NOVEL WEB Chapter 6: A Unique Constitution
'It's been a few days since I've awoken and quite frankly, I've been having a hard time adjusting to my new body.' Philip thought, as he tried to move his entire body as gently as possible.
'Not only because I had a growth spurt during the three years that my body was basically in a comatose like state, thus when I fully recovered it was foreign to me that I've grown taller and broader, causing me to have a hard time adjusting to my new build, but also because lately every time that I try to open our wooden door, it's either I destroy the doorknob, or I just completely rip the entire thing off, which was definitely not normal for a five-year-old kid.' Philip thought deeply, as he again subconsciously ripped off another wooden door.
C-Crack!!
Philip dumbfounded said, "N-Not again how many times does this-
Yawn!
'M-Mom?' Philip thought, as he looked back behind him to where the voice came from, afraid that he might've been caught in the act, thereby exposing his little secret.
[Sigh... the sound of the door's delayed breaking while I just stood there, frozen, and looked behind me as my mother slowly woke up from her afternoon nap, made that memory much more fun to look back at.]
[Anyway, at that time huh? Come to think of it during that time my father was actually out hunting for food and gathering firewood, but when he heard that cracking sound, he dropped everything that he was doing, unsheathed his sword and came rushing towards us.]
[Hahaha! He was really worried that someone dared to attack us, even my mother who didn't know what was happening, as she just woke up, was ready to unleash a magic spell, because even before I could explain, she saw my father ready to fight, and thus she panicked too.]
[Sigh... It was really hard getting them both to calm down, I was bewildered the first time that it happened, I couldn't believe what was happening. But as much as I was surprised, both my mother and father were even more shocked than me so I had a difficult time trying to explain everything to them, that there was nothing to worry about and that it was all false alarm, that I had already broken the doorknob a few times but just reshaped it back to normal through brute strength alone.]
[But to my surprise, they were actually proud of me, hence why, when it happened again and again for the tenth time, no one was even surprised in my family and we just looked back at it as a fun memory...]
[By the way, at that time another change that happened to me, which was what I first noticed when I woke up, was the nauseating effects of my senses being abnormally sharp, for example, I could hear or eavesdrop on our neighbor's conversation for about five to six houses away-
"How much for the potatoes?"
"I can give it to you for one bag of your salt"
"What? is that true?"
"Yes really! no kidding apparently, they've recently discovered a new magic element, I've heard that one of the noblemen son's awakened it, the whole territory was in shock, that even the capital's top mages visited them out of curiosity."
"Wow, that's amazing! For the kid to awaken such a rare element, that kid's future sure is going to be bright, so what was the element?"
"Nothing's been confirmed yet, I only got that information for letting the kind Surveyor stay the night at our barn for free, He said he'll tell me on his next visits, once he confirmed the rumors."
"Anyways, earlier this morning when we were having another conversation, the surveyor told me another rumor that the kid already received an invitation to study from all the top five conquerors academy."
"I-I see, I hope that my kids awaken something similar to that kid too, so that they don't rot in this damned place!"
"Hey! Shh... tone yourself down for a bit, do you want the whole village to hate you"
"So what? I'm just telling the truth; It doesn't matter whether they hate me or not"
"Sheesh, honestly? Why am I still friends with you?"
"Oh, shut up! we all know that I'm your only friend, that's why you're stuck with me HAHAHAHA!"
"Hahaha..."
As the two ruffian like villagers stopped their conversation for a moment, but then just immediately continued on.
[What a lively conversation of the village folks, just thinking about it makes me want to go back there hahaha! Anyhow, back to what I was doing; I then tried covering my ears and at the same time tried to lessen my focus, I thought that I would stop hearing those loud overlapping loud voices, but my brain just shifted its focus on the background noises of the people working, like the sound of the metals clanking, the blacksmiths hammering with their tools, and even to the faint sound of a seamstress weaving-
Clang! Clang! Clang!
BANG!... BANG!
Snip! Snip!
"BURP!!!!!"
[And that even made it much worse and even more annoying rather than just hearing the sounds of the humans chattering, honestly, I can only describe that experience as like that one rumor that I heard when I entered the empire, in the instance of what happens if a deaf man all of a sudden were able to hear, this was probably be similar to that.]
[So, eventually I just gave up and stopped covering my ears.]
[It would've been great if my sense of hearing was the only one that improved, but even my sense of sight, sense of smell, and sense of touch to name a few, were all heightened to a degree that at the time I felt something that only humans would describe as being drunk.]
[First, my heightened sense of sight wasn't noticeable at the beginning, but when I sat down at our dinner table, I managed to zoom in and see how all of the flies moved around us, it was like they were moving only as fast as humans, so I did what a great dragon son would do and got rid of them all.]
'I've decided Death to all of you!' Was probably what Philip was thinking while he massacred those flies.
Pwwwwk! Pwwk! Pwwwk!
[The sound of my hands decapitating and slicing the body in half of all the flies, left my parents in awe. I was like a certain comic book character that was accidentally bitten by a spider and gained the super-fast reflexes of spiders.]
[Then the worst of all, as I tried to eat the supper prepared in front of me, that is when I noticed how my sense of smell increased, I could smell the lack of sanitation of the people at the village, especially those who recently just got out of the lavatory. So, I immediately lost a little bit of my appetite.]
"What's the matter, do you not like the food?" [My mother worriedly asked me at the time, not even questioning my hands that were covered in blood from the mosquitoes that I was committing genocide against.]
"N-No that's not it, mom" [As I tried to force myself to eat the food in front of me even with that staggering smell, I didn't even notice the blood in my hands back then, truly the sanitation back then was at its worst.]
[Also, the increased sensitivity of my sense of touch in combination with my sense of sight was something that I noticed last; it was tricky detecting it since I was able to adapt to it unconsciously. But I was able to detect the temperatures and heat signatures of both objects and people from a limited distance.]
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[It took me a couple of weeks to completely adjust to my new senses, and during that time period I became a klutz, who can barely even get out of bed and walk straight, just thinking about it embarrasses me to this day.]
[But what made me broke out of that embarrassing phase was, when I realized that every time, I would focus on something like at that time when I killed the flies at the dinner table, my brain would adopt to my other senses and recognize them as something necessary to complete the task at hand.]
[So, that was when I realized that, in the moment, the answer to what I needed the most to adjust, was harmony. I needed to maintain an equilibrium between my body, mind and senses, ergo I practiced by shutting off my senses one by one through meditating, to maintain better control of the three.]
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[And finally, when I managed to regain full coordination of my body, when I reached the harmony that I was trying to achieve-I thought to myself] 'I feel light like there were restrictions that have been lifted off of my body, like some part of me had been corrected.'
[And I couldn't help but just say] "Throughout the heavens and earths, I alone am the honored one."
[As I then ran like the wind and beaten the other kids at the simple game of race, at that time, I felt like I was truly king, no one could beat no matter what they did.]
[However, most importantly of all, the thing that I left out for last part, was the fact that-
I was finally able to use magic...]
[In a basic sense, I can use every basic magical element known to humans, ranging from fire-water-wind-and earth-Even those rare ones like lightning-nature-enhancement-and healing magic etc...]
[There are even those that are not even known by humans that I could use-But the only drawback is the amount of magic that I can even manifest during this time was so miniscule that I can only control a drop of water or a spark of lightning and fire.]
However, at that time the younger Philip were definitely not on the same wavelength as the future Philip, so when the younger version of Philip came to a realization, when he had already tried using every elements that he could currently muster, he thought that 'B-But I am only just five-years-old, my mana will increase in time-
Right?!!!'
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