The next morning I woke up refreshed, the bed may be hard but to me it’s pretty soft. Well for many nights I was forced to sleep outside or on the floor by my brother sisters or even my parents. I don’t hold hate or anything.

Though I do feel pity towards them, since they like all the others see the world in tunnelled vision. Well it’s not like I’m one to talk, even if I hate them the fact still remains that I can’t do anything with the fact that I have no familiar. Though that is until I got this mirror.

This normal looking hand mirror that I found stored in in the basement is one of the things that I requested to have from my father. Though he wouldn’t give me anything that has great value I guess in his eyes this mirror is nothing but trash.

Aside from the fact that mirrors are very expensive this old small mirror to the family is worth not a cent. But that is because they don’t see it’s true value. I did some research and found that this tiny old mirror is actually a gift to our family’s ancestor by the king at his time.

Though it looks normal the mirror actually holds the name “Glass of truth”, the mirror was enchanted by a powerful archmage. And the enchant it has gave it the ability to look through the truth hidden behind illusions. It will undoubtedly reflect the seals and other hidden truths of the person reflected by the mirror.

Of course the my family since the past all looked at it but since they had neither illusions surrounding them or seals placed on their bodies this mirror was seen as trash by them. Well unlike them I, have lots of secrets on my body the naked eye can’t discern.

First when I looked into the mirror I saw on my face were silver patterns forming an intricate system of lines and shapes. But I think the thing that took my interest was the two marks on both of my eyes.

My left eye had a pure white insignia and on my left was another similar but different pure black pattern. They had similarities but they also had subtle differences. I took the chance to copy both marks and look for similar insignia’s. But the closest thing that I found was a mark of a familiar from my ancestors.

That ancestor of mine had a dragon as a familiar and he had a similar mark on his left hand. Well the difference was obvious since the mark on my eyes had a more varied array of symbols and a more beautifully designed pattern. Also the mark on my ancestors left hand was a dirty white in contrast to my pure white and black marks.

Of course I came only to one conclusion, that is that I had a familiar from the beginning but for some reason it was sealed away. Though I was elated I was also scared, I had two mark and both were on my eyes. A person with two marks has two familiars and people with two familiars are destined for great things. Of course the kingdom or all those other world powers would surely do their utmost to get me.

Well since I didn’t want to be an inconvenience to my family and to escape the troublesome job of being a hero or something I just kept it hidden all this time. Though the two marks were just the beginning.

I got curious of the silver lines like tattoos that were reflected by the mirror so I traced them and what I saw shocked me. When I followed the lines on my left arm were seven marks, they were surrounded by the silver lines like encasing them and the marks were all golden colored. I then looked at my left arm and there were again seven marks with golden color and still encased in the silver line.

Following the line on my chest is a giant red circle the size of a plat, the circle was gigantic but the symbols and designs were as big as those in the smaller marks. The circle I think should still be a familiar's mark but I can’t find any historically similar mark even the great heroes had no such mark.

Then going down to my legs there were still marks but they were far less complicated. They were simple marks wrapped in the silver lines. There were five marks in total they were colored green, blue, brown, colorless and red. Though the colorless is hard to explain I came to this conclusion since the mark had a distinct mark it was like it was traced on my skin. Though my skin is not that brown in fact I could be called pale but the mark had a distinct essence of being colorless. I compared it to the dirty and pure white but it perfectly matches the color of my skin. Though I say it’s colorless but I have a feeling looking at it’s reflection that it’s there but at the same time not. Well let’s leave that aside for now.

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The most important thing is that I found out is that the silver lines are responsible for sealing these marks. I did more research and found that this lines also appeared on another human. Though it is only seen as legend since the story came from thousands of years ago. But I was still surprised at the amount of books that our library had though nobody uses it, I was still glad that I was born into a family with a long history.

Well back to the lines, it seems that those lines the person who got the lines seem to have been born as a god. His race was human but he had the power of god in his body technically the power of divinity. Well that person didn’t have any marks but his body was covered in this silver lines.

The lines sealed his divine powers until he tempered his body enough so that it could already contain the divine power without needing to mind of dying due to the power of gods. In the end that person was able to create many miracles and do many heroic acts but then no matter how powerful on is or how close to a god he is no one can survive the test of time.

Well in any case the circumstances of the past legend were vastly different first the silver lines on his body were not hidden. They were visible to the naked eye while mine hid everything. Not to mention the fact that I had familiar marks all over my body he on the other hand had divine power inside his.

Putting this into perspective it could be seen that the silver lines were simple seals while the reason for both of our seals are vastly different.

Though I want to believe that I can summon familiars or even one familiar, well that is a problem for the future. In any case these marks are not simply familiar marks.

First of all the marks on my eyes, I did the very same training needed for familiars and contracting and when I did so I was able to feel the deep power in these marks. The eyes especially, when mana is converged and put into the marks on my eyes my vision greatly improves. Not only that with more mana I was able to make it so that I could see the mana in living beings and their forms. I trained and in a few years, I don’t know if they evolved or what ever but my vision improved greatly even without inputting mana and now when I put mana in the marks even with just a small amount I am able to already see the mana bodies, veins and the mana field of the world.

Then the mark on my chest, it is amazing the mark greatly increased my magic capacity when I tried connecting with it. Well after a few years I was able to connect with about 10% of it and due to that my magic capacity increased much so that I am able t freely use magic for regular living.

Now the 14 marks on both of my hands, they did not make me stronger physically but they did increase the mana absorption of my body. With this I can even start studying high leveled spells.

Lastly the five marks on my lower body, having different colors they each made my affinity for each of their respective elements increase. The elements are as follows.

Green = Wind

Brown = Wood

Blue    = Water

Red     = Fire

Colorless  = Space

The first four were pretty normal considering the benefits of all the other marks but the last one. Space, although I had a hard time confirming this fact it showed true when I tried to summon my pen. When I did the mark lit up and due to that I was able to summon my pen from my table in my room.

Well thinking about it I don’t think that I will have a need for familiars. After all the reason why familiars are useful is due to them compensating for what their partners lack. Well most of the time the familiars are depended upon greatly by their human counterparts but that is because humans are lazy. It is in my eyes since I saw the training that my parents and siblings were doing.

My siblings were simply training on how to fight while making sure to properly lead their familiars. This is because the familiar will never die unless the master dies. Though most of the time familiars are treated as partners, when nobles are put into the perspective it could be seen that familiars are nothing but undying slaves to them.

Of course this practice came from the fact that familiars with power and can become war potential are turned into soldiers and these people are part of the army. And Familiars that can use magic and such are already enlisted in the elite.

That’s why in this world the wars are technically where people are fighting on who could properly control their slaves to kill the men behind the fighting. Well that’s why familiars get stronger while the nobles train in “leadership” and escape tactics.

Though in this world there are still people who despite the trends still practice magic, excluding me there is a number of people practicing magic and/or swordsmanship and become adepts sometimes experts. And they don’t fight behind but with their familiars at these times.

But the people doing this normally are people whose familiars are not suited for war or can’t use magic. In this case the problem still falls into the dependency on humans on their familiars.

I can’t blame anyone since that is what the world is in but I may be able to change it. Though that is troublesome and requires a lot of hard work. Taking the task of changing views is already hard even for my own family then what about the kingdom? The world? A pipe dream is what that would be called.

“[sigh] Guess I’ll just live my life to the fullest”

It may sound stupid and a waste not only for me but also the world but I’m not a saint who wants to change the world. Nor am I a hard worker who wouldn’t mind my own health as long as I get a job done. As long as I live I only want to savor every day of my life and live to the fullest. Well most of the time people like me die easily but I do still have the benefits from those marks so my survivability would at least be greater than my siblings. I mean in my perspective, having power to yourself is better than relying on the power of another being even if it would die for you.