Breakthrough - 2

"Am I beautiful enough?" Asked Zera with a grin looking at the dazed people in front of her with amusement.

Looking at her laughing daughter Sylvia subconsciously nodded her head in agreement as she said," looks beautiful" before realizing that she followed along with her daughter's words subconsciously and she quickly took a step forward and twisted Zera's ear, and started scolding her.

"What do you mean beautiful enough? Can't you at least inform someone before you attempt a breakthrough? Do you know how frightened we were waking up to your screams in the middle of the night? You just.."

"Oww...aww...mom it's just .."

"Don't give me those ridiculous excuse of 'that I have sent a message but you are out of network coverage' Sh*t, at least make up a lie properly if you are freaking looking for an excuse. What are you going to do later on if you can't even lie properly and get cheated on if you went to trade with the governments or others? Do you...blablabla…"

"Oww...okay. Aww mom I know, that's not the ...."

At the same time, everyone surrounding the training room looked at the pair of mother and daughter, one scolding and another promising and shook their heads thinking about how many days or weeks their boss(daughter) can live up to her words this time and slowly dispersed back to their home to take a quick nap before the day starts leaving only her three little brothers and dad.

*Ahem*Ahem*

Interjecting in their one-sided nagging with fake coughs Zale said," Okay, that's enough Sylvia. She gave her word that she won't do it again, right Zera?"

"Yes, yes yes, I swear!" Exclaimed Zera at the first opportunity to end her mother's endless nagging while nodding her head and running behind Zale as if chased by a wolf.

"YOU!!!..." Sylvia trembled with anger as she pointed at her daughter watching her antics.

"Okay, calm down dear. You can't beat her up anymore since she turned 17 years old and overtook everyone in Evolutionary Level remember." Said Zale, which instantly made Sylvia stiffen in place as was about to chase after Zera who is now standing far away from her, looking at her with a smile.

Holding his wife's shoulders which dropped in disappointment at the thought of not being able to beat her up Zale comforted his wife for a few minutes and asked Zera the doubts he had since he heard she was trying to breakthrough from Eni last night," Little witch, didn't you say that you are already at Level-10 Human Stage long ago and it will take few years to reach Earth Stage, now what's this about Exceed level-5 that Eni is shouting about? Is it related to spiritual power?"

Zera had an awkward smile on her face at the mention of Exceed as she said," Uhm, that I forgot to mention this when introducing the different Stages as mostly the families with rich heritage and the people in power know about this and It requires a flower in addition to high requirements for the Evolutionary to reach this level.

As you already know there are ten levels in every stage, there is an addition of five levels of Exceed till Sky Stage which require the evolutionary to be under tremendous pressure of aura to succeed at every level of Exceed at the same time pushing the body to the limits while stimulating any hidden bloodlines in the body to activate gaining additional benefits. For example, as you can see my hair and eye color have changed drastically after breaking through Level-5 Exceed and I have activated my bloodline making me able to feel and control water elements within 100 meters around me without using mental power or aura and more like an extension of my body which will be highly beneficial in the later stages and during battle."

'But the problem is there is no Celestial Stage Evolutionary who is capable of passing his bloodline integrated with rules on Earth! Uhm, let's leave this for now, better not over-excite mom today.'

"Ohh...Is that why you increased the training for mental power for everyone in the past few months?"

"Yeah dad, the problem is that even though you can feel your mental power, you still can't control your aura using it and it's even more impossible to suppress and use aggressive aura." Explained Zera.

"Boss, does that mean you can materialize water out of thin air right now?" Asked Ron from the side with an excited expression.

Zera smiled slyly at Ren as she waved her arm and snapped her fingers, mist condensed and turned into a water ball floating over Ren's exited head and dropped with a plop making him drenched and nearly choking him as large amounts of water went directly into his throat when the water ball fell on his face.

"Hahaha...."

Laughter spread around the training room as an embarrassed Ren whose colorful superhero underwear is visible ran towards his room leaving afterimages to change clothes.

"Can you convert water to ice, dear?" Asked Sylvia with a curing expression.

"Yeah, I can, mom." Said Zera as she condensed a bead of water which quickly transformed into a crystal clear ice bead with a single snowflake in it.

"Though I can convert it into Ice, the requirement for aura is not something I can bear to use in battle though, but if I reach Earth Stage, which requires another year or two if I have sufficient access to Tempering Flowers, I can freely use basic Ice manipulation in combat." Added Zera after pondering about it a bit.

"Boss! What do you think my element will be?" Asked Red who just came back after changing with a chicken coop head.

"Uhm, you said that sometimes you won't feel the heat even when standing next to the fire or furnace right. I guess it might be something related to fire as you are already sensitive to it and your body also might be a bit special. We will know when you also reach Exceed Level-5 or Earth Stage what's the hurry." Said Zera with a gloating chuckle at the mention of reaching Level-5 Exceed stage.

"Uhm, Why is your hair silver and gradually turning blue, didn't you say that before…."

"I am going to try my new abilities! See you after I come back." Said Zera as she disappeared in front of them with only her afterimage fading from their sight as her voice floated over.

Running over to the densely covered forest which grew in the past decade Zera's eyes glistened with excitement as she ran into the depths to test her abilities with her old friend.