Ery spent his sixth day within the walls of the Earth Institute's origin stone room, he sat cross-legged on the floor, his eyes closed and his mind focused.
The third and final ga would start in four days, within that ti, he had to be ready. Right now, his most important task was to reach rank 7, nothing else mattered. In order to increase his rank, Ery needed to increase his understanding of all his elents to the middle stage.
In the next few days, he had to bring up his understanding of Earth and Water elents to the middle stage.
Anyone with common sense would see how hard, or even impossible, Ery's desire to reach rank 7 in his limited ti fra actually was. However, Ery kept on focusing. He didn't even have enough ti to cultivate, why should he waste it with self-doubt?
Ery channeled his mind and focused at the earth origin stone floating several ters away from him. Monts later, he began to feel the yellow-colored spirit lying dormant within his body starting to stir. The mont Ery tasted the feeling, he took out a familiar brown wooden box and swallowed the pearly white pill lying within.
He felt the pill move deep into the center of his body before dissipating into a vortex of powerful energy. Like water bursting from a dam, the vigorous energy travelled through his entire ridians before flowing into his dark core. His dark core felt like a small water bag placed under a waterfall, far too small to be filled with such massive amounts of energy. The energy would make it explode if not channeled, but even if he did channel it, the accumulation of energy felt way, way too painful. All of a sudden, Ery coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Do not stop!"
Magus Xion's warning echoed in his thoughts,
"Do not ever consider to stop channeling the energy. This is an extrely dangerous thod, but stopping will only endanger your body even more without any reward."
Therefore Ery gritted his teeth. He used all his remaining ntal energy to bear the excruciating pain, while concentrating to channel the overflowing energy towards the yellow-colored spirit inside his body.
anwhile, unbeknownst to Ery, two figures had been watching his training process. Magus Darius from the Institute of Earth and Magus Xion from the Institute of Darkness watched from just out of sight, with enough distance for them to oversee Ery's training, yet not too obvious to alert Ery of their presence.
"You really are interested in this kid, aren't you? Isn't he the kid from the regular class who managed to make it into first place?"
Magus Xion did not answer the question, as he only kept on watching Ery.
"Did he really take a Spirit Foundation Pill? He is still rank 6! He's just endangering himself!" Magus Darius said, when he saw Ery swallow the familiar pill. The tone in his voice showed he was truly shocked.
The mont Ery spat out blood to the floor, both of their expressions changed for the worse.
"Hey, Xion! What did you do? Stop this! All this for a ga…? Look, I know there are a lot of things worth dying for, but the magus ga is not one of them."
In contrast to Magus Darius, Magus Xion seed calm and kept watching Ery concentrate on his training. Darius was able to notice Xion seed troubled, but his decision to do nothing made the Earth Institute magus so enraged, to the point he had to leave the room to calm himself down.
One hour passed…
Ery kept on gritting his teeth and bear the pain, even as his knuckles turned white from the tight grip he subjected himself onto. The pain did not subside even one bit.
Two hours passed…
Ery's entire body was soaked wet with his own sweat and his breathing had beco ragged. He pushed through the pain and continued on.
Four hours passed…
At the mont, ti held no more aning to Ery. All he could focus on was his drive to keep going, to keep controlling the endless deluge of energy and channel them through his dark core towards the yellow-colored spirit.
After what felt like an eternity, Ery finally managed to break through. The mont he did so, he felt as if he had finally managed to pry a rusted steel door from its hinges.
[Congratulations! You have reached a breakthrough in the earth elent!]
[Earth Spirit – Mid-Foundation]
The mont the two notifications appeared, Ery spat out another mouthful of blood that swiftly splattered onto the room's floor. It was clear from his gaze and his slumped posture he was extrely exhausted. Without further due, Magus Xion finally moved and grabbed Ery's falling body before it could hit the ground.
Magus Xion took one look at Ery's body and told him to rest. He would need all the energy he could get if he wanted to advance his understanding of the water elent.
The next day ca, upon waking up, Ery imdiately went to the water origin stone room to start his training. Despite his still aching body, he ignored the pain, as he still had matters unfinished.
Just like yesterday, Ery sat in a lotus position within the range of the water origin stone.
On one hand, while he was glad to be able to reach a breakthrough in such a short period of ti, Ery felt he was doing sothing wrong and his practice thod could be improved. However, he rembered how his master, a full-fledged magus, was keeping an eye on him. Therefore, with a newfound sense of confidence, Ery took the second Spirit Foundation Pill.
The familiar deluge of energy ca back, all flowing towards his dark core. This ti, Ery channeled all the energy towards the blue-colored spirit stirring within his body.
Again, just like yesterday, Ery felt an excruciating pain all over his body. He rembered the result from yesterday and decided to grit his teeth. There was no choice but to endure, endure the pain in order to grasp a chance to obtain a quick and significant result.
Unlike yesterday, this ti the process took a significant part of the day.
[Congratulations! You have reached a breakthrough in the water elent!]
[Water Spirit – Mid-Foundation]
[Congratulations! You have reached rank 7!]
[Spirit Force increased]
[Battle Power increased]
[Ery Ambrose]
[Battle Power: 45]
[Spirit Force: 155]
[Plant Spirit – Mid-Foundation]
[Water Spirit – Mid-Foundation]
[Earth Spirit – Mid-Foundation]
[Spirit Core of Darkness – Stage 3]
[Fey Bloodline – Rank 3]
[Acolyte Rank: 7]
The mont he saw the notification, he exhaled in relief and felt his eyelids beco heavy. Right before he was about to lose his consciousness, Ery saw the familiar face of Magus Xion right in front of him.
"I… I did it, Master…!"
"Great, you did great, Ery."
Finally, with all his energy spent, Ery fainted and dropped to the cold floor with a thud. Just like before, Xion took him. But this ti, without Ery knowing, his Master took him to a certain castle, where the head of Darkness Institute resided. Soon, they would co face-to-face with Grand Magus Zenoia.
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Written and Directed by Avans, Published by W.e.b.n.o.v.e.l,
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