Everything is warm, I’ve never felt this sensation, being secure and certain that nothing would harm me, I just want to be forever like this, is this heaven?

  I feel like a mantle is surrounding me, I can feel assured that nothing has the ability to harm me. Coming from the level of pain and anger that I was deep in previously the contrast is mind blowing.

  Remembering what I’ve been through my soul should been extinguish, like a magic bomb, so what just happened.

  I start doubting my life and the whole experience but I’m pretty sure that my mind couldn’t create from nothing that level of pain, so I’m pretty sure that was real.

  I would always remember the faces of all the people while they were trying to take everything from me.

  I need to figure out where I’m currently at, even if this is the afterlife, a curse or maybe this is what happened when you lost your soul, I just can’t be certain, this is unknown territory.

  For more time that I passed studying magic in the best libraries of the Valden kingdom I never encounter information about the soul. Perhaps that kind of information the church has it but I used to have zero talent for holy magic, I never had the access to their facilities and hence their information.

  The first thing to do is try to open my eyes but I can’t, the next thing is try to sense mana the way I always could and for my relief I manage to do it, I can feel mana surrounding me but it’s weird, it doesn’t come to my being, it just moves around me and I can feel it.

  I try to attract it but I can feel some type of resistance that prevents it, so I strive until I see a change, over and over again, until one small wisp comes to me and connect me to the universe, but I start feeling the same sensation when they destroy my mana circuit, my being is not ready for this energy, for some reason my existence rejects mana.

  [New skill acquired]

  [Mana sense Lv1]

  [Level Up.]

  [New skill acquired]

  [Mana manipulation Lv1]

  I read the notifications that appear before me, there’s been a while since I pay attention to them, but this give me a small clue about the situation I’m in.

  With the tiny speck of mana that I managed to attract, I never lose control over it and placed in the center of my being, but without a mana network I can’t circulate it the way I used to do before, so I just let my existence being accustomed to this foreign energy for a while.

  I don’t know how much time passes but I can feel how it start to integrate in me, so I draw another tiny amount of mana forcing to pass the same barrier that I encounter last time and I repeat the same process until I successfully manage to assimilate the mana.

  The corresponding process continues many times, but I don’t feel bored, it’s a wonderful experience being able to do something new and exciting, once again I marble at the idea of what magic represents.

  [New skill acquired]

  [Mana absorption Lv1]

  [Level Up.]

  Religion tell us that magic was bestowed upon us by the gods but I’m not so sure about that, humans are the least talented race in the world when we speak about magic. Elves, dwarves and fairies have a better connection with mana, and they can use it in better ways than humans.

  I’m not doubtful if they exist or not, especially after what happen in the last moment of my life, I don’t think that I’ll be able to forget those eyes, when they looked at me, I feel like there was nothing I can hide from them.

  After a lot of times attracting mana and enjoying the process that I immersed myself in, I can tell that my existence is now accustomed to mana, at least I don’t feel any pain when I’m in contact with it anymore.

  I decide to perform a quick scan with the mana that I can control, I examine my existence and what I notice left me speechless, I’m a baby but I’ve had no idea what does this mean. More than that, I’m not the only baby in here, besides me there’s two more, both of them appear to be male, I don’t know if this is something good or not.

  For a moment I start to panic without a specific idea of what may be happening, so I try to calm down and reassured myself that whatever situation this may be it can’t be worst what I was at with the Roan Family.

  After I assimilated my situation with all the ups and downs in my emotions, I commence once again to manipulate the mana, only this time I extract more from the environment compared to previous times, and try to pry into the outside, so I can have a better understanding of my new life.

  I notice with my mana sense the body of my new mother and know for sure that this one it’s definitely different person from my previous mother, so I can discard the theory that I came back in time to live in that hell once again.

  I want to know everything that’s happening outside but I don’t have enough mana and the small scan that I sent took all of my stamina, I start to feel how I need to rest so I just let myself be comfortable in my new reality and sleep for a little while.

  My dreams bring me once again to the Valden family, I visualize myself with handcuffs in the cell, hearing the rats who were my company for months, I can even feel the humidity in the air, counting the time and getting the oppressive feeling of how I would never make it out of here, before I start losing my marbles I recollect that this is just a dream, the moment I think about it I regain conscience and I wake up.

  ‘That dream was terrifying’, I don’t know if this is what happen after a trauma.

  I have no idea how much time I’ve been in this womb but I haven’t passed my time doing nothing, every time I’m conscious I spend my time attracting mana and assimilating it.

  A few things that I’ve learned is how beautiful it’s my new mother, I’m pretty sure she’s on the same level as my previous one if not more, and she spends more of her time taking care of other children, which I find a little weird because there’s a lot of them, I’ve counted six kids and apparently triplets it’s something normal for her because with my scans I have the ability to infer how similar are between them.

  I hope my sessions with mana practice isn’t affecting my mother, after all I’m pretty sure she has never been in contact with mana before I force it through her body, which it’s difficult to believe since every human has at least a small connection with mana, it doesn’t matter if they aren’t proficient in it.

  [Skill Level Up]

  [Mana sense Lv5]

  [Skill Level Up]

  [Mana manipulation Lv5]

  [Skill Level Up]

  [Mana absorption Lv5]

  [Level Up.]

  This day I’m feeling different for some reason and isn’t only me, mother is feeling restless too, she doesn’t stop hyperventilating, and her body appears to be in a lot of pain.

  I can feel with mana scan how people are surrounding her and caring for her, it comes to me that she’s in labor and she’s going to have us right now, and I wonder how the experience is going to be.

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  It doesn’t pass a lot of time for me to find out, I start feeling how everything is moving out of my control and feel a lot of pain, how is even possible to a human body to receive this torture, even with my past experience being sacrificed, this it’s a lot worst, I lose track of time for what is happening to me until I’m free and I can finally cry.

  “Ghaaa!” My cry appeared to put in a happy place to the people who is watching over me and trying to care for me.

  “It’s a girl my Lady, you don’t need to worry there’s also three babies this time, the next ones must be boys.” Said the woman who’s holding me in her arms, I want to slap her on the face, what does she mean that me being a girl it’s something bad. “Munda et mundare.” She says a basic spell and I feel all the body fluids being washed away with her mana.

  I stop shedding tears when I notice the spell and everybody watches how I become hypnotized with the magic.

  “Look my Lady apparently her grace likes magic.” Says a young woman besides the bed with a smile in her face, she doesn’t seem to dislike me unlike the old woman.

  “Oh my god! I think another one is coming.” I hear my mother give a cry, she looks to be in a lot of pain, and the woman carrying me give me to other young lady, who covers me with a blanket and starts swaying me.

  “Here it comes, it’s a boy! A boy!” Says the same woman who received me into this world. “Munda et mundare.” She repeats the exact same spell and the boy became clean.

  “Gha!” Only that he doesn’t calm with the magic contrary to me.

  “Let me carry him Mrs. Freya.” Another woman comes quickly to aid her.

  “Just be careful with him Miss Leonore.” Freya appear to be more worry for my brother than for me. “You just need to push one more time my Lady, and all of this will be over, you don’t need to worry, Lady Amelie is going to cure you as soon as she can with magic and the potions given by the Alchemist.”

  That took me by surprised, for my mother to have a proper magus in her delivery, she must be someone important, specially a magus who can perform holy magic in order to cure her, besides the cost of the potions that a commoner family cannot afford.

  “Ghaaa!” My brother comes crying like his life depends on it.

  “Such an energetic boy my Lady, you’re so blessed, with more boys surely my lord will be happier.” Freya confirms my assumption on how she puts boys over girls, and that just show what it’s ahead of me, what kind of destiny I must have to get birth into this family. “Munda et mundare.” She repeats for the third time the spell to clean and disinfect for my other brother and I can notice the fatigue she’s experiencing.

  “Basic sanitatem.” This time the spell comes from a different woman and she directed to my mother, maybe to help her with her wounds.

  “Munda et mundare.” Freya ends with another spell to clean my mother and make sure she doesn’t get an infection.

  After the continuous use of her spells it appears that Freya doesn’t have more mana in her and she takes a few steps to a nearby chair to rest.

  From my point of view a good magus shouldn’t be this exhausted with basic spells, even if repeats them a four times, I infer that she has a small mana pool, so she exhaust all her capacity really quickly, maybe she isn’t a magus and just a person who know basics spells that don’t require her to have a mana network and a mana core.

  “What a pair of lovely children, your names should be something special.” My mother says it with emotion, ignoring my existence, at least in my past life my mother was someone who loved me with all her heart, apparently in this one it’s going to be different.

  “Has his Excellency and my Lady decided on a name for the girl?” Leonore asks my mother.

  “Not yet.” My mother says it and with all the voices surrounding me it’s a lot for my body and mind, so I start crying by reflex, I’m surprised how easy it’s to lose control over my emotions.

  “Ghaaa!” After my brothers hear me crying they follow and also start their own wail.

  “Give them some space, you can put them in the crib, they are perfectly healthy so there’s nothing to worry about and I know that my Lady must be exhausted after what she’s been through.” Says Freya trying to put some order in here and currying favor with my mother.

  “Maybe they would stop being in tears if you perform another spell.” Leonore says to Freya while she’s walking out of my vision.

  “How can I perform magic just on a whim in front of the Lady?” Freya says it with a lot of respect directed to my mother.

  “I permit it Freya, just make it simple, nothing too complicated that affect us.” Apparently my mother is not the biggest fan of our tantrums because she doesn’t doubt to give her permission to Freya.

  “Lux via mea.” Freya says her spell while she is channeling her mana and a ball of light form above our crib, my mind is focus in it.

  “I told you Mrs Freya, the children love your magic.” Leonore says it like she was the one who perform the spell.

  “Quiet Miss Leonore, even if you are the personal maid of the Lady you need to show a more composed image in front of her.” Freya doesn’t doubt it and admonish the maid. “And it’s only the girl who appear fascinated by my spells, our boys just ignore it.”

  “She knows me since I was ten years old, I can be myself in front of her.” Leonore talks back to Freya ready to start an argument.

  “Bah!” I let an excited sound and try to grab the light only to disappear.

  “I’m sorry my Lady I don’t have any more mana in me.” Freya says it with regret in her voice.

  “You don’t need to worry or put more pressure on yourself Mrs. Freya, I understand that it took a lot of mana to assist us, you too Miss Amelie, I must thank you a lot for your services.”

  “You don’t need to thank me my Lady, the house Davenport hire my services after all.”

  “Allow me ask you again if you would like to form part of the house?” My mother ask the magus.

  “You flattered me my Lady, how am I worthy to form part of the Viscount, if you excuse me, I have other compromises.” The magus rejects the offer without giving it a thought.

  “You are free to go Miss Amelie.” My mother permits her to leave and the woman exists the room.

  No one talk for a few seconds as if they were expecting something different from the magus.

  “Do you need some time to decide the name of the children my Lady?” Freya brings our names to the table again trying to distract my mother.

  “We can do it now, I would like to do it with his Excellency but he’s going to be occupied putting order in the border of the kingdom, the king asked him to do it personally after all and he can’t ignore a direct order.” My mother says with sadness in her voice and I can feel her desire to be there.

  “What do you think of the name of Bernadette for the girl my Lady? It means strong and brave.” Leonore jumps on the opportunity almost instantly.

  “Tell me Leonore, do you hate the girl? Why do you want her to have a name so boring?” My mother rejects the idea in just seconds.

  “Well, that used to be my mother’s name.” Freya says it with resignation.

  “…”

  “I mean, I can just imagine how wonderful your mother used to be for the way you talk about her sometimes” My mother tries to save herself with grace.

  “Don’t worry my Lady, even my mother thought her name was awful.” Freya takes the situation with humor what brings laughs to all the women around my mother.

  “Gha!” All eyes are focus on me once again when they hear me laughing.

  “She looks so happy! If not Bernadette then we can go with Gertrude! It also means strength!” Leonore appears to be too excited by the game of names.

  “Seriously Leonore, if you ever have a child don’t chose the name yourself.” My mother says it once again discarding the name and I can only be grateful, and I can only have the feeling that I dodge an arrow.

  “Well I can only say that nobody is sharing their brilliant ideas besides me.” I can only think that she has a point.

  “What do you guys think of the name Aila? It means bringer of light.” Freya let us know her idea, and it doesn’t sound bad.

  “I like the name and the meaning behind it but something tells me this name isn’t that suitable for this girl.” My mother rejects the name only this time with a better attitude.

  “What about Dalia my Lady?” Another young woman in the room interject in the conversation with the name that let me surprised, because that name it’s my previous name, the one my first mother put me.

  “It sounds nice, what is the meaning Miss Aurora?” My mother sounds excited for the new name.

  “It means destiny or flower, we can also interpret it like the flower of destiny.” Aurora explains with patience.

  “Dalia Davenport, I like it. This should be her name, let it be known to the people of the house.” Mother explains her orders and I can only accept the name, it feels so surreal to have the same name as my previous life except for the last name.

  “What about the names for this beautiful pair of boys my Lady?” Freya seems worried that my mother wouldn’t put the same effort with the names for my two brothers.

  “For them his Excellency and I have already discussed it, the second to be born its Liam with the meaning of resolute protector and for the third child to be born we decided Mateo because he’s our gift from the gods.” My mother says it with emotion in her voice and everybody in the room can feel the love she has for the boys. “I just wish my girl could have an easier life but we all know what will happen when it’s her turn for the test of the family.” I have no idea what does that mean.

  “We don’t know yet, maybe she would surprise everybody and be the first girl to pass the test.” Leonore intervenes with conviction in her voice in effort to defend me and I can assume that another challenge will be waiting for me in the future.