Being in a country where things have gone bad due to corrupt politicians and crime, it wouldn't surprise that on my home, I died from a stray bullet. My name is Lutho Peni, an average 17 year old South African teenager who likes to relax more than do work requires the body to sit still whilst using the mind. Obviously the more the day passes, the more i hate life so it wasn't strange of me to ignore my surroundings as the whole occurred as the police were having a shout-out with the armed suspects and i somehow forgot just being in the vicinity of the event could lead to death.
Although that happened, i somehow had 7 minutes left to look at what i was leaving and realised how stupid I was leaving this way but the feeling didn't last long.
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After seeing black for what felt like an eternity, i opened my eyes to find myself surrounded by a bunch of women in traditional Xhosa outfits cheering with joy shouting "it's a boy, the prince has arrived" in the same language. With memories of my past life still in tact, it was obvious to me that was reincarnated and wasn't crying until I heard the cheers and my ears started crying which ended making me cry as i hadn't adjusted to this new body and accidentally started releasing pressure from the massive mana i seem to have and grounding the women around me .
After calming down and the ending of the day with my new mother comforting me, i woke up in the middle of the night realising I'm a prince and immediately went to sleep to see if I'm dreaming or not but long story short...I wasn't. Just when i thought I'd live a peaceful second life, the universe interpreted it as wishing for power which didn't seem bad at first as i basically was at my father's side everytime he was in the palace which strangely enough looked African yet too modern looking. This would eventually cause me at age 3 to learn about who I am, what this world is and the kingdom i was born in.
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In this otherworld called N'thara, in the central continent of planet Auralis called Sunborn, I'm the first prince of the Khosari Kingdom and is given the name, Lulutho O. Thulane. Honestly being Lutho again seems to make me think if i really am a blessing from God as my name basically means that in the language my past self knew as Xhosa which is called Khosari here.
Other planets are seen in this world but no one has taken time to discover them so i didn't want read much that and proceeded to learn about Auralis having 6 more continents called Kharadim in the middle east, Azhura in the far east, Moanakai in the south east, Anawei in the west and The Iron Crown of Veyra up in the north. Each having its distinct races and species of humans, beastfolk and elves with the exception of dwarfs only living North.
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This pretty much covered what world I was in and helped me make a decision that would most likely come to haunt in the future which was to learn magic. Obviously as a nerd in my former world, that would be the first thing you'd want to learn but I had sense of this world being a dog-eat-dog one so to prepare myself for any inconveniences of war, training to be the strongest and have a journey that would help understand this world more.
From that moment on, I trained my magic and abilities with a spear as the Khosari Kingdom was this world's version of the Xhosa tribe but with a more medevial society and architecture that had me questioning it. the next two years would consist of training as I'd occupy the Forbidden Palace, called that as to not have unwelcomed nobles and guests cozying themselves to the children of the royal family, also study more on other kingdom's languages as to better prepare for the journey i had planned.
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Suddenly at age 6, the king Buzile S. Thulane and Queen Bongi N. Thulane would bring a pair of twins into the world, meaning i had company. My younger siblings were a bit different from me with the sister, Ayabulela B. Thulane, being absolute menace and the brother, Ntsikayomzi S. Thulane, being a crybaby everytime i wasn't around. Being 6 years older than them meant i had to keep them company whilst we stayed in the Forbidden Palace so i had them learn how to read as soon as words came out of their mouths as they were guaranteed retirement plans for me.
Plans started when both of them turned 3 and I was 5 years away from being sent to the Sun Palace which was the main palace, I had to give it all i have because I was on par with the kingdom's strongest mage and knight at age 9 but kept a low profile so that His Majesty wouldn't have hopes on me. During the same time i had learnt how to sneak out of the palace during the day and made a clone to continue my plans as i wanted to visit town and gather materials for my siblings and learn alchemy...also to just relax by the fields. I'd return to the palace by lunch and continue with my learning and training of my siblings until dinner which would occasionally be joined by our parents.
At this point, it was quite clear to them that I'm too much of a clever kid for them to talk affairs around so they'd keep it at getting to know about how the siblings are doing and what I'm currently studying so i hadn't built a connection with them than I have with the Palace's battle mage knight Banele. Banele and I would often train from when I started to when I'd now get the time to spar with him and having conversations from time to time with him seeing as annoying little brother. At this point i hadn't made a single friend so the next time the royal family had dinner together, Mother calmy asked "don't you want to enroll into the Academy? It would be a great way to make connections and friends", a sudden silence filled the room but i continued eating. "I've been fine the entire time so when it comes to school, i don't understand why i need to enroll but I'll take you up on your offer" i replied after finishing my bite. As if things didn't become more complicated, Father interrupts Mother and sternly states "He'll attend after living in the Sun palace for a year". BOOM, my chance of mastering the current skills I'm studying just derailed by a year, how convenient.
"I want him to prove if he's worthy to be crown prince" he continued and I suddenly froze at the thought of being tested, now this is a massive inconvenience but i couldn't refuse and so until the day of moving arrived, i kept honing my skills and training my siblings.
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Finally the day had come.
Although i hadn't mastered Alchemy yet and had to hide a lot of my equipment using Spatial Magic, hauling whatever my room occupied to move into the Sun Palace and having to attend a brief meeting from the second floor of the states affair room shortly after moving, glad that i got to rest though but the brief meetings and studying the nations laws would be my daily routine for the next three months.
Some of the laws weren't bad but they had some cruel punishments too like being castrated or having your genital tortured if you're caught in any sexual assault, being handled by any method the family of the deceased chooses if you're found to be a murderer(this has had a 100% due to mind manipulation spells), being confined to X amount of years if found guilty of robbery and being buried alive if you ever are found to be a corrupt official or have committed treason which solidified my opinion on why this nation became one of the strongest in the continent.
Other laws which were recently passed down with the coronation of my father as king was that anyone capable could get a job and was to be taught the skills necessary to improve the workplace's efficiency plus medical facilities be able to adjust their fees according to person's salary and other things that had do with Business Studies that I kept failing in school back in my previous life.
The 14 years of this life have been somewhat fulfilling to my nerdy self but I guess but I hadn't been able to test my combat skills yet, well that wasn't until i happened to stumble across a kidnapping spot when I was looking out for more material to use for my alchemy training and saw women and children seeming to be under the age of 22 all badly wounded and worn out.
Obviously my presence spooked them as a bit of my immense mana leaked out whilst i was startled but quickly regained composure and went to work in healing them using Area High Heal, something i realised that even though some people in this world have to be blessed or have an affinity for healing magic, if I can picture and memorize the functions and structure of the human body, I'd also be able to heal people.
The process took a long time though as it wouldn't be until the perpetrators would arrive questioning who I was and what i think i'm doing then I had to create a clone to continue healing them and used spatial magic to move them to the fields i usually rest in after a day of searching around, with a quarter of my mana drain, i took it upon myself to fight using my fists and basic light magic.
The perpetrators launched at me confidently questioning me, "Do you think that makes you a hero now little boy? you still look a few years young to take me on", i had no response to that as i knew that they were implying that i still needed to get initiated into manhood to have a chance at defeating them but that enraged them and they would thrust their knifes at me and I'd dodge effectively trying to buy time for my clone to finish. 1 minute into this game of cat and mice , they started using magic to try and catch up but would ultimately fail until my clone had finished with healing the kidnapped civilians and i started getting excited to rock these two jerks. Using Muay Thai Techniques that i'd remembered from my past life and light magic-armor coating- i made light work of those two, knocking out the biggest within two seconds and throwing a cheeky combo on the smaller one.
After rendering both unconscious i had to use a spell that i rarely use , Transcribe, to write a report and send them to the military after making them a drink truth serum i snuck out from the Palace.
The military didn't know who I was so information never passed by my father and i decided to stay put in the palace for the time being and figuring out more on how to use alchemy even without incantations or circles.