~Cid's Pov~
And just like that 2 years passes and I'm now 5 years old.
I'm back in the open field and infront of me is Igris with a sword in his hand while I have my slime made sword in mine. We just continued staring at each other as all the other shadows are out and in circling us.
"Are you ready Igris" I asked excited about finally able to face him. Igris just nods even though he's still worried about hurting me, ever since I could walk I would try and face Igris to test my swordsmanship against him but Igris would decline expressing his worry that I'm to small and could get hurt if I'm not careful.
It wasn't until I finally turned 5 that Igris finally caved in, which is why I'm now infront of him with my sword ready.
I take a deep breath and position my sword slightly and use 'Soru', I disappeared from where I was standing and reappeared infront of Igris with our swords clashing into each other creating sparks and as Igris pushed the sword i was sent skidding slightly.
I got in position again and used 'Soru' once again but instead of a slash I sent thrusts multiple times which he managed to block with the flat side of his lightning blade.
While still thrusting my blade I started to use geppo, which allows users to push themselves off the air itself with superhumanly strong kicks, allowing them to travel through and remain in midair for an extended period of time.
It was kinda like I was flying while kicking the air. And while kicking the air I turned my thrusts back into slashes which Igris was still able to block.
Wanting to at least get a hit in a used a 'Soru' in the air while also using 'Geppo' so it was hard to detect me, but since I wasn't at my strongest since I was still a child Igris was still able to follow me with his eyes even tho his eyes were moving at a quick speed.
While still trying to confuse him I decided to use a move I have been working on since I found out I could use other anime moves and started practicing the 'Rokushiki'. My eyes suddenly gave off a red glint as I saw 1 second into the future, where I attacked Igris and how he managed to block it.
Using that to my advantage I did as I did in the vision but slightly altered the course near the end and as I was about to hit Igris, he managed to grab my arm and flung be across the land which I managed to land back on my feet.
Seeing that the fight was over Beru started clapping extremely fast "BRAVO MY LIEGE BRAVO, YOU ARE JUST GETTING USED TO YOUR NEW BODY AND YOU ALMOST MANAGED TO HIT IGRIS BRAVO"
Igris just started nodding as he said "Well done sire, that was done splendidly"
The rest of my shadows watching the fight just started nodding as agreeing that I'm getting better at fighting which I am, obviously.
Especially after finally getting Haki through out the years of practice. Since I knew my spirituality is more advanced thanks to my reincarnation, I knew that getting Haki was just a matter of time so during the night I would go into the forest and shut off most of my senses and just wear a blind fold
I would then get my shadow soldier's to spread around the forest and attack me at random intervals. Which was quick and painful since once again I had to readjust my pain tolerance. Both conquers and Armament Haki are a bit tougher to learn than observation. Especially since I'm still in a child's body
So thats what I mostly focus on for the last 2 years, even after 2 years all I managed to get was 1 second into advanced observation Haki, that's what I mostly focus on even tho it was mostly during the night time that I would go practice.
It would have been weird to explain to my sister what I was doing walking around like an idiot with a blindfold on...
'Should I do that?' I thought to myself, 'I mean it would he cool and I would later be known as the blind swordsman who had one of his senses cut off just to enhance the other.' As I thought more into this the more crazy ideas I kept coming up with.
'I could do it like Gojo, from Jujutsu Kaisen and just come up with something like my eyes have a special property, that they need to be seal or else it would be catastrophic I could go totally Chunni with this and make someone accidentally take off my blindfold
And once it comes off I could just grab my eye and release a huge amount of magic power saying "You, what have you done" while still covering my eyes. hmmmm should I do it or not... oh well I still got ten years to decide'
When I finished with my contemplating, one of the shadows I left with Claire informed me that she was about to sneak into my room once again and so with a quick thought I made all my shadow soldier's return and slowly sank into my own shadow
I then appeared right next to my bed and as I appeared the door handles jiggle slightly which made me go inside the covers quickly.
And as I made it inside the covers the door slightly opens and 7 year old Claire comes and sneaks in while closing the door softly to not notify anyone. And as she closed it she scurries along and climbed inside my bed and under my cover
She without whispering just said "Open your eyes I know your not asleep" I sighed before opening my eyes
"You caught me sneaking out one time, can you just let it go already, I haven't done it since" I said lying through my teeths. She came in the room when I was about to jump out the window to test out my flying skills.
which by this time I know it was a rookie mistake, i wasn't expecting someone to come in my room so I wasn't actively searching for anyone.
And it's annoying to have you're detection skills on all the time, even in your own home. Which by now I learned to always have it on even to my own discomfort thanks to Claire.
"You're my little brother, it's my job to take care of you whether you like it or not" she said pouting.
I just gave her a deadpan look "You do know I'm stronger than you right, you still haven't won any sparring sessions against me"
She just continues to pout "Doesn't matter, I'm still your older sister so that means you are my responsibility" she than paused before tears started gathering in her eyes "What if something happens to you when I'm not there, yes you are stronger but you're too reckless for you're own good" and with that she just comes closer and hugs me tighter.
'I can't say it doesn't make me feel fuzzy inside when she says things like this, I mean c'mon anyone would' I thought to myself while also sighing.
As an only child in both past lifes I can't say I didn't always wonder what it's like to have a sibling. 'Can't say I hate it' I thought to myself fully enjoying the hug and soon falling asleep as well.
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I don't remember what Igris calls Jinwoo so imma just go with Sire, you can correct me if I'm wrong tho
I'm sorry to say but this chapter is kinda an info dump, I have to do it here now so when I'm referencing something about a power I don't have to stop the scene of the story mid way and provide the information while you can just have it here now and make it somewhat revelant to what the Mc is practicing. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED⚠️ .... Enjoyyyy 😇
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~Cid's Pov~
Waking up the next day Claire was still hanging on to me while she slept which prompted me to shake her awake.
"C'mon Claire wake up it's already morning"
Seeing that she wasn't waking up I just sighed before conjuring a small waterball using magic which I then proceeded to throw at the sleeping Claire
*splash*
"WHA, What the hell Cid!!!" Claire said waking up drenched.
Seeing her woken up I just got up from the bed and started running away from her. I quickly closed the door behind me to give me time to escape from her wrath. I only managed to get a few feet ahead before
*Boom*
I turn back and see the door flying and hitting the wall and Claire with one foot up and as she lowers it she starts walking out of the room slowly as her wet hair clings to her face
Seeing her I started running even faster, I then felt Claire's magic power spike and and felt her presence running after me which cause me to run even faster
As I ran away from her I exited the house and went into the training yard where I went and picked up a wodden sword and waited for her outside as well
As she came running outside she saw me waiting for her with a wodden sword in hand, so she continued running to where the swords were displayed and pick one up in one quick motion without stopping and now with a wodden sword in hand she came running straight at me.
Seeing her coming towards me with an angered expression I just gave her a teasing smirk as I got into a fighting position waiting for her to get closer
And as she got close enough she swung her sword while coming towards and as she got close I just stepped to the side and put out my foot tripping her causing her to face plant into the ground.
And as she got up you can see her face covered with dirt and her expression growing angrier as she tighten her grip on her sword
Seeing this I just sigh and said "Don't use anger when you're fighting always maintain a calm mindset, some opponents will try to taunt you and make you angrier making you lose focus, like what happened just now.
Since you were so angry you didn't notice my foot sticking out which caused you to fall, in a real fight you could have lost your life in such a situation.
Get up, let's continue"
Ever since I was allowed to wield a sword in this life, all I mostly done is try and teach Claire since I had nothing better to do in the mornings
Claire hearing my instructions just clicked her tongue in annoyance before replying "Tsk, stop trying to act like you know everything"
She then got into a fighting position as her face grew serious and more determined "I'll beat you, I'll show you why I'm the older sister" and with that she enhanced herself with magic and charged at me once again but this time much more focused.
I responded in kind and charged at her myself where we met at the middle and as we collided the sound of metal hitting each reverberated across the training field
We just kept pushing against each other trying to overpower the other
I moved my sword slightly redirecting her sword and thrusting forward leaving a scratch on her cheek
We both then moved back slightly and started attacking each other again, slash after slash I just kept overpowering Claire until she started getting used to the force of my attacks, which caused her to improve just slightly.
We continued this sparring sessions until the late afternoon where we had to stop due to Claire having to many scratches on her body and face, any more and it would have done more harm than good.
Which was then followed by a bath which was later followed by dinner which was later followed going to bed and followed by Claire coming into my room and falling asleep as soon as she got into my bed.
Looks like my plan to exhaust her completely until she just falls asleep worked. Now I don't have to worry about her when sneaking out.
And with that I snuck out again towards my destinated spot in the forest.
Once there I sat down cross legged and looked at my mana core which now was at the light red stage about to break through any moment now.
Ever since I formed the mana core I started to learn the mana rotation technique with a bit of modifications to it.
Basically mana rotation is the ability to be able to continuously absorb mana from the atmosphere while moving or in combat.
Now for the modification which I made was that instead of just absorbing magic from the atmosphere I would also absorb it from my body and black heart
It took a while to find the right amount of mana I can absorb from my own body without causing me to almost faint due to magic exhaustion
when I mean body I meant my mana circuits which were constructs of which serves as a bridge between the physical world and the soul. It is usually present within everything which has a soul associated to it, and is half-physical, half-ethereal. It is also integral for any magic to occur.
And so I spent the 2 years passively absorbing mana into my core making it light red about to break into dark orange.
To give myself a boost to make it to the dark orange stage i took a massive amount of mana from my black heart and mana pathways and I started to purify my mana in my core quicker.
*CRACK*
And with that I have officially broken through, though it did leave me a bit lightheaded though to the absence of mana from my circuits.
One benefit I gained though through constant absorption from my mana circuits was a very quick recovery speed and faster magic power flow inside of them making them activate quicker as well.
Now thanks to the dark orange stage of my mana core my mana control has gotten better, my mana pool is now larger, the casting speed of my spells as also improved, and the damage output of my spells have gotten bigger.
Another benefit of being able to have a self created mana core is the elements you can control having a higher version of itself for example, The Fire elements higher version of itself is Lightning, The one for Water is Ice, Earth's is Gravity, and Wind is Sound.
So due to being in a different world the laws of this world works differently than the world of 'TBATE'. Although the principal of the mana core is the same, the way it works and what elements you can manipulate is completely different. Instead of a specific species only able to have control of a few said elements, everyone has access to all the elements it all just depends on control
If you're control over mana is low you won't ever get a chance to use a higher property of mana just the basic elements or the one's you're more comfortable with.
Another thing I discovered is that instead of it just being 4 elements there is 2 other elements Light and Shadow/Darkness. The Light element has a healing factor and the Darkness element has a corrosive factor which can both be turned off by the users will. What I'm mostly trying to find out is if these two element have a higher property like the others.
After a while of testing different things I found out they do have different elements, it's probably due to my black hearts influence but the two advanced elements for Light and Darkness is Life and Death.
Now that I have broken through, I stood up from my sitting position and summoned icicles behind my back with mana and shoot it the trees infront of me
*woosh* *woosh* *woosh*
All the icicles then get skewered inside the trees and as they lodge inside, the trees start turning into ice as well but only around the part where it was shot at.
'I see so it can't freeze the whole tree just yet just from that' I then walk up to it and as I'm infront of it I sent out a straight jab right towards a frozen part of a tree
*Shatter*
Seeing this I just shrugged before speaking outloud "I can work with this"
as the tree I punched falls to the ground.
*Thud*
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At first I was wondering if I should just give the future girls some specific elements
but then I said fuck it so 👉🙂👈 I'm plugging my ears to any complaints
now for the future of the fic Ik I'm going to have trouble in the business aspect of it so for future reference bare with me, I'm not smart
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