Chapter 70 - Improving Mage Sight

After leaving Elder Atulya's room, I made my way towards Elder Nainesh's room on the third floor. I reached his room easily without getting lost in the building. There were no magical pathways or moving staircases to confuse people and make them lose their way inside the building. On receiving permission to enter the room from Elder Nainesh, I entered the room. The room was nothing spectacular and was very similar to Elder Atulya's room which I had been in earlier.

Elder Nainesh "Congratulations on joining the academy. Good thing you passed despite being an underage wizard. Keep working hard and I am sure you will surpass us Elders in strength very easily.

Now you must be wondering why I asked you to see me? Well I wanted to ask you about your gift."

Seeing my confused expression after hearing his question, he continued " I meant how far developed is your mage sight?"

This was shocking for me for two reasons. Firstly, he was able to see through my sight which no one had been able to detect in my whole life. I know there is a slight change in my eyes when I activate it but I had my mage sight activated the whole time I was in the academy so he could not have detected it that way. Secondly, his question meant that my mage sight could be improved which I did not think was possible.

On seeing that I did not reply to his question and my shocked expression he started laughing. This brought me out of my thoughts.

I asked "How do you know that I possess mage sight?"

Elder Nainesh stopped laughing and replied "Don't think too deeply into it. I know because I also have the gift and using it I was able to detect the unique traces of magic around your eyes which happens only when one activates his mage sight. The gift is not too rare and I have seen many people possessing it during my life. In fact most of my tribe members have mage sight and I have also seen some rare foreigners possessing it. That does not mean that it is a common trait here. Presently, you are the only foreigner in the academy possessing it. Now coming back to my earlier question, how far developed is your mage sight?"

This new information disappointed me a lot. I knew there was a chance that many people may have mage sight but still I wanted to be the only one having it so that I can be the only one with the powerful advantage. I wanted the mage sight to be my family's unique trait. But it looks like I am not that lucky.

I put that thought away and replied "I did not know there was a way to develop the mage sight. I activated it when I was seven and only practised using till I was comfortable activating it instantly. I am an orphan and there was no person to guide me on its usage. I looked through my family books but it too does not say anything about developing it further."

Elder Nainesh "I understand now. Your family books not talking about developing mage sight makes a lot of sense. The developing process must be done carefully so it can be done only with the help of a guide. Doing it carelessly may lead to the destruction of your eyes. If your ancestors had written about in the books you would have recklessly tried it and thus made mistakes."

I asked "Can you tell me more about the mage sight? I thought the mage sight I was using was perfect and there was nothing to improve in it. I can already see all the magic around without any problems."

Elder Nainesh "You are wrong there. Currently you are using the most rudimentary level of mage sight. By developing it you can control what all you see with your eye. You can toggle between seeing only one type of magic like if you want to see only the wards without other sources of magic disturbing your concentration. Or you want to see only the magic core of different people clearly without the magic circulating in their body confusing you. It will help you a lot in highly magical environments. You can do this only by developing your control over mage sight. If you further try to improve mage sight, then you will be able to see magic through the walls. You can use the ability for a lot of different things like searching for someone or see an enemy who is hiding from you. The ability will be limited distance at first but after practising and developing it, you will be able to increase the distance bit by bit until no physical object can block your sight. Currently I can cover the whole academy with my eyes and I am no way near perfecting it."

I was overjoyed after hearing this. From the information I had just been given, I can conclude that the fully developed mage sight is like the Byakugan in Naruto which will be very useful in the future. I can use it to find all the hidden pathways and rooms inside the Hogwarts castle. This was exciting and I cannot wait to achieve that.

I said "Thank you Elder for enlightening me about the future of mage sight."

Elder Nainesh nodded and said "Currently I am the only one inside the academy that can help you develop your sight so I will be taking you under my tutelage. One week will be enough for me to teach you all the basics. After that you will not need my help and can improve on your own. Come here every day for the next week at 7 in the evening. Our sessions will begin tomorrow. Don't be late. I am only doing this for you because I see a lot of potential in you. So don't disappoint me."

I thanked him for giving me the opportunity to learn under him and left the room. A lot of time had passed since I had entered the academy and it was already night time.

I had already acquired a map of the academy from Elder Atulya and the map also contained various information about the academy including the various Floo addresses to different parts of the academy. This will be very helpful in making my first few days in the academy less troublesome and allow me to go to different parts of the academy without getting lost.

It was late. So without wasting time, I decided to go and complete all my tasks. I visited the clothing shop first and got myself fitted with new clothes. The helpers in the shop were very helpful in teaching me how to wear the unique clothes. It was a little complicated process to wear those pants but they were more comfortable than pants so no complains there. After that I visited the common dining area where I sated my hunger. The food was of Indian variety and tasted good but not as good as the ones I had in Delhi.

Next was getting myself a room which was a simple task. I asked for a single room myself and the person in charge was happy to provide it for me. After entering the room, I quickly made my bed and fell asleep. I was too tired to unpack or even look around the room I had just gotten. I left that for the morning.