author's note : heyyy~ how are u doing guys? i pray this will be a stable week... at least i will update 2 chapters this week.
have fun~
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“Young Master please wake up! Today is a special day.”
Nuuuu I was all night long awake practicing that method from the diary on other spells… but it didn’t work well… by the time I went to sleep it began to dawn.
“Nuuu let me rest pleashe I am tired…”
“No No. Young Master today you have to go to the capital and begin preparations to join the magic school”
“Today? I thought school begins in 3 months…”
“Yes. But thanks to your success using arcane magic and your father’s authorization, you can have a test to cover expenses at school, access to advanced courses as well.”
Did father come? Wait expenses? Well it is not that I am against it…
“Yaaawww~ I mean yes~”
Today breakfast is different, two of my brothers and 2 of my sisters are here eating with me.
“Andrei, I heard that you successfully cast an arcane ball?”
That is my eldest sister Alexia, currently the only one with a fiancée. Before she has a fiancée she used to play a lot with me.
“Yes eldest sister I successfully cast arcane ball.”
“Oh~ it sure took you some time uh?”
Oliver, he is the second youngest… yes I am the youngest. He successfully cast arcane ball at age of 5… it sadden me deeply… but contrary to him I cast it all day long, while he faint in just the first time…
“I cast it all day long Brother Oliver”
“If I didn’t saw it, I wouldn’t believe it… good job Andrei.”
“Thanks Elder sister. Did you see father? He gave his consent to let me go to the capital…”
“No Andrei, I didn’t see him, for what business are you going to the capital?”
“Seems to be about a test at ox school”
-Whistle-
“Those tests’ are hard little Andrei, are you prepare? Casting a novice spell is not enough to pass it…”
That is Deffy, my meanie sister…
“I am prepared in magic theory and history of Heroic kingdom, Sister Deffy.”
“No… that’s not what I mean… you have to go with two intermediate spells to successfully pass those tests.”
“Th-that I-I didn’t know… why did father send me to take that test if I will not be able to pass it?”
Why are they talking in plural? I thought there is only one test…
“Hmmm~ I don’t know little Andrei. To begin with, father hadn’t return home since 2 months ago…”
So long…
“It is me that is allowing Andrei to take those test in name of our father… successfully casting that spell for more than 100 times is enough to success the main test as well.”
My eldest brother, next hair of the Red Flame family, Gabriel. He is kinda nice… most of the time…
Wait did he saw that I uses that magic?
“S-so it was you, eldest brother? I will depart today. Am I right?”
“Yes, it is a travel of 7 days, the test is in two weeks, so in a little more than 3 weeks you should have return home. Sister Deffy will accompany you.”
“M-my maids will come???”
“Yes, they have to.”
“Yes, thank you eldest brother.”
“You will leave at noon prepare your stuff by that time.”
“Yes.”
I will take this diary… 7 days in a carriage with Deffy is not something I am eager to look forward… no if I count the returning time it will be 14… nooooooo~.
…
“Young Master your luggage with your clothes and daily necessities is ready, did you pick anything else you will need for the travel and test?”
“Yes, worry not.”
“Of course Young Master, Maid Maribel is waiting next to the carriage, butler Jacob is preparing the carriage for the servants.
Young Mistress Deffy request you to choose one of your maids to assist you in the carriage.”
Yes… it is hard to interact with her…
“Yes, Maribel will be the one with me, this is the book you should try to read in our travel.”
She has enough skill to read by now, I am thinking of using her for more things if she can read and write.
“Thank you Young Master.”
“If we have time to rest in our travel, you are allow to look for me in case you don’t understand something.”
It is a book with stories for kids, easy to read and understand.
“Thank you Young Master.”
“Hmmm.”
She closed the door and left, now I am alone in this room that I won’t see for at least 3 weeks…
“At least I won’t see any mirror in this travel…”
Every time I do something… I end up in front of a mirror…
“Now now I will be far away from you! Hohohoho now show me something interesting so I won’t get bored in-“
My… my my reflection is grinning and is watching the table? The reflection of the table is empty…
I turned around and saw it…
“My diary…”
-huuff huff huff-
It should be with Maribel.
“WHAT ARE YOU!?”
I turn to watch the mirror again…
My reflection is no longer grinning neither watching the table… it stop acting oddly…
“I I AM NOT SCARE!!!”
“Young Master??? Are you alright?”
Hearing my screams Liz came back…
“Yes yes I am alright! Give me some minutes!”
“Y-Yes Young Master!! Sorry for intruding!”
She bow deeply and left as fast as possible.
I turned around to pick up the diary… the cover has new words on it…
‘Don’t trust her : )’
The cover… it was clean… it seems like my handwriting? but I didn’t wrote on it…
“Wha what is happening to me?”
I am torn between my fear of the mirror with this diary… and my needs to have this diary… right after I used it I successfully cast magic…
I cried alone again… the only difference compare to the other times I cry is that I am awake in the middle of the day…
…
“What happened Andrei? Did you see a ghost?”
Some time has passed and we just left the Red Flame city… it is the capital of this province.
Inside the carriage Deffy tried to talk to me… it is not hard to notice something amiss.
“Young Master is everything alright?”
“Do you let your maids talk that freely Andrei? You should trained them properly…”
Her butlers so far never talk… at least in my presence…
“I love her voice sister… I don’t need your help in training my maids but thank you.”
“Hmmm~ lo~ve her voice you say?”
If I wasn’t this frightened I would… but I am… who should I not trust? Did I write this?
“Are you listening to me Andrei? We will be stuck together for this month you know~.”
“Yes sister.”
…
“Maid, is he always like this?”
“No Miss, he isn’t like this. Young Master Do you need some rest?”
“No, I am fine… thanks”
“Mmphm.”
…
It took me 3 days to finally stop been scared… I still don’t know what happened there…
It seems that Jacob sleep on the floor of the carriage while Deffy lay and sleep on her chair, while Maribel sleep while sitting on the chair, the reason is because I used her lap to sleep… She smell so nice… I think that is the main reason I stop been scared.
“Mari… do you recognize this handwriting?”
“Hmmm? Isn’t it yours Young Master?”
“I-I suppose so…”
“Who you should not trust Young Master?”
“Eh! Ha-hahaha no no I was just playing around”
She did a slight bow.
“If you say so Young Master.”
“What are you guys talking about?”
“Nothing sister.
Sister can you teach intermediate arcane magic?”
“Hmmm? There are a lot of books that teach intermediate magic… didn’t you read them?”
“I did, but I can’t cast the same way the books teach it...”
“Hmmm~ so you are a liberal caster… but that do not explain why it took you so long to cast the most basic spell... sadly I am an orthodox… I cast the exact same way most of those books at our house explain.”
“Most?”
“That is right, there are different authors, even though there is a standard format for a certain spell… it doesn’t mean that a saint wizard won’t be able to refine the same spell and share it with everyone else.”
“So orthodox and liberals are the same?”
“No… in my example what the saint wizard did is simple, of course just for him… the spell he learned, he study it letter by letter, action by action; he found parts that can be omitted or change into something easier… either way he is still working in the same spell… a liberal one would build a new spell for the same arcane ball… of course with time the spell from the liberal one could become the new format for the arcane ball spell but that is another matter entirely.”
Hmmm the spell I read should be a liberal one, if I understood her the more people begin to use this magic slowly it will become the format, making it an orthodox spell? Nope… complicated…
I only need to know I can use it… and that she can’t be of any help? No I won’t share that spell with her… that note in the cover is making me crazy…
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“… Thanks sister for your time…”
“Yes yes, but mini-Andrei… you… you can’t really use intermediate magic, am I right?”
“Yes sister… I don’t really understand why eldest brother is sending me.”
“Hmmm. Jacob come for a minute.”
“Yes Young Lady.”
What is she telling him? Well I have to search for another way to cast an intermediate spell.
Well for now let’s study Heroic Kingdom history.
…
It is here… a new spell right below the previous one…
“Maribel. Did you took my diary?”
“No Young Master.”
“Did you see anybody taking it?”
“No Young Master.”
-huff- -huff-
It is a matter of fact… I sleep with it under me.
“Thanks Maribel…”
“Is there any problem Young Master?”
“No it is not. Tell the driver to find a place to rest, I think I can cast a new spell”
“Ara~ can you Andrei? You didn’t touch a spell book even once in these few days…”
“Yes I come up with a way to cast a new spell although I don’t know if it is an intermediate level…”
“Ooooh Andrei, I can’t wait to see it Huhuhu.”
Me neither… around 4 people… 5 counting the driver and no one saw who wrote it…
…
“Tomorrow we will reach Heroic Kingdom’s Capital Young Master. The driver told me this area is for practicing area of effect magic as well. So don’t worry for aftereffects.”
I really didn’t… yes, I could hurt someone with this new spell.
…
The place is big… a green ocean… in the distance, I can see the castle of his highness as well…
“This is the area Young Master.”
“Yes, thanks for your hard work.”
“Impress me little brother.”
The name of this spell is one I never heard before for arcane magic, snowfall…
The aria is exactly the same as the arcane ball…
Mana gathering, the image in the mind are different and in different order…
I have to imagine strings… a lot of strings in the sky all those strings connected to my hand… I have to imagine them fly and dance with the wind…
I raised my hand up to the sky… imagine them connected to my hand and move rhythmically with clouds, after some time I saw those strings dance with the wind.
After that comes the hard step… I have to send mana to those strings… well that is the reason why those strings are connected to my hand…
It took me a while but I succeed at the end.
Then I have to mold the mana… arcane magic is the purest type of magic… what it means is that it change the mana the less… so the suppose amount of time and mental capacity I have to use I didn’t feel it…
Finally again I have to sing the aria it doesn’t matter if it is in my mind… but at the same time I have to think it is snowing… thankfully I did saw a snowstorm once when I was at the north…
They fall… slow just like snow… but they are bright dots of white light… dozens… all the sky above the training ground is covered by those dots of light…
But when they fall and touch the ground… at that time I realize what magic is used for…
I know I have to return to the capital due to school but I don’t understand why Gabriel pick me to escort mini Andrei to the capital… we all know he will fail… even if he isn’t talented at magic, his Red Fire blood must force him to cast magic at 6 years… yet he successfully cast magic at 7! Few months before he turn 8 years old…
I don’t understand it Gabriel…
“Jacob, did you see anything special with the magic of Andrei?”
Right now our house is divided in 3 factions, eldest brother Gabriel the next heir of the Red House, eldest sister Alexia with her fiancée they are confabulating to take the house for them,
And second eldest brother… my other sister have sided with Alexia, the other ones are Oliver, Andrei and I.
“He didn’t say the aria neither took the position for casting magic Young Lady.”
Interesting…
“Is it true he casted all day long?”
“I can confirm he cast it for 3 hours, after that I have to leave to complete the task you left me to do.”
At least 3 hours… not even oldest brother can cast magic for so long… our mental capacity won’t hold that long… logically speaking he should be an intermediate magician…
Impossible… I have to see it myself…
…
He looks pale… what happened?
Even teasing him, it doesn’t make an effect... well whatever… hmmm that diary he doesn’t let it go at all…
…
Something odd happened yesterday… I fall asleep… that shouldn’t had happened… I cast a spell on myself so I won’t ever fall asleep unless I want to… I am stating to dislike this little travel…
“Mari… do you recognize this handwriting?”
???
“Hmmm? Isn’t it yours Young Master?”
“I-I suppose so…”
Why is he hesitating with his answer?
“Who should you not trust Young Master?”
Trust?
“Eh! Ha-hahaha no no I was just playing around”
“If you say so Young Master.”
“What are you guys talking about?”
…
He changed the subject, interesting…
…
This is beginning to be a scary tale… again I fall asleep, Jacob as well, useless idiot… useless to ask the driver something… he is just like a golem… our guards didn’t see anyone coming inside the carriage at night… this is serious.
Let’s tell Jacob to keep in check outside the carriage from now on…
…
“No it is not. Tell the driver to let us rest I think I can cast a new spell”
What? Hahaha well let’s see if he is right…
…
“This is the area Young Master.”
“Yes thanks for your hard work.”
“Impress me little brother.”
No, seriously impress me. So far I am scared here! My magic hasn’t fail me since I was 5, now all of a sudden it isn’t working as intended…
…
“What is he doing maid?”
The second carriage is waiting at the road and the guards are all around protecting us while been invisible, that behavior I don’t like it.
“Young Master is preparing himself. The first time he used arcane ball it took him some minutes before casting it continuously young lady.”
“Did you hear his aria?”
“No, Young Lady.”
He raised his hand… he stayed like that for 10 minutes… really wha-
-cough cough-
The maid is saturated with mana.
This is the true face of mana, mana is our life our way of life our meaning but in excess is a deadly poison… either be humans or demi-humans mana in excess can kill us.
“Jacob”
“Yes Young Lady.”
He has a bit of knowledge with magic so he can protect her, but really… he just saturate the air around us with mana… it is the first time I see a human do this… not even the teachers at ox school can do it…
“…The sky…”
“I am sorry Young Lady, I didn’t brought an umbrella.”
He said it while covering his maid with a sheet.
“No it is him…”
The mana, his mana is all around us but it is condensed in the sky… slowly his mana altered the sky…
Those are not clouds… they are mana… no they are arcane mana… impossible can we humans alter so much the space?
!!!
“It is… snowing?”
“Jacob take her and the carriage away.”
“Yes! Young lady.”
Does Gabriel knows about this? Perhaps he does that slut is his after all…
Each of those ‘snowflakes’ are arcane balls… an arcane ball is the most basic spell… but the way he cast them… the amount that are falling… this… this transcend to the master level… he is not a novice magician… he is a master sorcerer…
-BOOOMM BOOOM BOOOM-
“KYYYYAAA!!!”
Each arcane ball fall so slowly… but finally they hit the ground… too many explosions so terrifying
“ANDREI!!! STOP YOUR SPELL!!!!”
??? Oh no… he is scared… is this really the first time he cast this magic???
“DAMN! This is why I hate to babysit…”
[arcane spell: buckle shield]
An intermediate spell, it is a small shield, but is tough enough to defend us from all those explosions… I can feel if those arcane balls hit the shield but it is holding, but when they touch the floor or trees… it will be dangerous when I won’t be able to hold the spell.
“I AM PICKING YOU UP ANDREI!!! CANCEL IT NOW!!”
-BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM-
Damn it all! It is literally an arcane ball rain… he isn’t cancelling it… sorry but I have to do it.
“I AM SORRY ANDREI!!! BUT I HAVE TO KNOCK YOU OUT!!”
So… I knocked him unconscious.
“This is why I hate to babysit…”
I stared at his face while sitting on the ground of what remains of the training grounds…
“haha… hahaha this is so fun~ maybe a 4th faction can be born in the house?”
After that we arrived at the Capital.