"Soul Shaman"

'Listen here boy, people who use anima by their awaken abilities must know how to manipulate and absorbed what we called 'Spirits' as I said before every living thing has a soul, and this very land we walk on has a soul too. This soil produces spirits, the moon, and the sun produce spirits even the sky. Except for one thing, we humans can't produce spirits, we can only absorb it and store it in our souls to use our anima abilities.'

'They say in the old era humans can produce spirits once but they were cursed by the Moon Goddess, Buwan. because of greed and wars, they brought upon the race of 'Yatu'. Anyways that's is all for now, will continue this at another time. Farewell'

His scribe teacher once again closes his book and leaves the classroom, Leon listening to the words of his scribe teacher even in his dreams feels already nostalgic. Even though he just left a couple of months ago to go back to the capital city of the empire he still misses his teacher.

His scribe teacher, Ron von Ravensburg is a good teacher, he taught him History, Language, Speech, and about Anima. He taught him for three years when he was six years old, he misses those days being thought by his teacher because this the first time learning things taught by a teacher. In his previous life, because of poverty and being alone just by himself, he doesn't have the luxury to learn as he was busy just by living, scavaging for food in the trash, begging in the streets, seeking shelter when raining, those are miserable days gone now.

Right now, He has a Family and a roof over his head, he was very thankful for this second chance that has been given to him. He will treasure all this moment for the rest of his life.

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It is been a day since the awakening ritual happens in the courtyard, Leon Hearth who has awakened his anima is lying on the bed sleeping soundly and at his side is his mother who is taking care of the body of Leon. A sudden twitch in the eyelids of Leon.

Leon opens his eye as he sees the familiar ceiling of his bedroom, as he lies in his bed weakly he turns his head to the left and sees his mother there sitting and smiling worriedly at him as she stares at him.

"Your awake, my child, rest easy now you have just awakened your anima so you're pretty weak right now. Here, eat this soup so you recover." Said his mother as she grabs a bowl of egg soup on the table beside his bed, she scoop a spoonful of egg soup, blow it up lightly, and fed it to him.

Leon opens his mouth to drinks the soup brought to him by his loving mother as he quietly savors the soup. Timepass by without him knowing as finishes his soup he spoke to his mother.

"Mother, you must be tired, you can rest now too, I can take care of myself." Said Leon as he notices the dark shade under her eyes. His mother must have been pretty worried about him.

"Yes, my child has grown up he even taking care of his mother, rest easy, now," said Elaine as she kisses his forehead, grabs the empty bowl before leaving the room.

Leon stares at the door at the leaving silhouette of his mother before uttering words he wanted to say just after he had woken up.

"Status"

A blue projection of data has popped into his vision as he utters those words.

[ Status: Weak

Name: Leon Hearth

Age: 10 years old

Race: Human/???

Anima: Soul Shaman

Sprits Accumulated: 0/100

Spells: Focus, Spirit Blast, -others locked- ]

His status has changed being now his anima had awakened and with the skills being changed into spells and with the added spirits accumulation too. But one thing that remains unchanged is his race still has the question marks in it. Again, He just shrugged it off, he thought someday all will be revealed to him.

He looked at his status wondering what it was about the soul shaman, he mentally clicks the word and a blue projection of description of the thing popped up.

[ Soul Shaman: A chosen soul who communicates to the world, the one who communicates to the dead and the living, by borrowing its powers it can lead to misfortune or fortunes that depends on the one who was using it. -locked- ]

'That doesn't sound good and not a lot of information on what being a Soul Shaman is. Mmmm... and there's that locked section I wonder how can it be unlocked though? Whatever let me check the spells'

He mentally clicked the Spell: Focus.

[ Focus:

By focusing on the will of the soul, the soul attracts the spirit of the world and store in its core to unleash the magical abilities of the soul

Spirits Accumulation: 1/per minute ]

'This must the one mention by Teacher Ron, In the old era at the time of war between different races, the humans are cursed by the moon goddess, Buwan. As a result of not being to produce spirits, they can't use their anima abilities and these, in turn, caused them a lot of casualties in the war so the human at that time seek forgiveness and plead to the moon goddess. But the moon goddess denies them of their request.'

'The humans at that time stubborn and unwilling to lose the war with the help of wise sages devise up an alternative solution at that moment, the spell 'focus' was created'.

Even though they were cursed by the moon goddess, humans still today worship her because they still believe that one day they will be forgiven of their sins.

'Let's try it shall we'

As he thought of using focus a lump of light in the center of his body is gathering slowly but surely, after a minute or so he utter 'Status' gain in his mind to see the changes.

[ Status: Weak

Name: Leon Hearth

Age: 10 years old

Race: Human/???

Anima: Soul Shaman

Sprits Accumulated: 1/100

Spells: Focus, Spirit Blast, -others locked- ]

There it was, a change in his spirit accumulation with added 1 out of 100 in this case it will take about 2 hours at most before it will be filled up.

'not bad'

He dismisses this for a moment before turning his attention to the other spell.

'Now what about the other one spirit blast sound cool by the name of it'

Leon mentally clicks the word of spell: spirit blast.

[ Spirit Blast:

By gathering the spirits around your hands, you unleash a powerful blast that can knock away foes and burns them from in close proximity

Used Spirits Accumulated: 10/per shot ]

'A pretty useful skills combine with swordsmanship that will be taught by father it will be a pretty good combo, nice!'

'I will try this tomorrow'

he celebrated on gaining a useful anima with rather cool abilities, he tidies his bed sheet and prepares to rest. he blows the candles at the side and closes his eyes to rest his tired body.

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Soon the morning comes and the light of sunlight shines upon Leon's face as he slowly opens his eyes and yawns lightly he prepares to wash his face in the basin prepared by the maids of the castle every morning.

*Splash*

A splash of water splashes his face as he cleans it, he grabs a dry towel prepared also by the maids dry his face with the towel on hand. He walks into the wardrobe to change into plain white clothes to prepare for his daily morning training.

*knock!* *knock!* *knock!*

As he just finishes changing clothes a knock is heard on his door with the voice of the maid who was working this time.

"Young Master, the Lord told me to inform you that he will be starting to train you now on the way of the sword, Right now he was waiting at the courtyard"

"Yes! I'm coming!" said Leon excitedly leaves his room, grabbing the wooden sword he uses to beat up the training dummy in the past three years on the way. Leon jump in joy at thought of finally learning the Hearth Family Sword Technique.

Leon didn't know at this moment, that this will be the start of his hellish training!

[ Status: Normal

Name: Leon Hearth

Age: 10 years old

Race: Human/???

Anima: Soul Shaman

Sprits Accumulated: 100/100

Spells: Focus, Spirit Blast, -others locked- ]