Mana World

Heavenly Arena

Multiple mage paragons of the mid stage stood over a bloodied male on the floor, he was being restrained by multiple formations with all sorts of injuries on his body, even as he lay there he had sword pierced through his body. “Nathan you bastard!! What the hell did I do to be targeted like this!?!?!” The man screamed in fury as mana began build up in his body, one of the swords however absorbed the mana and sent lightning through his body.

“Adam, Adam, Adam, while indeed you have done nothing to us, but did you really think we would ignore you so shamelessly currying favor with the grandmaster??”, the male in a robe at the far back of the group spoke with a smirk. “You really thought I would let you develop so you would hinder my

ascension to the highest plane of magic?? You were always a blockade to me...so now I am going to clear you out, or what you think anyone would willingly befriend a useless leach like yourself??”, the male mocked with a laugh. “while you chased theoretical bullshit to curry our master’s favor I built up real power within the court and by that power vested in me.. please die for me Adam Marlow and disappear forever into the mortal plane never to return... if you survive that is", the male Named Anthony said as he snapped his finger and black veins covered Adam’s body and he exploded in a black mist releasing a massive wave of mana with his death.

Mortal world

European Region

Eclipse Empire

Azuri Kingdom

The Marlow dukedom (City)

In the head mansion of the Marlow family lay a young boy little over the age of 5, he had a frail build that made one assume even a light wind could blow him over, he had pale skin and long dull silver hair, his eyes were almost silver but seemed lifeless to any onlookers, he wore a hospital gown and his bed had a basic healing circle beneath him, this was none other than the third child and second son of the Marlow family Adam Marlow. Unlike the real Marlow family that existed elsewhere, this was a collapsing noble household that was losing influence in their own city, what made it worse was that the royal family had more pressing matters than a falling noble household in a backwater dukedom that held no promise or talent of note, to make it worse the second son who was supposed to carry the hopes that the first son failed too after his death was a cripple with no hope of getting out of bed much less saving the dukedom leaving the first daughter, Alicia Marlow, to have to find a suitor influential enough to keep them afloat... she however was meagerly going to turn 12 this year and was a pitiful incomplete intermediate mage compared to the others at the Royal magic academy, as things stood now the dukedom was doomed to fail within the next couple of years.

What nobody knew how ever was that a week ago Adam Marlow had passed away and a new spirit entered his corpse the spirit of the fallen Mage paragon Adam Marlow who sighed in pity at his current predicament.

Adam’s P.O.V

For the second time today I manage to sit up without any pains and sat in a cross legged position as I have done for the week since either entered this pitiful vessel, I gather the miniscule amounts of mana in the area and begin to reinforce my body, today will be the last time I had to do this before I can ditch the healing formation so I am going to be thorough about it, I’m pretty sure this family has abandoned this child from the memories I can see in his head, not only has he not seen his father in years but his mother has left him here for the last two months and his sister despises his weakness despite having no real strength of her own. For now all I can do is endure this bullshit until for a year and a half, I may have to use some form of Mana physical enhancement till I turn 10 to train this body to be a vessel properly fit for me, after all I don’t plan on being satiated with this paupers realm

that is void of true mana for miles on end.

I spend another 5 hours meditating and fixing my body, which I have to admit is the longest I have gone this week, and then finally disrupted the Mana flow of the magic circle forcing it to collapse and forcefully deactivated as it was clogging my mana flow in exchange of keeping me barely alive. I disperse the circle energy in my body for the next hour or so then get back to my meditation, I need

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a proper foundation if I am going to build this vessel properly.

Half A Year Later

It seems I was right about this useless family abandoning me, but it’s not like I’m complaining, without the attention I have been able to train and grow freely and without and restraint, after half a year of diligence I have finally built up my physical stature though I admit I might have gone a bit too far with the 8 pack I worked for, I doubt a 9 year old needs that, anyway I have built myself a solid mana reserve matching that of what I assume to be a basic mage in this world, I was currently

practicing mana projection exercises so I can at least use something before I awaken my elemental affinity, I do however doubt I can face any actual mage in one on one, at least by Mana World standards, I hope the standard here doesn’t fall to far behind or It will be quite appalling.

If this body's memories are accurate my birthday is the same as this boy’s being the first day in the new year which passed a little while ago, I remember some house maid coming to greet me for it but

haven’t seen much of anyone since, that event however now marks for me my year long timer to my age of awakening, after my daily projection exercises u do 100 sets of physical exercises and meditate until noon the next day to improve my mana reserves, I continue to do this until my next birthday increasing the intensity of my training each day until my next visit.

Reader’s P.O.V

New years day

Noon

In Adam room was a boy who was meditating in a cross legged position, he stood at 5 foot 6 and had a lean yet visibly muscular build, he had bright cream skin along with a hair of silver hair that was in a styled rough bowl cut that was in a high fade, he had dark silver eyes and after cleaning himself up, he had disastrously beautiful facial features, he put most models to shame, he currently only wore a

pair of black shorts and let his muscles show, his muscles were perfectly sculpted, his sides were designed to almost look like scales, he had a solid 9 pack and had a generally compact build. This was none other than the same crippled Adam, He rose to his feet and stretched out a bit before going to take a shower, something he hadn’t done in well over a year and it was obvious, after finally cleaning

himself up, he wore a black top leaving the top collar undone and rolling the sleeves to his elbows,

he wore a pair of brown trousers over his black shoes and draped a blazer of his shoulder, he checked himself in the mirror for a bit before deciding it was time to head out, before he could though the same maid that visited him last year walked into the barged into the room with a poorly done chocolate cake dumped it onto he table and was about to leave before she noticed Adam wasn’t on his bed and the healing formation was gone.

“I take it you’re looking for me??”, Adam asked in his voice that he agreed had no right to be that good. “I-i-i “, she muttered as she fell on her but with a pale and unbelieving expression before tears if joy sprung down her face. “It seems you’re up young master Marlow", she finally brought herself

to say as she started crying with an expression of genuine joy. Noticing this Adam was actually shocked, he didn’t expect to even be recognized much less someone crying over him.

“What’s the matter??”, Adam asked in an almost humored tone, “you think you have a right to cry about me after abandoning me??”, he asked holding the urge to break out laughing at the situation.

“Young master Marlow we didn’t abandon you at All, the family couldn’t afford to-", the maid was cut off by a sharp spike of killing intent, it was brief but she visibly felt it. “Couldn’t afford to my ass, I overheard your little scheme to promote your kid in the household if I hadn’t recovered by now so you can save the crocodile tears".

At first the maid acted confused, but then when she saw that Adam wasn’t buying any of it she wiped her tears and rose to her feat with a smirk. “ I have to admit you surprised me boy, not only did you recover but you also know that it’s not some elaborate family crisis", The maid said as she adjusted her gloves. “I have to admit though the poison you used is quite lethal, I almost can’t believe a lowly maid like yourself could possibly get your hands on such a thing", Adam assessed out loud as he walked towards the door with a frown.