The first time hurt like hell.
But… it was warm.
I experienced a new world that day.
That warmth, that gentle touch on my skin, that painful but fulfilling feeling.
Those were some of my best first times.
After that abundant energy penetrated my whole body and created the channels necessary for the usage of this skill, I suddenly became stronger.
Like, I could use the Mana inside my body more freely, and use the new type of energy that was stored in every part of my body with even more proficiency.
It was thinner than Mana, but I knew I could use it with even more proficiency than Mana.
Right now, this was at the (tier-0) when compared to Mana.
But, unlike Mana stored in my Mana nucleus, I stored this power in my whole body.
So, even at this stage, I can use (tier-1) spell easily.
Though it finishes pretty quickly and I would need a longer time to recover than Mana, it was a better source of energy than Mana.
If I say that the current me can store 20 units of Mana, then the current me can store 100 units of Solnova.
So, if 10 units of mana=100 units of Solnova, then I had an extra Mana equivalent to one more (tier-1) Mana nucleus.
This was crazy!
If I can harmonize all of this, which wasn’t likely right now, I may be able to use the (tier-3) spell at (tier-2).
Well, these were just some personal explanations, and things would change in the future.
All these energies differed from each other.
Solnova was more special among the most existing higher-level energies.
And, I was sure that I can push it to a similar amount as (tier-2) in at least a year.
It had been almost three months since I had trained this energy.
I learned how to absorb it through sunlight, how to channel it, and spells that corresponded with this energy.
They… were complex.
Like real complex and if not for the fact that I can remember everything and store that information in my mind, I was sure I would faint from just looking at one of the simple spells.
Master taught me many things aside from this in the meantime.
She wasn’t just a Mage.
She was someone that had mastered a weapon too.
Her weapon, that whip… no.
That snake-like thing seemed to possess a mind of its own.
I did not know how the hell something like that could move like it was alive and had the movements of a high-level creature.
But it was fascinating every time it thrashed me.
She was defiantly at least a [Queen]. That meant she could use Aura to its full capacity.
And, yes… Aura.
For the first time in my life, I saw Aura.
Her Aura.
And… it was gorgeous, just like her.
It wasn’t white like her flames, nor oranges like her hair, or blue like her eyes.
Her Aura was gold.
And when I say gold, I meant pure fluid gold.
It was a perfect Aura, unlike the initial aura that I will soon have.
Her Aura, something noble, rich, filled with authority and dignity, as well as something that flowed in search of something.
As all Aura possessed a nature, this one possessed a nature too.
And it was seeking something.
I had an idea it was connected to the wish she mentioned, but I won’t think much about that.
She could do things with Aura that I could never think were possible.
From coating it on her weapon, shooting it, releasing its might, materializing it in weapons, to the point that I couldn’t even fathom.
She was amazing and the mastery she had over all her powers was unpanelled.
I couldn’t even begin to describe the things she knew and had taught me in that short amount of time.
I had a long way to achieve Aura because of my uniqueness.
One can achieve Aura through two means.
Either by experiencing life or death situations or by gaining enough knowledge and understanding of the weapon one used.
A knight didn’t just use a sword.
Though there was discrimination against those who used other weapons as a knight, they counted all weapon wielders as knights.
Of course, not anyone could become a knight.
They needed the powerful mind and body of a knight that was superior to a normal human.
I had enough strength and life and death experience to have awakened Aura, but… I still hadn’t.
So, the only other option I had was to study archery and understand the Bow and arrow.
And when I showed her my archery that I had honed with my life on the line in this forest… she sighed.
She freakin sighed at my lifelong training!
This was just ok in her eyes and she meant it when she sighed at it.
She pitied me, and I could feel her emotions.
It wasn’t at least crap but, my archery was at just normal level in her eyes.
In her eyes only so, I was better than most, at the very least.
But that pitiful look didn’t go well with me.
I started archery once again and, for the first time in my life, I had someone to guide me.
I had someone to point out the countless flows I had, and she even taught me other things.
Aside from that, we also played in this vast tower.
And this place… I didn’t have any words to describe just how fascinating a place it is.
Each floor was something special and though I had only been to fifteen floors, for now, just exploring one floor would take a day or even days.
And, aside from the garden and that divine place that had made a place in my soul, the 42nd floor [Library of true knowledge], the only other place I loved the most among these fifteen floors was [Perfect kitchen].
That place was heaven.
Like real heaven to me.
I didn’t see these floors in order but, what I had seen in this place was enough to make it the best construction of all times.
Something that we can even compare to ancient structures in dungeons and labyrinths.
And that damn kitchen… was more modern than anything I could ever think of.
Just the idea that this whole place was a kitchen was absurd but, it was true.
Well, that was that, and master and I loved cooking.
She was good at everything and cooking was one of them, but she didn’t cook herself much.
We only had her cooking a few times and god… it was divine.
That was the level I wanted to reach from my ordinary level now.
Even if she stops teaching this stuff, I had to learn to cook from her at the very least.
That taste, those perfect flavors, that aroma… I was blessed to have something that divine once in a while.
Today was ending as the sun set down and today was the day I would talk to my family for the second time.
Once again, this will be a small meeting, but it would be better than the last time we talked.
My days here were passing smoothly, excluding the hell I experienced every day in her training.
And I hoped theirs would be the same too.
I hoped that all of them… are safe, and healthy.