‡※‡General Knowledge in Fantasya‡※‡

◇Two years later◇

Two years quickly had passed, Cyrus could be described as an incredible genius!

Because when he was just six months old, he could already speak and understand the language of the world.

Wondering what his first words are?

"Damnable bastard!"

Cyrus shouted at the rat that stole his food, his shout not only shocked the whole family but also Cyrus himself.

When he was one year old, he could speak fluently he even had an accent, not only that he could also read literary works such as books with the help of his mother at that age, he was already gathering basic knowledge until he reaches two years old. Now, at this age, he could move small size boulder, and he was already practicing Mahika.

He had also practiced and recalled the martial arts that he had learned from his previous life, and because of his young age, he faced multiple difficulties in his training.

He had already known that he could never return to his previous life and thus gave up as he accepted the fact. He also cannot recall the memories of his parents and his death. However, when he gave up, he had those extreme feelings of sadness that made him depressed for two months before recovering.

His depression was naturally noticed by his parents and did their best to motivate their son, and even Clair could clearly feel the sadness of her little brother, so what she did was to play with Cyrus whenever they have free time.

After all, of those months of being depressed for an unknown reason, he already accepted his new life, where magic existed, and where he has a sister now, he clearly remembered that he does not have a sibling in his previous life. Now that he has one, he chose to treasure his sister.

Even though he has an adult spirit and the way he acts was matured compared to Clair, he never let his family have a chance to see his adult side and was still faking to be an immature child that knows nothing but to play and learn things.

Nevertheless, what makes Shane and James happy and proud is that Cyrus' learning ability was top notch! He can quickly understand complicated stuff, and he had shown to be able to solve problems that they could not understand by using numbers and unknown letters or symbols.

As he had a high degree of understanding things, he learned or practice Mahika alone in his room.

Even though they are nervous at Cyrus playing Mahika in his room because Cyrus might play fire and burned the whole house down, but gladly as they sighed in relief, Cyrus seems not interested in a fire as he was trying other elements but in the end, he couldn't produce one except fire.

...

Currently, Cyrus was quietly sitting on the grass beneath the tree in the open field of grasslands.

"I've never thought that I would be reborn in this fantasy-like world, and I even brought my memento from my previous life... it became a tattoo, though." He sighed as he stared at his chest.

Despite that, his father had put up an invisible barrier to prevent others from seeing that tattoo; he could still see it with his own eyes. The only person who could see this tattoo was both of his parents and him.

I remember that I was clutching a necklace and I am sure that this is the necklace... However, where did I get it? Cyrus thought to himself before sighing.

"Father is teaching me swords skills, and from the looks of it he was an experienced fighter, while mother, on the other hand, is giving me tips about Mahika, but doing it alone really made it hard to understand because I'm not used to having magic." Cyrus thought to himself as he looked at the skies.

"Hm... If I ask mother if she can teach me about Mahika, would she accept it? Sigh~" He muttered as he exhaled softly

"Then, I'll teach you." A sweet yet familiar voice came towards Cyrus' back, he quickly looked back, and as soon as he saw this figure, he quickly ran towards her, "Mother!"

Huuu! I am glad that what I had said was all in my thoughts! Cyrus nervously thought to himself.

Shane smiled at her son as she scrubs Cyrus' soft and silky hair.

Even though Shane looked young, she was already in her forties, according to Cyrus, when he asked them, curious about what she looked like. She looked young adult, and that already shocked Cyrus. What even made him want to smash his head on the floor was that Shane is undoubtedly very beautiful! She was like a fiery yet cool woman that Cyrus had seen in both of his life.

Her beauty if any man saw her, they would be gone crazy! A vision that could cause the destruction of a kingdom!

"Dear, I kept important books that you shouldn't read before you are at the age of five, those books contain information about the outside world like, and how the world works." Shane smiled as she pinched Cyrus' tiny nose.

The two of them softly sat on the grass under the shade of the tree.

When Cyrus heard that made him quite disappointed and Shane caught this disappointment, ugh, my boy is adorable!

She could not help but kiss Cyrus' forehead, which made Cyrus embarrassed and shy towards his mother.

"Then, I'll explain it now, it would be better listening to me that reading books, right? I can keep things in short so that you could understand, okay?" Cyrus was excited when he had heard this as he quickly nodded, "Okay, okay!"

Shane stood up and started to walk back and forth in front of Cyrus as she explains things to her son,

"Now then... This world is called Fantasya, in this world, there are at least 3 known continents that are separated by oceans. One continent is called a Divine world where the history said that Gods possibly live in that continent while the other continent was called Hades, while it is the opposites of the gods, they have demons there."

"While at the center or between the two continents there is a huge chunk of landmass bigger than the two continents, this continent is where occupied and dominated by humans, and demi-humans, this continent that we are currently stepping in is called Celestia."

"In this continent, there are at least ten major countries, ten major clans, and one huge academy that protect the whole continent, preventing demonic and holy beings from invading our continent. And in this continent, there are thousands of clans, and the ten major clans that I had mentioned, not only they protect the continent but also protect the kingdom they reside in. In short, they are also the kingdom's assets."

"The system in this continent is like... the academy is absolute, while followed by top 10 major kingdoms, and each kingdom had one major clan followed by hundred clans."

"As for why the academy dominates the entire kingdom, was because the academy itself is a huge kingdom floating above the skies of Celestia. This academy became a kingdom when the Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Academy are joined or docked together in the Central Academy. This made them the most powerful and most influential in the continent."

"No country has the guts to provoke them as they are benefiting from them by sending students there, even the ten major clans had no choice but to kneel in front if they ever provoked an inner student, in short, if you kicked a chick the mother hen would kill you and even hunt you down where ever you are unless you are outside the continent. The Academy students, of course, are coming from the clans and the kingdom recruiting them to nobles, to clan masters, to even commoners can become a student there."

"The principal of the Academy was also the emperor of the whole Fantasia kingdom, he was governing in the central academy as well as residing there, and he was called emperor Jade. His strength was said to be terrifying that could go toe to toe with the leader of the divine god of the divine world and the demon emperor of Continent of Hades... (He almost killed us too...)"

"In this world Cyrus, there is an absolute rule that everyone knows, in fact, this world can be said a barbaric world, and because of that, death from murder, rape, and other heinous crimes are prevalent in this world. Thus the mentality of every citizen of this world that is inscribed in our hearts, and that is "Weak is food for strong" or "Powerful Rules everything" or in some idioms, there are "The weak are Prey to the Strong." Even if there is a major noble or major clan master, if they provoke the strong, they have to beg for mercy also if the person they provoked was a simple commoner with no background at all!"

"One cannot disobey the strong and weak cannot mock the strong unless if they want to have a death wish... Sadly there are still kinds of people who use power to threaten the weak... in this world; peace is improbable to happen." Shane sighs in reassignment as if she had experienced those things. This clearly indicated that she was telling her experiences, and Cyrus obviously noticed those facial expressions that she makes every time she explains things.

"Now, if you want to be strong, that is simple... Train and Train hard! Think that there is always someone above you, and you have to surpass them! This is the only way we can live in this barbaric world that we are living in. Now Cyrus, as my son, I don't want you to suffer in this world, and with that mentality of yours, I know you can understand me, right?"

"In this world, Cyrus, I'm telling you now that we will be separated by our fate, we can meet, but we cannot stay in peace, remember that there will always be someone above you, and above that someone, there's also above them, and this continues until it stops from the creation of all things. Do you understand?"

"As while we are still here around you, your father and I would teach everything that you need to do to survive in this world before we could let you hone your ability by yourselves. Alright?" Shane looked as she stares at Cyrus' eyes.

Cyrus was also looking at his mother confidently and sincerely, his mind was a bit confused about his parents leaving them behind, but knowing that this world is barbaric, he finds it reasonable to be stronger and have a journey of their own.

Everything that Shane had tackled was beneficial and very important for his future life, and with this, he had already a goal in this new life that he had. He had a goal to adventure around the continent, not only that but also the holy and devilish lands of the entire world. The second goal he had is to make peace possible, the idea of evil and hatred makes him agitated that he wanted to pull out every root of problems so that it would not grow ever again, that agitation was clearly coming from the past that he could not remember.

However, before he could make this everything possible, he should be stronger and stronger than anyone else that suppressed him. Still, even though he knew that it would take a ton and tons of time and years before it could happen, he is not a human anymore, he is a demi-human that could live for hundreds or even thousands of years!

His aim has been made! He will adventure the world! And remove the root of evil!

His eyes were suddenly flashed fiercely, this was clearly noticed by Shane that shook her soul, she could not explain what the feelings she had felt are, but she felt the worries on her heart vanished instantly!

"Yes! Mother! I had decided on what I will do and what my aim in this life that I have is! Even though we don't have a family background, we can still fight with our raw strength!" Cyrus fiercely said.

This made Shane smile in smug, but happy at the same time, "Good! Now I'll properly teach you about Mahika!"

Finally! Cyrus was happy when he heard what his mother had said.

Cyrus poured all of his attention on her mother because everything in this world is being run by Mahika! Meaning, it is ubiquitous yet essential!

"First of all, you have to learn the elements of Mahika, there are two classifications of Mahika, one is the basic elements, which are Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind and the second classification is the major elements which are, Lightning, Light, Death, Shadow, Explosion, Poison, Air, Gravity, and lastly Life," Shane explained as she walked back and forth... She seems to enjoy this... Cyrus could not help to smile wryly.

"Those were all elements of Mahika, now every element has the same purpose but different power, by means, you could materialize it, throw it, cast it, or coat yourself with it. Not only Mahika could be used in fighting, but also martial arts are also vital. Martial arts had many varieties, and we use it because Mahika is only limited base on our capacity to store our Anima. Anima is also called dou qi, it is the vital energy which exists in all things, in short, it is the natural energies of the world! This creates elements and strength, meaning this is very important for us cultivators!"

"Back to Mahika, Cyrus, my dear, you have an amazing talent; you have fire element, lightning, and gravity two major elements, which have two offenses and one defense, well... In fact. Gravity is both offense and defense! These three elements are an extremely terrifying combination that could make countries cowers in fear, but as you know, you cannot properly wield it, no... You still haven't even awakened them yet. Only the fire element one."

Hearing this made Cyrus realized something, "Then mother if I have a natural affinity to fire, is it the reason why I can't use water or wind mahika? And how I can activate both of my major mahika?" Cyrus asked questions, and he too clearly enjoys this kind of lectures, which are mostly new but also exciting to him.

"Yup," Shane nodded, "Well, those two elements are both major type of element, and powerful on top of that, in my rough estimation it would take decades for you to awaken it. My gravity Mahika have been awakened when I was twenty-one, and your father said that his lightning Mahika was awakened when he was in a dangerous situation... I guess, the activations differ in every person." She explained with her brows tightly knit together as if she was still thinking about the origins of it.

Gravity? Eh? Eh? So my mother is powerful! Cyrus exclaimed deeply in his thoughts as his ears keep twitching when her mother is explaining exciting things. He quickly leaned forward and looked towards her mother eagerly.

"Mother, could you please demonstrate your mahika?"

From the way Cyrus sees his parents and the way they act, it was apparent to Cyrus that both of his parents are undoubtedly powerful but also secretive at the same time!

"Haha~ sure, just watch here, okay?" She nodded and agreed to her excited son. She went to the open field away from Cyrus and from the trees until she stopped and standing there straight.

I wonder what kind of Mahika she could display. Cyrus could not help to get excited.

Not knowing why Cyrus could feel a strange pressure on the surrounding and this kind of pressure was coming from his mother alone, soon after, the ground was vibrating and with a loud *Boom* the ground exploded around Shane creating dust everywhere.

As soon as the dust began to vanished, Cyrus was extremely shocked at what he had seen. On his mother's surroundings, her whole surrounding had a huge crater, the size of it was enormous that even a single cottage could snuggly fit in it.

This is... So this is a gravity mahika... Even when I am outside the range of her radius, I could still feel myself being sucked in of it... Cyrus nervously thought to himself.

Shane glanced at her son and noticed he was fine, she continued.

With a single breath, ten pillars of blue lightning out of nowhere suddenly struck Shane!

*Bang!* another explosion occurred as it creates a shockwave into the air surrounding Shane.

Because it was so sudden, Cyrus was worried, but he noticed that he did not need to be worried as it turned into amazement as he looked in his front.

*Bzzt Bzzt*

Strands of electricity can be seen dancing around Shane's body, her aura was different from the last time, now her aura seems to be thunderous that could shake and make anyone cower in fear!

Wow... She looked beautiful... like a lightning Goddess... Cyrus could not help to think of it.

He did not know how his mother's aura changed when the lightning pillars had struck her down, but from the looks of her appearance, Shane's hair had turned blue and stiff, but it made her looked beautiful and grand to look at.

The way I could describe her aura is... her aura was oppressive but also scary, to the point that I could feel my soul quiver... The more Cyrus thinks of it, he could not help to have goosebumps on his body.

This made Cyrus prove that ghost or ethereal body such as soul is afraid of lightning as it was their nemesis.

Soon, he noticed that Shane began to raise her hand, and stands of electricity appeared atop of her palm and fast. It materializes into a long blueish spear... It looked more like a trident.

Soon as it became a trident, Shane grasped it tightly with a stomp of her feet onto the ground, the surrounding was blasted apart created by shockwaves. As soon as she stomps her feet, she threw the trident into the skies, after that, everything on her foot was once again blasted apart and pebbles flew upwards before crazily blasted in every direction.

With a flash that looked like a laser to Cyrus' eyes, it quickly penetrated multiple sound barriers in the skies. Besides, what made Cyrus amaze was that the way Shane threw her spear was a fantastic spectacle.

Soon enough, when Shane clutched her right hand, the spear in the skies flickered in multiple flashes of blue lights, soon a massive ball of electricity bigger than the village itself engulfed the entire skies, as it seems to dominate the heavens above.

*BANG!!!*

A loud crisp of an explosion of air resonated throughout the fields, before another blast of shockwave punched in every direction it hits.

The explosion was breathtaking, seeing this made Cyrus turn pale white as if he had seen the destruction of the world, that explosion made him stopped from breathing and almost fainted, but still, his brave soul did not disappoint him from fainting.

Cyrus smiled wryly, as his face and back were covered in cold sweat.

"Scary... I never expected that the explosion would be... monstrous and scary... so this is the real magic... can I even do that?" He asked himself, he then shook his head and looked towards his mother, "Mother, that was awesome!" Cyrus shouted as he cheered.

Seeing his high-spirited look, Shane sighed in relief. In honesty, she accidentally released 5 percent of power... If by chance, she released a 6 percent of energy, she could be detected thousands of miles away.

"Mother! What are your elemental affinities?" As soon as Shane arrived under the shade of the tree, Cyrus quickly asked her. "Well, I do have gravity, lightning, light, and wind." She responded casually.

"Ehhh, you have four elements? That's scary!" Realizing the power that his mother can utilize, imagine the other two elements, he could not help to get scared of the idea of it.

Then, he remembered something.

"Eh, so both of you and father had the same lightning mahika?"

"Well... To be honest, his lightning Mahika originally came from the Gravity Mahika and me that he has... The only different element that your father trains were on fire. My light element came from him too." She kept hesitating to answer his question, but she could not pick the right word to tell her son.

Huh? Cyrus felt confused suddenly.

"How did that happen?" He asked, and this is what Shane had thought that she does not want Cyrus to ask! Damn! She could not help to snicker to herself.

"W-Well y-you see... Uhm... A woman's mahika affinity could be transferred to a male counterpart or partner. What we mostly called is Dao companion... Well, not really transferred, but shared... By achieving this... The female must be pure and have not been touched by other males... it means that couples have to achieve this transferring method is to... is... is to do, right! Seeding activity that couples could only do!" She said hesitantly, and she finds it very difficult telling it on her son... It only made her feel very awkward and think that this is the worse.

However, she knew that at this age, Cyrus is still immature and could not understand that seeding activity... right? Right? He might misunderstand seeding planting a plant. Right!?

Eh?

Soon she noticed Cyrus was processing the words that she had said; she could not help to get nervous.

While on the other hand, Cyrus was pondering for a while now.

Dao companion doing seeding activity? The heck is that? Are that couples must plant a seed somewhere to obtain the female- wait...

Females must be pure... Seeding... a couple can only do...

Eh!?

A virgin girl... with his partner, and the things they are only allowed to... is... is... SEX!? The hell!

Hm.. So... oh. Oh. Sex... Huh...

Shane had obviously seen what Cyrus' facial reaction is creating now. He suddenly went from shocked to blush, and when Cyrus noticed that she was looking at him, he suddenly averted his eyes left and right, and soon, she noticed that her son was sweating... a lot.

"S-son... Do-don't tell me you understand that??" Shane asked nervously while screaming, "Hopefully not!" multiple times inside of her heart.

"E-Ehh? M-mother what are you saying?? A-ahaha.. haha.. I do not really understand se-(x) Uh oops! That word, yeah! Seeding, I wonder what that is?? Is it planting? hehe." Cyrus was holding back as he was forcing on spilling some words, but he could not think properly because his thoughts were everywhere and lost to what Shane had said.

Despite Cyrus died as a virgin (poor guy, he became a wizard and died as one) in his previous life, he doesn't lack any knowledge about sexual life, he could be even told that he proudly watch p*rn at his teens.

"SO YOU REALLY KNOW!" Shane yelled as she pinched both Cyrus's cheeks and blushing heavily, she did not understand why Cyrus could sense such things at such a young age... Remember he is only two years old!

Did I seriously spilled some words?