The way magic was operated effectively demanded nothing but a person’s thought. Since she herself was no exception to even one-year olds having the ability to make mana move, the things that could be done had spread through the internet at super speed.

As she did take to heart her mother’s words, she could not help but feel caution towards the residents of Riverfield City, which very likely had a population that outnumbered that of the settlement from the magic world at a ratio of at least 100 to 1.

And from how much mana she had seen so far being around and unused, there should definitely be enough for one person to be capable of essentially throwing mana to be as if it were a knife.

Of course, she was trained by her tutors to look for the usage of mana, and be prepared to dodge or counterattack if ever an attack was aimed at her.

As long as the attacker wasn’t so adept at subtlety, Aurora could notice it immediately.

He smiled at the thought of training to detect killing intent. Such fantastical concepts could be brought to life.

For her concerns, Aurora chose to be optimistic, since the majority of modern citizens were taught to have morals and be law-abiding citizens.

Although magic was available to anyone for as long as they had the mana, there still were factors to differentiate the strength each person had in making magic happen.

For her to improve her control over mana, she had to exercise her mind.

In terms of any special way to conduct magic, there was not a required sort of circle to be drawn, no need to inscribe anything into the ground or some other medium, or a chant to recite to produce an effect.

But, she was taught to make use of something like those.

“When you think of your mana, what do you see?”

“Can you draw it?”

“What do you want it to do for you?”

Amidst those questions she received in the process of her education, she was taught with the belief that mana was a spirit of some kind or an all-powerful being to communicate with.

Much of the lessons revolved on exercising the mind with the concept of developing a sense of companionship with mana, and in particular, in the form of written works or drawings.

But in trying to literally talk with it, there was never a reply.

When she asked someone why, the answer she got was to just think of mana like it was a silent guardian, on the basis of how magic would barely, if at all, hurt its caster unless intended.

It was demonstrated to her with fire magic. If she didn’t want to, she would not feel the heat of a fire she magically created. Against plants, the fire would not spread to them without the caster’s permission.

When the amount of energy in the fire was increased though, it was more likely to just do as its nature would tell it to rather than the caster’s will.

On the accuracy and precision of magics, literature and artistry were good for the orientation of one’s mind.

Though for her, she did reach the point where they stopped giving her improvements at a decent pace. And without the resources that only those adventurous or privileged enough were able to get, she was stuck with just routinely casting magic for improvements.

At best, if Aurora were to be in a fight, Aurora could believe in having the advantage over the time it takes to cast magic. She had long stopped feeling significant delays to actions like creating balls of fire, rocks, and a blade of wind or an action like sharpening mana to cut something up.

And though she had no one to reliably test her growth with magic with, she was told tales of one mage’s attack being superior to another who put in the same amount of mana. Equal quantity but a different quality kind of deal, and she hoped she could be good in that regard.

All of his classmates probably already learned that they could imitate some superpowers. Should worry be felt? Or was it something to look forward to? Aurora felt like he lost the opportunity to show off and act cool. So for now, it was disappointment.

While she was browsing through the internet, he landed himself on another roof. Rather than getting back to his residence as soon as possible, it seemed more productive to experiment with mana while there wasn’t more to be done.

From what she had read, the military on the side of the physics world was here to contend with both the problem of wild creatures, and the question of a whole castle and town of people suddenly being in the middle of their established city.

He stood atop a building that had at least four floors, and this appeared to be the highest of the roofs on the way to his apartment. But, the urban landscape was not so accommodating for him who wanted to see from far away, so he gave up on the idea of checking where the military was in the distance.

The city was a big place. If he had to walk from his apartment to the castle where some significant action was likely to take place, it would take him at least one and a half hours.

Helicopters hovering above the castle were something he could see. With the tries on invisibility, it was relatively simple to funnel light into a smaller point to see them as if it were from up close. The helicopters were all from news organizations.

There wasn’t anything like explosions, flames, or smoke that could be attributed to a conflict between armed humans. The occasional gunshots were faint, and sounded not too powerful. So, there was not too big an issue at the moment.

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To go straight to his apartment, without doing too much, there were more than fifty roofs to go on. With them, Aurora would try to perfect the act of launching up and landing down.

When trying with only select portions of his body being able to affect velocity, balance was a delicate thing to maintain.

Seeing how the chosen areas would become visible whenever he had to use the mana there for movement instead, he found it possible to work around that limitation by just using the mana underneath as to not interrupt the layer of invisibility magic.

But in the moment right after when it came to putting the idea into action, he was not feeling so confident with having so little grasp, and those select areas had to become visible while he dropped to the next roof.

The alleyways and streets, the things separating the buildings aside from a significant height difference, was not across every building, so he travelled normally on the roofs he did not need to use mana for, and on those he did have to, he continued with testing magic.

While persisting a surface layer to retain invisibility, he used the mana beneath to jump a gap. And, he felt uncomfortable with how he was pushed.

The muscles and nerves were being affected from inside. He felt some irritation, that was made not so bad with the force also lifting him from under his feet, as how it should normally be.

To avoid having that happen, the majority of the lifting became the task of just the mana outside his body, on his skin.

The overall form of the mana acting on him as he fell and jumped became something like boots and gloves. His body was moved in that manner.

And from how his bodily senses extended to the mana on it, he noticed how the layer of invisibility magic was lacking in its ability to source energy, and so for those areas they expanded outward to make space for the two magics.

It was difficult to have both invisibility, and speeding or slowing effects going at the same time, but as he was on the roof, the invisibility magic just simply took less priority in the exercises.

At his own pace, he arrived at the apartment complex.

He could have tried going directly into the floor his apartment was on, but he decided to just drop from the roof and onto the roadside, and walked normally, with invisibility.

There wasn’t much for her to look at on the screen anymore, as she had already gathered most of the discussions and information on what had happened in the past few hours. The door opened, and she turned to that direction.

The door closed, and the bag was placed on the floor. No longer in his grip, the bag entered her vision as the mana left it alone.

But with looking to where he was up close in the small room, the invisibility magic had not so good a quality. How things bent to the side through the shape of an invisible body was very striking. The closer they were to someone, the less effective the invisibility magic, it seemed.

He was returned to normal visibility.

While she stayed seated by the computer, he walked over to sit on the bed.

“(What to do?)” Aurora faced the predicament of having nothing in mind.

In his daily life in the apartment, he would normally just do whatever with the computer or phone, whenever there wasn’t anything to do for school.

With this addition in to who Aurora was, would there be anything different for them? Neither of them were the outgoing kind of person who actively sought adventure or anything in the wider world.

Nothing chained her needs to just being in one place, so she went outside more than he. But unlike her natural surroundings, the urban environment imposed a sense of restriction on where one could be, for him at least.

Aurora thought of the room they were in. Them living in the same place was not a bad idea. She felt this being a home as much as he did, but there was a better place to make their residence.

She lived in a mansion, with a decent size, with as many rooms as one could ever need. But, that would mean he would have to meet her mother.

There did not appear to be any comfortable way of introducing himself to try living in that place. Aurora did not know, if ever presented the opportunity, how much they should try to prove themselves being the same person.

Should she return home? Aurora thought that she would have to, but while with the hope that she would not have to do so immediately. At least, she did not know where her house was. The maps can help investigate, so she’ll search first.

With the free time, Aurora looked at his options in the magics he could try out.

Throwing things around the room with mana could cost him some possible damages.

Fire magic was not something he could cast in this small room without risking something.

Water magic seemed okay, so he created a ball of water.

As it grew in size, Aurora realized that he was running out of mana very quickly, and the consumption outpaced how fast he could take the ambient mana inside the room.

If he had a closed fist, it would be a few times bigger than that, when it was given up, and the ball of water was required by gravity to fall.

The floor was wet, but at a rate he could see, within a minute it became dry.

Aurora surmised that there may likely be some rules when it came to creating something with mana, from how the magically created water appeared for only so short a time.

With the ability to create, even if only temporary, comes the question of application.

What could he change about his day-to-day life with magic being a real thing?

With so much mana needed to create water, without the promise that it could actually hydrate him, that it would not just disappear from his body, it seemed like he would still have to pay to drink.

For bathing, water magic didn’t seem capable of providing a steady flow of water for long enough to replace just showering the same as before.

To wash his clothes, or rather dry his clothes, it seemed feasible. But in terms of what she had done with magic for heating, her experience was less towards gentle control than it was more towards the harmful kind.

Thinking of the things he could speed up about his life, most of them seemed to involve just minor inconveniences. It was very possible for him to turn unhealthy by relying on magic to get things for him.

Going near and far around the forest they were in, she found a small village that had a layout much like how she remembered her place being as. It was a place for her to go to, and he wondered if he should tag along when she goes.

For the location of the village, it appeared to be on the opposite half in relation to the forest from where the city was. Aurora was curious of the distance, and tried to figure out how the map service could provide it. There was no such working feature, but it looked quite far away from the city.

There wasn’t much of his expenses magic could take care of. So instead, he thought of how he could get money.

On the thoughts of how she could deliver some amount to him, currency never reached her hands. All she needed was always just granted to her, and she never asked to be the one to go and buy something. Until she arrived there, it remained just a question if he could have a share in what she had.

From the media he knew of, it got told often that one could make money off of selling whatever dropped from magical creatures. Those mana cores could net him some profits.

Aurora would have to visit the castle’s town in the middle of Riverfield City to confirm for anything like an adventurer guild, or merchant guild willing to pay for such things.

But for both of those methods, there was the question of if the countries of the modern physics world would even accept their currency, now or soon enough.

Still, in terms of the mana cores, they could at least strengthen themselves with them.

“(I guess I’ll start looking for them.)” Aurora wanted to go on a hunt.