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Chapter 01 - Birth

I felt like I was being squeezed and crushed, my mind got blurry, and I couldn't say what was happening anymore, I just know that I went through that state for what felt like a few hours.

But at some point, I felt that I was pulled through a hole where the overwhelming force was even more significant; when I felt someone grab and pull my head, I tried to open my eyes, but the only thing I managed to do was open a small gap, where everything was blurry and in black and white.

When I got out of that damn hell and started to breathe, I felt like they had thrown liquid fire into my lungs and, without a choice, began to cry.

"It's a boy," I heard an older female voice speak.

"And loudly, let me see," said a male voice.

"It looks like he inherited his white hair."

"If he's noisy, he must have pulled you out, now let me see my son." A younger female voice spoke, she was tired, but still full of affection.

I felt icy cold in my body, and I was wrapped in a blanket when they placed me in the lap of what was probably my mother, my mind started to slip.

It was so warm and comfortable, and so much has happened to me lately that I couldn't stay awake for long.

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The following weeks were a mixture of sleeping for several periods and evacuating with or without my consent.

Probably the only times I felt so ashamed and helpless in that way, it was at a school performance that I partnered with a girl I liked, and I ended up screwing it up because of my anxiety.

I was never able to speak to her like an average person again.

And the boredom was wearing me out little by little, I tried to think about my situation, create plans for the future, think about the possible differences that can be from fiction to reality, but it seemed that I had attention deficit. I couldn't think of anything for a long time.

At times when my mind was more precise, I thought this could be due to the constant neurological development that babies experience in their first months.

Other than that, I discovered some essential things, like my name and that of my new family, now I was called Hugo Falkor, my mother was called Ariella and my father Coen, or dear, I still wasn't sure.

My parents seemed to have a very passionate relationship, they were both beautiful, and if they continue like that, I would not be surprised if a new brother or siblings show up in the next few years.

The oldest woman was my grandmother, whose name was Enid, she was a chief healer in St. Mungus Hospital; she was the one who helped my mother give birth.

There were also the beams of light that always appeared when one of them came to clean up my mess or tidy up the room; I think my wizard vision was responsible for that.

I also felt a small presence whenever the time came for a cleaning, I couldn't see what it was, but I could feel it, and I knew it was there, probably he was a house-elf.

What was incredibly curious, I couldn't see anything real or colored, because I'm still a baby of a few weeks. Still, the beams of light were colorful, mostly blue, and brown, and always made little ripples as soon as they interacted with the environment.

I wasn't sure, but I think what I was seeing was strange energy interacting and changing the reality around me, it was amazing to watch.

As I already said, my mind was also a little messy, I don't know if it was a baby thing or some things related to my race and advantages, but I found it incredibly challenging to think in a complicated way or for long periods of time.

I tried to think about the system, but I couldn't access it.

Raises several questions that I honestly cannot answer.

I just know that I want this to end soon; time just doesn't go by.

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Six months have passed from what was probably one of the worst moments of my life, and now I have an idea of why we all forget our first moments.

But things are improving, and there is also good news; finally, my vision has developed enough, and now I can see very well.

I was also able to reaccess the system, but it is not exactly what I expected it to be.

Although I already expect something like this, the power system of this world is more centered on knowledge than anything else.

Of course, you can do rituals to improve yourself, but it takes a lot of magical knowledge to do these things, well at least that's what my previous experience tells me.

I have my perks, and my race means that I already started with a significant advantage.

But I'll leave that for later, the simple things first.

Stolen story; please report.

My body has finally become strong enough that I can crawl, and I don't have to stay in that damn cradle all the time, and my mom also started taking me on walks through our property.

Before, when she came to breastfeed me, we stayed in my room and the adjacent rooms.

And I have to say that my new home is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, the mansion is in an open field with a stream that cuts the property in half, to woodland on the other side that is connected to a forest denser.

My mom takes us there whenever she has free time.

The property also has a vast greenhouse, where I heard from my mother that my grandmother keeps her magic plants, which I heard was a gift from my grandfather who has passed away, but I still don't know what happened.

My mom likes to talk to me while she takes me on these walks, so far she has told me several stories about how she and my father met and how they ended up falling in love.

And I have to say that they make a beautiful couple.

I have to say that these moments with her are becoming my favorites so far; my father usually leaves the house at daybreak and comes home whenever it is getting dark, and my grandmother sometimes spends the night in the hospital and only arrives when she is dawn.

Even though no one said anything close to me, I felt a tension inside the house, and I think I know exactly what it can be.

Most of the time, I spend my days with my mother, and when she is busy at work, she put me in a crib in her office to keep an eye on me.

Whenever I start to get bored, I stand up, holding the bars of my prison and start making noises, and she always ends up putting me in her lap so I can see what she is doing.

And of course, I reward her with one of my dazzling smiles, which makes her end up crushing me with love and affection and then goes back to work.

Seriously, adults are very easy to manipulate.

I don't know exactly what it works with, but it involves a lot of numbers, it's probably Arithmancy.

This was quite different from any form of mathematics in which I had prior knowledge because it involved not only numbers but also some complicated ways that I was unaware of.

Sometimes she also sculpted or painted with brilliant paint on strange words surfaces that looked like Nordic runes from my old world and other figures I didn't recognize.

From the beginning, I noticed that whenever it ended, the figures seemed to be filled with small amounts of magic that later spread on the object or surface on which they were.

It was almost like looking at a nervous system, with its tangle of pulsating veins.

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Today was another one of those quiet days when night came, and I was put in my room to sleep, I went back to the system again to see if I can discover something that I have not managed in the last dozens of times.

I just thought about status, and he showed up.

Name: Hugo Coen Falkor Age: Six months Species Human Race: Vanir Sex: Male

Perks: Mage Vision (15/100) Natural Deodorant Aoede Voice Eidetic memory Mathematical Prodigy

Subjects discovered/learned: Wandlore Academics, now 5/100 Arithmancy Academics, now 2/100 Ancient Runes Academics, now 1/100 Enchantment Academics, now 0/100

Projects: None at the moment

Blocked, City management, and construction.

Blocked, Kingdom Management and Construction

I'm still not sure why the only perk with a progress bar is mage vision, but I guess that it is a skill related to my race and therefore has a more significant growth potential than the others.

Other exciting things are the materials discovered, and it seems that seeing my mother at work has unlocked these classes. She appears to be a kind of Enchanting. It Will be beneficial when I'm older, and not having to act like a baby.

The primary considerations will have to be directed to the nature of the system, which seems more focused on creating and managing a kingdom than my skills.

There is no guide for buying skills or knowledge, but I feel that when I unlock these two options, I will have access to something like that.

So far, it is another diary in which I can see my progress. Not that I'm disappointed, just seeing how much I lack to master a subject will be very useful when I'm studying.

Just thinking about it all starts to make me sleepy again, me, and this stupid baby physiology that never lets me think.

Anyway, I'm going to take a nap.