My name is Kain Blackmoon,that's what i think I remember. I'm 1 year old now,yes,one year old.I was a NEET when I was back on earth,or my 1st life,and then I died due to liver cancer,not much to remember. 

I got reincarnated into a universe with space pirates and futuristic life,but I was a slave,a battle slave on a pirate ship after my home planet got raided and most people either become pirates/slaves or get sold like cargos.I suffered for 35 years till the ship I was on got ambushed by the governor's fleet and forced to land on an unknown planet. The storms carrying diamond shards on the planet's surface doesn't take much to cut every living soul on board down. A slow dead as a billion knife cut through your skin and your bones.

And then,I wake up,not exactly wake up but rather open my eyes. I was reincarnated again with memories of 2 previous lives.

My father in this life unlike the 2 fathers i had in my previous life,responsible is not his strong point. He's a adventurer,a swordsman basicly,who works for the adventurer guild in town.Due to work,he has to leave the house regularly for a long period of time. The patrol job he took really brought coins to the family but in return he's only at home like 5 days per month. But he always loves me and my mother alot,everytime he comes home,there's joy and small happiness in the family.

My mother is a very hard working woman and very very loves her child aka me. My family don't have any magicians in the bloodline on either side so life is kinda harsh,but fortunately unlike in the light novels,science also develops in this world. Not everyone can use magic anyway

Unlike the life on earth,farming in this world is very difficult due to many reasons,soil infected with mana worms are tougher and harder to plow,mana beast assault,strange weather due to mana flows in the air..etc etc. That's why all farmlands are protected by walls and controlled by the government,distributed back to farmers by contracts.

My family own a small piece of farmland near the south gate of the town,since we're poor and doesn't have any connection in the government,originally we can't hire any land but my dad work for the adventure guild so...we hire the land from the guild which the guild hire from the government… the tax is obviously high.

We can only have 30% left after 70% go to the tax,barely but enough to feed us during winter.

My father plows the fields and harvest the crops when my mother takes care of the crops while they grow,life is difficult but there's always laughter and happiness in this house.

But for a child like me,things are more...complicated . Let's begin with myself,if you combine age from my previous 2 lives,I'm a 81 years old man trapped in a 1 year old kid body,this can't be good obviously. The way I observe this world is different,the way how I got here is mind boggling too. Did my spirit take over the body and killed the original owner ? Like this is the second time I reincarnated,or I hope so,with my full memory,this can't be right.

The language barrier is obviously the 1st thing i encounter,but i got time to learn as all other kids,2nd thing is,i can barely control this body even after one year. The muscle and bone don't fully grow, making it extra difficult to just even sit. I was so scared and paranoid at first,you know,after 35 years serving as a battle slave,my life is always in danger and the feeling you can't control your body for a veteran...is unexplainable. But after a year,things getting better,not that i can move freely like i wanted but i can feel it slowly growing up,and also i can feel safe,yes,safe,in this house with my family,after years i can finally have a deep sleep without fear wake up with a knife in my throat,the peaceful,i can enjoy it.

Today is a special day,the royal magician academy will test the magic potential of all children within kingdom age from 1. The kids who get chosen,will be sent to the academy to be raised,taught and perfected by the best magicians,far away from their parents.

The royal magician academy in the kingdom has both a famous and notorious side. It produces best magicians but cold blood,it's students are trained harshly and emotionless since baby,making the best tools for the royal to use.

Unlike what i thought when i know about magic,there's no forbidden magic here. Necromancy or even contract with devils are the norm since all magics are just how this world shows itself through the human body.

Since there's no magician in my bloodline,either side,so the chance i have magic power is low but it's king's decree so my mom can't help but bring me to town square and wait. The scene really reminds me of lines of mom bringing kids to take vaccines in child hospital,the crying and screaming are deafening.

One by one,kids are placed in a crystal like cradle, the cradle will check the mana of the kid and how mana flowing through the kid body,color of the mana normally will show what kind of magic suit the kid the most,silver white for holy,red for fire,green for plant etc etc but the rarest is the golden color,the god's magic ability.

There's only one golden color mana user in record,the current emperor,who made himself immortal with god like magic.

Most magicians will decide to serve royal or noble,the cost for studying high tier magic is very expensive. That's why magicians once called the royal's hunting dogs till the emperor banned it. 

The moment when there are 3 childs left before my turn,they stop. They got enough for this year,this is how finders of the academy work,if they take all potential kids in just one year there'll be none left for them to take next time. The punishment for failing to reach a standard is not easy.

I was given back to my mother and we went home,for us it's just a time wasting event.

It's very difficult to live as a non-magic user in this world,that's why science develops alongside magic,but we only reach around the medieval age now. 

I wonder what I will become in the future,a swordsman like my father ? Won't be hard with my combat skills,as a battle slave I was trained to fight to death,all weapons, all skills, all techniques must be perfected just to survive.

And one thing just popped into my mind,my last time I didn't have any cheat,any system as in the light novels. I was disappointed,but...how about this life ??

It took me a while to figure out one important thing,i don't know how to speak yet and the best i can do is woo woo ga ga which makes my mother think i pooped in my pant,so embarrassing.

Time passed by peacefully till one day war broke out with the elf in the west,my dad was conscripted as a levy swordsman,most adventurers didn't escape the call of duty from the army.

Now most men left the town,families like mine begin to move in to live together,for safety and easier take care of each other. 

I was 4 at the time there's a big wave of mana beasts attacking the town. The garrison troops couldn't do much of a fight and were forced to hide behind town's walls. Praying the beasts would leave soon or reinforcement from other towns would come and rescue them. It was the hardest 9 months i ever had since i was born into this world.

Food becomes scarce,the roaring from the beats outside the wall and the bashing sound on the town's gate seem never to end. Sometimes there's a few flying mana beasts that try to attack from above but we fought them off. Mana beast meat slowly took over the menu,houses got torn down for material to fix the gate and walls,many families had to live in tents.

At the 9th month of this siege,reinforcement finally came,but not as we expected they got ambushed and destroyed by lions which were bigger than a warhorse,the smell of the blood following the winds into the town as morale dropped as a rock among soldiers and civilians.

There will be no reinforcement and the hope to wait for the beast to leave by themself became fantasy. There's no choice now.

I remember my mother holding me very tight as I could feel her tears dropping on me when the town council finally gave order for the final fight. Soldiers and volunteers will fight for an escape route for women and children,if they fail,there will be nothing left.

There's no food left in town and everyday going by the weaker we become,this is the final gamble.

I was almost 5 years old the morning the gate opened,everybody grabbed a piece of wood as a shield and armed themself with anything they could've found. The fights were brutal,beasts tear humans piece by piece as their guts and blood splash all over others nearby,humans kill many beasts and their path is paved by monster corpses in return.

My mother was killed by a giant snake monster,she pushed me back to others when the snake bit and took her away. I was so shocked when that happened and people gotta pick me up and run.

That day,for every 10 people who left that gate,only 2 escaped. When the government sends more reinforcement,there's already nothing left of the town but ruin.

And there was me,an almost 5 years old kid,without any relatives except my dad who was on the frontline.

The survivors were found by reinforcement and escort to the nearest city,SilverMoon city. I was brought to an orphanage. That night I cried a lot,there goes my family. I'm defenseless now so in my last hope,I go into the toilet and begin to mumble words as a crazy kid,hoping for some miracles would happen.

'System active'

'System start'

'System'

And as my hopes begin to fade… I only wish I could've had more power to protect my mom,to protect my family. Tears begin to roll on my face,but then

"Analyzing user...analyzing completed...system activating...loading…"

A blue panel like a tablet appeared in front of my eyes.
_______________________________________
Name : Kain Blackmoon

Health : 10

Mana : 0

Race : Human

Job : none

Age : 5

Status : Dehydrated

             Fear

             Confused

             Hungry

Stat :

Strength 5

Stamina 5

Agility 5

Wisdom 5

Intelligent 5

Title : none

Equipment : disabled

Skill : none
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So I got a game-like system… Why didn't it appear sooner? I could've done something to help my mom...take me awhile to quit thinking about the past,i decided to grow stronger from now,i still have my dad,i don't wanna lose everyone in my family.

On the left of the light tablet is a storage space like most games,it's a 10x10 storage. I try to put my shoe and a chair inside the storage,both take only 1 slot. This will be useful,the item size doesn't change how many slots it takes. If the light novels don't lie to me,I will be very strong and …. Wait how do i level up this system… there's no level shown in the tablet how do i increase my stats ?

There's also no skill table… how do i get skill...or even class….

Ok ok so in light novel,the main character kills monsters to level up… how do i even kill a monster with this 4 years 10 months old body…

Sitting alone in the toilet and sad,I want to become stronger,kill the monster and find what's left of my mother. I want to bury her properly,then go to find my father.

I guess i have no choice but to live here for now,there's no place for me out there. I don't even know if my dad is still alive as troops are forbidden to send letters home.

I calm myself down before I cry again,my soul is old but my body is only a kid,there's things like emotions and hunger that I can't control.

And then

"New skill acquired : Zen level 1"

'What the..'

I almost say out loud. So this is how I get skill…

Should I begin to practice martial arts and weapons using skills and techniques to get skill now ? I wonder.

It would be useful to defend myself but for a 4 years old kid like me,knowing those would make me a weirdo...will they drag me to the inquisitor court and burn me alive ? Wait, do we even have an inquisitor court in this world ? 

After a while thinking,i decided to practice all my skills again,can't say whenever i have to use them again and i have to keep this in secret,that's why around midnight is ideal.

Back to my room,kids who are my roommates are crying on their bed. It seems there's not only my town getting attacked by mana beasts. 

All of us are age below 10 so they put us all in the same room,the oldest name Mars,he's 9,others are same same around 6-7.

Tomorrow they will send us down the hall to register and separate us into dorms. I hope this is not a warrior training camp like the one I used to fight in my previous life.

Get on my bed,i decide to go to sleep,whatever happens tomorrow,i need good condition to deal with it.

Sun rises and shines above the ground,the noise of people moving items around soon wakes me up,it's early morning. A young man in black robe knocks on the door and wakes us all up.

'Wake up children today is an important day,we need to have breakfast and prepare. You will be chosen by headmasters of academies.'

Mars is the 1st one to react,he gets out of bed,folds his blanket and puts it below his pillow,he must be taught well by his family.

Other kids are slower to react,I should be the last because what I heard… isn't it the same type of warrior training camp ?? The boss will pick younglings and train them to be emotionless killing machines.

Despite what I think,we move down the hall into a square,a giant square. There should be around a thousand atleast kids here now,they're all orphans after the assault of magic beasts on towns or even small cities around the kingdom. We're told that we're the second batch of orphans so the emperor gave a decree to change orphanages to academies,take in and raise all orphans. More academies are being built all around the kingdom but there are 4 biggest by now,the royal magician academy Horthing,the royal military academy White Peak,the science academy Ezaki and last the church's academy Mellian,named after a saint.

For now those 4 academies will take in all orphans and the newly built or turned from orphanages  will be used as branches of them,teachers and studying facilities will be given by the academies and funded by the kingdom. Wise move from the emperor for not letting soldiers on the front worry about their children.

We're separated by tests,older kids will be tested for their intelligent,strength,faith and magic potential. For a young child like me,a simple test for magic using is enough,if I have magic,the church or the magician academy will take me in. If I don't,science and the military academy will do the job.

For what I can see on my character status board,I have zero mana so it's highly likely I will go to the military or science academy. It's not that bad you know,I will gladly join any academy to survive now.

'Oliver Wheatfield.'

It's my turn,Oliver Wheatfield is the name I have from my family in this life,I walk forward and wait. A young man wearing black cloak asked me to put my hand on a stone which had a flat surface like a mirror.

'Hold your hand their little fellow.' He said

As expected,nothing appear or happen,i was quickly moved to a big group in corner of the yard,it's most of the kids here since the rate to have mana is very low,or rather you have to have enough mana to get recognized,some will grow and have more mana later as adult but their potential is limited to use only tier 1 or 2 magic spells so the academies will not take them in.

At the end of the day, the military academy and science academy just split us like loots after a battle,I was sent to the military academy.