Genius magician
« What do you mean get rid of a clan ? »
« Train first, you'll know when the time is right. »
Thomas felt like he was being manipulated by the boy and already had an inkling of what he wanted him to do but he could refuse later, anyway he still needed the boy's help to adapt to this world so he can't refuse him yet.
« Fine but what kind of training ? »
« Magic, what else ? »
« Magic exist ? »
Thomas had died once, spent what seemed like years in the dark then went toward a light that made him appear in a foreign body in a half fire half normal forest, he then met a ghost kid. How could the existence of magic shock him at this point.
« Didn't you train in magic while you were alive ? »
« Magic doesn't exist in my world... »
The boy looked at him incredulously.
« Is the method a scam ? Did I just throw my life away ? »
He eyes became misty, he was on the verge of spilling the tears. He was so desperate that he didn't think that it could be a scam at all and just threw caution away. Now he started regretting.
« Listen well, I'll teach you a method to feel the mana in the air, if you can feel it during the first 3 hours you are a genius, in the first 5 hours you have a good potential and if you go further than 7 hours then you can do nothing for me. »
Then he taught him the method, Thomas closed his eyes and focused on the middle of his forehead, there was supposed to be a third eye there. If he opened the third eye he would feel the mana, then he will learn how to control mana and absorb it.
He focused and his mind started to wander around his body, he could see every part of his body with his eyes closed. Slowly his whole body was felt and in the middle of his forehead was a small dot of light, very small but he saw it and focused on it. The more he closed in to the light dot the more he felt a headache, it wasn't strong enough for him to give up so he kept going.
When he finally touched the light it expended and covered his whole body. The boy couldn't see it, only Thomas himself felt it. The light expended for a minute before returning in his forehead and was way more concentrated, Thomas opened his eyes and he could see the same kind of light everywhere around him, especially in the tree he was in ; the light was hugely concentrated around the tree and of course inside the tree where they were.
He looked at the boy and could see that all his body was made of white light, when he looked at himself his body was surrounded by white light but wasn't made of light.
« I think I'm done. » Thomas said.
« Are you joking ?! Go back to training it's only been half an hour ! »
The boy said without even looking at him, he was seated at he entrance of the tree and seemed to be busy looking around.
« I'm serious come check it yourself ! »
The boy turned around and approached Thomas, he put a hand on Thomas forehead and closed his eyes. Thomas couldn't feel his hand touching him, he was a real ghost. He felt weird, for an hour or so he had been interacting with a ghost.
The boy opened his eyes suddenly and looked at Thomas with expecting eyes.
« The book wasn't a scam, your talent is way above the limits of this world. In less than 2 years you'll be strong enough to help me take revenge ! 30 minutes to open the third eye is insane, the old record of Brel country was 3 hours and 7 minutes by princess Elsa. »
Thomas himself felt expectant, what kind of life would it be to be the strongest mage in a fantasy world...
« Now try to direct the light in the surrounding to your third eye. The bigger it becomes the stronger you'll be. You finding this tree is also your fortune, this tree is full of mana and keep absorbing it from the surrounding. This is a sacred training place. »
Thomas did as told and started to absorb the mana toward him, first he couldn't control it at all, in a few minutes he started to make it react and less than an hour later he could already absorb it. Another shock for the boy, Thomas's progress was too fast for him so he just gave up trying to compare him with anyone he knew.
All the mana around them started to be attracted toward Thomas, he started to feel like his mind was clearer, less obstructed and with less useless thought. Not long after he opened his eyes.
« Why did you stop ? Continue meditating ! »
« I am meditating, I felt like i could do it without thinking about it so I tried and it works. »
« Are you for real ? »
After checking it was true that the mana was still absorbed toward Thomas and the speed at which it was done didn't slow down at all.
« Why don't you tell me about his world while I'm meditating ? »
« Oh... are you sure you can listen to me and focus on meditating at the same time ? »
« Don't worry about this it is doing it without me focusing, it's like the mana is coming from its own volition. »
« You are insane... where should I start ? I don't know much myself as this world is too big, this continent is the Human continent. It is called this way because humans are the majority here, you can see beast men, vampires, elves and the rest but they are less present here than in their own continents.
We don't know how big is each continent as the biggest parts aren't explored yet and we don't know how much continents there are as the humans stopped exploring at the endless sea in the south. The country we are in is called Brel country and this twin forest extend from the country all the way to the northern wilderness which we know almost nothing about. It's called twin forest because of the dual elements that slice it in 2 parts. At the top of the country is the king Kant and the royal family, lots of people are eyeing the throne but only the strongest can have it and at the moment the strongest is king Kant, he reached the 8th ring a hundred years ago. »
« He reached it a hundred years ago ? How old is this man ?»
« The stronger your third eye is the stronger you body will be, someone at the 8th ring can live around 500 years. The king is 350 years old so he is still far from his limit, he might even breakthrough the 9th ring before he die, if he do he will be as strong as the wandering masters. »
« Man they can actually live so long... by the way how strong is someone at the 8th ring ? »
« You don't need to worry about this now, just train hard enough and you'll reach that stage sooner or later. »
« Fine, then tell me how strong is the person you want revenge against ? »
The boy seemed conflicted.
« Reach the 3rd ring and I'll tell you, deal ? »
'Well i don't really need to be in a hurry, I'll just wait till he want to tell me.'
« No problem. »
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The sun had gone down, the forest was becoming darker now, in the distance you could see a red hue being emitted from the red forest.
Thomas had his eyes closed and was visualizing the mana coming to him, when he focused on meditation the absorption rate was way faster. The mana dots were accumulating inside his third eye and the eye was glowing stronger, when the eye's glow reached a certain point it exploded and retracted very fast. The flow was now smaller than it was the first time Thomas saw it but it seemed stronger and more concentrated, at the same time he felt his neck growing hot as if someone had put a blazing metal piece on it.
« Aaaah!!! » he couldn't take the pain and threw himself rolling on the ground trying to reach the blazing point on his neck with his fingers but he couldn't touch it in time as the pain dispersed too fast.
« Don't worry it happen to anybody that practice magic, it means you have reached the first ring. Now you can use magic . »
Thomas was still on the ground when the boy appeared.
« Will I have to feel this pain at every new ring ? »
« Yes, there is no other way as we break from our human body by practicing magic and letting mana change our bodies but at every ring your body will be stronger so you will feel less pain.»
« Man that pain was insane... next time I'll be ready so it should be fine. »