NOVEL NEXT 44 – The Ancestor of Nathan and Katherine
Chapter 44 - The Ancestor of Nathan and Katherine
Kinue was pacing back and forth, muttering that it was impossible for me to have the Wind element. She even asked me to try executing elemental magic, but for some reason, it didn’t work. The only element I could use was Thunder.
Professor Adrihna asked me a few questions, and I told her I couldn’t feel the Wind mana flowing in me. She looked at me closely with her special eye and then said it was probably some temporary mana deficiency and went back to reading.
Having two nature elements is good.
I became very interested in the stone she gave me. Almost instantaneously, it reacted to my element, allowing me to use electromagnetism. To perform that trick with the doorknob, I had spent about five days gradually pouring mana into it, being careful not to melt it. My trick of coating an object with my element to create electromagnetism would melt the utensils I tested, but there, right next to me, was a stone that immediately reacted to my element and floated.
That stone is metal, but probably not ordinary metal.
Kinue stopped and murmured some things to me while staring at the wall, voicing her thoughts about me having the Wind element.
“Is it so problematic for Nate to have the Wind Element?” Chloe asked.
Apparently, the common books she read weren’t as deep regarding magic, or Aunt Margie took care to ensure she didn’t read certain books and be influenced wrongly.
“Problematic? It’s impossible! A person with an Uncommon Element can never have any other element,” she told us.
I understood. Chloe could have those two elements because they are ‘Common Elements.’
“I didn’t even know I had the Wind Element…” I murmured.
“Lady Adrihna, do you think there’s an issue with this? The fact that he has an uncommon and a common element… I didn’t even know it was possible.”
The High Elf scratched her chin and closed her book.
“Your case is also special, Kinue, don’t forget that.”
“I know… but this goes beyond the possible limits for mana.”
The two discussed, and I couldn’t understand the topic.
“Why couldn’t I have another element?” I asked them.
“Because you simply can’t,” Kinue told me.
I still don’t get it…
“Nathan, there’s something called ‘Elemental Restriction,’” Adrihna explained. “Someone with an uncommon element can only have that element and no other. There are also certain elements exclusive to a specific group. For example, my Light element is exclusive to High Elves. No one else in the world can have this element besides my race, the High Elves. Your mother has the Plant element, which is exclusive to Elves and High Elves. A human shouldn’t awaken the Plant element; this means that some ancestor of your mother was an elf, and she inherited these traits in her gene, which might have affected you.”
I pondered what I was told.
“Is that why my aunt is so beautiful? Because she’s part elf?” Chloe asked, making my professor laugh.
“Common elves are like you humans, except for having pointed ears. As for the beauty of High Elves, you humans say it’s on another level, though for us, it means nothing.”
If they’re all as beautiful as you, beauty indeed wouldn’t mean much.
“So you think an ancestor of his mother might have been a High Elf like mine?” Kinue asked.
"All Elves are descendants of High Elves, and humans who are descendants of common elves are automatically descendants of us, the High Elves. However, for a human to awaken the Plant element means that in their lineage, the purity of a High Elf's blood is significant enough that even without the pointed ears, his mother managed to awaken an element exclusive to elves."
"What? I'm a descendant of an elf? So, will I be more handsome than an ordinary person?" I asked, surprised.
"For human standards, you will be considered 'handsome.' For High Elf standards, we don't care about such things. So as you grow older, you'll become more attractive, or something like that, as you humans say," Adrihna explained.
"So I really will be popular with girls like my mom says?"
I thought it was just the loving words of a mother to her son...
My professor nodded, and Kinue chuckled a bit.
"Don't get carried away!" Chloe said, turning her face away and huffing.
Kinue says she's a descendant of a High Elf... is that why she's so cute?
"And how does this change things for me? I still have an uncommon element and a common one," I asked.
"This shouldn't be possible. Never before has anyone with an uncommon element been able to awaken another element, which makes you the first in the world to do so."
The professor stood still, staring at me, probably with her special purple eye. She spent a long time looking at my abdomen and then each part of my body.
"There are people with a higher concentration of elven blood in their veins. You inherited this from your mother, and perhaps this caused a small divergence, allowing you to have both a common and uncommon element. Little Kinue is also a descendant of High Elves. Only a High Elf can have the Light Element, and this is rare even among us; it's an elemental restriction of our species. Kinue is the only non-High Elf person who has the Light Element," my professor explained.
So she's really incredible. Kinue is a rare golden fox and also possesses an element exclusive to High Elves.
"That's so cool, so she's like me?" I asked.
"Some ancestor of mine was a High Elf and must have married a human from your species, and over time, the human gene became dominant as they reproduced... since a demi-human can't have children with an elf. This human, descended from an elf, must have gotten involved with someone from the fox tribe until it led to me. I'm a golden fox demi-human who uses the Light element; I'm a Transmitter and an Emitter," Kinue told us.
So she can cover her body with golden light and also emit light? That must be awesome. How powerful is this Light element?
"You're a demi-human, does that change things too? Just like elves have their advantage, your species must have one," I said, excited.
My professor went back to concentrating on her book.
"We demi-humans are the only ones who can use the fused elements of Mud and Magma. Some rare demi-humans also have a beast transformation... I have it too. I'm not yet old enough to achieve this form."
"What? You can turn into something? That's... that's so cool!"
Once, I fought a god who did that!
"Ahem!" Chloe gave a fake cough and looked at me.
Kinue changed the subject and started explaining things better to us. It seems that humans are the only ones who can use Ice and awaken the Thunder element. From what I understood, those with an uncommon element can only use it, and no one knows what would happen if you combine uncommon elements since a person is only born with one of them, and trying to fuse them with different people causes accidents. This means no one knows what will happen if I combine the Wind element with the Thunder element.
I have some ideas in mind... I'm going to imitate an old man who gave me trouble in a fight. I'm going to try to mimic Zeus's power.
When I was on my journey of vengeance against Olympus, I started stealing the gods' powers, although I only kept one ability from each god. This means I didn't have Zeus's full power when I killed him; I only had one ability from his arsenal. My only ability that I gained from Zeus was the power to generate a thunder spear, which I could even hold in my hands because, despite being energy, it still had a physical presence to the touch.
I'm going to find a way to regain my beloved spear!
We spent the rest of the day with Kinue, practicing breathing and letting mana flow into our bodies. We did this basic exercise with her to learn how to make mana flow within us. Normally, a person would do this until they could use their element and try to identify their mana category, but we already knew ours. Now we needed to understand which was the Primary Category and which was the Secondary Category. If my Transmitter category were the primary one, I would have 100% efficiency in the power of that category, but if it were secondary, I would have only 50%.
I will master the Thunder element! If I am a Transmitter with 100% efficiency in making mana flow through my body and giving me physical enhancement... I will try to get close to the level of power I had when I was a General, even if it's only with mana.