Will's POV
A total of 6 months have passed since I was born. Amy and I are now able to crawl and since mom and Nila have gotten back to their normal working schedule, for the majority of the day we are left to our own devices. So naturally I have been crawling around the mansion and going wherever I feel like it. Amy always follows right behind me but whenever the maids catch us they carry us back into mom's room.
Today Amy and I were exploring as usual and we found it. We found the holy grail of all reincarnated babies. The library. The only thing is, this library is fucking huge. Its only to be expected I guess this is the mansion of a Duke. Most of the books are out of our reach but I can see and somehow read their titles while crawling.Therefore, I have started my search for the magic books because what kind of fantasy world wouldn't have magic.
After about 15 minutes of searching I found the magic section and a book with the perfect title "The basics of learning magic and aptitude testing". Unfortunately its just out of my reach. When I was about to give up on trying to reach the book Tina came up from behind and picked up both Amy and I. This is perfect! I excitetly start pointing to the book after obtaining the full attention of my wolf eared maid.
"Does master Will want this book?" She asked to which I nodded yes. She took Amy and I and set us down on top of a table nearby and then went back to get the book for me. After she set it down I started to flip through it. Amy was interested at first but soon got bored and started playing with Tina. I went through the whole book in about half an hour because it wasnt that big and when I was done I gestured to Tina. She is smart so she understod that I was done playing with the book so she put it back and then picked us both up again and took us back to mom's room.
"I'm sorry master Will but I have to get back to work so I can't play with you anymore." She informed us looking extremely sad. Amy looked sad about it but I was happy in my heart because now I could practice what I read without making Tina think I was some sort of demon or soemthing.
As soon as Tina closed the door behind her I got to work. According to the book all you have to do to use magic is to imagine it but it said since imagining such a complex thing is impossible people use chants to make up for it. The chants seem pretty simple but they are quite long so I would rather not use them. Another thing to keep in mind was to make sure you had aptitiude in the type of magic you were trying to use.
Magic is broken down into Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Light and Darkness. To test if you had aptitude in each type all you have to do is say the name of the type of magic and try imagining it coming out of your hands. So I'll first check which types I have an aptitude for.
First up is Fire. I have to be careful that I don't burn anything so I imagine a very tine flame, similar to what would come out of a lighter, on my fingertip and say "Furee(Fire)." It worked! even though my pronunciation was a bit off as I'm still a baby I guess it counted. Next up is water so I imagine some water coming out of my palm and say "Watah(Water)." That worked as well.
One by one I tried all 6 types and found out that I have an aptitude for all of them. This is probably a side effect of Ulna's blessing as I'm pretty sure people aren't normally suppose to have an aptitude for all 6 magic types. In fact the book said most people would have 2 or 3 and some unlucky people would only have 1 while some lucky people may have 4 and very lcuky and talented people that come around once in a few centuries could even have 5 but it didnt say anything about 6. And it seems no matter how many types you have one of them will be your main and then the rest, if you have more than one, would be your extra aptitudes. It seems the main one is much easier to use but they all felt pretty similar to me. Oh well, I'll worry about that later, for now I'll start practicing the different types.
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Just to make sure I don't start a fire in the mansion I'll hold of on putting it o practice and I will start with the other ones. Lets start with Water.
Since I don't wana have to say the chants and honestly they would be quite difficult as a baby I'll try just imagining the process of the spell. According to the book mana exists in everything in this world including the air. normally when people cast spells they use their own MP which eventually gets recharged based on how high their wisdom is and how much mana is in their surroundings. Since mana exists everywhere I try to feel it in the world around me as if it is a bunch of flowing molecules.
After a short while of extreme concentration I felt something and saw a blue screen show up infront of me
You have learned Mana Perception level 1!
It seems I got a skill for being able to feel the mana around me. Now when I try to do it again I start to feel it much faster and I feel as if I have a better understanding of it. Let's move onto the second step. Now I'm going to try and feel the mana in my body and then try to move it around. Once again after concentrating for a little bit I can feel the mana inside my body and I first try to push it to make it gather in my hands but that doesn't work. Ok next I'll try to imagine it like blood flowing through my body but have it flow constantly instead of being pumped. It worked! The mana that was originally a sphere in the core of my stomach is now constanlty flowing throughout my body although its being done very slowly. At the same time I see another blue screen.
You have leanred Mana Manipulation level 1!
Another skill! However as I took my concentration away from the mana it went back to being a sphere. Dang it! I closed my eyes to focus and after some time I was able to get it back to flowing around my body but I have to constantly pay attention to it and guide it otherwise it goes back to default. Its also very slow and I guess I will have to practice more to get it to go faster. All right lets practice this for a while and then I'll start practicing different types of magic.
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I was still practicing when all of a sudden my body was shaken and I saw mom's face really close.
"Wake up sleepyhead! If you sleep now you will wake up at night and then I won't get to sleep." She said with a loving smile. I'm so confused. Why is mom back so early today? Normally she comes back around evening time and I just started practicing a while ago so it should still be close to noon.
When I looked around I was able to see outside the window and I saw the sun setting. Wait what!? How is it nightime? Thats when I saw there was something small and blue at the bottom left corner of my field of view. When I focused in on it a series of blue screens showed up infornt of my face
You have achieved Mana Maipulation level 2!
You have achieved Mana Maipulation level 3!
You have achieved Mana Maipulation level 4!
You have achieved Mana Maipulation level 5!
You have achieved Mana Maipulation level 6!
Woah! I leveled that skill up to level 6! I guess I did spend like 9 hours practicing it even though I don't know how I didn't realize I was practicing for so long. Come to think of it Amy was with so shouldn't she have shaken me to get me to play with her? Thats when I looked and saw that Amy was actually sleeping right next to me. Damn it Amy! You had one job! Oh well, Its not like I can actually be mad at her when she looks so damn cute. I guess I will have to save practicing actual magic for tommorow. After all, its titty sucking time!