Reincarnation and the Child Who Knew Too Much

Chapter 3

Thank goodness I didn't try to do anything with my prana. After I "carefully" tried to release a little bit of mana, the entire reserve of this energy went out in one fell swoop. And the system noted this.

Ding-a-ling!

Congratulations! By your actions, you have provoked your first magical outburst! This is a small but significant step towards becoming a mage! Be careful with your desires during subsequent outbursts, they have a tendency to come true!

Ding-a-ling!

You have earned magical exhaustion! Be careful and try not to use magic when magically exhausted. This can lead to negative consequences! Time remaining: 24 hours.

Ding-a-ling!

Due to the high magical background and mana that is maximally suitable for you, the duration of magical exhaustion is halved!

What did I want during the outburst? Not to harm myself, right? It's good that it was this, and not some nonsense like ending up somewhere else. I could have become the first child born by teleportation. But I was scared out of my wits when mana suddenly started leaving through the channels outside, my heart honestly went into my heels. Well, it seems like the mana core in my chest remained intact, and I didn't damage the channels. By the way, they, like the core, are also growing and developing, gradually braiding my whole body like a net. So far, most of this net is in my head and around the core. In my past life, I saw something similar in schematic drawings of the nervous system, very remotely, but similar.

When I first saw the mana channels, they looked like a few branches going from the center of my chest along my spine to my head and down to my arms and legs. In my head, these channels didn't even connect, but seemed to stretch towards each other. Now the large branches have connected and sprouted small side branches, which have begun to form a fine-meshed network.

The prana channels also formed a network, but it started in the heart and formed four branches. The first two went from the heart to the lungs and joined somewhere there, the other two divided and spread to the head and limbs. By the way, there was another plexus of these channels in the abdomen. It was located just below the navel. I think that's where the dantian should have originated. But either it hasn't formed in me yet, or it's not technically provided for.

It was boring to just sit there, I hadn't come out of meditation yet, but it was undesirable to touch the internal energies, so I focused on the external ones. As the system mentioned, I was in an environment saturated with mana that was maximally suitable for me, which means that the mother of this body is also a mage. Or she lives on a magical source. Although the former is more likely. I don't think she'll mind if I try to borrow a little of her mana for my development. And no, I'm not going to fill my mana channels with it, I'm not a fool and I learn from my mistakes. But no one forbids me to concentrate mana around my body and thereby increase its concentration. I spent five hours on this process! But the result was pleasing.

Ding-a-ling!

Due to active use, the skill of Minor Energy Manipulation has increased by +1!

Ding-a-ling!

Due to active use, the skill of Elementary Meditation has increased by +1!

But the main thing wasn't that, the speed of the timer on the debuff counter at least doubled! And that means that the mana channels and core are healing twice as fast! The high concentration of my mother's mana clearly has a beneficial effect on the child's body. So, whenever possible, I'll try to maintain an increased concentration of mana around me, well, and maybe add a little prana too. I hope that the drop in the ocean that I pinch off from my mother won't affect her.

Adding prana to the densified mana field didn't cause any negative feedback from the system, but I wanted to sleep more and I passed out.

Waking up brought me good news:

Ding-a-ling!

For active magical manipulations, the magic characteristic +0.5!

And so I already have 0.7 of it. Where did the other 0.1 come from? The devil knows, the system didn't bother to explain, as well as about the other characteristics that have grown slightly. I think it's because of the growth of my body. Events related to it, for some reason, are not displayed in the messages.

My status:

Character Status:

Name -

Surname -

Patronymic -

Race: Human

Characteristics:

Strength - 0.3

Agility - 0.3

Intellect - 5

Wisdom - 4

Perception - 2

Magic - 0.7

Prana - 0.3

HP - 3

MP - 7

Mana Core: Formation stage

Skills: Elementary Meditation, Elementary Energy Manipulation

Abilities: -

Quests:

(Global) Prevent or stop the demon invasion.

Hmm, the mana reserve has almost doubled! I distinctly remember it being 0.2! By the way, magic initially lagged behind prana for some reason. If I developed strength and agility with periodic movements, I didn't touch prana at all. Maybe it's spent on growth or increasing physical characteristics and is pumped that way?

HP seems to depend on prana. Apparently, with it, it will be difficult for me to die. The main question is, what will happen when the prana runs out? Will I survive or kick the bucket? I won't check, or at least I don't plan to for now!

And I plan to pump the magical part of my soul. But I don't think it's worth constantly causing mana outbursts. I need to give my body a rest, otherwise I might overstrain myself, but I think it will be useful to maintain an increased mana background as much as possible. It won't work all the time. I also need to sleep, as well as train in other types of "sports."

Meditating all the time to the detriment of other development wouldn't be rational. Harmony, as you know, is the key to a long and healthy life, but I have a system, and it compensates for some rough edges, and mana and prana will help it. I already have a bias towards the mind. If I were an ordinary child, without a system and magic, I would have died of a stroke long ago. A stroke in an unborn child. Hmm.

But I didn't die, and I'm not going to give up on developing my mind, even though it's already many times more developed than my body. I'll trust the system. I can't train my body properly in these conditions anyway. My smooth and careful movements don't look much like push-ups, although I have to strain no less.

Okay, I'll have to make some small changes to my schedule due to the emergence of new forms of training. Since I don't have a clock and I don't see the sun, I'm guided by the stages of wakefulness and sleep. Previously, my waking period was divided into three parts and began with physical training, which started immediately after sleep, continued with mental exercises, and ended with meditation. Now meditation is also divided into attempts to produce magical outbursts, time to recover from magical exhaustion, and periods of rest and recovery of the body with the accompanying concentration of my mother's energies around me.

I decided to combine magical outbursts with small auto-trainings. Causing an outburst, I tried to внушить myself that I'm the most magically strong, smart, I have the best memory, that I and my mother are the healthiest. And this bore fruit. Intellect, wisdom, and most importantly, prana began to grow after each such "training."