The Real Way

After a few hours of meditation, you open your eyes and see your dad staring back at you. You jump back in shock, "Why are you so close you nearly gave me a heart attack!" you say clenching your chest.

He takes a step back and you can hear the frustration in his voice as he shouts "What do you think your doing... do you really meditate like that or are you just messing with me didn't you want me to train you or are you just wasting my time?" You look up at him with a confused expression on your face.

The furious expression on his face fades as he lets out a sigh " I guess Terry only taught you guys the gist of it but never checked to see if you guys were doing it right." A big smile appears on his face as he runs his hands through his unkempt brown hair.

"I guess the worlds greatest mage would have to teach you how to meditate but first I gotta explain why all mages must meditate and how it works knowing him he probably threw a book at you and told you to leave him alone"

He sits down in front of you with a loud groan like the one that you'd hear from a man twice his age. "ok Liz first you sit with your legs crossed, then you close your eyes, try to feel the energy in the air the life force of everything around you, when you can feel it take a deep breath in hold it for a bit then you breath out you continue you breathing until you enter a trance."

"You know all this but what you don't know that once you enter the trance must imagine a pool just above your stomach circulating mana through your body this makes it more than twice as effective as just meditating"

"now that you know what to do start meditating I don't want no excuses don't get up unless you see that the sun is set I'll be in the house"

"But dad," you say just before he gets inside I didn't eat yet." He turns to you with a smirk on his face and tosses you two bottles of pills "this is a grade 2 strengthening pill it speeds up physical and magical training while also healing any minor backlash you have taken during the training process."

"Thanks dad!" You say with a big smile "This will definitely help."

"No need to thank me, you are the daughter of the worlds greatest mage you should expect these things."

You smile as you start meditating as soon as you enter the trance you can immediately feel the difference it's like a dam has broken and the once impossible walls you thought would never break have finally broken you can feel that the amount of mana your body had has increased you have no idea how much though unless you had a mana detecter.

"When you open your eyes its dark and you're extremely sore from meditating on the ground with only a thin mat as your only comfort you walk into the house as you stretch and immediately go upstairs to shower then hop into bed and drift off to sleep.