Chapter 12 - Absorb it all.

"NO! That is not how you do it, Pheia. You have to focus your allex on one place and let it through easily but do not suck all of the energies. It will surely bounce back to you." Prince Steel shouting at Pheia's jeopardy. Prince Steel presses the bridge of his nose as tons of annoyance are creeping on him. He has been telling Pheia the proper way of directing the energies inside her allex but no matter how good Pheia is at directing it, what she did was beyond Prince Steel's expectation.

A couple of minutes ago, when Pheia started to contain energies at her allex, there are great fluctuations in the energies of the environment. It havocally enters her allexes and in the end, she suffered great retributions of pain. And while Prince Steel's reprimands run through Pheia's ear, she wasn't even comprehending at all. It was as if her body was pushing her to suck in all energies. It wanted her to have it all in one go. And even though, she has been in tremendous pain inside, and all sweat in her body, she didn't stop absorbing the energies of the elements around her.

Prince Steel then was seeing how Pheia's closed eyes twitched with every unfathomable pain that she surely feels. Of course, Prince Steel knew exactly how it feels since he experienced the same process that Pheia has to do to obtain her element. He exactly knew how painful and demanding allexes are. And because of that he almost fainted at his first try at directing energies into his body.

He was somehow amazed at Pheia's patience and physical and mental power. She has been able to control and contain her pain which is not what he was expecting. Yes, it might be he underestimated Pheia since Pheia has not achieved her perfect figure. She was fat and has a lot of excesses so she can have lower tolerance and stamina to continue but he was exactly wrong. He has observed how well Pheia focused her mind and how well she direct the energies and how well she was able to restrain herself from opening her eyes to not be able to feel pain again.

But, although he was amazed, he was not into it. No matter how good one was at channeling the energies into their allex, it wasn't the good choice to bring it all in. It was better to absorb enough so you won't feel the pain. Absolutely it was the saying that says, "slowly but surely" that is correct in this instance.

When Prince Steel can't take it enough, he stopped Pheia's cultivation. And when he stopped her, Pheia fainted. So Prince Steel didn't have a choice but to carry Pheia's sweety body into their house. When they entered their house, Joan was about to head to the kitchen to drink some water. Joan, when she saw Pheia being carried by Prince Steel, was immediately nervous and hurriedly asked the Prince what happened while attending to Pheia. She guided the Prince to their room and help place Pheia at their bed.

Prince Steel then explained what happened, and Joan widened her eyes, "She did what? How can she..." Joan can't form the words that she has to say. She exactly knew what channeling and all that stuff were meant to cultivators. She exactly knew cause she was the one who created it. Who else wouldn't if she pictured it out to be so painful. She looked at her daughter who is now twitching her face because of pain, and for some reason, she was worried and proud of her. She was worried because the aftereffect of over-absorbing of energies was like being bumped with a ten-wheeler truck It was like breaking every piece of bone in you.

Tears kept falling into her eyes. She just wished she was the one who feels her pain. But she was also proud of her. When Pheia was still a kid in the modern world, she was absolutely the competitor type. She wouldn't back down to every challenge No matter how tiring it was for a kid like her but she always thrived to do her best. And afterward when she attains what she wants she will proudly show it to her and his dad with a big smile on her face.

She smiled at her reverie and touched her daughter's cheeks. How much pain have you been through while I am gone that it was just nothing to you that you have felt this.? But I promise you Pheia, in all of your pain again, I will always be right here with you.

As if knowing the thoughts of Joan, Prince Steel then said, "I have checked her pulse earlier and her allex as well and there was nothing peculiar. She just passed out, out of over-exertion and nothing more." He reassuredly said, "I think Pheia has a good constitution. She is a strong lady as you are, Mrs. Caliber."

Joan then looked at Prince Steel and nodded. "I guess it's time for you to take your rest, Steel. It was so deep in the night. I'll take care of everything here."

Prince Steel agreed with Joan and walks out of the room. Before he closed the door, he looks back at Pheia and smiled, She wasn't really an ordinary girl.

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Pheia opens her eyes and saw a blinding light at the farthest place of where she was. She crinkled her brows as she adapts to the light's brightness and looks at her environment. She seems to be in a void of an unending spectrum of a prism. There were a lot of colors everywhere. It was like a sky full of stars with no clouds with it. Different colored lights are littered and it was as if all that was in place here was just lights alone.

Where Am I?

After assessing her surroundings, she taps with her foot the land beneath her feet.

It was hard but...

She walks cautiously and slowly steps one by one at the unknown floor. Well, who wouldn't be if what you walk into was just fogs of smoke and so not looks anything solid.

She walks for more than five minutes while taking it forever for her to cross the path towards the light. She barely walks for at least two meters. And she looks back at where she's from but basically what she sees was just lights and no starting point. She looks towards the only white light ahead of her. And that and then, she knows exactly that that was her only egress. That light on the farthest was her only way to escape this magnificent void.

She had tried for another 5 minutes to walk until an hour has passed until she can't seem to know how many hours had passed. She slumps sweatily to the unknown floor and breathes heavily. She faced the white light again and feels like it becomes nearer but still too very far away from her.

She sighed and lean back while her two arms with hands on the unknown floor as her support. When she did so, she unanimatedly stared at the thousandths of colorful lights above her. It was really a sight to see but still, it does feel a little creepy.

She closed her eyes and thinks that this was just her dream. Her mind messes around with her subconscious state. Making her feel the warmth but at the same time as anxious as well.

When she woke up earlier, she had felt the great impulse to stay here. To be in here. But she was not a fan of those cliche things so she hurriedly regained her senses and was able to walk through it.

While still leaning, she heard some kind of a voice from afar. She squinted her closed eyes and heightened her hearing. She listened as to where the voice came from.

"Pheia.... Pheia.... Do you wonder?" from afar was a whisper of voices was heard. It was a soothing voice. It relaxes Pheia's mind and nerves. But as she comprehends the voice words. She was quite shocked as it calls for her name. What is this voice? Where did it come from?