Start of magic training

{Good morning ~}

I wake up in the morning with Agata's voice.

"Good morning darling"

I get up to start a new day. After eating breakfast I go to the living room.

I sit on the couch and close my eyes to concentrate. 'When I used the Devour skill, I could feel the mana going through my body and into the palm of my hand, I want to feel the mana without using any skills, maybe I can use it to coat my sword with mana like in those stories that I read before I met Agata in the void. ' after a while meditating i can feel the mana in my body. The sensation of mana is like water, a liquid running inside my body without any control.

After minutes of feeling the mana, I start trying to control it. I start trying to calm the runaway mana, after minutes without any results I change the approach, I try to control a small amount, in the first few minutes it doesn't give any results, then I decrease the amount, I start to feel a little control and I guide this little thread of mana for my hand.

I open my eyes and see a thin layer of gray in my right hand.

{As expected from her husband, in less than two hours he can already feel and control a small part of her mana ~} says Agata in a proud voice.

"How long does it take a person to do what I did?" I ask curiously.

{Let's take humans as an example. It takes a human with good magical aptitude on average 3 months to feel the internal manna without any help, to reach his current level of control it will take another 1 or 2 months.

"So I'm like a monster in magic?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.

{You are no longer human, the question mark in your status window is not just an ornament, dear ~} Agata says in a good-humored voice.

I stop to think about what she said. I shrug and move on. Doesn't human being bother me? No, it doesn't bother me at all.

Putting the previous conversation in the back of my mind, I try to control more mana again.

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After hours of practicing, I am controlling half of my mana without a problem. After a few more minutes I stop and go get something to eat.

After a few minutes, I put the plate of food on and sit down to lunch. Finishing eating and washing the dishes, I return to the living room with a knife in my hand. I sit down and try to transfer my mana to the knife.

I command a small fraction and see it start to cover the knife. The gray mana easily covers the knife as a second layer, slowly I start to increase the amount, after a few seconds the mana starts to deform the knife, curious to see what happens I start to increase the mana even more. When I reach 1/3 of the manna I can control, the knife starts to disintegrate.

"Agata, why did my mana consume the knife?" I ask curiously. In my memory, mana does not have this property, I speculate that it is due to my power over the void but i am not sure.

{As the darling must have already imagined, your mana has incorporated the qualities of emptiness, so your mana is not blue like the others, but gray. Coming with the qualities, came the characteristic of devouring everything. You can still coat and strengthen objects, but if you have a lot of mana in the object, it will be consumed by your mana.}

'just as i imagined, i have to use my mana carefully. I can use Nen exercises from that HunterxHunter anime to improve my control, it should work ... I think. ' ending my thoughts I return to mana control.

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Opening my eyes, I look at the clock.

"* sigh * It's 21:34, it took a long time to finish controlling all my mana ..." with a thought, my mana flows into my hand and takes the shape of a ball.

{Fufufu ~ if a magic user hears this he would cough up blood.}

Shrugging, I get up and go to eat. It was very tiring to sit and meditate to be able to control my mana.

After making dinner, I sit down to eat. After I finish, i open my notifications.

* Ding

Shizuka Marikawa: affection + 28

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Rika Minami: affection + 15.

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Meditation (Amateur): Meditation is a technique that allows the mind and body to be brought into a state of calm and relaxation.

When active, increases MP and HP recovery by 75%.

When active, it increases INT, SEN and WIS by 50%.

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Mana Manipulation [Expert]: The user is able to generate, shape and manipulate mana for a variety of purposes.

Decreases mana consumption by 30%.

Increases the spell's effect and damage by 30%.

"The affection must be about yesterday's event ... Honey, why didn't I gain a skill when i reinforced the knife?" I ask out of curiosity.

{You didn't reinforce it, what you did was saturate the knife with mana until it was destroyed fufufu ~}

"So to reinforce something, it's not just filling the object with mana, but using the mana in an intelligent way ..." After the explanation, I go to the kitchen and take another knife.

'reinforcing is not saturating something with mana, but how do I change my mana's property? 'after a while thinking I come up with a hypothesis. 'if mana takes ownership over image, belief and control? In some worlds, magic works this way ... ' When I finish my thought, I start sending my mana over the knife, visualizing in my mind a layer that reinforces the knife increasing its durability, then the blade's mana tones to increase the sharpness. For the belief I use a name, that name will be 'reinforcement' and the control comes from my mana manipulation.

After a few seconds I open my eyes and see a notification.

* Ding

[Enchanted weapon (beginner): This ability increases durability and strength when applied to a weapon.

Increases durability and attack by 1 x (mana points).]

I smile because my hypothesis is right. I put 100 mana points with enchanted weapon on the knife and pass the knife over the stone table.

* ziiin!

Where I passed the knife, there was a scratch in the depth of a few centimeters. I run my finger and the cut is smooth, it is literally a hot knife in butter.

{Congratulations dear, you just created a magic skill on your own ~} blushing a little, I can feel the smile on Agate's face just by hearing her words.

"Hehehe, this is nothing, I will create much more!" I say as I put my fist on my chest to look more confident. It is not wrong for a husband to brag about his wife ... Isn't it?

{Fufufu ~ I'm sure of it, I will always be the first in line to see your achievements.}

"You can be sure." ending my conversation with Agata, I take out a lighter. 'I proved that my hypothesis is partially correct, let's see if it works with elements too ...' I light the lighter and guide a string of mana to the flame 'Fire is a chemical process of transformation. The components that make up the fire are fuel, oxidizer and heat. Fuel is the material that fuels the fire and serves as a field for propagation. It comprises almost all the materials I can imagine, paper and wood are two of those, I believe that manna also falls into this category. Oxidizing is the element that activates fire, that is, it gives life and intensifies the phenomenon of combustion. Oxygen is the main oxidizer but I can also use mana. Heat is the element used to start combustion.'

Feeling the fire for my mana I start to change the properties, I can change the gas in the lighter easily for my mana. After a while with the flame in the palm of my hand I start to change part of the mana to serve as an oxidizer, after a long time I can increase the intensity of the flame with my mana. So here I am, I can now manipulate an existing fire but I cannot create a single one of my mana, extinguishing the flame. I begin to guide a new mana for my hand. the magic, image, belief and control, using the image to imagine the fire, belief to imagine a small particle of mana igniting when I say 'fire' and with my mana control to do everything at the same time.

"Fire!"

Small sparks appear from the palm of my hand that generate a flame the size of a soccer ball.

* Ding

[Fire Manipulation (beginner): Fire Manipulation is a kinetic and elemental power that grants the user the ability to generate and control fire.

Decreases mana consumption by 10%

Increases the damage and effect of fire magic by 20%]

Extinguished the fire, I'll get some water.

{Ooh! My husband is a genius !! He has high control over his own mana and on the same day he managed to handle fire ... Surely my husband is the most talented person in the entire multiverse ~}

The surprise in Agata's voice is palpable, but acceptable. If the manipulation of mana is already so difficult to have at this level, imagine the manipulation of fire ... It must be something from the end of the game.

Finishing the glass of water I go to the room.

"Good evening dear." finishing saying good night i fall asleep. Today was very tiring.

{Good evening dear ~}

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