I was reborn and became a weak magician

Chapter 3: Years to come and growth to prosper

Being reborn I can say this is all too real and it's hard to calm myself, it's been a year after my birth and my family has made sure to feed me much better than I did in my past life. My plan for now is to be active with my body as to not hinder me in future, unlike my old life I am going to take a step forward. Some things I find weird is that my parents use the name from my past life, even our surname is the same (Inugami). I am in good health and am able to walk now, I can talk but my vocabulary in the language might sound weird so I'll leave it for next year or something as I don't want to raise too much suspicion.

I've come to learn that their is magic in this world but only 3 people can use it, they are called great mages as their knowledge is plentiful and their magic is just if not more than amazing as the books I've read say, learning the language of this place was simple even their writing was simple, but on the topic of magic I've come to my own conclusion that the reason the great mages magic is amazing is due to the mana in the air, because I've been practicing sensing myself I've felt a completely different air and that's not coming from the altitude . The mages do not explain how to use magic, but they do have stories about defeating great monsters in different biomes and traveling far and wide experiencing that in which us common folk can not achieve.

The world is very dangerous and depending on the population of people in an area the danger varies. The more populated an area the more monsters spawn, and the smaller the population less monsters appear, not only that but it's said that if monster sense a threat they can appear around the cause, the amount of people and the sense of danger can spawn stronger more violent monsters. There is very little threat near my home as we live in a low population village where both the women and men have trained to fight small threats to protect the people of the village who can not fight, which is mostly the children and elders, but there are few elderly people that can still fight. My dad has told me stories each night talking about how the village has survived, due to the ability to work together and utilise tools they were able to defend against a poison ant horde. Meaning threats do appear in our area and it is not a zero percent chance. I'd have to be more careful with how I proceed, for now I shall practice heightening my senses as I did in the void... I say void as to me it is weird to say my mothers womb, also void sounds so much cooler.

I spent three months on my senses and found out that simple magic requires a sense of surroundings. Put simply there is mana everywhere, if you can sense it you are most likely able to cast magic and use it to your advantage. My parents are somewhat used to me speaking so I can freely ask them questions when need be but my sister helps me the most, although she gets stuck in her room a lot because she disturbs the other villagers very often. What I've learnt from my sister who is 6 years old now is that there is not much for us to do out here besides play or help out in the village, but for my sister she just wants to explore the world like the great sages, which might be what's adding more to her mischievousness.

It's easy for me to say that I am worried she might get herself in some serious danger, she doesn't even have any self awareness. But for her safety I decided to try teach her what I call " sixth sense," it's a technique I came up with after my 3 month training period. She was happy to learn but her superiority got in the way very often as she can not for the life of her stay focused. But while she learns this I shall try to change mana into magic, but for safety reason I shall try water. From the stories of the great mages I've heard from my mom the word unimaginable pops up a lot, so I'm thinking that maybe your vision or understanding has a big role on how to use magic. "Deep breaths, clear mind and focus on my thoughts," this is necessary for me as my imagination is not that active. I take the feeling of mana in the area and think of attracting it to my body, so I calm my body and create a feeling of intake. The mana began entering my body and this allows me to start imagining a substance, in my case water, so I focus on having a clear image of water and after that I move the mana to the palm of my hands and have my body out take the mana. To my absolute surprise there was a very small bubble of water floating in front of me, this was a beauty to behold that I couldn't hold my excitement. The bubble popped as I lost focus, but it was ok I knew the process of using magic and it only took another year to do so. So for the entirety of my 3rd year in this world I'd practice casting my magic slowly increasing in size and usability. And when I turned four I was able to not only use large amounts of mana but also create different elements as they all follow the same concept to using mana. I was very curious to the maximum output I could do so I went into the field just outside the village and went "all out." The shear size of the ball of water I created was enough to put me in awe as all the mana in the area was now gone, but in absolute fear of what is to come of my near future the bubble of water pops, and as I turned around my heart sank as my sister has just witnessed me cast magic 4 times bigger than our house.

"Yua what are you doing here !?"

She was quiet for a short bit of time, then she grew a grin, as she realised what I just did and she started sprinting straight towards our home and I new what was to come. She was going to tell my parents and my parents will tell the village and I'll be used as something everyone can make money off of. Adults are greedy, I've learnt that in my past life. When there is an opportunity for riches and fame they will take whatever means to get it. I collected my thoughts and prepared myself to lose the natural love I got and have the face of greed come from the village, but to add more surprises to my day I saw my sister outside the house looking defeated. Me assuming she got in trouble for sprinting full speed through the village she tells me that mom and dad don't believe her that I can use magic, and she wanted me to prove it to them, but as I didn't want unnecessary attention I offered to teach her how to use magic. Not to my attention but this was my first step to living the life more befitting of a rebirth person like me.