I have been in this village for about 6 weeks so far and it took me a while to get used to being here because this place isn’t like earth. Literally. People use magic for daily tasks like cooking, doing laundry, etc. But apparently these skills are basic and 'less than average'.
I was super surprised by this since this would have been so useful in the other world.
Like I could have cooked way faster, finished all my chores quickly, helped my mom and brother, and I could have had quality time to myself, which I never had. Bruh, whoever sent me here, why couldn’t you make earth like this? I swear a lot of problems would have been solved because of this.
Never mind, whoever's made this world thank you for not making our world with magic. I mean Earth would have been completely destroyed already knowing how greedy humans over there are.
This world is actually advanced with their technology but it is a bit more different than Earth. For example, they don't have any phones here but they do have different types of communication stones. They also don't have cars here. But they do have carriages that are very comfortable and teleportation circles that a lot of people take to go to places far away.
The only reason why it is a bit more on the historical side is because the culture of the people hasn't changed at all. This place is basically England in the 1850's. Though the poor here hace better lifestyles
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During my stay here I’ve met different kinds of people. Caroline introduced me to her family. She has a husband named Mark. She also has 3 children, 2 boys and 1 girl. The oldest is named Caleb and he is 26. The middle child is Carter and he is 23. Then, the youngest is named Cara and she is my age, 19. They are all very nice people.
The siblings have a very funny relationship. Caleb is always bickering with Carter, and Cara always fans the flames. It is very fun being around them.
Cara and Caroline have helped me throughout my pregnancy. Right now I am 34 weeks away and Eijaz will be born in about 3 weeks. Although I get quite scared sometimes thinking about having to give birth because when one of my coworkers was pregnant, she had a lot of complications and she said that it hurt so much she could die.
I don't want to go through all that. When my mom had me she told me the same thing. So obviously I am going to be worried about giving birth.
Not only that, mom also told me that around this time of pregnancy the baby won't let you sleep because they are always kicking and that your feet and back will hurt a lot.
But, Eijaz turned out to be very calm; he only kicked when he was hungry, excited, or angry. I already love him with all my heart. I have always dreamed of having babies. Being able to see them opening their eyes, their first laugh, their first words, their first steps, scolding them for running around the supermarket, seeing them off for school, comforting them on their first heartbreak, their graduation, and most importantly seeing them happy.
Whenever Eijaz is born I will get to do all things with him. Well maybe not all of them since I'm not on earth anymore, but seeing him smile will be enough for me.
I have already prepared a room for him in our new house. It is very small with only 2 rooms, a kitchen, 1.5 bathrooms, a living room, and a large patio. I bought the house for 1 gold bar. It was a very good price since it was 1,124 sq feet. It was super cheap because it was close to the forest. But I have enough ice magic to defend the baby and me.
I have already tried out my magic when I had time and it felt amazing!!
In the book it said for people to use magic they must have mana. It is basically energy that surrounds us and is infinite. In order to use magic people have to gather enough mana in their mana pool, then make it flow through the mana artery. This artery allows mana to flow throughout the whole body.
There are 5 types of arteries. The original artery, hybrid artery, legendary artery, lost artery, and unknown artery.
The original artery can only let the original class elements flow through it, the hybrid artery can only let the hybrid class elements flow through it, the lost artery can only let the lost elements flow through it, and the unknown artery can only let the unknown elements go through it.
The Original Elements: Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth.
The Hybrid Elements: Electricity, Ice, Sound, and Metal.
The Lost Elements: Light and Darkness
The Unknown Elements: Creation and Void.
Each artery can only have 1 element. For example I have the hybrid artery which means I can use only one of the hybrid elements, which is ice.
Everybody is born with only 1 artery. But, there have been cases where people are born with more than one mana artery. This means that they are able to practice more than one element. But this type of person only comes every 1,000 years.
Anyways, once a person has filled their mana pool and is able to let mana flow through their artery, they will be able to feel changes. But they still won't be able to physically use magic. The reason is because they will only have internal changes.
Since the human body still hasn't adjusted to having mana, there will be changes that will happen inside the body first.
The changes usually vary depending on what type the person's mana artery is and on what element they have. The changes can make a person's physical appearance to change too.
Once a person's body adjusts to the mana, that is when they'll be able to use their element and learn skills.
To activate a skill, normal/average people use chants. But, those with a high affinity usually only use a couple words or none at all.
When I first tested out my skills, I used words like ‘ice ball’ and ‘ice spear’. It didn’t work immediately, but I kept trying.
Once I started concentrating more of my mana flow on my hand, I used an ‘ice ball’, and an ice ball came out from my hand which hit a tree. It only caused the bark to come off but as I continued the effects got bigger. By the end I could make a hole through a tree.
I knew I wasn’t OP or anything since these were the achievements of Evolet and not me. But, I was still super happy when I was able to do this.
Evolet's original body had an average affinity and a high MP. Her affinity was 32 and her MP was 700,100.
Affinity is the quality of a person's mana and MP (mana power) is the quantity of mana. This means that Evolets mana was of average quality but she had a lot of it. So she is able to use her element for a long time.
In the Wels family, Cara has the water element, Caleb has earth, Carter has wind, Caroline has water, and Mark has earth. They all have a low affinity around 2-5. So, all they can do with their elements are small tasks like chores. But, unlike their affinity, their mana pool is average in the range of 10,000-25,000. This lets them use their elements for more time without exhausting it.
They have helped me a lot in learning the basics, especially Caleb since he has the highest affinity and mana pool. Now I am able to use spells of a higher grade because of the previous Evolet. Though I try not to use much since it might hurt the baby.
It is honestly quite hard to keep up with the baby sometimes. In the book, he had a super high affinity and mana pool. So, when he was in Evolet's womb, he constantly drained her mana in order to grow his own. Even though he doesn’t do it on purpose, he really makes me tired sometimes when he exhausts almost all my mana.
But so far nothing out of the ordinary (in this world’s standards) has happened with my pregnancy. I still went to the local hospital to get a check up and the doctor just told me to eat a variety of foods and to expect the baby to come about a week earlier since he is growing fast. Right now I am 31 weeks pregnant, so I would have the baby in the next 3 weeks or so.
I still feel quite scared of the pain because of the stories I've heard from Ma. But hopefully, it isn’t as painful with this body or I swear I will squeeze the life out of anyone who is around me at that moment.
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3 weeks later
“AHHHHHH!”
“Just a little more keep pushing”, the nurse tells me.
“SHUT UHHHHHHH” I scream in annoyance.
“Just one more darling, you're almost there” says Caroline.
“ARGHHHHHHH” I yell while squeezing the life out of the blankets under me.
“WAhhhhhhh”
As soon as I feel the child come out of me, I sigh in relief as my body slumps. Why is it so hard to push a child out!!!
“WAHHHHH”
I turn to the baby that was in the nurse's arm and she turns to look at me and says, “It’s a boy.”
I stretched out my arms as the nurse gave him to me, and as soon as I grabbed him his wailing fell silent.
He was so tiny. Honestly he looked quite ugly. But he still looked adorable.
I feel my vision blur of tears as I look at him. He had his eyes closed but was fully aware of who I was.
“Hello”, I say to the baby as I carefully caress his face with my hand.
As soon as he heard my voice he opened his eyes forcefully and I saw the biggest grey/purple orbs I have ever seen. When he sees my face he starts to reach out to me. So I take my finger and place it on his hand as he clenches it.
I start to feel pain in my cheeks for how much I am smiling and say, “His name will be Eijaz Ethan Usoro.”