Chapter 2

Simply, mana is fuel for magic just like food is fuel for our body.

Magic can't be performed or used without mana.

A certain amount of mana is required to use magic or spell however the more powerful the spell is the more mana is required.

Simply, higher level of magic requires higher amounts of mana.

The user can use mana that is within user's body or use mana manipulation to draw out mana from surroundings to use magic.

A person is born with mana. Their mana can be a lot or less. It depends on hereditary.

A person with less mana can only use few magic or can't use at all however a person with lot of mana can use variety of magic.

There are various ways to activate magic. Spoken incantation is one of the most used way.

However there's other way which doesn't require to speak or chant anything, it only requires imagination.

Only skilled sorcerer can use magic without incantation by using their imagination but concentration is needed.

Complicated magic spell requires more mana and time if incantation method is used.

While only skilled magician can use complex spell without incantation.

You can also use both incantation and imagination method at the same time to activate magic spell.

Magical items like wands, staffs, rings, cloth and weapons grant sorcerer mystic powers.

Simply, they use those items to create or cast magic spells.

Magic Array is also a method to activate magic.

But it got old as incantation became norm.

However some people still use this method and very advance level magic might require this method to activate.

Simply, spoken incantation is like uttering a chant through mouth to activate magic.

Even though I had understood all the concepts, I wasn't able to perform any magic before. Maybe it was due to mana deficiency or my concentration wasn't enough.

I was in the room which was on the second floor.

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To activate any magic you can use either incantation, concentration or imagination. There are other methods also but they are old and inconvenient.

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"Hmm, Let's see…"

I was reading while sitting on the floor.

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The first step to use imagination method is to create something by imagining it. It might appear on your hand or somewhere around you.

You can start imagining a small stone on your hand…

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"This seems interesting."

I stood up, stretched out my left hand and started imagining a small stone on my hand while standing.

I suddenly started feeling burning sensation all over my body. It felt like as if my blood was burning as it was flowing through my body. My heart rate increased as a result increase in blood flow. I felt my blood flowing and gathering onto my left hand from all over my body followed by burning sensation in nerves.

And in a blink of an eye a small rock appeared on my hand floating.

"Wow! I don't believe it. Magic is really a thing in this world."

"It really appeared on my hand on top of that it's floating, not even touching my palm. It's amazing."

I got amazed by myself.

Then I grabbed it with my right hand and threw it outside through the window with little force.

As I turned around to read, suddenly I heard explosion.

"What was that!"

I turned around and looked through the window to observe.

"Huh?"

When I looked out through the window, I saw our garden was shattered. However there was not much damage done to it. Only the front part of it was destroyed. And the fences protecting it from front was gone.

Damaged part was really badly spoiled, only soil was remaining.

"Who did this!"

I saw my mom approaching there from inside the house.

She saw me as she was investigating it. I didn't know what to do at that time to I smiled and waved my hand to her.

"Mom…"

She smiled back. And she started investigating again.

"Was my mama practicing magic?"

"Wait, the damaged plants are came back to life! How?"

"Oh, that's right. My mom must have used healing magic on them."

"Can I use healing magic too?"

"Well I can but I can't now since it's higher level magic and using it will require lot of mana or practice I think."

"For now let's continue reading."

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You've to know when to stop. If you put too much mana into the rock, it might result in explosion…

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"Wait a minute, so I'm to be blamed for destroying the garden!"

"Really…"

"I just threw a small rock there with little force.

How can it be so destructive, huh?"

"I probably should go and tell mom about it."

I changed my mind to tell my mom and dad both about it while having dinner.

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The rock you created might be heavy or light, it depends upon your imagination…

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"Ehh, that's why the rock felt so light."

"Well, of course it felt light because of its size however it can be heavy too if they are made up of dense metallic minerals."

"Now let's create fire."

"No that's dangerous. I better create something environmental friendly like water or ice or snow."

I imagined ice crystal of triangular in shape and concentrated it to be on my hand.

This time I used my right hand as to see if I could use both hands to use magic.

It did appear however it disappeared afterwards.

I thought of my concentration not being enough.

I felt sensation of something getting inside of my body from my hand the moment it disappeared.

"Is it turning back into mana and getting back inside to my body?"

I questioned myself.

I tried again to find out about it.

I felt the same sensation I felt back then, though it didn't feel as strong as it did before.

Ice crystal of triangular in shape appeared.

I moved my hand as to find out if it's going to fall down however it stayed floating on my hand and later it disappeared which made me sure that the it turned back into mana and got absorbed by my hand.

"Okay."

"Now let's see if I can create water or snowball."

"Wow, it's possible."

I created snow. The shape was nearly spherical.

I thought of checking it's temperature and touched it with my left hand.

"It's cold."

As I was touching it, it disappeared within my hand just like before.

"Let's see if I can customize its appearance."

I imagined spikes of ice.

"So it's looks can be modified too."

Let's try making a snow ball then converting it into snow by lowering its temperature and then turning it into water by increasing the temperature.

How can I lower its temperature by the way?

Can I just imagine the temperature being really low and it'll just turn into ice or should I just imagine ice so that it converts into ice?

Can I turn snow into ice and then ice into water and then water into snow continuously like first snow then ice then water then snow then ice then water then snow then water then ice…?

Let's try doing it.

As I imagine snowball it appeared. Next as I imagined ice the snow turned into ice and just like that when I imagined water the ice turned into water.

I continuously created each while trying to make their appearance cool. I couldn't customized water's appearance by the way. It always appeared to be spherical in shape and transparent in color.

"Is this easy?"

"Talking of which how can I attack with it?"

Like throwing it towards something.

Should I creat and pick it by my other hand and throw it like did earlier with stone?

No, that can be.

There must be someway to make it go flying towards something as to attack it.

I started to scan the term 'attacking with magic' through pages.

I'm starting to feel sleepy and little weaker than before.

Why is that?

Is it because I used to much magic?

No it can't be since everything I created with magic is getting turned back into mana and returning to my body.

"Oh here is it."

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Attacking targets while using magic…

If you could create a small stone or ice on your hand, you can use it to hit or attack targets.

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"Hmm…"

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Just aim where to shot or lock your concentration on target and it'll go flying towards it however hitting the target depends on your concentration…

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Damage done depends upon how much mana you've put on either ice or stone or…

The more mana you add to the ice the more damage it'll do and vice-versa. It's velocity can be controlled by sorcerer too.

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"Eh… it's speed can also be controlled."

"That's impressive."

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If there's mana on it then it gets blasted on hitting the target. The more mana the bigger the explosion.

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"Like a missiles."

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Just think about its nature before shooting to modify its characteristics…

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"I guess I'll try it."

I moved to other window.

"At first focus on that small branch of tree."

"Then do the process of creating spiky ice."

"Next make it go flying towards it."

I started doing the process of creating crystal of spiky ice.

Why I am suddenly breathing heavily and my eyes are feeling heavy too plus the ice, it isn't appearing fast, why is that?

Is it because I'm out of mana.

Wait am really I out of my mana already?

And is it even possible to get out of mana by the way?

Now my legs are getting weaker plus my lungs are demanding more air.

I should stop concentrating otherwise I might lose all my strength and fall asleep on the floor.

I should just get sleep and recover my strength.

I stopped doing the process and moved to read more instead of sleeping.

As I was reading it, my eyes felt heavy and fell asleep on the floor with the book.

I woke up feeling hungry on my bed in my room.

"It's magical. I was in second-floor room but now I'm in my room on my bed."

Well, you have child and I'm not alone. You have your parents who love you, treasure you, nurture you... Of course they will take you to your room and put you on your bed after seeing you sleeping on the floor.

I think it's dinner time. Let's go and help my mom prepare dinner.