Training-Addicted Mage In A Progression Fantasy-Chapter 2: Commoners Talent?

It turned out she wasn’t alone.

“Leon! Are you playing that game called Cops and Robbers?”

He thought he had deceived everyone and left, but before he knew it, five children had gathered around Leon.

Cops and Robbers was a game he had suggested, thinking he would just play with the kids casually.The kids quite liked it.

They seemed to think it was the same this time.

Leon gave up on escaping.

“Caught me, haha.”

After mumbling that, he returned to the room.

The next evening, Ria called him out.

It was the usual time for their walk.

In fact, after Leon checked the Quest, he had postponed walks with Ria for various excuses.

It was because he had to read the Introduction Book during that time.

But this time, Ria, unlike herself, spoke quite strongly, so he followed her.

“Yesterday, you were really trying to leave here, weren’t you?”

Ria seemed to have figured it all out.

Leon nodded, thinking it would be okay to be honest with Ria, who was known for keeping secrets.Leon felt a bit guilty about deceiving and leaving these innocent children.

When she saw Leon nodding immediately, she hesitated for a moment, then carefully spoke.

“Were you trying to learn Magic...?”

Leon widened his eyes and couldn’t readily open his mouth at those words.

He was quite surprised.

Did she know everything?

“I knew you were always hiding and reading books.”“How...?”“I just found out.”

How could she just find out?

Leon thought he had hidden it well, but it seemed the children, who had become accustomed to group life, had noticed everything.

“Other kids don’t know how to read well, but I do. So I found out that the books you were reading were about Magic.”

The children learned reading from the headmaster in the morning.But there are very few who learn properly.They were still kids who loved playing the most.Leon could read as soon as he was transmigrated however.

Among those children, Ria seemed to have learned the most diligently.

Leon couldn’t help but nod.

“Yes, I want to become a Mage.”“Why?”

She didn’t ask how it was possible.Even though the headmaster had often told them how much of a dream it was for ordinary people to learn Magic and how difficult it was.The headmaster often told stories about Mages as ‘chosen ones’, like reading a fairy tale.

Leon realized that she was seriously considering his words and answered just as seriously.

“I will wander across the continent with these two feet and learn about the origins that make up this world.”

There was sincerity in Leon’s eyes.It was unusual to talk about origins to a child.

“This world is made up of Mana. A Mage is someone who can recreate the dreams they had on the palm of their hand using that Mana.”

To Leon, who lived in the modern world, Magic was a mystery itself.

“Don’t you think the process of awakening Mana and slowly approaching the source of the mystery itself would be very fun...?”

Was he too sincere?Leon eventually trailed off at the end.

When Leon was watching her, thinking he had explained too grandly to a child.She nodded blankly.

“Cool...”“...Huh?”“I’ll support you.”

Ria had a somehow impressed expression.

Did she really understand?

Or maybe the word Magic just touched the child’s emotions.

After that, with Ria’s help, he could have much easier study time.

A day later, Leon completed his first Quest.

The first part of the Introduction Book explained the process of realizing Mana.

The foundation for realizing Mana was to feel Mana as a part of life.

After the vague explanation, the method to achieve it was also written.

In short, he had to meditate.

By accepting Mana into the body through breathing and concentrating on feeling this process, one would naturally start feeling it.

Leon had not yet tried the Breathing Technique explained in the Introduction Book.Because the Quest required ‘Introduction Book Study’.

[Progression Assistant]• General Quest▶ Study Basic Mana Introduction Book (Completed)Leon pressed the completion button without hesitation.

[Progression Assistant]▶ -------------------The Quest content was deleted, and suddenly the content written next to the arrow started spinning.

Like spinning a slot machine.

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The reward was a gacha?

As Leon stared blankly, the spinning Quest window gradually slowed down and a new content was fixed.

[Progression Assistant]▶ You have acquired a Single Attribute Body (Water) ▶Apply ▶CancelLeon felt a bit disappointed.

He didn’t think it would be a way to choose the desired constitution.

He didn’t know it would be like spinning a gacha...

The Quest content that required continuous training and the reward system that seemed to induce dopamine addiction didn’t match well.

But Leon pulled himself together.

He didn’t want to hope for luck.

The protagonist’s quality for steady growth was immovable determination.

The reward was just an additional element, he didn’t intend to be obsessed with it.

Leon canceled the new reward without applying it.

The Water Magic constitution seemed better than the Earth Magic constitution he had, but he currently had a Basic Earth Magic Book.There was no need to change to a constitution without a Magic Book.

When he pressed cancel, a moment of emptiness swept over his mind.

To overcome this, training was the only way.

[Progression Assistant]• General Quest▶ Basic Mana Introduction Book Study (0/10)The same Quest was renewed.

Will it stay the same for a while?

Leon closed the Quest window and looked at the black Magic Orb.

He wasn’t paying much attention to it, thinking it was quite useless, but the new change caught Leon’s attention.

The number ‘0’ written on the surface had changed to ‘10’.

What is this?

Leon turned the Magic Orb around again.

How do you use it?

It seemed to be an Artifact.He tried to apply force, concentrate his consciousness, hold it close to his heart, and put it on his head.None of it worked.

Do I have to use Mana?

Then it was still beyond Leon’s level.He hadn’t properly awakaned Mana yet.

Leon, who put down the Magic Orb, thought about escaping the orphanage again.

Wasn’t it really time to escape and focus on growth?

Ria was helping, but it was only a little help and didn’t reach the essence of why he initially decided to escape.

And Leon acted immediately.

To avoid making the same mistake as before, Leon woke up early in the morning to escape... but failed again.

Because of a man who came to the orphanage early in the morning.

The headmaster woke up early in the morning to greet him politely.

He was wearing a luxurious robe at a glance.

The headmaster told Leon to wake up all the children and bring them.

When all the children of the orphanage gathered, the headmaster said.

“You will follow this person and live there from now on.”

Of course, the children, including Leon, were puzzled because they hadn’t heard anything about this beforehand.

The children who were attached to the place were already on the verge of tears.It was a miracle that they weren’t throwing a tantrum about not going.No, the tantrums would probably only start after they cried.

Leon looked at the man who came to the orphanage.His expression seemed emotionless.Even when he saw the children crying, there was no change in his expression.

He just waited.Until the children accepted things and calmed their emotions.

It seemed like an ‘efficient’ choice from his perspective.

When the children stopped crying and it was time for them to ask questions out of curiosity, he reached out to the children and shouted a word.

“Fly.”

And all of our bodies floated in Midair.

“Wow!”“Kyaa!”

Leaving behind the children who were already looking down with curiosity in their eyes and calming their surprised hearts, Leon looked at the man who was also floating in Midair.

Mage...

Leon suddenly remembered the headmaster who spoke very favorably and reverently about Mages.

Did he have some connection with Mages?

Was this orphanage operated to provide children to them?

Various thoughts crossed Leon’s mind.

In the meantime, as we went higher, we discovered a carriage floating in a corner of the sky.

“Get in.”

The man said bluntly.

The children’s bodies automatically entered the carriage.He controlled them to put them in.

The carriage started, and it didn’t take long before it stopped again.

When the door opened, the children who were looking out the window got off first.

Leon cautiously followed them.

As soon as he got off, trying to find a way to escape, Leon couldn’t help but open his mouth along with the children at the sight in front of him.

Unlike the orphanage surrounded by mountains, there were high-rise buildings, and people wearing pointed cone-shaped hats were flying in the air.

He felt overwhelmed by the splendid and sophisticated atmosphere.

“Welcome to the Magic City of Widia.”

Only then did a small smile appear on the man’s face.

Soon, a person descended from the air next to him.When he pressed the button on the short staff he was holding, the invisible energy surrounding him was retrieved.

The man who had already erased his smile introduced him.

“This person will guide you. See you next time.”

And he floated in the air and disappeared.

The man who was left alone opened his mouth.

“Nice to meet you. This is the Magic City of Widia, and you will be assigned various tasks here, closest to Magic itself.”

The children’s faces brightened.

Leon thought it was thanks to the headmaster who had instilled a fantasy about Magic in the children’s hearts in advance.

“Hey, friend. Don’t worry too much. We will provide you with fair pay, a place to stay, and food.”

The man laughed as he pointed at Leon.Leon didn’t like the man’s face.Fair, my ass.But he didn’t show his dissatisfaction.

He had already felt enough helplessness on the way here.It was foolish to show emotions when you had no power to resist.Leon realized once again that becoming stronger was the most important thing.

“Oh, right. The most important thing. When you work, you get paid... uh, I mean, you get Merit Points along with money? If you use them well, you can get a chance to become a Mage.”

The children’s faces brightened even more.Even Leon was a bit surprised.

“It’s cute how they get excited just hearing the word Magic. Actually, you can learn Magic right now.”

He took out a Crystal Ball from his pocket.It was a Crystal Ball that would fit perfectly in the palm of his hand.

“Do you want to come out first?”

The man pointed at Ria with his finger.

When Ria hesitated and didn’t step forward, the man approached her directly.

“It’s nothing strange everyone, aren’t the new kids very cautious? Well, it’s understandable.”

He held out the Crystal Ball right in front of Ria.

“Put your palm on it.”

When Ria cautiously placed her palm on the Crystal Ball, it flashed brightly once.

And then, a letter appeared on the now calm Crystal Ball.

It was not visible from Leon’s position.

But the man’s face, staring at Ria with eyes wide open, vaguely explained the situation.

“Light Attribute Body?”

Leon was also surprised and opened his mouth at the words that followed.