Training for the academy
Dylan is now 4 years old, after spending a few years in this new world he had become accustomed to his new life here already, every morning Dylan would have lessons with private tutors that his farther had hired to start Dylan's education by teaching him how to read and write. Of course learning to read and write wasn't a challenge for Dylan at all since his mind had been enhanced greatly after coming to this world so it only took Dylan a few lessons from the private tutors to completely master reading and writing, but Dylan hid this fact from everyone else, he had chosen to pretend to be an average 4 year old, he wasn't planning on hiding his powers in this new world for long because he wanted everyone to know how strong he was. But he didn't want to reveal his talents and gifts too early, who knows what people would do if they knew that a 4 year old could already use more magic than the average magician and that his literary skills were already better than the scholars who had spent years of their life dedicated to learning the arts of writing.
He had decided that he won't reveal his powers until he was sure that he was strong enough to protect his family, because there might be people in this world that would want to take advantage of his power. Once Dylan's daily lessons are over and it was only him in his room, he began his daily training, Dylan didn't just practice magic but also his trained body because he didn't want to just be a magician that has powerful spells but a weak body. Dylan wanted to become a magic swordsman and luckily for him there is an academy for knights and sorcerers located in the capital of the human kingdom, the school takes both magicians and knights, but sometimes on extremely rare occasions someone would meet the sky high requirements needed to be trained as a magic swordsman, a magic swordsman needed to not only be adept at magic but also have enough skill with a sword to fight on par with a fully trained knight in the kingdoms army.
Dylan wanted to enrol in the academy immediately, but the youngest one can be enrolled is at the age of 11, so Dylan still had 7 more years and in that time Dylan had promised himself he would train hard enough that by the time he enrolled in the school he would at least be one of the strongest there. Dylan then began his physical training, unfortunately there aren't a lot of physical training activities Dylan could do in his room without equipment but he still tried he did press-ups until his arms couldn't move anymore and then moved onto sit-ups, once his body was completely physically exhausted he sat on the floor and began practicing magic, he created a small tornado made out of wind in his palm, then proceeded to add the element of fire to the small tornado and then earth as well.
As he was practicing his control over magic he thought to himself 'I wish that there was a way for me to leave my house and fight some monsters in the forest nearby' as the son of a powerful Noble Dylan lived quit a sheltered life, he had never left the grounds of his home and he knew little on how the outside world actually looked, 'There actually is a way for you to be able to leave your home and get to the forest' Dylan's other half replied in a cheerful tone as if he had been waiting for Dylan to ask that question 'How can I leave?' Dylan asked, if there was a way for him to leave then he would like to know about it. 'It's quite difficult but with the amount of practice you've had with using your energy and mana efficiently and the fact that the forest isn't far from here I think you'll be able to distort space enough to teleport to the forest', Dylan was shocked, not only could he control multiple elements, he could also distort space, Dylan realised that if he could distort space he might even be able to control time, but that's for another day first he needs to know how to distort space. 'So how would I distort space?' 'Well first you need to concentrate and use your control over energy to tear a small hole in reality, just big enough for you to pass thorough but make sure it's only a small tear as you could damage the very fabric of reality if the damage you make is too big' Just like Dylan's other half said a small whole was floating in front of him, he walked around it but it was just a 2 dimensional circle floating in the middle of his room with nothing but darkness inside the hole.
'Now step through the whole, when your inside close it up and then do the exact same thing but this time concentrate on the destination where the tear will open up on the other side', Dylan did as he was told and when he stepped out of the tear in reality he was standing in the middle of the forest, just before he was about to close up the tear a huge amount of fatigue washed over him. 'What's going on?' Dylan asked his other half, 'You just tore 2 holes in reality itself, did you think that it would be easy and you would only use a small amount of energy? 'Don't worry though with your level of practice you should replenish the energy that you used in about 1-2 hours' After about 5 minutes of rest Dylan started to feel the great strain in his body lessen but he was still extremely fatigued, 'Okay I feel better now, but now that I'm here I just realised that I came here without a weapon and I don't even know how to find any monsters 'If you want to find monsters just sense the energy that they are giving out, also I think you'll be just fine without a weapon because there are only a handful of monsters in this forest that can actually give you a real challenge'.
Dylan concentrated and sensed his surrounding area, there were a few monsters that are close to him but their energy felt strong, Dylan didn't want to rush and fight an enemy that he had no chance of beating, but he sense two wolves that seemed to have left their pack, he decided that they would be his first targets. He started to run in the direction that he sensed the wolves, at the speed he was currently moving a grown man would have trouble keeping up with him, but Dylan wanted to move faster so he activated a new technique that he had developed, he forced energy to manifest in the outside of his body, it looked like lightning was flowing through his skin. This technique greatly increased all his physical capabilities and he reached his destination at an incredible speed, when he arrived he immediately located both the wolves, both wolves immediately noticed Dylan's arrival, their Snow White fur was covered in blood which means that the wolves had just hunted some prey not too long ago, Dylan's theory was correct as behind the wolves was the corpses of two humans, both bodies were horribly mutilated beyond recognition. But strangely seeing the human corpses and the wolves covered in their blood didn't phase Dylan at all he simply looked at the wolves analysing them, he could sense the mana of the wolves and noticed both wolves had an affinity for wind magic, Dylan was mocking the wolves in his head, 'How can they only use one type of magic?' 'Hahah, you're the only person alive who can use all elements, usually people and animals are born with an affinity to only one element, having an affinity for more than one element is extremely rare and the more elements you can use the rarer of an existence you are'.
After hearing that Dylan was once again great full or the gift he had been given, the wolves noticing Dylan was preoccupied with something else and not paying attention decided to take advantage of the situation and both wolves launched a wind blade at him, sensing the incoming mana Dylan just calmly evaded the attack, the wolves seeing that he didn't even panic when they attacked and instead calmly evaded their attacks they got greatly infuriated. One wolf let out a mighty howl using wind magic to increase the power of the howl, while the other pounced at at Dylan, he was unbothered by the first wolfs howl, Dylan instead diverted his attention to the wolf that had pounced at him, a smile formed on his face, Dylan didn't want to get any blood in his clothes so he created a giant pillar of fire and completely roasted the wolf that had pounced at him. Dylan noticed that the wolf had died from that attack, he didn't think that would kill the wolf so only one thought filled his mind, 'They are weak' after coming to this conclusion Dylan decided to finish this fight quickly as he didn't want to fight weaklings, seeing the wolf was now frightened after seeing how easily his partner had died Dylan started to slowly approach the frightened beast, the wolf started to back up slowly hoping to escape but Dylan simply used Earth magic and pierced the heart of the wolf with a spike from the ground beneath the wolfs feet, after Dylan had finished the fight he was happy with the result he had finally left his home and confirmed his strength by fighting the wolves, he felt like this trip had been very beneficial. After paying respects to the two human corpses Dylan opened another tear in reality and headed back to his home, but Dylan has not yet realised how much he had changed since coming to this world, the old Dylan would of felt sick after seeing two human corpses, but him now didn't even bat an eyelid at not only the corpses of the humans but the dead bodies of the wolves.