7 A Breakthrough after a Million Years (1/2)

The whistling wind hits Rose's face hard, while she holds onto Thorn's shoulders. And he holds Lapi White, the dalmatian dog type monster human. They head to White Farm to destroy a vegetable monster that has been eating the farm crops.

At late afternoon, they arrive at their destination. The White Farm has a white four-story building that the White family use as a home. On the sides of the building are large D-class zenanium pens. Inside these corrals, there are several domesticated monsters like chicken types, pig types, cow types, and sheep types. All these monsters are easy to tame because they can't reach the Initial Awaken stage. Also in the distance there are the fields of wheat types, pea types, rice types, carrot types, vegetable monsters. In the same way, they are only vegetable monsters that can't reach the Initial Awaken.

As soon as Thorn descends in front of the door of the building, Rose leaves his back, and Lapi White says with a shout: ”Dad, I have brought the mercenaries!”

Even before he could finish talking, the door of the building opens and from it comes out a silver wolf type monster human. He comes out wearing a smile, and chuckling, he says: ”Hojojojo... Welcome son, you've done a good job.” He looks at Rose and Thorn, and says: ”You must be the mercenaries that my son bought, my name is Lobup White. It's a pleasure to meet you both.”

Laughing, Rose says: ”My name is Rose, my sister's name is Thorn. And the pleasure is ours, Mr. Lobup White.”

”Hojojojo... it is a surprise, usually mercenaries are not so polite hojojojo... Come in, Come in, surely you must be exhausted by the trip. For today you should rest and early tomorrow we will take care of that vegetable monster.” Lobup White says as he makes a signal with his hand to show them the entrance to his house.

They enter the building.

Lobup White invites Thorn and Rose to dinner. They accept the invitation happily. At dinner, the White family is surprised by the way Thorn eat. At the end of the dinner, Lobup White guides Thorn and Rose to the guest room so they could spend the night there.

The guest room is spacious and has a row of five beds.

After entering, at the moment when they both are the only ones in the room, Thorn tells Rose: ”I feel that today was the longest day of my life... with everything that has happened I haven't even had the time to make my breakthrough...”

She responds with envy in her eyes: ”Can you make a breakthrough right now?”

”Yes, the door is already there, I just have to go through It.” he replies.

”Good, go ahead and make your breakthrough, I will not let anyone interrupt you while you do it.” Rose assures.

Thorn proceeds to sit in lotus position on one of the beds. He closes his eyes and breathes deeply. Then he forms a mental connection with his Complex Energy body.

Thorn's mental body appears in a space of infinite darkness and in front of him is a green door with dark green lines through it, they give off the impression of veins.

Thorn forms a fist and taps with it that door, immediately after the door shatters. Normally breaking this door takes a long time but Thorn's current mental body is simply too powerful compared to the door to enter the Second Level Intermediate Awaken.

After smashing the door, a passageway appears where Thorn's mental body could fit. He enters that passageway and soon arrives at an immense room where a Thorn exuding a green aura was waiting for him. This green aura Thorn has the same strength and combat capability that Thorn had at the time he reached the First Level Intermediate Awaken.

Green aura Thorn uses his Wind Type Awakened Skill to ascend 100 m in an instant, and he then nose-dives towards Thorn with his fist pointed at him.

Thorn forms a claw with his hand and with extreme hatred, he looks at green aura Thorn, then mutters resentfully: ”Because of your weakness, I had lost everything.”

Thorn then raises his clawed hand and moves his fingers so fast that they leave afterimages. Hundreds of wind blades come from Thorn's fingers and go through green aura Thorn's body. Tens of thousands of bits of green aura Thorn's body rain down on Thorn's body.

He watches how the blood and flesh of his old self fall on him with a cold stare.

While Thorn is making his breakthrough, Rose stares at Thorn, wondering: (How long will he take to breakthrough?)

Usually, it takes hours to kill a version of yourself with the same level of cultivation. At that time when she did not stop making breakthroughs, she only needed twenty to thirty minutes and always she succeeded in the first attempt. Just that was incredible enough to render everyone in Clouds Cutter Castle speechless.

Suddenly Rose feels that Thorn's aura in Complex Energy turns to Second Level Intermediate Awaken aura.

Rose's eyes almost popped out of her sockets, she opens her mouth and says stuttering: ”H-he had t-taken j-just... f-five seconds...”

Thorn opens his eyes and observes Rose's funny expression, then he says with a smile: ”Do not be surprised so much by it... it was to be expected that it would not take me much time, after all, I had more than a million years to understand my Awakened Skill and to strengthen my mental body.”