Tomorrow, 7:30AM, at the training field—
"You awakaned?" Hensen asked as he looked Syla in a daze.
"Yes, i can use magic now! Look!" Syla said before opening her palm and showing Hensen her magic, she ignited a small flame on her hand that lasted for approximately 20 seconds before it disappeared with smokes.
"Unbelievable– You really did it!" Hensen praised Syla for her achievement. "Ma'am, this is incredible, if this girl can use magic at this age, then im sure she'll grow up to be a strong mage in the future!"
Syla's mother watched with a smile as she heard those words, she bowed slightly and thanked Hensen for the support he had given for the past weeks.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Hensen, if it weren't for you, my daughter wouldn't have been able to become like this– the fact that you are willing to stay here and continued to teach us despite our differences, I'm truly grateful." She said, her eyes teary from remembering everything that has happened ever since Mr. Hensen appeared infront of her.
"I never see any humans with as much kindness and virtue as you are, Mr. Hensen. I'm glad my husband chose you." She added.
"I- it's fine Ms. Yulia.." Hensen tried to Yulia from bowing, he acted humble and thought that he doesn't deserve such treatment. "I'm just an average wandering magic instructor that happens to be rejected at an academy, compared to those in special magic academies with real instructors, my skills are still lacking—
"But i'm glad i could be useful to you– Even if our time was short, you've shown me not only the same kindness, but also a memory that i won't forget, to be an instructor for your genius child, it's an honor in itself."
As the two of them shared a bond for one last time, Syla looked at Hensen and suddenly raised her hand.
"Mr. Hensen, how do i use stronger magic? Do i need to ex-pand my mana?" She asked.
Hensen looked down and let out a faint smile.
"Yes, you'll need to keep training even if your mana has awakened. But don't worry, its easier than you'd think." He replied, gently stroking Syla's head as he told her to sit on the grass.
"Listen, when you get back home, remember what im about to tell you– Now, do everything i say. First, close your eyes." As Hensen told Syla to follow his instruction, Syla obliged and began to close her eyes.
"Can you imagine an object? A hollow object?"
Syla imagined a tube, similar to a plastic straw on earth, since she came from another world, imagining things that other people from this world doesn't know about was as easy as breathing. She nodded to tell Hensen that she had done it.
"Okay, now.. Imagine a fog, or a smoke– Paint it blue, and tell the smokes to go inside the tube."
Syla did as Mr. Hensen told her to, with each nod, a drop of sweat began to form on Mr. Hensen's cheek.
'She's really a genius– Even amongst other people that i've instructed over the past decade, none of them ever understood something this quickly.. She awakened a few days earlier than most people, if i remember correctly, the earliest person to ever awakened their mana under my instruction were only 2 or 3 days early, but she awakened her mana almost a week early, that's insane– Not to mention she's still 4 years old!—
'Not only that, she seems to be able to imagine an image quite flawlessly in her mind, she haven't struggled yet with the instruction i've told her, in the past, many students of mine struggled to imagine the smoke entering the tube, not only they have to imagine the smoke blue, but they also need to imagine it moving inside the tube and into their body at the same time without breaking focus as the mana enters their body, will this girl fail or will she succeed? After everything that had happened, i doubt the outcomes would be the former.'
Syla played with her imagination for a few moments, she moved the smoke inside the tube and shrinked the tube smaller, condensing the smoke and cloning it, producing multiple tubes filled with blue smokes that are being sucked into the tiny tubes, she then added a projection of her body in her mind, and began connecting all of the tubes into her, making the smokes flow inside.
As she do so, on the outside world, Mr. Hensen and her mother saw a thick blue fog slowly forming near Syla, unlike the almost invisible fog that Mr. Hensen previously demonstrated, this fog of mana seems to be getting thicker and more blue.
Mr. Hensen's jaw dropped slightly, and he looked at Syla's mother to see if she expected this to happen, only to be met with the same dumbfounded expression.
'This is not normal! That fog of mana is way too thick and condensed! At this rate, she'll absorb way too many in such short amount of time and possibly break her mana veins!' Mr. Hensen thought as he immediately shouted at Syla to stop.
"SYLA! STOP IT! THAT'S ENOUGH!"
"What's happening!?" Syla's mother was confused by the situation, but looking at how Mr. Hensen was worried and told Syla to stop, she assumed her daughter was in danger. "Syla! you can open your eyes now!"
Despite the multiple warnings and shouts that was thrown at her, Syla kept focusing, her body felt like being hit by an ocean wave, a cold sensation overwhelmed all of her senses, the tiny tubes in her mind kept sucking the smokes around it like a vacuum.
'Not enough.. There's still more mana, i'll increase the tube suction and imagine more mana forming around me– Ugh..'
Despite the uncomfortable feeling at every inch of her body, Syla managed to hold it in and opened her eyes when she thought she couldn't handle it any more.
"GAHH!!" She screamed, gasping for air and watched as her vision turned blurry instantly, Syla fell unconscious and was about to hit the ground when Mr. Hensen catches her.
"SYLA!" Her mother also screamed upon seeing her daughter fall, Mr. Hensen quickly gave Syla to her and she held Syla in her arms in a panic.
"What happened to her!?" She asked to Mr. Hensen.
"I- Im not sure, that was– Surely mana, she succeeded in absorbing the mana, but it's way thicker than normal.. Just what is going on in her mind for it to produce something like that?" Mr. Hensen said, his emotion was mixed between confusion, admiration, and worries.
'I've never seen a mana so thick that it almost looks violent.. That blue color was made out of condensed mana, but that shouldn't happen– unless she was imagining the mana condensing before absorbing it– Even then, that was still insane, even i doubted if i could do that without losing focus, she did it for more than 10 seconds, the feeling of mana entering your body isn't something so simple that you could keep your focus all the time—
'If other people were to know this, she would undeniably be the center of attention immediately, many people would want to raise her and use her for their own benefits, her talent is borderline terrifying.' Hensen thought to himself, completely unsure as to what to do next.
"Let's go back, we need to treat her and keep her safe." He said to Syla's mother.
Yulia agreed and they both began walking back to the village, being extra careful with whatever they might encounter and if there's anyone watching them or not.
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3:00PM—
Inside of Syla's house, she opened her eyes to a bowl of water staring at her ontop of the desk. She woke up on her bed and noticed that she was back home.
'What happened?' She said to herself, before remembering what she did in the morning.
'Oh, right– I was trying to absorb mana.'
Just then, a loud bang was heard near Syla, the door infront of her was opened and her mother came running towards her.
"SYLA!? YOU OKAY!?" She shouted, her ears was visible twitching, she must've heard her daughter waking up from the living room and instantly went to check.
"Mom.." Syla said.
A few seconds after her mother went inside, Syla saw Mr. Hensen also coming from the living room, his face had a sense of relief in it and he approached Syla, asking her condition.
"How's your body?" He said.
"— It's fine." Syla answered, she rotated her arms to see if there's any discomfort, but she felt nothing and was able to move them without trouble.
"Haahh, im glad you're okay." Her mother let out a deep sigh, as if something heavy from her chest was lifted out of her body.