Goodness... if they say the mana amount is decided at birth, my mana's only enough to fire two water bullets?
That's just too little, right?
Or is it because I'm a beginner, my efficiency when using mana properly is really low?
No, how can that be?
To be safe, I tried firing off the spell one more time, but in the end I fainted.
"Oh really, Rudeus, If you're sleepy just go to the toilet and then sleep on the bed."
When I woke up, I was treated as if I'd fallen asleep when reading the book, and wet the floor.
Damn.
I got scolded for wetting the floor even when I'm so old..
Damn it.... Damn it....
Eh, I'm only two, right?
Wetting the bed is still forgivable.
But seriously, isn't my mana's too little?
This made me feel really powerless.
Well, even if it's 2 water bullets, the next thing is how to use it Hah.
In any case, I should practice to the point where I can fire it right away.....
Hah.
The next day, I was fine even after firing four water bullets.
I only felt tired after the fifth shot.
"Huuuh..?"
Based on my experience yesterday, I know I'll faint if I fired another shot, and I decide to stop.
So I began to think.
My current maximum's six shots.
That's two times more than yesterday's.
I looked at the barrel's-worth of five water bullets, and wonder,
The reason why the number of shots increased by 2 times from yesterday till today.
Was it because I was already tired yesterday, or was it because I consumed more MP yesterday?
I'm casting them all through voiceless incantation, but there shouldn't be any difference between the two methods.
I don't get it.
Maybe the number will continue to increase tomorrow.
It's the next day.
The number of water bullets I could create had increased.
Eleven times.
It feels like I can increase the number of shots I can fire with the number of shots actually fired.
If my theory's true, by tomorrow, I should be able to use the spell 21 times.
Another day passed.
To confirm my guess, I casted the spell five times, and stopped.
Another day passed,
And my limit became 26 times.
My limit really is the same as the number of times I had cast the spell.
(You actually bluffed me..)
What do you mean a person's total mana is decided at birth?
You're determining talent, an intangible thing you can't even see with your own eyes.
A child's potential isn't what an adult can determine!
"Well, this also means that I can't just blindly trust something from a book."
This book's probably saying something like, "Human's happiness has a limit."
That sort of thing.
Or was it referring to the results of training?
Did it mean that after rigorous training, there's a mana cap?
No, it's still too early to draw a conclusion.
This is still just a hypothesis.
Something like....
Yeah, like, it's based on how much you can grow, or something.
When casting magic during infancy, the maximum value will increase exponentially, or something like that.
Ah, I can't ignore the possibility that maybe it's due to my special body.
No, it's not good to treat myself as special.
In my original world, it's said that the athletic abilities does increase exponentially during puberty.
But the problem was that after puberty, no matter how hard one try, there's not much progress.
Even in this world, for something like magic, a human's body structure shouldn't be any different.
It's basically the same.
Then, there's only one thing to do.
Train as hard as possible before puberty ends.
From the next day onwards, I depleted my mana to the fullest every day.
At the same time, the number of spells I could use increased.
As long as I can remember the feeling, it's easy to use voiceless incantation.
Anyway, my show completely master elementary magic.
Elementary magic is just as the term implies.
It had the lowest rank amongst all attack magic.
Water and flame bullets are considered the basics even amongst the elementary spells.
There are seven difficulty ranks to magic.
[Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, Saint, King, Emperor, God].
I read that an ordinary educated magician can improve his specialized magic up to the advanced rank, while the typical uneducated is able to cast elementary to intermediate ranked spells.
We're going by the rank beyond Advanced, based on this system, those called a Fire-Saint or Water-Saint can be considered to be one of a kind.
The Saint rank I'm yearning that a little.
But that magic guidebook only has fire, water, wind, and earth systems, up to the Advanced rank.
Where can I learn spells ranked Saint and and above.... ?
No, it's better not to think too far ahead.
It's the same too for RPG Maker, If one started off by creating the strongest monster, there's a high chance of being dejected.
One should start from the slime.
Though I didn't even finish the slime even though I started from it.
Now, the book contained the following elementary water spells.
Water bullet: A water bullet that can be shot.
Water Ball.
Water shield: Water that rises from the ground to form a wall.
Water shield.
Water arrow: A 20cm dart that's fired.
Water Arrow.
Ice strike: Creates a column of ice to smite an enemy.
Ice Smash.
Ice weapon: Forms a sword of ice.
Ice blade.
I tried out everything.
Even though each spell was elementary, the amount of mana it took to cast them varied.
Using the water bullet as my standard.
A single cast expends two to twenty water bullets worth of mana based on the spell.
Basically, I practiced only water magic.
It would have been a problem if I'd tried the fire magic and caused a fire disaster.
Speaking of fire, it seems the amount of mana used is correlated to the temperature.
The higher the rank, the colder the ice got.