Reborn: World of Mages

Chapter 1: Introduction and World Building

[Power System And Background Info At The Bottom]

Johnathon blinked confusedly as he awoke from a groggy slumber, his surroundings went from a modern city to a room for giants with a medieval European ambiance.

After adjusting for a few seconds Johnathon felt a small amount of information enter into his mind letting him know his current situation.

Johnathon had died in an accident caused by a certain god who had dropped their paper weight from the divine realm instantly killing him.

According to the rules of the divine realm, the gods are not allowed to interfere with mortals without prior approval from the council of gods and such accidents need to give certain compensation to the mortal for their next life.

As compensation for his accidental death that god changed his location of reincarnation from the null universe where he lived, to a world of swords and magic with a blessing that would improve his magical and physical talent.

Besides the talent boost, the god gave him some basic introductory knowledge and language ability so he could seamlessly integrate into his new life.

What that god forgot while in a hurry to send him off before being caught by the law enforcement gods, was that a small boost for gods and a small boost for humans are two completely different concepts, meaning Johnathon got a massive overall talent boost instead of a nominal one.

Johnathon mulled over the information he had been given with a happy smile at his revelation when he suddenly noticed a large amount of light spots gradually appearing in his vision.

While examining the light spots he felt a sense of kindness emanating from them and had an impulse that his body wanted to fuse with the lights, as if the lights were meant to be one with him.

Johnathon tried to command the light spots surrounding him to enter into his body, as he did this the light spots then spontaneously rushed over to him.

As the light spots kept entering his body he felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction as if his body had been incomplete before now and was finally whole.

Thanks to the information sent by that god he understood that this is a world dominated by mages and these light spots are natural mana that mages manipulate to achieve miraculous results.

The next 6 years flew by for Johnathon as he slowly became a handsome young boy, during the day Johnathon learns from tutors assigned by his father and at night he absorbs more natural mana and meditates.

Meditation is a simple method for strengthening the soul, absorbing mana is to increase his rank.

If he has a weak soul and strong mana he will be like a child with a peerless weapon he is unable to use, if he has a powerful soul and little mana he would be like a peerless general wielding a toothpick and wearing leaf armor.

In this life Johnathon's new name is [Johnathon Wales Rose-Finch] and he is the only son of [Able Wales Rose-Finch], a Silver level Knight on the verge of becoming a Golden Knight and the holder of a viscount level noble title.

While absorbing more natural mana Johnathon started thinking of his situation, he felt that he could have created his own mana veins within his first year of life but he held off for a few reasons.

The first reason for not advancing was that he didn't want to become a monster in the eyes of society by becoming a 1 year old official mage, the world praises geniuses but kills monsters.