Chapter 2: It's Magic

  HidingInTheNovels

  Waking up, I slowly open my eyes, as my mind organises itself before thinking back to what happened. Remembering it, I write it off as a dream. After all, I acted really strangely back then. Who the fuck would not be scared in that situation? I mean, yeah, my adrenaline was high and my excitement too, but still. It just seems impossible to be that accepting of that situation! Only a lunatic would react like that!

  With the blurry eyes that I presume to come from just waking up, I turn in the direction of my clock, hoping that if I squint, I might just be capable of discerning the time. My efforts remain unrewarded, however, as no matter how much I squint, I just can’t seem to find it.

  Pulling up my hand to rub my eye, I’m taken aback once again, as the hand which usually reaches my eye easily just barely reaches it. Then I notice that my hand seems to have become much thicker.

  My mind fshes back to the conversation with the goddess. “No fucking way!” However, no matter how much I try to deny it, all the circumstantial evidence points toward it.

  “Then I’m really a lunatic?!”

  Then, as if to hammer the final nail into the coffin, I hear a voice:

  “Then let’s name her Luna! She’ll be Luna Tic!”

  “Oh shit!”

  With that, I pass out again.

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  So yeah. I’ve reincarnated into a girl. I, a man, turned into a girl! I didn’t ask for a transgender experience!

  Well, it’s the truth that I always wanted to experience a girl’s body, but that was one of my most closely guarded secrets! Did those goddesses watch me day and night?! That’s it. I’m calling them stalkers! I mean, I can understand that they wanted the best for me and therefore chose everything to my deepest desires; however, I feel watched now!

  Also, what kind of name is Luna Tic?! What kind of lunatic names their daughter Luna when their surname is Tic? Nay, which stupid king would give a noble family the surname Tic? Oh, now that I think about it, everyone in this world has a surname, so I guess it wasn’t a king.

  Still, somewhere the family name must have come from. So did the guy py Tic Tac Toe and just decide to name three families after that? So many mysteries.

  Anyway, soon, I’ll finally turn five. Why am I excited about that, you ask? Well, according to the game’s lore, when you turn five, you get infused with Mana by the world. And my father told me I would finally be allowed to train in swordsmanship with a wooden sword when I turn five.

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  Finally! This night I’m unable to sleep. According to my parents, I was born at 2 AM, so I was born pretty te into the night. This means that the Mana infusion will also happen then.

  As I think about the various things I want to do with magic, I notice it’s almost 2 AM. Concentrating, I await the Mana infusion with bated breath. However, time seems to crawl. After what feels like an hour, I finally feel something.

  A mysterious feeling of warmth slowly crawls into my body from all sides. However, I notice more warmth in pces where more skin is shown. Reacting immediately, I hop into my birthday suit and bance myself on my toe. As I do so, I notice another peculiarity: the more I move, the more Mana seems to be infused. And so I do a workout, pushing myself to the limit with push-ups, sit-ups, pnks, and any fitness exercise I can think of. After half an hour, the infusion stops; however, I continue for another five minutes just to be sure.

  Seriously, why didn't I know those facts? Well, considering PH's lore, seems like it is another secret those stupid nobles kept from the commoners.

  After it is all done, I try to feel the Mana in my body. It is everywhere. I then guide the Mana to my stomach area. I do that by simply wanting it. That’s how magic works, and that’s how you control Mana in your body.

  Slowly, a core is formed in my stomach. Normal people don’t know this, but magic is way more efficient when you have formed a core. To understand why, we must first understand what Magic Power is. Magic Power is the energy that is stored in Mana. If Mana is the gss, then Magic Power is the water. It is the thing that is actually used up when you use magic. It is also restored automatically.

  Now, the difference should be more obvious. Somebody without a core needs to pick up the Magic Power from each Mana particle separately. Somebody with a core can just channel it together.

  Generally, stronger mages have all formed a core. However, the crucial growth period is at the start. People have a very different growth speed, depending on whether a core was formed or not. Therefore, the earlier you form a core, the further you'll be capable of going. This is another secret that those stupid nobles keep to maintain their superiority.

  It is something Bob himself only learns by chance when the Mana in his body automatically shows tendencies to converge in his stomach, and he then follows these tendencies. The tendencies themselves are formed through the wish to defeat the demon lord from the general popuce and are therefore only present in Bob.

  Soon, all the Mana has gathered in my stomach, and I finally compress it to form a core. Not being able to hold my excitement, I decide to cast my first magic. It is simple Body Strengthening Magic.

  I desperately wish to become stronger while tracing a human body in the air. Slowly, I feel empowered. Then, looking for a way to test my new strength, I move toward the bed and try to move it with all my might. I find it to be way easier than before. In fact, before I couldn’t do it at all, and now I was moving it with an approximate speed of half a meter per second.

  It was like the difference between heaven and earth! Well, not that exaggerated, but clearly powerful. Greetings to the Chinese cultivators, by the way.

  Not being capable of sleeping because of the excitement, I continue to try more and more magic that I know. Casting magic is generally simple. You just need to wish for something to happen, and if your wish and your image of the wish are strong enough, then, provided your Magic Power is enough, you’ll be able to do anything.

  The movements which are done through the hand help to more easily imagine what you want to do, and aren’t needed. The only reason it was used until the end of the game was that pyers needed some way of deciding what type of magic to use. Lore-wise, advanced mages don’t do this.

  Soon, I feel mental exhaustion. It really is exhausting to be so excited for so long. Therefore, before I can help it, I plop onto the bed with an excited grin.

  The next morning, I’m woken up by a shout from my mom:

  “What the hell happened here?!”

  Looking around at the mispced bed, the clothes strewn about from Telekinesis Magic, the slightly burnt walls from Fire Magic, and the soaked pnts from Water Magic, I know I’m in some deep shit.

  And so I do what any sensible human would do in this situation:

  Nigerundayooooo!