“Ughh… I still can’t control it”

Inside the cave with a lake of condensed mana Cedric is scratching his head in frustration next to the lake. This is a fairly common scene that the spirits see everyday after his parents death. It’s been a week since his parents died and he’s gotten over his sadness. But that sadness was replaced with anger and a drive to get revenge.

“I need to get stronger and get my revenge on that beast”

Cedric once again went into meditation and tried to be one with the mana in the atmosphere.

Although people can take in mana from the atmosphere and use it to fill their soul the problem is they need to meditate and store it. And if that reservoir inside their bodies are emptied they need to meditate and refill it.

Normally people would constantly exhaust their mana pools to slowly increase their capacity but for Cedric with Letonia he couldn’t train the same way. But when he was thrown by the spirits into the pool he found out that he was not only gifted with mana or aura when he was born. It did not mean that he can’t have man in his body.

Though whenever he has mana in his body it easily escapes his body and dissipates into the atmosphere. At first he simply wanted to be able to control mana and use that which is present in the atmosphere. But after meditating for a few days he found out that the mana used by the spirits did not belong to them.

Cedric was able to sense mana perfectly with his training in a few days. This is a sign of his engenius which he will not realize till later. But in sensing mana he was able to perceive how the spirits used it. The spirits didn’t actually have bodies created by mana instead they are mana itself. Though unlike the free flowing mana spirits have their own thoughts and conscience, in essence they are beings that are one with the mana in the world.

With that concept in thought Cedric continously meditates for hours on end trying to copy the spirits.

Seeing as Cedric had returned to meditating on of the spirits floated out of the cave. It was a the fire spirit that helps Cedric make the iron dolls. The spirits would do this everyday, Cedric is still a child and there is a wild beast running loose so the spirits are left to get food for Cedric.

There are about 20 spirits that are Cedric’s friends, they would take turn on gathering fruits and berries from the forest. Today was the fire spirits turn and it immediately went out.

The fire spirit soon arrived at an apple tree that he gets the food from. He then looks at the berries that grow around it and started collecting. Spirits have no physical form so they use mana to pick and carry things. If a spirit seer or a mage saw this scene unfolding they would be filled with surprise.

Spirits are rare existences that only a few people would be able to encounter. This people are called spirit seers and they are people who borrow the spirits magic. But spirits seers don’t befriend spirits they actually use spells and seals to turn these spirits into their own personal slaves.

“Graaa!”

The roar of a beast resounded through the forest shocking the fire spirit making it drop some of the apples it picked. It looked at the source and saw a huge pillar of fire sprout from the direction of the roar. The spirits immediately picked up the fallen fruits and sped to the cave.

[drop drop drop]

The fruits were all dropped in front of Cedric as the fire spirit went to the other spirits. The fire spirit floated up and down in front of the other spirits. The other spirits which seem to have understood something began moving. Two earth spirits began covering up the hole with soil, then two nature spirits passed through the wall of earth and covered the cave entrance with thorny bushes. A metal spirit made a lump of iron protruded out of the ground and the fire spirit melted it sealing the closed entrance.

After that the two nature spirits entered the cave by passing through the walls the two earth spirits then made small holes on the ground for ventilation. Then five wind spirits went into the lake and created a small magic crystal. It was a light yellow and they embedded it in the ceiling. The crystal would creat oxygen from the carbon in the air to help with ventilation.

“What’s wrong?”

Cedric who should be meditating opened his eyes, he heard a few rumbling sounds and let them pass but then he felt the strange fluctuations of mana and opened his eyes to see what’s happening. He saw the spirits doing some strange things which surprised him. He didn’t just stared at them after seeing their actions instead closed his eyes and felt the fluctuation in mana.

He found out a lot about how the spirits operate the mana in the atmosphere and how it responds to them. This information added to his idea on becoming one with the world. But once Cedric opened his eyes to thank the spirits he found out that they had blocked the entrance.

Cedric isn’t a dense child and already thought about the reason but he wanted them to confirm it.

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“Ohh so that’s it”

Clenching his fist Cedric was filled with frustration and anger.

“So I still can’t do anything but hide huh”

Cedric was shown what the fire spirit saw through a mana channel that was directly linked to him from the the spirit. This is how the spirits would usually communicate with him since he was able to sense mana. And what he saw was the huge pillar of fire that sprouted out from a distance in the forest after the roar was heard.

With this kind of enemy ahead of him Cedric didn’t lose hope but instead was filled with more motivation. He had already set vengeance as his goal and if his target is strong all he has to do is be stronger. What made him sure he could get stronger is the fact he has supporters all around him.

Well the spirits wanted to take revenge for him but Cedric wanted to do it himself. He couldn’t leave his parents revenge to his friends.

Also in Cedric’s mind he blames himself for his parents death. If he was just like all the other kids his parent’s wouldn’t have been looking for him in the woods. And if he was more powerful he could’ve done something when he heard about the beast roaming the jungle.

“I will soon get power and when that time comes I will personally take that beast’ head”

As young as Cedric is his mind is already consumed in darkness. But when he was in this state the spirits gathered around him and sent their feelings towards Cedric. The feelings of the spirits were  immediately transmitted to the boy and he shook his head and changed the dark expression on his face.

“Sorry… I almost got done in by my emotions there”

Cedric snapped out of his confused state and smiled again.

[That’s right I will take mother and father’s revenge but I will not lose my way!]

With that the boy resumed his training while he kept in his mind to never lose his kindness. After all he knows that his parents would want it that way. His parents never despised the village and it’s people no matter how they treated their son. But when things get out of hand they speak up.

A few days later Cedric was finally able to be one with the mana in the atmosphere. It took him a while to do it but he finally did. To Cedric this was only the beginning as he would slowly become stronger and fight the beast that killed his parents and exact his revenge. But if any other person saw Cedric right now they would not believe their eyes.

There are only a few races in the world that can be one with nature and none of those races would include humans.

The world is filled with many different races and only two are able to be in a state similar to spirits but even then these two races could not stay in this state for long. One of these races are the dragons that inhabit the northern continent’s, the dragon race rarely mingle with the other races. But when they do it is either due to an interest in mates or treasure mostly the latter.

The other race on the other hand are the elves, they inhabit the same continent as the humans and have been living together peacefully. But although they live in peace and harmony there is still racial criticism. Humans are feared due to numbers but these numbers are useless against the elves. Elves have the so called saint state where they become one with nature and have an almost infinite pool of mana. Partnered with their incredibly high magic capabilities and understanding in of the worlds mana flow they are sometimes called demi-gods.

Due to this the elves always saw humans as lower and not a single elf slave would could be seen in the whole world.

Cedric didn’t know but right now the simple fact that he became one with the mana in the atmosphere already makes him an existence that will be forever written down in the world's history books.

The boy danced around in the air as he occasionally created fireballs in and shot them. Cedric is delighted on what he could do but soon he realized that his body was transparent and he can’t touch anything. He tried going through the walls and he was able to then he realized that he could try fighting the beast like that.

“Alright time to go”

With shining eyes Cedric floated through the walls but just as he did he heard a voice call out to him.

“Wait!”

Shocked he turned around only to see the figure of a young girl wearing a green dress. She had short green hair and emerald green eyes. Her lips were a light green while her skin was white and smooth as jade.

Although it’s the first time Cedric saw the girl he felt a familiar aura coming from her. He unintentionally called out to her.

“Nature spirit?”

Hearing his words the young girl was delighted and jumped onto him hugging him. If this scene was viewed with the eyes of a regular human they would only see a transparent boy floating in mid air. On the other hand a mage or a spirit seer would only see a transparent boy and a ball of green light intertwined in mid air.

“Wait if you’re the nature spirit then the others are”

“Yup we all look like this!”

Another voice echoed and he looked behind the nature spirit and saw three other girl looking the same age as the nature spirit.

“Finally we could talk!”

“Yeah I was thinking when we would be able to talk to each other!”

“I told you guys he was competent enough”

The three girls were all talking about him making Cedric feel embarrassed. He didn’t think anything was weird after all him being like a ghost is weird enough so seeing this from of the spirits is not something to be surprised about. But what made him flustered was that he took all his clothes to the cave and changed there without minding the spirits. Sometime he would even meditate naked and when he thought about that his face became even more red.

“Hey Cedric what’s wrong?”

Those words snapped Cedric and he was waving his arms saying “Nothing nothing's wrong!”. But the spirits understood Cedric well, and immediately thought what might be the cause and they realized that if he could converse with them then he could see their true forms.

“Oh that’s it! Don’t worry you’re still a child so there is nothing to worry about us seeing it”

Hearing those words Cedric realized that although these spirits had the form of young girls in essence they are still spirits that lived for hundred maybe thousand of years. Even if they see his jewels they wouldn’t mind as they probably already saw many in their lifetime. But just as he was calming down one of the spirits spoke.

“Yeah after all we are the same age so you don’t need to worry”

Then those words made him more shocked. He knew that a relationship between a human and a spirit is not normal but it’s not in any way impossible.

Though Cedric is still young he already knows about the relationship between a man and a woman. This is because he would regularly hear his parents nighttime activities from his room. It could be said that having heightened senses was a curse in disguise. Though what he heard Cedric was able to understand how human relationships work. So he knew that being seen by the opposite sex was not only embarrassing it was also indecent.

But when he saw the spirits that all looked so pure and innocent he couldn’t be the act like that so he tried to pretend being pure. But just as he did the fire spirit said.

“You don’t need to act unlike you we could watch what happens between a man and a woman”

“So you also know”

“Yes”

“Well then I guess I have nothing to worry about”

“Your right, you have nothing to worry about as we will take responsibility for peeping on you!”

The last statement was said by all the spirits at the same time. And those very words shocked Cedric so much that he returned to his original human form and fainted.