Alon was still inside the space of Sword Invincible, laying down in boredom.
"Just how can a space so vast fit inside of me?" Alon mused.
"This space does not exist in your puny consciousness; it exists in its own special space-time. You are merely granted access here." A familiar voice responded in the space.
Alone lazily turn his head to the child.
"Did you really cripple my cultivation?" Though Alon had not cultivated for that long it still took him some effort to reach this stage.
"You won't be able to use your Transcendence for some time." The child let out blandly.
"My cultivation… "
"I merely stabilized it, nothing more." The child let out in his usual bland tone.
"You should leave now."
Alon still had quite a lot of questions, but his banishment was declared.
The child swung his hand and Alon felt a strong repulsion from the entire space.
He was being forced out of the space just like he had been forced in.
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Alon slowly opened his eyes to the ground dyed red by his blood.
"It was really dangerous this time, but exactly what happened? I had a dream, the transcendental energy of Sword started to build inside of me, and then it began to grow on its own. It felt like someone was forcing me to grow stronger." Alon began to think out loud again, but it was the least of his worries now.
The Transcendental energy from the dream was a very optimal situation for him to acquire one more Transcendence, but it was not left for him to decide.
He could have very easily given that Transcendence his own attributes, but because he thought it was immoral; he did not even intend to practice it.
Alon was now lost in his thoughts, thinking of what he could do to prevent such things from happening in the future.
But creases soon began to appear on his forehead.
"There is nothing I can do?" Alon let out in frustration.
He closed his eyes and channeled his energy through his body, he was very relieved to have his cultivation intact, in fact, his foundation was much sturdier than before.
"He did do a good job, I should pat him a bit next time. " Alon thought to himself, but out loud.
After he had recovered quite a bit from his injuries, he stopped channeling his energy and withdrew it back into his energy core.
Alon's energy core was no longer in the shape of an orb, but it resembled a sea; by the time of reaching the Metamorphosis stage, the energy inside one's body would have a qualitative change, turning from a gaseous form to liquid and the energy would be much purer than before.
Alon sat in silence for a bit and then tried to channel his Transcendental energy of Heart.
Though the child had told him he would not be able to use his Transcendence for some time, he was not one to stop just because someone told him something.
To his surprise, he was able to channel his transcendental energy just fine.
Given Alon's personality, it was about time for him to say something to tease the child, but he did not do so.
On the contrary, he became calmer than ever before.
He sat down and closed his eyes in meditation and his transcendental energy began to envelop him within.
His body, as well as his Transcendence, were now in a state of ecstasy.
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Three days passed since Alon separated from the trio, but there was still no news from him.
"Brother I'm bored out of my mind," Helena said while watching Adam and Hans spar.
They were not using their regular martial arts passed to them by their family, instead, they were using the martial arts that they were tasked to master for them to qualify for the tournament.
"You shouldn't waste time here, go back and train your martial arts further. We only have three days left." Hans let out while under Adam's attacks.
"You guys are no fun." She said with her tongue out.
"I wonder when Alon will come back," Helena said to herself in a low voice, while looking at the blue sky.
"Stupid."
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"Why isn't Brother replying? Nothing bad happened to him right?" Kabi said impatiently with a crystal in his hand.
"Tess didn't enter wrong information right?"
"Did brother forget about us already? It has only been a few weeks…" Kabi kept on asking Dari questions with teary eyes.
"Give him some time, he must be busy as well. He will reply when he has time." Dari said consolingly whole rubbing his hair gently, "And don't bother Tess about this, she is busy enough with her own tasks."
They were living quite comfortably in the abode Tess had prepared for them.
Tess had also enrolled them in a school so that they could grow stronger.
"He still hasn't contacted you?" Tess asked as soon as she entered the garden.
"No," Dari replied.
"You shouldn't worry too much; focus on your training in school," Tess said while looking at the teary-eyed Kabi.
Kabi vigorously nodded his head.
"Do you want to go to the market? I heard there is a new sweet shop." Dari asked Tess with a smile.
Tess and Dari had unexpectedly become quite close; a kind and warm Dari became friends with cold and sharp Tess.
It was quite a balanced friendship.
"Yes let's go." And then there existed Kabi, not friends but friendly with everyone.
Tees lightly nodded her head.
"I'm doing alright."
"It's quite hard to swallow that Tess is treating you kindly, I guess you really can't judge a book by its cover."
Just as they were about to leave, messages began to pour out of the crystal on the table.
Kabi started to cry and hurriedly grabbed onto the crystal.
"Brawter."
"If someday you want to come to the Northern Continent, only come through the portal from the Likon Town." Tess said while snatching the crystal from Kabi.
"I understand," Alon replied.
Tess returned the crystal back to Kabi after relaying her message.
"Brother, what is your name?" Kabi asked seriously while glaring at Tess simultaneously.
*Thud*
A falling sound came from the other end.
"It's Alon," Alon replied while clearing his throat.