Chance

" Rue Gracefall, that's my name now" I thought in my mind. I really liked the sound of this name. I didn't know what that strange spell was about and how the priest came up with this strange name.

But I was happy with my name. After the priest named me, my mother picked me up happily in her arms and kissed my cheeks.

And said happily " Rue my child I hope you are happy with your name, Gracefall is our family name, so your full name is Rue Gracefall".

Next came my father he pinched my cheeks and said " Rue is a great name, I am sure he will love it"

Well he was right I liked the name it was cool and befitting of my greatness. Soon all the guests showered me with their compliments.

My mother brought me back to my room and placed me on bed. A baby needs lots of rest in a day. After my mother patted and swung me a few times, I started to act like I fell asleep.

Soon after my mother left I opened my eyes and a wicked smile formed on my face. Well I decided that I won't do anything suspicious until I got a little older, but my curiosity and hunger for power got the better of me.

Also my mother won't be back for a few hours, so I won't get another opportunity like.

I got down from the bed and started my cockroach crawl towards the shelf. Soon the book was in my hands, I opened it quickly, turned the pages and stopped on one page.

Above the page was its title in bold letter " How to form a mana core".

The book mentioned that a child can start forming a mana core when they reach the age of 10 year. That is when they start to feel mana in their surroundings. After they have felt the mana they can form a mana core using two methods.

First one is by naturally circulating mana into their body and creating mana circuits into it and finally forming a sphere like object into their abdomen. But this method required a lot of already present talent into their body and expert guidance since they needed to form circuits into their body to use mana effectively.

Second method was to use something called mana stone, as the name mentioned it's a stone that was filled with mana. One may not need a lot of talent to use this method but they would still need guidance to form the core.

' Interesting and dangerous' I thought in my mind.

The book also mentioned a strange breathing technique that can help you sense mana into your surroundings. Eventually this was a basic technique that was taught to every child when they were around 9 year old.

They will perform this technique for a year and will naturally start to feel and accumulate mana into their body. Once they are familiar with mana they can start forming a mana core.

After I memorised the breathing technique, I put my bug body in a lotus position and started performing the breathing technique.

I took a deep breath through my nose and held it inside me. After that I focused on calming my heart and focused my senses outside of my body.

I was able to do this for 30 seconds until my face became red as a monkey's ass.

' One more time' I thought in my mind and started performing the breathing technique. This time I was able to last much longer than the previous time, it was around 31 seconds.

' He he he' What I am talented at this.

I performed this technique for 10 more times, by the end of it I was drenched in baby sweat and was looking like a red monkey.

I fell forward, my baby booty high in the sky and gasped for air. But still there was a smug smile on my face while I was breathing heavily.

I was happy with this outcome. I was able to perform this technique with this bug body of mine. That means that as I grow I will gradually improve.

That's good then, I am going to feel mana much faster than others. And I will have a better chance of understanding its properties as this will blend into my nature.

Needless to explain when a child learns something at an early age they can become very proficient in it. Take an example of walking and talking. A human baby learns these things first and it becomes second nature to them. Until they can perform these without any effort.

This was a great chance for me. I will be much more efficient in feeling the mana around me with this.

After I was done thinking about my future opportunities I put the back on shelf and started crawling toward my bed.

Soon I reached my bed as I was efficient in cockroach crawl activity at this point. Soon I reached the bottom of bed and stayed there while wrapped around my soulmate.

Well I was sorry for my mother as she will again find me out of bed and will think that I fell because of carelessness. But it was an opportunity that I couldn't let go.

Hopefully she will think that her child is just a little mischievous. After sorting my guilt out, I started performing the breathing technique while lying down.

I performed it a few times and soon was taken out from my trance by a loud scream.

' Here it comes, sorry mother' I thought in my mind apologetically.