My Son Manus Has the Makings of a Powerhouse!

Feeling the magic within him settle back into calmness, Manus hesitated over whether he should show off a little and prove that he was actually very talented and capable of controlling his magic.

As a child who had only just gained magic and had received no relevant education, Manus still had spells he could reasonably cast.

The Zero-Ring Magic of every school required no magical models. They were simple, pure manipulations of magic, born from a caster's instinctive control over magic after refinement.

Just as Manus was considering using a Mage Hand to prove himself, he noticed the delight in Griffin and Aivina's eyes and temporarily abandoned the idea.

"Dad, Mom, what... what just happened to me?"

Like any child who did not know what he had done and felt at a loss, Manus looked helplessly at Aivina.

Only then did Aivina snap back to her senses. She hurried forward, hugged Manus, and gently patted his back.

"It's all right, Manu. Don't be afraid. You just had a Magical Outburst. It means the magic inside you has begun to grow, and that you'll become a wizard in the future."

"A powerful wizard!"

Griffin added from behind her.

He had been busy dealing with the ribs that were about to turn into charcoal and cleaning the stone slab. Hearing this, he could not help looking up, a dreamy sort of delight on his face.

"Our son had a Magical Outburst at only five years old. Oh my God, that was never part of our plans. When were we originally going to tell him about Magical Outbursts again?"

"On Manu's birthday next year."

"Yes, a whole year early... It's unbelievable..."

Shaking her head and no longer paying attention to the excited Griffin, who had begun muttering to himself, Aivina explained things to Manus.

A Magical Outburst marked the stage when a young wizard's magic began to grow. This newly born magic grew at an explosive rate, naturally causing uncontrollable incidents, which was why it was called an outburst.

Normally, most young wizards experienced their Magical Outbursts between the ages of six and eight.

Of course, some experienced them earlier or later. Manus himself, for example, had undergone his Magical Outburst on his fifth birthday.

However, if someone had not experienced a Magical Outburst by the age of eleven, it could basically be assumed that the magic within them would never grow.

A young wizard's magic was like a seed. As they grew, some seeds sprouted early and some late, but if everyone else was about to flower and bear fruit while yours showed no signs of movement, there was little point in expecting anything from it.

Such people were called Squibs. Their seeds had already died. Compared with Muggles, they had seeds, but those seeds would never sprout, flower, or bear fruit.

After a Magical Outburst, the magic inside a young wizard entered a growth period that was less intense than the surge during the outburst, but more stable and lasting.

Broadly speaking, the duration and course of this stage kept pace with the wizard's physical growth and development.

In other words, from the onset of a Magical Outburst until around the age of eighteen, a wizard's magic would shoot up as rapidly as their height. After that, it would continue growing into their twenties, only at a gentler pace.

That was why Griffin said Manus would become a powerful wizard. Compared with the vast majority of young wizards, he had at least one extra year of rapid magical growth. That was undoubtedly a very obvious talent.

As for magical growth after the body stopped developing, it was no longer so rapid, though it still continued. Not many people studied it, probably because there were too few samples.

There was only one broadly accepted view: powerful wizards possessed greater reserves of magic.

After listening to Aivina's explanation, Manus sorted through his thoughts.

Sure enough, a caster's descendants were highly likely to be born casters as well, especially when the caster was powerful. It was the body's adaptation to magic.

But wasn't relying purely on bloodline inheritance and natural awakening rather inefficient?

Wizards in this world had managed to pass down their kind generation after generation this way, and Squibs sounded like a rare occurrence. In other words, in most cases, wizards' children naturally awakened magic.

It seemed that people in this world had a fairly high adaptability to magic, but that was all.

If ordinary people could not be turned into wizards, and wizards could only produce more wizards, then it was no wonder there had to be an International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. It also became less difficult to understand how Eileen Prince could marry a Muggle despite the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.

If a war broke out and killed off a batch of wizards, then unless every wizard turned into a breeding machine, relying on normal reproduction alone would leave no telling how many years it would take to make up those losses.

And from Aivina's account, the wizards' method of increasing their magic could be described kindly as letting nature take its course. Put less kindly, they had done absolutely no research in that area.

Were they not curious at all about where their power came from or how they could grow stronger?

Of course, Manus was not overly concerned about the future of wizards. He only cared about himself. Understanding his environment could help him determine what he could reveal.

Now that he had gained magic, Manus had no intention of wasting the time ahead.

He had originally planned to wait for the right moment Griffin and Aivina mentioned while conducting slow research on the side, but now he could tackle theory and practice together.

Beyond that, studying this world's orthodox magical system was also a top priority, because it was something Manus could confidently display.

Right, now that he had magic, he could first try gathering materials to make spellbooks. That way, he would not have to rely solely on his memory to record magical models, and his research speed would increase many times over.

But when he imagined how he might have no idea how many spellbooks in the future, each one recording models of the same spell at different levels, Manus could barely hold it together.

It seemed his future mage tower would need to reserve plenty of extra space for a library. Even after research removed the worthless portions, the library's spellbooks would still number at least in the hundreds of millions. It would surely be a magnificent sight.

Wait? Could this world even gather the materials needed to build a mage tower?

"All right, today really is a day worth commemorating, but we can't miss lunch over it—thank goodness we brought enough ingredients."

Griffin had finished dealing with the earlier mess and began repeating the cooking process.

Manus came back to his senses and looked toward Griffin, his eyes brightening slightly.

Although he had magic now, he still lacked many materials before he could proceed according to plan. Even after returning home, he would not be able to immediately begin researching and studying.

So for now, he should simply look forward to this slightly delayed lunch with peace of mind!