CHAPTER 4- AWAKENING

CHAPTER 4 - AWAKENING

Magnus woke up groggily from his sleep and as usual started warming up. Day passed as usual until next morning his mother told him today was his birthday. Unlike on earth , here people dont celebrate birthdays , only till 7 years where they will go through their first awakening , as they are said to be matured.

"son, after 3 years will be a competition held for outer disciple position in marsh sect. Your father will start training you from tomorrow as he feels your training should start early given you practise body techniques." his mother said with her back turned . Magnus with his usual stoic expression looked at her and nodded "understood mother" and went for his todays quota . As soon as he stepped out of his room, he felt giddy all of a sudden and his body started heating up. He felt he should stay in his room for a while and hurried towards his bed. He fell down halfway thorugh his bed and his body started aching and the heat didnt seem to stop and flared even further. He felt the symptoms and was confused even more but he put his thoughts aside and painfully sat cross legged going over occlumency training. After minutes of sitting he still didnt feel good and then it became worse. His body started oozing black tar like substance and pain went all over his bones and before he fell unconcious he felt an aura which seemed death looming all over his body.

Magnus groaned as he woke up from the ground and felt relieved the tar black like substance wasnt on his bed but on the floor. He felt strength leaquing out from his bed and felt he could decimate an orc with his bare raw strength. He got over his estacy and went to shower. Whilst showering he punched in the air and felt he was over two times strong from his past self. He then remembered the death like aura when he felt in his past life before dying. He felt he could do something about it and as if he could control that aura. He was astonished that he awakened 3 years earlier. From what his butler had told him , it wasnt possible to awaken before 7 years of age naturally and could only be done from innumerable sacrifices including 10% talent from the said person who wanted to awaken. He now could see into him from what his uncle told was 'awakening phantom , awakens conciousness' Magnus then looked into his body with his conciousness and saw an white orb with mist surrounding it. The white orb was, if he was right, his magic core. His magic core was baby fist sized , into his body and at the same time not into his body. He felt something like his illusionary self overlapped with his true body and the magic core was was from it. The mist surrounding it was black. complete darkness. He felt familiarity with it and realised this was what phantom he awakened. He gauged with his conciousness and when his conciousness touched the black mist, it devoured it in an instance and a splitting pain came over from his head and fell unconcious. He awakened after a few hours and groaned from the left over pain but he felt energized like he could do spells for month without exhaustion. He called his maid and asked her to get his breakfast and lunch in his room while he sat on his bed cross legged.

Soon his maid returned with her tail dangling from left to right and then left periodically. This half cat maid was what he chose after his 3rd birthday and she didnt let him down. He asked her to leave and warned her to not let anyone in. His maid was 14 years old. The maid left and he closed his eyes. He hesitated and when he 'entered' his body, it left him agape. His body , the illusionary one had dark mist surrounding it and his magical core had the most change. The core was fully black but there was no mist around it but the whole illusionary body was black. He came back to his senses and his eyes opened. He didnt hesistate and willed his phantom to come out.

Magnus felt nothing for a few moment but he felt presence from his back. He turned around and calmy watched black mist behind him. He probed with his conciosness which after the devoring process had a black hue to it, because his uncle told him conciousness was intangible and colourless. He didnt mind the change but should he converse with his phantom , he would know the answeres to his confusion. The phantom as if felt the chnge in his master let him inspect him. After a few moments magnus stood there dazed and started lalughing hysterically, he didnt stop after few seconds and then smiled.

From what he discovered with his talk with his phaantom was , his phantom had a nascent sentinence to it which was impossible unless tier 4 or above phantoms. His phantom had death law which could only be gained after death and it wasnt bound to the rule 'phantoms can only be gained below 17 years of age.' As nobody lived after death nobody ever gained a death law phantom. His phantom was always in mist form unless he went through second maturity at 7 years of age which was heaven defying given 7th year was 1st maturity not second but that didnt apply to him.

After a few rounds of discussion, magnus was elated. His phantom and all tier 4 phantoms were sentinent and had over 4 passive abilities and no gaurantee for active ones. His phantom wasnt needed to talk to him as it had fused with his conciosuness which was called ' pairing with phantom ' and gained its abilities. He also came to know that tier one had 0 or 1 passive abilities in their first awakening. Tier2 had 1 guaranteed and less than 20% had 2 passive ones with one active guaranteed. Tier3 had 2 passive and less than 10% with 3 passive abilities and no guarantee for active ones.

He then came to know all his abilitees of which 2 were common for all tier4 phantoms.-passive abilities1) BODY TEMPERING(for all tier 4 and above) - tempers body on a regular basis with each fight with respective phantom energy.2) SOUL TEMPERING(respective phantoms fuse with soul and grow alongside it with soul directly proportional to phantom/ for all tier 4 and above)3) DEATH SCENT(100 metres around host always present warns user if any being has ill intent to it, host can sense lifestrings of beings around 100 metres.)4) DEATH'S LAMENT (host can steal death aura passively from any dying being to grow death energy)5) ---------acitve abilities1) DEATH MARK(host can cast on any target within 1km with victims full name and mark him with death. Any spell fired will find its way to marks host can do its job without any trace unless life phantoms host is within 1km)2) DEATH EYES(host can obileterate any being with death eyes. can be used 3/day. )

Magnus was astonished with all passive abilities but still felt regretfull as he didnt have more effecitive active abilities even though 2. He could only kill and mark anyone but in his eyes these were overpowered abilities simply because he could injure anyone within 1m with death mark. His face remained expressionless but his heart thumped in excitement.

He hopped on the floor and looked at the tree outside his balcony. He smiled and fired a reducto. Red light came from 2cm away from his finger and sped towards the tree and the tree had a gaping hole in the middle as that part of tree (30cms) had been reduced to dust. He was astonished as his magic was qualititavely enhanced . He then squinted and fired reducto but the red light had a black hue to it . The spell was must faster than his previous trial and the tree was hit with it. The tree which stood for years was disentegrating at a rapid speed with a metre aready dust and the hue still spreading across the branches and only stopped after 2 seconds when he cancelled the spell but the tree had already lost quarter of its branches from the middle portion.

He tried all the spells till he felt a bit exhausted. Normal spells when fired with death aura had triple the power of it and some minor effects. Some spells werent applicable with his death phantom like accio, alohomora , scourgify etc.

Magnus without realizing had practised for the whole day. He asked for dinner from his maid , she returned and he ate like there was no other day. He could feel his body was getting stronger and stronger the more he fired his spells . He knew his soul had enhanced by his first awakening and spell fired would take less than a second compared to 1.2 second before awakening.

He laid on his bed, excited for training with his beardy father tomorrow and dozed off to sleep.