john pov:
before I could say something, exhaustion took over me and I went into sleep, I opened my eyes to see a unfamiliar celling, turn out I was in a hospital room, my sister was sleeping beside me looking like a total mess.
I waked up my sister since I was worried about my brother, when she opened her eyes, tears and relief filled them, she hugged me before I could say anything.
after she calmed down, I asked her, "sister how is big brother? what happened to our house?"
my sister replied in a tired voice "john, big brother is fine, just some light injures. the doctor told us you collapsed due to mana exhaustion, how are you feeling now?"
" i feel completely fine now sis, i think that ice magic must be cursed, where is mom and dad through. I thought they be here too?"
"They are in the house, instructing the workers who are repairing our house. they couldn't delay the repair anymore; you were asleep for two days now dummy"
" no wonder i feel so hungry, more importantly were there any casualties in the dungeon break sister?"
"No, it was only a f class dungeon and the guy you faced was the boss so naturally after you defeated him the dungeon closed and monster stopped coming, there were some nearby hunters too"
than my sister said in a neutral tone" the visiting time is almost over so I will get going now, we will ask the doctor if you can get discharged tomorrow and i will tell the nurse to bring you something to eat"
"Ok bye sis, tell mom, dad to not worry about me"
after my sister left the room now, I could finally pay attention to a more pressing matter, after waking up I saw these weird disgusting blue dots in the air, I thought I was still recovering from sleep but now these dots seem to be dancing around me, had I finally gone mad or something?
i could only think of two possibilities', either I had truly gone mad or what i was seeing was ice attribute mana... i don't waana admit it but i could feel the disgusting coldness coming from them so i tried moving these particales away from me and it worked and they seem to pass through the objects.
I guess I couldn't use them directly to attack someone, what a heartbreaking waste...
so, it seems like the only thing left to do is try absorbing them into my magic circle... thats just sounds disgusting but i waana meet jack and alex again.
I had to think about it, it seems like I have enough talent in ice magic, but I wasn't a fan of it. on the other hand thinking about how i could save other people lives and get out of that school... it was tempting, our country is in need of mages anyway,
i just had to suprass my disgust for....these disgusting magic. well i could try.
but even if i wanted to become a mage, it wouldn't be easy
now that i had been admitted into a normal school they was no way the magic school was goona take me in unless i suddenly became the son of a high class mage. thankfully anyone could become an official mage as long as they had 3 circles or above. than they just had to prove their identity and take a simple test. i could stay with jack and alex if we all became mages
now about the bigger problem, it seem like my mana pool is far too small that even using a single 1st circle ice arrow depleted it all, i guess this is why no one made a fuse when my first circle magic killed a boss monster, what's the use of having talent away if i was goona be unconscious after every single use.
to make things worse their was currently no way known to make a mana pool bigger. so the idea of absorbing these supposed ice mana particles to expand my mana pool and magic circle sounded crazy but i had a feeling that it was going to work so,
I closed my eyes and controlled the mana particles to enter my body, I felt a warm feeling raising from my heart and I started feeling a lot of pain coming from my magic circle which was around my heart.( i was going to stop immediately if i felt any coldness but just pain was ok)
it felt like my heart was going to explode as I tried to circulate the mana through the magic circle... after an hour or two of pure torture the pain finally faded away and before I had knew it I had made a second circle.
I couldn't digest the fact that I had just advanced to a second circle in a matter of mere two hours where most mages with "talent" took at least a year. i felt like laughing at those mages.
I could also feel that my mana pool had expanded by 10 times... and i couldn't help but get happy while ignoring the fact that that mana was all ice mana.
maybe I was getting ahead of myself, but I couldn't help but think about how great my future would be. i wouldn't have to be lonely anymore at least and people won't hate me for no reasons.
now i could use training as an excuse to avoid going to school and my big brother would probably agree.
now if I were to just continue absorbing these disgusting particles, i should be able to break into 3rd circle in three years at least.
( the mage examination did not have any "minimum age required" as it was normally not needed.)
as for what to do after i became i mage... i should probably join my brother's guild and if by luck i could breakthrough to a 5th circle than i could travel around the world while pretending to help with dungeons.
I had always wanted to travel around the world and maybe I can actually do that in the future as a mage... well its not like i will have to use ice magic unless i joined some guild.
i mean their is a concept of something like a free mage through something like a free mage probably didn't really exist at our world.
most people became mages because of power and money and it is known thoroughly that no mage could fight alone, they are weak in close combat afterall so they all join a guild sooner or later
but i won't use magic in the first place
so yeah i could be a free mage in name.