Day 1 week two since reincarnating, as usual he went downstairs to have breakfast with his family. While was eating his father called out to him.

"Noir I believe you are ready, from today onwards you are allowed to leave the house alone. Tomorrow you and your sister will be going to the forest of slumber, for your right of passage, so I advise you to visit a weapons shop in preparation".

"Yes father ",

one could tell he was excited to hear the news and contrary to his short reply his thoughts were longer,

(The time came sooner than I thought, and with this I'll be able to learn more about this world and act more freely. I don't know what this right of passage is but I'm guessing it has to do with fighting or survival).

After eating he was heading back upstairs when he stopped and looked back at his father who was about to leave the house, "Father, wouldn't it make sense for you or mother to go with me?". (I was a little too excited that I almost overlooked it she may be better than me at magic but it still doesn't make sense).

His father was silent for a while then answered, "Normally it is a parent who does the accompanying but in most cases it is single parents, besides she is capable, anything else?".

"No, I understand".

Having answered him his father left and he went back to his room to change shoes. After that he did not spend a second longer and left the house, as he walked he could see more of the town than before. He was walking around with no fixed destination, after exploring for quite a while he came across a weapon shop,

(He said advise meaning it's not really necessary but since I'm checking new places I'll check inside).

He opened the door and walked in, inside there was a group of 3 who were carrying a huge lion like beast, the beast was dead. But the most surprising thing was how big the inside of the building was compared to the outside, and if not for how big it was the beast would not even fit inside. Not letting this scene distract him he looked around and did not see any weapons so walked to what looked like a reception desk.

"Excuse me, I was wondering if this was really a weapons shop?".

"Of course it is, do not let the lack of weaponry fool you, everything is stored upstairs. Now come follow me".

The female receptionist who was behind answered as she stepped out to lead him upstairs.

(Now that I've seen a homunculi up close their hair though grey leans towards white), he thought as he looked at the receptionist hair as they went up the stairs. When they reached the second floor she went to one of the doors and opened it for him.

"You may enter, and if you need anything please feel free to call", after saying that she went back.

When he walked in the door closed by itself behind him. Before him were full body armor, swords, spears and bows displayed all around the room. As he was scanning the room at the back of the room he saw a man with black hair who was placing a sword in its display, (If he's not buying, he must be the shop's owner). Noir begin by walking around looking for anything that might catch his eye. After going through a few rows of weapons he came across two daggers a short sword, (Now let's have a closer look...), his hand was already reaching for the daggers but before he could even touch them his hand was held in place. He looked at his right hand side, standing there was the man he'd seen,(What in the... I didn't hear him approach).

As much as he was surprised his face did not show, after the two looked eyes the owner spoke,"These are for display only so your not allowed to touch them".

Hearing that Noir withdrew his hand when it was released owners grasp.

"I'm the owner of this shop, you can call me Stephen, if you want these three you can come with me to the working area"

"I do want them but I don't have anything to pay with".

(I was in such a hurry that I overlooked the most important thing currency and no one mentioned it).

"That's no problem since everything is free. The work area is just behind that door". (That explains why they didn't say anything).

He did not say anything this time and followed Stephen into the working area. The space was filled with raw material raging from metals, scales, bones, fangs and leather.

(I guess his about to make them for me right here).

"I'm about to begin crafting now watch closely", Stephen cleared a table leaving only one piece of metal. He began by making the metal float a 20cm above the table and a transparent sphere appeared around it. Though he couldn't feel the heat he could see that the metal inside was heating up as it soon turned red and began to melt. As it was melting the sphere took on the shape of a short sword, molding the metal within. And just like it was never melted in the first place, it cooled in a few seconds. The newly crafted sword descended on to the table, and with a touch from Stephen the sword was further sharpened.

"A simply crafted sword, nothing so difficult right and now you craft your own".

"I can make one for my self but wouldn't it be better to take the already made one?".

"I guess you are young you wouldn't know everything, so I'll explain it to you. To put it simply a weapon will have the mana of its user as they use magic through it,or simply empowering it. But if it was not the user who created it the weapon will have two types of mana. Mana from its creator and the user, the two different mana will more likely to be in conflict than coexist, this prevents the weapon from bringing out its full potential. Of course you could over write the creators mana so only yours remains, but you would obviously be able unable to do that. But if you insist you can have it".

Now that he knew this piece of information Noir wasted no time and began making his own sword. "So this is what they call magic crafting, I've never done it before".

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"You mean matter attribute magic", Stephen corrected him but to Noir it irrelevant so he continued to mold the molten metal in the same way he was shown, he did not notice himself but he was smiling.

"Good you made it in your first try I guess your perception of magic is not lacking, let's see if you can observe even the tiniest details", Stephen said after the sword was sharpened. Taking the sword he had made, Stephen turned it into a metal cube, he held the cube in hands, the cube was reshaped into a much more finer and detailed sword than it previously was. From the perspective of someone who had normal eyes and could not analyse magic it looked like the cube had just changed shape from cube to sword which is what Stephen had done to the sword when he turned it into cube but for the cube to sword transformation he had rearranged the atoms that made up the cube. Stephen placed the sword back on to the table.

"Did you see it?".

"Yes, though the approach was different both methods can achieve the same effect", while Noirs reply showed composure his thoughts were a in a state of confusion and not from witnessing magic work at the smallest scale but from the realisation that came with it.

(All this time I've been absorbing air molecules thinking they are mana, does that mean...no I'll think more about it later when I get home).

"You can use either method to make your daggers". Hearing that Noir nodded then took two more pieces of metal to make his daggers.

When he was done and about to leave Stephen called him, "Hey kid your very lucky to be born this year so make sure you are enrolled at Demon Academy by next week". Noir did not reply he would have to speak with his parents so bid farewell and left. (That kid if he wasn't so young I would believe it if he said he'd been to the Holy Empire seeing as he knows about concepts of buying and currency, but from his age he must've heard it from his parents),he thought as he looked at the door Noir left from.

"Speaking of the academy I should go to the capital before the academy opens".

On the way back Noir was thinking about what Stephen had said about enrolling into academy.

"What did he mean by enrolling, I look about six years old but even then it's still young for academy enrollment. Then again my knowledge from my past life may be getting in way to accept what is the norm here. But it's only been a week I have time to plenty of time to learn "

Before he realised it he was already home, he was the only one home at the moment. He went straight to his room placing the daggers and sword on the table. Now that he was back home he resumed his thoughts on what he had discovered about mana.

(When first got here the first thing I did was find out if magic was possible and it was. Then started absorbing mana, the thought that the mana of this world and my previous world are different hadn't even crossed my mind. To begin with the mana I know is just an all purpose energy found all around us but here it's different. This mana should be the building blocks of everything, meaning everything I see is mana).

This was extremely shocking to him that he forgot to ask about the academy before the day past.

"So we're walking there", he asked as they past the town check point.

"There's no railroad heading towards the forest and a carriage would take to long, so yes we are walking there", his sister Nell said as she walked ahead. As they walked from town to the Slumbering forest they past by the forests in between. Taking this opportunity Noir asked, "Sister what do you know about the academy".

"I don't know much about it only that it only opens once in a thousand years because there are rarely any demons born, even decades go by without any demons being born. So it opening once every thousand years also serves as a guide to when demons should have children, mostly for those who want their kids to learn there".

Hearing this Noir thought back to the conversation he heard when he first got here.

"Also the knowledge you get there would take at most a hundred years, to learn just by observing the world. There are also two academies one is Royal Demon Academy for nobles and the other is Demon Academy which opens a week earlier but they close at same day. You and I will be going to the latter".

"I get it know, but does the latter open earlier?"

"It has to do with second stage of awakening. Today is also about awakening, your first stage of awakening, since we've arrived you can put your questions on hold, you can read a books at the library when we get back", she said after seeing him about to ask what awakening is.

"I guess I'll have to visit this library you speak of".

He said as he took the lead walked into the forest.

This forest was the one with the most magic beasts and it had an ominous feeling to it.

In the forest he could sense and pin point the location of the magic beasts so they did not search around but went for the nearest one. As they tracked it and got closer they to hear the sounds it was making. With their presence concealed they could get close without being noticed, before them was their target a jet black wolf nearing 2 meters in height, and right below it was an animal it had just hunted. This magic beasts was an expert at hunting it could move between shadows and track its prey using its excellent sense of smell and it's thermal senses that could detect even the tiniest change in temperature of an environment.

(Now that I'm here I really don't know what to do, should I just attack with...).

While he was still thinking on what to do Nell stepped forward and unconcealed herself. This alerted the wolf and it raised its guard waiting for her to be its field of vision, the moment she was it jumped towards her. The wolf stood no chance against her, it was cut in half before it could even touch the ground.

(Where'd that sword come from, I only looked at the wolf for just a moment and in that moment she pulled out a sword out of no where. What's even worse I didn't see her swing it).

His eyes were wide from shock, he was aware the wolf was no threat to Nell but he didn't expect it to be helpless before her. She walked back to him leaving the two piece wolf on the ground.

"The next one is yours kill".

"Will do, but what is that?", he pointed at a black crystal visible on one of the half parts of the wolf.

"That is what enables beasts to use magic, a mana core. If you analyse one you'll know what how and what type of magic the beast used".

Noir could not suppress his curiosity so he went to the corpse, when he stood before it he did a throwing gesture towards it and a fire came out of his hand falling on the corpse. The wolfs body burned leaving only the mana core behind, Noir then picked up the core.

(I can feel an incredible amount of energy from it, so I should analyse it then absorb it, everything is mana after all. I see now mana cores store mana in data form allowing magic beasts to use magic without understanding).

With the mana core analysed he now knew how to use the same magic the wolf used.

"Since this wolf beast was so underwhelming is it okay to go after one that seems strong?"

"If your confident then yeah".

With her approval Noir began moving west of where they were but not too far. Not long after they had found it resting under a tree, he could tell it was far stronger than that wolf but they too were much stronger than it so the thought of going back did not even cross his mind.

It was a reptilian type beast, cousin to salamanders, silasmandra it was called. As tall as the trees, with two heads and its child being half the size of the wolf.

"Those are silasmandra its magic primarily involves energy absorption and emission", Nell warned Noir who nodded while he took out his daggers.

(There's two I'll have to deal with them both at the same time. Let's try out this shadow magic, this makes me feel like an assassin).

A dark shadow appeared at his feet, he threw the two daggers at the shadow and the daggers entered the shadow, appearing at tree's shadow right beside the silasmandras. They had no time to react, both were stabbed at chest while for the young one the dagger pierced through. The dagger on the adult silasmandra did not pierce deep enough so it lived. Noir who had expected this walked towards it while unconcealing himself so it does not run in fear of a threat it does not see. While the silasmandra was rising and crying for its dead child, he took out his short sword. With him now visible to it, rage and murder filled its eyes showing no intention of fleeing. It snapped the trees while moving to face him, it raised its heads releasing a deafening cry, before facing him again. One of its heads opened its mouth and the environment began to get cold, the temperature was dropped so fast the trees and everything around them was frozen solid before he could make a barrier Noir was also covered in ice.