8 TRAINING DAYS

My days were passing slowly in the house without being able to get out of the house a single time. Dad and Mom were very strict in this matter. They were so serious about the matter that even Freda was allowed to go outside for a long time. My health has already recovered very much. But color of scene remained pale white and dark circles under my eyes were very clear.

My mind was howling for something to do. Without having something to do, the only thing that I was able to do was to play with Freda which was the most boring thing to do. Just think about this, although being three years old, I was actually an adult. Playing with a child was a shame for me who had dedicated his whole life to research.

But there was a thing that had attracted me and it was magic. There was so much about it that I don't even know. I started to ask questions about magic to everyone. Freda's knowledge about it was nothing much than mine. Mom had also very little knowledge about it. But every smallest amount of knowledge was important for me. Being a commoner, even the basic knowledge about magic was very hard to get, and learning about spells was an impossible dream.

But Dad had some basic knowledge about it as he had been working for a Noble for a long time. So Every night after returning, it was becoming an unspoken rule to tell me about magic. Dad also didn't mind about it. After the incident a few months ago, he was becoming softer day by day to me.

'In this world, magic was divided into some branches, and for every magic spell mana was required. According to dad, the branches were 'Earth','Water','Wind','Fire' and 'Light'. Dad had seen some of its uses and to use a spell, one has to learn the runic word of that spell. Normally Nobles have to attend the royal mage academy to learn those. Having no chance to attend the academy I have to leave the matter regarding spells. So my main focus should be about mana.

From what I know, mana is everywhere. And we are able to take some part of it in our body without knowing. But to use magic we have to store that mana to a certain level.'

'This was basic knowledge till now what I was able to get from everyone. From the looks I can assume that this invisible mana which can use to power spells is a energy particle. And perhaps this has also existed in my previous world, But our human body was unable to use it or store it.

But in this world, may be from evolution or other means the humans able to use it including me. Without any advance instruments , researching about environmental is impossible but as the mana in human body has practical effect , may be I can know more about it.'

So I started to focus on my mana through meditation. I had already experienced what it feels like when I blasted the two men in black at street. Since mana is inside my body, there will be some way to feel or experienced it.

Despite of having an immense concentration power I was unable to sense anything that day. But I didn't stop there. It has already become my obsession an until I succeeded there was no point in stopping and also in the house there was nothing to do all day.

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Two years had passed without noticing. Although I was still not allowed to go outside, Freda was allowed to go outside. Without Freda I completely drowned me in the meditation everyday without taking a break.

But the most important matter was that I had already achieved a big success in this area. After many tries at last I noticed a faint heat flow through my veins. Since I already knew the feeling of body without mana as In Earth mana did not exist, It was unnatural feeling to me.

'I continued to focus on that heat flow for more than a year. It has grown quite a lot from back then and now I can feel it without meditating or focusing like it has become a part of my body like limb.

But I didn't stop meditating as I discovered a big fact that as I focus on the flow of mana in my body, I can slightly control it's flow. Although it was negligible at the first but now it has grown with my meditating. I have Intuition that if I can increase it, It will be better for my purpose.'

I continued to focus on my mana training. Oneday I was very close to my objective and almost gathered most of mana in the palm of my hand. I wanted to see what happen if I can force some of mana out of my body.

Taking a breath I focused some of mana to flow out my body but it was very hard thing to do. Drops of sweat was forming all over my body and in a minute my shirt was completely wet. I tried harder and then I noticed a small sphere of purple blue light was forming on my palm. It's size was like small peanut. Seeing that there was huge grin in my face. At last after two and an half year I was successful. But they happiness of my success destroyed my focus and that moment the light sphere cracked and dispersed with thunderous noice and the sudden force pushed me against the wall so hard that my whole body become numb. All the items in the room was messed up and many of those broke. From that day any thing related to mana became forbidden for me in the house.

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After like 4 or 5 months when winter ended, I started to demand for ging outside. During previous three years I have grown up a lot. My growth speed was astonishing and pretty crazy. I looked like a 10 years old boy. And I had almost catch up my hight to Freda. As no one can recognize me as the kid who injured the two guards of that Noble. I was pretty sure me going outside was much safe now. But Mom was totally disagree with that. But going outside was very important.

'In previous few months , Although they restricted me from doing any experiment, I had already gained some experience about mana. Without meditating it was quite easy for me practise to control my mana. Although this process was less efficient from meditating.

In those months , I continued to practice every second , every minute and every hour during day. It was becoming a habit like breathing and my flow of mana in my body had increased like ten times from before. It was like the capacity to store mana was also increasing. This fact was confusing.

According to Dad, the capacity of storing mana in one's body is fixed. So how can it be possible for me to feel this increasing flow of mana. At first I thought that I was just able to sense more mana with time. But in nowadays I noticed the fact that with increasing mana my body was also getting stronger.

And to know much I have to experiment more about how much mana I can spend. In the house it was impossible and there was great risk of destroying the whole house. The best way is to practice in the forest. That place was without people and the chances of people noticing was slim.'

So I continued to cry about the permission to go to the forest. Despite of Mom's huge disagreement, Dad gave me permission to go to the forest but with a huge list of conditions.