Chapter 20

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People in this world call druids greenseers, they have the most powers a druid would have but have something a druid wouldn't normally have; the thing they call greensight. Greensight is the ability to have prophetic dreams called green dreams. A person with greensight sometimes dreams as other people, but the green dreams are different, filled with symbolic meaning, images, and metaphors of what is to come. The meaning behind the dreams is not always obvious, but the dreamer experiences the fulfillment of visions in the unfolding of events. Supposedly these dreams can concern the dreamer or another person, but the dreamer will be able to tell the difference. Greenseers might also dream of their own deaths. Wargs have been known to also possess this ability.

I never had a dream like that and don't know if I will ever have any. The reason why I stopped working on my elements is I am not able to learn any new spells. I thought I could turn shaking earth in to some earthquake spell but it did not. Almost all of my elemental spells become as big as 30 cm (1 ft ) in diameter. Even the wind ball spell become something useful in close range, now it has a decent knockback power, I think it can even cause hairline fractures. Fire ball become deadly too, now it can cause a small explosion when it makes contact with the target.

Earth ball and ice ball only become 20 cm. they wouldn't grow more so I took a break from them and started focusing on familiar spells, sword training and archery. I m able to use chantless magic like I did in the Lord's solar but for things like blowing wind, a little shake of the ground and growing the fire. I call them cantrips, I m not able to cast real spells without chants. Because the familiar bound gave me buffs, had an inspiration, can I create buff spells too so for a month I worked on that and made two buff spells I call them aspects of the cat and aspect of the bear. Basically they are speed and strength buffs. They don't buff me that much but it is a start. They only buff around 0.3 STR and SPD respectively. It has been almost 1 and half year since I started training in magic. Being able to create those buffs but not being able to use higher more powerful spells made me realize something. Magic has 3 aspects:

First aspect is mana without it you can't do anything. A caster would be no different than a normal human. It is the fuel of every spell.

Second aspect is control this is the ability to control mana and being able to hold it inside one's body. This is what people would call magical talent.

Last aspect is intent, it might look like the same thing with control but it is not. I could move my mana around my body or I might say the magic words too but if I don't want the magic to activate, it won't.

Let's say a spell is a car then the gas in its tank is mana, the road it travels on is the control and the driver is the intent. Without all three of them a car can't go from A to B smoothly without any damage and the three aspects comes from different places too. Mana comes from nature, control from body and the intent from the soul.

If you think about it, it is very easy to deduce why I can't use higher spells. There are two possibilities either my control or my mana is lacking and I believe it is the second one is lacking, I think I m going to be able to use second level spells when I have enough mana. My connection with Poe and Erebus are getting stronger and stronger every passing day. Now I m able to have talk with them, it isn't like a real conversation more like feelings and visions. It is more advanced then my talks with dominated animals. As I get more mana another thing I discovered is my soul space is growing bigger. Before connection with Poe and Erebus was taking %80 of my consciousness but now it is around %78, I can't tell the difference but Authenticate can. My strength and speed grew by a small margin too. Now I have 1.6 STR, 1.7 SPD, 33 mana.

After my punishment ended, I continued to work on my mana the most, every day would be spent almost the same.3 hours of mana training in the space, 1 hour physical training, 2 hour sword training, 5 hours of rest so I can fill my mana, again 3 hours of mana training in the space, then I would spent 1 hour in archery range lastly 2 hour in library reading everything I can find in there. But I had to changed my training schedule a bit when Robb and Jon come to me pouting because I wasn't playing with them anymore so I have to go play with him, every other day I wouldn't do physical training and go play with Stark children. In the night I wouldn't sleep 8 hours because I m sleeping or meditating in the day, I would only sleep 5 hour then wake up. Now that I have 2 loud alarm clocks I can wake up whenever I want. All I have to do is buy a measuring candle and lit it before sleeping then Poe and Erebus would wake me up when it is finished. I decided to do this training as much as possible without giving any leeway.

Ones in a while Rodrik will come and get mad at me because I wasn't training in sword as much as he liked but I would always give him the same excuse. I would say I didn't want the same thing to happen again and I didn't want to spar with the squires without being a squire myself. So I would only train and spar with the recruits, but even the most talented recruits weren't a challenge to me if they weren't older than 11 years old. Now I was sparring with 4 to 6 recruit at the same time and I think some of the recruits were stronger than most of the squires. That is aristocracy for you.