0011 - First Fight and Magic Class

Maxwell laughed at my stance and crazily charged at me. I knew I was in a bad situation when a second person showed up. So, Before posing in a boxing position, I focused on my ears, eyes and skin. While chanting Sense magic I focused on the 3 senses.

Maxwell was charging at me with a sinister smile. I clenched my fist and waited, as soon as Maxwell entered 5 arms distance from me, he slowed down.

I was ready to throw a punch when he suddenly slowed down. "He slowed down or rather my senses got faster," I said to myself analysing what was happening. My eyes are burning, feeling a sensation in my eyes, I realised that "mana is flowing in my eyes, my body feels hot too. This is the Sense Magic." I got excited as I realised the true use of Sense Magic.

Maxwell got nearer and nearer, when I twisted my body to the left and dodged his punch. Clicking his tongue Maxwell said," you are pretty lucky, you dodged my punch, but luck won't stay in your favour forever. Taste my 100 punches." Maxwell charged at me frantically. He punched to kill, but just like before he got slower as he approached me.

He didn't throw 100 punches, it was like 200. I managed to dodge all the punches. I successfully avoided all the punches, the closest punch was one inch away. I realised what the new 6th sense meant in the description of the magic.

Alex saw the whole scenario and before Maxwell finished his punches, he made a run for it. But as he touched the barrier he wasn't able to pass. I saw the whole scene and realised not even the caster can escape the barrier, I chuckled at Alex and said, "stupid."

Maxwell stopped punching and breathed heavily, maintaining a distance from me. "I don't know what kind of magic you're doing but how can you avoid the barrage of all the punches, even the silver rank adventurer took about 50 punches from this attack," he said in a frustrated voice. "I will send you God," he said to me as he charged forward with vigour.

Smiling, I thought I had already met him. He approached me and this time I thought of offence rather than defence. Maxwell again got slow as he approached my space, I kind of understood his path of motion and twisted my body towards the right to avoid his punch. I then tightened my fist and clenched my teeth as I aimed at his chest with my punch.

Due to my stature being short in comparison to his, I easily reached his chest. I closed my eyes and landed a punch with all my strength on his right chest. In an instant Maxwell flew off to the barrier, which was about 30 feet in the front. He crashed into Alex and both of them collided with the barrier. All this happened in an instant.

Suddenly the visible barrier dissipated, I went forward to check on both of the goons and realised they had passed out. I debated with myself, but in the end I took out a green pill from my left pocket, broke it into half and fed them each half. I wasn't benevolent in the previous life, but this is a new world and I have been given a new chance. So, why not do things a little differently.

I thought about the scenario, looked at my fist and said, " wow this is so cool." I left the scene merrily thinking about how crazily strong that punch was.

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I took out my lunch at the exit of the alleyway and found a nice chair at a distance of about 1 hour from the scene. I thought about the whole scenario, "I still remember everything, even the smallest of details," maybe this is my strong memory, I said as I was finding out my powers.

I finished my lunch box and started roaming around the city. I walked for another hour, when I reached a river front. The river flowing through the city of Draka was a small canal. This canal originated from a major river flowing towards east from the north of the city Draka.

The canal water was fresh and pollution increasing activities like, washing clothes, and dumping garbage were banned. One can see a huge number of guards near the canal. Washing was permitted down south, when the canal left the city and a good stretch for fishing was left.

The city was majorly situated at the right of the canal where I was sitting. The other side of the canal was generally plain with a few houses and trees. But as per rumours development plans were being made.

I sat there for some more time enjoying the view and cool evening breeze. I got up and headed towards the inn after taking some directions. Naturally I have kept Sense magic activated and constantly focused on seeing, listening, feeling and smelling.

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It was still time for sunset when I reached the inn. I greeted everyone and walked to the empty ground at the back of the inn. I was allowed there and no one said anything. The back of the inn faced west and thus it was still bright due to the setting sun's light.

The ground was big and was surrounded by shrubs. Right now the ground was empty and seeing my chance I readied myself to perform the starter magic of all the classes to check my affinity. I recalled what I read in the magic book.

The basic magic of all the classes is the same, if the element responds to your call, then you can perform that magic, it's as simple as that, " let's see what all magic can I do," I said excitedly.

I closed my eyes and remembered the magical words I called upon water first, "Sense water," I said, imagining a waterfall as described by the book. Suddenly, a huge amount of water started falling on my head, the pressure was so huge that I got on my knees. I gasped for air, I was unable to breath. I tried to crawl out of the waterfall, but the waterfall kept following me. Though the water didn't hurt me I panicked because of the amount of it. I was unable to do anything as I gasped for air, I opened my eyes and the water disappeared.

I got up and checked myself, I was completely drenched and the surrounding area almost turned into a lake, showing that the water was real. But due to magic in my clothes they started to dry out. "Guess I have a decent water affinity," laughing I said to calm myself down.

"That was wild," I said as I closed my eyes and chanted the magic "Sense fire," imagining a lava lake. Just like a waterfall poured down on me, it felt like a huge amount of fire had covered me. I panicked again, this time even harder. I felt I will die, it got hotter and hotter, though nothing was hurting, just the fear of being wrapped around fire scared me and I as fast as possible opened my eyes.

As I opened my eyes, my concentration broke and I saw the nearby land which was clogged with water just a moment ago, was now as dry as a desert with steam rising up. The land even had small cracks in it. "Guess I have an affinity to fire as well," I sighed as I imagined the panicked state I was in.

Scared for what will happen in other elements, I recalled God, prepared my mind, closed my eyes and chanted, "Sense earth." Something trickled, very fine particles touching my body. It gave me goosebumps but was acceptable. I felt like somebody was pressing me, it was bearable at the start but eventually got out of control. Something was pressing me from all the sides, I was unable to breathe. As I took a breath the congestion increased.

I couldn't take it anymore and opened my eyes. I found myself in a heap of what appeared to be fine sand particles.I was in no pain but I wasn't able to breathe. As I gasped for air I closed my eyes and chanted, "Sense Air." In a very small time, I was able to breathe. A gust of fresh wind blew past me and gave me a nice feeling. But it was short lived, I felt air in abundance, I felt air but wasn't able to take it in.

As it also got out of my control, I opened my eyes to see the sand completely gone, the whole area was swiped off for any kind of dirt. A huge dirt cloud could be seen in the far distance, using Sense magic.

"I have an affinity of 4 elements so far," with a confused state of mind, I sighed and chanted "sense light." It was not so dramatic, only I was covered with light. It felt like the sun was only shining on me. I became a mini sun. I broke my focus and chanted "sense dark."

Just the opposite of light happened with dark. It felt like the sun was not shining on me. It was just like night. "Judging from the results, I have a high affinity to all the 6 classes. I have to keep it a secret, if I don't want to be a lab rat because the 'basics of magic' book clearly said that 99.99 percent of the population never exceeded 4 classes. In that scenario also, only 1 class was strong, not all of them," I said to myself.

As for 'neutral magic', no such criteria existed, the mage had to use any neutral magic to confirm it. I suppose I can use neutral magic as well. It was defined as magic not lying in the domain of elements. I can use 'sense' and 'search' magic, which aren't in any domain. So I can perform all the classes of magic. "That's pretty neat," I said as I got hold of the situation.

The sun set behind the western horizon, as I went inside the inn.