"Who the hell is marquis?" James thought to himself, of course jester said marquis was his father but what did he mean when he said king of the jungle? And who was he? What happened that made both his father and mother leave him in the middle of a forest? So many questions were spinning in his head everything and he had yet to get any answers nor was he able to ask questions at his age as he was not able to speak yet.

"Marquis's son? Our marquis? The only human crowned as the king of the forest?" Asked Elisha "Yes my dear, the marquis" replied jester "KOJ(king of the jungle) Marquis Handler, the protector of Siraj forest and feared by magical beasts and humans alike, this is his son, why else would I bring him with me?" "I had thought he had great potential which is why you brought him here, after all you did it countless times with other cubs

"What's to say you wouldn't do it with a human cub" "(giggle) I have my own cubs now why would I bring a human cub if he wasn't really really special, and him using my breathing technique is proof that he will be a genius.

"I know he will be as great as his father, he will protect the Siraj woods like his father did I know it, it's his Destiny to become the king of the jungle" as he ended his short speech he went to hunt for food as it was almost night and they had to feed 4 little cubs who were hungrier than a 7" tall bear.

It didn't take him a long time to hunt down a gigantic dear which to James's eyes were bigger than anything he had seen, it made him hungry as a lion ready to eat every single bite he would be given, he was a growing cub after all.

It had enough meat to feed all of their children and them granted for one night but some nights only the children were fed so it was a good find for now.

Finally Elisha summoned her fire magic and cooked the food perfectly in mere seconds making James drool at the site, and finally when the meat was put into his mouth it was so tender and juicy he could not but be engrossed in the flavor, even without seasoning it felt like he was having a 5 star meal, if for anything he needs to learn magic it'd be for cooking the food.

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For the past 3 days all James had done was use the breathing technique learned from jester and tried to use magic, he had failed so many times to even conjure a single drop of water he lost count at this point, yet everytime he tried some of his mana as he called it was depleted, yet no fruit bore on the tree he was so watering.

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If he could just find something to go off of how they made fire or water come out of thin air, just how it worked a little bit of direction and he knows he'll be on the right path.

"Damn it, why can't they just show your cubs how to use magic already, all this figuring out thing is not working out for them either." James thought to himself he was getting irritated that they were not getting to teaching the actual magic part, he was getting desperate to learn.

He wants more power, he wants to be free once he grows up, not impaired this time, he'll work harder than ever if necessary but he will not be destroyed by humans again.

But all he could hope for now that jester would push his children in the right direction so he would be pushed in the right direction as well, or he could hope to figure it out soon which was close to impossible.

For the last time he tried again, this time he thought of summoning water but instead of visualizing water coming from basically nowhere he instead visualized the water particles in the air condensing into water, he slowly watched as his visualization turned into reality as his mana was being consumed a few droplets of water fell on the ground.

Even though it was just a few droplets James would jump in joy if it weren't for his body, he had finally figured out how to use magic, it wasn't just water coming out of nowhere because of mana being exerted, it was the water around them being condensed into water similarly to how clouds formed just he would directly form water instead of clouds.

Finally he could control one of the elements, yet it had been by pure stroke of luck, he just went for a realistic approach to magic, and it worked out but he doesn't know the ins and outs just cause he figured out how to make water, magic could be way more complex or simple to all he knows.

Later that day jester had finally decided to to teach his cubs instead of letting them figure it out as it was painfully obvious they couldn't, "listen carefully cubs, since you can't figure out magic on your own I'll tell you some important things and explain somethings to you as magic is very broad and it would take me simply days to talk about magics basics.

"Magic at its core is dependent on nature, nature and magic are both related, without one the other can't exist as shown by the elements name, magic does not only physical change the natural elements but it can also chemically change them, for example you can turn iron into gold, but gold is heavier and denser than iron so you'd need more of iron to turn it into gold.

"That is the true nature of magic, it can do a lot of things you can't even imagine, like a sub element of air is lighting, those who control lighting are absolute destructive power houses, some of the strongest ever among both magical beasts, humans and even fairy tales were lighting wielders, but simply wielding lighting magic does not make you strong, you need to master it which takes possibly years even sometimes entire eras to be mastered by one.

"Now, use this information as you will and experiment with everything, leave nothing out while experimenting if you feel this and this could do that try it see what happens just make sure not to do too dangerous experiments, if you don't want to die that is." Jester ended his speech on magic at that, letting them ponder on the words that had just come out of his mouth, walking out of the cave.

But more than any of them the one most intrigued and the one most eager to learn was not the cubs but James, he deeply pondered on the words of jester, and soon thought of experiments he could do in order to find out the true nature of magic and possibly create spells of his own.

But before he could do anything his loving new stop mother came in with his food, he giggled in joy to show her appreciation, she intern smiled back at him and fed him enough that he thought his stomach would explode.

Meanwhile, the cubs watching their mother favoring the human cub over them, a little drop of poison was born in their heart, they had not grown old enough to speak yet but they muttered out a few words they knew so low voiced that probably even they couldn't hear "Anghy(angry) am at, hman (human) cub..."