Magic
Another few months and I finally met my father. Just right after I started doubting that I had one, he came and picked me up in my process of crawling.
"Finally, I saw my son." He kissed me on my soft cheeks, while his beard was spiky and even scratched my smooth skin.
"Waa." I kinda tried to move him away from my face, but he just laughed and continued to scratch me even further, until mother saved me.
"Honey! He is clearly uncomfortable." My mother snatched me from my father and started comforting me with head pats.
"I saw him for the first time c'mon..." Imaginary tears were dropping from my father's eyes.
"Then stop working for the Royal Family, you don't have to do these expeditions anymore. It's not only dangerous, but you need to spend time with family too." My mother started scolding him right in front of me.
I think I solved the puzzle of why my sister was so emotionless.
Our father isn't just head of Noble house Auraes', but also he works in the military for dungeon explorations. He has a reputation as a strong magician...
Yes, I already did quite a bit of research about magic. I already know it exists and I'm curious about how I should do it, I just need to get my hands on some books about magic.
Anyway, my father is actually a mid-silver core stage magician. Does this mean that he is strong in terms of power? I guess, since he is a valuable asset for the military. In a magic dependable world, strong magicians in the military were like a bomb. That was why my mother wanted him to finish his career as a military officer.
"Anyway, how is Var doing?" Father asked mom, she just shrugged.
"As usual, but lately she got attached to little Val here~" I got again head patted by mom.
"Good to hear, from your letters I was getting really worried." A relieved sigh came out from my father.
"Waa." Again making some noises I pulled my hands towards my father. Just because he cares about us, I will gift him.
Of course, after seeing my action his eyes sparkled in excitement. He jumped towards me and mother parted his hand to hug us.
"Dada." I got scared of getting squished by my parents, so I decided to play a little trick on them.
"H-He... just called out for you. I lost..."
"Yes, Val called me first instead of you~"
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[2 Years Later]
Aurae's Household.
Finally, when I can move around, ask questions freely without any care in this world. Obviously, my curiosity about magic reached its peak, I just can't think about anything other than magic.
My sister already awakened when she was 10. Impressive for a human child, in this world, but apparently elves awaken way earlier. This still shouldn't hold me back anyway, I'm already dying of boredom.
So awakening my mana core is my main mission. Since my parents are already mages and magical abilities are passed with genes, I should be one too just like my sister Var.
I decided that I will try forming a core now. I live in a noble family, so it should be fairly easy to get away from unnecessary attention. My father is a strong mage at that.
'How do I sense those particles?' In a book I read about awakening, first, you had to sense particles in meditating-pose fully concentrated on seeing particles with closed eyes.
I sat in meditating-pose, closed my eyes, and tried to sense those particles. I also tried to imagine them myself, but nothing in particular changed.
Later I got a brilliant idea. Something I don't remember existing in my past life, some feeling that never actually existed in previous memories. Not that it worked at first, I still had to imagine particles myself. But when the new feeling became clearer over time, I just kept going.
Gathering all particles in one single dot in my belly. Don't know why it's so hard to awaken at the age of, for example, 8, when I can do it at 2 years old. My sister is also quite intelligent when it comes to magic, so it's a mystery for me why she awakened only 2 years earlier than normal...
Maybe because I have past-life experience? I highly doubt that this has something to do with it. I didn't have contact with mana particles in my past life and now it's bending my command. The process is absolutely different from the one described in the book.
Hate to say it, but I'm totally not normal. I'm what humans would call 'Abnormality' despite being in a magical world.
"Val? What are doing here?" My sister's voice interrupted my thinking process.
"I'm twwying to do magic sis." Quickly replying I continued my meditation.
After some time of pretending to be meditating, I opened one eye... My sight met with Var's eyes.
"Oh come on sis! I can't just do magic when you are stawwing at me like that!" I shouted, but she still stared at me.
"Ah!!! If I had magic, I would bonk you with an ice bat."
*Boom*
(3'rd POV)
It was one of those routine days for the House of Auraes.. Maids were doing their usual job, just as other workers in this prestigious noble house.
Mama Aurae, Vanessa was doing paperwork instead of her husband. Papa Aurae, Varlam was just resting after another dungeon exploration. (Original names they have, the author just fantasy never had.)
The Aurae family owned a lot of business activities that had to be taken care of. Paperwork is an important part too, so instead of doing his work. Papa Aurae was just lazing around, while Mama Aurae was doing hard work.
*Boom*
The sound of a big explosion reached them. Shock waves reached them, shattering glasses in the whole household. Instead of searching for what caused this, parents slumped down on the ground.
In fear...
Sudden fear invaded their minds, without them even understanding what they feared. There wasn't anything near them, they were the only ones in the office. Staring at each other with wide eyes one of them dared to ask.
"W-What was that?" Vanessa, being a mother, was worried about her children more than anything at the moment. The same could be said about Varlam.
"We have to check for Var and Val." He ignored all fear in him and ran out of the room at a crazy speed.
Meanwhile, the duo of brother and sister were in the backyard of the household. They were also surprised and frightened by what happened, mostly Valnyk. Because right after that kind of explosion, he heard the same terrifying roar from that same memory. Driven out of his own soul, this roar reached everyone in the vicinity including Varay and his parents.
Their surroundings were almost the same as it was before. Only 'little' cracks made a difference...
"Phew, you are alright..." Papa Aurae just arrived at the scene while panting. He ran around the whole Aurae household under a minute, he sure spent some stamina.
"What the..." When he saw cracks spreading from the place where Val was standing, he was shocked.
Val clearly has done something similar to forming mana-core. It could be the only reason for the explosion, yet Varlam couldn't sense mana-core in his son.
Because it wasn't there. Valnyk didn't have mana-core, for some mysterious reason. All mana particles he gathered in one dot previously were explosively repelled outside of his body doing this devastating damage to the ground and glasses.
"Are you okay Val?" Varay asked her brother, visibly worried for him.
"Yeah, just a little tired." Answered Valnyk with closed eyes, while he was laying on the ground.
"I'll carry you to bed champ."
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(Valnyk's POV)
"Now what the hell is this?" I opened my eyes.
The moment that explosion happened my vision was blinded with almost the brightness. I would compare it to, leaving the cinema after watching a long movie and meeting with the sun's gaze. Right now I got at least used a little to this same light.
What am I seeing now is probably unimaginable for others. The same particles that I was gathering in one dot to awaken my core were chaotically flying around in the air. A whole lot of particles with different colors and I could see all of them. Even with their little movements, I could catch it in my sight like slow motion.
Can't say that it wasn't exhausting. just looking at soo many movements at the same time makes my head explode from information overload, in addition to that soo many colors on particles with the size of an atom. I'm sure before that explosion, I wouldn't be able to tell difference between all those particles.
But now I can tell difference in the smallest of details.
"Damn, my eyes hurt." I wanted to search for some mirror to look at the condition of my eyes.
But my mother's small mirror was cracked. The only thing that remained was small broken parts on the floor...
Just when I looked down on the floor I saw my eyes.
Black vertical pupils with previous black iris switched with scarlet-red.
"What the actual f-..."
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Another chappie. :)))