Chapter 3: Magic 'Where am I? – Okay, let's skip that trope.' When I woke up, everything was dark. 'No seriously, where am I?

  Wait, could it be?', At this moment, a very unsavoury idea came to mind. 'Am I in the womb?'

  The more I tried to deny it, the more it seemed to be the case. After all, I had asked that old man, not to make me take over another person's body.

  In that case, he probably empowered a sperm that would fit my requirements and made it reach the egg cell. After that, he probably threw my soul in there.

  Unfortunately, I didn't know, at which point in time, babies got a brain, so it didn't help me much in figuring out how old I was. And so I decided to first test my ability, granted by that old man.

  I tried my hardest to activate it, and shortly after it finally activated.

  When I looked around, I found myself sitting in a white room. There was only one thought on my mind at that moment: 'Déjà vu, I've just been in this pce before!'1https:///watch?v=tdeJiw6qMkA

  Jokes aside, just as I wished, I could control everything in this room. I immediately tried it, by making the room yellow and it worked. Then I tried adjusting the size of the room and had no problem with that too. Trying to create something, a bucket appeared in front of me and water appeared in the bucket right after.

  As I continued to py, I noticed that I could only create stuff, where I knew exactly how it worked. Probably to prevent me from just making a method for immortality to appear or something like that.

  And so for the next month, I stayed in this room and tried around a bunch until I was finally able to make a computer. I didn't know how they were built but after all, I had a perfect memory, whenever I was in that room. Therefore, after trying for a month, I was finally able to create a computer.

  After that, I programmed the computer, while improving it. In the outside world, nothing changed. I was still in a dark pce, swimming about.

  In the four months after, I developed a lot of measurement devices. After all, I wanted this world to have the same environment as the outside world, when I made the wish. If that were the case, then maybe I would be able to find magic by comparing this world's data with my previous world's data.

  At first, I found nothing, but then I noticed tiny particles in the air. Something nearly impossible to notice even with my technical instruments. I was sure, that this was my breakthrough point.

  Through various experiments, I was able to find out, that those particles, which I dubbed Magicules for now, radiated a special kind of energy signature.

  After a lot of trial and error, I was finally able to create a Magicule detection device. A device created for detecting Magicules.

  With it, I found out that everything had Magicules. Whether it was a desk, a chair or even the computer I created, it all had Magicules. Even I had Magicules.

  As I willed those Magicules to move, it happened. And I knew that it wasn't because of my ability, because only the Magicules in my body moved.

  Three months ter, I finally felt like I was about to break through. No, I don't mean my research nor my cultivation but instead my mother's womb.

  I felt a suction force and turned my head towards it, and finally, I could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  In those three months, I made a lot of discoveries about Magicules and created some behaviour rules.

  Magicules aren't hindered by substances in any way. It's as if they are in a different dimension. Magicules contain some sort of energy, that replenishes itself. Magicules have different kinds of purity. The purer the Magicule, the lesser energy it contains and the purer the energy is. Magicules have a very weak pull toward each other. The purer the Magicules are, the lesser the pull when staying still and the greater the pull when moving and vice versa, the more impure Magicules are, the greater the pull when staying still and the lesser the pull when moving. By moving, the purity of Magicules increases and vice versa, by staying still, the purity of Magicules decreases. Magicules inside organic substances can influence those outside, but Magicules outside organic substances can't influence those inside. I named the energy inside of the Magicules, Mana and noticed that you could sense Mana and Magicules with some practice and also manipute the ones in your body. Not only that, but I also noticed that when Mana left the Magicules and touched the body, that part of the body would temporarily be strengthened.

  What intrigued me, was the fact that I could sense that my mother had circles of mana inside her body. Combining that with the fact that the old man said that this world's system used circles and cores and my own experiments, I came to a conclusion:

  Body strengthening is probably barely reliant on purity. That's why they form cores, prioritising quantity over quality. On the other hand, Magic is probably very reliant on purity. That's why they form circles of moving Magicules, prioritising quality over quantity.

  I also guessed that magicians had some way of maniputing Mana outside of the body and when I tried it myself, I found that the purer the mana is, the easier it was to manipute outside of the body. Guess that solves the mystery of why Mom has a circle and no core.

  Back to the important stuff. I'm finally gonna be free of this darkness!

  'Wooohoooo!'

  Having my eyes stay open and my hands put on my body, I enjoyed the slide, until my head was blocked by something. Damn it, who makes the opening of the slide so narrow that you lose all your speed right before the jump?! Wouldn't I have hurt my legs pretty badly, if I came out leg first?

  Luckily I didn't and after a bit of struggle, I was finally out.