Rebecca Whitlock POV:

Out of all the babies I’ve seen, I just have to say Quintan is the most adorable baby ever, and I’m not saying this because I’m biased.

No.

His scruffy little patches of deep dark black hair and his dazzling eyes, which almost radiate an amethyst purple with his gazes, at times seemed...intelligent.

I am not a doting mother. I plan to be strict and just a mother. It’s not like I can rely on his father to do all the hard work to discipline Quin. I already caught him teaching Quin how to walk.

I know he’ll turn out like his father if I left him to do everything. As soon as he started crawling, I was screaming and jumping with tears, but I didn’t know how much trouble he would be when he became mobile.

I swear if I move my eyes for a single moment, he would crawl into the study. I wonder why that is? Not only that, but I made sure to buy lots of toys and animals, but he never plays with them and ends up going to study instead. Just like his father, always training and studying magic. I love to see how excited Quin gets when we go down to town, so we go 4 times a week instead of only going shopping.

Quin seemed quite fond of a lot of things. I will never get enough of seeing his head moving left and right while trying to take in everything around him. He also seemed intrigued by his father’s practices.

Ryan was a capable adventurer. Being an A-class adventure and leading parties. I’ve only ever seen E through B ranks in my life until I met Ryan. As for higher ranks, I've met a couple including Ryan, but I’ve never seen S-class adventures, assuming they're real.

While I was working, I saw many eager and arrogant teens, way too many to count.

At least their confidant.

One time, I was an assistant for an evaluation exam, the examined only had to prove basic control over mana utilization, but before we could start the exam, he started panicking and crying, then fell face first coming down the stairs like an airhead.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

If we’re talking about airheads, Ryan sure was one back in the day. The moment he saw me at work his face went blank, I swore I could see hearts in his eyes, he stood there with a blank face until somebody nudged him. He looked around and got himself together to finally speak,“ h… hey… what’s your name?” I laughed as he turned red and almost exploded from the embarrassment (I guess it was love at first sight). He finally had the courage to ask me out, and guess we just clicked from there.

Quin somehow inherited both of are traits, making him the most adorable baby ever.

Quintan Whitlock POV:

It’s been about three years since my journey to Dad’s study.

Since then, I had been gathering little pieces of mana to spread out into my body in an attempt at forming a mana core. This was the least bit easy. It was a slow and mind-breaking task, but the anticipation of using magic kept me going. It was easier learning how to walk and talk than forcing my mana core to condense.

I could see why it would take until adolescent years for a person to break through or ‘awaken.’ If I had just left it to create naturally, it would have taken decades and there would still be a small chance I wouldn’t be able to use magic at all.

Instead… A perk in working in an office for hours a day with no breaks, I had the cognitive ability to undergo this process. Essentially what I’m doing is grabbing smaller mana particles and forcing them to bind together into creating one big one which would be the mana core. If left alone, they would naturally gravitate toward each other and wait for it to form.

The daily agenda was me trying to spend as much time as I possibly could to gather mana while avoiding mother and father suspicion. There would from time to time come ad play while using mana.

My mother had a good handle on my father, not to overwork me when just a baby. But she can be scary at times

I started to adapt to my new body pretty well, walking and talking become easier. When I had said “Mama” for the first time to hug mother, she screamed and jumped with joy. It’s been a while since I’ve felt this kind of affection, I kind of miss and like it. So now, and then I would call to her and sorts of things

Other than that, my mana core process has been going smoothly, slowly but smoothly. This was a big head start compared to the rest of the kids my age.

The past three years haven’t been in vain though, I have finally gathered enough mana particles into my solar plexus and am in the middle of condensing them.

Finally, I now have enough mana to create my mana core but nothing happened if I read right there should have been…

*BOOM*