Quennor Empire
Lightheart Mansion
In the dining room, Jace sees his parents, both commanding their personal attendant on routine matters.
His parents are really important people of the Quennor Empire. His father is the Prime Minister and mother is a member of the minister council as the Finance Minister. His father is a middle aged man with green hair and eyes like Jace but a darker shade and with intermittent blue locks insted instead of gold. His mother is a middle aged beauty with dark golden hair and eyes.
After those tasks are done, they start eating. After breakfast is done, his father, George Lightheart, says, ”Jace you are almost 6 years old. In 3 months, it will be time for academy admissions. You need to prepare well and enter the academy. You must continue our family tradition. We have always been in the top 3 graduates of the academy.”
There are a lot of academies in the Quennor Empire, but The Academy is the most prestigious institute of the Quennor Empire where all of the most talented children gather.They teach in whatever you are good. The second dean had even said-"If you have the passion to be a sweeper, we will make you the sweeper of the world."
“Oh father, I will, definitely. But, what do I need to prepare?”-Jace replies.
“Ha ha, that’s my son, full confidence in himself.”- George says, while calling Ron, the house butler.
“Ron, I want you to instruct Jace on everything he needs to know for the admission exam in these 3 months.”-George.
“Yes, sire.”-Ron.
Ron and Jace are in the library with Ron instructing Jace on the exam matter. Even though, Ron is just the butler of the Lightheart mansion, but he is also an academy graduate, albeit just an average one.
“Young Master, the test does not have a syllabus, per se. Instead it is more focused on the problem solving and analytical thinking part with some focus on your personality. Here are some of the question papers from previous exams.”
After reading, the papers, Jace realized that the questions are very much similar to the mental ability and psychometric questions on earth.
“Hey Emi, what do you think of these question?” -Jace.
“They are at the level 6-7 year olds, not too difficult.”, replied Emi in his mind.
“Then can you help me in this exam?”-Jace.
“I would recommend that you try to clear the exam on your own, but I can still help in preparing you.”-Emi.
“Thanks.”-Jace.
“Young Master, this will be the exam, along with a very basic physical test, just that you don’t have a serious disease or stuff. Other than that, you should also try to learn some mana rotation. Even though it isn’t a part of the exam, it will be better to learn it before joining the academy.”-Ron.
“Mana rotation?”- Jace. Mana rotation is a thing which every person of the empire knows to some degree. It is said that at high enough levels of mana rotation, one can flatten mountains with a sneeze and evaporate seas with a fart.
“Yes, let’s go to the trating wall for that.”-Ron.
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So, Ron and Jace go to the training hall.
Lightheart mansion
Training Hall
Ron and Jace are in the training hall. It is used by the family members and servants for training mana rotation and related things, like martial arts and spells. They go in one of the better rooms along with a doctor.
“Ron, why do we need a doctor?”-Jace
“Young master, mana rotation can be dangerous for starters so this is just a precaution.”-Ron
“Young master, for practicing mana rotation, the first thing is to take a comfortable pose. Then, you have to concentrate on your left shoulder. You will sense a kind of dirt in some kind of channel. The dirt is mana and the channels are the mana veins. After that, you will try to will it to move to your left hand, then left foot, right foot, right hand, right shoulder, then your head, complete the circle and keep on going. You have to be careful never to stop your mana after starting and never to increase the speed very much. Stopping rotating mana or making it rotate n the other direction will be very bad. At best, you will be faint, normally, you will die, at worst, you will just become a vegetable. On the other hand, increasing the speed willlet you feel a lot of pleasure but your body will be severely damaged. You can even be bedridden for a few months.”-Ron
Jace nodded and sat on the floor in his most comfortable pose, which was very like the Buddhist monks on earth. Then he started concentrating on his left shoulder. After what felt like an eternity, he finally sensed a kind of dirt in his shoulder.
“Sir, there is a new, alien feeling in your shoulder. I think that’s mana.”-Emi
Jace then starts to move the energy to his left hand. During this, Emi keeps on studying mana and mapping the veins. Sometimes, the mana hits the walls of the veins, which caused some pain for Jace. After a full circle, Emi fully mapped the veins and started influencing Jace’s subconscious to move the mana more comfortably.
Meanwhile, Ron was watching Jace practicing mana rotation. He sees that after almost half an hour, there is a change in expression. After that, there are expressions of feeling pain at intervals of a few moments.
“Young master took almost double the time of most other kids to sense his mana and it seems like he also cannot effectively control his mana instinctively. Seems like this generation will be demoted from the post of prime minister.”-Ron.
But after some 10 minutes, he sees that Jace’s expression is now better than before and he seems to be enjoying it.
“Looks like Young master is the type to learn quickly from experience.”-Ron thinks
After Emi started correcting his mana flow, the mana in the veins flowed more smoothly and hit the walls less. As Jace's experience grew, he started to increase the speed. As the speed increased, he also started feeling more good, more powerful.
At some point, Jace felt almost euphoric. It was also the point when his body couldn’t take the stress of the increased speed anymore and started tearing apart.
“Shit! Young master, slow the speed. You are hurting yourself!”-Ron screamed. But Jace couldn't hear him as he was totally absorbed in relishing the euphoria he was in. It wasn't that he was he enjoying the pain he was in but that he couldn't feel the pain at all.
Emi who was helping him smoothen out his rotation suddenly noticed his blood pressure dropping. She tried to check his body and found that his whole body was sending his brain pain signals but he wasn’t able to receive them.
“Sir, your body is destroying itself. You need to slow down.”-she kept on saying in his head while herself reducing the speed.
When the speed got at a manageable point, his body stopped tearing and instead with the help of his mana started mending itself back. This process was so painful that he fainted but Emi continued the process.
Ron was somewhat shocked at seeing this, as normally when kids get to the point he was at, the only outcome is that they pass out when the pain gets way beyond them and the body stops the mana rotation instinctively. Then it usually takes a few months to back to themselves with normal methods. But his young master not only increased the speed to that point but also came back on his own.
“Seems like the prime minister will still be from this family.”-Ron. If you think that Ron was plotting something against the family, then you are wrong. It’s just that the position of prime minister has been in this family for almost 10 generations already so everyone is thinking, ‘when will their streak end?’
Meanwhile Emi was in the confines of Jace's mind and could not anything other than think of what happened.
How did I let this happen? In the previous life, something like this had never happened. I was always able to take care of all the matters simultaneously. If only I had been cautious, sir wouldn't have gone through this.
... When did I start talking to myself? And when I started having emotons? And when did I started asking questions to myself?