It had been another month of training now in addition to filling the lacrima in the shower and the door to the eating hall, I now also had 4 additional ones to fill up daily.
In the time I've spent training I've also been given additional physical activities to do in order to raise my stamina and physical strength.
Today I am now able to lift boulders and also run 10 km while not getting exhausted for the rest of the day.
And since my training has been going so well, today will be the day gramps starts to actually teach me magic!
Oh speaking of magic I learned the others in my menu giving me access to basic fire, wind, and water manipulation.
Oh boy I can't wait, I bet he is going to teach me something cool like something out of a manga!
Wait if magic is real maybe I can use it to actually get abilities like those characters….Archer yep I'm going with Archer. Why? SWORDSSSSSSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Wait, I can scream in my mind? Neat.
I thought as I was walking down the stairs and when I started to fill up the container to the Hall I noticed something peculiar. The lacrima was already filled…
"Ah, is that you Crow? Please come in i'm just finishing up some work"
I entered the room and when I walked in what I saw was..interesting.
Instead of the normal breakfast table there was now simply a room full of books and strange looking equipment.
In the middle of the room there was a small desk with two chairs on either end.
One was empty and the other surrounded by stacks of paper all around was my benefactor and apparently now my adopted father Precht Gaebolg also known by gramps.
"Hey gramps what's going on, why is all this..stuff in here?"
" Well I suppose it's more fair to tell you then to be mysterious"-Gramps said leaning on the table with his forearms and smiling a kind old man smile (you know the one)
" The books are different grimoires and books about the fundamentals of magic"-He said while picking up a book on the desk showing it to me. The book was labelled "The basics of fire magic by Jhon Grundstedd"
"And the equipment is for measuring different magic outputs, specifically they are made to measure how much magical energy you use in one spell."
"Oh well that seems cool I guess you are finally starting to teach me magic eh?"- I said grinning from ear to ear.
"Right you are first however we need to run a few basic tests in order for me to determine where to start."
"Alright then let's get started"-I said, punching my hands together and producing a small flame. Which then earned me a book to the face.
"NO FLAMES INSIDE!"
"Okay okay sesh you are so stuck up sometimes you know that!"
Starting the process of trials was a simple eathernano test which was just me pushing some of my magic into my lacrima.
Second on the menu was a magic aptitude test of both holder and caster magics of different archetypes and elements.
Last was a test relating to my offensive and defensive magic
I used fire magic to form a small fireball, and then used a combination of earth and wind to make a makeshift shield.
Granted I was defending against tennisballs but still!
After this was a interesting test of how quick I am able to learn magic
"Hmm after the results I would like you to try this one"- Gramps said handing me a book called "Bullet magic a basic guide"
" I will give you 3 days to learn. It shouldn't take much more after that we will practise, does that work?"-He said smiling down at me condescendingly
"Sure that works for me"-I said while irritated I also recognized a hidden challenge in his tone"
I'm gonna show that old geezer what's what! JUST WATCH ME! I'm gonna learn this magic in not even a day!
[Notice]
Acquired Item: Grimoire: Bullet magic
Bullet magic allows you to form eathernano into compact bolts of energy blasting away your enemies. By forming your hands into a gun shape a bolt of energy will form allowing you to shoot it out.
Bullet magic allows for different effects to happen depending on the amount of eaternano expended.
Scatter shot: Several bullets shoot out from the one when fired.
Blast shot: The bullet will explode on impact
Piercing shot: The bullet gains increased velocity and mass allowing it to penetrate both physical and magical armour easier.
Stun shot: The Bullet gets charged with lightning causing the target's muscles to spasm temporarily incapacitating them.
Note: A higher level of bullet magic can be accessed when corresponding grimoire is found
Time to learn:10 hours.
Learn magic? Y/N
[Note]
To learn magic from grimoire you don't need to read the book when the allocated time is spent the knowledge will be transferred.
Alright first ever magic lets go. Yes
[Notice]
Timer started: 10h
Wonder what I'll do now. It's not like I have a lot to do today. Wait, if I could learn one type of magic a day and I have learned them all then..?
Open my Menu
[Menu]
Skills
Magic
items
Available Magic: Earth magic[Basic], Fire[basic], Wind[basic], Water[basic], Requip[Basic].
Learnable Magic: 2
Bullet magic: 10h left
X
Note: One more magic can be learned.
Okay it's like I thought! I can learn more magic in one day than before! But what should I learn?
"Hey Gramps, can I take another book? I want to try to learn more than one!"
"Are you certain? you haven't learned the one I gave you yet"
"I am! it's me, remember? If I put my mind to it I can definitely do it!"
"If you are certain I suppose I can let you"- He started to look through a stack of books.
"How about this one then it's quite complicated and should provide an adept challenge for you"- He said handing me a book on Reflection magic.
What were my thoughts you might ask? Accelerator… I mean I already look like him soooooo.
"That sounds great!"-I said taking the book
[Notice]
Acquired item: Grimoire: Reflector magic.
Reflection magic allows you to bend and manipulate nearly anything.
The magic is inherently reliant on area distortion but it can also be used on metal, clothes etc. Can not be used on anything alive aka humans animals etc.
The magic in of itself only distorts the amount it needs to distort will reflect the amount of magic energy expended.
Note: A higher level of reflector magic can be accessed from the corresponding grimoire,
Learn magic?:Y/N
Time to learn: 30h
[Note]
To learn magic from grimoire you don't need to read the book when the allocated time is spent the knowledge will be transferred.
Note to self become this world's accelerator. Yes
[Notice]
Timer started: 30h
After letting the timers set for the respective magics I started to do my physical and the training to increase my magical energy.
I continued with this and before I knew it I had fallen asleep and awoken the next day.
Guess I must have fallen asleep.. Oh well can't be helped, let's check how much more those magics will take. Open My Menu.
[Menu]
Skills
Magic
items
Available Magic: Earth magic[Basic], Fire[basic], Wind[basic], Water[basic], Requip[Basic], Bullet magic Advanced.
Learnable Magic: 1
Bullet magic: Learned
Cooldown to learn new magic remaining: 48h
Reflector magic: 10 h
Hmm seems like learning magic will cause it to have a cooldown wonder what its based on, or maybe it's fixed? Oh well I guess I will see when the reflector magic is done.
However let's focus on the bullet magic for now… the old man did tell me to come to him when I learned it.. but It would be fun to try it out first!
After taking a moment to think about what I wanted to do I decided that I wanted to go to try out my newfound magic despite what I was told.
After finding a secluded place in the nearby woods I started to try to familiarise myself with how to form the bullets.
If I don't forget, remember the magic works by first putting the fingers in a gun-like form and then you need to concentrate eathernano into a ball. Ok well lets try.
I formed my fingers into the shape but when I tried to form the magical energy it wasn't as hard as the previous magics I had learned, instead of the normal focus and inner image I instead could do it near instantly.
As soon as I formed the ball I tried to fire it. The small compact orb of energy flew through the air smashing into a nearby tree leaving a large hole the size of a hand in its wake.
Cool it worked holy shit! Alright so that's what happens if I pack it normally lets try some other types of the bullet magic.
Once again forming my hand into a gun I commanded the energy to take the form of an explosive round.
This time when the orb hit the tree it exploded into two broken parts one staying in the ground the other flying heavensward.
HOLY SHIT! So that's what that does okaayyy let's put a mental note to not use that one often. Let's see what the others do…
After taking a while to learn my new magic I started to try using two hands as I honestly was not having that hard of a time to use only one.
After repeating the steps taken for my first attempt with my hand I started on the second one.
Alright so far so good now I just have to…..SHIT!
I suddenly started feeling immense pain and tried to cut off the spell, But I couldn't!
My magic was starting to go rampant, and the orb just got larger and larger and larger until it eclipsed my hand. Then as if shot from a cannon the orb shot off into the woods impacting with something and creating a large crater. The sound echoed back to me with a large CRACKACABOOOM!.
SHIT what the hell am I gonna tell gramps..fuck my ears are ringing man this hurts!
Wait what's that sound?
As soon as my ears stopped making a long beep sound I started hearing something that to this day I still can't forget.
Waaa waaa waaaa.
I started running into the direction the sound came from cus the sound I had heard was something I never wanted to hear in my life: The pained screams of an infant.
I ran and my legs started to crack and the pain from my magic going out of control was still fresh in my body yet I ran.
I heard something snap in one of my legs.
The pain was excruciating yet I ran.
I couldn't hear the screams anymore yet..I…ran….and I was there.
The scene looked like something out of a horror movie.
A carriage was flipped over the driver, seemingly a man of an older age laid lifeless at the side of it, his lower body…did not.
I walked around the carriage looking into it hoping to find the child hoping to find the mother…ANYTHING!
Yet there was no one there left alive.
The mother of the baby I assumed, laid lifeless with a large hole in her body and at her side laid….
"Exucute command: ZetaXY67-Epsilon"
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"Hello Child are you awake?"
I slowly opened my eyes taking in the surroundings, this wasn't my bed it seemed like I was in some form of facility perhaps a hospital?
"Where am I? Who are you"-I asked weakly, it hurt to even speak
I couldn't fully see the man speaking to me yet the voice wasn't one I was familiar with
"You are at the Bureau of Magical development specifically you are in a medical facility inside of the main office"
I started to regain my sight. Looking around I saw bleak white walls, bedsheets, medical equipment and a modicum of instruments seemingly monitoring my vitals.
"Oh I see why am I here? And where is gramps?"-I asked meekly as while my sight had returned the same could not be said for my voice.
"Gramps? Oh you must mean Mr Geabolg, yes well he left you in our care."
"You see what happened to you was that you tried to control a large amount of magical energy into an advanced technique which sadly backfired due to you not being able to control the amount"
"As such you have been assigned to us in order to not only learn to control your magical energy but also increase it"- The man said, smiling a large smile and ruffling my hair.
"But it won't be permanent, when you are returned to a state of control where your magic won't go crazy"-The man said using quotation marks on the word crazy.
"You will be returned to Mr Geabolgs care"
"Oh okay I guess that works"-I said
"But what happened to the family what about them?"-I asked desperately
"What family?"
"The kid and the mother, they were in a carriage and I…..I killed them"-I said, feeling my eyes starting to tear up.
"Oh those well..what's your name kid?"
"Crow"
"Crow okay, well crow I actually heard you mutter something about a child and a mother's body parts, carriage and so on when you were sleeping."
"And mr Geabolg said nothing about a family he just found you in a crater and brought you here, there was no family Crow"
"I know what I saw must have been real!"-I said, starting to shake in fear of myself, of my own doubt…of my power.
"There was no family Crow, it was just a dream okay?"-The man said, looking me straight in the eyes and smiling a small smile.
I felt a weird sense of beeliving him after all it was just a dream, what would a family be doing in a forest?.
"What is your name mr?"-I asked the man
"My name is Dr Brain….But please call me Brain"
