Core

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It's been a long time. I can already walk; I'm no longer fed milk and don't sleep in a bed with walls. As I am now 6 years old. I can even speak like my mom. But mom still loves me like before, like I was still a baby. Sometimes when I'm reading, she sneaks up on me and grabs me for a hug.

I haven't seen my dad even once, meaning that I can't confirm if he belongs to Theodre tribe. But I will find out that soon by myself. I have a feeling, it will happen today, the forming of my core and first ring around it.

I waited till my mom had fallen asleep. I checked that everything is all right with her. Sometime ago I noticed that mom spoke in her dreams and repeated a name.

"Max, max, Max"

She said it over and over again. I felt bad for her, so I sneaked in her bed. I hugged her and she stopped. She had some tears in her eyes but hugged me back. We slept like that and when we woke up, she was very happy and said that I can always come sleep with her, if I have nightmares.

Seems like she's sleeping well tonight, lucky for me. I went for my usual position. I made a triangle with my all of my fingers, sat with a straight back and started breathing slowly. I closed my eyes to sense mana easier. I started to sense it, everyone can sense mana if they try but not everyone can command and borrow its power.

I started to gather mana, about a year ago I achieved my goal to gather mana though my skin and not though mouth like most people. I can even do it while moving but I don't want to, mom is a water mage and can notice when I gather mana.

After gathering a huge amount of mana, I channeled it to right of my heart. I started to from like another hear from mana. It's a slow process but the safest one out there or so I read. I channeled mana and made something like blood veins. And because mana can go through anything it doesn't move or take any space. Now for the crucial and most dangerous part.

After forming the core, I must make the ring fast. The ring will stop the core from breaking, If I am too late now it will explode, in the worst care I die and in the best case I need to repeat this and awaken at the age of 10. But don't want to wait anymore.

So, I was fast, I created something, that resembles a ring. It formed; I made a mana vein from the core to the ring so mana doesn't run out as it spins.

The core works very simply, the core stores the mana and the rings will purify it. Purifying, makes it usable for your magic and can make it more powerful and faster. So when you want to cast magic, you need to gather some mana and use, but you cannot hae full core all the time, because like food, it goes bad. However, you also need to have some so that your rings keep spinning.

I was ready. It wasn't very hard, and the chances of death were slim. Now mana will channel around my entire body into my core from my skin as mana goes through it. But with one ring and a core this small, I can only launch one spell without gathering any extra mana.

I felt very happy and was ready to go to sleep but suddenly everything went black.

I woke up from what seemed like a long sleep. But I wasn't in my room anymore. I was in something that I haven't been in before. It was like I was standing on a white floor with no walls, there was only a blue sky and clouds around me.

I just looked around me for a long time before I noticed bubbles ahead of me. I quickly walked towards them, if I was an adult, it would have taken like 10 seconds. But I was a 6 year old child so it took some more time.

There were hundreds of bubbles there all had different kind of thing inside of them. Like a picture or a painting. I walked around until I heard something, well not literally. It felt like something was calling for me, I looked around and noticed a bubble. It looked like a happy place, it had all kinds of beautiful waterfalls in it and sunny air. I wanted to touch it, but I felt something else from it too. Something cold and nasty.

I retrieved my hand started to walk again. I heard 6 other bubbles calling for me, they were all similar. Looking like a paradise but as I got closer it felt like a cold and slimy. I walked around for what felt like a hour. I heard something call for me again. But this time it was different.

The calling felt cold but also young. Like a baby was calling for me. I noticed a dark bubble. I walked towards it. And saw nothing? It was too dark to see anything. I only saw something white on the ground but everything else was dark. I didn't want to touch it but when my hand got closer. I felt something, warmth and safe. Like I was grabbing my mom's hand.

I touched the ball and everything went black again.

I woke up again but this time I wasn't in my room or with the bubbles. It was like I was on my couch watching a tv show, but the tv wasn't showing sports or news, but a reality show. I saw some people, with minimal clothing walking in the snow. I tried to look around me but I couldn't I was forced to watch this show. I watched for sometime and then I saw it, they were praying. Their hands looked like a symbol. It reminded me of a normal prayer on Earth but their fingers were crossed only halfway and looked like wings.

I saw the girl that was praying yell something while praying and then something weird happened. I got a thought like I was thinking what the girl said. I only thought that I hope that God will same them. I wish so too. I noticed a cave 100 meters away from them. They couldn't see it but I could.

That's when something even more weird happened, like a spotlight a light shined towards the cave that I thought of, the humans saw it and ran towards it.

I wondered what just happened but for the third time my eyes closed and I lost consciousness.