The Eminence of a True Monarch of the Shadows

~Cid's Pov~

Three years soon passed...

Thanks to the black heart I currently possess my body kept getting nourished by the Mana of it, making my looks all the better. It was Making my skin and hair glossier and smoother, even tho I was 3 years old you can just tell I'm going to become better looking than Cid was originally going to be.

For most of my time for the last three years I just kept magically enhancing my body making it permanently stronger and much more durable which made me able to start exercising much earlier than any toddler ever should. I guess that's the beauty of Magic, it makes the impossibility a reality.

I've been thinking alot about what to do next with magic thinking alot about different animes and Mangas from my other past life's and the more I thought about it the more idea's kept coming to mind

For example since this is technically an anime and manga world who says specific types of techniques from different animes, manga, and novels won't work in this world

Right now in the middle of the night I'm in a open field about to test out if anime moves work in this world, for starters the most simple one's to test out would be the six powers of the marines also know as the 'Rokushiki Techniques' from One Piece

The first move I tried was what I believe to be the easiest to execute 'Soru' or also known as 'Shave', since I'm in a open field I don't have to worry about running into a wall if I mess it up

The premise of Soru is to kick off the ground at least ten times in the blink of an eye which would allow the users to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater power.

Since I was just 3 years old my speed wasn't up to standard when trying to perform such move so I had to magically enhance myself to actually be able to do it

Although it was difficult I now knew that I could do it, which makes the possibility for more power endless but I'm not going for alot of different powers, too many power at some point would just become redundant

After all like Bruce Lee once said "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"

And so that's what I'll do.

Seeing that anime martial arts were possible i decided to try on a technique from the magical side of entertainment.

I sat down in the grass in the open field with my legs crossed and started to concentrate on the magic power around and inside of me. I then drew in all of the magic power towards the center of my abdomen and started to shape it into a sphere.

Once the sphere was made, it felt like it still didn't belong to me just yet, like it's inside of me but I can't have access to it. By now it was just a pure clear sphere made out of magic.

I then tried to recall the things I knew about the Mana core from the novel 'The Beginning After the End'. Even tho I stopped reading it around the 400th chapter due to the many annoying Pov switches it was still a good read.

'A Mana Core is classified into six colors: black, red, orange, yellow, silver, and white. One's mana color starts off as black, due to the body's blood and other impurities mixed with the mana particles as they form together into a mana core. Each stage of the mana core colors is split into three shades(dark, solid, and light).

except silver which is split into initial, mid and high and white core which does not have stages. In general, the lighter the mana core color, the purer one's mana core was. Therefore, there was more power one could have access to.' (A/N: straight from the wiki page)

'So I was missing my blood to make it officially mine' I thought to myself

Sighing I just put my hands inside my shadow and pull out a blob of slime and as I was holding it in my hand I started to pour magic power into it and changed the shape from a blob into a sword. With the sword now in my hand I made it sharp and positioned it to my other hand and made a cut in the middle.

Since I knew slime was going to be an important material I had my shadow soldier's gather them up, but instead of killing them right away I put them in the sub dimension of my shadow and turned a part of it into a breeding ground for slimes.

Once the cut was made I returned the slime sword back into my shadow, I then lifted my shirt and put the palm with my blood at the very center of my abdomen and used magic power to push the blood inside and into the crystal clear orb.

Once my blood and the crystal orb made contact a type of mana explosion happened creating a crater with me in the center due to the formation of my mana core.

When I checked the core again, I noticed that instead of it being clear it was now a dark red color. Seeing this just put a smile on my face, it looks like its going to be much easier to manipulate mana once it leaves my body and core.

Wanting to test out my mana core I then stood up from the crater and stretched my hands slightly i then use the magic in my magic core and started using the red mana particles inside of it and as I used it I started to shape it into a fireball.

The fire being used then turned purple which made the fireball purple as well and once it was made I launched it into the sky it flew for a few meters before dissipating into the air and turning back into magic power.

I see, so once the magic power from the outside goes inside the core it turns into elemental mana particles and once it's used it reverts back to magic power, quite interesting. And since my magic power is a purple color the elements turns into that specific color as well.

I then tried to summoned the other 3 elements to see if I would have some type of limitations and upon calling the wind, ground, and water, I discovered that they were mostly the color black with a slight purple accent but apart from that nothing seems to be amiss.

I would have to continue to purify my core to see if I discover anything new. So for now the only thing I could do is practice the Rokushiki Techniques and purify my mana core.

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A/n: I'm having a hard time deciding should Claire join shadow garden after she gets kidnapped or just continue keeping her in the dark for now.