Chapter 3

Diary Entry #300

Dear Diary,

It is now 1989, there's just two years left before I leave for my first step to greatness, Hogwarts. I haven't touched occlumency and legilimency, yet by the way as I am wary of practicing them unsupervised as they involve my mind and soul. But I am positive I'll pick them up quickly before going to Hogwarts after I buy a few books on the topics in Diagon Alley. By the way, learning martial arts is extremely invigorating and I have found out that I have a little talent in the activity, enough to get sponsored by the dojo instructor. He has asked me to participate in the upcoming under-15 MMA competition as a means of repaying him. I guess he is confident in my skills. On a side note, my magic improvements have come to almost a standstill. Exhaustion training is getting harder to complete as the mana in my body increases, my telekinesis is practically max level and my control is as high as it is possible for it to be. Right now, except channeling and exhaustion training I am thinking of focusing on visualisation and intent training as I heard that is how most magics work. I am going to concentrate on an image and will it as hard as possible to come true while using magic and see where it takes me.

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Diary Entry #301

Dear Diary,

The experiment was a massive success!! If my control wasn't as good as it is right now, I think I would have burned the whole orphanage... Anyways, my visualisation and intent training is a success and I am going to increase their intensity slowly. I have started to create a book reading spell which will copy all the contents present in a book straight to my head in seconds. It's still in it's early stages but I am positive by the time the tournament ends I'll have mastered it. The MMA tournament is going to start soon and the instructor has already enrolled me. Huh, I guess he is even more eager than I am.

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Diary Entry #311

Dear Diary,

My intent and visualisation training is skyrocketing my capabilities as a wandless wizard. I can now clean my room, my clothes and myself without even putting much thought into it, active channeling has turned into almost a passive skill and my detection radar has become practically an inbuilt mechanism. My book reading spell has been created way ahead of it's time. Now instant knowledge is no longer a dream!! Magic rocks!!! Anyways, my first match is tomorrow and I am feeling a little nervous as this is my first combat situation ever..

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Diary Entry #312

Dear Diary,

The match was a lot easier than I expected. Even though I am a lot taller than other kids of my age, I was severely underestimated by the other participants and even the judges. Well, that lasted until I knocked out my opponent effortlessly within a minute. The idiot rushed at me immediately and all I had to do was duck under his punch, hit him in his abdomen and as he fell to the ground on his knees with the wind knocked out of him, I hit him with a knee strike. I put a little more power than I intended to and the poor guy had a broken nose and a bloody face to deal with. Anyways, it was a fun experience and I was eagerly awaiting the next match, which is tomorrow. Huh, never knew beating others up could be so...liberating.

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Diary Entry #313

Dear Diary,

The second match was as easy as the first and my first victory was apparently seen as a fluke because clearly, my opponent underestimated me. He came at me with a huge blow straight to my face and left his entire body open. I calmly sidestepped his lunge, hit his left knee joint with my right leg and as he lost his balance I finished him off with a roundhouse kick to the back of his head with my left leg, which resulted in his face planting onto the stage with enough force to break his nose and give him a bloody face, similar to my first opponent. Tomorrow is the last match before the quarter finals, and I wonder, will I get a worthy opponent this time?

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Diary Entry #314

Dear Diary,

This time, I had a better opponent but she was still no match for me. We circled around each other for a while, throwing in a few halfhearted attacks mixed with a fair amount of feints when I suddenly decided to go on the attack. I lunged at her with a jump kick straight to her face, which she dodged by sidestepping. My 360° vision (detection radar) helped me see her counter, which was a vicious kick straight to my head. However, I caught her kick and backpedaled, causing her to do an unwilling full split, and kicked her straight in the face as soon as she was in the range, knocking her out. The crowd booed and cheered simultaneously, which was confusing to say the least. Anyways, I was a practitioner of gender equality and thus felt nothing wrong with my actions. Day after tomorrow, the quarter finals will take place in the morning, followed by the semi-finals at noon and the finals in the evening. I don't know why they wanted to cram all the finals in a day, but I wasn't complaining. Tomorrow was going to be a great day.