Chapter 3

Elemental affinity

After saying goodbye to Ai and Qing i arrived home. One of the maids was waiting outside with a lamp in her hands.

Our house is situated near the west border of the clan, very close to the forest. There are no other houses nearby therefore the road gets very dark at night. The maid was probably waiting for me there.

" Greetings young master" She said with a slith bow.

" Hello .. errr ... Elia?" i said, trying my best to remember her name.

" Yes young master. We should go inside, your parents were waiting for your arrival. " The maid said with a soft smile.

" Let's go"

We walked through the big front garden, the only light came from Elia's lamp. When we made it to the front door of the manor the head butler was at the door.

" Welcome home young master. your parents are in the living room." He said with an expresionless face.

"Thank you. "

When i enter the living room i saw mother sitting on one of the sofas and father was in front of ther, they were talking about something.

The moment i entered they both turned around.

" Father...." i said in a very low voice.

He was just like i remember him. Tall , strong build. He has dark blonde hair and a short bear neatly cut. He was wearing a traditional green robe with black inscriptions, perfectly clean and not even a wrinkle. That was the standar uniform for the protectors of the clan, and he used to wear it even at home. His brown eyes were looking at me with intensity.

" So, how did your little expedition to the forest go?"

" Very well father, we found many herbs . Including a yang lotus." I avoided talking about the red bear. It would lead to many questions if they find out three initiates killed a red bear without suffering a single scrach. Of course i also told to Ai and Qing to not mention it.

"A yang lotus? " i finally saw a change in his expresion"That is truly a lucky find. Did you give it to your uncle? he can probably make you a low grade mana infusion potion for you and your friends."

" Yes, i gave it to cousin Ai for that purpose."

" Excelent, but is best if you dont talk too much about the yang lotus to others, it might avoid some unnecesary trouble. "

" I agree, we will keep it to ourseves"

" How is your training going? it's been two weeks since i taught you our family meditation technique."

" No problems. I have manage to circualte a little bit of mana in my veins already."

Father gave a nod in approval and said:

" Keep training hard. In one month you will start to attend the Tang academy with the other youngs of the clan.- Father said, going back to his stern face."

" I will not disappoint you."

" You will never disappoint us son" Mother said, with kind eyes.

" Dinner is served "announced the butler.

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After dinner i went to my room and sat on my desk. I took a piece of paper and a quill and started drawing symbols in the paper.

In this world there are three professions considered the most important for both all cultivators no matter if they are magus or guardians.

Alchemy, smiting and inscription.

Each profession has six ranks : apprentice, senior, master, grand master, emperor and saint.

There is supposed to be a seventh rank, but those who have reached that rank are all legendary figures who lived over a hundred thousand years ago, like the alchemy God Salladar. The records from that time are minimal. So no one knows for sure if those people actually existed or not.

Leaving legends aside, in my previous life i learned a bit about alchemy and smithing, but, incription is where i dedicated most of my effords. After studing inscription for over five hundred years i became the youngest inscription saint in the entire Grand Middle continent.

The inscription i am working right now i called elemental affinity inscription. As the name said it is used to detect and calculate in a very accurate how much affinity a person has to each element.

In the continent of Wuran, and specially in the kingdom of Lao where i live righ now, knowledge about cultivation is far behind compared to the Grand Middle continent.

They dont even know what elemental affinity is. The way they judge the talent of the youth is by using a very basic inscription array to detect the speed of mana absorption a person have.

Since this is something you are born with, they use this piece of information to decide how talented a person is. But this is inaccurate.

I doesnt matter how fast you can absorb mana of all elements at the same time, but how much mana of your best element you can aborb.

Everyone is born with diferent affinities

but there is usually one above the rest, and that is the one you want to focus on. When you cast spells of your affinity they will be much more powerfull than the other elements. And late on having your mana core mixed with all elements with no rime or reason can make breaking throuth the next level very dificult, or even imposible.

Is no wonder that the most powerful cultivator of the clan is just an early rank 2 magus.

I just finished the inscription. Let's test it.

My affinities are : fire-1- earth -3- wind -5- water -10-

Rare variant : Ice element.

They are the same as before. If i had know this from the begining in my previous life it would have make things much diferent.

Affinities go from 1 to 10. My water affinity is perfect , and on top of that i have a rare variant of the water element. The ice element.

All the element have rare variants, for example if you have a very high and similar affinity with fire and earth, is posible to have the magma affinity, or if your fire affinity is extremly high you can have the blue fire variant affinity.

The ice element is very powerfull , but is hard to find ice spells to learn. And is even harder to find a good ice cultivation technique.

The cultivation technique my family has been passing down for generation and father gave me recently is useless.

"Sorry father."

It doesnt focus in any element and just tries to quickly acumulate and rotate mana inside the core.

Previously i did cultivate this technique, since i did not have anything else.

It took me two hundred years and a lot of luck to find an ancient ice technique in some abandoned ruins while i was exploring the Sheol continent. It is called Heavenly crystal dragon meditation.

The crystal dragon is the highest rank of water element dragons. Once a blue dragon breaks through the saint rank to the realm of the gods, then it becomes a crystal dragon. An invincible being. I dont know the origins of this technique but whoever made it had great expectations giving it that name.

The technique is incredible but unfortunately the last time i had some problems.

The first was that after cultivating my family technique for almos two hundred years my mana core was already filled with fire, earth and wind mana particles and many impurities.

The later is not a huge problem since impurities can be cleaned, but there is nothing to do about the former.

Once create your core and absorb the elemental mana using your cultivation technique ,is imposible to take it out unless you are crippled.

The other problem was finding a good bloodline sample. One of the best things about the Heavenly crystal dragon technique is that allows the user to incorporate the bloodline of a divine beast to help you. The most powerfull the divine beast, the better.

Of course the best bloodline for me is the crystal dragon bloodline. But here are very few dragons and they are the most powerfull divine beast, so finding one and killing it for its bloodline is.... almost imposible.

The best i could find in the past was an ice emperor salamander. A ver powerfull divine beast, but very far from a dragon. Too far...

That always hunted me and in the end i could not pass the early saint stage no matter how much i tried.

Now i get to practice my cultivation technique from the beggining. As for the bloodline....I have a good idea, hehe.

"Ok. time to start cultivating. "

I said with a wide smile on my face.