I went home and was greeted by dad, who sat at the kitchen desk.
"Oh, hey honey I heard the astonishing news, you have an aptitude in all magic categories. And you coaxed your mother to let you attend as fast as possible attend a magic academy. Please sit down."Dad
He pointed at a chair on the opposite of him and I sat down.
-He obviously will try to talk this plan out of me.-
"Now there are a few problems with your plan. First you are not old enough. You have to be at least 13 to attend magic academy's. Secondly the Malindor Academy is for nobles only, they will bully you for being a peasant and an elf. And even when you have the school fees, you have to pay for many other things. It is also the school with the highest win rate in the School Tournament of Kirk so the requirements are enormous.
The third thing is that you have to pass a entrance test and your stats are not high enough for it. I tried it once in Odys but even there you have to have at least one stat in the 50s.
And the fourth one is, as well as the most important reason, that you barely are here a few days and want to leaf us. Is there a problem with Maia and me?"Dad
He said the last sentence with a sad tone.
- Oh, it seems I was to hectic and didn´t considered their feelings. 13 Eh? And there are more than one school?-
"Sorry dad, I were kinda surprised of my aptitudes and wanted to learn more."Me
"If it was only this I am reassured. I don´t know much about the magic academy's but there are some things you have to consider. "Dad
"What?"Me
"There currently are 4 magic academy's in Kirk: Malindor Academy, Turon Acedemy, Odys Academy and Ecus Academy.
Malindor is in the capital of Kirk and as I already said for nobles, Turon is at the border to the republic of Solo, Odys is near the kingdom of Tragon and Ecus is as well near a border but it is near the empire of Raska.
All have their pros and cons, Malindor has the best teachers, Turon has the most interracial students, in comparison to the others, Odys has the best craftsmen and Ecus the most powerful warriors."Dad
"Why are there warriors at a mage academy?"Me
"Well you can infuse your weapon with magic or enhance your body, so all schools have a warrior section alongside their mage section."
"If I need so high stats, how is it that the lowest age is 13 if not even adults are able to attend?"Me
"I don´t know you have to ask them."Dad
"Are humans often racists ? And if yes why are you all not?"Me
"Well most of the beastkin are frowned upon as barbaric and held as slaves and free elfs are a secluded race which seldom leaf their forest. Most of them are born slaves in Kirk, they are the children of war slaves.
But here in a border village to the dragon region we seldom see non-humans and are less racist. And for Maia and me... she beat me into a lesser racist mindset. And I have to say she was right. We met many beastkins and dwarfs in our journey who are nice people. I don´t know why Maia is not a racist, the church is it."Dad
"Ok so I have to raise at least one of my stats to 50 to attend a magic academy?"Me
"If you want to go to Odys yes. I think the line of order was Malindor, Ecus, Turon and then Odys.
Malindor has 75 or two at 60, Ecus has two in 50 or one at 60, Turon was one in 60 and Odys was one in 50 or a new really good invention. Which do you like?"Dad
-Hm.. Malindor will be to much of bullying and the following blood bath...., Ecus sounds fun but I kinda want to bring a small school too the champion position of the tournament and for Odys I at least want a small education in magic and fighting. So it has to be Turon.-
"I think Turon sounds like fun."Me
"Good then you just have to be 13 and have one stat in the 60"Dad
"If it is not more than that then it is easy."Me
"Hahahahaha"Dad
"What is so funny?"Me
"Sorry but it is not sooo easy sweety, I said I was not able to attend the easiest one, at this time I were 17 years old and you here are saying that you will get 40 points in one stat in only a year? THAT is funny."Dad
"Hmpf you will see."Me
-I will not say that I am more than 30.000 times stronger than the requirements for Odys in my weakest attribute...-
"Yes, yes I will, "Dad said while he wiped a tear out of his eye.
At this moment the door to the house opened and mom entered.
"Hi honey and sweety, why are you sitting there?"Mom
"I explained Clair why she can´t go now to a magic academy, what you forgot."Dad
"Oooh, sorry sweety I must have been stunned from your aptitude test."Mom
"No problem mom, I don´t dislike it that I am not able to enter, yet. And sorry for my question in the school, I did not considered your feelings when I asked."Me and as I said that I stood up and hugged her with enough might of strength for my should be 23.
"Forgiven and forgotten sweety, so which school do you want to attend in a few years?"Mom
"Well mom I do want to go when I am 13 but dad thinks I am not able to do it and it is Turon Academy."Me
She only gave me a wry smile and looked to Dad.
"Dear I met Mick and he said the bed is finished, could you get it?"Mom
"Yes I will do it at once!"Dad said and rushed out like a storm.
- he surely want to have fun time^^-
"So sweety shall we continue your magic lessons? You have to learn how to control your magic power if you are not able you, will put to much mana into your spells."Mom
"Mom I already can do it."Me
"Is that so, then show me outside, we don´t want to destroy the kitchen won´t we?" Mom said with a look that shows a motherly disbelieve.
So we walked out of the village to a green field.
"Now conjure a small wind gust sweety."Mom
I did as she want and conjured a small gust of wind in her direction and plop her jaw dropped.
"That is really astounding sweety it took me 2 weeks to learn how to put less mana in my spells."Mom
"I think it was kinda easy mom I only have to thought that I have to put only 5 mana in my spell and not 100."Me
"H..hundred? Sweety you are even able to determine a numeric value to your mana?"Mom
"Yes is that not normal?"Me
"It is not sweety that is even harder than to control your exact mana output."Mom
"Mom how much mana do you have in numbers?" I asked.
She showed a proud face and said."Behold your dear mother has 15.000 mana!"Mom
-Is that much for a human? I think I have to play along-
"What 15.000.... is that much?"I asked with utter disbelief in the first half and childish in the second half.
Mom nearly fell down as I asked.
"Yes, sweety that is much.... Most human mages has round about 7000 mana and the better ones more. I was only able to reach D rank as an adventurer because I have so much mana. How much do you have?"Mom
- what should I say "Mom I have more than 900 million"? surely not^^. Let´s say 3000.-
"3000 is that much for my age?"Me
"For a human yes but I don´t know if it is for an elf. But as I now know that you are able to control your mana, we can continue with your magic lessons."Mom
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And so she taught me many small things I could do with magic, like producing water or making a small fire , until.
"Ok I think you now know the basic things let´s continue with Tier 1 Spells."Mom
"There are different Tiers and if so what was this magic until now?"Me
"Until now it only was the beginning, every person is able to do them. And yes there are Tiers, I am able to cast magic up to the third Tier. There are 10 but they are not evenly hard. For example if you need 1 year to learn Tier 1 spells, you need more than 3 for Tier 2 Spells, 6 for Tier 3 ,12 for Tier 4, 24 for Tier 5 and so on. But not all need this much time, some more some lesser."Mom
"Oh then you must have learned magic for more than 10 years, impressive!"Me
Mom had a wry smile and said "Well yeah, I was not able to progress to the fourth Tier since 18 years."
Bing!
-What?-
Skill:
Empathy
The ability to read the emotions of your
opposite. I know you are poor at it,
but with this skill even you can
master this basic social skill LV 0
-Hey I am able... a little bit... ok I suck. Let´s max it.-
"But it remains impressive mom."I said and her wry smile changed into a genuine one.
"Either way let´s continue, I will show you a small fireball spell and you´ll try to mimic me. Ok?"Mom
I simply gave a nod. Mom stretched one of her arms out and said.
"Bei den Flammen von Ifrit, erhöre mich und gewähre mir Feuer [Feuer Ball]" in the moment she finished, a small fire ball came out of her hand and shoot into a near tree.
-Aaaannnddd it caught fire.. but what´s that, an incantation? And I can´t understand the language.-
"Ops, I did not think about a possible fire..."Mom
"Bei den Wässern von Sylpiette, erhöre mich und gib mir Wasser [Wasser Ball]" Mom
This time, a ball of water shot out of her hand and extinguished the fire.
"Sorry, but now you know that you have to be careful when you cast a spell. Tehe"Mom
-Tehe?-
"Yes mom but do I have to cast a spell? Isn´t it easier to just think about the things that your magic have to do?"Me
"Of course it would be easier but sadly it is not possible sweety."Mom
"Is that so but I think it is easier."Me
"Sure , sure you can .Then do it, if my almighty magical sweety can."said mom with a smile that said "This child things that this is easy, hah."
-Hoh this additional information have to come from the skill, that sure will be helpful.
So should I blast this tree away or should I do it like mother?-
I stretched an arm out in the direction of a tree and imagined a small fireball that ignites the tree.
And a fireball shot out of my hand and set the tree ablaze. I followed with a water ball that stopped the fire.
"See it is easier," I said with a mocking tone.
Mom stood there with her jaw down.
- If she is going to continue this continual jaw dropping, some flies will fly in.-
"How is that possible?!" she shouted
"Sweety what did you imagined as you shot the fire ball at the tree?"Mom
"Just a ball of fire that will ignite the tree."Me
She mumbled just a fire ball, just a fire ball...
"Sweety that is.... that is an astounding thing. You really are a magic genius. "Mom said while hugging me.
"Thanks, mom " I said while I hugged her back.
- She sure is soft and these mounds in front of my face.... no,no,no don´t get the false idea´s Clair she is your mom.-
"Can we continue mom?"Me
"Eh sure, but I don´t know if it will bring something. I am not able to cast without incantations and you don´t need them. It seems that your magic is only limited to your magic pool and imagination."
- so only my imagination... good that I played a lot of pen and paper.-
"So I have to learn alone?"Me
"Sadly yes but now you have more time to learn how to forge from your father. I know you are eager to learn it. "She said with a wide smile.
"Ok then let´s go back, I hope dad has brought my bed into the room."Me
"Should I interpret that as a dislike of sleeping with me ?" Mom said teasingly
"No, no it is only that I feel sad for dad who has to sleep in the forge."Me
"oh, that is nice of you sweety."Mom
-puh, safe thanks, persuasion skill. It looks like I will be a fairly good talker in this world.
Don´t assume that I could not talk in my old one it is just that the people often misunderstood me...-
We walked back home and dad came from the second floor as we stepped into the kitchen.
"Already back? Was there a problem with Clairs magic?"Dad
"No the opposite dear, Clair is even able to cast spells without incantations"Mom
"My that is impressive sweety. I´ve just put the bed and wardrobe in your room, go up and look ."Dad
"Thank´s daddy" I said while I rushed the stairs up after giving him a quick hug which left him flustered.
I pushed the door open and walked in my room.
The room was small but I had a small room in my old world, so it was good.
In there was a bed for a normal sized adult with a mattress of hey and animal hides as well as a blanket.
- I think they don´t have Synthetic fiber mattress here^^, well better than nothing and I can make it more comfortable with more hides. -
I sat down and it was surprisingly comfy.
-Ok let´s think what I have to learn in this coming year.
1. More ways of my magic. 2. how to forge from father. 3. More common knowledge.
4. More helpful skills like poison resistance, tailoring, leather tanning memorization and identification if possible and other skills.
5. How to fight. I think I´ll ask Kyle for that. And I have to learn how to kill, even if i think that this is not so hard. It´s not like I didn´t imagined myself killing some people as I was bullied in school...-
I finished my thoughts and went down, where mom and dad begun to cook.
"Dad can you show me how to forge a weapon tomorrow?"Me
"I will teach you how to, but not yet, first you have to learn the basics sweety."Dad responded while he took the pot off from the stove.
"Now let´s eat and tomorrow we will see."Dad
I ate and went straight to sleep .
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I did as some of you told me and let her stay. I realized that I were to fast. Thanks for that.