by these purple specks, ultimately being within the pitch black never-ending room. I crossed my legs, almost like I was trying to meditate, the Aether Soul that had been developed seemed to have formed nicely? What was an Aether Soul supposed to look like anyway?
From my memories, I had remembered about the book that I had read, a visual representation was shown. An Aether Soul was a perfect sphere, and the Soul was a variety of different colours, though that varied from person to person.
Did my parents know? Why did mine seem odd? Why did my Aether soul look as if it had a ring around it? I didn't remember the book saying anything about a ring or any sort of extra accessory around the Aether Soul. Was I just paranoid?