3. Training
The sun rose to it's usual place, and emitted it's radiant waves. As Kyle woke up, he looked outside of the window. Once again, his morning was good as ever, he slept all night with much comfort.
He was excited. Standing straight and walking away from his bed directed to the kitchen. From where he stood, he saw a shadow figure, it was his old man.
To his liking, he now shouted with vigor. “OLD MAAAAN! TEACH ME MAGIC!!”
“Let us wait, patience is a virtue, the sun just rose.” The old man calmly said. “There's time for that.”
“Noooo! I wanna learn magic.” The youthful fellow demanded. “Why should I wait?”
“Because, when learning magic, one must be dedicated. One must be patient.” The old man replied as to tell his soon-to-be student.
“Again, remember this Kyle, patience is a virtue.”
To his disappointment, Kyle, emitted a gloomy aura. He was very down right now, he wanted to do things that children cannot do. Kyle was a child of course, he wanted to show off in front of the other kids.
There was a time where he was constantly bullied by the other kids in town. They called him names such as nerd, weakling, and small. These names never signified any of him. He might be a nerd, but at least his smart, he might be weak and small, but its not the truth, he's strong, he went through different and painful trials before he got there.
He wanted to be really strong. He wanted to let those kids know how wrong they were when they teased him. He wanted to become someone that gives a dangerous vibe at the same time, someone happy and not scary.
He didn't really cried. He never felt crying. He thought to himself. ‘I'm strong.’
For him, crying is a sign of weakness, but this youthful fellow doesn't seem to know that crying makes you strong, crying gives you more knowledge and makes you wiser. He was naïve.
The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.
“Rudeus, how did you became so strong?” The youth said in confusion. “Can I become like you?”
“Of course, you can be anyone or anything that you like.” Rudeus said warming the heart of the child. Rudeus doesn't want to put any negative thoughts into the child's mind. He does not want to destroy his childhood by letting him know more about life's truth. He wants Kyle to be strong. And so does Kyle.
An hour passed by as they finished most if their conversations. Rudeus wants to go to the market and buy some herbs that he needs for alchemy.
They went through different stalls, they looked at the different plants and of course the prices. They chose the cheaper ones, and decided to leave after.
As they went home, Kyle watched Rudeus do his work about alchemy. He was stupefied of how hard it is to prepare the needed materials. One needed patience and definitely one needed to become diligent, so when working, its efficiency will become higher.
Another thing, one needs a great and versatile hand. They must know how the hands move. How did Kyle knew this? It was simply because of observing. Just by looking, he instantly became adept to it.
Time passed by, it was afternoon now, and by that, the time of Kyle's training had arrived. He was about to create magic and start using it.
“OLD MAAAAN!” Kyle gleefully shouted. “Magic! Now!”
“Okay, calm down Kyle.” The old man replied. “Let us go on the backyard.”
They went to the backyard and they both sat under the tree. The sun's hot gaze was making Kyle sweat with nervousness in his heart.
“So sit, with both feet under your thighs.” Old man Rudeus started the conversation. “Good, good, now, open your palms out on your knee and feel the mana around the air.”
Kyle now felt the mana around the air, and as he felt that, he saw four colors forming in his imaginations.
One was red, then next to it was blue, after the blue is brown and lastly is silver. With these colors in his mind, he knew exactly that he was gonna be very efficient in using the dark magic. But! As soon as the circle emitted a radiating yellow aura, he was shocked and lost the image he saw. The circle spread through his veins, and went through different parts of his body.
“Uhhhh…” Kyle was dizzy, he wanted the pain to stop. “It hurts.”
“Sooo… You succeeded right?” Rudeus said. “So what did you saw?”
“Uhh.. Uhhh… OH! OH!” Kyle said happily as he remembered what he just saw. “ There were four colors, it was all of the dark main elements and when the bubble-like shaped formed, it gave off a yellow aura.
“WHAAAT?!” The old man said in disbelief. “You're serious right?”
“Yes.” Kyle said calmly.
“Okay… as you can see, your mana in your status window is now available, and because of your mana forming, you can now clearly see all of the hidden features in the status window.” The old man Rudeus said in a cool tone. “Now open your status window and tell me of it's information.”
----------------------------------------
Name: Kyle Inti
Age; 8
Gender: Male
Race: High Humans
Lvl: 1
Hp: 240
Mana: 1000
STR: 19
AGI: 13
DEX: 10
VIT: 18
INT: 20
WIS: 12
SKILLS:
none
----------------------------------------
Kyle told of its content and shocked Rudeus. Rudeus was shocked because of how high his stats already came to be. His mane pool was high that it was doubled if compared to a new mage.
“So, you really have high intelligence and a great physique huh?” Rudeus said and he was clearly jealous of his high starting status. “GREAT! Start your fireball! As you touch this book, this will burn to ashes and you will learn the spell.”
Kyle casted his first spell, the fireball, which is a Lv. 1 spell. Although one of the weakest, it still does great damage to new magic users and ordinary people.
The day went off with Kyle fasting fireballs through the Adamantine crystal which was really expensive and cant be burned by Lv. 4 spells and lower spells.