User blog:YungManzi/The Great Empress Of Riona: Chapter 2

My parents bring in a fortune teller to observe me...apparently they’re worried…

Fortune Teller: “This is…”

The female fortune teller makes a complicated expression as she observes me with her clairvoyance magic. W-What’s wrong…? What’s going on!? I don’t understand any of this..

Julia: “I-Is there something wrong?”

Fortune Teller: “This girl...she doesn’t have a mana pool...in other words, she can never hope to be capable of magic.”

N-No...this can’t be true!!

I plead to my mother to buy magic books, she does. Over the course of 4 months, Gerill continues to train my sister who quickly becomes a decent mage in training. After 5 months Gerill says that Jade is more compatible with close range combat and that it would probably be better for her to get training from a swordsman.

...While Jade’s doing all that, I spend all of my time researching ways for a person with no mana pool to gain the ability to use magic.

Apparently, there aren’t very many records of individuals being born without a mana pool. Having an extremely small mana pool or being unable to open it is one thing, but not having one at all means you are completely incapable of retaining mana within your body. Even if some else transfers their own mana inside you or you try to utilize the mana within an object, your body has nowhere to store mana at all, which means your body cannot be used as a medium to conduct magic.

Out of all of the books which I’ve read for the past five months, I haven’t come across anything which could possibly grant me a mana pool…

Right now I am sitting down in the backyard reading a stack of new books that my father had brought with him, while my younger sister is being trained by a female former adventurer.

I can hear the sounds of their swords clashing, after hearing an especially loud crash, I look over and see my younger sister covered in sweat with her rump in the grass.

Ever since we found out that I have no mana pool, Jade’s been taking her training much more seriously. A lot more seriously than I would expect from a 7 year old…..Unexpectedly, she’s pretty mature for her age.

As far as how strong she is now, it’s not an exaggeration to say that she could easily defeat professional fighters and trained killers in my previous world. I don’t even think using a gun against her would be very helpful. For one; she could most likely dodge bullets, and I don’t think they would be able to penetrate her skin at all anyway.

My research continues.

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