It has been a month since my birthday party that Stella threw for me now technically I am 4 years old we have been working on how she is going to teach me we started from how to survive in the world to how to practice magic but before that she wanted to teach me how to read and write which due to my previous practice I had no problem then she tried to teach me basic operations I expected to add or subtract and while that is the initial logic she does not call it that she just calls them counts she does not call them operations or by their name like addition, subtraction, division or multiplication she taught me to count and it was when we got to numbers where my problem started not because I didn't know how to count but because they are not called numbers or at least she doesn't refer to them that way she calls them Nuvales I guess it is a mix between Numbers and Values, that was at the beginning then came the forms of the Nuvales for example this is a number 1 in Nuvales would be like I the one in Roman and this number is called Stroke AaaaaaaHHHH it will be a headache to relate this with my previous knowledge.
Now came the operations at least these are similar the addition is called Union which is similar to what the subtraction is Separation and that's all I asked Stella she replied that this is the most advanced education that can be provided which scared me at first since I do not know how advanced are their calculations or educational level. We did several exercises on this until she saw that I could do it mentally and she said I think at least you are ready to learn something new.
Very well boy it is time for you to get started in this new subject as you know magic has three basic principles, two of them you already understand, but now you need the last push, you know what it is.
If I remember correctly it is to make a contract or a connection.
Correct.
To do this I need to know why you want to learn magic.
Do I have to give you a morally correct answer?
Not necessarily just tell me what you want to do or what your heart or soul desires most, it's pretty abstract, but I have to ask.
What do I want most? Even I myself do not know the answer in my memories I just remember that I think I was happy I did not lack anything I had a family, friends to hang out and play with although I did not have a girlfriend or romantic partner I remember hanging out with a girl and laughing, however there is a gap that I do not know what I want more,
I want to learn so that I am no longer weak or ignorant was my answer.
Stella: What you want is knowledge and strength I see it's not bad that you want to know more even I want it even being strong is a valid desire, but I can't help but ask why you want this you don't want to be a great monarch or become a very powerful mage or a knight that can never be defeated I know you don't want to be immortal.
Honestly, no, if I became the strongest being that ever existed, there would be a lot of problems with work, I can handle my own problems, I don't know if I will be able to take the responsibility to solve the problems of others.
Immortal? I don't know... If I live forever, what happens when I get tired of playing? Or when mom is no longer around to give me hugs... Will I be left alone? I don't think I want to be immortal. I'd better stay here, growing little by little, like flowers. This way, when my end comes, I know it will be because I have lived everything I had to live, like a story that ends just when it should end."
Stella:(Smiles wistfully).
Wise words for someone so young. Perhaps beings with shorter life expectancies understand better than we do what it means to live. We elves have centuries to walk this world, but maybe in that time we forget how to appreciate each instant.
Anyway that is the answer I wanted to hear
I Stella will take you as my apprentice I will teach you everything you let me teach you do you agree Astreon.
After saying this Stella's back opened a crack or something similar to when you break a glass and on the other side there is someone looking through the hole.
Very well Astreon come closer and put your hand in the crack.
While it was what I expected my nerves were evident, but without further delay I put my hand and absolute silence there is no again I fell into a strange place that is this place is as if there is nothing is like a room that changes from white to black, wait what are those are giants naa have no way they will be. I went closer and I said hello they are awake listen if you hear me I talk to them, they do not listen to me well I have to find a way out of here at the time I finished my sentence the figures of a moment were surrounding me I can only describe them as shadows that are alternating shape have no features, but I knew they were paying attention to me.
That said they began to speak what is your name was the first thing I heard.
Astreon
What do you want.
Again I already answered Stella that's not enough for you and forgive my tone, but I don't know who you are.
What do you want
They won't leave me alone until I tell them true.
What do you want.
When I was about to give the same answer something inside me gave another answer.
I wish for everything.