What's going on?

Time passed.

Jayden slowly started shifting his eyelids, slowing opening them only to shield them with his hands from a blinding light. As his eyes slowly adjusted to the light he found himself in a rotting wooden room.

'Urrgh, where am I? Where's Michaela?'

He tried to perk up from the hard wooden bed only to be met with intense pain and aching from his broken body.

'Urgh that's right I remember breaking a ton of my bones'

"HELLO? IS ANYBODY THERE?" he shouted trying to gain the attention of anybody outside but to no avail. What seemed like hours went by before the door creaked open.

"Hey there kiddo, you awake?" said an old, bald man draped in a pure white lab coat with a clean white bread that extended down to the middle of his torso said as he entered in.

"Who are you?" Jayden gasped.

"Hehe, that's not important, what's important is that you are very special, but I'll explain later, first let's get you up and running!"

The old man took out what seemed like a small rectangular metal device the size of a wallet and pressed a green button on the top. From it, a yellow light started glowing, releasing what looked like extremely thin glowing strings that started to form four layers of circles that held complex patterns of different colors within them. It was layered by size so the largest circle was at the base in front of the device while the smallest circle was at the end of the construct. The old man faced the device and the construct towards Jayden pressing another button which seemed to activate it causing the circles to spin along its edge with each circle spinning in different directions. The construct emitted a low crescendo as it worked its magic.

'What the-' Jayden thought before he saw his whole body start glowing yellow. He suddenly felt relief throughout his body as the pain and aching subsided.

"What are you doing to me?" Jayden blurted out, visibly confused at what was going on.

"Ahh kiddo you don't even know what this is? This low-end district must really be destitute. This kiddo is a mana artifact! A device that can create spells using mana circuits."

Spells are created by converting mana into a condensed form and transforming it through complex patterns into an effect that corresponds with any one of the elements or any of its variants. Invented over 200 years ago, it allowed for a new system of mana usage to emerge: spell formulas. There is a spell for each of the elements. Spells are separated into tiers that represent their position in the construct. Tier 1 spells are the base spells and dictate the element of which the entire construct is based on. Tier 2 spells are layered on top of Tier 1 while Tier 3 spells are layered on top of Tier 2 spells etcetera. The higher the tier, the more complex the spell pattern is. This new system of mana usage allowed for different combinations and orders of spells to create new and different functions. Typically a Wizard would have to memorize a spell or spell construct formula and create them using their mana, however, research in combining mana with technology has uncovered a way of creating these spells using mana circuits powered by a Wizards own mana or mana crystals.

Jayden suddenly sat up and bowed his head down. "Please Sir, help me save my family! They were taken by big black robots with red eyes, they were the ones that almost killed me!" He begged, his voice cracking.

'.....' "I can't kid, but I can do something better" The old man replied with a stern face. "What you saw weren't robots, they were highly advanced mechanical suits usually called mechs, so advanced I don't even think those models have been revealed to the public, something only very powerful people can employ".

"But why? We did nothing wrong, our family doesn't even own anything precious!"

"They're maybe a deeper, darker plot that what it seems" the old man sighed. "I've heard of cases like these, people of power from top districts using stealth mechs to kidnap people from lower districts. They use their power to pressure the lower district officials to bury these incidents, make it seem like accidents"

Jayden lifted his head, revealing his red bloodshot eyes. His fists scrunched up so hard, his fingernails cut his palms causing them to bleed. His body started trembling and floating as it slowly glowed white, a sign that mana was leaking from his body. The room started becoming chaotic, the pressure from the mana leaking from his body interfering with the natural elements in the area.

"The reason I'm here is for you kiddo, calm down, I can help you get strong enough to save them"

"HOW! "I'M ONLY A GRADE 1 GENERIC, THE WORST OF ALL TRASH" Jayden shouted, straining his voice and causing a small whirlwind to form in the room, adding to the chaos.

The old man sighed as the strong winds caused his lab coat and beard to flutter in the wind.

"Calm down, I understand you lost something important to you but right now we need to think rationally. Hell, if you think you're so weak, why do you think you can do this to the room?"

Jayden took a second to calm down and noticed the state the room was left in. Massive cracks in the ground, wood from the walls and ceiling bent and splintered in odd ways, he even noticed his bed was completely destroyed as he suddenly dropped down from floating.

"I did this?" he muttered in utter disbelief.

"You did, heck I wouldn't have saved you if you weren't special, I'm not that charitable hehe" the old man chuckled. "You better pay me back for these damages!"

"....... I ..... don't have any money" Jayden quietly uttered.

"..... It was a joke.... ahhhhh don't worry about it" The old man sighed. "Anyways what I'm about to tell you is extremely confidential and is only known by some of the most powerful people in the system okay?"

Jayden straightened up ready for what he was going to be hit with.

"The reason you are really powerful is....."

Jayden slowly leaned in.

"its because....." the old man dragged on.

"because?????" Jayden became even more focused.

"It's because your dense"

"................"