Chapter 4: The Day the Mage was Born
I turned three. The magic I could use increased day by day and I’m proud to say that I’m getting pretty good at it. This might be one of the advantages of being reincarnated.
I couldn’t move my arms and legs well since I was a baby, so I moved them every day, and the feeling of grabbing something closely resembled the feeling of using magic and manipulating it to do as you wish.
Thanks to that, I became able to use new magic. There were two magic spells among those that I wanted to focus on and practice.
The first was directly controlling the mana in the air and moving items with it. ‘Psychokinesis!’ flashed through my mind. Having said that, I could only move a leaf or a pebble.
But I realised that making ice with magic and hardening dirt was an overwhelming simple thing. I can manipulate objects of a certain weight and size.
I don’t have any use for this magic right now, but I might be able to use it like funnel [1]this is a gundam reference…but I’ve never seen it, so I have no idea what the author is talking about UwU one day.
The second magic manipulated heat. I wanted to use a freezing spell, so I was experimenting with it and now I can use magic that manipulated heat instead. All I had to do was simply imagine ‘freezing’ to use freezing magic, but strangely, I couldn’t use it without imagining ‘where the heat goes’ because of my knowledge of the concept of ‘heat energy’. Through that process, I was able to manipulate ‘heat’ itself to some extent.
Heat magic is quite useful and allows me to regulate my body temperature with ease. I was thrilled to be able to do this with a baby’s body.
Most importantly… I discovered that it was rather simple to change mana into ‘heat’ and that my conversion efficiency is good. Rather than creating flames, converting mana into just ‘heat energy’ can create more energy with less magic.