Chapter 463: Benefits OF Soul Bond
Leo kept observing Lily and the Hydra, not even noticing that the owl had halted its descent and was suspended mid-air, allowing him to take in the breathtaking sight of revolving mana particles surrounding Lily’s figure and the surroundings.
Lily was deep in concentration, and it seed she had encountered a roadblock in her attempt to advance the Hydra, evident from the deep furrow in her brow.
Leo didn’t want to disturb her, so he shifted his attention to the surroundings. And just as he had guessed, this place was truly a paradise of spirits. Though not a single spirit stronger than a Low 2-star was visible, the area was filled with countless 1-star spirits fluttering around peacefully.
At another location, he spotted Miho trying to utilise the Frosthide Bison’s spirit fra to bolster her body. Then she did sothing surprising.
An earthen wall stood erected in front of her, and she suddenly sprinted toward it. But instead of crashing into the wall, midway through her charge, the 7 ters spirit figure of a bison materialised around her and ramd into the wall first, completely shattering it apart, while Miho herself remained unhard.
But Miho didn’t stop there. She raised her hand, and a 30-ter circle around her was instantly covered in frost. The next mont, countless zig-zagging ice spikes erupted upward from the ground.
She clenched her fist, raised it forcefully, and slamd it downward. The movent was accompanied by the shattering of every ice spike, leaving the entire area clean.
She seed to be mastering her control and looked fairly close to complete proficiency. Not to ntion, the energy radiating from her body suggested she had already reached the Low 3-star level, equal to the contracted Bison.
"No wait, the Bison ranked up!" Leo exclaid in surprise.
The spirit Bison projection around her body emitted the aura of a mid-3-star beast.
"Wow, she looks strong enough to take a top 50 position now," Leo muttered.
Currently, Miho was ranked below 500, but he knew that was only because she hadn’t challenged anyone during this period. Otherwise, her strength was already high enough to comfortably place her within the top 50. Heck, she even had a chance of reaching 12th, if not 11th.
Since the 11th student was Cecil with the horse-type fla half-spirit, Miho was naturally at a disadvantage in terms of elental affinity. Fire held superiority over ice. The sa could be said for Yano’s earth-elent beast, though that matchup was more neutral, aning Miho still had a decent chance of taking the 12th rank right now.
Leo’s gaze returned to Lily once again, but suddenly Katherine appeared beside him, hovering calmly in mid-air.
"Good to see you again. Professor Gunther said that you completed your training?" she asked.
"Good morning, Professor Katherine, and yes, I have completed the first phase of training," Leo replied with a slight bow.
"Impressive indeed. You might be the first one across all the academies to complete the first phase of training this quickly. But then again, [Spiritual Sense] is sothing most people already know about, so don’t let it get to your head."
"I won’t," Leo answered calmly.
"Good." She then looked toward Lily.
"Can you tell what type of training Lily is going through?"
"Sothing related to spirit control?" Leo guessed.
"Well, you are right about that, but that’s still too broad. Guess sothing more specific."
Leo narrowed his eyes as he observed Lily carefully. She seed unusually focused on the Hydra, as if she was trying to accomplish sothing with it specifically.
"Maybe she wants to spirit integrate with the Hydra?"
"You’ll be half right. No, actually, a quarter right. She succeeded in that within the first few days of arriving here." Katherine smiled faintly. "Here’s a hint: she asked to prioritise a specific part of the technique she is learning after finding out she wouldn’t be able to accompany you on the Ember Family’s secret realm exploration."
Leo raised a brow.
Then sothing that would help ... he thought.
Looking at how intensely Lily focused on the Hydra, Leo arrived at one conclusion.
"Maybe she wants to sohow send the Hydra with ?"
"Fufu, you guessed correctly." Katherine chuckled softly. "Knowing that the secret realm would be rich in the fire elent, Lily wanted to send the Hydra because it possesses the water elent, which naturally counters fire. But since she isn’t experienced enough to keep her spirits summoned across an indefinite distance, I suggested sothing else."
"And it’s thanks to the bond between your souls that this will work."
Leo beca increasingly confused.
Even if Lily could maintain the Hydra at an indefinite rangehis help, how would a 25-ter beast follow him everywhere? And how exactly would it help him like that?
As a matter of fact, that would only expose one of Lily’s trump cards to the outside world and place her at a disadvantage in the upcoming inter-academy competition.
If that was truly the idea, Leo would have to refuse. But then again, even if Lily was overly concerned about his safety, Katherine wouldn’t allow sothing so reckless either.
As if sensing Leo’s thoughts, Katherine spoke again.
"Don’t worry, the Hydra won’t remain outside. Just like how you keep your beasts inside your spiritual space, the Hydra will also stay there. It can be summoned and unsummoned at will. In other words, it will beco a new beast in your arsenal."
Leo’s eyes widened.
"What?" he asked again, as if he had misheard.
"Don’t act like you didn’t hear ." Katherine crossed her arms lightly. "You both are still young, so you might not fully understand yet. But a soul bond is an extrely sacred connection that slowly turns two souls into one."
"In other words, she is you, and you are her. Two sides of the sa coin. You can use each other’s talents and capabilities, share strength, mana, even each other’s tad beasts. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg."
"To make it clearer, watch this," Katherine said as she waved her hand.
Suddenly, the sky above them darkened.
SKREEEEEEEEEE!
Leviastorm Eagle (Peak 5-star) - Royal Bloodline
Brant’s eagle appeared out of nowhere, its enormous shadow covering the land beneath. For a mont, Leo thought Brant had arrived riding the eagle, but since he wasn’t anywhere in the surroundings, there was only one possibility.
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