Chapter 51 - The High Elf and the Special Eyes

  Nathan Evenhart:

  Sitting on the grass in the garden, basking in the sunlight, I was trying to master my wind element. The teacher had instructed me to give it a shot, but I had tried everything. It felt like my wind element didn’t eve. To be ho, I couldn’t sehe wind mana the way I could feel the thunder mana. I only knew I had this element because of her stone.

  “Almost there…” I muttered, fog the pure mana in my hand.

  Very few mages utilize pure mana because it’s far more difficult and inferior to elemental mana, but Adrihna had told us it’s an excellehod for expanding mana els and increasing the output roots. I should have stopped this exercise and gone back to practig like Chloe, but the teacher insisted that I o force the wind mana to ma.

  “It’s useless,” I said, staring at my hand.

  A little ahead of me, a beautiful High Elf was reading in the sunlight.

  “Adrihna, why is my wind maive? I’ve tried everything, and it just doesn’t work.”

  She lowered her book slightly, and I caught a glimpse of her face through her monocle.

  “Keep going, my apprentice,” she said, raising the book back up.

  I thought this would be the moment I’d get an expnation…

  I sighed and focused on my hand again, trying to force the mana in its pure form. It was much more plicated. It was like switg from lifting 10 kilos to 100 kilos. I had to make a signifit effort to extract every drop of pure mana, which meant my roots still o grow and develop further. It would get easier as my mana el expanded.

  “Is there any expnation for why I have this defect? Chloe use Wind easily and without any difficulty.”

  The teacher lowered her book again and looked at me.

  “You were simply born with a slight defi your mana els. I had the same thing when I was young. Don’t worry; it will pass as you grow. My method will help you deal with this defid try to speed up the process.”

  Adrihna Akonium:

  My apprentice seems to have accepted my expnation auro training his wind element. As a precaution, I’ll keep my suspis about why he has a defe his Mao myself.

  I turn the page to resume reading, but the thoughts return to me.

  Katherine and Kinue have awakened elven poossess our nature element, and Nathan’s test identified his dormant Wind Element. Kinue’s family ied only the demi-human traits, and she was the only one, from what I’ve researched, to awaken the elven power.

  Katherine’s family lived off farms; it seems that the High Elf of the royal liruly abdicated everything when he married the human. He only took enough moo buy a few farms, and after that, he lived for another 80 years, and his possessions were divided among his children. Over the turies, they gradually died off during the crises, leaving only Katherine’s and Kinue’s family branches.

  Nathan’s mother awakeo magic with a high tration of elven blood. Her pnt magic is more potent than that of a on elf, indig a high pertage of High Elf biology.

  The boy is an eveer anomaly thawo of them since he mao bypass the elemental restri, acquiring another elemee already possessing a rare ohere is a small, hidden possibility... but if that were to happen, it would be something unique.

  I turn the pages and quickly g the small boy training his element.

  There is a possibility that Nathan's Mana Gem is cultivating Special Eyes. When I was younger, I struggled to use my magic. My brother and I were beled as ‘defective’ because ic failed, and even oal stones couldn’t identify our element. My family only knew we had a nature element because we possessed a pure stone, but they couldn’t uand why this was happening to us. Our elemental problem was actually a side effect caused by our Special Eyes.

  When a child has Special Eyes, they fun as a sedary Mana Gem ao be nurtured. The Mana Gem must weaken tthen the Special Eyes until they awaken. This weakening of the Gem has many unknown side effects. In my brother a caused poor trol of id eveal stones couldn’t detect our element. But when our Special Eyes awakehat ged, and we could use the nature element.

  I suspect that Nathan’s defective element might be due to his Gem cultivating his eyes, though that would be impossible.

  Among the three elven heirs, young Nathahe most unique. Even though Kinue has the Light Element and his mother has the Pnt Element, which is incredibly rare… there was an issue with Nathan’s evaluation. The stone identified that he had the Wind Element, but he wasn’t aware of it. With his mastery of lightning, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t reize a sed nature element within himself.

  There’s a possibility that this is just a ce caused by him being an anomaly, or… perhaps his Mana Gem is being hindered as mine was, feeding into the development of his Special Eyes. If this is true, I ’t predict what might happen. The boy might truly possess Special Eyes, and his Gem might even be cealing additional elements due to its inability to develop properly.

  If this is the case, Nathan Evenhart is an even more extraordinary anomaly. Special Eyes don’t typically develop in those with mixed genes, which is why they are more ong us High Elves, ure and only reproduce within our species.

  This means the boy is predominantly human or predominantly High Elf. One of these two races is more dominant within him.

  I ’t say for sure, but perhaps pure stones ’t reaana anomaly as advanced as his, ohat surpasses aal restri. If this is true, he might suffer the same side effect I did… the stone might not be deteg dormant elements if he has another. If his Gem is being promised due to Special Eyes and he is predominantly High Elf… he could have a High Elf nature element when his eyes awaken. This would mean Nathan Evenhart has a third nature element…

  This is madness—no one have more than one element when they possess an uno. Yet here I am, fag a boy who bypassed that elemental restri. The question is… is Nathan Evenhart human h Elf?

  What makes Nathan special is this possibility. His mother has awakened elven blood… could he have Special Eyes? What will the Special Eyes of a High Elf who married a human, expanding magical potential, do to Nathan if they awaken?

  I let out a small ugh.

  This geion… those old fools are doomed.

  I stop ughing when I remember my age.

  I’m not old! I will always be my precious 28 years until I die…

  “I think I did it! I created a breeze!” he said, celebrating.

  I lower my book, revealing only my eyes to hide a smile.

  “Keep it up, my apprentice. Focus the pure mana and transform it into its elemental form outside your body. Until your deficy is resolved, you’ll have to use this slow and weak method, but it will be advantageous once your deficy passes.”