"Do you see it as a complint?" Exalon asked with a jesting expression.
"I don’t know," Katari said as she took a step back from Exalon, not out of fear but because she needed a bit of space to think and Exalon’s body projected an illusion of being big enough to occupy every area in her vision.
"Am I crazy?" She asked herself, turning away from the Exalon and the ti bubble.
For the first ti in her life, Katari was thinking deeply about herself. It wasn’t that she had never thought about herself before but she had never thought...deeply.
Her first thoughts always revolved around Kael, not her as it was currently.
Exalon raised one of his eyebrows, puzzled. He saw the expression Katari had just before she turned away from him, it was a look of bewildernt, sothing he had not seen since he t her.
"I’m crazy?
No, I’m crazy.
Yes, I’m crazy.
Crazy.
Hmm, am I still crazy?
I know that I’m crazy.
But how?"
Katari tilted her head, staring blankly at the horizon and the not-so-far continental edge.
Her eyes shifted constantly, changing between two miniature black holes and two regular cold eyes.
Slowly, those eyes no longer looked so cold and indifferent. There was a new light glowing softly in them.
Self-awareness.
Self-awareness that was so strong that Katari felt her chest tighten. Her heart beat fast and tears welled up at the edges of her eyes.
"Katari, are you okay?" Exalon asked, feeling that things may not be as funny as he thought.
He suddenly realised that he could not sense anything from Katari anymore.
At least, he could see her. But he knew that if he turned away, he would lose sight of her and wouldn’t be able to detect her presence even if she was to stand directly behind him.
This was a scary feeling because he was a Tier 6 War Lion king with one of the strongest senses in the whole heavenverse.
He couldn’t even perceive it, it also felt like her body refused to produce any sound no matter how hard she moved.
Katari didn’t move, didn’t shake, didn’t change stance. She just stood there, blending perfectly with her space and surroundings.
Exactly, that was exactly what Exalon felt was happening to Katari right now.
She was actually blending in perfectly with space.
"She’s becoming..." Exalon gasped, unable to comprehend the kind of talent needed to achieve what Katari was doing right now.
"She’s becoming One with the Void
This was unprecedented, the last ti a tier five space lion had achieved such a thing was unrecorded, aning it had happened a very long ti ago.
Katari was lost at this point, becoming completely vulnerable to any attacks that could co her way.
But...
Exalon stretched out his hand to touch Katari’s shoulder. To his greatest shock, his hand went right through.
An organic body shouldn’t be capable of sothing like this, not even a vacuum-based entity like Katari should be able to do this.
Only spirit creatures were able to temporarily make their bodies intangible, but even they had a limit because they were still there.
Katari’s body on the other hand seed to be slowly warping and twisting to the impossible. Space was literally warping around her.
That she was becoming one with the Void ant that her comprehension of herself and her abilities was reaching a higher level.
Her body and soul warped together with space.
I’m simple terms, Katari was subconsciously doing sothing that should technically only be possible with Warp Effect, sothing that only tier 6 lions should be capable of.
But if Katari was unknowingly using warp effect with her powers in this state of unwanted enlightennt, then...
"LEAVE HER!"
mphis’s thundering voice echoed from behind Exalon.
Exalon turned around just in ti to see mphis speeding toward him from the side of the ti bubble.
In no ti, she was standing beside Exalon and staring squarely at Katari’s back.
"What do you want to do?" Exalon asked skeptically. It wasn’t strange that mphis would arrive at this point.
Wherever she had been, she had probably realised that she could no longer sense Katari’s presence on the continent and had to co check what had happened.
It would be bad if anything happened to Katari while she was trying to prove to Kael that she was on his side.
"You can’t disturb her, this is rare," mphis said with a very serious expression. Her green eyes shone with the power of ti and her nostrils flared.
She tried to sniff into Katari’s past but discovered that it was becoming harder and more taxing.
"Where did he find her?" mphis asked, not expecting a reply from anyone.
"That’s the sa question I’ve been asking actually," Exalon exclaid in frustration.
Kael seems to surround himself with extraordinary lionesses, they had noticed.
Even the recent addition, Alora, was an exceptional individual among lionesses of the sa level and power type.
"She has to stay in a ti bubble, isolated and in an environnt where she will be able to maximise the benefits of this state," mphis said, already taking action as she waved her arms.
Soon after, Exalon felt a strong pull on his body. His reaction was almost instantaneous and his natural instinctive action was to resist.
Visible cracks appeared in space as Exalon’s body bulged with masculine monstrosity.
The arkships flying above slowed down as they noticed the spectacular rise of Exalon’s aura.
"Stop," mphis’s calm voice resounded in Exalon’s mind. It was only then that Exalon relaxed his body.
He was transported, or rather, pushed away by the new ti bubble that erupted around Katari.
This was the sa thing that happened with Kael and Ozia.
Exalon sighed, seeing the new ti bubble standing next to Kael’s ti bubble.
And all of a sudden, he was all alone. Just because of what he said to Katari. Who would have thought that a single phrase would trigger Katari like that?
If it was so easy, Exalon would go around waiting for soone to say sothing random and impactful to him to kick-start another evolution.
"They should all be done before the end of the day," mphis said, appearing like a ghost beside Exalon.
Exalon did not flinch or turn his head to look at her. He was unfazed by mphis’s mysterious use of her powers.
"Are you holding all these ti bubbles on your own?" Exalon asked, his gaze lingering from one massive ti bubble to the other.
"With a little bit of help from the continent and the runes one of my students helped install, yes," mphis answered truthfully.
"Do you want to join them?" mphis asked with a mixed look of concern and curiosity.
"Will it be of any use?"
"Most likely not," mphis answered truthfully, "But you could try, even though you’re old."
Exalon shrugged his shoulders, "Never mind, I require a specific type of training and you are not capable of giving that to , even if you can add the weight of eons to the equation."
"Hmm, I suppose you are right. Reaching tier 7 is not sothing that would be easy," mphis said.
Exalon sighed, "I can only keep on trying. Sa with you, the immortal tier is not easy, I would assu."
mphis nodded, "One hundred and twenty-five thousand years, I’ve been alive.
If I wasn’t a Ti Lioness, I would have never been able to cheat death so many tis and reach this level of power by not playing fair.
I have lived long beyond the natural lifespan of a tier 7 entity, yet I have not reached tier 8.
If I was any other lioness with a different power, I would long be dead with absolutely zero chances of even dreaming about the immortal tier.
It makes you wonder just how terrifying Noel and Ibadon had been during their ti, or at least, Noel’s ti.
The average tier 7 has an ultimatum of one hundred thousand years to reach tier 8. Most of us will fail...
Unfortunately.
I don’t want to die."
Hearing mphis talking with him for much longer than usual, Exalon relaxed. It was not every day that he got to listen to an ancient being like mphis.
There was a nuance between the two of them that needed to be cleared.
To the average mortal, Exalon was also a really old creature. He was a little over a thousand years old and his lifespan was expected to be ten thousand years.
He couldn’t even compare himself to mphis, who was approximately one hundred and twenty tis his age.
She looked much younger than Exalon and I’m a mortal human world, they might assu that mphis was much younger than Exalon when it was the other way around.
Exalon was still a baby to her. Then there was Kael who was chronologically nine years old...for now.
The gap in experience was just too much, the Baptism of Ti was necessary.
"Is that why you want to help Kael? Do you think he can help you reach the immortal tier?" Exalon asked.
mphis blinked, surprised, "I was only helping him so that I could avoid trouble before it cos to .
Can he do that?" mphis asked with hope starting to rise within her mind.
The edges of Exalon’s mustache and lips curved upward slightly to reveal a faint smirk.
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