"Sometimes the brothers that you need in life are fosters."
Cold, sadistic, and a hint of crazy describes the pyromaniac perfectly. Never choosing to settle down and only taking risky and high paying guild requests and a passion for gambling to surv...
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The past few weeks passed by unceremoniously for the most part.
Mia stopped teaching me maths at the request of the actual teachers on the compound, saying that rushing my education too much might cause accidental stress, which would be bad for my recovery.
I was annoyed by this since I couldn't do anything but meditate and watch other people fight, and not having the studies to focus on while meditating made it more difficult. So I did what any other eleven year old girl would do when she was bored.
Annoyed my older brother into entertaining me.
Or at least everyone's Big Brother, Taiyo. The medical nerd happily divulged himself of some of his older books of the basics on many subjects. Human anatomy, herbology, parasitology, toxicology, drug interactions, as well as buying me more up to date books on magicology.
Mia and Aki took this as him trying to buy me over to his field of study and did exactly the opposite of what the teachers said to do, gave me more books on magic and manuscripts of martial arts.
Needless to say, I was ecstatic.
Everytime I sat on my bed I had a big dumb, happy smile on my face as I buried my nose in one of the many subjects I had available. It was a glee from my childhood I missed and loved. The others noticed it quickly, as no matter the subject or field, I just loved to learn.
Magic itself was such a diverse field, even the studies about the types were diverse. There was magic as we know it that uses ethernano, anti-magic that used bane particles, and even magic that used bane particles. There were even offshoots of magic such as alchemy that involves transmuting the matter of an object, a dark equivalent of magic called curses that uses curse energy born from negative emotion, and spirit arts that use spiria instead of ethernano, bane particles, or curse energy and requires a lot of discipline to master.
This wondrous art evolves even further when you consider the biological effects magic has. For instance, a recent discovery has shocked the scholarly world. All mages are born with a magic origin in their bodies and it's the thing that allows us to perform magic to the capacity we do in the first place, but after studying how creatures such as demons don't need a magic origin to perform magic they discovered that wizards can awaken a second magic origin within themselves, which while always having existed, largely goes unused.
Some of the most powerful wizards in the world seem to naturally awaken their second origin without realising it and research is currently going on to find a way to enable mages to purposely awaken it.
I was determined to see if I could be the one to do it.
The power I could get from it...
Magic power, that was the deciding factor I needed to always have the upper hand. I have been building it further and further since I was a child, and while my magic power was weak and unrefined at the moment, it was much larger than it should be for a child my age and even surpassed most of the adults in the compound, even lieutenants such as Mia.
