Chapter 4:- the promise.

Chapter 4:- the promise.

Grandma lily done!

Avil, have you collected your mana pool,

Yes grandma I feel it inside my heart,

After saying this,

My body weakened and I feel on the ground on my knees,

Grandma lily rushed to help me, and help me stand,

It felt like my whole body was tired and weakened,

What is happening grandma lily why I am feeling so weak and tired?

To which Grandma Lily replied,

It's your body's first absorbing so much mana that's why you feel weakened and tired,

Here have this mercy berry; it will help you regain your energy,

Then I ate the berry, like before my energy was restored, it was a really nice fruit.

How you feel now Avil, Grandma Lily asked,

I feel ok now grandma lily thanks for the mercy berry,

Now grandma lily let's start with the magic training shall, we grandma lily.

I feel very excited let's start,

I want to do stuff like you and Grandpa Gideon did?

I want to launch fire tornado, I want to learn all the different types of magic grandma lily!

I know you are very excited to learn magic but I think this much learning is enough for the day,

Let's not overdo it okay Avil?

But Grandma Lily…..!

While Avil was pleading Grandma Lily,

From the back Grandpa Gideon came lurking inside the backyard and said,

How's the magic training going on?

Made any progress yet?

Grandpa Gideon, I finally was able to,

While I was speaking Grandpa Gideon interrupted me,

Yeah you were able to feel mana right, I am so proud of you my boy,

No grandpa I was able to absorb mana in my mana pool.

What! Grandpa Gideon exclaimed

What is going on lily?

Yeah you heard right he was able to absorb mana from the surrounding?

But didn't it take a lot of practice for a kid to learn that?

How did he learn that in such a short period of time?

Even I don't know grandma lily replied

He has a great magic potential,

Yeah but we need to still wait till the awakening,

Yeah you are right we can't say anything so early,

I listened to everything but I couldn't understand a thing what they were saying,

What potential?

W=I know about awakening but what about it?

What is going on Grandma Lily? Grandpa Gideon?

I asked grandma lily to help me teach more magic but she said she will teach me tomorrow

Yeah Avil! Grandma Lily is right please listen to her?

But why Grandpa Gideon,

I can handle it, I believe in myself,

I replied.

Okay Avil, I know you are very excited to learn which is a very good thing, even when I was a kid I use to be just like you very eager to do everything, but remember Avil,

Everything has a right time and a right place,

Patience is the key,

For example,

Can you can eat a whole week of food at a single meal?

No grandpa its not possible,

Correct then similarly you can't learn everything in one day,

Always remember Avil,

A soldier can be made in a day, but a master is made in years.

Said Grandpa Gideon,

Yeah he Is right Avil, and continuing today would put a lot of pressure on your body,

After learning this I was a little sad, but I don't blame them they are doing this for my safety and well being,

Ok! Grandpa Gideon, grandma lily I understand,

Looking that Avil was a little disappointed, Grandpa Gideon said,

I will also teach you some magic skills okay.

What really grandpa Gideon?

You will also teach me magic, what type of magic you will teach me,

Umm! Let me think,

Yeah I will teach magic which will help you in hunting okay,

Thanks Grandpa Gideon,

Oh only grandpa Gideon?

Grandma lily asked,

Thanks grandma lily, thank you both you both are the best?

Grandma lily shrugged a little and said go brat, your grandpa Rolland would be waiting for you,

Okay grandma I am going, see you tomorrow,

Then Avil rushed towards his house,

As soon as Avil reached home he started to find Grandpa Rolland,

Grandpa Rolland, where are you,

Grandpa Rolland,

After looking for some time,

Grandpa Rolland shouted

Avil, you are back,

He was in the kitchen making dinner,

Yeah grandpa Rolland I am back,

I am making dinner right now, go clean yourself and come for dinner,

Okay grandpa Rolland I replied,

Then I washed myself was ready came for dinner,

Grandpa Rolland was already sitting at the table,

Grandpa Rolland said

Lets eat,

Then we started to eat, it was simple dinner like rice porridge and some meat it wasn't a lavish meal but it could warm up your heart for sure.

So how did it go, did you learn something?

Yes Grandpa Rolland, I learnt a lot of things,

Then I started to tell him about everything like mercy berry and how I sensed and then absorbed mana,

What a minute, so you are telling me you learnt to absorb mana in one day,

Yeah Grandpa Rolland,

Grandpa Rolland was a little shocked from what he heard,

So what did grandma Lily said about it,

Grandpa Rolland asked,

She said I had a high potential for magic but cant say anything about it until my awakening,

But grandpa is it really weird for me to learn mana absorbtion in one day,

Asked Avil,

No its not weird, I have even heard some kids of noble families who learned magic at the age of 8 but they had all the resources from their family,

But for a commoner kid it is very difficult as magic related items can be quite expensive sometimes,

All the noble kids who learn magic at early stage, go on to become some well known figures in future.

But it can also depend on their bloodline.

Grandpa Rolland but why it depends on their Bloodline?

Umm! Because nobles have a thing called bloodline magic,

Some of them have really powerful bloodline magic and some of them have unique bloodline magic,

Grandpa Rolland said.

But Grandpa Rolland why do only nobles have bloodline magic and we commoners don't?

Asked avil,

Well to be honest, even I don't know the exact reason as to why but I have heard that

Their ancestor got it from the gods,

And that's why to preserve the bloodline noble families never allow marriage between commoners and noble

It's a big taboo for their family.

Oh I understand Grandpa Rolland.

By the way, Grandpa Gideon said he will also teach me magic,

Oh really, that old man promised you to teach magic, he his quite a stubborn person but he is also quite knowledgeable,

Please listen to him carefully okay,

Said Grandpa Rolland,

Okay, I will listen to both of them,

I replied,

Grandpa Rolland can you also teach me to hunt more so that I can help you?

Oh you want to help me?

Grandpa Rolland asked.

Yeah grandpa, every day you work so hard, even I want to help you to ease your work a little,

Okay I will teach you but we will first practice the movements and then only we will go to forrest when you will be ready,

With your ability I think you can hunt normal animals but you cant defeat a monster so I will make sure you would be ready for that okay?

Okay Grandpa Rolland.

You know Avil while growing up I always wanted to learn magic because it looked really cool right?

Yeah Grandpa Rolland,

But I didn't have affinity for it and hence I could only use some common magic and except for that I couldn't use any magic,

My dream of becoming a magic user was shattered first I was devastated but I later realized that it was no use to just sit and cry so I started to train and started hunting.

One day I was in a group working as adventurer, we were all stuck in a threatening situation; no magic user was at that time able to help us,

That's when we had to use or weapons and defeat the monster,

At that time I realized that magic wasn't the only thing that is powerful in this world,

Always remember kid, how you defeat your enemy isn't important than defeating your enemy,

So its good that you were able to learn magic, and fulfill my dream, but you cant only be depended on it okay,

You need to learn your weapon skills too.

Okay I will remember this grandpa Rolland, Avil replied.

Okay tell me Avil, What do you want to do in future when you grow up?

I want to live here, with Grandpa Rolland; I don't want to go anywhere, from what I have heard life outside this village is very hard.

Grandpa Rolland was a little shocked,

And said

Even I would like you to be here in this village but, if you get scared from challenges in life then you wouldn't succeed in life.

But Grandpa Rolland I don't want to be seprated from you,

As Avil as speaking, Grandpa Rolland interrupted and said

Avil I have seen you grown up since you were a child, even I don't want to see you go,

But if didn't let you go, then what kind of parent would be I if I stop my child from overcoming his fears and succeed in life.

But!

Promise me Avil, when you get awakened you will go to the knight academy.

But grandpa,

Please Avil, promise me,

Okay grandpa Rolland, when I will awaken I will go to the knight school.

Okay now finish you dinner and go to sleep,

I know how you feel Avil, but this is for your better future.

Okay grandpa I understand,

Avil replied.

You have magic training and weapon training tomorrow right?

Yeah Grandpa Rolland,

Then after finishing my meal, I went to sleep because tomorrow was the start of everything.