[What are you?]

Leo asked.

[Yeah. I just asked you. What are you? Really, are you a god?]

He continued.

[Hey. I'm asking you. Talk to me. Who or what are you? Who are you talking to? I know you could hear me and that's fucking given. You even talk to me on some instances.... Or not. Now that I think about it. You didn't really have directly talk to me. But, why?]

Leo pressed for the answer but to no avail, failed to know what he wanted to know.

[So you don't want to talk huh. But can you at least give me some clues on what are you or just tell it to the person you are talking to?]

Leo asked again. He even tried to use other person to gather some information on what he want to know. But to no avail, failed again.

But if Leo learned that what he wanted to know has already been mentioned last time he fainted. He will surely regret that he fainted that time.

[The fuck?! Shit, you're fucking messed up!] Leo shouted.

[Gah! Forget it. I'll eventually know what are you. I'm just gonna focused on myself. Hmm. That's right. Now I'm a year old. I won't be bored anymore. I'll be able to walk in no time!]

Leo encourage himself and started to plan his future. If he wanted to change the outcome of his future where he die a virgin. This is biggest chance to change the future.

[Yeah yeah. I'm a virgin so what? I'm just waiting for the right woman for me you hear that? And the reason I want to get stronger is to protect!]

Leo declared. He declared that he will get stronger to protect his virginity and to die again as a couple virgin.

[Fuck you!]

For now, Leo planned to practice walking again while practicing magic simultaneously. He is determined to grow stronger to save his family on the on coming peril.

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After recovering, Leo try to begin practicing standing and walking. In no time, Leo finally able to walk again without him needing to place his hands to the wall. Which made his parents happy.

"Wow. It's just been only a week since he learn to stand. But now his already walking. Is our son a genius?" (Nelia)

"Hmm hmm.. of course his a genius. His father is a genius, so it's natural that our son is a genius too. Wahahaha!" (Ark)

[The hell are you talking about muscle head? Anyways, now i can walk. I can finally go outside! Yey!]

"Papa? I wantsh to go outshide. Can I?" (Leo)

[Haaah.. Its hard to act like a baby]

"Hoho. Of course you can! Come son! Let's go outside. I'm going to show you how big our house is in the outside! Whahaha" (Ark)

[What big? Stop bragging old man you'll just embarrass yourself. Hayss.. anyways. Its good he agreed immediately.]

Ark lift Leo up and put him in his shoulder.

"Don't do something stupid outside Ark. Just let your son enjoy the view, okay? Leo, take care of your papa" (Nelia)

Nelia said while smiling.

"Hey. What are you talking about? Am I that kind of person who do stupid things?" (Ark)

Ark grumbled.

"Haaaa~ I don't know how did I fall In love with you. Okay okay. Just go. Take care." (Nelia)

Ark went outside with Leo on his shoulder while running at full speed to impress his son on how fast he were. While Leo sitting on his shoulder can't even appreciate his surroundings because of his father running fast.

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"Do you feel it son? Hah hah hah" (Ark)

Ark asked Leo while gasping for air.

"Yesh! Hah hah hah" (Leo)

And Leo replied while gasping too.

This does sound wierd but the two of them are just lying in a grass field and just feeling the warmness of the ground.

[Damn. That really sounds wierd.]

They became like this because Ark run at full speed to show his son what it is outside of their tattered house. But he didn't realize that Leo's eyes were closed the whole time while he was clinging to his father's head afraid of falling.

[This idiot father of mine. Are you killing your own son? I'm still practically a baby! What if I fall?! Huh?! Do you think about that?! Will you die if you became a little more smarter? Huh?!]

Leo complain. Then he look to his side to give his father a cold look. But what he see is his father sleeping under the warm light of the sun. Completely forgetting that his son was with him, unprotected.

[Really? You just sleep like that? Haa. Well. Time to practice.]

Leo got up and look to his surroundings. When he confirmed that there's no one else here besides them. He started running.

He wanted to build up his stamina while he was still young. Having a frim foundation is the must important thing right now. That's one of his plan why he wanted to go outside is just to run to like his father. While the other is to conduct some experiment.

He run for 1 meter first then fell down. When he got injured, he will use his healing magic to to heal. Then run again. After doing this several times. Leo finally fell down and can't move his legs anymore.

[Damn. I only run a several meters and now I'm exhausted already. But this is good! My muscles are stinging now. Now time to experiment.]

Leo started running until he got muscles pain. Of course, he wouldn't do that for no reason. It's for his experiment. He wanted to try if healing magic can subdue the pain of muscles. If his theory was right. This will be an advantage to him and can do some intensive training.

Leo cast a healing magic to his stinging muscle to subdue the pain. But after the the white light faded, his muscle's ache still didn't go away. He cast healing magic again and again but still failed.

[Shit. It hurts... Why did I have an idea like that? Haaa... Now, all I can do is to wait for the pain subsides and for my father to be awaken.]

While waiting for his father to wake up. Leo plan to practice his healing magic again until he deplete his mana again. Fortunately, he fell down besides his father, and this the area where they are in is relatively safe place. So there's no threat that could endanger his life.

He cast healing magic to himself one sfter another. He is still trying to subdue the muscle pain in his legs, while time to time, he will use his healing magic to his father. After depleting his mana again today. He became dizzy and was about to faint. But when he was about to faint, he felt something entering his body like a gush of water. This made him comfortable and relax.

[Huh? What is this feeling? I feel good...]

What Leo experiencing now is the mana entering his body. This always happen whenever Leo fainted because of mana depletion so he haven't notice it. And this is his first time experiencing it while awake.

[So this is how our body get mana... Hmmm... I could feel it entering every pores on my body.... Wait... i could feel it? How? Wait... if I can feel mana, then is it possible to manipulate it? Hmmmm.... Is there a way to control mana?]

Leo suddenly got an idea. Normally, a person can't manipulate mana. As for how people could use magic without able fully mana. They used their imagination. The most important thing on casting magics are the image.

One can conjure a fireball atop of its palm by simply imagining the fireball, some even use incantations to strengthen their image of the fireball. Then the soul mana will receive that image, and it will instinctively manipulate the mana inside, then converge it into fireball atop of one's palm. But the thing is, they can't feel the mana that flowed from their mana soul, and by the time they already imagine the magic, it was already cast atop of their palm.

[Oohhh.... So that's how it is! Maybe I could make it work somehow?]

Leo stretched his hands and closed his eyes. He tried to imagine a the mana converging into a ball atop of his palm. He lay down on the grass, concentrating on his palm, and forming an image.

But after sometime, his hand fell to the sides, then he snored.

He fell asleep.