22 Blood Clone (2/2)
The rest of the day passed as they continued their travels while Uncle Kil endlessly bragged about his victory and the little kitten couldn't help but cry in her thoughts. 'Aren't you a few decades older than Jonathan, and a whole rank ahead of him. Isn't it a little childish to be bragging about a victory under such conditions?'
Jonathan seemed to take this in stride however as he only walked along, gently caressing the bundle of fur in his hand while she concentrated on her meditation.
And now, with the darkness surrounding them, everyone has settled down for the night on a large but flat hill a few dozen meters from the dirt road. They were still in a grassy field and there was no civilization in sight, only grass, dirt, a few trees and the faint sight of a few mountains which could have been seen if it were not night.
Food having been ate and tired after a days travel, most everyone had gone to sleep. However, inside Jonathan's tent, where he and the little kitten should be sleeping, the both of them were instead cultivating there aura, with the little kitten's goal being to make her breakthrough tonight!
She has been at the peak of Middle Stage for a while now and she is now in the process of making the breakthrough. This can take several tries as she attempts to condense the fist sized glow that is her soul until it is no more than the size of a speck of dust. This has been a long process and she has spent the whole day of her cultivation doing this and even now her soul is still the size of a pebble, still a distance away from her goal. Over and over again, the glow of her soul was becoming smaller in size by the minute.
Next to the meditating little kitten, Jonathan who was also meditating suddenly stopped and turned his head towards her. He could sense the condensing of her spirit and the signs of a breakthrough had begun.
'How long has it been since she's been cultivating? One week? Hmm... That's quite miraculous considering its meant to take Magical Beasts a lot longer to cultivate than Magician's.' As Jonathan looked on a grin eventually showed on his lips. 'Its begun!'
Thwoom!
A low sound echoed throughout the tent. Inside the little kitten, she could see that her soul was now the size of a speck of dust. It didn't stay that size for long as that small speck suddenly exploded into a dazzling display of a deep blue color like the ocean. Prepared for this, Jonathan shielded his eyes with the back of his right hand as his grin grew wider.
In a tent horizontal to theirs, a certain older gentleman had stopped his own cultivation to face in their direction where he could see the tent light up in that deep blue colour. He simply lets out a small laugh and a pleased smile before returning to his cultivation.
In seconds, that deep blue light receded in a flash, eventually condensing into her soul once again and returned to but the size of a pebble once more. While the kitten could tell the size of her soul was much like the size it was when she first came to this world, she could also feel an oppressive feeling when gazing upon her soul that hinted of a greater power. Her soul was much more condensed and she could tell that for her cultivation to reach the peak of late stage was going to take more than two times the time it took to reach the peak of middle stage.
She could only sigh at this revelation. 'It's about what I expected, I guess... It's only going to take longer and longer to advance as time moves on...'
”Hahaha! Congratulations little lass, you can now be considered a proper Magical Beast. Now that you are in the late stage, those spells you have been learning will show there true power to you!” Jonathan laughed with a charming smile.
”Meow!”
That night, the little kitten chose to cultivate a little longer to help stabilize her soul before drifting off into a comfy sleep on top of Jonathan's sleeping bag. Jonathan only joined her a while late. His own cultivation would still take a very long time before he would encounter his own breakthrough, but that was the way of the Magician.