Chapter 45: Why don’t you smile
Aric learned a lot over time, and the new runic circle he had learned was sharp. This runic circle, when applied, could sharpen a blunt object. For example, a stick could be sharpened. It depended on the mana one used and how many times one could use magic to sharpen one object.
Unlike last time, Aric didn’t find it that difficult to draw his second runic circle. He finished on a weekend night itself, and just like last time, the drawing had vanished. Another important thing that surprised him was the fact that he didn’t feel his consciousness was full. He felt he would be able to draw another one before he turned 15.
He had a theory about the disappearance act of the drawing. According to Aric, the drawings would transfer to the two shining bulbs that allowed him to teleport. He was pretty sure of the theory since the runic circles didn’t have another location to hide or run away. Those were the only two places, and since they were keys to another world, the bulbs could have a huge space where he could store multiple runic circles.
More than someone of his age would be able to keep. Aric didn’t add more as there were no good ones to add, and if his theory was wrong and his consciousness became full after one useless runic circle, that would be hitting the hammer on his own foot.
Until he found a suitable one, there was no reason to draw another one. The other reason why he didn’t draw another one was that the amount of mana was limited. At the moment, in a single day, he could only use the sharpen runic circle on a lean stick three times. That was the maximum he could. He tried it on a metal stick, and he was only able to do it once.
This made him understand that the amount of mana he had was limited. Before the age of 15, one couldn’t grow their quantity of mana. According to Gopher, before the age of 15, one could only grow their amount of mana by a very small quantity, and that was regular practice of magic. So that was what he did.
He used to sharpen the fence every day to practice magic. At first, the use of his sharpen runic circle was blunt and felt he didn’t have much control. In these two months, he could sharpen a blunt wooden stick in just two tries. Aric was practicing as much as he could.
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"So, your class teacher called," Avni said after she disconnected the call as Aric was busy eating an apple.
"And?" Aric asked.
"You scored perfectly in all subjects. You got 99%. He said that he had never seen such answer scripts in his whole career in the school," Avni said, her face twinkling with joy as she said that. At the moment, she was way too proud of her son. Aric had just finished the final exams of class 8 and would enter class 9 in the next year.