The moment i come to realisation, i'm laying down in a familiar room.
A: Oh...
And then i start to remember. I have been staying around here for quite some time. These memories... I'm a few months old already? I feel my body and everything feels different yet perfectly normal. I can more or less move my arms around, but individual fingers don't want to listen. The same with legs.
I try to stand up, to no avail. I try again, carefully using every muscle with my full power and success! Good thing i didn't flip over, but i still can't relax my muscles.
That's tiring. Better to sit down. I look around the room and see the small bookshelf without books. Only some kind of primitive lamp lays on it. On the other side of the room is a rectangular hole that looks like a door without a door. Next to it hangs a small window-like thing suprisingly made with only wood, just like every other thing in this room. Well, i guess they won't have internet here...
Hmm... everything is so strange, i guess that my mind kinda regressed to that of a baby. For starters, let's check my status. So i think as before me appears a still awkard looking window.
NameJuliusAge:6 monthsClass:TechnomancerTitles:The one who forges his own destinyA title given to you for forcefully changing your future in an imposible way. Luck parameter doesn't concern you.Mana:7Strength:7Vitality:12Agility:8Resistance:26State:Soul fatigue(medium)As a result of soul being melded forcefuly, your soul became unstable. If the state is stacked up, the soul shall shatter ineluctably.lightning bodyHigher form of lightning affinity. Completely nullifies lightning damage and allows the user to easily absorb it. Hightens the affinity with fire, air, water and light elements.AbilitiesSuicide(lvl. 7)When you die, you do it with a boom!Appraisal(lvl. 1)Allows the user to receive the publicly known data about the observed object in text formdimensional backpack(lvl. 1)Allows the user to open a pocket dimension in a choosen shape with a maximum space of (2^lvl) dm3.advanced mana manipulation(lvl. 1)Mana control is a basis for all kind of actions that involves using mana. At advanced level mana usage is intuitive and precise.time control(lvl. 4)Rare branch of magic that allows the user to manipulate the fabric of time-space. Requires extensive knowledge and mana reserves. Because specific spell casting is neither necessary nor possible, this is the only magic of the time category avaible to the physical plane. Passively increases thinking speed.intermediate lightning magic(lvl. 1)Publicly defined as a higher form of fire magic. Allows the user to cast lightning spells and use mana of lightning nature
6 months old, huh? I'm glad that i got my memories relatively early, but i still would prefer not losing myself in the first place. Now that i think about it, it's kinda scary. If i happened to recover at something like 6 years old, what i would be doing is effectively erasing my other self. Or would it be? Maybe i would just get fused with him, just how i have the memories of the child... god, i'm thinking too much again.
I'm in a world of swords and fantasy, with hero cheat, modern knowledge and able to manipulate soul to boot! For starters, world domination! Then harem and pushing the technology forward. I wonder what kind of anime-like races there are here... nonono, i aproach the whole thing wrongly! The first thing on my list should obviously be the legendary childhood friend!(a female one of course). As long as i bring her up correctly, she will be perfect, hehehe...
As i divulge in my delusions, slow steps can be heard around the corner of my room. Yes, i deemed it mine already, gotta start the world conquest somewhere, don't I? As they come closer, the figure of a young and healthy looking woman with long brown hair appear in the door hole. She is wearing black and white skirt that goes to her ankles. It kinda resembles the maid dress, but because of all the tatters, instead of cuteness and sexiness, it gives off a vibe of a hardworking housewife. Looking at her, the feelings of uneasiness and dread that i didn't realise i was having, suddenly changed 180 degress and i became overjoyed. As i couldn't hold my emotions at bay, the next second i spoke in a weak and high-pitched voice.
J: Mama!
S: Julius!? Oh my baby, did you just called me mama? Come here little man, can you say mama again? Hehehe...
Said my mother as she grabs me in her arms with that silly overjoyed smile of hers.
Damn, were 6 months old children supposed to talk? I... have no idea. That's what i get for playing single for so long. Well, my throat kinda allows me to speak and my mother looks happy, so i suppose it's fine?
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S: Come on, my little genius, you won't say anything anymore?
J: ...
Playing genius is fine, but i don't won't them to think that a demon has possesed me or something. I'm gonna dosage my brilliance so they won't freak out. Not a word for the next three days!
S: aww. Well, i guess you will speak soon enough.
And before i noticed it, i was getting fed milk from her. Damn infant's body... well, i guess it's fine. Now that i think about it, the language that i use in my thoughts is definitely not english. Is my primary language now the other world's language? I guess giving up half a year of laying in bed being bored for language fluency is a good deal. If i were to learn it by myself to this level, i doubt i could do it in less than two years. Yep, definitely a good deal.
Few minutes passed by as i finished my meal and a wave of slepiness fallen over me. As my mother puts me down onto my small bed, that now i can see consisted of some white cloth put over a bundle of straw. And so i drift away.
To my misery, the next time i woke up mother was already by my side. I got fed again and slept again. And again. And again. I may not know much about childbringing, but i'm pretty fucking sure that staying awake for five minutes just to eat and then going back to sleep again is plenty weird! After two days even mother got worried as she checked my temperature and tried to keep me awake to no success. I don't think she called a doctor, though i may not have noticed him as i slept, it seemed much more probable that they don't have doctors around here. Or they don't have money for them.
Well, all that worrying soon ended up dispersed as i woke up one night and, to my suprise, i wasn't hungry! My best guess is that my brain couldn't handle all the informations that my soul wanted to store in it, so it had to throw away all the unnecessary tidbits. Hence, lots of sleep was needed for memory agregation.
My mother was asleep by my side, so I finally had some time for myself. Starting from another try at walking, i hurriedly gave up that idea after few seconds of standing. Slow crawl worked pretty nice, but if i wanted to get out of the room, i would need it to be daytime, it's hella dark in the hallway now. And there also wasn't anything in this room worth crawling to. So... time for some magic!
Judging from this room my family is pretty poor, so them being magicians seems pretty doubtful. The chance for them somehow being able to notice it still exist, but isn't really big and i will risk it. How should i go about it...
I look at the cloth underneath me and focus on it. I shout in my mind „APRAISSAL!” trying to make it look as the greatest spell in history, but nothing happens. Then i speak it aloud.
J: „aa-play-sail!”
Yea, i didn't shout it, rather i whispered it. Don't wanna wake up mom. Still, why nothing happens! If i have the skill, it should pop out whenever i shout it's name, its common sense! How am i supposed to rule over the world if i get stopped here! Uaaaaa! Willpoweeeeeeer!!!
I try to focus, do whatever i thought of, bruteforce it, relax, feel my surroundings and finally – feel myself. After half an hour i started to feel something besides movement of my internal smooth muscles and blood flow. Something that felt like the overflowing essence of my vitality. Something between water and ice, maybe some plasma. It gave off a chilly, pleasant feeling and had an electrifying vibe to it. Yea, what i'm saying doesn't really make much sense, but... that's mana, isn't it?
I try to take control over miraculous matter and found it suprisingly easy, as it moved at my will with precision down to half a centimeter. I guess advanced mana manipulation isn't for show. Now then, lets try casting again.
As i gather half of the mana i find inside of myself, i am about to say „appraisal” in my head, when a realisation hits me. Information about how to properly use the spell surfaces from deep inside of my head and at once i know what i have to do. I put pressure on the mana in order to concentrate it. As it reaches about 2 times the original density, i make a really ugly noodle out of it, one end of which i slowly push towards the end of my index finger. Now, i begin use the noodle as a pen filler to draw a really simple hexagon with words Metea, Yomu, Sige, Quapo, Teta and Guax on its sides.
After that, i take whatever was left of the mana in my finger and dispers it as much as i can, achieving around 0.2 of original density. Finally, i use the dilluted mana to literally bombard the magic formation, as the words begin to shine slightly and the next moment the hexagon dissapears. The only thing left before me is a window showing the very longed-for results of my appraisal.
cloth
J: ...
The whole thing took me 5 minutes and half the mana. My plans for world conquest will have to wait for a while...
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