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Chapter 2: Chapter 2: A New Body, A Sad Beginning

When Villin finally regained consciousness he was assaulted by a wave of nausea. In just a single moment seven years of memories assaulted his consciousness at once causing a massive headache to form.

Villin groaned as he slightly managed to open his eyes. He saw an old wooden roof that seemed to be rotting. When he looked to the left his eyes suddenly widened as he saw a lady about forty years of age laying on the floor with a pool of blood around her. Her chest looked as if it had been slashed by a sword for a hundred times.

Villin subconsciously crawled backward towards the other way before he felt something sticky below his hands. When he slowly turned his head he was greeted with yet another corpse. A male in his fifties was sitting against the wall, his face in ruins. Villin started hyperventilating as he jumped up. Still being assaulted by a wave of nausea and memories that were impossible to make sense of.

When he tried to run toward the doorway he saw not far away he fell, his coordination was way off, his legs were shorter then they were before and since he wasn't used to it he simply wasn't able to run.

Just after he fell the nausea receded and memories suddenly made sense.

His name was Villin Grey son of Adam Grey and Violette Grey. He was about to turn nine and had recently been contacted by a young woman named Silver. She talked to him and his parents for over an hour, after showing proof multiple times she also managed to convince his parents that magic was real and he had it. Apparently they had sensed it on him just about a month ago and so she was sent over to make sure he could join the academy when he turned nine.

Tears fell down his face without him knowing it as he saw the parents of this body's last owner. Villin felt weird and confused, having no idea on what to do. He must've sat there for hours, completely lost, trying to figure out what was going on and slowly putting all the memories into place.

After this unknown period of time, footsteps came from behind him. Still lost in his head, Villin didn't realize as even now tears were flowing out of his eyes. The lady standing behind him gulped as she saw the situation. She had already found two other corpses in the living room, the two younger sisters of Villin, and now the parents were also found.

"Mashio."

She said calmly as she tapped her wand onto Villin's head, causing him to fall asleep.

When Villin woke up he felt extremely calm. He could recall the events that happened before yet he couldn't form any emotions of them. He quickly noticed he was laying in a proper bed, in a proper room, and just as he woke up someone came out of a door to his left.

When he looked at the doorway he saw a twenty-year-old lady with beautiful silver hair and nearly sparkling blue eyes. This was without a doubt Silver, the mage that had told him he was a magus. Before he could say anything she looked at him with a sad expression.

"Hey Villin, I am very sorry about what happened to your family, the academy has taken it upon themselves to find out who did it, they will surely catch the killer."

She paused and she almost looked as if she would tear up herself.

"The bed you are laying on is enchanted, as long as you stay in bed you won't feel extreme emotions, I suggest you stay in bed for a day to make processing the situation easier."

Villin looked slightly confused as he started asking Silver some questions. It appeared she had taken him in for the time being because she didn't want him to go to the orphanage.

Surprisingly the conversation didn't stay at the subject of last night's matters for long. Since Villin didn't feel right now he simply decided not to ask about things that Silver wouldn't be able to answer.

"Why did I only get notified about magic a few months before I'm supposed to go to a school?"

Hearing this question Silver seemed a bit more confident as she simply explained.

"Since you were born of two mortals, finding you can only be done out of luck. One of our mages happened to sense your energy a short while back. If we had found you earlier we would've informed you of everything earlier. We would've asked if we could have a mage live with you for a while to properly explain all you need to know."

Villin nodded, before laying down again. He wasn't stupid and knew he had to take some time to process what happened last night. If he could properly realize what happened now, potential grieving wouldn't be as hard.

Luckily it seemed that he worried about nothing. He left the bed after only an hour of thinking and when he did he felt a clear change in himself, allowing his emotions to flow again. Even though he felt somewhat scared when he thought back to what happened last night. He didn't feel any kinship with his parents. At this point, the memories no longer overwhelmed him. It felt more like a movie than anything else.

Silver lived alone in a rather big home. Despite its size it still felt very cozy, the living room had a nice fireplace and a few couches, and a number of trinkets could be seen which he couldn't recognize. Other than this he also spotted a radio, meaning technology probably didn't have an effect on magic.

Silver stayed close to him for the entire day while neither of them spoke too much. It was clear that she was giving him time to think and he was having a look at everything. When he got tired of looking he sat on the couch in front of the lit fireplace.

"Hey Silver, thank you for taking me in for a bit."

He sounded slightly gloomy which wasn't a surprise, Silver decided to respond with a smile.

"I heard it's your birthday today so I got you a present, I hope you like it."

She didn't respond to his thanks as it didn't seem necessary at the time, instead, she grabbed a square wrapped up box and gave it to him.

She smiled at him wildly so Villin looked at her thankfully as he opened the package. When it was fully opened he could see what looked like a small mouse made out of metal.

"Try touching it."

As she advised Villin gently touched the metal mouse and it immediately came to life. The mouse seemed to be fully made out of metal without leaving any gaps yet the snout, legs, and tail easily moved.

"This is an enchanted pet. It doesn't hold much intelligence and only lives for a few years but if you want to learn enchantments later on it could be a good object to try to learn from and perhaps even experiment on."

While she was saying all that Villin looked at the little mouse with a somewhat shocked look.

Even though he knew this was probably nothing compared to what mages could truly do, it made him realize magic was now really a thing.

"Thank you miss Silver, I love it!"

He said as he held his hand out to the little mouse letting it climb on. With an invigorated expression he turned to Silver.

"Please miss Silver can you teach me magic?"

Seeing his excited expression Silver couldn't help but smile, she was glad he didn����t seem to have a trauma because of what happened. Even though how quickly he seemed to have gotten passed it nearly seemed worrying, she could tell he certainly wasn't some psychopath.

"Since I'm only a first-grade mage, I'm not allowed to teach any future mages, if you want I can give you some books on magic and magic society though. In fact, I was already planning to do so, after all, school starts in a month.

Saying this she walked over to the one room that was locked before. When she opened it Villin saw a study. The walls seemed to be made out of bookshelves filled with books as at least a few hundred books were here.

Without any hesitation, she walked forward and grabbed a few books out of various shelves. All of these books were relatively thin and they sported titles such as 'A guide to Magus society', 'The world from a Magus' standpoint', 'How to transform from a mortal with magic to a magus' and 'Basic rules in the Magus world'. It was clear these books were made for people such as himself who was born with mortal parents.

After giving these books to Villin, Silver spoke once more.

"Tomorrow I won't be home since I have to go to a teachers' meeting in the academy. I will make sure there will be plenty for you to eat, when you open the cabinet on the top left of the kitchen a warm meal will appear. I will be back in the evening to properly talk to you alright?"

Villin nodded as he looked at the woman before him. It was hard to say how he would classify her. She was the same age as he was so he really didn't see her as a mother figure. And well, she was more caring than a sister. Letting the matter rest, he went to go sleep. He was still quite exhausted mentally and even if he tried he probably wouldn't be able to read properly.

And so, while laying in the bed which suppressed all emotions he looked over everything that happened once more before falling into a deep slumber.


Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Long Live Books!

When Villin woke up he was well-rested. This was quite surprising since the clock showed he had only slept for six hours and the sun had yet to rise.

He hesitated for a minute or so before leaving the bed, letting his emotions return. This hesitation made him realize a problem. The bed was very much addicting. Even though he didn't know the dead parents very well, the bloody scene he saw that night was embedded deep into his mind. Sometimes his mind would wander and he would rewatch that terrible scene causing him to feel terrible for a while.

And so, he decided not to sleep in that enchanted bed again, even though the sleep was peaceful he didn't want to risk growing truly addicted.

With this thought in mind, he looked around the house to see if he could find Silver. Yet even after checking every room twice, she was nowhere to be seen. It seemed she had to leave extremely early and so he would have the house to himself.

Villin had no hesitation in his steps as he quickly made his way toward the study, he sat on the rather large chair and put the books he had been given the previous day on the table.

Before he opened it, however, he closed his eyes and thought back to what happened in the sea of clouds and the advantages he held.

The first thing he had wanted to check was his supposedly good looks but yesterday he didn't see any mirrors in the house so he'd put that on pause for now. The only other perk he could properly check was photographic memory, and so he opened one of the books before him at a random point, looked at the page for a few seconds, and closed it again.

When he closed his eyes and thought back to it he could see the page in its entirety as if he was looking at it. He could even read the page he had been looking at in his mind.

Villin let out a sigh of relief. He wanted to make sure everything worked properly and it would seem that it had!

The first book he opened was 'Basic rules in the Magus World' and he soon started reading. The book was obviously meant for kids as it was written in extremely basic language and many things having to do with crime and the like seemed to be sugarcoated. In this way, it was said that if you showed magic to a mortal without permission you would have to take a little trip to the Palace. The Palace was the top magic authority on the central continent.

The world he was in currently had three different continents, each of these had their own mortal rulers and hidden magical societies. He was residing in the central continent, close to what was said to be the number one school for aspiring Magus.

Villin managed to get through 'Basic rules in the Magus World' really quickly. The book didn't have many pages to begin with and the language used was extremely simple and so by the time he finished the eighty-page book only an half an hour had passed.

Once he finished reading it he sat back in contemplation, a serious look on his face. Even though this was a basic book intended to explain basic rules and etiquette to kids, it was full of oddities. The book went against itself a multitude of times. One page they would state that all magus should be treated with the respect you yourself wish to be treated with while another one would say that if someone from a noble family were to seek trouble with you you should follow their commands.

There were many other oddities within the book but Villin decided to let it be for the time being, he'd see how things were actually like when he got to the Academy.

The second book he read was 'A guide to Magus Society' he picked this one since he figured this might bring a more realistic image of any potential class divide, and it delivered.

The book was written by a mage who hadn't had a mortal in the family for centuries and so they were very proud. He didn't at all try to hide their disdain for mortals and those with mortal families either when it was brought up in the book. But overall the book truly was quite useful. It gave him some information on bloodlines and types of magic, giving him a great deal of information.

A bloodline was something often held in noble families. It is originally gotten when a powerful Magus succeeds in merging a beasts bloodline in their own or when they have offspring with a powerful beast that has succeeded in morphing into human form, something that was a clear display of power.

Villin felt a bit weirded out by this but the noble author seemed to really take pride in the fact that he had a bit of bloodline coming from an 'Adarna'. Some sort of magical bird that held healing powers among other things. Thanks to the bit of healing power he had, his wounds would automatically start healing.

As for types of magic, there were a few things that were explained. Firstly there were wands, these were the main tool to help use magic within the academy. It allowed a spell's effect to be concentrated in a single point and the better wands could also store a few spells allowing you to use them instantly. Other then this there were also the staffs that were often used in the east and the hand gestures that were used in the west but there wasn't much info on either of these.

What was mentioned however was that every magus would have to learn bare-handed magic. You couldn't be called a Magus if all your powers disappeared as soon as you were disarmed.

Then there were also the crafting disciplines. The main ones in the central continent were pill-making, magic arrays, and enchantments.

Finishing the book Villin once more was in deep contemplation, this time it had still taken him no more than an hour despite the more difficult language. He suspected this might have to do with the 'Great Comprehension' perk he had chosen.

A few more hours passed as Villin read the rest of the books Silver had given him. Even though there was some useful information in there, most of it was already mentioned in one of the previous two books he read.

Once he finished these books he wasn't sure what he should do next. There were plenty of books in this room but he wasn't entirely sure if it was morally right to start reading Silver's books without asking.

After a bit, he couldn't hold himself back anymore as he started browsing the titles of the books in the study. He was happy to see they were properly categorized. There were five main sections in the study. The first section held everything history related. The second section was full of political books, the third was considerably smaller and held everything mortal-related. The fourth section was the biggest containing a bunch on books about the magic, it was when he got to the fifth section, which was also considerably smaller, that he didn't really know what he was looking at.

The books here were extremely thick and seemed to be made out of some sort of metal. A single book was easily fifty centimeters thick, furthermore, every book was exactly equal in size. Villin curiously took one of the books before putting it on the table on the study. The book was in a sleek black and the title was put on the cover in large red letters. It read 'Spell blueprint: Vanishing object'. Having his curiosity fully peaked by the metal cover and odd title Villin opened the book only to find out it only had a single page, each of the sides of this page was over twenty centimeters thick, made fully out of the unidentified metal.

With a frown on his face, Villin fully opened the book, wanting to read what is inside of it. Yet just as he opened it a light blue object seemed to appear before him. Villin jumped back instantly, falling off the chair before realizing what happened.

It wasn't that an object had appeared out of mid-air, it was that an image had jumped out of the book. When he stood up and approached the desk again he could see the floating patters. There were about a hundred dots with varying brightnesses and distances between each other in a 3D circle. A dozen of these were connected by a thin line while about a fifth of them had a small name below them such as 'fa' or hu', some of these even came up on multiple of the different dots.

Bewildered Villin studied the dots as well as the line that connected some of them but he simply couldn't see any proper pattern. After spending some time on this he simply closed the book and put it back into the shelve.

Without the ability to use magic, looking at some random circle with a line in it didn't seem like a good way to spend time, even if he knew it was a spell blueprint, it wasn't really useful to him at the moment.

And so he started from the very left and grabbed some history-related books. Specifically those of the last hundred years. It wasn't long before he was lost in the books.


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