New Life, New Mana

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday happy birthday, happy birthday dear little Lynn."

In one of the quarters maid, a three woman is singing birthday song to a baby that sitting on the bed. With a cake in front of him and 7 more toys beside it, it's really feeling like his birthday, if just the storm outside could stop and can they celebrate outside to a sunny day.

So it's already been a year, he... He thought, as he remembered the sequence of event this year, which his first year to this world.

It's our protagonist which name now, Lynn. Lynndix Crux, son of Trish Crux, maid of the "Pumil Baron Family", the lord of "Windmill City". Build in "Sunfire Kingdom", just like every city on it.

That's what he knew in this past last year, as he only listen and observe like a baby should be.

Along the way of it, he learn how language work now which he practice everyday, only when no one around. Although, he always on his high tower like a hermit, he knew how the baby grow and what their characteristics.

"Happy, birth, happy, day." He act, clapping his hand as he rhyme it with his claps. Along with his stuttery voice and cute face as he claps those tiny hand of his. The three woman can't help but to hug him, fighting whose first to pinch his fluppy cheeks.

Lynn preferred to act silent, one of the child character. Without a choice, he acted like this because of the funk baron, Calciu Pumil, head of the Pumil family.

It's started around a week when he came first to this world. A man in his late 20's appeared in the dark corner, with talkative mouth of him, he gotten information whose his working for.

Not wanted to gained suspicion to any threat as he still in this hopeless form.

And that thing will end to this day! hearing the man said last night which made him happy. Though eye will not followed him anymore, he still needed to act sometimes. Switching to fast on his acting will really gained suspicion to the baron, even it's unbelievable to begin with.

But that matter is already happened, and he can't do anything to stop it.

The baron most be in a situation which he suspect all of the people in this house, not spairing even a child like him.

His mother, Trish, stopped her pinching on his cheeks and said. "We should eat now the cake. In an hour, Baron Calciu carriage will arrive. We needed to clean his study room and the entrance."

"But we've already been cleaned those place, why we should repeat it." A young maid said, with her violet hair, eye and a bit curly hair. She said looking tired, stating the fact that they don't need to cleaned those places again.

Trish sigh. "But we have too, Melissa, you know what our lord personality is." she said.

"Maybe, Melissa wanted to clean the underground rooms?" The last maid in the room spoke, green-haired and blue eyes and neatly combed like a maid should have. She spoke cluelessly with those innocent happy smile of her.

"No way! Why would i wish it." Melissa said, as she shake her head scared, remembering those dark hallway and eerie silence of the room.

"Stop it both of you, just finish your cake, so we could head to work and finish early." Trish said, slicing the cake she made for her baby boy.

The two take their plate and eat slowly, as they talk for their daily life routine, sometimes even talk about what he'll future would be. Making him grumpy in silence as he heard those fairy dream of them for him

Why would i save a princess! and later to be murdered by his father! Hell no!... He shouted inside, hearing that crappy cliche fairy tale story.

Finishing the cake piece, they clean the unnessecary things in the room and leave him alone. They'd surely check a harm object to the ground before they putted him down.

As a maid to this house, Trish have no rights to let a granny enter this mansion to take care for her son, while she work to the baron. It's already been kind to the baron letting her stay to this mansion as she still pregnant, and let them stay until to this day. That any noble mansion wouldn't allowed.

Alone, he sit to the ground looking over to the door. Confirming that they already gone, he crawled beside the bed and staired to the window.

Thundering resonate to the sky as the lightning shyly hide inside of the clouds, light flicker in this dim grimmed sky.

Looks like this world don't welcome me... He thought, as he think that this storm is strong as the last time he came first to this world. Throwing those thought, he only think that it might just coincidence, and thought maybe his birthday is season of storm.

He only watch the storm as the night came, his mother breast feed him before she leave him alone next door that the baron let her use, until the baby entered the stage of not crying in the middle of the night. Which made the maid and him grateful, not wanted their dream to be disrupted by the loud infant cry, while he on the other hand can take his time alone to important matter.

Acting asleep, Trish leave him alone, carefully taking her foot-steps not wanting to make a noise. After she stepped out to the door, Lynn eye's snapped open and look to the door like a creep in the dark, lingering his white iris and dark pupil eye in the dark.

Switching his upper-body to the side, he used his both hand to slowly got up and sit. With high walled crib his mother receive to the baron, he can't escape using this hopeless body. But he already use to it, thinking that there's no point grumbling about it.

As usual, Lyn will just look over to the moon outside which his acting character he display to the man that observing him to this day. Learning to talk and having a little concious that infant should have, the man who observe him dwindle to talkative to a shadow in the dark.

Not wanting to gained suspicious that the mansion have a observer in the dark, the man reduce himself to being open to the child. Which Lynn understood and act accordingly on it.

Tick tock Tick tock

Clock resonated to the room as the moon arrive to it's nearest peak. The clock hour hand reached the midnight sign indicated that the man should show up now any moment.

Tick tock Tick tock

The clock continued to resonate to the room, Lynn didn't change his sight to the moon up above the sky. Without hearing anything to the surrounding, he stop his acting and looked to the room.

So it's really true... He thought, now that the pest is out of his life, he can now act to his life content when the night descent. He knew the man is now really gone as he always move around to the room in the shadow form.

He celebrated in his mind. Even with difficult to move, he moved his body to meditate position and closed his eye.

In this whole year, he doesn't dare to make contact with the mana essence, which can make the attention of the baron change to him. Even though he doesn't know what the root of it, he didn't take the risk at all.

At least, his safe, even he's weak in this state.

As a newcomer in this world which he think he is, he doesnt know what type of magic this world have. It might have a phenomenon if he made contact with the mana world, and it can be detected by the man in the dark.

Closing his eye, he enter the calm state.

The wind breeze.

Cricket resonated the forest.

Snore of the people whispered to the wind

Owl awakened and howl in the night.

He heard it all, entering the state of spectator of the show, seeing what performancer can't see or heard.

Diving deep on the mind conciousness, his muscle and nerve softed, and his breathing rhyme to the breezing wind on his surrounding.

Wind became restless, winding his clothes and haired fluttering to the wind with it's steady movement. Slowly but surely, the fluttering increases and the direction of it became unsteady as the wind configuration on his surrounding take form in many narrow circle.

He guided his hand down to his stomach softly as he was holding a cube in the thin air, holding the bottom and top of it.

His mind and body are now connected to the mana essence to this world, which he felt in the center of his hand, a condense of mana take form on it.

Succeeded to the first goal he aim for, he didn't celebrate too early as his body is weak and can't take a minor error which can lead to his death. He slowly opened his eyes and concentrate his vision to the center of his hand which make his face dumpfounded.

A little blue-light sphere he seen to his hand which impossible to happen!

That's impossible! Mana world and reality cannot coexist in the same realm. Although the mana can by-pass to the reality world, but you can't force mana to reality world without runes magic.

Even though his astonishment can't contained, he force himself to do a experiment to prove his theory that formed on his mind.

Though his clueless how to perform magic to this world, he knew deep inside him that he can perform a petty trick. Which enough to his experiment.

Carefully, he made the small mana sphere in the middle of his hand disappear, and pointed his index finger to the ceiling. He concentrated hard, looking to his index finger instensely.

Haaa... He exhaled, the first experiment failed trying to create runes magic to traverse the mana to reality world. Which his theory are now almost clear that mana and reality are coexisted on this world.

He prepared for the next experiment, pointing his index finger again and focus. He concentrated his mana on the tip of his finger and think that mana is a extension of body itself.

Theoretical, this attempt is what his world myth's and legend tell. Long ago, when the god's still roam the planet, they use the mana itself to the mana world to create the living thing's. Animal, demon, dragon, elf and human etc, came to life on it's planet.

As the story goes, the way they manipulate the mana is like an extension of their body. Waving their hand the land scape will created, whispering to the wind bring's breeze to the place, creating a tree's even though there's no beans.

An unbelievable story, even you make a theory out of it, you'll not gonna get a single sense correct in this theory all about.

Because as he say just a moment ago, you can't force mana to the reality realm. Although the two is on the same place, they are in the different dimension. Even you succeded to your atempt, you can't keep it to stay. And that's when the stuff and weapon entered, becoming the vessel of the mana you take to the mana world.

Example, growing and creating in the both world is essentialy different. If you use his old magic system, helping to grow a tree is impossible as you needed to direct or let the tree use the runes magic to itself, which really impossible.

Just indicated a moment ago, runes magic only help mana to traverse to the reality world, so you can't use it to direct into the tree, much more to grow a tree out of thin air. But you can use the runes magic to make a tree appeared on it.

Remember, mana is essentialy a imagination of the world, it can be used as a tool of human creational mind.

Which different in this world, you can directly use the magic without anything else. Thinking about it made his soul tingle in excitement!

If, if his theory is right.

If he suceeded on this experiment, that impossible thing can be possible!

He concentrated hard as he focus his mind to his index finger. A configuration of flickering light can be seen in the naked eye which made his eye's dim in excitement.

Flapp...

Huhh?... Suddenly, his body fell forward which made him puzzled. He tried to use his arm to push himself up, but his strenght are now nowhere to be find on his body.

Oh!... He thought in surprise, even though the two world is not the same, they have still in common, and that's,

Mana Exhaustion.

Before he can curse this weak body of him that he already forget and accepted the fact. His eyes closed slowly as he entered the dream world.