Knowledge is power.
After four years I seem to finally be able to speak a few words that make sense, after my last experience interacting in this world I was really excited to find out more about it, so I asked Mary a few questions, of course, nothing too complex for a child I guess that my expression gave the game away because it just blurted out everything I wanted to know and then some, well, maybe I'm a little too cute.
Despite being both surprised and impressed by the existence of magic, I still had a lot to learn, from what I understood there are three kinds of energies consolidated in this world: mana, responsible for magic, aura, responsible for physical and mental strengthening, and the energy of nature, which I still don't understand how it works.
I found that humans are able to use both mana and aura, the first exists within our bodies in the form of cores, these cores are two and exist within us since we were born, the main core of mana develops in layers, in each of these layers it is possible to extract more magic power from it, the maximum that our body can possess is ten, starting with the primary layer that is already born with us and varies from person to person, depending on the type of mana that the body absorbs and filters to the core.
Mana falls into two categories: elemental mana and variant mana; elemental mana is predominant and is divided into four types: water, fire, earth and air, most mages usually control one or two of them depending on their core. The variant mana derives from the elemental mana along with other aspects, these are rarer cases, always dependent on the user in question.
As for the aura, it is acquired with training, both physical and mental, while the mana is in charge of magical power, the aura is in charge of the physical, increasing our attributes and even manifesting itself in the body, I imagine that if there are warriors in this world, everyone should at least be adept at using it.
Well, who wouldn't be excited? Being able to be strong, something I never was and didn't even think about being. Excited about it all, I did what any good kid would do, I used my best skills since I was born here, Oliver was polishing some sort of leather armor, I pulled the sleeve off his shirt and gave him the "stray dog" look. most powerful I got – Daddy, I want to play magic just like Mommy – yeah, success guaranteed. In fact, from the look of joy on his face, I think he was expecting something like this.
We went behind the house, Oliver carrying me all excited, but Mary seemed a little apprehensive, - Come on my love, let's just play a little with him to make him happy, I know it's early, but it's good that he has this kind of contact - he tried to cheer her up with some kisses and tickles, it ended up working out a bit in the end, until I liked this atmosphere they had, strangely it made me calmer despite the honeyed kisses, blergh...
- "Return the ashes, purify the flesh, Jet of fire!" - It didn't take a second, and a flaming wave came out of her palm and dissipated in the air - Wow - I ended up expressing myself way too well and ended up getting some smiles, - I want too - I felt my eyes shine just looking at that, but ...
- You're still too young for this Rill, it can be dangerous, at that age you have little mana my little one - Mary's face looked a little worried as she spoke, I ended up getting a little uncomfortable with the answer, I admit - But you can memorize the names of spells that you like a lot to use when you grow up a little, what do you think? - this time she opened a smile to try to comfort me, and well, I really have nothing to do, after all I'm just a child who doesn't even know how to speak properly, I'm resigned to the situation, so to try to cheer up there and I raised the arm with a smile on my face and tried her suggestion - Jet fire! - and at that moment, the same flames that I saw come out of her hands, came out of mine.
The next day I stayed in my room, Mary and Oliver were having a serious argument, after what happened, their reaction was a mixture of surprise and panic, I don't think mine was much different either... Wow, it will be that until here I am something abnormal? I didn't hear what they discussed, but sometimes I caught a few cut phrases - "He's still too young!" -, "Honey that's not bad, he's got talent" - trying to figure out what was going on only made me more confused, so I decided to just wait and see. A while later Oliver opened the bedroom door, - Everything okay son? Let's walk outside for a bit, it's too nice a day to play - I didn't see Mary as we went downstairs, nor when we passed the door on the way out. We went to a small river near the house, there were some fruits lying on the ground, they had a shape that reminded me of a kind of Pear, but they were totally pink, as we walked I started to get a little anxious so I started to give some light kicks to try to calm down, - Did I do something bad Daddy? - I ended up finally asking, he patted my head and sat down putting me in his lap, which didn't help much.
- Listen Rill, what you did was something really surprising, but it's also dangerous for both you and the others around you, you are special my son, in a good way, okay? But you need to understand the situation, you know? - it's a little relaxing to see how he gets a little confused while trying to comfort me for telling me about it, being a first-time father shouldn't be an easy task, I ended up letting out a little laugh at the situation, but soon after I nodded strongly with the head using a more serious tone like his. As we walked back, he told me that the next day, an old friend was coming to visit us to check my body against my core with Mary, I guess that's why I didn't see her when we left, he was maybe getting ready for that or something like that.