16 – Toddler Period – Practical Applications
So. It turned out that I found a cheat.
Well, probably anybody in my position would have realized it if they knew even the most basic thing about how the human body improved.
You see, muscles got stronger after getting damaged and healing up.
And
didn't erase the damage your body suffered, but instead helped it heal itself.
You see where I'm going with this?
After I learned
from Roxy... making sure to have her nearby while I used the spell with both the incantation and the magic circle to make sure nothing terrible happened, I pretended to go to bed early. But instead, I started experinting again.
It was a simple test. I would do pushups until I couldn't anymore, heal myself up, and try again.
Summing up my results:
Baseline: 10 pushups
Healing round 1: 11 pushups
Healing round 2: 12 pushups
Healing round 3: 14 pushups
...It was very incrental. Doing so quick math, the gain seed to be about... 10% improvent each ti.
Almost nothing.
But it cost almost nothing too.
Miss Roxy warned
about the mana cost in using
too much... but that wasn't a problem for
for a few reasons.
First: I had a crap ton of mana.
I wasn't sure if I had more than Miss Roxy since her staff shined as bright as the morning sun if I stared at it too long, but when I tested my limits one ti, it took
converting my mana into a hundred water balls to get anywhere near tired.
Second: I could see mana and use it more efficiently.
I didn't try it out in the beginning since I was afraid of causing an explosion or so other catastrophe, but since I had a teacher to keep an eye on things, I started trying to cast magic from the floating mana I saw.
I couldn't actually grab it, but I could use a bit of my mana to attract it over and use it that way. For example, if I wanted to use so 'blue' mana to cast water spells, I could cut off a bit of my mana, turn it blue, and then use that to gather up all the floating mana to use for my spell.
Miss Roxy had a weird way of just summoning all that mana whenever she needed it with her staff without using a thread of mana like , but I still didn't know how to do that. And I couldn't really ask either without spilling the beans that I could see mana...
Right now, Miss Roxy and I had a good working relationship. She was nice and seed like she had fun answering all my questions. Even if they caught her off guard at tis.
But I didn't know how she'd react if I suddenly told her that I could see mana... Maybe I should bring it up subtly first to make sure it wasn't anything crazy. I rember that 'Mage Sight' or sothing was pretty common in the stories and gas I used to enjoy, so there was bound to be sothing similar.
But just in case there wasn't, I'd keep quiet about that. For now.
Anyway, long story short: it took a lot for
to run out of mana. In ga terms, I basically had a bunch of MP reduction passives that made simple spells free.
Which ant I could abuse the crap out of healing and buff up!
And that was just by casting
by the book, too.
I had a feeling that if I ssed around with it properly, I could tweak things and maybe do crazy stuff like refine my nerves and reflexes... but I could also break sothing, so I didn't do that.
While I'd love to bounce those questions off Miss Roxy to see her thoughts... I was pretty sure that she didn't know enough about the human body to tell . She could guess, but guesses were dangerous when it ca to this stuff.
On the upside, the Holy Country of Milis was a thing, and Mom's side of the family lived there. That country was famous for healing magic and had tons of experts there.
Maybe in the future I'd swing by and bounce so ideas off of them to see if I could do proper superhuman tweaking.
But at the mont, I was just stuck with basic supplents essentially.
Still, continuous 10% improvent was better than nothing. And considering that I was still only three years old...
"I can't slack now." I pushed myself off the ground and focused.
I didn't have an excuse this ti. If I squandered my life away after getting this head start... I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Even if I miraculously got a third chance after that, I'd just quit then and there.
I slapped my cheeks and muttered, "You've got this, Rudy."
I was lucky. I was lucky enough to be born fully aware and able to see mana. I was lucky enough to be born to loving parents who supported
without expectations. I was lucky enough to have a kind and caring maid that was essentially a second supportive mother. And now I was lucky enough to have a magic teacher who was a hardworking genius who could explain and help
work through questions I had on magic.
If my life ended in vain again after all of this, I might as well never have been born in the first place.
So...
Fire. Water. Wind. Earth... Fire was too dangerous to practice inside, but the other three I could work on.
A ball of water, wind, and dirt.
Splitting my attention to each of those, I started slowly training my body. Push ups, sit ups, squats, jumping jacks...
Move your body! Work your body! You can go and be sobody!
"That's right!" I grit my teeth and started doing push ups. "You've got this! You can do it! One! Two! Three! Fo-"
"Ahn~!"
A sudden load moan, followed by a squeaking mattress.
I stumbled, dropping to the ground with a thud. At the sa ti, the water ball fell on my back and the wind ball exploded, sending dirt everywhere.
"Geez..." I brushed myself off and held out my hand, cleaning up the ss by sending out a blue thread and a brown thread, gathering up the water and dirt. After that, I tossed it all out the window and let out a deep sigh.
"P-Paul. Oh Milis! N-Nnnn~!"
"...Mom's definitely a loud one, huh?" I let out another deep sigh and walked to the door.
I didn't judge. Mom and Dad loved each other very much. And considering how often they did it, I was looking forward to a younger brother or sister soon.
But they *did* know that they weren't the only ones in this house, right?
My room was the furthest from theirs, and I could still hear them going at it. If that was the case, what about Miss Lilia and Miss Roxy, huh?
Did my parents not care, or did they like the thrill of that?
...Actually, I didn't want to know.
All I knew was that I wanted to have at least one quiet night for once. So...
"...Yeah. Let's play that card."
The bathroom was along the way to their room. It'd be embarrassing for everyone involved, but if I groggily opened the door and asked what they were doing, they'd definitely quiet down a bit.
...Though considering how into it my mom got, that might just involve so kinkier stuff like gags to keep her quiet...
Ew.
Anyway, plan formulated. Now to execute.
I opened the door and started walking over. It was dark though, so I held out my hand and conjured a tiny fla. Not a big one, but just about the size of a lit candle.
With that done, I yawned to get in the proper state of mind to pull of my act.
And then I saw sothing ahead of
that shouldn't be there.
At first, my mind didn't register it.
I saw blue. I saw so pale skin tinged pink. And between my mom's voice, I heard so soft feminine panting overlapping it.
But then I blinked and realized that I wasn't dreaming, nor was I hallucinating.
My parents' room was in the middle of the hallway. The bathroom was at the end.
And I realized why the sound carried so much. The door was open just a crack. The door to my parents' room, that is.
But that wasn't important. Instead...
There was soone sitting there. Right beside the door and leaning against the wall. One hand buried in her blouse and the other much lower, buried in her thighs.
Miss Roxy.
I blinked.
Miss Roxy noticed
and froze.
I blinked again and slowly turned around, walking back into my room.
...I didn't see anything. Yep. Definitely didn't see anything tonight.
Even if I did... I wasn't going to judge. Miss Roxy was about that age, right? Right. And since the internet wasn't a thing here, she had to work with, um... whatever source material she could find.
Right.
So...
...Let's just dump all of my mana and knock myself out. Yeah, that's probably for the best.
I closed the room behind
and then slipped into my bed. After that, I held out my right hand and spooled out all of my mana as fast as I could.
For a split second, I saw it floating around in the air as a crimson haze. And then I blacked out.
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