Michal Frits POV
It has been seven months since Adam asked me to train -which had surprised me more than I could fathom. Like he was barely five and was asking me to help him train in fighting and magic- and the results were incredible. Incredibly lackluster, that is. In the last several months, Adam was only able to learn one more spell. Still, some condolence was that he had expanded on his burst spell, and here I am waiting to help him train again today.
It was weird how quickly he was able to make progress on the burst spell, considering the lackluster progress he was making in learning new spells. It wasn't anything too incredible, but it was still progress.
He was now able to give himself a burst of speed with the burst spell. He had to be moving before he cast the spell, and it only gave him a slight push. At the same time, I could use that spell to launch myself above a two-story building when I used it at my full power, and I wasn't even a wind mage. I WAS AN EARTH MAGE.
It was crazy to think about how hard it was for him to progress even after being the earlies to awaken that I knew of. Realizing that I was being deprecating, I tried to steer my thoughts away and was partially successful. Instead, I tried to focus on what Adam had done well over the last few months.
While being slightly behind, he was still well ahead of the curve when it came to magic use, but what he was truly ahead of the game in was magic knowledge. While most people knew the basics, such as mana powering spells, and that each person had an affinity towards a specific element. While that is common knowledge, Adam thought into it a little more; he tried to think about why people had certain affinities.
Throughout this, I realized two things. One Adam is weirdly intelligent, not just smart for his age; he is smart in general. It's not that he has absurd amounts of knowledge stored in his head… at least not that I know of, but instead, it's his way of thinking about things. He can solve problems in a weirdly complicated way that is also surprisingly efficient. The second thing I realized was that Adam was right about ascertaining somebody's affinity by things that they understand more. Such as, somebody who has lived by water their whole life knows more about how water flows. That person would most likely be a water mage.
When Adam first awakened, I checked him to see what affinity he was, and I saw that he was relatively balanced apart from one type of mana that I had never seen before. His wind was the highest out of the types of mana that I had seen before at about twenty-five percent of his total mana after that was water at about ten, then earth around ten again, and lastly, there was his fire around five percent. There was also around fifty percent of his mana dedicated to the one unknown type of mana, but I believed that it was just a section of his mana that would spread out into different elements as he grows. Similar to one's baby teeth, they have them when young, but as they reach maturity, they lose them and replace them for one's adult teeth.
I finally saw Adam open our back door and walk out into the yard before sluggishly asking, "What do I have to do first."
Adam Fritz POV
My father looked at me, slightly annoyed after I had asked what we were going to do before responding with a question of his own.
"You took a minute to get out here."
Slightly irritated that he expected me to be out of the house right after sunrise to get my training in, I snipped, "Well, sorry for wanting to sleep." This seemed to irritate him even more because he just scoffed, mumbling something about being too attitudey for someone who isn't even six yet before telling me to warm up.
Begrudgingly I started stretching. I went down to touch my toes, keeping my knees relatively straight, and began the count to ten in my head. I went through this process with a few more stretches before finally getting warmed up and asking, "Ok, what should I do next."
Surprisingly my father said, "I'm sorry for getting angry bud. I am super tired. I had a long week at work amongst other things."
"It's ok," I responded in a faint voice. If I'm being honest, I was frustrated also. I had been at this whole magic thing for several months now, and I still can't grasp how people can use magic so proficiently. Around a month after I had awakened, I learned how to look at the mana in my body and be able to tell what element it originated from, but for some reason, it seemed like half of my mana was blocked off.
I have constantly been trying to find a way to unlock the rest of my mana, but I still can't figure out how to use that half of my mana. Almost as if he could read my thoughts to see when I ended my internal silique, he said, "Next, do you want to do some sword sparring?"
Hearing that I could use swords, I excitedly responded, "Yeah. I wanna do sparing."
"Well I'm glad that you are excited for some sparing atleast," my father quipped.
After messing with each other talking about who would be the one to win the sparring match, I bolted inside to grab the swords. Unsurprisingly whenever I passed my mother's room, she was still asleep. Realizing that, I slowed down my run into a walk in order not to wake her. I swear she will wake up to anything. One time when I was around two, I tried to sneak out of my room and read in her study. I thought that I was being completely silent, but when I was about five feet from the study door, she walked out of her room and scooped me up, and before putting me into bed, mumbled something about me being too rowdy at night even though I had been silent.
After grabbing the swords out of the closet, I closed it and walked past my mom's room to see her coming out in her nightclothes before bleary-eyed asking me, "What are you doing so early?"
Figuring that she was still mostly asleep, I said, "Nothing I'm just training with dad, we are about to spar. You can head back to sleep if you want."
Surprisingly she responded, still bleary-eyed, "No im going to make myself a cup of coffee and watch you two from the window."
After hearing that, she would watch that lightened my mood to the point where I joked, "Look forward to me taking down the all-mighty dad," in a stupid voice.
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