Chapter 5：Becoming a Mage (2/2)
Then, he heard someone's stifled sobbing.
The voice was familiar, it seemed to have come from his mother?
Ray was pleasantly surprised.
Was his talent so awesome that his mother couldn't hold herself back any longer and started crying tears of joy?
She must've been so happy to see me become a Mage. Maybe I had awakened the Fire Element, same as my mother. Ray opened his eyes and realised that the crystal ball had no reaction at all whatsoever.
No light, no colour, nothing…
What?
”Condolences, but your son has no magical aptitude.”
The old man said while shaking his head and stroking his beard.
Preposterous!
A dragon with no magic?
He must be wrong!
Ray hopped onto the table, careful that he wouldn't accidentally topple the crystal ball over onto the ground. He started walking towards the old man and mumbled.
”Don't wie…”
”I have mawic…”
Ray glared angrily at the old man while pointing to himself.
”I am sorry young man, but there is nothing that I can do.”
The old-looking man let out a sigh and apologized. But Ray was unconvinced. He grabbed the old man's beard for he was so frustrated.
He was a dragon!
He was the Great Dragon Sen!
How could he not have any magic aptitude?
This old man must be lying and he's trying to hide my great powers from my mother in order to scam us!
Ray yanked harder on the old man's beard as he became angrier at the outcome of the test.
Scarlett latched onto his arm, trying to yank it away from the old man's beard. But since Ray was resisting hard, her efforts made it so that a few strands of the old man's beard came loose.
As the hair came falling down onto the ground, Ray was so amused that he started laughing.
”Ga, ga, gaaa…”
The old man was finally able to remove my hold from him as he stood up and shouted.
”Get these two out of my sight, right now!”
Ray stayed silent the whole trip back to their hometown. His mother was still quite annoyed for what he had done to the old man. The son and mother pair gave each other the cold shoulder as Scarlett eventually fell asleep.
But Ray was still wide awake.
What was going on?
'Was the world punishing me for the number of humans that I have killed back then?'
'That doesn't make sense…'
'Otherwise, why would I have gotten this second chance? If the world decided that I deserved some punishment, then it wouldn't have let me reincarnate.' Ray nodded to himself. He reckoned that the world must be testing me.
'If I am unable to become a Mage, then I must find another way to get my revenge.'
Ray reaffirmed his resolve.
He then thought about his father.
When they eventually got home, Scarlett told Jack about the unfortunate news. Jack was understandably upset, but it wasn't as serious as Scarlett.
The next morning, the family sat in front of the dinner table. Having finally grasped the ways of the spoon and fork, Ray realised that these items made the eating experience significantly better than before and there was no need to clean himself and the mess that he made after.
Once the breakfast was done, Ray decisively placed down his spoon and fork onto the table and stared straight into his father's eyes.
”Dad… Cwn you teweach me how to figwht?”
Silence descended.
But at the very next moment, Jack's eyes started shining in an excited light.
It seemed that his dream was going to come true after all.