Hassan was thinking about the voice in his head, he was sure he had heard this voice, but his mother didn't seem to react.
He didn't like to talk to anyone, but he must make sure he was hearing voices because it could be a sign of disease or hidden injury in the brain.
And anything wrong with the brain was never a good thing, so he asked The blonde lady if she has heard some voice, she replied: "no I have not heard any such voice you speak of" she told him he might be hallucinating due to being in such a fatigued state after magika consumption".
Hassan was sure that this voice was in his head, The reason for this surety was his mother's words. She had been in a very alert state, so she can save Jacob if something went wrong with his magika, during the spell. She had focused her magika in her eyes and ears.
Even if someone sent this voice directly to Hassan, she would have observed the Magika particles near Hassan react and would have known that someone used magika near Hassan.
Then Hassan just told her it was his imagination. Even though Hassan was sure he had heard this voice he hid it from her.
He did not want her to bother him by asking him about this voice multiple times. After this, his mother told him " I neither anyone else have ever seen anyone as talented as you, If word about your talent got out, even the expert mage who only teaches the children of the king would, want to take you as his student".
"The king would be more than happy to help you, in any way he can". Even the kings have to talk to expert mages as equals (low-rank experts for higher or mid-rank experts the kings would have to treat them as someone of a higher level than themselves).
"And with your potential in magic, it won't be a big surprise if you reach the upper ranks of expert mage"(mage or magus are real magicians so if you see a mage word it means real magician).
The number of expert mages is around 10 in the kingdom Hassan is currently in. 10 might not seem high, but you must keep in mind experts are extremely strong mages, And the population of his kingdom alone was in hundred million. expert mage is extremely strong, who can wipe armies of hundreds maybe even a thousand on their own. If an army of these mages fought together they might even tear whole countries apart. Expert mages were more inclined toward studying magic than fighting as they want to know how to cross the shackle of an expert mage.
For this reason, war is always fought using normal people who don't know any magic, Even though this didn't stop the kingdoms from sneaking in some low-level physical magicians, they never dared to use them openly. Hassan understood that expert mages were like nukes from his previous world. Even if they aren't allowed to be used in war countries will still keep them for their safety from others who hold the nukes, only to be used in times of dire need.
Hassan felt very fatigued because he had almost dried his magika out(only 3% remained). He looked toward his mother, She went to the next part of his practice of spells.
She told him, now that you are out of magika there are two ways to recover it back.
The first is to just wait it out, your magika would recover when breathing the magika particles in, some of the magika is absorbed in your body in your lungs where the absorbance of Magika is maximum. This way can be modified by learning a modified way of breathing the concept is simple, instead of breathing in and out normally you hold the breath in for a while. The magika spends more time in your lungs and has more chance to be absorbed by its spongy surface. Every magician uses this way of breathing. In this way, a magician can recover their whole magika in 7 to 8 hours, with normal breathing 10 plus hours. This time does not increase with the increase in ranks, it takes around the same time for a novice and adept to fill their magika back to full. The reason for this is that the bodies of adept are more used to absorbing magika than a novice. Some people whose bodies were more suited for magika absorption required lesser time.
The second way is to meditate, when mediating the magician puts all their attention on absorbing the magika. This way it took around three hours to recover the used magika,( but during the meditation, mages' focus was on magika absorption so their bodies were in danger). They open up their bodies to absorbing magika, the body absorbs more magika when a person is directly focusing on absorbing it. This is also how one increase their ranks as a magician, once one reaches their magika limit (the amount that they can store in their bodies at the time) and they try to absorb, even more, this puts pressure on their bodies but little by little their body magika storage increase, this pressure also makes their bodies stronger(this person assumed that magika storage requires stronger bodies) Any person can meditate, but there are ways to absorb more magical if they use some specific technique their magika absorbance can increase.
The best technique that Jacob mother had heard about was a technique that increased the magika absorbance so much that it took only 1/3 of the time it took for a person to meditate without a technique(one hour to refill), but this was a technique only royals were allowed to use. If a non-royal was caught using this technique they would be branded as traitors and killed.
Hassan's mother also told him that the technique she used was given to her by her father. He had reached the 2nd rank of adept using this technique, and he was the one who created it.
The technique was to control the magika in the surrounding environment and condense it into a point. Then absorb all that magika in one gulp instead of taking in small amounts of it. Once it enters the body the person had to hold their breath. This magika in their lungs would be absorbed much faster than absorbing it little by little from the environment. The only flaw in this technique was that it required a stronger body, this requirement was absent for the normal ways of absorbing magika. A stronger body was required because the high intensity of magika inside the lungs might cause damage to the body that couldn't keep absorbing anymore magika. This is the reason Jacob was trained by his mother to have a stronger body so he can inherit this technique from her. This technique reduced the time required to refill magika by nearly 1/2(1.5 hours). Jacob had reached 4th rank of the novice by normal meditation.
After explaining all this she also reminded Hassan to not tell about this technique to anyone else. Hassan was not a naive kid, He understood that this might cause some problems if others knew about him holding an absorbance technique. without the strength to defend himself someone might even kidnap him to learn the technique from him.
Even though he told his mother he won't tell anyone about the technique. however, if someone threatened his life he would rather give them the technique than die a pointless death.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I am sorry I can't get over my habit of explaining things in too much detail. but this is to give you guys a clear view of how all the things in this world works. I tried my best not to add redundant information. Currently, I am explaining everything once this is done you would have a much easier time, and the story pace would increase.
I am trying to keep the world reasonable
also a reminder to ranks
novice
apprentice
adept
expert
all have further 10 stages in them.
btw if you have played Skyrim you would know this is taken from there. there is no concept of 10 levels in between though