Current situation & magic cultivation

Since it was raining outside Aisha sat with her son on the bed, now that he has asked her to rely on him then it was important to evaluate their current situation, what resources they had and how will they proceed from now and onwards.

"The first thing I want you to know darling are the magic cultivation realms, for you to be aware of our current position… from lower to higher:

Apprentice

Novice mage

Formal Mage or simply called Mage

Magus Lord

Archmage

Magus King also known as Thrones

"Each realm is divided in three stages, early, middle and peak with the exception of the Mage realm which consists in nine levels or nine stars, for example mommy used to be a peak rank Archmage but now… I'm only a one-star Mage.

Daimon nodded this was some of the basic knowledge he was taught back then on the Naktis family, he also felt a bit bad for his mother, she had to go through a lot to reach the Archmage realm at the young age of 200 years old just to lose almost all her cultivation in one day.

Aisha felt her son's worries and she hugged him.

"Don't worry darling, mommy is young again and I still have my experience as an Archmage, it's the best of both worlds ♥ so don't feel bad, okay?".

Daimon knew he shouldn't be depressed; he had a second chance to be with his loved one which is something most of the people can only wish for and his worries faded away when he heard Evangeline saying.

"The system always does what is better for you, in fact tell your mother to not start cultivating the manual she used on her "past" life, just enter the apprentice realm and you will understand why".

"I guess it wouldn't do any harm listening to your advice this time, on any case it will only take me a few days to enter the apprentice realm anyway".

Evangeline smiled and said to herself "a few days my ass, you underestimate the power of a Chaos tier physique such as the Apex Predator Body".

"Mom… don't start cultivating with the manual of the Silverheart family, I have a surprise for you but you will have to wait until I enter the Apprentice realm".

Aisha didn't even doubt her son for a second.

"If that's what you think is the best then I will believe you darling ♥, besides a few days won't make a difference in my recovering".

"Now that we have settled that, we have to consider what will we do, the Beast faction and the Immortal faction are enemies so we don't have to worry about being persecuted by the Naktis for a long time, also I have an… old friend from the fox tribe here in Lykos, I can contact her in a few days when I have accumulated mana, so we can stay with her for the time being".

Daimon doubted for a second before asking.

"Mom, is this friend of yours trustworthy?".

Aisha understood her son worries, after all usually those from the beast faction won't be too friendly with vampires.

"You could say that she is a… special case, I met her back on a tournament between high-ranking magic academies and we shared some common interest in blacksmithing so it wasn't hard for us to get along, besides we both shared another thing in common we both had idiots trying to approach us hahaha".

"On any case we have always been in contact since that moment and she is actually your… birth godmother, unfortunately since I was unofficially tied to Victor, we weren't able to see each other in person on the last 6-7 years but I never lost contact with her, you could say that she is my oldest friend".

Daimon saw his mother's nostalgic expression and he internally sighed, "another reason to kill that bastard", he thought.

"Ok, if you trust her that is enough for me mom".

Aisha smiled, while tightening her arms around her son.

"Thankss darling ♥".

Daimon was drowning in sugar but he was enjoying the fact that Aisha seemed quite happy to reunite with her friend, "seriously who is the child here" he thought, even Evangeline agreed with him.

"Your mother seems to be quite a lively person, are you sure you aren't adopted or something?".

Daimon didn't bother to answer her, it was time for him to start being instructed on how to cultivate his magic core, until you become a one-star mage you don't need a cultivation manual so being an apprentice or a novice mage are basically training realms on where you learn how to gather mana and absorb it.

Aisha stood up from the bed to start his first training session.

"Ok darling, first sit on a position which you find comfortable, then close your eyes and focus on your own body".

He did as she told and sat cross legged on the bed before closing his eyes, a few seconds later his vision changed to a white empty space, the only thing he could see was a floating black orb coated in red light in the middle of the space.

"You should be seeing a white space with only a floating orb in it, that is your magic core, now what is the color of it? the color of your magic core is normally a way to determine your elemental affinity… but that might not be the case for you".

Daimon nodded, "it's pitch black and there is some kind of red brightness around it".

Aisha seemed confused.

"I haven't heard of a black magic core before… darkness affinity should be a dark gray color".

Evangeline interrupted them to explain, "don't worry about that, this is only an effect caused by the special physique you have since the body reformation, let's just say you won't have trouble with any element… I think".

Daimon internally sighed, "what kind of system are you, really?" he thought, he opened his eyes and asked.

"Apparently, it's thanks to my grimoire… mom is it weird to be able to use more than one element?".

Aisha waved her right hand and a portion of the metal covering the floor separated from the rest and moved around her as if it was some kind of liquid until it became a little solid ball of metal, while on her left-hand electricity started to crackle.

"It's not exactly common but there are people who are skilled in more than one element, technically we have affinity with all the elements that exist, that's why you are able to use simple spells from every element, the amount of affinity is what determines what will your path be, in my case I'm competent in metal and lightning elements".

Daimon nodded, "at least I won't have to keep a secret the fact that I will probably use more than one element I guess, although I will have to choose what I can show in public and… what to keep as my hidden cards", he thought.

A strong mage should always have a couple of tricks up its sleeve is one of the things Aisha taught him and that is one of the reasons as to why they were able to escape from the red mist planet due to the forbidden spell she had always prepared beforehand.

"Ok darling, now close your eyes again and focus on the mana that surrounds us, then try to direct it towards your magic core, that is how everyone below the Archmage realm gather mana".

Daimon followed her instructions first he focused on his surrounding until he was able to see little blue particles floating everywhere which he supposed were the mana that was created by the nature.

After a couple of tries he managed to pull some of those particles towards his body, the magic core was positioned below the navel so it was a correct supposition to try to press the mana against that area in order to absorb it but then… he saw his magic core started radiating a black and red light and the mana in the whole area started to float towards Daimon just to be absorbed by his magic core, or a better way to describe it would be that his magic core started devouring the mana as if it was some kind of insatiable beast.

Daimon was too concentrated to notice it, but as a former Archmage Aisha could feel all the mana being forced into her son's body and her eyes widened due to the surprise.

"Impossible, this absorption rate is on par with an Archmage, not only that but he is not even putting on any effort!!!".

Evangeline was watching everything and she couldn't contain her laugh, "as expected of my host, he is quite a monster hahaha".