A week had passed since my rebirth. Life was pretty boring and embarrassing for me but I managed to pass my time by looking at mother and father.

I would have thought that I was dreaming if I had not spent my entire life looking for something that might not even have existed!

Feeding was still fine as it seems that instead of breastfeeding, people here fed some weird blue berries to babies that melted the moment they touched my tongue. I tried to use appraisal on it but it just showed the prompt that this thing contains mana and to use appraisal on it I had to wait for my mana core to mature, which I have no idea when will happen.

The real problem was answering nature's call.

In my past life I had lived for a ripe age of 74! All the travelling I did made me very fit! It was only during the last month of my life did I become unable to walk without support but even then going to the toilet was no problem.

But now? All I could do was try to hide my face in embarrassment when mom changed my diapers. And dad!? He was even more ridiculous than before.

He would take me from mom's lap and he will play frickin catch with me by throwing me and catching me!.

I tried to learn whatever they were speaking but it remained outside of my comprehension. The only thing I knew was that mom was pronounced 'mut' here and dad 'tat'.

The house we lived in was a medieval wooden building with a stone fireplace. There didn't seem to be any technological advancements like electricity or engines a fact about which I was glad.

Lamps were being used as light sources while the fireplace was used to keep everyone warm and cozy. The house had 4 rooms and a basement. I had not been taken outside yet but I saw trees from the window, lots and lots of trees.

It was so different from earth where my eyes could not find any trees near my hometown.

The basement was used as the bedroom. One of the rooms was used as the kitchen and another for sitting leisurely before the fireplace.

Currently I was in mom's lap near the open window to let some air in. It has been approx 10 to 15 minutes since she dozed off and I was about to begin my daily meditation session.

Why?

Because in all the novels I wrote or ever read most of the ones which had mana had meditation to sense the said mana and for the past 6 days I had been trying to sense it using different methods.

First I tried to just meditate and try to see something but it didn't work.

Then I tried to focus on my breathing and then hearing and then sense of touch but nothing worked. Maybe these things only work by sitting upright in the meditation pose but me being a baby can do nothing about that.

On the 5th day I tried to sense something like mana flowing inside me but that didn't work either and yesterday I tried to feel the mana core the system mentioned when I tried to appraise the berry but alas that didn't work either.

Today I was going to try the sole idea left in my mind, trying to sense my soul (which very clearly exist as I was just reincarnated) .

After confirming that mom was indeed sleeping I closed my eyes and concentrated towards my head. All while trying to ignore my breathing and other senses.

I hate to say this but as a teen after I found that magic was real I tried every frickin meditation method I found in novels and the internet which made me quite good at concentrating.

After closing my eyes I tried to just see/ feel something and after a good while I saw a small white glowing orb and just as I was about to be able to see it clearly.

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"DING!" A notification like sound ran throughout my head .

"ehuh" I cursed the system and opened whatever the system gave me the notification for.

SYSTEM WARNING

The player is trying to excess his soul space before the mana core is mature. System warns the player against it as it might cause the player to die from mana deficiency.

And I take my curses back.

"Haaaaah" I took a deep breath and calmed myself. I really need to stop my experiments until Ignia comes to visit.

Atleast I now know what to do after my mana core matures.

With that settled I closed my eyes once more. This time to sleep.

Soon another week passed .

I spent the last week just chilling and trying to learn the language here.

The sole thing I learned this week is that my dad's a farmer. I really don't want to wait any longer to even enter the soul space but I don't know when my mana core would mature.

"gjakshdkhakd" dad said something to mom while she was cooking

"kuhlaknrdknanyu" she answered without looking back

This conservation went back and I stopped trying to understand whatever they were talking about.

After about 2 minutes mum looked at me and nodded her head. She stopped cooking and after changing into nicer looking clothes she just left with dad leaving me alone?

After a minute or two of me just laying on the kitchen counter awkwardly a familiar looking man entered through the front door.

Finally! Ignia finally arrived here

"uhehuheuhe" I asked before remembering I can't speak

"yeah, I can't speak babish language. Don't worry, let me mature your core first and then we can talk" saying this he put his hand on my chest and for the first time I felt like something was leaving his hand and entering my heart.

It felt so warm, so magical.

And just as soon he had put his hand on my chest he removed it.

I looked at him in puzzlement. Was it over so soon?

"yes it's over. Now try to enter your soul space again"

How did he kno... never mind, he is the subordinate of a real god so of course he knows about the things I did.

I closed my eyes and tried to feel something and once again I saw a white orb floating in black space. I tried to make it come closer and after what felt like my consciousness being sucked out I blackened out.

When I regained consciousness I was in a grassland with no light but somehow I could still see.

I tried to look at myself and saw that I was a floating white colored orb. In front of me was Ignia. Still looking like he normally does.

"Got anything to say?"

"Quite a lot actually" my old voice resounded. Atleast I can talk here.

"go ahead then"

"First of all, do my parents just look like my parents or are they really my parents from my previous life?"

"The souls of your past parents were transferred to this world and you are the child of the people the said souls were born as" The doubt that had started to creep in for the past 2 weeks vanished with this sentence.

"How much time do we have exactly?"

"Time flows really slowly comparing to the outside world in the soul space so you can spend more than a day here while only 1 hour would have passed in the outside world. So we got plenty of time."

So I can ask plenty of questions from him.

"why did the sun god reincarnate me here? Also are there other gods?"

"I can't answer the first question and yes there are many other gods."

"why can't you answer?"

"Because the other gods wouldn't like you knowing too much so soon. Also, you can't ask super vague questions like what is magic? and how does magic works? That's something out of the scope of mortal understanding. "

"what i-"

"Wait." After stopping me from talking in the middle of my sentence he froze in the same posture.

He was frozen for barely 3 seconds and as I was about to do something he suddenly started moving again.

"I have been ordered to only answer any 3 questions in the format of yes and no questions"

"By whom?" I asked almost immediately. Maybe it's the sun god? But why would he do this? There's no motto for him to do so.

"Sorry but I can't answer any questions other than yes and no types"

What the heck man! I have struggled so much for a glimpse of magic and when I got the chance to get all my questions answered he can't even answer any meaningful questions?

"Just tell me whether I can really do magic"

"Yes"

Ok so that wouldn't be a problem

"Are there other reincarnated people in this world?"

"Yes"

Last question. What should my last question be... how I wish I could be as powerful and all knowing as the sun god... wait a minute.

"Can I become a god?"

I asked the question before I could think of anything else. The smile on his face froze...

And he laughed out loud.

"Pfffff! You want to become a god! Hahahaha no no no. No mortal can ever become a god. Not with the help of system, which is itself the creation of gods, nor with the ancient system of mages. Once a mortal, forever a mortal"

He looked at me with his laughing face and said

"The really important information that is within the scope of mortals should be provided to you by your parents before they send you off to school. Now that we have your queries answered let's make you my chosen and give you a spell"