The Time Realm

Chapter 3

THE TIME REALM

Leo was awe struck

As to what he saw ?

He saw an infinite void - like room , was coloured white

His mouth was wide agape

"This is the time realm" .

"This realm was created by the Great King Arnold" ,

"That guy again" ? Leo thought.

"The realm was mainly created by him so that he could train without any disturbance or him worrying about using his time".

Leo was taking note of what she was saying.

"It has features as you can see but the most important , one is that one year in here means one day outside" .

"Okay so One year in here means .....

ONE DAY OUTSIDE" ? Leo exclaimed again now understanding what she just said

To him it was just too advanced since having a pocket dimension was already too much for him to take in and now he was hearing that one year in said pocket dimension only counts as a day outside

Lydia nodded as a long scepter - like staff appeared in her right hand and she tapped the ground on the floor as everywhere changed from the infinite void like white room to a forest that was filled with the chirps of different birds and sounds of animals, it was like a tropical forest back in Leo's world

"What did you" …

"It appearance can also be changed to what you want if you have the amount of mana required" .

"Mana huh" ?

Then there was an awkward silence for like 10 seconds .

Speaking of mana it's time to start your training .

"Okay" .

She then sat in a lotus position crossing her legs .

Leo also followed suit and did the same.

"Now to train you on magic you have to get to know what your mana feels like, and to do that you have to concentrate", she said explaining to Leo .

"Now do as I get instructed you !" Lydia said

Leo didn't understand what she meant but he still did as instructed, maybe luck will favor him today ? , So he decided to concentrate .

30 Minutes later.

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He wasn't having any luck today because it seems as if luck wasn't on his side.

Meanwhile Lydia has been sitting since and has seen that the "kid" wasn't having any luck with feeling his mana so she decided to help him .

"It seems like you're having trouble feeling your mana" .

Yeeeah .

Leo replied with a grunt

Hey miss Lydia, "aren't you supposed to give me some pointers or something" ? He asked .

"That was what I was about to do" she said as a visible vein was popping on her forehead because to her he was basically teaching her her job, what a naive brat .

But she immediately calmed herself down and decided to give him some pointers .

While looking at her staff she stood up and spoke again.

Listen Haruto like I said earlier you have to know what your mana feels like and to do that you have to concentrate , concentrate at the center of your body that is where your mana is located, but don't push your luck , it even took me four days to push it out , she said not taking her eyes off her staff

After explaining Leo's eye widened in realization , now he understood what she meant so he concentrated now .

Leo was so concentrated that he unknowingly entered his mindscape .

As soon as he appeared, he found himself in the middle of a passage and he saw three doors , and even more he was sensing mana from the three doors . Inside the first door there was a normal and gentle flowing mana while the second door was giving Leo an ominous feeling, it felt wild and uncontrollable since he was in front of the three doors he also glanced at the third door it felt calm , yet majestic but still gave Leo the chills , Then again, he noticed that on both last doors he could see some ancient magic writings on it that was blocking his access to it , He could only sigh in disappointment as this was too much for even him to handle .

Leo then slowly walked back to the first door.

Even though there were also ancient magic writings on the door they didn't deny his access to it which was the reason why he opened it, Meanwhile all of this happened in an instant , upon opening the door a domineering blue aura suddenly clothed and flared around him .

As the aura flared around him Lydia could only be surprised about Haruto's quick sucess.

"I was expecting it to be at least

3 to 7 days , I mean even I took about 4 days before even I was able to feel it".

"This kid , who is he ?, Maybe he does have some potential afterall ".

After Leo opened the door he was immediately transferred back to the time realm, and he was now able to feel the mana in his body .

"So this is what mana feels like"'.

He now smiled and his palms turned into fists again .

"Great ! now I've taken one step in my journey in this world".

"Excellent Haruto ! you've done it you surprised me , you have some talent.

"Really ?"

"Yes like I said it took me four days to feel my mana and that's even not common but it's still not rare, while normal people take from the range of six to eight days and rare people take two to three days, but you did it only in seven hours.

"Seven hours ! ?"

He was first shocked at first before recovering from his shock and he now knew that she was right , the sky was now dark and the chirps of the birds were now replaced with the sounds of owls and scary animals.

And he also noticed something strange about her now .

"I guess she's stopped calling me "brat" now and only by my name, she also softened a bit, I wonder why"

"So what do we do now ?"

Since he's taken the first step by bringing out his mana, Leo tried to ask her the next thing they do .

"We're done for tonight, let's prepare dinner and have some rest" was her response.

"We're done, ?" Haruto thought

And did he just hear her talk about dinner ? , They didn't even have cooking utensils let alone ingredients and season so how are they gonna prepare dinner ? .

Being an earthling back on earth influenced Leo so much that even though he's not on earth he still thinks like an earthling and more so he was just getting used to magic so it was still an alien concept to him .

"So Miss Lydia how are we going to have dinner"

"Huh" was her response until she said a "oh" in realization and pointed her staff too her front while closing her eyes, Leo quickly guessed that she was in deep concentration, but for what ? .

He was still thinking about how they're going to have dinner with no equipments , since it's not like she was just gonna do some abracadabra magic and poof a meal will appear, that's not how magic works right ? .

Speaking of dinner, even he was starting to get hungry since it's already night time so he looked towards his concentrated teacher .

(Rumble rumble)

(Rumble rumble)

The forest in front of her was suddenly rumbling and the forest trees began to clear it self as huge trees were getting uprooted , as soon as the space was cleared Leo saw something unimaginable, a little hut began to emerged from the floor.

"This is what magic can do, making the impossible, possible" he thought

It was unbelievable ,

it's amazing , Leo now looked at his still - concentrated teacher shaking his head .

"No she's amazing" he thought.

Miss Lydia opened her eyes while looking at Leo with an unusual smile on her face.

You asked how were gonna prepare dinner right ? .

Leo only nodded as a yes while still in shock of the top one magician on earth (at least she would have been one if she was on earth.

" We're going hunting" she said.

"Huh", Hunting ?"

"But how are we going to"

"Clang clang"

Leo's words were interupted again as something metal fell on the floor, when he took a glance a it he discovered it was a weapon.

A bow , and beside the bow were five arrows.

"I'll only give you five today because this was your first time hunting, next time It'll be three" she said

"Eeeeeh" Leo freaked out how was he supposed to hunt with just five arrows let alone three , he didn't even know how to use an arrow, well he didn't even know how to use any weapon to start with.

"Bbut"

"No buts" it's part of your training if you can't hunt with five arrows tonight then you could just kiss your dinner a goodbye"

"Noooooo"

Leo was now on his knees as an animated spotlight shone on him in pity

"Now get up and let's get going"

Leo had no choice so he picked it up and he followed her.