By the time Danny was four he finally gained level five in "Air Affinity," He also gained a new bookshelf in his sanctuary called "Martial Arts." At first he thought this was from training what he remembered from karate, but he instead received a skill for "Unarmed." Since then, under martial arts he had gained two levels in unarmed. His last skill he gained was level five in “Diadem (written)” under languages. He didn't have access to any more books and he wasn't about to ask his mom for them when she had barely started to teach him to read. Pretending to be bad at reading was harder than he thought. Since he was pretty sure now you didn't receive photographic memory until after you accessed the sanctuary, Danny had to play dumb. This did give him a chance to ask questions about some of the pictures he saw. Not all the pictures he could place names to.

"Mama, why do these people have pointy ears," asked Danny.

His mother looked over to where he was pointing and said, "Those are the people of the forest, or elves. Anywhere you come across a forest filled of trees with white bark, you will more than likely find elves."

Pausing for a moment, Danny asked, "Are elves real?"

"Yes, elves are real...," his mother continued but Danny was already lost in thought.

Danny couldn't believe it, they are real! It was like a dream come true. Unless his mother was pulling his leg...

"Have you ever met an elf, mother," Danny interrupted his mother.

His mother looked down perturbed at her son, "If you had just been LISTENING to what I just said, you would have heard me talking about the time my parents took me to the main street, to watch the foreign... group of people, called a delegation, visit. Every 25 years the four races gather to hold talks to keep the peace, share information, and make deals. I saw the elves, the [unknown].”

"The who?" Danny interrupted.

Looking over at her son, she turned in his book to another page. It was a picture of a dwarf with a pickaxe, mining stones in the ground.

"That is a dwarf. They live in the mountains. Like the elves, if you find a mountain you are bound to find some dwarves," his mother explained.

Turning to another page depicting various individuals with animal like ears or noses. Fur covered various percentages of their bodies. Some pictured showed tails.

"Before you ask, these are the beastmen," she continued. "They live in all the places humans, elves, and dwarves tend to not enjoy. Places like jungles, swamps, and deserts."

Danny was too busy calming his inner nerd down to reply or ask another question.

"So I was with my parents when I saw the elven delegation go by. The women were so beautiful and the men were...," Danny's mother got quiet as a blush crept over her face. She seemed to suddenly forget Danny was there.

Danny was looking up worriedly at his mother. He wasn't sure but he definitely wanted to see a female elf now. Just to see if he would have the same reaction. Danny looked around to make sure his father wasn't here to see his mother mooning after the memory of another man. Danny decided to find more information on the different races as soon as he could get access to more books than the ones found in his house.

A while later Danny was in his backyard practicing, as had become the norm. Since he had leveled air affinity he got the courage to try out water magic. Poor Sarah's garden, it did not survive the flood that happened on that sunny day. Fortunately it was isolated to just his families’ backyard. Danny promised himself it had nothing to do with the fact that Sarah had just planted these green vegetables that tasted eerily like brussel sprouts. Fortunately his newest sister, Mary, spent her days in a crib behind the counter at the store with Gary. So they were both safely out of the way, that day.

Danny's mother did become very suspicious, but it was at the aqueduct above the garden and not him. He had been training with water magic and he came to understand that the water used was drawn from the nearest available source in range. Danny could feel the humidity in the air drop as a small stream of water shot out from his hand. He watched the stream and wondered if he could stop the water from shooting out and shape it into a ball. Right after that thought was when he figured out what happens when you sneeze while casting magic. From that point on Danny would immediately stop casting if he felt a sneeze coming on.

Later, Danny was thinking about the sneezing incident and wondered how the water or wind he created didn't ever push him away. So while creating a stream of wind one day he focused on having the wind push against his hand when it left his body. It was tricky but he managed to figure out how to get the result he wanted. He would push mana out and wind would then push against his hand. The two didn't affect each other in a physical sense, air kept returning to him as mana went out. Then Danny had an even better idea, he started practicing pushing mana out of the soles of his feet. That ended up coming out a lot quicker than he thought. Controlling the flow of mana inside his body was infinitely easier than the mana leaving his body. It was a few moments later, after “flying” at least four meters in the air, that he landed on his mom's workshop. He realized he hadn't practiced regulating the flow of mana through his feet, at all. His intention was not to fly but to gain a few extra centimeters or even a meter when jumping. Instead the effort he put into his jump translated to the effort he put into the flow of mana going through his feet.

Of course his mother's voice came out of the workshop, "Danny, did you just throw something on top the roof of the workshop?"

Danny slowly inched his body towards the side of the roof furthest from the door and said, "I saw two birds fighting and one fell on the roof."

A thought suddenly came to Danny and with wide eyes he looked around at the houses nearby. Fortunately for him the wall was high enough where the second floor windows of the other houses couldn't see the top of the workshop, or him. Whether he got high enough during his "flight" for someone to possibly see him, Danny wasn't so sure.

"Don't get near them if they fall on the ground," his mother yelled.

Danny quickly replied, "Yes mama."

Danny looked at the drop from the top of the workshop and started sweating. He was too scared to try falling feet first while casting air magic through them. He might inadvertently go over the wall. So instead he chose to try falling and then rolling. He did fall, and he did roll, but there was an audible snap from his left leg. He covered his mouth to smother the scream.

His mother had heard and called to him, "Are you alright out there, Danny?"

Danny writhed in pain while trying to keep his leg still. He took some deep breaths and replied in as calm a voice as he could manage, "I'm playing monsters, grooowl!"

"Oh, ok my little monster," his mother laughed.

Danny was glad his mother was so dedicated to her craft. Danny was also certain that his artificially increased intelligence was to thank for his quick thinking, even through the pain coming from his leg. He kept breathing regularly, but every now and then extreme pain would lance up through his leg. Using his previous excuse he would growl instead of moaning like he wanted too. Finally, he was able to get through the pain enough to open one of the hands supporting his injured leg. He knew it was risky but he couldn't find a way to explain the break in his leg to his mother without her getting suspicious. Fortunately the leg looked straight, maybe it was just a fracture.

Holding out his hand, he pictured a symbol he hadn't tried yet and his whole body began to glow. All the mana in his body was consumed at once, but it was used to heal his entire body. Danny was confused why he couldn’t just target his leg. The pain did began to subside and Danny had to wait for his mana to regenerate. He was grateful that using all his mana like this did not seem to cause the nausea or fainting that it had before. Since the pain was subsiding, he tried to stand up, but a quick stab of fresh pain had him sitting down again. He healed himself again until the pain went away and repeated the process.

After about an hour of this, he determined that his leg was well enough, so he started meditating and entered his sanctuary. Checking the attributes triangle, he noticed his intelligence had recently increased. He quickly went to the mana room to pleasantly discover he had advanced to level four of life affinity.