Mana core.

Zei now remembering his moment's with the bird and how he could have died, if he did not execute his actions perfectly because of his much experience from battles back on earth, and his training here more with the sword.

While Mari was hugging him still, Mark left for his work or something, to leave Zei so he can rest.

However Zei was having a diffrent emotion, something he felt when he killed that bird. It was a emotion unknown to him.

"Growing stronger, yes this is it" Zei - No Don lying in his bed with his quilt over his body while Mari was hugging him with her eyes closed. could not see Don's big smile that even made his eyes bend. His hair was a little curly and with his black eyes and white skin curving in, because of the smile showing his clear sign of Determination and happines.

"It's true power, with true power nobody will ever be able betray me, and even of they tried i'd kill them all."

"Yes this is how the world truly works, you don't need an army when you are the army"

"only the weak people need an army to band together just to defeat people with less nummbers them themselfs that's also weaklings."

"if you're weak then die, if you're strong you live"

"This is how the world really works, in the past i thought you had to have nummbers in order to realise your goals"

"Not anymore, from all i have seen untill now, when you stand at the top, There is no need for nummbers only you count"

"I swear from today onwards i'll become the most powerful being, and conqure the world but this time i won't need to destroy almost all of it to rule a small part, NO I'LL CONQURE IT ALL!!.

"there won't be land where i cant reside, everything will be under my command"

Zei then clemched his fists so hard it started to bleed. This blood was proof of his new commitment to grow stronger in this new world.

Mari then stopped hugging him and got up, she saw his eyes closed and him resting, the smile she showed having no trace ever being there.

She then kissed him and walked out of the room to make dinner.

…

Time passed and now, Zei was 2 Years old, he had grown a bit compared to before, he is now 107cm tall. And he's muscles where very detailed, you could see he looked like a handsome very young kid.

"4995", "4996", "4997", "4998", "4999", "5000".

"Done" Zei said while panting on the ground with his sword near him laying beside him.

"Good job son, you did 5000 sword swings, now go and take a shower you're sweating."

"Yes" Zei replied, yes Zei could now talk, usually babby's can only start to talk when their 2 and say basic things like "more milk" but because of the pill enhancing ur brain compacity, it was natural for Zei to start talking, and understanding was was said and being done.

So Zei got up and walked to the bathroom. Well it was more like a bucket of water big enough to go inside. So Zei relaxed his body after the hard exercise.

After getting out of the bed, Zei started thinking about what to do next, but there was no need because his dad came up to him.

"Come here my son" Mark came after he cleaned up.

They then walked to the garden again.

After Mark stopped in the grass he took out a book before Zei could say anything.

This was the same Book they bought in the tower, the "adept mana cultivation book" it said at the front and beneath that was the rune.

"My son, it's time you form your core" Mark said while looking serious, you could see from his beard and with his eyes glaring at Zei, that he wasn't taking this lightly.

He then handed the book to Zei. "Whenever you're ready, When you see the scattered rune try to assemble it. Then focus on your brain and try to form a small ball there."

Zei then looked down at the book, it was plain, there was nothing special about it beside the rune, and it was also very thin with no pages is what it looked like from the outside."

Zei then opened the book and, immidietly infornt of him, it started to glow and runes of small parts started to form infront of his vision, it was scattered but there was not that many.

"What should i form it as" Zei thought to himself, then he tryed form it as a triangle.

"ARRR" Zei clenchet his teath, his brain felt like it was about to explode, so he closed the book and the runes dissapered.

"WhAt Is tHIs" Zei said to his father,

"i wannted to show you what would happen if you assemble runes in a random way. And nothing is better then experience." Mark then continued to explain,

"Because this is the adept realm that even 2 year old's can get into, the backlash is not as hard if you fail misserably, so it was the best way to show you what happends if you're unprepared to go into the next realm."

Zei was sweating a bit from the pain, but he understood, he would have done the same to his kids of he had one.

"What should i do then" Zei asked him.

"Look at the cover of the book and look at the rune, follow how it looks like when assembe."

Zei looked at the rune on the cover of the book and memorised how the cicle looked like. Then he opend the book again.

The runes floated out of the book again and assembled in the air, so he started to carefully assemble them, if he placed one wrong he world get pain in his head, so he removed the wrong part and placed a new until he got it right.

Now the rune was finnaly done and it started to glow. A bright light errupted from it and flew into his forhead right into his brain.

Zei calmed down and focused on his body he could feel a warmness in his head, so he started to focus on it.

Mark then said "focus on forming a core, the spell is made to help you, that's why it's so experience. He then remembered the price and just shook his head, but it was worth it for his son.

Zei then tried to form a small ball inside his brain, he could feel the spell taking some type of energy from the world around him. Then a very small ball formed in the middle of his brain

It started comnecting with every cell from his body and formed a bond with it. Then the mana core grew inside his brain in the middle, and bacame as big as a small ball being connected with his brain.

"Pheww", "HA" "HA" Zei started phanning on the grownd and sweat covering his hole body.

"HAHAHAHA very good son" Mark started lauging, then he calmed down, "you have now joined the first tire of the adept realm, How do you feel"

"Powerful" Zei said while laying on the grownd.

This made Mark burst into laughter "That's my son alright, HAAAHHHAA"

When Zei did say he felt powerful. He really did mean it, he had now changed…