Inside the living room, Mercele was focusing on meditating the mana flow within his small body, and as it flows through his body, small sounds of cracks can be heard, for the forming of a mana core is extremely hard and painful on the body of a 3-year-old.

Focus Mercele, this is nothing after creating my mana core I can heal, the mana was endlessly flowing towards the center of his body, and the powerful soul of a former Magus Supreme was aiding in the control of that endeavor, crack, crack, mana flow intensifies!

Mercele thinks: I need to do this, it will hurt but I have no choice!

In the center, a small mana core formed, after continued struggles, Mercele lets out a steady amount of breaths and huffs and finally, it has formed!

After forming the mana core, Mercele focuses on stabilizing his entry into the first realm of a magic apprentice.

At the end of the day, his mana control and flow have been stabilized and thus marks the end of the first day in which Mercele reached the realm of entry-level of a magic apprentice.

Mercele smiles, finally starting tomorrow I can use a more profound meditation technique that will aid me in a better mana flow towards the newly formed mana core.

I hear hurried footsteps coming, and I know that it is my mother probably responding to the disturbance heard from my direction.

Clara yells, Mercele! What happened?

I hurriedly act cute and spoiled in order to calm my mother down, ga ga?

Clara picks me up sizes me up, and finally calms down after finding out that I am fine.

Clara smiles: My baby you're alright, that's good!

Mercele sighs: Mommy, besides you who can be so worried about a simple disturbance.

Clara yells: Oh no my boys are coming from work! I need to hurry up and prepare dinner!

Indeed footsteps can be heard coming from outside of our small house, and then came the knocking on the door.

Clara: Who is it? I am coming!

Clara opens the door and finds 3 young boys and her husband smiling as they walk into the house.

Clara was surprised, what are you boys smiling about?

The eldest smiles and tells their mother of their good earnings of today.

Faren: Mom, we earned a lot thanks to the many magic apprentices coming in and out of ours.

Mercele gazes at his eldest brother Faren, big brother, and flashes back towards their last meeting.

(begin future timeline)

Faren was bleeding by a tree and says, I am sorry little bro I think I can no longer accompany you.

Mercele crying: Big brother don't worry, I will find a herb or a herbalist he might be able to heal you!

Faren smiles bitterly and points to the sky, if only we had more time, ah my silly brother I have never complained about your shenanigans you know.

But little bro with me gone, you need to step up and work your way around the world and accomplish something to make us proud up there.

Mercele yells: No, wait for me big brother! I will find someone right now!

Mercele runs to a nearby village but finds out that it's abandoned, and hurriedly returns to his big brother in the hopes of carrying him somewhere else to be treated.

As Mercele runs back to his big brother, he finds stray dogs eating his body.

Get away from my brother!

Mercele manages to shoo away the stray dogs hanging by his brother and yells big brother!

Arriving by his brother, Mercele looks over.

Faren was laying by the tree and clearly had no life in him anymore.

Mercele crying: Why am I am such a failure, as the only one in our family able to use magic, I could have saved him!

Mercele looks at the sky with tears in his eyes, is this the punishment you have set out for me?

I was wrong, I admit it, but don't punish those around me, allow me to take his place and punish me accordingly!

(end of future timeline)

Mercele with tears in his eyes gazes at Faren, a brother who would always take his side no matter the circumstances, and his vow to become strong intensifies once again.

Faren gazes at Mercele and is secretly shocked, indeed Lucas was right Mercele probably is highly intelligent and walks over.

Faren, picks up Mercele and looks into his eyes with his usual carefree smile.

Faren smirks: Little bro have you missed your big brother?

Mercele tears up, and thinks how can I not, and tightens his grip on his big brother with warmth flowing through his heart, finally big brother I am allowed to see you again!

A sound is heard behind Faren, as Lucas and a boy of a similar age look over at the two.

The third brother gives a sneer with jealousy and says, Hey, the light is burning us normal brothers can you two stop with the blinding light of brotherly love?

As I gaze at my third brother who has a similar personality like a foxy brat of the future timeline, I smile in joy!

My third brother is back, the most intelligent of us four brothers, known by many as Albion's most terrifying strategist and destroyer of armies "Rowan warlord of the North".