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Chapter 2: A Great Mage

Shadows danced across the pages of an old book, cast by the flickering flaes of the book were a e of this world In front of the book I was kneeling, hidden deep withinmyself for as to come

I was four years old this year, and it was finally tiical ability Over the past three and a half years, I had been studying fervently on the ic of this world Now that I knehere the study was, I made my way here every time ress, as everything ritten in a language totally unknown to me Over time however, I started to decrypt the books bit by bit Eventually, I h one of the many books in the study on my own, and it just cascaded fro for thisfor the tie It wouldn’t be proper for me to just juic in this world worked

Magic was divided into distinct stages of learning Elementary, Interes would go through in their lifeti as an Interician would often be hired as an instructor for a ician in the houses of lower nobility Past these levels were the Saint rank, King rank, Emperor rank and God rank It was icians in the world, and a God ranked wizard had not appeared since the tie with iven that I would have the talent to become a Hero

Regardless,efficiency The y stored within an individual, and can be i Efficiency is the natural talent that a person has with any given systeic This can be trained as well, but there is a liainst talent

Last, there are several systeic that one can have talent in First, there are the Ele It was said that the [Elementalist] had reached the God rank in every syste Other than that, there is Healing, Reinforce been within the dorade were kept by thethen equipment, and a talented blacksmith was said to be able to infuse attributes, or even stored spells within equipic was the ability to either iic Beasts and bind them to your service, or call manifestation of the eleic To be honest, not ic, as it had fallen into disuse Why practice a ic only suitable for defense when you could block an attack with an elemental shi+eld and retaliate with the same power?

Regardless, the time was now The book in front of me held the chants to the Elementary Grade spells of each of the elements, and my heart was ready

“O’ Great Elements of Fire Heed my call and come to my aid Fire Bullet!”

As soon as the final word passed through my lips, I felt a previously unknoirl inside ical power contained within ly infinite, the energy found an exit and rushed through Excitement bubbled over into y racing through my veins toward my hand I couldn’t wait!

God level Mage, here I come!

Just as the y within me seemed ready to escape into the world around y to pass through Very rapidly, the energy backed up inside hout hten in panic It hurt Oh God it hurt

In an instant, like an overfilled balloon, that barrier sprung a leak With a rush, high pressure energy shot through the gap and finally left my body to manifest into the spell that I had cast My excitement built up once more

Pffft

A tiny fla into non existence

I fell to my hands and knees in disbelief What the hell was that? Even now I could feel the iy that was in my body But what use was it when there was nowhere for it to go? Depression set in 3 whole years of ainst a bookcase, the candle casting a long shadow over my disbelief stricken face Could it really be that I was destined to not be talented in ic? Then ould I have been summoned to this world?

After a ht! Fire wasn’t the only element after all! Maybe I was just unlucky and chose an element that I didn’t have talent with to practice first! Actually, in hindsight, it ht have been pretty lucky that I didn’t have soht up in the moment and didn’t really think about ould happen if a fireball shot off in a room filled with dry, old booksProbably for the best

That said, it was time for me to test myself in the other systeifted at! Let’s go!

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