Beginning of exorcist training
(3rd pov)
In the training yard of the Sigurd Institution, you can see different types of children playing, training or just resting and talking. Though if you look closely, you can see most of this kids has either white hair or white and black hair, paired with red eyes, plus the fact that most of them also have quite the varying degrees of similarities, except a select few.
One such exception is the golden hair red eyed kid who seems to be engrossed in his physical training, with no other kids giving him any attention.
"Welp, that should fo it, I don't think my hand can handle more" having said that, he stopped doing his push ups, stood up and walked toward his usual spot for mediation, under the shade of one of the trees in the yard. Sitting down, he breathed in a little before activating his magic core and pulling his mana to the tip of his finger and drew ᛚᚦ on the air, then with a quick mental command moisture begin to gather from the air forming a water arrow which he admired for a moment before commanding to take off into the sky.
Shortly afterwards he saw the arrow lose its shape and the water return back to earth with a splash.
Seeing this, he drew ᛜᛚ three times on the earth, before falling behind a little and watching as water was seemingly being continously extracted from the earth until it formed a puddel at which, he pointed his hand, materialising a magic circle from which lighting shot and electrocuted the still growing puddle. Looking at all this, he stopped supplying mana to the 3 ᛜᛚ, which stopped the expansion of the puddle.
' Hmmm, runic drawing and invocation seems decent enough, and with my advanced mana control and somewhat big reserves, I'm still left with quite a bit, more than 3/4 of my mana' He mused as he started preparing to draw another Rune sequence.
'But, the activation of the magic circles is still quite the hassle, what's with remembering and invoking the corresponding equations and calculations. Even with my seemingly great affinity with lightning and lesser one with water'
Quickly, discarding those thoughts, he drew ᛊᚦ and overcharged it with mana before letting it loose on the puddle, causing a gout of flame to lash out and started evaporating the puddle.
With this, he nodded his head and started practicing some of his other rune sequences such as Shield of Earth(ᛜᛉᛇ), earth arrow(ᛜᚦ), lightning arrows( ᚺᚦ) and some magic circle equations, mainly lightning and water magic.
He continued doing this until he felt a little bit light headed and has no mana left. Feeling this, he forced himself to focus and take a dummy sword that was thrown around and start to swing it.
He continued swinging despite the headaches and fatigue that he was feeling, until he was on the brink of collapse.
"Haah, time to rest and meditate" Samuel murmured as he nearly collapsed before sitting and leaning against the tree for support a little.
'Training to be able to fight and move in any situation is really hard, but I guess its paying up. Now when I run out of mana, instead of losing consciousness, I just feel some headaches but can still fight physically' he remarked before starting to mediate.
(MC pov)
It's been 3 years since the system activation and my magic core awakening, and its been quite the interesting and novel experience to finally be able to use magic. From my experiments in this last years, I mainly focused on Rune magic because as I said before, it doesn't require any complex calculations or equations.
Sadly most of my runic combinations of the higher order turned out to be a bust. Of course I tried my hand with normal calculation magic and found out that, from experimenting with all 6 elements, that I mainly have 3 affinities: A greater affinity with lightning making it considerably easy to use any and all lightning elemental magics while simplifying the needed equations, and 2 lesser affinities with water and light magic.
And no, light and holy magic aren't the same thing, the 2 just happen to be effective against creatures of the dark such as devils, vampires, etc. .
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And while I don't have any capacity of holy magic, I distinctively remember that Vasco was said to be able to channel holy magic into his body and fist from God's system just by praying and believing I guess.
So while the system assured me that I'm immune to mind fuckery like memory reading and being controlled, I just started praying in earnest, every day while training, before sleeping, after waking up, before eating, after training and many more instances.
It wasn't really that hard or weird, considering that my family was christian and so did I by default, now its not like I'm a zealout devout, or will try defending and dying or killing someone just because they also don't believe. In fact as I grew up and read more about different of religions, saw and participated in lots of debates about how accurate is the bible, the meaning of God and many more I begun to have more and more open mindset, and started looking at myself, to know what I truly want, who I truly am and not just what society wants or what my parents wanted.
But back to the point, while I am not exactly the No1 believer, I believe in what God represents, what the ideal of God stands for, and by doing it for the last 3 years I was in fact able to feel it, it's just tiny and maybe I won't have noticed it without being focused and the alert of the system, but I was indeed receiving holy power, bit by bit. It wasn't doing much at the beginning, just being there helping me recover stamina a little faster, making my body become stronger and stronger.
But it wasn't until 2 years later, when I was at the age of 9, during one of my mediation sessions that I felt a shift in the holy energy inside me, and was finally able to manipulate it. From there, I tried seeing its applications, and mainly came with 2 ways to use it.