At the age of 4 I had already made my first friend named sylpha she was 3 years older so she treated me like a little brother even though I was actually much older than her I ended up accepting her as a good friend in this new world.
sylpha was someone who admired my father a lot since he was a master swordsman almost feeling like the power of an SS rank or even sovereign.
Sometimes I would watch the two of them training in the courtyard was my favorite moment as Sylpha was someone who didn't know the word defeat even if he had to face a stronger opponent.
after the training my mother invited sylpha to come and have dinner with us, my mother took the opportunity to tell me to go out and play with her for a while since I always stayed at home reading books that had to do with magic.
when I finished talking to my mother I finally accepted since I had been in this world for a long time and I never felt like going out for adventures after dinner I invited sylpha to go out for a while to the small forest that my father had as an advanced practice area.
sypha happily accepted and she was very happy that I finally decided to go out with her for training.
As I left the house, Sylpha asked me why I always stayed locked in my house.
-I just stay at home because I want to keep studying about magic.
-Wow, you're boring.
-Actually it's not boring, you should do the same, since you want to become a warrior like my father.
-But if I only use my sword as a weapon, I won't need to use magic.
-Let's go see Sylpha. Melee warriors also often use magic to enhance their physical abilities. Is it important for you to study about magic too because you think the great Alexis reached sovereign level?
-MMM, if it's just physical empowerment, then that could be taught to me by you, Alexander.
-Yes, yes, as you say, but just promise me that you will listen to me and not make a fuss.
-I understand, master Alex!
-Please don't call me, just call me Alex.
After a long walk to the forest, I realized how nice it is to go for a walk once in a while, especially if it is with someone. In my past life I never had that privilege, mostly because going out too early, late or at night you would end up with a cut neck.
Arriving at the training site, Sylpha asked me if I wasn't interested in the Asura academy. With a lot of curiosity I asked her what it was.
-Excuse me, Syl, what is this Asura's academy?
-What? -You really don't know. You're locked up reading and learning about magic and you don't know what Asura's academy is.
-Well, let's just say I don't read anything other than magic.
-Well, okay Asura's academy is a place where mages, warriors, etc. go to test and study about their skills. If they pass the entrance exam, they will have an ID to enter the Tiberion guild and can take the exam to become one of adventurers.
Adventurer's guild? In this world there is such a thing. I've heard about adventurer's guilds only in manga or the novels. I never thought there would be something like that. Anyway, it would be cool to go to a guild.
-Well, it wouldn't be a bad idea to attend Asura's academy although I guess it's not cheap the entrance fee.
-Well no, but since your father is a noble you will be able to get in with some ease, I on the other hand will have to work to attend. As you know my mother and father are commoners.
-Well, you're right about that, but I would feel bad to leave you alone.
-Hahaha, what's the matter, will little Alex cry if his big sister is not with him?
-Oh God, shut up, I'll never be gentle with you again.
-Seriously speaking, Alex, you really have to go to Asura's academy. You are a prodigy in magic, you are also the bearer of the most powerful magic in the world, the universal magic. If you train and polish it to perfection, in the future you will become just like the ruler Ragnar.
The one with the black holes?
-That's the one.
-Nah, you're crazy; it's impossible to reach that point; besides, Ragnar was already born with such power; he never needs to enter; it will be difficult for me to even reach level 2 of universal magic.
-Yes you are pessimistic, you at least were born with a gift, I can barely even handle the sword.
-Well, well, let's stop talking and start training in your magic.
As I was teaching SYL how to use magic, I realized his deficiency of his magical skills.
-Syl, remember that to use your ability you have to concentrate, don't get sidetracked.
-It's easy for you to tell him, Alex, you're not doing anything silly.
Well, it seems that Miss Knight knows more about talking than demonstrating; I'll teach you how to channel your mana and turn it into a double-edged sword.
In this world I learned with my mother's help how to turn mana into a weapon. It is simply to let your mind go blank and concentrate; if it works, you will feel that your hands are being slightly warmed by mana.
After such a demonstration, Sylpha tried again. Although it was not as pure as mine, Sylpha was very excited to succeed.
Several hours passed and finally it was time to go home. At that Syl stops me.
-HOLD ON
-What's going on Syl?
-Before we go back I want us to have a sword duel.
-Is it serious now? -Can't we leave it for tomorrow or another day?
-I don't want to do it right now.
In the end I agreed to her request, as she endured all the arduous training of concentrating on her mania.
-Okay, Syl, but just for a while because it's too late.
At that point she simply put a chilling smile on her face.
-All right, Alex, are you ready?
-Yes, start whenever you want
This girl is going to find out for challenging me. I just have to concentrate on empowering my sword and physical abilities with magic.
At that very moment, Sylpha and Alexis started their sword duel.
Sylpha with such power gave an attack to Alexander leaving him stunned for a few seconds, so he took the opportunity to give her a good blow that left him out of battle.
-Wait, how did you get that power if you barely knew how to channel mana?!
-I didn't use that, you fool; I simply used my own strength.
After the duel I had with her I realized what an enormous amount of strength this girl has. Is it possible for a 7 year old to have such power in her attacks without using strengthening?
At the end she looked at me with her smile that she put on at the beginning. If it could be summed up in a few words, she simply wanted her revenge against me.
-Come on, get up, your family and mine are waiting for us, oh and forgive me for being so rude, I didn't control my own strength, maguito, haha.
-Yes, keep laughing, monster girl!
Being away for so long, I remembered what my childhood was like in my past life. Doing this thing I did today, I could never have done it in the past. My parents there were bastards, we didn't even go out. The only time I saw activity in that house was when my drunken father was beating my mother because he ran out of beer. At that my own mother would go and take it out on me.
That aside, I am still deeply grateful to have been reincarnated into this new family.
After leaving the search and arriving home, I said goodbye to SYL and with much joy she again asked me to go out once more for training.
Of course I accepted her request and promised her that I would help her train her magical skills.
The next day my mother and father convinced me to continue training my universal magic. On the one hand I understood the reason for the request, but on the other hand I didn't want to do it because of how difficult it was, since if I set my mind to it it would take me years to even reach level 2 of it.
But after so many conversations with them, I finally agreed. From now on I will start practicing my universal magic. Even my father had told me that if I put my mind to it, he would give me a surprise. I was surprised since I had never been told anything like that.
-Very well, Alexander, I suppose you have read this book before, but you never tried to train properly.
-Yes, now that you mention it, you're right, Dad.
-If my memory serves me correctly, I'd say the last time you used your magic was when you destroyed the wall of the house.
-Ehhh, if that's so....
-Well, don't worry about that; to tell you the truth, I was really happy for you, even if you did break the house a bit, haha.
My father explained to me how to properly train my magic, something that surprised me, since he could never do anything like that, he doesn't even know how I, being so young, came to understand this unusual magic.
Summarizing everything he told me, he explained that universal magic is composed of 4 levels, something that left me confused since I had read that in this world there was never any evidence of anyone reaching level 4. I do not even know what level 4 is called or what it does, but if anything I understand is that it is above level 3 (manipulation of black holes).
I explained that to reach the levels I needed to squeeze my level 1 magic to 100%, summarizing in something simpler to understand: if several stars stopped shining, this would cause a supernova, therefore, by squeezing my star magic, it will reach a point to leave this power without fuel and so I could reach level 2 (creation of supernovae).
Three weeks went by squeezing my magical abilities, but I did not notice any change. My father said that in order to notice any change, I should first feel more powerful than usual, since I would be extinguishing the stars inside me and a supernova would be created little by little. Anyway, I will not give up until I reach level 2.
When I reached 3 months of training, I finally felt something inside me. I felt something warm in my chest. It was the supernova growing by the thousands of stars I had extinguished. Excited I went home to tell my parents.
-MOM DAD I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
-What is it Alexander?
-I could finally feel how the supernova inside me is finally growing!
-Wow is it serious?
-Alexys, it's serious, I can't believe how our Alexander is growing so fast at only 4 years old!
-Son, do you remember I promised to surprise you if you put your heart into your training?
-Yes, Dad, I remember!
-All right, wait for me here with your mother; I'll let Sylvia know that you achieved such an accomplishment, so I'll say goodbye. I'll be away for a while.
After a while, Sylvia arrived excitedly to congratulate me. I also took advantage of the fact that in these last 3 months she was not lagging behind.
She showed me the progress of her magic and unlike 3 months ago, she improved a lot, I would even say that she surpassed me completely in terms of mana channeling and as expected, she asked me for a duel.
-Hey Alex, would you like to duel with me!
-No thanks, I'd rather keep my life.
-agh how boring you are
2 hours passed and my father had finally arrived with so much excitement from SYL and me. We wanted to see the surprise my father had promised me.
Behind his back was a small puppy. He had told me it's not just any puppy; it was a giant wolf pup from the north of infernus, something that shocked me, as that place is the land of demons.
At first my mother wasn't convinced she wanted to leave a giant wolf pup at home, but SYL and even my father, who was the one who picked it up, pleaded with my mother. Of course, I would do the same.
After so much prodding, my mother finally accepted him of course, promising to make me.
Taking care of him
My father explained to me that if I wanted to have a traveling companion like a monster, I had to forge a blood pact first....
Blood pacts work in such a way that the tamer and the beast share powers. In doing so with the little wolf, it immediately grew from the amount of magical energy I had within me. Its fur turned a darker color combined with shades of gray.
I had no words to describe the beautiful creature before my eyes.
At this the wolf approached me shyly waiting for me to give him something.
My father told me that to complete the blood pact to give him a name it took me some time to decide on a name worthy of his appearance and finally I had one.
-Very good boy, what do you think of the name orion?
Seeing his excited face I knew he liked his name.
This is all very nostalgic for me. In my past life I had a dog named Sammy. He was a street poodle. Whenever he came home from school I would see him waiting excitedly. Several times I would hardly eat anything because I wanted to save something for Sammy so he would have something to eat.
But as every happiness had its end....
Arriving back at the same place I saw Victor and company gathered as if they were kicking some poor wretch; for a moment I feared the worst, as I thought Sammy was the one being beaten.
It didn't take long and my worries were realized. On the one hand I wanted to go and defend Sammy, but on the other hand I was so afraid that Victor would see me to just want to beat me up.
In the end I did nothing to save that poor dog. I felt so guilty that day. I cried for 4 days straight thinking about Sammy and that this one in the afterlife would be hating me for not trying to help him.
but now that I was given a new reason to live I promise I will take good care of orion.
1 day later, together with Orion and Syl, we went out a little further than usual from the village.
It was just a whim of mine, as I wanted to see more of the Tiberion area and she told me a lot about a place she knew when she went out to work with her family.
-Hey, Syl, what's this place you've been telling me about?
-Well, it's a big waterfall with thermal lakes and beautiful mountain views, the bad thing is that it's very far from the village and getting there on foot would be very tiring.
-I see, the good thing is that orion let us ride on his back.
-Hey orion, how about going a little faster?
-WOOF WOOF!
Approximately 10 minutes passed and we had already arrived, it was a place almost touching the fantasy stories, it was simply a very beautiful place.
After a while, as I was getting used to the environment, it seemed like a good idea to test my magic skills with orion and syl.
-Is it okay if we start testing our skills?
-It's fine with me so we can have a duel while we're at it.
-I'll start with orion to test our level of power, go do the same with syl.
If there is one thing I remember about blood pacts with the beasts of this world is that you transfer your powers and vice versa thanks to the pact that me and orion had my physical magical abilities and even all my senses improved in the case of orion he could use the power of the stars as well as the reason why we got to this place so fast was because of those same abilities even though it sounds so cool both orion and I are still having a hard time getting used to it.
After trying out many new skills it was time for orion to try using star disintegration (universal magic level 1) just like me a few years ago my first spell was star disintegration now as we are in the present I've trained the technique more, maybe even orion will do better than me.
-Well boy, now it's your turn use stellar disintegration on that tree over there.
orion let out a loud roar accompanied by a flash as bright as the sun and then disintegrated almost the entire area of the forest.
Syl couldn't help but be upset that we destroyed such a beautiful place.
-Why are you idiots using such a powerful attack in this place?!
Forgive me Syl, I didn't think the orion attack was powerful enough to do that.
Actually, I did know that it would cause enormous damage.
-I remind you that both you and orion can use the power of the idiot star!
all the way home syl was so upset that she wouldn't talk much less look me in the face after all she's a kid so I won't take it personally.
When I got home, my father and mother told me with great joy that the board of the great academy of Asura wants me in their prestigious school.
-Listen son, we reduced a letter from the asura council for you to go to the academy in the future.
-In the future? If you say so then it will take me years to join dad.
-that's true but the council saw that you were very prestigious so they decided to take you in at the age of 8 years old.
-but I had read that to attend that academy I needed to be at least 13 years old.
-Relax son that both your mother and I convinced the council after all you are the son of the great Alexis and the iron maiden eris.
-Alexis, please, I told you not to call me that, it's too embarrassing!
Ah please, after all you were always the one by my side on the battlefields.
-Stop blushing, you fool!
-ugh will the two of you please stop flirting.
4 years later
I finally turned 8 years old and I was old enough to attend the asura academy I was very excited even though it was the first time in this world that I would be going to a magic academy I don't know how I will do but better than in my previous life for sure.
I started to pack my bags to leave and from the window of my room I saw Sylpha calling me.
-So you're leaving already, huh?
-Uhh, so you're going to be sad because I'm leaving huh?
-Shut up you idiot, I'm just a little worried about how you'll do there after all I won't be by your side watching your ass.
-Don't worry crybaby I'll be fine with or without your help you meanwhile keep training as hard as you do every day because I bet you'll become as great a swordsman as daddy!
-Well Alex let's promise something
-Okay I hear you
-Let's promise that when we meet again we'll have a duel to test our strength that we gained during all this time training.
-Wow that sounds interesting I like it
-Whoever wins will have to tell the loser to do whatever he wants.
-All right, I accept the promise
With a tight hug and tears in syl's eyes I said goodbye to her.
Later it was my turn to say goodbye to my beloved parents my mother was already crying in the living room while my father was just holding back his tears.
-Mom dad please don't cry I won't be gone forever either, I promise you that as soon as I graduate from the academy I will come to visit you!
-Hey my little Alexander you and your father and I are so proud of you!
-Hey champ when you come back bring a girl with you I got it haha
-What?! That's impossible, I don't like anyone.
If I did that I would consider myself a criminal
Oh that's right, you're engaged to Sylpha Lionhard.
-I'm not engaged to anyone either. -And syl doesn't like me!
-very well understood but just promise that when you graduate you'll come and visit us son.
-Mother father from the bottom of my heart I promise you I will come and visit you when all this is over.
Saying goodbye with a big hug I couldn't help but cry everyone in the village was going to miss them.
As I got into the carriage I had memories of my past life and how I came to this world it made me so happy to have a second chance and the fact that I could live it with such good people like them I thank that strange God for inviting me here now my life will just begin when I arrive at the asura academy.