Chapter 3
In Mahodollas, not everyone can become a magician it depends on their inborn physical attributes. These attributes will allow the child to communicate with the elements around them. To become a warrior you don't have to have the attributes.
Only one in a hundred new born babies will be able to become a magician in the future and this is why magicians are usually more highly respected than warriors.
To train to become a magician is also very costly because it is hard to level up so the magicians will often uses magic stone of their own elements to absorb it and while meditating to enhance the speed of training. Meditation is the only way for magician to train and it is slow so together with the magic stone it increases the efficiency. It allows the magcian to increase their magic capacity and when their magic capacity reaches a certain level then they will be able to level up. Once they level up the magic elements stored in their body will become little but with higher quality. Meditation is also the only way to absorb the elements and store them inside the body for future use, so most of the time magicians are meditating and therefore causes them to have weak body. This is why usually when magicians are going on a quest or trip they will team up with some warriors to protect them because they need time to cast spells.
Magic stone is only attainable through killing mystical beasts. In Mahodollas, there are normal beasts like what we have in our world such as bear, rabbit, tiger, etc. and mystical beasts which is beasts that can cast spells such as fire bear, wind rabbit, thunder tiger, etc. these mystical beasts are harder to kill and are divided into 10 levels. Mystical beasts are dangerous because when they cast spell they can cast it instantly different from magicians and this is why even if a level 4 magician fight with a level 4 mystical beast there is a higher chance for the mystical beast to win. Another thing is that only beasts that are at least level 5 have magic stones, the higher the level the better quality the stone is. Mystical beasts that is level 6 have intelligence and level 8 and up can speak human language while level 10 can turn into human form and are very strong as they are also known as the Godly Beasts.
There is another reason why magicians are viewed as more valuable than warriors and it is the range of their attacks. Warriors' skills are often one-to-one only and rarely one-to-two, only small range but magicians they have skills that can be cast a very big range which is really useful especially when there are wars.
Magic skills are divided into 10 levels and forbidden skills. Apprentice can cast level 1 and 2 skills, next can cast level 3 and 4, next can cast level 5 and 6, then level 7 and 8, and lastly Sage can cast level 9 and 10 skills.
Although in the historic record has records of level 11+ skills but there has been no one who is able to cast it. It is also said that only those who have reached the Godly level can cast it.
Forbidden skills has the effect like a level 11 skill but there is a very big and negative drawback after casting it which is why there are rarely anyone who will dare to risk their lives and cast it. Only those who are at the level of Sage can cast it and might still live but loses maybe all of their magic.
As magicians have magic skills, warriors also have melee skills which is also divided into 10 levels. Apprentice can only execute level 1 and 2 skills and so on.
Another thing about this world is that, "Power is Everything!". If you reached the level of Sage or Warrior then even the King of the country has to respect you which is why in Mahodollas everyone seeks for strong power.
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Three months have already passed since little Minami casted his first magic spell "The Small Thunder Bolt". Minami is now a top apprentice and with a little more effort he will be able to promote to low wizard.
In the three months little Minami found out that even if when he is not meditating, the magic elements from the surrounding will still flow inside his body constantly but slower than when he is meditating. This fact truly surprises him and felt happy about it because it will mean that he will be able to train faster since it is like he is ‘meditating’ all day long although slower and he can some of the time he used to use for meditating for other things. So from before meditating 8 hours+ a day he reduced it to about 4 hours a day and for the free time he uses it to train his body because it is his habit from his past life to train his body and the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū. Now he still can’t train the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū since he is still small and not physically grown yet so he is making his body to be prepared for the future training now. This is the reason why later in the future when magicians Minami’s age look thin and fragile, Minami is tall and physically well-built.
At the back forest of the Takahashi Residence there is a very strong barrier covering the whole forest because there are strong mystical beasts inside and to prevent them from harming the people, only the Takahashi’s can go in and out of it. Inside this forest there are also many rare natural resources so from time to time, the adventure team of the Takahashi’s will be allowed to go and gather resources from the forest and store them inside the storage but most of the time no one will go inside the forest. The adventure team mostly only gather resources around the outskirt of the forest because the deeper you go in the forest the stronger the mystical beasts are, that may not be a problem but the problem is that many of the beasts live in groups so it will take a lot of time to take them out.
In the outskirt of the forest, you can see a small figure casting many spells on the target far away.
“Oh Thunder, the strongest elements among all, you represents the symbol of destruction. I plead thee to come to my command! Small Thunder Dragon!”
Thunder elements starts to gather quickly in the hands of the little figure and when fully charged a thunder dragon is emitted and “BOOM” hits the target, leaving it completely destroyed.
“As expected from the element that has the strongest attack, what a great power. But it still takes some time for me to use this skill, I have to practice more.” Says little Minami to himself.
Yes, the little figure at the forest is our little Minami. Minami chose to train at the outskirt of the forest because he didn’t want to expose to other people that he can communicate with all seven elements. If this is leaked to the public then Minami himself could be in great danger.
There has never been anyone in Mahodollas that has ever able to communicate with more than two elements. To be able to communicate with two is already very rare. Those who are afraid of Minami’s future potential will definitely send assassins to kill Minami when he is still young and weak. Therefore, Minami chose to keep it a secret until he is strong enough to protect himself. It is not that he doesn’t trust the soldiers of the Takahashis but there are no secrets that will last forever so Minami has to be careful since he can’t bet his life on this.
Let’s explain the attributes of each element in Mahodollas for the readers.
Thunder, has the strongest attack among all elements and also paralyzes the enemy.
Water, has the second strongest defense and healing ability among all elements and also when reaches a certain level can be converted into ice magic.
Fire, the second strongest attack among all elements and has the widest range of attack.
Wind, the fastest among all elements as the chanting words are very short compare to all elements.
Earth, has the strongest defense among all elements.
Light, has the strongest healing ability among all elements and can remove curse.
Dark, like fire is also the second strongest attack among all elements and also causes the enemy’s body to rot and can curse the enemy.
Although Minami can learn all spells of all seven elements, Minami decide to only focus on two then when he reaches a certain level then starts to learn the rest. Minami made this choice because he knows that it would be stupid to learn all now and be good at none. It is not easy to learn any spells, if you think that as long as you know the incantation of the spell then you will be able to cast it then you are wrong! Even if you know the incantation there is still a very high chance that it will fail if you don’t practice!
Think about this, if Minami learns all kinds of elements spell and all is level 2 spells only then Minami would still loses to someone who only know one kind of element but can cast level 3 spells! Minami believes that Quality>Quantity is always the right thing.
So, Minami chose to focus on Thunder as main and Wind as supporting. Thunder for great damage and wind for speed.
Minami also believes that speed is one of the most important things in a battle because if you are very fast then you can just kill your enemy within few seconds and the enemy might not even finish chanting their skills yet! Therefore, Minami put efforts in increasing his speed through trainings too, not only on wind magic.
At the moment Minami knows 5 kinds of spells now; 3 Thunder and 2 Wind skills.
Thunder Spells:Small Thunder Bolt Lvl 1 (active)
Dmg+2
Small Paralysis Lvl 1 (active)
Dmg(–)none
Only causes the enemy to paralyze for 1-2 secs.
Small Thunder Dragon Lvl 2 (active)
Dmg+5
Shocks the enemy a bit.
Wind Spells:Small Wind Razor Lvl 1 (active)
Dmg+2
Shadow Steps Lvl 2 (passive)
Dmg(–)none Speed+3
Increases the speed of the caster.
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“Phew, I guess that’s it for today since I’m already out of my magic power and it’s already 6p.m. which is time for dinner~~ If I remember correctly today’s menu is Katsudon~~~~~ I can’t wait to eat it~” says little Minami as he skips(?) weirdly to the dining room.
Dining Room
“Yea~ Yappari it is katsudon~~”
“Go wash your hands first” says Taka mom gently.
“Hai~~”
After washing hands, Minami immediately jump on his chair and says “Itadakimasu!” and digs in the katsudon.
“How is your training going on?” asks Taka mom.
“Everything is going perfectly well!”
“Hmph!” Shingo (Taka dad) is still not happy that Minami doesn’t want to go for the path of warrior.
“Shingo..” says Shizu (Taka mom) gently while pinching Shingo’s arm.
“Ah!”
‘Hehehe, I always knew that dad is afraid of mom~
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“Shingo, I thought you had something to announce”
“Ah, yes I almost forgot about it. Tomorrow Atsushi and Hanako are coming with their daughter, Atsuko”
“That’s wonderful! It’s been a long time since I last see them.” Says Shizu happily.
“Who are they?”
“They are our friends and also the king and queen of Maeda Kingdom. In the old days we went to the same academy, the Twin Moon Gakuen. We went on adventures together; it was really nostalgic those days.”
“They’ll be staying with us for a week so you better behave!” commands Shingo who earns another ‘gentle’ pinch from Taka mom.
“Got it~~~” replies Minami while eating katsudon.
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