4: Mana
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"ALL RIGHT LADS!" Cromwell stood in front of the whole squad of young men, the future knights.
"Today! The Annual Knight Hunting will begin!" He spoke as he took out a parchment of paper and opened it,
"As per tradition the Third King enacted, to strengthen the future Knights of Camelot, you Squires will be hunting in the forest, you will be given weapon and armor..." He continued to read what was in the parchment
"Ah, I'm getting sleepy..." Lance's eyelids were falling,
"Hey, wake up!"Kit held his shoulder and shook him,
"Eh?! Oh sorry, I almost fell asleep..." He said but his eyelids were falling again.
"Lance! Captain is looking at you!" Kit whispered to him, his eyes shone up and his posture changed, his sluggish posture became stiff as he's preventing his eyes from falling.
"That's a joke." I said and grinned, "You wouldn't wake up so I did that." Kit continued as he laughed quietly.
"I'll get you for this you!" He punched Kit's right shoulder.
"The Hunt will begin in 2 days! We will have our training for today and tomorrow! Don't think of slacking!" Cromwell asserted his dominance as he pressured the whole squad.
"""Y-YES SIR!""" Everyone answered as they were pressured.
Lance's drowsiness was gone and all he has is his heart beating fast.
"L-let's get to training then" I said
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"Hah!" Kit was sparring with Lance with wooden swords.
"Heya!!!" They were swinging their swords relentlessly, from left to right Kit swung and Lance only blocked it, but Kit can't block properly, he strikes Kit completely and blows him away.
"Argh!" This time he hit Kit's stomach hard, he was coughing hard and holding his stomach
"H-Hey are you alright?!" Lance assisted him as he was struggling to get up, Lance held his arm to pull him up.
"Y-Yeah, this leather armor is a fake!" Kit said as he laugh, actually with Lance's power even with a leather armor he can hurt Kit with just using a wooden sword.
"Again!" Kit insisted as he picked his wooden sword and swung it.
After a while they got exhausted, fell down on the training grounds.
"Hey, do you know about Mana?" Lance asked while sitting
"Mana? Yeah, It's the inner power of a human being everyone has it but unfortunately other people doesn't. Having Mana means that you can use Magic and Sword skills and other stuff, right?" Kit explained
"Yeah, nobles are pure blood, they have a tendency to have a denser mana output. Just like my father." He said as he was opening and closing his hands, then his hands got brighter and red colored light appeared.
"Red?!" Kit was surprised, Red represent flames, fire that burns ever so bright.
"S-So you can use fire magic?!" Kit asked excitingly, he sat down facing him.
"Not exactly, because our house only uses swords, none of us can use magic." He said as the red light faded.
"You can learn Sword Skills with those." I said as I laid down again, "You know, I don't have any Mana, I was tested with the magic crystal that measures mana, what came out was a nothing but a speck of white mana." Kit said
White mana means you are useless, having white mana is like having no mana.
It cannot be used in any element or whatsoever.
They say that white mana is at least 1 of every 1,000,000,000 people.
So that means this generation, Kit is the only one who have a white mana.
People started looking down on Kit and laughing behind his back, even his friends were embarrassed having Kit as their friend.
"Wait! So you're a white mana user?!" Lance was surprised
"Yeah, that's why I'm training, even though I'm weak I can still achieve my grandfathers dream." Kit said
"You're a strong guy you know? The resolve you have, even though people look down on you. you still stood up on your two feet and walked pass those who detest you." Lance said, he really did admire Kit's resolve.
"That's what my grandfather thought me, he said 'Even though people hate you or laughs at you, you should learn to stand up and proudly move forward', he's my only family that ever believed in me." Kit said as he stared at the sky, he remembered his grandfathers words carefully and thanked him in his heart.
"Enough of that! Let's train while the sun is look at us!" Lance said as he stood up and picked up his wooden sword.
Thus the two sparred until dawn.
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It was nighttime, Kit was walking down the route towards his home.
The streetlights dyed the surrounding with light, as stalls are still open.
People are still walking on the street at night.
Kit was headed towards the plaza to buy some dinner.
He made his way through the general store.
There he was greeted by the man in his 50's.
Having a full beard and a clean haircut.
He's the store owner, Roger
"Heya, Kit! Came here to buy stuff?" Roger greeted him at the doorstep of the store
The store was a medium sized building with shelves of goods.
"Good evening Uncle Roger." Kit greeted him back
"Kid, you're mess, did 'ya train harder again? I'm warning 'ya, if you die your old man will take me to the afterlife!" Said Roger
Roger was a good friend of Kit's grandfather as they grew up together in the same place, while Kit's grandfather pursued the knight duties, Roger made enough money to build his own shop.
Kit laughed at Roger as he was browsing through the shelves.
"Find anything 'ya like?" Roger asked as he's tending the counter
"How much for the carrots?" Kit asked
"Oh, that came late so It's still fresh, 3 copper per 5 pieces lad." Roger said,
"Great." Kit said as he took 5 carrots, 5 potatoes and milk.
Kit made his way on the counter
"That'll be 28 copper lad."
Kit paid the items he bought and left the store and made his way home.
It was a little house, left by his grandfather
It's still in a good condition though
As he made his way inside and lit up the oil lamp to have some light.
Since he can't use light related magic, he can only use oil lamps.
He cooked up the potato soup and then slept the night in.
In 2 days, the Hunt will begin, as Kit was nervous of what would happen, he didn't slept that long.
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