chapter 3 : Knowledge is power

Ethan's time in the library allowed him to learn about the history of the kingdom and helped him develop leadership skills. Knowledge of past wars and diplomacy gave him strategic thinking and helped him better understand his responsibilities in running the kingdom.

At the same time, his mother had become pregnant again. As long as he spent in this world, he started to love his mother especially. Whenever he had time, he would tell her stories at night and fall asleep with her gentle voice. In his previous life, his parents abandoned him when he was a baby. Ethan found them when he was 18, but both of them had already started a different family when Ethan reached them. Not only did Ethan reject him, but his mother in his previous life told him, "You were a mistake." These words made him feel deeply disappointed, but his current parents were very interested and soon Ethan warmed up to them.

When Ethan turned 5, he started taking private lessons at the palace. These lessons covered subjects such as etiquette, history, justice, and money management, while also teaching things such as music and dance.

He was learning more and more every day.

One of the interesting things he learned was that his stepmother, the first Queen Leylia, was also the mother of Isabella and Karl, but after giving birth to Karl, she moved to the royal estate in the southern city of Slavonia. First Queen Leylia is the sister of Duke Eddart, one of the greatest powers in the kingdom.

After losing against the Tamerid kingdom, Richard married her to increase the population of the country. There was no love in this marriage. After giving birth to a son, the queen moved to the Slavonian city where her brother was.

Ethan's mother, Luciana, and his father, Richard, were a love marriage. At first, Ethan's mother, Luciana, was actually a concubine. She was the daughter of a nobleman in the Kingdom of Pategonia, located in the northernmost part of the continent. However, his father, Ethan's grandfather, sold Luciana to the Pategonia Kingdom for a large amount of money due to his debts to another nobleman, and the king bought her. He gave it as a gift to establish good relations with the Asina kingdom...

Yes, her mother was given away like an object, but after meeting Richard, they fell in love with each other.

Thus, Ethan entered his private lessons without any interruption. His teacher, Mary, a wise lady, not only gave him knowledge, but also taught him the complexities of life. With the scars from Ethan's past, he was on a journey where he had to skillfully balance both his leadership skills and human relations.

Ethan's private lessons were filled not only with knowledge, but also important teachings about the complexities of life. Under Mary's guidance, he was learning the art of balancing human relationships while honing his leadership skills.

During this process, Ethan learned details about Leylia's previous marriage and his family's past and began to think more about his own identity.

Ethan's mother Luciana's past contained a tragic story. The adventure of starting a life as a nobility, becoming a concubine due to debts, and then finding true love with Richard in the Asina Kingdom helped Ethan better understand family dynamics.

The learning process was not limited to the time spent in the library; In addition to the lessons, Ethan continued to learn important lessons from his family's stories. Confronting and understanding his past continued to deepen his character as he prepared for future leadership duties.

When he was 6 years old, there were some conflicts on the border in the north of the country and he was also close to the feudal lordship of his older sister Isabella in that area, so he set out there to solve the problem and successfully stopped the minor border harassment that was occurring, which was bad news for his older brother Karl, who had been unsuccessful for a while because he was in his own territory. There were allegations that he had kidnapped and raped some girls. As far as he knew, his brother had become fond of women during adolescence, and that was why Richard sent him a threatening letter.

Ethan continued to learn new things day by day, for example, that there were different races in this world, such as fantastic artifacts, and some of these races even established their own kingdoms. Among these races, there were half-human, half-animals, elves, demons, dragons, merpeople and monsters that did not have intelligence, but they were rare. There could also be monsters with intelligence, but among these races, demons were formed thousands of years ago when humans and other races united and fought against demons, and as a result, demons left the continent we are on.

One day, while Maryle was in class, he asked his teacher about herself

"Why do you want to know, little Ethan?" said Mary.

Ethan said, "I just thought I should know something about my teacher." Mary sighed. "Well, you're doing pretty well in your studies, so I'll tell you about myself."

After a short conversation, as far as I understand, Mary is a normal citizen, but she is talented enough to enter the Royal Academy, she has improved herself in the academy, Mary is an attractive woman in her 40s.Mary was a strong, healthy, black-haired, brown-eyed woman in her She and Richard were friends at the academy. Richard was an arrogant prince at that time, but still he did not disdain Mary and even became her friend. Later, Mary became a teacher at the royal academy. Mary's interest grew and she turned to alchemy.

Ethan cleared one of his eyebrows and said: "Then you're not teaching me magic."

"You usually have to see the mana between the ages of 6 and 8 because you can't see the mana yet, little Ethan," Mary said. So can't you explain to Ethan, who is not interested in this answer, how you control mana at a minimum level?

Mary said, "Little Ethan, you have to feel the mana before I can learn to control it."Ethan said with a truly satisfied smile. "But can you teach me how to control mana on paper?"

ethan's speech was interrupted when he saw gray particles in front of him ethan had already read in books what mana could look like when he looked at the particles in front of him he couldn't understand it at first but after a few seconds when he understood it he said with a proud smile "teacher Mary I think your student can learn mana now."