Magic

"Kid, let's eat."

"Okay."

"You too Belle, your mom made a special dinner for us."

"Yay, special special!"

In the Residential District where every resident of Merchant City lived. There was one particular house that looks ordinary. In fact, this house was indeed ordinary until one day, a homeless boy, saved the head of the family. An old man who was saved then invites the boy to live in his home together with his family. One month already passed since then, and the once ordinary house was no longer ordinary.

Yup, that's me! That day, what I need the most was a place for sleep and foods for eat. It was fortunate that my sche—my plan was successful and the old man invites me to live with his family. Otherwise, there was no otherwise as I didn't prepare a backup plan back then and I 100% sure he will invite me.

A life-saving event is no joke! It's not as simple as a mere debt. If you were saved by someone, as long as you still have a conscience, you would instinctively feel that you owed a lifetime debt to your savior. This was especially true for this full of violence world.

Okay, stop the crap. Belle was old man's only daughter and she's now only 10 years old. And I learned that this old man's name is Mile while his wife is Emy. Emy was very thankful to me that I saved her husband. She treated me like her own son. Even that old man changed the way he called me to "kid."

When I mentioned that this house is no longer ordinary after I moved here, that was not an exaggeration.

That day after I was invited to live with this loving family, I have literally solved the place and foods problem. And what comes up after that was money, I lacked money and need to think something to earn a lot of money in the short time period. As I don't plan to stay here forever with this family.

Thus from my experience regarding business from my previous world, I decided to help this old man business as this was the most possible choice to make money rather than starting my own. Old man Mile's business was not only food, but it's ranged from daily necessities to a rare artifact. It's just that when that incident happened, the store is still under reconstruction.

First of all, this world had not been exposed to the cruel business things like the one from my previous world. So I could introduce some of it here and gain first-hand profit. I taught old man Mile things like "increase the price to two-fold before put a quarter discount" "make set of tickets that if you manage to collect a set you will have a chance to win a grand prize, but never actually make the last ticket piece" "sell something that could only obtained if you buy a bundle of other useless things" "buy this for 10 gold, but if you want to use other feature you have to spend another 5 gold" something like that.

"Kid, are you a devil? You actually have a lot of despicable tricks."

I don't hear anything, is someone says something?

This is not me corrupting this humble world, this is me teaching how to survive. Yes after all I was a morally good person, there was no chance I would do something despicable like that.

Just like that, in only one month we got a profit that could be compared to one year income of this old man. As agreed before, the profit was divided fifty-fifty. With this money, the old man hired a Rune Master to set up a defensive formation in his house. This house is no longer ordinary and if anyone with ill intention come closer, it doesn't need to be explained.

Night quickly came as I was sitting in my room, contemplated about what had happened until now.

"At last I have a spare time to think about this. One month ago when I got thrown into this world, that damned god didn't even bother to explain anything. He only gave me a little knowledge about basic magic and nothing more! Damn you at least give me something like a system!"

I felt very thankful that I got thrown into this magical world, but I felt dejected at the same time. You shouldn't have appeared before me if you didn't even want to explain anything! Not only you didn't give me a beginner pack, but also you didn't even give me a background! It's all your fault that I have to suffer!

That's right. It's not my soul that got reincarnated, it's my whole physical body that got reincarnated—or you could say I got thrown into this world. Thus my presence in this world could be said as an anomaly. It came out of nothing. I don't know why, but that god made my body go back to my 14 years old body.

My understanding toward magic is lacking. This past month I always studied the magic. I understood the basic principle of magic from the little knowledge that damned god gave me.

"Magic is used by altering the Laws of Nature using mana. Naturally, if I understand the Laws of Nature, I could alter it using mana. Laws of Nature is like physics in my previous world. But it's not that easy, if I want to use [Light Body Enhancement] magic like I previously used to run from old man Mile, I need to understand the process of making the density of the air around me to be less denser than the surrounding air, thus making my body lighter. It could be done by applying pressure to the air and make the volume higher and I could use mana to do this process. It's hard for other but for me? Haha it's nothing at all!"

I was delighted when I first found out that my knowledge could still be used here. After all, I wasn't a beginner in this field, one could say that I already reach the level of master.

One more example of the application of magic was when I fought with that thug back then. When I threw a rock, it's not only to provoke him but also to provide me with a rock on the ground to make a sudden attack. I cast the [Light Body Enhancement] magic to the rock and made a slight adjustment of a small boost to the bottom of the rock so that the rock could launch and hit that thug right in the chin. That was basically an uppercut! That was my first time trying something like that.

"The capacity of mana in my body is too little. I already buy a book regarding mana cultivation and after I read it, I have a rough understanding about it."

Apparently, there was a big difference between energy and mana cultivation. Energy cultivation that martial artist used would be differentiated to 5 known realm where every realm has 9 level. Every advancement to another level means increased strength and energy capacity with additional distinct and unique feature of each level, while every advancement to another realm means the advancement as a being.

But mage's mana cultivation has no such things. There was no actual distinction of level or realm. Mana cultivation only increases the capacity of mana one could store in his body, that's all. Mage's power level was depended on their understanding toward the Laws of Nature. If they have a lot of mana but only knew a low-level magic, then they could only relied on that and cast it as many as they could, but that was all useless. Because mage need to do the calculation in their mind to cast a magic, and human brain is not that good to handle many calculations simultaneously even if it's the simplest one. And also, mage need to have a good talent of controlling mana to control much mana at the same time.

Simple magic like [Light Body Enhancement] only needs a little bit amount of mana. While magic like [Fireball] need much higher mana. With my current mana capacity, I could only use simple magic. Thus if I want to survive in this world, I need to hurry to cultivate. Luckily, mana cultivation is not a difficult thing and doesn't need any cultivation technique. As long as one has a talent in controlling mana, one could try to absorb it and assimilate it into their body. Of course the greater the talent, the higher the amount of mana they could absorb. But to assimilate it into their body was another story.

The assimilation rate of the mana absorbed was not depending on their talent in controlling mana. Instead, it depended on their perceptive toward the Laws of Nature in their body. That's right, every being have their own unique Laws of Nature in their body, but only mage that could alter it. By altering the Laws of Nature inside one body, one could form circulation routes of mana and the storage called Mana Pool to store the mana. Mana pool would grow along with one's cultivation.

"let's try it!"

I sit cross-legged on the bed and try to absorb mana. Surprisingly, my talent in controlling mana was very good. I could sense a large amount of mana being absorbed into my body through my pores.

"I need to circulate this, or else it would leak out quickly!"

I tried to find the most effective circulation route to mana pool. But that's route was so narrow that only a little bit of mana could make it through.

"Damn it, if only it's wider.. that's right! I could try the parallel routing!"

If there was a traffic jam, then open another way to lessen the jam. It was effective, but..

"It's not enough!"

It was effective, but still not enough. The amount of mana I absorbed was too huge, that even after opening all the available circulation routes in my body it's still not enough.

"Only using all the available routes is not a solution. The crux of the problem is the routes are way too narrow. Is there really nothing I could do?"

I squeeze every last inch of my brain juice to find a solution. When suddenly a light of idea struck my mind.

"Oh that's right! This circulation route was formed when I still only have a little bit of understanding of magic. I could just reconstruct it! But.. how to do that? Looks like I have to destroy the current routes and completely reformed a new one."

How dangerous was that? Destroying the circulation routes is no joke. If one failed, one's Laws of Nature would be distorted. That was equivalent to go berserk, no different than the mindless berserk beast.

"In mage history, there was no known person successfully reconstruct their circulation routes. All of them was gone berserk. But, I'm an anomaly in this world. My Laws of Nature naturally would be different. Hopefully.."

"This is concerned my future in this world. If I can't even make this success, I might as well just die. After all, I didn't ask to be thrown to this damned world."

"Huft, go!"

After sighing deeply, I used my mana to alter my circulation routes. The process of destroying it was simple. I only need to make my mana to go berserk until it was destroyed. This was the only known way to destroy it, and this was also why if one failed to gain control over one's mana again after destroyed it, one would never be able to reconstruct it and then gone berserk.

But knowing it was impossible to gain control again after gone berserk, I naturally wouldn't do it that way. They might not know, but in my previous world, there were many ways to destroy something! And one of it was to thrust a small crack using an object that has a small surface area at one end and larger at the other end, then it would only need half the effort.

*Crack*Crack*

I made many small cracks on various points in my circulation routes over my body. Just by doing this alone, I felt a tremendous pain that the pain of balls-crushing was seemed negligible. Doesn't mean I ever felt that though!

I condensed my mana at various small cracks and make it to the shape I planned. Then at the same time, I thrusted all of them to the cracks. Then..

*Boom*

My circulation routes have been shattered. My mana pool was still in good shape, and my mana was not going berserk either. It was a huge success! A feat that worth mentioned in history!

"Whoa that was so painful! Let's start the next step!"

I already have the experience of forming the circulation route before. I just need to make an adjustment to form perfectly wide highway-like routes, and make a much more similar parallel routes all over my body. This will make my cultivation to soar to the heaven in short time!

After I finished doing a calculation in my mind, I controlled the mana in the surrounding. And then the next instant..

*Shing*

It was completed without any obstruction.

"Haha, this is great! I am great!"

It was a success. When I tried to absorb mana in the surrounding, none of them leaked out and there was no traffic jam like before!

While I'm still in delight because of my huge success, there was a voice in my mind, the voice that I have heard before.

"Congratulation! You have proved your worth and I have a present for you."

"The Beginner System!"