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Chapter 7 - Training and Realmheart?

Bringing a chair near her I gently motioned her to sit. She flinched at first, probably surprised but immediately calmed on seeing it was me and took a seat.

"Thank you Grey" she said with a smile.

"No need to thank me, Caera. He can be scary most of the time."

After everyone had calmed down, we decided to start on the training part. Caera revealed that she had received two emblems and a crest which enabled her to be able to fight like a striker.

This was good because I could teach her sword fighting and she could improve a lot since being trained at a young age would allow for rapid progression. She was surprised to learn about my lack of runes and my ability to use magic without them.

"Mom, there was another ability I got during my awakening." I mentioned before imbuing mana into my eyes to which the world turned monochrome as five colored particles became visible.

I could see mother's eyes widen into two full moons as she muttered

"Realmheart..."

But soon that surprise turned into confusion.

"Grey, would you mind taking your shirt off? I want to see whether there are runes covering your body."

"Sure mom." I said taking my training top off.

"Eep!" I heard someone squeak beside me. I realised Caera was still present as I looked over to see a red faced girl, which matched her crimson eyes that peeked through the fingers she held up shyly, clearly not doing the work they were supposed to do.

"Oh my~ , never thought Grey would be so direct" teased Seris as I gave an annoyed look. It didn't help the fact that she was loyal to Agrona. A part of me desperately wanted it to be a lie since she was the one who raised me.

After she regained her composure, mother looked around my torso.

"Weird. I haven't seen a realmheart without runes covering the body. Usually they help in identifying the branch. And..." she looked at the glowing purple mark under my eyes "neither have I seen purple marking for a rune of realmheart."

"There's also something here near the base of his spine," Caera said as mother went to see.

"Looks like there are two runes... purple ones. But why does it look incomplete? There are gaps in between the intricate markings" mom was deep in thought mumbling to herself.

"Brother's eyes look like mama's eyes!" Sylvie's excited voice brought us out of our trance.

"Mom, what is realmheart?"

"It is an ability few dragons possess, my son. It greatly increases the potential of its wielder by assisting them in understanding the elements of magic better. Having visual access to the elements which make up the constitution of our world will be of great help right? Usually realmheart helps in acquiring insights on one of the three edicts of aether. Spatium, Aevum or Vivum. But in your case, I don't see those runes depicting a certain edict. Except those incomplete runes on your spine. And, the runes usually shine a bright yellow or gold in color unlike yours, which glows purple."

Aether? I tried moving the floating purple particles, but they only shook a little. I tried to influence the other 4 colored particles, which moved according to my will. Trying to cast a spell, I could see the blue mana coalesce to form a ball of water. Looks like I can cast spells using ambient mana, but I could feel the strain on my own dark yellow core. I released the spells as my realmheart deactivated.

"Looks like you can influence elemental ambient mana, us pure dragons cannot, so we can't use it to cast spells like you." mother said in an impressed tone.