13. Gogo's past

"How is this ... possible, this is magic? But you haven't participated in the awakening ceremony yet, how can you do magic?" The woman is usually more emotional than the man, but also more adaptable to new and unexpected situations. I merely tried it, holding out a finger, and to my surprise, it worked like water, a magical light that was unstable, waxing and waning like a candle in the wind.

Gogo's slightly cool palm clutched my glowing finger and leaned down to whisper in my ear, "Don't let this slip to anyone else, maybe in the future you'll become like me because of it, but right now it'll only kill you!"

I could feel her hands trembling and her breath coming in sharply. Seeing her surprise, I knew it wasn't that simple. I thought about whether the old guys in the ivory towers would take me back as a mouse when this secret got out, or whether I would be dropped on the stake and burned by the Wizard's Union's inquisitors, and the necromancers who practised black magic hidden in the dark world would refine me into a bloodline potion, but never having talked to me in depth about these topics, he was even a bit evasive. I still haven't figured out what it is about me that attracts those people?

The power of the bloodline? The descendants of those powerful men would have the same. Or was it the fact that I would constantly produce fire magic power in my body, thanks to that Burning End Fruit, which I totally didn't mind others tasting as well. I told Koko-san about old Kuru's speculation that eating the Burning End Fruit by mistake had given my body fire magic power, but didn't say anything about the bloodline power awakened in my body, as she became nervous just seeing the magic light coalescing on the tips of my fingers.

"I see, but how did you gather magic, when that old orc thought that would teach you to use it? You haven't even formed a pool of magic yet, even if you could successfully cast a spell what would it do, the fire magic power generated in your body on its own is not even enough to support a full primary spell, do you know the consequences of forcing a spell?" Gogo was slender, and as she sat curled up on her legs in the tent, her wide magical robes had been removed and she was wearing only a long, plain skirt of white cotton that accentuated her soft curves.

I bristled and asked Gogo rhetorically, "Was the consequence just like earlier, when I was so close to being burned to death by the backlash of magic?"

"You've been sick before from gathering magic too? Why do you want to cast magic when you have nothing to do, do you know that forcing magic beyond your level will drain your life if you don't have enough magic power?" Sister Gogo lowered her voice again, her voice was almost a growl in her throat, she didn't answer my question, but answered her own.

It's actually quite a burden when meeting someone you've met in passing who is inexplicably concerned. I said weakly, "Actually I just want to learn the anti-magic that my teacher taught me, then maybe I'll get better. Sensei had said he wasn't sure, but I wanted to try. This magic is new to me, I used to get pains every once in a while, but not from casting magic, every time the fire poison from the Burning Fruit in my body would accumulate enough, it would burn me to death, and my teacher has been looking for a way to suppress the fire magic element in my body. [The latest chapter of the book can be found at"

After all, Gogo was a female magician, and after hearing what I said, she naturally understood the reason why Old Kuru and I were doing this. "You want to use your own continuously expendable magic skills to consume the remaining fire magic elements in your own bodies? That's a bold idea."

She calmed down slightly and narrowed her eyes at me, "All of us do not have the perception of magical elements until a pool of magic forms within us. But many people are born with magic power inside them, many girls are born with a weak water magic element, their bodies are cold and they are usually afraid of the cold, they have cold hands and feet and so on, some boys have some fire magic element when they are young, they are usually very sweaty and not too afraid of the cold, these manifestations are normal. But until there is a magic pool, no one can feel these so-called magical powers. The ability to manipulate magic comes after the formation of the magic pool. Everyone who forms a magic pool possesses the power to manipulate magic power, which is then guided through the body to converge into the magic pool and then spread out from the pool to all parts of the body as a cycle. Initially having the ability to manipulate magical power, it is then that they can learn simple magical skills, we call these beginners apprentices of magic."

"Many people have magical power in their bodies, so wouldn't there be many magicians?" I asked.

It was a bit hard to see Gogo arching her body in the tent, so I moved to the other side of the tent and surprisingly Gogo lay down directly against me and we lay shoulder to shoulder flat in the tent talking in the lowest voice possible. I didn't feel anything in the daytime, but in the small space of the tent, with the magical robes removed and the light from the magic crystal hanging lamps hanging from the roof, I noticed when Gogo wasn't looking that her breasts rose and fell even when she was lying flat on her back, and the white cotton petticoat couldn't hide the long outline of her thighs. She smelled nice, a bit like warm incense.

When Gogo saw that I didn't understand anything, she didn't get annoyed and explained to me from beside me, "That won't happen, the number of wizards is very rare in our country. You can almost understand if I say this. The chances of someone born with magic power in their body appearing among ordinary people is almost one in five, but the chances of someone being able to awaken the magic pool appearing among those born with a magical constitution is no more than one in a thousand."

"Ah, so little!" I had always thought that my body contained the element of fire magic, so maybe it would be different from others, and Old Kuru had said that I had a high hope of becoming a magician, but it turned out that I only had a one in a thousand chance?

Gogo probably saw my frustration before asking, "I'm not too sure about that old orc's identity, but with his expertise in herbalism, he wouldn't be a simple orc wizard. What. He didn't tell you that there was something special about you?"

I thought to myself, "Of course I did, he told me that I had awakened my bloodline and gained my true name, Blue Flame, but how could I tell him that?

Seeing that I didn't say anything, the witch Gogo thought I was too young to understand many things and said, "You have magical senses! Hey, this should be an awakening magic talent. In the magician's awakening ceremony, every magician who awakens a magic pool has the chance to awaken a magic talent at the same time, but out of every ten magicians who awaken a magic pool, there may not be one magician who awakens a magic talent at the same time. Once such talented magicians appear, they are all sent to study in key magical schools, and such magicians are given the chance to walk into the ivory tower. You are!"

"Because I perceived the magic element before I awakened my magic pool, so I'm gifted?" I asked Sister Gogo.

Gogo turned her head to look at me and said seriously, "From now on you have to promise me that you'll never cast magic in front of others again until you become a magician!"

"I promise you, Sister Gogo." I licked my slightly dry lips and replied somewhat sheepishly.

"Actually, in the research that the Wizard's Guild has been conducting on magical talent, a magical scholar once had this idea that if a wizard's own magical talent is controllable, then during the first magical awakening, set to awaken both Mana Tide, and during the second awakening when the wizard first transitions to Grand Wizard after reaching level ten, set to awaken both Magical Precision or Magical Manipulation, then this level ten successful first turn Grand Wizard will have a fifty percent chance of advancing to become a level twenty Grand Magus."

"Your talent should be called Sense Magic. It brings you far less benefit than it brings you danger during this period, and this talent is like the power of the bloodline, it is impossible to melt into the magic pool until you have magically awakened. The most important condition is that the gift cannot be fused into the pool. Once it is fused with the pool, it is impossible to separate it by other means, so now you are the best potion for wizards who have failed to advance in the bottleneck. If one day in the future, you don't succeed in awakening the magic pool, the secret of your ability to manipulate magic would be best kept buried for the rest of your life." Gogo gently rubbed his hand over my forehead, making me feel warm.

The feeling of the flames sizzling in my body had pretty much subsided and I had all the ice packs on my body to the side.

The warm breath also smelled warm and fragrant. Maybe she felt a little tired after lying flat for too long, so she twisted her body and rolled over on her side, and the magnificent peak on her chest pressed directly against my arm. The two of us were so close to each other that she felt a little nervous and touched my forehead. We were so close, and she always seemed to want to hold me in her arms like a child, making me embarrassed. I could only talk to distract myself, so I asked her, "Sister Gogo, do you think that if I have the gift of magical perception, the awakening ritual will make it easier for me to become a wizard?"

She seemed to be lost in her memories and thought for a moment at my question before saying, "There's nothing like that in the library materials at our school, but it should increase the chances of awakening the magic pool, I guess. I don't think it's too high though, at least not in the Ivory Tower or the Wizard's Guild. You think wizards are that easy to be!"

Seeing that I looked a bit dejected, Sister Gogo added next, "But it's not without its advantages, even without a magic pool, with Magic Sense, you can still learn magic skills, just be careful not to overdraw your magic."

I thought of Kurtz and how he would be looking for me if he found out I was missing and was afraid he would worry. So I thought I'd go out and tell him I was okay and take the opportunity to avoid being alone with Sister Gogo, who was completely unguarded towards me, like a big sister protecting her little brother, and that made me uncomfortable. Sister Gogo was not one of those extremely beautiful women, but her looks and figure were of the highest quality, and her skin was so white that when she was lying beside me, I could just peer along her neckline to see the patch of white grease inside.

"Sister Gogo, I want to go and see Kurtz, he's probably worried about me." I whispered.

Seeing that I was about to get up, Gogo hastened to say, "Your orc friend has to help with the work at night too, the tanner will be busy all night, so you should rest a little more. He came over to visit you just now and left when he saw that there was nothing wrong with you."

Seeing that I was a little distracted and had seemed interested in the matter of wizards, Sister Gogo continued, "You want to become a wizard?"

I had never really been up close and alone with a rich white girl with such a high face and burgeoning body in all my life, and even now that I was in a different position, I was getting more and more confused. Seeing my face reflected in her clear brown pupils, I nodded in a panic.

She pursed her lips at the sight of me like this, her teeth white and her lips soft. But instead of talking about the wizard, she began to tell me her story: "My family lives in the Golden Quarter of Beale, the most picturesque part of the south-eastern district of Beale, and my home is a small wooden building on the street. Before she left, she told me to look after my brothers and sisters."

"I had two sisters and a brother, my sister Annie was still attending the Junior College for Golden Warriors, and my younger sister and brother were twins, my younger sister was called Sue and my brother was called Jing. They were both just learning to run at the time. I was able to graduate from the Beale City Magic Academy that summer, and I did so well that I had the opportunity to register as a wizard directly with the Magic Guild when I graduated, you know? Do you know what an honour it would be to become a wizard before I graduate? My dream is to become a great wizard and make my whole family proud of me. Even when Dad and Mum were gone, I didn't give up on my ambition, I wanted to give my sisters a better life when I succeeded."

"I had no time to take care of Sue and Jing during that time, I hired a maid to take care of them, all I had to do was cook for them and keep an eye on them every day. But I didn't know that because they missed me, I asked the maid to bring them to me at the magic school. I was supposed to go home the Sunday before, I was so close to finishing my magic essay, and on the way here they were scraped by a carriage, the steel wheels of the carriage ran right over them, Sue lost her legs below the knee, and Jing was crushed to death... ..."

"You and Jing are a lot alike, he always used me as a role model and wanted to be a wizard when he grew up too ..."

Gogo sister said a lot of things in the past, I realized that his brother was a bit like me, that's why she deliberately touched me, offered to give me snacks, and later talked to me, I asked her what exactly I was like Jing, she said she couldn't say, just felt like it, when sitting, when laughing ...