Fate/Mushoku Tensei: Reincarnated with Servant's potential (Mordred)

Around a month passed.

Ever since Mordred switched on his Magic Circuits and discovered a way to release his internal energy, he continued doing exactly that every single day. Or more precisely, he did this every time he woke up.

Because all that he was doing was making things flow out through his circuits and there was no pain, he felt that it was safe to do. The feeling was also similar to Rudeus's description of 'warmth' flowing through his blood vessels, confirming that he was on the right track.

Mordred also quickly discovered that over time the amount of energy he expelled increased; in other words, his Mana Pool grew! And it grew at a very fast and exponential rate.

At first, it doubled every day. If the amount of Mana he had at the very beginning was the size of a teaspoon, after a week it was the size of a large cup. After another week it increased to the size of a bucket.

Unfortunately, this rate of improvement quickly tapered off after that.

Although Mordred's total amount of Mana grew increasingly larger with each day due to a higher base amount, the relative improvements were gradually lower; it no longer doubled with each day.

At the usual rate, if he compared his starting amount of Mana to a teaspoon, he should have ended up with an olympic size pool if things doubled each day for a month, but it was more along the lines of a water tanker. That being said, it was still a large improvement.

But where he stored all those 20,000 liters of Mana in the tiny body of his, he had no idea. It was just an imaginative size of his Mana Pool anyway.

Sensing this kind of improvement made Mordred feel very satisfied and motivated to keep practicing.

The rate at which he could expel his energy also gradually improved. Although the number of his Magic Circuits unfortunately did not seem to grow alongside it, their efficiency in carrying out the job was improving, or his own skill at doing so.

However, he failed to perform any actual magic in the outside world. For now he could only use Mana Release to grow his Mana Pool.

With his method of practice, he would wake up, begin to cry for someone to take care of his baby needs like breastfeeding and having his butt cleaned, release his Mana and then instantly fall back to sleep.

This method of releasing Mana to fall asleep luckily also helped him to get faster through the uncomfortable time of being an immobile little baby pooping himself.

He was probably sleeping around 23 hours a day. He had no idea what the maids thought, but they didn't throw him out yet, so that was good enough.

In relation to the maids, Mordred was most often taken care of and fed by his mother, but he had also seen a number of women in maid-clothing around his room.

It seemed that the house he was born in was quite rich.

That aside, there was nothing that he could do apart from releasing his Mana whenever awake and pooping his diapers while asleep.

.....

Name: Mordred, quite certainly

Age: 1 month

Strength: F-- | Of an infant; couldn't even grab a chicken.

Endurance: F-- | Nonexistent; can't even hold his poop.

Agility: F-- | Hardly any; can't even touch his pp.

Mana: F+ | The size of a water tanker.

Mana Release.

None.

None.

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Around six months passed in total.

From the people around him Mordred learned that his full name seemed to be Mordred Kingdragon. He also learned his mother's name - Erika.

He slowly began to learn the new language, but the meaning of the words that made up his surname still eluded him.

In regard to his everyday training, after five more months of expelling his Mana, his Mana Pool had comparatively grown by a huge amount.

Along with it, Mordred had discovered a type of Magic that he's already capable of using.

It was… Reinforcement!

He could use his Mana to reinforce his body, making it stronger and more durable, also boosting his reaction speed and the five senses.

In the Fate universe it would likely be called Reinforcement Magecraft or Strengthening Magecraft, the basis for all Magi to strengthen their physical bodies to superhuman levels in order to fight in close range, as well as to temporarily strengthen objects like a sword, a metal pipe to be used as a weapon or even a table to be used as a shield.

Using Reinforcement on his body, Mordred could do several more hip push-ups than normal when testing himself, essentially doubling or tripling his strength.

Along with this, he also discovered that by sending his Mana into objects, he could analyze their structure and potentially also reinforce them. He should have probably started with that, but he seems to have a natural talent for strengthening-type Body Reinforcement.

And given that he was supposed to be a child of the King of Knights, technically even King Arthur's clone brought to life through Morgan's Magic, it was probably only natural.

Thinking of this, Mordred also discovered the irony of the God who reincarnated him appearing to meet him in the form of Morgan Freeman. Truly, Morgan's Magic had brought him to life as well!

Mordred only hoped that he was not a homunculus because it would probably severely shorten his lifespan.

However, seeing how he was growing up at a normal and not enhanced rate, it didn't seem to be the case.

Currently, after slowly growing up over the last six months, Mordred's body developed only enough to allow him to crawl; there was nothing unordinary there.

His mother allowed him to freely crawl around his room, but Mordred did not stop at only exploring just his room and would also crawl out into the corridor and other places, also remembering to act like an actual silly child sometimes to not arouse suspicion.

As a result of his exploration, he saw that the mansion he lived in seemed to belong to a rich noble family or even a royal family.

There were many servants in the mansion. And even as he crawled along the corridor, he failed to reach its end, at least before someone picked him up and ended his odyssey.

His status in the family didn't seem to be low. Even if his mother might be a servant, his father albeit neglectful should be a noble. This could be seen in the way he was treated by the other maid.

This was naturally a good thing because once his talents are revealed he should not lack learning resources and teachers.

But before learning how to cast continent-erasing spells and swing space-shearing sword strikes, Mordred had a more basic test of his motor skills to pass first.

It was walking.

Not crawling around on all fours, but walking on two legs, like an example of an intelligent species of primates, which he saw himself as yet could not yet prove it.

Holding onto the leg of a chair, which was akin to a thick wooden pillar in his grasp, Mordred secretly reinforced his body and raised himself up, relying on both his legs and arm muscles; fortunately no white lines indicating his Magic Circuits appeared all over his skin on the outside when he did that like in the Fate anime adaptation.

[Ooh… Careful!]

Mordred heard his mother say something in a worried tone as she overlooked what he was doing.

The elf woman quickly ran over ready to grab Mordred from behind, but upon seeing him firmly stand on his two legs, she held back and only lightly supported him. 'A six-month-old attempting to walk... This is… really…'

She had received a level of education on child-rearing, so she knew that babies only began walking around the age of 1-year-old. She could not help but smile and secretly cheered his son on.

Meanwhile, while standing on his wobbly knees that seemed as if they would buckle down at any moment, Mordred had a bad premonition about things.

It was Instinct.

There was no problem with the strength of his muscles but stability.

However, he was supported from behind, so he felt he should at least give things a try.

Still holding onto the chair's leg, he let go of it.

He then took one shaky step forward.

One…

After that one step, he could not stand straight anymore and began to fall forward.

Fortunately, his nanny caught him just in time.

Mordred got back to a crawling position, then looked at the 30-year-old woman, smiled and let out a child's silly laughter to appear like a baby.

Secretly, he thought, 'I'm no Gu Yue Fang Yuan or Kusuo Saiki. It's a world of Magic, but it seems that walking is still a too high ranking skill for my body...'

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Name: Mordred Kingdragon

Age: 6 months

Strength: F- | A weak human's strength when reinforced.

Endurance: E- | Early Advanced rank durability when reinforced.

Agility: E- (F-) | Early Advanced rank reflexes when reinforced, a toddler's running speed.

Mana: E- | Early Advanced rank.

Mana Release, Mana Reinforcement, Structure Analysis.

None.

None.