Working in the field is hard I don't care what anybody says farming is one of the most back-breaking practices humanity has ever done think about it you have to stand outside for up to 12 hours a day tending to crops that aren't even guaranteed to be good for harvest especially in this time time.
Even with body strengthening magic for the last 3 months I've been here and has not been easy. I'm pretty sure this boy died before before I took over his body because it is not conditioned for this maybe you started working later or maybe he's been sick for a long time but it feels like I'm building up muscles that I don't have which is still strange. It's even stranger is my father well I thought he didn't care before he really doesn't care I mean he'll feed me but he'll I feel like he'll let me starve if I don't work fast enough contribute enough this world is much harder than my last one. But I've been getting through it with careful application of body strengthening magic which really is simple to use for some reason I'm able to just focus on certain muscle groups that ache give them rest and make other muscle groups pick up the slack it's been working but it's probably not sustainable thankfully my 14th birthday is coming up and apparently that is the age where most kids are waking their magic which makes sense kind of. In my world women are generally considered fully grown at 16 about men keep developing until they're 27 but it appears in this world such luxuries are not given to us when you are 14 you are legally adult scientifically in the looks department everywhere 14-year-olds look like 18-year-olds and 9-year-olds strangely mature for their age and steals me a couple things about this world though. It is so harsh that humans need to be able to procreate earlier in life and on the more equal playing field. Men are women are barely different in strength Little difference between a man and a woman is who gives birth to the child other than that it's kind of free-for-all. It's like what Grease did with homosexuality will ever strongest his own top and whoever is the bottom is the bottom it's kind of strange to think about it that way but it's no way I can conceptualize my father actually being the mother and his situation or my mother wore the pants before she left apparently He's one of the reasons more of my dad was so upset and probably so neglectful of me. But all that is going to be over soon hopefully by 14th birthday should be in 2 days now and all I have to do is wait and see if my magic comes I can feel it bubbling up so I know that it's either going to be in 2 days or even sooner I just have to wait.
"Boy come load the cart I need to go into town and I'll be gone for a couple days" The man that is my father shout out I never learned his name but aren't you think I want to he hasn't said my name yet and technically my name is not boy it's travon.
"Yes sir I'll get on that now"
By the end of the day I am tired just like yesterday but satisfied My father has already left and you should make it into town by son by sundown means I'm by myself for the next day or two that should probably forgot about my birthday whatever it's probably not important and so for next day or so I continue to rest along with doing some of my chores not lies acquired of me if I'm not tending to the crops just have to make sure these weird chickens don't die on themselves and run out of the fence area. Seriously who's idea was it to make four-legged chickens they're almost as odd jobs of dog but just they're just as dumb it's like each other s*** on each other and it kill each other all the time they're just vicious and so the day of my 14th birthday is done and I'm waiting for midnight now hoping that's when my magical awaken.
The more I think about it my magic the more I feel I don't want simple magic I don't want to throw fireballs shoot lightning no I want something else something that will make me a force be reckoned with something that will make me a one man army or maybe it's society or race. I know I'm a coward but I'm not a cow when I have numbers on my side and I have people with me I'm scared s******* of this world right now it's darker cooler and apparently has more monsters. Human kingdoms are the period of the time where they must conquer others to get resources and feel safe or just restrictions and gibbles. Other races have their own kingdoms and they are just as aggressive as humans if not more so there are types of elves and dwarves and they act like they're fantasy kind of words from my Earth. Elves are proud, dwarfs are rowdy assholes that hold a grudge, and races like beast people have multiple subspecies. But the real danger is the monsters they run rampant over the lands goblins, trolls, and even orcs. Rumor has it about two towns over and work band went and slaughtered everybody in the town. Didn't take any prisoners that just killed everybody left on there not even good enough to eat apparently but they took everything else weapons materials a lot of things were striped bare.
And the non-intelligent monsters are even worse they'll eat everything some wolf monsters will eat babies rotten corpses or anything else that's why decomposition magic was is vital to where area natural decomposition happens but the sooner we're dead bodies are out the way and nothing can smell it the better.
That's why I need a unique magic I need something that can help me stand and get towards of enemies and keep going something that will help me craft my own weapons and be independent of kingdoms city-states and other towns. I hate politics I despise them maybe it's child abuse of me but I've always wished to live in society where everything is agreed upon. It's not realistic but it's something I dream of. I guess I'm a control freak like that, so when I hear of magic that can raise it dead summon demons or angels and other types of minion magic I want it.
And so sitting in my room meditating by the window looking at the Three moons in the sky I close my eyes and feel my magic awaken.
When I bother to ask my father how magic felt how his magic felt to himself he always said "like my magic". I understand now well he was talking about was his magic, it's impossible to describe your magic even the attribute system there's apparently popular it's not totally accurate My dad's decomposition magic is different from a cousins of his his decomposition takes time but there is nutrients left over because it deals with fungi it's more in line with natural decomposition, but his cousins turned everything to dust and while they were still nutrients around it took way less time but more was destroyed.
My magic didn't feel like any attribute in the world or I didn't think it felt like any attribute in the world it felt like I was getting impressions of what it is parts of what it is. I recognized biomancy I think A little decomposition but also other things. I know for sure one of them is soul I don't know how but I know it is it's like I'm looking at it from a different site than the other ones One of them is death for sure closely connected to the soul part and the more I look at it biomancy and decomposition are connected somehow and somewhere in the middle is animation? Maybe that's not the best word for it but it feels like the ability to move or to animate what should not be possible. The last thing I feel is mind it's weird I always thought so mine were the same or closely related I guess not now. But I can't think about that anymore I'm tired and I need to go to sleep I can't keep my eyes open hopefully I don't wake up in anything too surprising.