Pressure, from all directions.
I was being squeezed so hard it hurt badly.
Then cold air.
I struggled to breathe before a loud cry came from me.
I could not see very well and the pain was still there along with the desperate need to familiarize myself with where I was.
“My brain shouldn’t be able to handle these thoughts, I couldn’t help thinking.
I mean, I was just born…” My thoughts were interrupted when a feeling of immense safety swept over me.
I could feel the arms around me were different from the others.
My new mom was holding me, my crying stopped and I just looked at her best I could as she watched me with a joyful smile.
She was beautiful, with long, straight blonde hair, a face like a model’s, green eyes, and a smile that made me feel loved.
“Damn so weird to have a mom as a fully grown man, I was 30 when I died, older than this woman, but still she felt like my mom.
How weird.” “Welcome little William Walker, I’m your mom and I love you.” I tore myself from her eyes after a while to look around to see if my father was here.
I could not see anyone except some hospital personnel, no one held wands from what my limited eyes could see.
“Muggle huh…” “System fully integrated” “Status screen automatically opened.
(In the future, open with intent.)” Status of William Walker Human Wizard Lvl 1 0/100 exp Strength 1 Agility 1 Intelligence 13 Constitution 1 Magic 1 Spirit 1 Titles: None Passive buffs: None Active buffs: None Traits: 1.
Reborn mind and soul: Both your soul and your mind seamlessly integrate into your new body.
“Quest issued: Newborn Wizard – Use magic for the first time.
Reward: 1.
EXP.
2.
+1 magic.
3.
Unknown.” “Newborn Human – Strengthen your body until all physical stats reach 2.
Reward: 1.
EXP.
2.
Information on stats, how they interact with each other and the host.
3.
Trait: Healthy body- you won’t get sick of natural diseases.” I fell asleep thinking about the System, my plans and the quests.
When I woke up, my mom and I had already left the hospital and were in a cab.
We were still alone, no father had come by that I knew of.
The cab pulled in in front of a terraced house in a suburban neighborhood on what seemed to be a quiet street.
My mom got out and lifted me along with a bag.
“This is your new home little Will.
This is where we will live, I hope you like it.” She said while rocking me.
I looked her in the eyes and tried to nod my head.
Luckily, I failed, my muscles refusing to respond to almost anything I wanted them to do, saving me from potentially giving away that I had understood her.
She put me down inside a crib after she had fed me for what was now the second time.
Still so weird for me to suckle on boobs as a baby.
“Trust me there was nothing sexual about that experience…” I focused up on my quests without pulling them up in my vision.
There was no point pulling them up; they weren’t exactly hard to memorize.
And started to plan what to do before Hogwarts started: First priority: I needed to figure out how to protect my mind before I turned 11.
Second priority: was learning as much magic as I could safely without a wand.
Third priority: was to find a way to complete as many quests as I could to grow stronger, level up.
The reason this was third was that based on the quests I’ve gotten so far, it would seem that they are highly correlated to growing stronger, so I would gain passive power through level-up anyway.
Learning magic without a wand though could potentially only be possible before I got a wand.
Some fanfictions talked about how learning wandless magic after practicing with a wand made it near impossible.
Just look at pretty much all characters from Harry Potter, why could the few who could perform only such limited magic?
As I lay there with zero control over my body except the very slight control of my arms I focused inward.
Trying to see if I could feel my magic somehow.
Ten minutes later still nothing, nada.
Instead I tried to focus outward.
I tried my hardest to make my blanket move, just a little.
I gathered my focus completely and just willed it to move, not rise in the air, just flicker a little.
Focus, intent, will, I even threw in some emotion after a while to see if that is what was needed for it to work.
I felt something happen in my body and stared with even greater focus on the blanket and then: I shat my pants, or well my diaper.
I could not help it, all my irritation that had built after failing for the last 20 minutes just vanished and I started laughing.
Well, I was a baby.
I couldn’t really laugh, but I giggled, loudly.
Just then my mom came back and saw me there in bed giggling like crazy, she smiled as she walked toward me as the smell hit her.
I saw her face change a bit towards confusion and I just giggled louder.
She just looked at me weirdly and picked me up to change me.
Later we went to bed, she let me stay in her bed instead of my crib, and honestly I slept like a baby.
I woke up an unknown amount of hours later but she appeared to still be sleeping exhausted from giving birth and still taking care of me alone.
“What was up with that anyway?
Where was my father?
I refuse to call him dad in my mind until he acts like one!” Either way I got rid of my irritation and focused back on my earlier goal, getting a blanket to move.
“Not like I can do worse than last time…” After battling the blanket in my mind for around 15 minutes I felt something again, this time I could identify that it was not the feeling of pooping.
“My immense magical power was finally coming along,” I joked to myself.
“OR not.” Instead I had peed myself.
This time I did not let it break my focus for long.
I just went back to focusing but my anger was now building.
“MOVE!!!” I thought as the anger that had been building boiled over after an hour of no result, MOOOVE!!!.
The blanket caught fire.
SHIT!
I was suddenly exhausted, I felt more tired than I had after staying up for 40 hours in my last life.
I managed to cry out once before I passed out.
When I woke later, I was not, in fact, in a burning house.
Luckily.
But I was in the hospital.
My mom was holding me and looked beyond worried.
As she noticed I was awake she started crying.
“Thank God you are awake, I could not wake you up despite trying for over 5 hours!
Why am I speaking to a baby?” “Nurse!
Please get the doctor who was just here.
He’s awake now.” The nurse standing by the door hurried off.
“You gave me quite the scare young man!
I wake up and a blanket is on fire.
After I moved you and put it out you are just completely passed out in my arms no matter what I tried… Please don’t do that again little Will.” I just looked at her and once again try to nod before I catch myself, fuck what is up with this nodding, thank god I have zero control over my neck muscles..
The doctor checked me and promptly sent us home with a clean bill of health.
While he does so I check out my new update from the System: “Congratulations you have completed the quest: Newborn wizard.
Rewards: 1.
100 exp.
2.
+1 magic.
3.
Trait: (rewarded based on type of magic first performed).
Fire affinity-increases the effect (output) of all fire magic by 20% and decreases the cost (input) of all fire magic by 20%.” “Congratulations.
First magic was cast before a week old without a focus.
Reward: Wandlessly gifted: Your capacity for wandless magic is increased, new channels through your body adapt to casting magic more easily without focus, this will have no impact on magic casted with a focus.
These channels will grow over next 7 years.” “level up” “status” I think Status of William Walker Human Wizard Lvl 2 0/200 exp Strength 1 Agility 1 Intelligence 13 Constitution 1 Magic 1–>2 Spirit 1 Unspent stat points: 1 Titles: None Passive buffs: None Active buffs:None Traits: 1.
Reborn mind and soul: 2.
Fire affinity-increases the effect (output) of all fire magic with 20% and decreases the cost (input) of all fire magic with 20% 3.
Wandlessly gifted 0%: Your capacity for wandless magic is increased, new channels through your body adapt to casting magic more easily without focus, this will have no impact on magic casted with a focus.
“Now those are some crazy rewards.” I wonder how much of an impact the magic channels will have on my abilities and potential.
After we get home my mom is a bit clingy for the next few days, after nothing happens again and I wake up without issue whenever she tried to wake me up she calms down and starts living more normally again.
She starts reading, cleaning, cooking instead of ordering all the time, going for walks/runs outside with me.
She does not however have any guests or even phone calls that I know of.
Does my mom not have friends or family?
I know the System said my father had the same last name my mom does, so if they are married where is he?