Chapter 4: Magic in this world is complicated.

It was around noon. Leanne and her son, Alan, prepares for his depature.

"You don't have to bring a lot of things. The witch will take care of you anyway. Treat it like you are staying at your grandma's place. Well, she's not exactly a grandma but rather, she's like me, A mother. Anyways, I already told Osmond about my approval. He is waiting at the village gate on the west."

"Okay mom. You'll go there too, right?"

"Yes, I wanna see you away."

Leanne hugged and patted Alan like it was their last meeting.

"Let's go?"

"Yes, Mom."

•

"So you didn't back out young man. I respect your resolve."

Osmond was waiting for Alan to come. He was happy since it was a long time he sent someone to be teached by the witch.

"If you are ready, step on the magic circle I prepared for you. It's a teleportation spell that I could use to send you there. Be careful not to erase a single line or script in it or you will be sent somewhere. Understand?"

"Yes. I understand."

Alan looks at his mom like it was his last time he will see her.

"Is there anything you want to bring with you?" Osmond asked to Alan.

"No, nothing. I just want to see my mom."

"Okay then. Check your belongings in case you forgot something."

Alan checks out his bag to look if there's anything he forgot to put in.

(A few empty books for notes, an ink, some tools and hygienes, a clothes, shoes, and the last lunchbox I'll get from my mom. All checked.)

"Everything I need is here. I'm ready."

"Well then. I activate the spell and do not try to move away from the circle. Are you sure you are ready? There will be no way for return."

"I'm always ready."

Osmond activated the teleportation spell, a light clumps up together in circle as it was filled with mana. The brightness increases bit by bit making Alan looked like he's disappearing alongside with the light.

Alan waived his hand at his mother for the last time

"Bye mom! Take care of yourself! I'll make sure I'll succeed to get the tutelage from the witch. Thank you, Mom!"

•

In an unknown depths of forest, a lump of light appeared out from nowhere.

Alan was successfully teleported to the said place.

It was not that dark, not even bright like the sun in the morning because the shade of tall trees covers the entire forest. Instead, a light from the fireflies illuminates the whole place like it was a multiple turned on flashlight which acts as source of light.

"Sure that this place is like that on the village. A suspicious place with little-to-no monsters nearby."

Alan, just a normal 14 year old kid with no magic, can easily detects the dangers on the surroundings due to his experiences in VR games.

"Welcome, low life human child. I am Milanni, the forest witch. It seems Osmond sent you here. Good thing I always check out my place when I sense magic. Anyways, what is your name?"

The forest witch, Milanni, appeared out of nowhere in front of Alan.

She wasn't that beautiful but she's tall. A 193cm giant height, her looks is like an almost a voluptuous woman but not so white at all, Brown-haired and an deep-colored sapphire eyes that you might suspect like she's a vampire clothed in a witch's attire. But, she's a delinquent woman.

"My name is Alan Sagea and I-" He is introducing himself but he was interrupted by the witch.

"Sagea? you mean, you are child of Edmund Sagea??? Don't tell me... Is your mother is Leanne???" She said it with a shocked face with an imminent anger.

Milanni the cruel witch, or just Milanni, reminiscence her disciples about their past.

"Uhhh... Yes?" (What the hell? I don't feel good about this.)

"Ah yes, Your father... THAT ASSH*LE!!! I'M GONNA KILL THAT ASSH*LE! TO THINK HE OUTSMARTED ME!" She clenches her hand while talking, her emotions went from being calm into a flaming anger and irritation towards Alan's father, Edmund.

(damn, I wonder what did my father do?)

"I'm Alan, 14 years old, and I wanna learn magic in less than a year. Can you help me?" Alan tried to convince Milanni but,

"ARE YOU F**KING CRAZY!!! NO ONE LEARNS MAGIC IN THAT SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME! YOU JUST AS CRAZY IDIOT AS YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, DIMWIT."

He made her more angry at him with no reason. While Milanni rampaging over a small matter, Alan confronted her.

"EXCUSE ME! Can you listen to me at least once? You are just rampaging over nothing. I just want to learn magic. Nothing more, nothing less."

"Ah! I apologize for my unacceptable manners of mine."

Milanni picked up a magic stone, she injects it with enormous amount power until it burst.

"If you really wanted to learn magic, this is will happen to you if you are careless and impatient."

"I don't know why are you doing this but I'm sorry. (Even though I don't know why she's angry in the first place. My mom never told me about this.)" Alan completely misunderstood what actually Milanni meant.

"I'm talking about your mother who failed to utilize magic. I remembered she almost died and I was panicking. That's the first time experienced that disaster because of my clumsiness. I'm sorry about that, young kid."

Alan still didn't understand why Milanni has an emotional swing and randomly talks about her past reminiscences.

(It doesn't hurt to accept her apology but,)

"You don't had to apologize to me. I'm not the person who was harmed though."

"Ah. Yes." Milanni pulls up something like a tablet. It's almost empty with little symbols and a circle are just in there.

"This is a physique-magic measurement tool. Place your hand here in the middle of the tablet to check your body is compatible with magic affinities."

"M'kay."

He placed his hand at the middle of the tablet. Milanni begins to measure up Alan if he can use magic or not.

She injected mana to the tablet and Alan was glowing in various colors. The results were unexpected for Milanni.

"What the hell is this? Class 0??? Are you an abnormal human?!" Alan ignored her and then he asked, "What's class 0?"

Milanni stopped the measurements abruptly.

"I explain it to you. But first, you must know about magic systems in this world."

•

About the magic system in this world.

There are four systems of magic, three are recognized and one is still studied.

One, Unique systems standard. Mostly in human societies and some few other races in the west ,use this type of magic system. In this system, mana is used as a power source. Elemental affinity are classified as Fire, Water, Earth, Wind/Air, Light, and other each respective subclasses.

Two, Cultivation system. It was introduced by the monks from far east of Pratheua, the Sukhua continent. It has no elemental affinity, instead it relies on spiritual energy, or just raw mana. An individual who practice this system releases magic auras that can be morph like it was elemental magic and it is powerful. It's known as Qi, Chakra, and Manipulation magic in Unique systems standard.

Three, The blessing system. This system of magic is based on inheritance or bestowal of magic power from a Divine individuals or Ancestors. As the name suggests, this system is mostly used by family lineage, cults, religions, and creeds or fellowships. Mostly isolated people, regardless of race, use this system. In fact, Artheos village use this system of magic since most people has a strong belief to the Goddess, Theas. It is also known as Divinity system.

The grading or ranking of the three systems is the same from Beginner to Ascended.

And lastly, The Origin system. It was theorized by the scholar from Sautra, the academic nation, after his discovery of magic's relativeness to the origin of the universe. Milanni doesn't know its subclasses or elements since it was just a theory that is yet to be proven.

For the convenience of teaching magic to Alan, she can only teach him the unique systems standard.

There are 6 class of magic specialization in Unique systems standard,

Class 1, a person has this class can specialize all elements. It is said that there are only about 2 persons out of a billion people has this type of class.

Class 2, a person has this class can specialize at least 4 elements. A known sage has 4 elemental affinities.

Class 3, a person can specialize 3 elements. Royals, Heroes, and battle mages are specified in this class.

Class 4, there are only 2 elemental affinities that can be specialized by people in Nobility, Merchant traders, Soldiers, Adventurers, few of mercenaries, and Alchemists.

Class 5, only one affinity can be specialize by common people, guards, beginner adventurers, assassins, and whatsoever.

Class 6, People can't specialize an elemental affinity but they can use various enchantments and support magic like mana transfer. A cultivist practitioner can be mistakenly indentified as Class 6 since they don't have elemental affinities like common people. But despite being a Class 6, they are considered useful and powerful. An individual with this class cannot be looked down.

And the rumored Class 0. It wasn't classified by the Unique systems standard since no one ever is recorded with that class. There no information available about this class but it was theorized that it might be related to the origin system theory.

•

"That's only you should know for now. Young man. You clearly understand me, uh? That is supposed to be teached after you learned intermediate magic. I feel like I had to say it since the Class 0 is considered unmeasurable. It's either you can use magic or you can't or this tablet is broken."

Milanni finished her lecture on magic. Alan was amazed on the information he heard, making his mind goes brainstorm.

"So that's how it is. It's too crazy that I learn this."

(Unlike in the novels, manga or whatever, games, and anime, This world has an organized systems of magic. This has nothing to do about the floating screen that I expected, it doesn't even exist. Knowing this makes me question those authors and this world.) Then he just sighed in disappointment.

Milanni disappeared away in the woods and she left a message to Alan.

"Tomorrow morning, your training will start. So, you must listen to me carefully to what I say and teach. It consists of extreme physical beatings to fortify your body, severe ego torture to increase your mental resilience, and other necessary education that you need. Ready yourself, it's not an easy training. Make sure you rest yourself properly." Then after that, there's only a dead silence.

(What the hell is that? That's literally killing me without mercy.) Alan thought to Milanni's message.

"How am I supposed to rest here? IT'S ALL TREES, DEAD BRANCHES, AND WET LEAVES!!!"

Later that afternoon, he climbed up to the top of the tree just to relax himself.

"I should make a hammock. I can't sleep here in this damned f place!" He angrily said those with a vulgar language.