New world; New me

The next day, I decided I would continue practicing incantations, my train of thought was that I was already in another world, why not take the opportunity to do something that back then I couldn't do in that old world.

It was kind of 'bum' thinking, but I guess some motivation is always better than none at all.

I went upstairs into my room after lunch, locked the door, and began reading through the textbook again.

This reminds me of my past life where this would happen almost exactly the same, I go up to my room, I lock the door, but instead of reading a magical textbook, I would be reading some sexual manga or novel with one hand.

'One' hand is a key word in that sentence…

I went through the page on the torch incantation again. I stood back up from my laid down position on the wooden flooring.

Now then let's try that again…

Repeating the process from the previous day I held my right hand in front before focusing my mana. 

Pop.

A flickering flame pops out again. No surprise there, it was my third time trying this after all, I have gotten used to how it feels.

My bad. That sounded a little dirty, didn't it?

How many casts have it been now? Like eight? 

What the shit? 

Given the experience from yesterday I thought I would pass out and drop to the floor after two or three casts.

No… I knew that I would pass out when I got that feeling of tiredness. 

Hmm. Interesting. Maybe the book is wrong? No way right? It's a textbook. Was it because it was my second time casting? Had it drained more mana because it was my first cast?

It's an entirely possible explanation, I mean I would believe it if someone told me if that was the case.

Finally after around thirteen casts of 'Torch' I blacked out again. Tumbling to the floor with a satisfied smile on my face before closing my eyes and slumbering on the wooden floor with my arm resting under my head like a pillow.

I was really satisfied with the result, it was over six times what I could do yesterday.

Knowing that the book wasn't fully trustworthy and entirely correct gave me a little bit of hope.

***

The following days I continued to follow the schedule of practicing daily. It hit me that I have been able to use the 'Torch' incantation more and more.

It wasn't the one time thing that I thought happened on the second day.

What is happening? I felt like I could use the incantation fifty times today. 

Everyday I seem to be less tired after each cast, I was playing it safe, I was only doing around ten casts per day.

Looks like the book really is lying again, first they talked about how 'hard' it was to cast without word and now they are talking about how a person's mana reserves are set at birth. A bunch of bullshit. 

Why are they putting caps and limitations on talent when there aren't any in the first place. There could be two reasons, one was that they didn't know about this at all, and second was that they were deliberately hiding this from the world. But I guess the first theory is more logical. 

Now that the textbook has already been wrong about two things, I guess I shouldn't take all its information as fact. I thought as I flipped through onto the next few pages of the textbook.

"Beginner incantation: Waterball…" 

I re-read the contents of the next beginner incantation, it was the incantation called 'Waterball'. I follow the book's instructions once again, placing my left hand atop my right arm. I hold out my right hand in front of my body.

Deep breath in, I begin chanting, "May the blessing of the great seas grant my wishes, moisturise the land with thy overflowing power— Waterball."

The orb of water hovered in the air for a few seconds before dropping onto the floor with a splash.

Plap—

The incantation did exactly what I expected it to do, it formed a small fist sized orb of water, not gonna lie I expected it to be a little more epic.

Maybe it's just me but I always imagined when a character casts a magic spell, it would have this epic camera panning.

I might just be a genius. 

No.

I shook my head, I shouldn't be thinking like this, I told myself from day one I wouldn't be an arrogant cocky kid. This is just a hypothesis but maybe if I continue to practice incantations everyday like this I would be able to get a pretty decent mana pool, I'm still only two years old afterall.

If I do this everyday I could get quite the significant growth. I still don't know if there's an upper limit to expand your mana pool, I guess I could ask Lily or Mother, they seem like they have a decent understanding on magic, their aura is much fiercer than anyone else around, especially Mother. 

Nah I won't do that, that would ticker a suspicion, I'll keep this to myself for now. At the end of the day I don't want to end up homeless again, that'd be pretty bad.

In my old world they said that practice while you are young and growing lets your abilities develop much more rapidly, of course after you stop growing you could still improve but just not as much.

There might be elves and magic in this world but the human body worked basically the same, the principles wouldn't be much different even here in a world of fantasy and dreams.

There was only one thing to do now, grinding my ass out to hone my skills to the absolute perfection and become the strongest gladr in the whole world.

Maybe that's reaching a little too far but I guess it's entirely possible. 

But for real now, I would continue to hone my skill in magic and other crafts while I'm still young and growing, after all this is the second chance the world gave me.