Chapter 3.5 – No longer a Child

Shortly after graduating I realized that I’d forgotten to greet and befriend the Viscounts children, I’d just been so focused on study and messing with Nemun for the last year that it slipped my mind.

Better late than never I suppose?

We still had a few weeks before we were to move into the Beginners Magic & Martial dorm in the Beginner Education sector, so I decided that now would be my chance at befriending the Viscounts daughter Lilia.

At the time when I came to this realization I was eating lunch with Nemun and Shushen in the cafeteria.

My many plates of food were taking up more than half the table, which was big enough for 12 people to sit and eat at.  

My meals became the kind of thing other students looked upon in horror.

Where do I fit it all? I have no idea.

When I remembered about Lilia, I froze just as I was about to take another bite of this incredible potato salad.

I put down my fork.

“Shushen I can’t believe I forgot to say hello to Lilia and her brother.”

“Lilia, who’s that?”

Shushen asked me confused.

“Lilia the Viscounts daughter, that Lilia… what was her brother’s name again? Macross or something?”

“His name is Matious Lady Blindsight.”

“Ah that was it, thanks Nemun”

Nemun sighs.

Shushen looks like he’s trying to remember but can’t manage it, so I silently decide to go greet Lilia after I finish eating.

I manage to eat all the food before it gets cold, that’s my goal every meal, though food that has gone cold has its own merits, just thinking about it makes me want a nice cool pasty with lots of well-cooked mincemeat and vegetables.

But enough about my food fantasies.

After eating and clearing away the plates I immediately returned to the dorm, there I asked Sephia for help, since I’m lazy when it comes to looking for things.

I walked into her office, it seemed she was dealing with a dispute between two different groups of girls.

There were pretty loud I could hear them from the dorm main entrance.

“I’M RIGHT AND YOU’RE WRONG!!!”

“DON’T SPOUT NONCENSE PEASANT, YOU SHOULD BEG FOR FORGINESS!!!!!!!!”

“YOU’RE DELUTIONAL IF YOU THINK I’LL DO THAT YOU BRAT!!!”

“YOU- HOW DARE YOU, IT’S MINE IF I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!”

And so on and so forth, getting nowhere they sounded like they were just getting angrier and angrier at one another.

I peeked through the door in the back of Sephia’s office that led to the counselling room.

The one that where screaming at one another were two young girls, both were dressed in what appeared to be very expensive cloths made from fine fabrics, they also had various expensive looking ornaments in their hair.

I can’t help but feel a bit grossed out when I see two girls around 10 years old dressed up in such a way.

When I open the door the two girls stop yelling and look at me, I see that Sephia is standing between them keeping them apart and stopping them from tearing one another’s hair out, though the ‘Students Oath’ probably would have stopped them from doing that.

“I’ll come another time…”

I said awkwardly and slowly begin closing the door.

“No don’t worry about it I’m leaving.”

One of the girls said and leaves, I open the door wide for them.

The one left behind still looks angry but also walks out.

“You saved me Knifelim.”

Sephia say before flopping onto the couch in the room.

“Who were they?”

“Lilia Vermillion Trastlefortem and Palpu Balge…. Ugh Palpu… Balgelda Stroua…  Mendali Casto Rundia of the Tree people… Why do they need such long names?”

Sephia seems fed up with the two, but so one of them was Lilia huh? I wonder what they were arguing about.

“What where they arguing about?”

“A brush… the two share a room and have been at odds ever since, Lilia assumes everything is hers, that girl is just so much trouble…”

Sephia sighs before sitting up straight and swishing back her hair.

“So what do you need Knifelim?”

“Oh… ugh well I was just wondering what room Lilia lived in, I promised her father I’d try to become friends with her but I’d forgotten about it until now.”

She laughs weakly and then tells me the floor Lilia's room is on and its number.

I thanked her and left, she seemed worn out by those two, but seriously they were making that big of a fuss over a brush?

Lilia was on the first floor with the other first years, it seems her father had specifically told the school not to give her special treatment.

I knocked 3 times on her door.

The door swung open.

“What do you want?”

Lilia asked me, she was clearly angry.

She’d make a good thug with an expression like that.

“Hello Lilia, I’m Knife, I’d meant to greet you earlier but I’d been so busy it slipped my mind.”

“Knife? You’re that genius then?”

“I guess you could say that.”

She starts closing the door.

“Hey wait!”

She stops closing the door.

“What now?”

“Well I was wondering if we could be friends.”

“In your dreams stupid, go away.”

“But I promised your-“

“GO AWAY!!!!!”

She starts throwing tantrum… fine.

“Well sorry you’re not feeling well, bye.”

I walked away but she kept yelling various things at me, I’m sure she’s very nice once you get to know her, but she’s too much trouble for me and it’s not even a quest.

Either way I continue to try and befriend her, however she refused to have any of it and just spat nasty and hateful words at me like I was her mortal enemy or a telemarketer.

I put off befriending her for now.

I realized lately that I’ve put a lot of importance into completing quests, maybe too much importance.

Every day I over hear people in the dorm and during class talking about something and a quest just shows up on its own, ‘Find the lost pet’, ‘Search the space under the Dorm’, ‘Climb a building’, ‘Run a lap around the school through each District’, ‘Play a game’, ‘Learn a new spell’, various different quests most of which had me doing strange things, the other students found me strange, but the teachers found me very active and energetic as well as being strange.

Part of me wanted to believe people where finding me strange because of the passive skill ‘Strangeness’.

I remember Matious from the graduation ceremony, he tripped on the stairs, so it was easy to find him around the school because he was a Perfect.

I asked around if anyone knew where he was and found him in the library.

“Matious right?”

I said as I sat down opposite him.

“Yes, that would be me, if I might say it’s nice to finally meet you Knifelim, took you long enough.”

This’ll make things easier, he must have gotten word from his father?

“Sorry about that, but better late than never right?”

“Yes, but still I always knew you’d approach me, geniuses always do come together and form an unstoppable team.”

“Ugh…”

“With my genius with the sword and your mind well suited to magic, we will become the ultimate team and enter the Kings tournament together when we’re old enough.”

“Um…”

“Yes, I know it’s a fantastic idea, no need to thank me, be sure to properly practice magic until we finish our studies at the Beginner Magic and Martial education Sector.”

He nods to himself like the conversation is over and then gets up and leaves, not listening to my attempts to speak to him.

I’d heard about the Kings tournament, it’s held in Dorendu, the king and hundreds of fans come to watch it every year, a lot a money is thrown around during it, your grades are given out to the public and the odds are decided based on that, however they’re just grades so there are always a lot of upsets.

Participating in the tournament becomes possible because after finishing the Beginner training the ‘Oath of the Student’ becomes voided and any further education is considered optional.

It’s possible to compete in the Kings tournament either solo or in a team of two, you often see solo fighter going up against pairs during the tournament. Teaming up is often encouraged, but usually if you do that you would essentially need to win the tournament in order to receive any sort of recognition from the king.

Needless to say I intend to enter it, but that's 6 years from now so I don’t really have to worry about it at the moment.

I definitely intend to do it solo, so I’m sorry Matious, but your delusions of a super teams will never come to be.

Needless to say I tried to befriend Lilia numerous times over the next few weeks, but I eventually decided I wanted nothing to do with her.

When I’d thought we were becoming friends she started demanding things and when I didn’t do as she demanded she sicked her minions on me, they destroyed my cool bell thing that lights up when you ring it, I was pretty angry about that, they also stole and destroy many of my other belongings…

So as pay back I used manipulate on Lilia's room while she was in it and made it so that not even air could get in or out as a- ugh prank.

Unfortunately she didn’t suffocate, she smashed down the wall of her room before then and wouldn’t shut up for weeks, screaming about how someone tried to kill her and such.

We continued like this for many months after that, She picks on me using her minions and I attempt to kill her without her realizing it’s me, luckily the ‘Oath of the student’ doesn’t apply to indirect attacks.

I tried to talk with Matious whenever I saw him, but he always talked over me about his delusions of becoming an honoured knight and serving the king.

Things just didn’t work out like I’d expected with the two of them.

Shushen became good friends with Matious, Matious eventually became one of the few people that sat with us during meals, even then when I tried to speak to him he started having delusions again…

And that’s how things went on for a while, of course my various quests resulted in me making all different kinds of friends and our group grew larger until our entire table was packed with so much food you couldn’t see the table anymore, it probably didn’t help that I’d began eating even more.

6 years passed relatively peacefully like this, I’ll skim over them for you since not much happened.

1st year of Beginner training,

I turned 12.

As I said Shushen became friends with Matious, they made a lot of noise joking around with one another and just being normal kids, though Matious was 3 years older it didn’t really seem to matter.

Matious began sitting at our table during meals, I didn’t really mind, but he still acted like a delusional idiot whenever I tried to speak to him, it was incredibly annoying so I stopped trying, however instead he started just talking to me without me saying anything, I wish Shushen never became friends with him.

Also the cafeteria is a larger building in the middle of the School district, it provided food for all the students, it’s a really big building to the extent that I can’t see all of it even when I push my ‘sight’ to the limits, on a side note when I tried that it made everyone around me pass out, that could be useful. But oh shit I need to make sure they’re okay.

I attempted to kill Lilia twice, they both failed, she’s surprisingly strong.

I learned the class 8 spell ‘Urea’ a new-type spell, yes that’s what I’m going to be calling the non-ancient spells.

‘Urea’ essentially makes something that looks like an AT-field around me, it’s made to deflect magic and projectiles, but it can also stop a blade long enough for you to move out of the way.

‘Urea’ was the only spell I managed to memorise this year because I spent so much of my time completing quests.

I reached level 15 by the time this year ended, the higher my level the hard it seems to be to level, as expected of a levelling system it had something annoying.

2nd year of beginner training,

I turned 13 and experienced something I never wanted to, I had my first period… I feel like I lost something important, also I was avoiding about thinking about how I had to go through puberty again, but this time as a girl, I can confirm that both are equally shitty.

I decided to meditate in an attempt to control my emotions, I know that during my first life my emotions were out of control and I would attack anyone for any reason, sometimes purely because I thought it was fun, yeah I was just a brute. So I wanted to avoid anything like that happening again, it seemed to work because my urge to punch people lessened slightly.

Nemun introduces one of her friends from her home town to me, Milat, we become relatively good friends I think. Milat and I often talk about magic and magical items, it seems Milat wants to make magic items, good for her.

I got the top grades in magic this year, I impressed even myself, if only my martial training grade where even half as good as this, well it’s to be expected, I am a mage character after all and only a 13 year old when I should be 15 while doing this stuff.

Someone called Blanch Chekerplain was the person that managed to get top grades in his physical fitness and proficiency with weapons.

One day En Drendri approached me, it seemed he was impressed with my magical capabilities, he began sitting at our table during meals as well, now there’s 5 of us. Though I was surprised that En who was the student representative when we were still in the General education sector was talking to me and even more then that seemed to respect me, even more so because I trained with both magic and weapons.

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I attempted to kill Lilia again, but by this point I’d realized that I’m not going to succeed so I decided to give up and just pretend she didn’t exist, of course she continued to send people to harass me, how long can she hold a grudge? Apparently a long time… I can’t even remember what I did wrong anymore, disregarding the attempts at killing her, she shouldn’t know about that.

I managed to memorise the Class 9 Ancient spell ‘Water Globe’ and the Class 11 New-type spell ‘Kewla’ this year.

Water Globe made water form around a target and attempt to drown them, they water globe would stick to them like it was glue there. I found it was also possible for me to compact the spell in my hand adding a simple equation and throw it at the target, on contact it would expand with enough force to create a small crater in the ground, no drowning though, just an explosion.

Kewla formed a shield made from mana in a pentagram sort of shape, it blocks magic, weapons, and projectiles and so on, but I need to constantly feed it mana and each thing I use it to guard against causes a spike in consumption, though I can see it coming in handy, I would make a joke about it being handy but I’m being serious right now.

Levelling just by doing simple easy quests has become slow, I only managed to reach level 17 this year.

3rd year of beginner training,

As is the norm I aged again, yes I know a big surprise, I never realized how annoying having beasts would be… though I suppose I was morbidly obese at the time of my first death, but by that point I was no longer functioning properly as a human being and can barely remember anything from then.

I’m feeling hungrier lately so I’ve been eating even more than usual.

Some of Shushen friends from his classes began sitting with us during lunch, Soa and Zalxie, apparently I’ve become well known for my eating habits.

I also met Kallik and Brent a few times when I went shopping for various things, I’d learned to only buy things I could carry on myself so that I wouldn’t come back to my room and find that they’d been destroyed like the rest of the things I’d cherished, they even destroyed the red cloak I’d bought and I thought I’d hidden it so well. I swear I’ll ruin that bitch and her stupid fucking minions.

I also began locking my room by fusing the door to the frame, it was relatively effective, they had to break the door to get in and they did just that which had them paying for repairs.

I began plotting Lilia’s demise in earnest once more and then quickly stopped because of overwhelming failure, she really is physically strong isn’t she? To smash a boulder… I decided it’d be best not to anger her and just accept that there’s nothing I can do, I’ll carry anything important I suppose.

My training with the sword is making some proper progress, now instead of getting a horrible grade far below average, I’m now average.

As usual my magical studies continue to be incredible, I’ve also continued studying magical Beasts and creatures, it’s important to know weaknesses or so my excuse goes, mostly I now just find it a useful way to pass the time.

I managed to learn 4 spells this year, it seems I just find learning ancient spells easier.

I learned the class 6 ancient spell ‘Lighting Javelin’, the class 9 ancient spell ‘Earth Rise’, the class 9 ancient spell ‘Wind Dance’ and the class 7 ancient spell ‘Steel body’.

‘Lighting Javelin’ was just as it sounded, basically a spear of electricity shoots out of my hand.

‘Earth Rise’ essentially acts like a mine, I just designate an area and the spell activates if anything enters that area, causing something close to an explosion with lots of stone projectiles.

‘Wind Dance’ is an enchantment, it heightens the targets physical capabilities, allowing them to move with increased speed and dexterity for so long as you channel mana for the spell.

‘Steel body’ is also an enchantment, it increases strength and makes your skin as strong as steel so long as you channel mana for the spell.

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to level up this year I think I’m close though.

4th year of beginner training,

I turned 15, but you can count.

Shushen graduated from general education and began his Beginner training focusing on the Glaive, he also chose to study magic as well since I was doing both and he wanted to do it as well.

My grades remained about the same, though I did become more skilled at using the sword which is to be expected when you train every day while receiving advice from an experienced instructor.

As usual people are mesmerized with my magical capabilities, they’re calling me the star of the Beginner Sector.

Lately a lot a flies have been buzzing around me trying to get my attention, I ignored them with perfect precision, I am here to assist the future hero, not play around in my new body, besides, although my view have been altered by the female hormones coursing through my veins and the fluffy life style I’ve lived for the last few years, I’m not disinclined to get involved in such a way with the male population.

It’s really unfortunate that we can’t spar because of the Oath of the student, I can’t wait for it to be dispelled and to be allowed to hit things, I realize it sounds bad when I put it like that, but there are quite a number of people I wish I could hit, that bitch in heat Lilia is one person, Shushen is the other, playing around happily while his grades plummet, it just pisses me off. I’m always the one that ends up setting Shushen straight lately, that good for nothing.

Nemun has been my closest friend of late, but lately the table we sit at during meals seems to always be full, I haven’t bothered to remember everyone’s name, but they’re a good distraction during a meal.

I only managed to memorize one spell this year, I spent most of my time completing miscellaneous quests in an attempt to level up.

I learned the class 7 ancient spell ‘Water Torrent’, it shoots a jet of water at my target, I found it was possible to track targets and even split the stream and follow multiple target with it.

I managed to level up once, reaching level 18, it seems at this point these easy quests are relatively pointless, though I do get MaP for completing them.

5th year of Beginner training,

I turned 16, I just realized that means that including my first life, my mental age should be around 35 years old if I remember correctly, it’s funny if you think about it, at least I think it is.

I’m starting to look a lot like how my body in my personal space looks, the one without the stats, everything’s growing nicely, I don’t mean to sound strange when I say this, but I have come to very much like my body, or at least how it looks, I’m still not sure how I should feel about the rest of it.

I and all the others from the table went out to the shopping district to but various things. I ended buying a red robe with a hood, there were also these cool designs in golden thread along the seams and at the hem, I always wanted something like this. I now wear the robe whenever I go out.

I thought about buying a sword but I have ‘Shitty Ornamental Sword’ so I don’t need another sword.

I gave up on questing for now and spent most of the year trying to memorize the Class 6 Ancient Spell ‘Void Tempest’.

‘Void Tempest’ was a Void element spell that filled the surrounding area around the caster with ‘Non’ particles, essentially it creates a cloud of Void and eats away at anyone within the effect, the caster is able to direct the cloud away from themselves and freely move it around, but it begins centred on the caster, however it doesn’t cause as much immediate damage as ‘Bluntoph’.

I didn’t level up this year as expected.

6th and final year of Beginner training,

I began to realize that I stopped caring about gender and began feeling that love wins over all, no, this is probably some sort of dampening with my emotions or something, I’m getting screwed up, I don’t know how I feel anymore…

I turned 17.

Shushen hardly even spent time with me anymore, but I still have Nemun? No she’s busy spending time with her boyfriend. Matious hasn’t shown himself lately, it seems he’s doubling his training efforts. Despite sitting at a table packed full of people I feel alone, I wonder why? I have plenty of friends, I don’t need them, I don’t need Shushen, no, I have to protect him, and so I need to get stronger, far stronger.

In the last few years my magic grades had dropped, I continued practicing the sword though.

I decided to prove my strength like Matious is, I’ll fight in the tournament.

I had a set of plate mail made for myself, it cost me 2 gold marks, but it is a necessary bit of equipment.

It took 2 weeks for the plate mail to be properly sized and fitted, during the process I helped with its construction my lacing the metal with magic as it was made, the enchantment I was aiming for was ‘Iron Fury’, thankfully it succeeded. I learned how to apply basic enchants on armour and weapons in class, it was essentially easy if you had the correct spell, I used ‘Steel body’ to create the enchantment ‘Iron Fury’ which increased the strength of the wearer by 20% as well as reducing incoming damage by 5%, at least that’s what the window that popped up said, though I was aiming for that enchantment I didn’t know the specifics other than that it made the armour stronger.

Because of the increased strength it made the armour easier to move in, I spent most of the year getting used to moving and fighting in plate mail.

I began practicing using my ‘Shitty Ornamental Sword’ it was a good blade with good balance, I did good in buying it. One of the instructor saw me practicing with my ‘Shitty ornamental Sword’, he was impressed and asked me where I got it, I told him I’d had it since before I enrolled here and he dropped the subject, probably assuming it was some expensive blade made just for me since they still have the misunderstanding that I’m some kind of Princess…

I didn’t bother trying to learn a new spell, I was too focused on training in my armour.

I graduated and today is the day of the tournament.

Rank F | CreatorUseless Shady of Life and DeathNAMEKnifelim Blindsight (Aneir)RACEGreen ElfLevel18Health1270Mana2082Strength67 (37) +20%Intelligence93 (62)Agility54 (36)Mind81 (54)Endurance36 (24)Luck41 (27)Charisma30 (20)SKILLSWell Rested (Passive)Strangeness (Passive)Suspicious (Passive)Berserker (Passive)Sore Shoulder (Passive)Slap-Slap-Palm Arts (Martial)Push the Limit (Passive)Transcend the LimitBlind (Oulosc)(Curse)Creeping FeelersCreeping TendrilsContact Reading (Metra)Understand Speech (Metra)Dampen PainSteadfast

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Author's notes,

Just a short one, not sure how good it is because it's mostly just a list of events during a very uneventful time.

Also for some reason trying to write a spoiled brat gave me a massive headache.

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