Ragnar entered the house to see his parents arguing and his brothers. Well they're just watching them. His mother is a sorcerer and healer. And their fight is because of him. Remember the part he mentioned his father smacked his head with a metal spear at full force, that's the reason.
Ragnar wanted to stop it but," you stay put. This is something between adults ", yep, he is kept at bay with a single sentence.
Parents.
He turned to his brothers who are pretty much enjoying my the fight. Weird, so weird. Asgardians and their parents.
" Are you out of your mind? Using a actual spear against your son in a spar ".
" He needs to learn quickly. I plan for him to join Einherjar before he cross 13 ".
" For what, dying. Use your meat-head for once idiot. He isn't joining Einherjar until he is at least 300 ".
" Woman, you wouldn't honour and valor. E en if he falls in the battlefield it's an honour for him that many can't get. He will join us in Valhalla ".
" Fuck, Valhalla. You think about that when you reached there. I'm not having my son turn into a muscle-headed thing like you ".
" Fine. Have it your way. But he will join Einherjar before 50 ".
" 250 is final. I'm not losing another child of mine any sooner ".
" It's about honour for Alvric to reach Valhalla ".
" Fuck your honour. Alvric is no more than 70 and he died because of you, a father who is immersed in fighting that he didn't even see 10 frost giant ambushing your own son ".
" Snort, he died because he is weak and can't handle 10 of them ".
" He is 70. At that age, you shudder at the sight of a frost giant uller. Don't act all high now. At his age, you can't even defeat wolves in the treasure yard of wolves. What happened when you entered the challenge to prove your virtue. You ran away like a coward ".
" Careful with your words woman ".
" Or what Uller. I'm not having one of my children subjected to your ridiculous dream of gaining the recognition of King Odin ".
" That's easy for you to say. You're a witch and healer. You saw Queen Frigga like 2 or 3 times, and met her once. Then you jumped like a bambi all day about how excited you are. Isn't that same? You want to gain Queen's recognition and I want the King's ".
" No it isn't. You're trying to put your children in danger for that ".
" And? What's wrong with that? An Asgardian male who can't even face frost giants on the battlefield will live as a laughing stock and becomes a pathetic magician looked down by all ".
" Say that again ".
" What? I struck the nerve. In Asgard, magic is seen as a sign of weak and known only for it's healing. Isn't that right? ".
" Good. So you even forgot how we first met. It's because of my magic ".
Their fight continued and keep on escalating before his father punched and broke the table and his mother released a shock wave with magic smashing everything around.
Finally his father stormed out of the house while his mother collapsed on a nearby chair. She gestured him to come to her, when he approached her, she cast healing magic on him. Slowly hiss bruises started disappearing and the big bump on his head too disappeared. His brothers also left the house and followed their father.
His mother looked at him with a soft gaze and said," Ragnar promise me. You will not join Einherjar until you're at least 200 ", Ragnar hesitated before nodding. She then hugged him and ruffled his hair. Ragnar hesitated a little before asking," mother can I learn magic? ".
Lora blinked before a smile appeared on her face," of course my little wolf. First you need to sense your mana. Magic can take a little time and patience to use. Don't be discouraged if you can't use magic okay? Feel the energy that I'm going to give you. It'll connect to you and will be absorbed into you. Sense that exact spot in your body and try to move that energy from there okay ".
Ragnar nodded. He lay on the bed while his mother sent magic into him. This process is quite different compared to the one he heard. In Academy of magic in Asgard, you'll need to sense your own magic. No one will help you there.
Ragnar soon felt a tingling sensation and also felt something is trying crawl into his body. He felt it already reached into his body and gradually spreading. Soon it's all setteled in a spot in his body. Ragnar tried to sense it, after a few minutes, he managed to sense the region and the magic inside it.
His own magic reserves. They're low. Not even the size of a grain. According to his mother, he will be able to cast one spell and done. He will be exhausted. But no worries, Asgardians will grow stronger with each year they lived and continuous practice will raise magic reserves in him.
There are other ways too, signing contracts with some entities which is forbidden by Odin. Doing rituals to expand and strengthen his magic reserves and body and lastly, just wait. Yep, just wait. Since Asgardians can live thousands of years and with each year they will stronger and stronger, just wait for a few decades and they will have big reserve of it in them.
Well, he succesfully unlocked his magic. Now he needs to learn how to subconsciously draw it in order to properly use it. So his mother gave him advice while she supervised for him to draw magic when he wanted to. And it took few hours for that to happen. Next is to learn how to control the magic in order to cast different types of magic.
She has different types of exercises for that. Like pouring his magic on an egg and make sure it won't break. For that they needed to use the poured magic to surround the egg and see that the magic will not pressure the shell too much and break it. The pressure needs to stay constant and low.
Learning magic is indeed tough and needs patience. That's why many Asgardians abandon magic and only female will get it since it practically became a norm for Asgardians to throw makes into Einherjar while Females becomes healers and magucias.