1 My new life

"Life is a fucking bad joke where good things are not going to happen because you want, but life will make you see how it happens to other people.

Luck is only the accumulation of factors that ultimately result in a positive outcome for the individual."

That kind of mentality I had when I found myself being pointed by a gun by a man who invaded my home in the middle of a gang conflict at several streets from where I live.

I did not hesitate when I armed myself with knives and a bat with which I broke the man's shoulder and then I died when I stabbed the knife in his throat.

"Fear of dying... is something I will accept with open arms to finish this tasteless game called life" That was a thought I once had about dying... very dark I know.

But when I find myself stranded in the void full of darkness where I only have my thoughts to myself, I realize how much I can miss my family and suffer for not being able to say goodbye, leaving aside all the thoughts about the things I could have done in life or how I could have led my life on a better path ... but I didn't

After some extended time, the void underwent a change when a window appeared, a space with blurred outlines that allowed me to see the outside world or the real world.

Since it seemed like I was trapped somewhere and that I can only see the world at odd intervals of time.

I don't want to think about it too much and I decided to see what was happening to understand my new situation... it didn't take long to understand that I was locked up in the body of a baby when I could glimpse baby things in the room in which apparently, I find myself.

"Agh... having to learn a language again... it will be a trouble, but I guess I have nothing else to do" With that kind of mentality, I dedicated myself to learning a new language.

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8 months have passed and I still have no control over my body, but in return, I have managed to affect my new prison, which is now completely the same as my new room, but without the baby things, but now there are things for my needs, such as reading topics that I could recall from my subconscious and manifest as digital or physical books in this place.

I was also able to create a console where I played sandboxes games when my baby body fell asleep... I literally turned my dreams into video games.

Yes, my body is a baby now, apparently, my current me and my body, don't share the same mind, since what we learn is kept separated by an invisible wall until I want to break it... then, learn the language of this new place, became extremely easy when both minds combined knowledge, but somehow I managed to block what I learned from my part so that it would not be displayed on the outside and this I did by placing a lock on the language file that I can find on my Tablet in my mental space that now turns out to be my prison.

It's weird, but it is beneficial to be able to do this to avoid suspicion or unnecessary trouble for a baby who would at any moment speak like a preschooler... that would be scary as strange as it would be.

Although I was able to block the shared knowledge, I could not slow down the speed with which my baby self-learned language and when I finally managed to do it, a dream surrounded me, when I had months without sleeping or feeling the need, I fell asleep.

-[8 years later]-

Sitting under a tree, I find myself catching my breath after hard training under the care of my teacher Rudolf, a companion of my father as a Hunter when he was young and who now became my father's right hand to keep the safety of the family mansion where we live.

Many things have happened since I realized that I reincarnated, first, I managed to get out of my mental prison for some unknown reason when I became aware at 2 and a half years, although I was asleep, my subconscious somehow kept a record of everything that happened and it functions as the base of the personality from when I was not awake and thanks to that, there was not a big change when I took control of my body.

This made me really have a genuine love for my new parents, apart from not rejecting the idea when they show an amount of love that is almost tangible.

During this time I learned several things, the first was that magic exists... and that I am not able to use it as my father, something related to a curse placed on the family that makes me unable to use magic, I have magic power, but any attempt I make on magic will end with my magic power dispersing in the air without having any effect, thanks to the fact that I still have magic power, I can still use the technology of this world that is based on magic power, as an example is that a person without magic power, could not enter a shop because the doors would not detect them and it would not open the doors.

Speaking of my family, it is a noble family of middle or Astral rank because of my ancestors, my family is made up of 4 people, my two parents and my older brother who is the heir to the family and is older than me by 6 years.

He is not in the mansion because he is attending an academy of noble families to make friends with those of his generation and learn a little about how he should behave in the noble world... the academy is a hell where everyone is doing things behind the scene to harm others or benefit themselves.

This is how I see it, after hearing my father talk about that section of the academy, luckily for me, I will go to the military section where everything is simpler, but that will be until I am 14 years old.

Speaking of myself, in this life, my name is Ethan Dragard in honor of my grandfather who died in combat which helped make it possible to expel a hive with a Queen at the front of the battlefield.

Being the second son of the Dragard family, I will not inherit the main business of the family or the noble Astral tittle, but when I finish the academy, I will receive my own land that I will have to manage and keep my title as Noble by blood inheritance which is a Rank lower than Astral, but higher than a noble just for wealth.

"Get up Kiddo, 12 minutes have passed, we are going to continue with your training, or is it that you gave up and agreed to be someone weak who has to be protected by other people to be led by the hand even to go to the bathroom" Rudolf approached my position with his wooden sword on his shoulder and he showed me a cheeky smile on his face full of a reddish beard along with his black eyes.

If it weren't for Rudolf's eyes, he would pass as my uncle, but I treat him as such.

"Hmm!" I gather all my strength to stand up and continue with the training routine imposed by Rudolf.

"Tch... you're not funny, but it's good to be able to see that flame full of strong will" He approached once he saw that I started with the training, he quickly began to criticize everything I did wrong and then give directions on how to get a swing right.

Rudolf's fighting style is to be fluid, to be able to make attacks that consume low energy and drive the next one or allow dodging the enemy's attack, whether human or not.

It is a style of the family that was forged with years of fighting and that is transmitted in the family and the personal guards of the head of the family, that is why Rudolf knows it, although his combat method is already different from what he teaches me.

That is so since the technique is only the base, I have to develop it as it benefits me the most... something very difficult, especially because of the footwork that is very complex to learn at first, but once you learn it , it is as if you were a leaf that sways in the wind.

I have already learned the basics of the technique, but since I have a lot of time, I have planned to perfect what I already know, apart from that it serves to waste my time that I can no longer use in video games... apart from knowing that I can awaken the Aura, is more than enough motivation to continue with this hellish training... well, not so much since at some point, my body got used to the pain and stopped being part of the training, the only thing left is extreme fatigue and hunger that sometimes it seems infinite.

"Kiddo, I will tell you this as many times as necessary, stop trying to force your aura awakening, you already have the physique and the ability, but the Aura awakens naturally and should not be forced, from my position I can feel how you are trying to force your Aura with your magic power " *Swift* Rudolf tried to hit me with his sword, but I dodged it with a step to the side and with the same energy of the movement I struck his sword in a way that deflects the attack.

"I feel like I'm getting really good at deflecting attacks... and what's wrong with me wanting to awaken my aura so I can blast rocks with it!" I yelled in protest like a child would, something that I am and I make the most of it.

I hit the ground with my left foot in frustration and a little dust is kicked up from the impact.

"CHILD! DON'T GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT, YOU CAN ALREADY DO THAT WITH YOUR WOODEN SWORD!! LAST WEEK YOU TOOK A TREE WITH A DAMN SWING!" Rudolf yells back at me as he has done before in our daily routine of teacher-student coaching and coexistence.

I blush a bit since what he says is true, even though I haven't awakened my Aura yet, I still have my magic power that gives a bonus effect to my training, especially one that allows me to break my limits, something related to a power that manifests itself differently in people and mine was not having limits or always managing to overcome them while I can try.

Even breaking the limit of only living once and reincarnating or going to another world, is a power that I cannot control yet, but passively, it makes the limits that my body should have, easy to overcome.

That is to say that with resting once after reaching my limit, the next day it will no longer be the same and I will need more training to overcome it.

Although my power can be very powerful, it can be surpassed if someone has the strong power of the gods, herculean, force amplifier, force doubler, with all those kinds of variants that my father taught me so that I would not raise my fumes to the head... very late, I understand very well what it is to have no limits to stop me, but fucking power, it does not respond to my mandate as it should be!

Other people instinctively control their gifts, but I can't, my will don't affect my power and that is why I still try to force my aura to awaken in the hope that my power comes into action and breaks the limit that prevents my aura from being released from my body.

"Now that I think about it... I should try to be faster, I already have strength, but I lack in reaction speed" A smile filled my face when I saw the possibilities of running hundreds of meters in a few seconds without getting tired.

"Everything for my future, where I will be the one-man army!" That is my dream in this life and something that is feasible that makes me have a strong will to achieve it and Rudolf supports with all his might, although it cost him a bit of his mental sanity.

Despite my great strength, I am still much weaker than Rudolf who has over two decades naturally breaking his limits apart from his experience in knowing how to use his aura to strengthen himself.

The natural way to break the limits of oneself in this world is to use an elixir that is made with some parts of the monsters and that must be taken in advance of the hunt since it only has an effect for 12 hours, its function is that it absorbs the life force of monsters to strengthen its own, but this life force should not be contaminated by spiritual energy from other people within 24 hours, otherwise the effect will be drastically diminished.

That is why it is very common to see people risking their lives hunting monsters, whether in dungeons, towers, caves, mountains, all variants of a hive.