Learning from scratch

Jacob had always been a confident kid who always had a way of making and doing the correct things , but today he realised he couldn't be like that anymore.

He felt that he lacked knowledge and understanding. He felt a bit embarrassed as he had suggested an ridiculous idea the other day to his father.

Jacob slowly got up from his seat bowed his head to show reverence for the ministers and to his father ,and he slowly moved out of the room after giving out a slight nod to his father to suggest that he understood his father's idea.

He left the room silently and was thinking what to do next.

He lacked knowledge about the mysteries and beings of magic in the current world. The knowledge that he had gained was limited to the books that he read from the kingdom's treasury and the memories of the previous Jacob stored in the dairy.

"I think I can ask the fairy more about this world without raising any suspicions, I also need to ask the fairy about my condition so that I can find a way to use mana to do magic",thought Jacob while slowly moving out of the palace.

Far around the premises of the palace Jacob could see his brother James practicing. The movements of James's body was so precise and beautiful , which even made Jacob who didn't know anything about martial arts look at him in awe.

James always wanted to fight tougher opponents , as he had no one else to learn from in the kingdom, he tried fighting scorizers to calm down his fighting spirit but still it was not enough.

Jacob waved at his brother as he passed him to go towards the fairy's abode.

James stopped his training to look at his brother ,"Brother it would be good if you learnt some martial arts, it will come in handy in desperate times".

Jacob heard James and gave a small smile ."I will try brother",said Jacob and continued to move on.

James looked at his brother with a worried face, then he started training again.

Jacob felt what James was trying to imply, Being a prince of the Kingdom which is soon going into war ,can certainly attract the eyes of some unfavorable foes.

Jacob reached the spring .Two guards were standing in front of the spring monitoring some as they worked in fixing some pipes , just like for extracting oil these people had fixed hand pumps to pump water through pipes.

All around the Kingdom tanks were being built , for storing water.

Jacob could see the construction was taking place smoothly. The pipes were made exactly like Jacob had said them to be made. Water pipes tend to get rusted if they used pipes the same as it is used for oil.

So water pipes were made using ,an cheap ,and perfect alloy which Jacob suggested ,along with a unique design he suggested.

He had asked the blacksmith to prepare pipes with special orifices on them at certain distances to make water easily travel for long distances by the help of maintaining a high pressure.

Seeing all the progress Jacob felt a bit happy. Jacob reached down the water ,and gently touched it ,and tried to pass mana inside it to call out Fischer Omen ,the fairy.

While he was trying to pass mana by gathering the mana from the surroundings , the fairy was keenly observing him from above his head, it had come out stealthily after sensing Jacob's presence.

"Why do I sense a mana filled core from this kid ,but is he not able to liberate any mana" the fairy was observing Jacob very keenly.

Jacob gave up he did everything he could , "Sage can you help me out here",he asked in his head but it was of no use.

The sage had sensed the fairy observing the kid ,and it kept quiet so as to not disturb the flow of events.

"Kid ,Did you not learn magic why are you not using any mana in your body",asked the figure slowly floating down.

Jacob scratched his head and looked at the fairy , "I can't use mana because I was born this way".

"But , I sense a strong mana core in your body , then why can't you use magic? ",asked the fairy with a confused look on its face.

"That was what I was hoping to find by using your help, Can you help me?",asked Jacob sincerely.

The fairy's face quickly changed ,he looked at Jacob with a haughty look ,"As I am your master , I will look into your problem, don't worry , but for that will you explain everything which happened when you tried using magic?".

Jacob explained everything he learnt about his problem from the experiences he got from the dairy , and also how he was able to gather mana after coming in contact with the ancient ruins skipping out the part where he got a system and also the part where he obtained the skill by reading books ,and gaining exp ,and also the part about the mana overload while fighting.

The fairy listened to Jacob patiently ,and went into deep thoughts,

After some time the fairy came out of its thought ,and sat on the head of Jacob.

"Can I see your core structure ",asked the fairy.

"Yes !",replied Jacob immediately ,slightly excited as he was sure that the fairy would give him an answer to his problem.

Everyone can sense the amount of mana in a person's core , but they cannot analyze the core structure. It can be only analysed by the owner of the body giving permission,and also allow the tester to touch them.

Higher level beings and mages can forcefully check on the structure of the person, but it is rude ,and is disrespectful ,as it invades a person's privacy. So they don't do it without permission.

The fairy flew to the back of Jacob ,and placed it's tiny hands on his back. It passed its mana to through the back ,and analysed his core.

A shock appeared on its face and it replied immediately ,"The method humans use to conjure out mana is not suitable for you , You have to learn using mana from scratch."

Jacob was shocked ,and also happy to hear that ,as he had no knowledge on how to use mana properly.