C3 A New Beginning

At that moment, Alexander immediately realized that he was in a very dark place. There was no light at all in that place.

"So, is this what death feels like? Is this the end of me?"

"But why?" Alexander began to speak in his heart slowly.

"Why does this have to happen to me? Is it my fault that I became like this?" asked Alexander.

"What makes me have to lose people I love again? After all the struggles I've been going through for decades, after becoming the strongest magic swordsman, why am I still unable to protect them? What's their fault?"

"What have I done until the gods hate me? What have I done until you have to kill everyone who means something to me? Why? What's my fault?"

Alexander continued to repeat the statement in his heart.

At that moment, his Soul seemed to move to another dimension.

"Where am I?" asked Alexander in his heart.

That's when he saw a bright blue beam of light from the distant darkness.

"What light is that?" thought Alexander.

Slowly but surely, the light began to approach and was illuminating Alexander's entire vision.

When he began to open his eyes, he was surprised to see a clear sky without clouds.

"Huh? Where am I now? Is this in heaven?" asked Alexander in confusion.

Suddenly, he began to smell a strange smell. A smell that is quite familiar with his past life.

“Why in heaven can I smell?” asked Alexander, covering his nose and beginning to circulate his gaze around him.

"Wait a minute..."

At that moment, Alexander began to realize the location where he was.

"No way!"

As it turned out, he was on a small and quite rundown horse farm.

"This... Is this the farm I managed with my mom? Why did this happen? I should have been beheaded by the imperial executioner now!"

Alexander began to panic. However, he became even more surprised when he saw his hands that had shrunk like the hands of 8-year-old children.

"Is it possible..."

In a hurry, Alexander immediately ran into the stables that were not far from the place. There, he saw a bucket filled with drinking water for the horses.

He immediately saw the reflection of the shadow that was in the water. The face of a boy with black hair and with pale-looking facial skin reflected from the reflection of the water.

"This... Have I gone back to my past? Then..."

Alexander immediately ran as fast as possible to a small hut near the stables. He opened the door quickly to see the conditions inside the small house.

"Huh? Alex? What's wrong with you, son? Is there something going on? Why are you in such a hurry?"

At that time, inside the house was seen a woman with clean white skin like snow and soft eyes, and a worried face.

Instantly, Alexander's tears began to drip.

"Mother..."

The woman was Rachel Charles, the mother of Alexander and also the concubine of Duke Carl, ruler of the Magnusian region.

Alexander immediately ran and hugged his mother with a tearful smile.

"Mother..."

Rachel was confused by what was happening. However, the woman could feel if there was no danger whatsoever to her son.

"I'm home, Mom..." Alexander said as he held his mother tightly.

The boy's tears were still dripping. What he now feels is warmth and hugs from his mother that he has not felt for a long time. Although he had become the strongest magic swordsman in his previous life, he was still a child who missed his mother.

Rachel began to gently stroke her son's head.

"Welcome back, my son," Rachel said softly, hugging Alexander.

***

In the middle of the night, when his mother had fallen asleep, Alexander was still awake in his room. He was sitting accompanied by a small lamp and several books.

"Somehow this happened, but now I've made it back in time when I was 8 years old."

Alexander began to close his eyes and remembered all the bitter events he had experienced in his previous life. A second later, he began to grin.

"It seems, God didn't really leave me. They still gave me a second chance to take revenge on those bastards," Alexander said with a smile.

He began to clench his hands tightly.

"Sergei Alfonso, this time, I'll make sure things don't go according to your plan, you bastard!"

The 8-year-old boy opened the window and walked out of his room.

"The first thing I have to do to change my life is to become stronger. Much stronger than all those bastards!" said Alexander.

He sat down and tried to collect 'Mana'.

Although in his previous life Alexander already knew how to fix the 'Mana Core' in his body. This time, however, he will use a different method.

That is by collecting 'Mana' from the surrounding environment into the whole body, instead of collecting it from the 'Mana Core' located in the lower abdomen.

"This method I got after meeting some people from the far Eastern region. They call it a cultivation method if I'm not wrong in remembering it."

Thanks to this method, Alexander didn't have to wait another 9 years to be able to use magic attacks. Even now, he was able to drastically increase his magic ability.

"It worked! I'm now at stage 1 of the magician, now I'm a 1st Tier Magician!" said Alexander excitedly.

Alexander began to drain the Mana that he gathered from nature, headed all over his body, and began to form the 'Veil of Mana'.

"With this, I am already much stronger than children my age even including those who are already in their teens. However, to protect my mother, I still had to get stronger. Because I'm sure, soon there will be some bastards from 'Those Women' who will come to look for me and my mother!"

Alexander began to think about his next steps to become stronger.

"Now, I have to train my physique. It would be very difficult if I only relied on magic ability alone. After all, I also need to adjust my fighting style to this small and weak body!" he said with a deep sigh.

To Be Continued