Genius

Two years has passed since Blaze was born. Before, he was incapable of fully controlling his body. But now, he has finally adjusted. Blaze released his mana outside the room.

He saw the supposed sister of his now is outside with her friends, and the pregnant mother is chatting with the other noblewomen.

[Looks like that fool is coming soon in this world. It should be about twenty days until he arrives.] Then, he sat in a meditating position. [Let's see now... What is this?]

Upon looking at his soul he noticed something different. His soul, which should have been blue in color, was now golden, just like it was when he tried to ascend.

Blaze was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that his soul would remain golden in color with this weak human body.

[Hmm... The soul orb is now back to it's small size. It's unfortunate, but expected.] After checking on his soul, he took a look at his soul orb.

A soul orb is every mage's mana container. The size depends on the rank of a mge, and it expands in size the more one ascends in Rank.

It has seven levels, one that people with talent in magic are born with, and other six that correspond to six ranks one can achieve. In his past life, Blaze's soul orb was the first level, and that allowed him to have inexhaustible amounts of mana in his body.

Now though, his soul orb was at the lowest level. But Blaze wasn't inconvenienced at all. This just meant that he had to watch out for his mana usage, just like in his first two hundred years of his past life.

Still sitting in a meditating position, Blaze began to absorb the surrounding mana in the air. The mana now rushed to his soul orb, and was stored inside.

After filling up his soul orb to the brim, Blaze opened his eyes and lied down in his cradle. [No matter how many times I think about it, I can never fully understand just how big of a cheat this technique of mine really is.]

The technique that Blaze used to absorb mana from his surroundings is his one and only self-made technique.

It was originally something that an ancient clan of assassins used over a couple thousand years ago. Blaze found their technique in one of the ancient ruins that belonged to these assassins, and remade the technique for himself.

[I'm going to have to go back to those ruins in this life again. I have to destroy them. If this technique is revealed to the world those stupid humans might use it against me again, those filthy mages of this world would gain a huge level in power. It won't matter since they're below me but I don't want them buzzing around me again like flies.] Blaze went back to sleep. It was enough for today. Starting from tomorrow he would begin training.

Twenty days later...

Blaze heard the commotion coming from outside of his room. [Emma must be giving birth to Raul.] He released his mana sense and looked at the mother's room.

In there, Emma was in labor pains, and was being helped by the servants. In another room, the family butler finished writing a letter.

He strapped the letter on a carrier hawk and let it fly out of the window. Blaze immediately knew that it was a letter addressed to Jacob.

Emily was now with the maids, and she looked a little flustered.

Blaze doesn't care and returned to his training. He was more concerned about other matters

[I still have many years to train for. Getting to the rank of Officer won't be a problem for me. If I go by my previous life memory, the biggest geniuses in the academies were all Paragon Ranks thanks to their excellent talents.]

Soon enough, the commotion quieted down, and the butler called Emily over to Emma.

The girl excitedly ran into her mother's room and saw a new baby. The baby named Raul was now sleeping on his mother's buxom.

Days continued passing, and Blaze used his time either endlessly training or observing the rest of the household. And for the second time, his father Jacob arrived home in a hurry. He hugged his wife and daughter and proceeded to Raul's room.

This time, upon seeing him, Raul began crying in fear so Emma had to calm him down. Nevertheless, Jacob wasn't angry nor surprised, after all, this was to be expected of a child.

But this only made him further surprised by Blaze's first reaction to his aura. Emily also greeted the newly born Raul and played with his small hands.

This warm family scene Blaze observed with a cold, disinterested look before he continued his magic training.

Blaze found out that the efficiency of his mana absorption has increased to a much bigger level than before. If he were to continue like this, he might achieve the Officer Rank faster than anyone. With nothing else to do, Blaze proceeded to further his magic training.