The Next Set Of Rituals

I wake the way kings wake, just the same. We are all blessed with the same time, the same experience of consciousness. Sometimes I feel that I must have been so blessed to live the same day over and over, even though I age, for those first few moments are so identical. At first, there are the dreams, then the sense of welcoming a new day, the anticipation of whatever comes.

Today is the day I have been waiting for. I am now seven years old. I am looking forward to seeing what kind of Rituals will the Family Grimoire provide me. With those exciting thoughts, I quickly got up from my bed and went to the bathroom to get ready for the day. I have a good feeling about the day, nothing that felt this right could go wrong. It just couldn't.

After getting Freshened up, I stood in front of the mirror, which stood to the right side of my bed. And like always it shocks and awe me how scary Rituals can be. The effects are even more profound for a wizard with Number Set Seven. I mean I look like a fucking "Viking" teenager for God's sake and I am just seven years old. My shoulders and chest are broad. My arms and legs are almost double the size of a normal teenager. Not an inch fat is visible on my body. My facial features make me look intimidating and coupled with those bright orange eyes I see a man who screams authority and power. I need to exercise to make full use of the physical potential that rituals have provided me with.

Looking at myself in the mirror I could also see how long my hair has grown, it reached up to my waist. But I think it suits me. I will later ask brood for a band to tie my hair. Well, I had admired enough of myself, let's get moving. With that thought, I quickly dressed up and left my room to head toward the Ancestral hall.

After a few moments of walking down the corridors of my family castle. I went inside the Ancestral hall. I see my father's portrait in its usual resting place. My father is sleeping in his chair. I went towards the portrait and woke him up,

"Good morning, father."

Immediately my father was jolted up by my greetings and when he saw it was me he gave a smile greeted back,

"Good morning to you Brax. You are unusually early today...Oh wait isn't it your birthday today?."

I gave him a nod. Seeing my affirmation he grinned and congratulated me,

"Happy Birthday to you then Brax and also congratulations on entering your second MINOR MAGICAL MATURITY."

"Thank you, father,'' I replied.

He observed at me for some more time before shaking his and said,

"I still can't believe how big you have grown Brax. Those rituals have done a number on you. It is sometimes so hard for me to comprehend that you are just a kid who is not even 11 years. So are you here to get your next set of rituals?"

I just grinned and replied,

"Obviously, father. When was the last time I came this early to see you?."

He laughed a bit and said,

"Well, no need to hurt my feelings Brax. But you have always been such a serious kid. I sometimes thought Some older kid possessed you, with the way you handled everything up to now. I couldn't ask for a better son than you Brax. You will make our family proud."

Listening to him, I started sweating bullets and gave an awkward laugh before saying,

"Well as they say father 'Like father, like son'."

Hearing my praise my father had a smug look on the face and started nodding his head vigorously as if what I am saying is the absolute truth. I interrupted his self-appreciation by saying,

"Father can you call the grimoire. I want to do my first ritual today."

My "father" gave a nod and waved his hand and family grimoire appeared in front of me. I immediately put my hand on it and asked about my Magical pool. The grimoire responded with a number 520 showing above grimoire. The number was within my expectations. But I was interrupted from my thoughts when my father started clapping and said,

"Brax that's a Mind blogging number. I had around 720 by the time I was 17 years old and I thought myself to be a fairly gifted wizard. I can't even imagine how terrifying you will be by the time you complete your Education in Hogwarts. You will definitely surpass some of our most accomplished ancestors in terms of the magical pool. Well, I think I interrupted you enough times, go on and see what fate has in store for you."

Every time I measure my magical pool, He behaves exactly like this. God knows how can one man be surprised so many times? Pushing those out of my mind I asked grimoire for the next set of rituals. Hearing to my call the grimoire took a scan of me to see whether or not I am fit the bill. After a few moments of magical scanning, Grimoire pricked my palm and took a drop of my blood. Several seconds later I had an information rush to my brain.

After the information transfer is complete, With a lot of anticipation I went through the rituals and I was not disappointed. I was ecstatic inside seeing the list of rituals. This time there are only 8 rituals but these rituals are more powerful and also require quite the rare materials. I think the vault has enough materials or else the grimoire will not have given me this list.

Let's see there are 5 Physical rituals. and unlike lame names before. these rituals are named after the Greek Gods and goddesses. So, the first ritual is.....

1) "Purification Ritual": Purifies the body of impurities that have been accumulated in the body

2) "Asclepius Blessing": Grants me High regeneration abilities and also immunity to diseases.

3) "Hercules blessing": Increases the density and quality of muscles. Also, Improve tendons at the fundamental level. Allowing me to generate a tremendous amount of power from muscles without losing my flexibility.

4) "Deucalion Blessing": This is like a complimentary to the Hercules Blessing. This ritual will make my bones harder and denser. So that the bones can support the increased muscle density.

5) "Athena's Blessing": This ritual is like an update to the Mind ritual that I have done before. It further Improves my mental capacities. I will resume my occlumency training after completing this ritual.

Overall I am extremely satisfied with the physical rituals list. Now moving on to Magical rituals, there are three ritual this time.

1)"Blessings Of Hephaestus": Among all the rituals this is what I am most excited about. This ritual Increases my already strong affinity towards fire magicks to the level where I can with enough practice mold the Fire element to my desire. This is the most overpowered ritual of all the ritual I know of.

2)"Astral shield strengthening Ritual": Strengths the dome that I erected in the astral plane. Hmm, Not the flashiest ritual but certainly useful.

3)"Astral takeover Ritual": This ritual makes the astral plane take complete control of the mind.

To start mastering level 4 in occlumency I usually had to achieve this feat my meditation but seem like the grimoire helped me by providing me with a ritual.

Overall I got an extremely good set of rituals. Hmm, seems like my luck still hasn't run out. I was interrupted with my musing by my father's voice,

"Well son, tell me what have you got."

For the next few moments, I told him about the rituals that I got. Listening to me he was super excited and started beaming and again started his usual rant. I just sighed and prepared myself to go through my first ritual after 3 years of gap.