"Mother's Warning"
"You have called for me, mother?"
Leon walks right in as he greets his mother with a light bow and he grabs his mother's left backhand and lightly touches it with his forehead, a form of greeting to people who are older than you, conform by the Believers of the Twilight Church as a sign of respect.
"Have a seat, my child" Elaine gesture to Leon to have a seat and offers a cup of jasmine tea to drink as she elegantly sips her own. Leon nods his head as he grabs and drinks the tea personally brewed by his mother.
"What is the anima that you have awaken?" Elaine gently puts the cup of tea on the table as she curiously asks a question. And he also put gently put down the cup of tea as he replied to his mother.
"Soul Shaman. You know anything about this mother?" Leon inquired, as his mother is known to have attended the Kingdom Academy as a student there before she married his father where all the knowledge about the world is studied there including anima, Surely she would have known something about his anima.
"Hmmm... As you have known my child, Similar anima can't exist at the same time, and when a person who has an anima dies their anima goes through the Twilight River of Styx to be passed on the next fated person who can acquire this anima. So that is why you, my child, are a special one." After speaking, Elaine took another sip of jasmine tea as she looks at her son who was lowering his head thinking deeply.
"A special one?... mother, you meant to say that my anima is not been recorded in the Twilight book of anima?" Leon express a surprised look on his face, The twilight book of anima, 'Aklat' is a divine artifact that holds a record on all know anima today, created by The Nomads a group of sages who created the 'Focus' to use again the Humanity anima abilities and the very same people who establish the Kingdom Academy.
"That is right, my child, very few people can manage to awaken a nonexistent anima that has not been already recorded in the 'Aklat'." Elaine nods her head confirming his son's thought and lightly smile expressing her joy that her son has awakened a very special anima.
"Now that you have awakened your anima, to use its abilities you must learn how to focus to gather spirits and store it in your soul core" Elaine mentioned Leon to stand up and sit up on the floor in a meditative position. Before that, however, Leon interjects.
"But mother, I can already do Focus though," Leon asks in confusion on why he needs to learn it
"What! how can that be! you just awaken your anima, it's not supposed to be possible! Focus is not something you can learn after you have awakened, my child" Now Elaine turns to be shocked as she stares at her son who was surprised and confused at the situation.
'Crap! I have forgotten, 'Focus' is man-made so it's not possible to be learned this quickly. this must be the Effect of Soul Shaman' Leon thought in his as he stares at his mother.
Elaine stands on her chair as she frantically walks back and forth thinking deeply. After some time have passed she finally spoke.
"My Child, this must be the effect of your anima, Listen well, my child, except for your father don't tell anyone about this, You understand?" Elaine said as she kneels in front of him with a stern voice and fear in her eyes.
'Mother... I can feel in her voice, she scared and worried about me' Leon stares at her mother before nodding and replied:
"I promise, I won't tell anyone about this, mother," Elaine hug her child and kiss his forehead and caressing his head filled with love and protection of a mother.
"You got to understand, my child, this was to protect you, okay?" Leon once more nodded his head as he also hugs his mother to calm her down.
After some time, Leon leaves his mother's room, as Elaine watches his leaving silhouette she called a nearby maid.
"Kelly, Bring the two people who participated in my child awakening ceremony," Elaine said out loud. Kelly who heard the call immediately stops cleaning and lightly bows outside the door.
"Yes madam! I will be back shortly" The maid hurriedly goes away. And inside Elaine stare outside the window as she lightly sips her cup of tea who's already called as she taught to herself.
'No one can endanger my child, I need to be sure'
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In the courtyard, Leon Hearth is standing there facing the training dummy as shouted in his mind.
'Status'
And a blue projection suddenly popped up in his vision.
[ Status: Normal
Name: Leon Hearth
Age: 10 years old
Race: Human/???
Anima: Soul Shaman
Sprits Accumulated: 100/100
Spells: Focus, Spirit Blast, -others locked- ]
'Now it's time to use this thing, How do I activate though? Do I need to shout it out loud?' as he thought of that he aims his arm at the dummy and shout:
"Spirit Blast!" and....nothing happens as he feels the embarrassment of this moment. thankfully no one is nearby to hear his cringe attempt.
'What about this!' A draining feeling suddenly come to him as he thought the spell he is going to use as he jerks his left hand forward aiming at the training dummy, a rune suddenly formed in his left palm with the shape of an explosion image with that comes a blast of light with a force-wide enough to knock a single adult soldier.
It hit the dummy and fling it up to 5 meters in its original position and he sees that it's burning with white flame as he thought to himself.
'This was Freaking Awesome!' Leon leaps with joy, he looks up into the spell status.
[ Spirit Blast:
By gathering the spirits around your hands, you unleash a powerful blast that can knock away foes and burns them from close proximity
Used Spirits Accumulated: 10/per shot ]
'it as the description said, an effect of knockback and burning' Leon looks up his Spirit accumulation status to see that it is been reduced by 10 same as the description said.
[Sprits Accumulated: 90/100]
'hmmm... This means that the system is accurate in its information this also means that other than being a human there is also something else' Leon first thought when he looks at his race that the system must be faulty and he even inquire his parents about it if they have other blood other that of a human they said they are fully born human.
At that time he concludes that this was the case but now he has seen that the system doesn't lie, he had other thoughts.
'Either father and mother are lying to me or they don't know anything and something else was at play' Leon thought deeply about the answer before shaking his head again forgetting it for now as he doesn't have a clear lead at the moment.
'I am got to focus on this first... Hmm... Teacher Ron said that it depends on the person how can they utilized their anima abilities, he said that they can alter and modified its effect.' Leon thought for a moment about how to modify his spirit blast.
Leon performed the same action again but the difference this time is he gathers the spirits accumulated in his core on his left palm to form the shape of a ball. Leon's left hand is shaking as he gathers spirits before the same rune appears again.
*Boom!*
This time the force is twice as much more powerful compare to it than before as the ground of the courtyard is burning with white flames a has light crevice due to the force of the spell. Leon looks up his Spirit accumulation status to see that it cost twice as much.
[Sprits Accumulated: 70/100]
'Not quite I have in mind, it supposed to be thrown like a ball and explode...but this would do I guess' Leon quite disappointed in the outcome quickly cheers himself up as he thought he just needs to continue to practice. So he did as he continues to experiment different ways as the sound of explosion is heard in the courtyard that frightens the maid and soldier alike.
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Time gradually pass by, Leon now gasping for air look at reck sight in front of him as he thought to himself.
[Sprits Accumulated: 0/100]
'That's all for now I guess..' Leon looks up in the sky to determine the time as he sees the sun is already positioned high up.
'Crap! it's almost time for Lunch, Mother will scold me if I'm late. Gotta hurry!'
[ Status: Fatigue
Name: Leon Hearth
Age: 10 years old
Race: Human/???
Anima: Soul Shaman
Sprits Accumulated: 1/100
Spells: Focus, Spirit Blast, -others locked- ]