Chapter 228: Hikaris Breakthrough (2/2)
”I see. It seems as if what I told you yesterday is forcing you to make a choice. I'm sorry. Treat it as me confessing to you so you don't need to choose. Let's go along with what you think. Likewise, I also want to know more about you, Fleur.”
It might be a part of appealing to her, showing the benefits of being with me. But becoming stronger is the most important for her right now. If I push it like that then it's really forcing her to choose to take up my offer. That beats the meaning of becoming my Companion.
”I'm glad. In that case, can I invite you to visit our Forest?”
”Sure. I'd love to go.”
Upon hearing my answer, Fleur smiled politely and reached out to my hand. As if naturally, it ended up with us interlocking it. That experience last night must've grown on her where I kept on reaching for her hand.
Even without the need for our hand to touch now, holding each other like this made it feel like we now have that certain connection.
Well, I can only hope that we really reached that point. With the upcoming meeting with the holder of the 5th Orb, she'll see the destiny thing in play. As to what effect that will bring to our relationship, I can only guess.
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As the training for the elites continued, Arland only showed himself in the morning to check on the progress of Hikari and the three Magi he brought. Throughout the day since we brought back the artifact, he spent all his time on using it to strengthen the Formation that was centered on his Magus Tower.
The scene of Boris calling upon the Door of Transcendence became an energizer for them and made everyone more eager to breakthrough that they asked me to up the difficulty of their training.
Around noon. At a certain spot inside the Energy Zone where Hikari was sitting, an alarming surge of Elemental Energy was emitted by her. Along with that, the dense amount of energy inside the Energy Zone swirled along with her as it continued to be absorbed inside her body.
After 2 days of training, Hikari's Elemental Pathway has finally reached the point of breaking through to the Elemental Forming Realm. That amount of energy she was absorbing was what she needed to completely form her first Secondary Core.
When the other elites saw her, they all exclaimed as they only realized that Hikari is someone that is two realms behind them. As crazy as that may be, they'll probably have a heart attack if they also realized that the Transcendent training them was even below her.
In any case, it's already enough for only Arland and Fleur to know that. I only revealed it for them to fully trust me.
Ignoring the gazes of everyone else, Hikari's Main Elemental Core materialized on top of her head. It's a golden brilliant sphere of light. After it materialized, an empty vessel formed next to it.
That will be the vessel of her Secondary Core.
Hikari then stood up as the swirling energy around her ceased to move. At that point, both of her hands moved as she started to control the Energy around her. Soon afterwards, a specific variation of the Elemental Energy, the Fire Element, started to be extracted from it which moved to fill the empty vessel.
At the same time as that was happening, Hikari became covered with a fire-like aura which enhanced her energy control and sped up the extraction of the Fire Element.
As soon as the empty vessel was filled up with Fire Elemental Energy, Hikari sat down once again and continued to absorb more Fire Element which made it as if she's burning.
When her Main Core and the Secondary Core hanging above her head dematerialized, that marked her successful breakthrough and the following absorption was for consolidating her new Secondary Core.
A few minutes after that breakthrough, Hikari once again created a commotion. And this time, it's more than the first one.
Well, I already predicted that it will happen. That's the only thing left for her to reach Transcendence.
Like Boris, she stood up and gathered all of her energy on her palm before shooting it up in the sky to call upon the Door of Transcendence.
When the illusory Door of Transcendence appeared once again in the sky, a loud cheering coming from the rest of the city exploded. Two new Transcendents are more than just good news and it will probably increase enthusiasm for every resident. Regaining hope like this, their morale will be raised once again.
Also having the two of them reach that threshold back to back gathered more crazed response with the remaining five.
Armel and Isabel wanted to challenge two clones at once to push their training further.
Elmer and the siblings, Almira and Mara requested for my real body to train them. They wanted a more difficult training by challenging me, a Transcendent.
Since I'm just spending some quality time with Fleur while waiting for the Luxians and watching them train. I granted their request.