36 Chapter 36 The Days Following The Attack (1/2)
”I'm sorry Master William, we don't know how he survived. None of our spells were doing any good, and yet he is recovering amazingly fast.” The two healers that were in the caravan looked mystified as they tried to explain to his father their findings.
Joseph knew it was only because of his Breath ability, which he had just finished prior to the attack, that had saved his life. The realization that his training had saved his life, made his obsession at getting it done faster, more powerful.
(YOU MAY NEED TO BE CAREFUL, YOU ARE TEMPTINGLY CLOSE TO OBTAINING AN OBSESSION DISADVANTAGE)
”Would it help me finish my magic training faster?” asked Joseph, curiously.
(YES, BUT IT WOULD BE HORRIBLY INCONVENIENT TO GET RID OF WHEN YOU NEEDED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE)
Ah, he understood. He would have to break it up a bit more to make sure that the system didn't award him with it. He wanted to be the Mage King, not the mage.
It took two more days to finish training gaze but it was amazing. He didn't think humans normally saw this color.
(CORRECT, YOU HAVE LEARNED AN ABILITY SIMILAR TO THE SPELL MAGE SIGHT. IT FUNCTIONS SIMILARLY TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Pa.s.sIVE AND ACTIVE RADAR IN YOUR PREVIOUS WORLDS. IT IS COMPLETELY UNDETECTABLE BY MAGES BELOW THE MASTER LEVELS AND DIFFICULT FOR EVEN THEM.)
Wow. Joseph could see something like an aura around people. Stella's was amazing. So was his dad's. Others were a mix. His etiquette teacher had almost no aura but Stella's dagger instructor had an aura almost as strong as his dad's weakest healer.
The color, maybe shade, no it's a little different…anyway, it was slightly different from anything he had ever encountered before.
(MAGERY IS VISIBLE BUT SO ARE MAGICAL ABILITIES, TECHNIQUES, BLOODLINES, ETC.)
Though all were different, well, something about them. It took a couple of hours of comparing to note the differences. As he wandered along the caravan, he found that about 1 in every 10 of the slaves had something magical about them. Of which, only about a third had magery at any level. Two-thirds were at magery 0 and one-third at magery 1.
He hadn't found a magery 2 person, other than William's strongest healer. He bet Selena would be magery 2 or higher, though. Essentially 1% of his dad's slaves had magery 1, 2% had magery 0, and 7% had some combination of magical bloodline, inherent magical ability, or trained knowingly in a magical technique. Dad had thousands of slaves. If all of his towns were like this caravan… Joseph would be able to get plenty of apprentice mages!
For now, he got with his dad to tell him of all the slaves he had found with magery. William and Stella were as stunned as he had been to find so many.
”I guess it's going to be your job to check over each incoming child now. I'll need to know which ones have magic of any kind.”
”At least, until you figure out how to see that yourself,” said Joseph with a smile.
His dad chuckled, but didn't deny it.
Joseph found that his visual perception with mage sight increased ridiculously. He could see even the smallest particles of mana. One of the new babies had a magic bloodline and he swore he could see faintly fluttering wings. He'll have to see what he could do about awakening bloodlines of people, when he got the chance to stop somewhere for a while. Maybe in a couple of years?
”Stella?”