Chapter 32- Evolution of the werewolf girl
Boom
An explosion sounded, John's body went flying like a kite whose strings were cut, with a smile on his face, he rolled in the air and landed standing up in the water, without wasting time he ran in a counterattack towards the Ôni.
Clang clang clang
The swords collided, below their feet, the water seemed turbulent, small waves formed as the swords collided with each other.
—Polar Star Magic Art, Ice Crystal Rain——Oni chanted a shortened incantation
Sharp ice crystals formed in the air, with a wave of the Oni's hands, the crystals rained down on John.
—Polar Star Magic Art, Ice Prison—John chanted a simple incantation in the Baboan language.
Around John's body, a barrier made of translucent ice formed, trapping him right inside the barrier.
The rain of ice crystals fell on the ice barrier, inside the ice prison John did not suffer any damage, as soon as the rain of ice crystals dispersed, he made his counterattack.
— sea-splitting sword, second form sea-splitting sword — John agrees.
A blue sword beam rose about three meters high releasing a shallow pressure, the beam advanced at an incredible speed towards the Oni, a disdainful smile appeared on the Oni's mouth.
—sea-splitting sword, third form, tornado—the singular Oni.
The Oni spun like a tornado, a rotating circular pillar turned with the Oni as the center, the tornado rose reaching four meters in height.
Boom
The attack that John launched, the Sea Splitting Sword collided with the tornado, the third form of the Sea Splitting Sword. The tornado only paused for a second to absorb the three meter sword beam, then the tornado advanced.
Shit, John thought, seeing the tornado coming towards him, he quickly cast two spells for his defense.
—Magic art of the polar star, ice prison....
—Polar Star Magic Art, Ice Wall..
The tornado crashed into the ice prison.
Shatter
The ice prison was shattered like a sledgehammer smashing glass, after the prison, the tornado shattered the ice wall as well, as the last obstacle, the tornado swallowed John and threw him away.
Like a stone thrown vertically into a lake, John's body shot across the water, bouncing here and there like a stone would, the tornado breaking apart revealing the figure of the Oni in the form of John.
—cough cough cough cough...— coughed John
John spoke, water running from his mouth, his crimson sword dissolved in the air, he walked to where John was and spoke.
—When can I use the third form of the Sea-Splitting Sword?
The Oni pondered a bit and said.
—The third form consumes a lot of elemental power, and requires a high level of control as well, fortunately you have an exemplary core.
—you will be able to use the third form once you reach the sixth level of the primary realm at the very least.
John sighed and said.
— How long have I been here?
Oni spoke without thinking
— Two weeks and two days.
— Now! — John exclaimed.
In the sea of souls, the sun is always high in the sky, there was only one period there that was always noon, this made it difficult for John to know how long it had been since he had isolated himself to train.
In these two weeks John learned a lot by battling with the Oni, even though he lost all the battles, John did not get discouraged because the Oni said in a battle of the same level it was impossible for the Oni to lose, and both John and the Oni were on the same level.
— Well, I'll go — said John.
Without waiting for the Oni to respond, John disappeared from the soul sea, the Oni looked at the sun with a slight wave of his hand, the time of the soul sea adjusted to match that of the real world.
The Oni's body glowed and he regained his form as a baby made of crimson energy, with black patterns and stripes, he flew into the egg and closed his eyes.
In fact, John's eyes opened.
[ Pill pill pill ]
The Crimson Hummingbird flew happily around John celebrating his master's awakening, John petted his bird a little which became even cuter.
— How disgusting.
John said after feeling the stench that his body exuded, he had already been in the sea of the soul for two weeks, which corresponded to eight days in reality, during these days John did not take care of his hygiene.
When John came out of the catacombs, he noticed Iza waiting, he tried to hug Iza after it had been a long time since he had been there.
— Iza, it's good to see you..
John's smile froze, because Iza ran away from his hug like a scared kitten.
— What happened? — John asked discouragedly.
Iza covered her nostrils with her hands, for a werewolf, her sense of smell was very sensitive, even an iron tail would lose to a werewolf in terms of keen sense of smell.
"John, you look like you came from a garbage can," Iza said as she shook the smell away.
John smiled bitterly.
— Iza, what happened in the castle this week?
— nothing special happened — Iza replied, moving away a little from John.
— My mother and the young princess?
— Your mother has already returned, the young princess too.
John approached Iza and stroked her hair with a mischievous smile, he looked at her and said.
— I'm going to get ready, then I'm coming to pick you up for something.
Iza's mind wandered and her cheeks turned red, but then she heard John say one more thing.
— Ha!.. tell your mother and aunt, I'm going to take you all.
Without giving any further explanation, John left, leaving Iza confused.
***
John first went to his room, he took a shower and changed his clothes, after that he went to the castle's living room, there he found a maid who said that his parents and the young princess were on the balcony waiting for him.
Without further delay, John walked to the castle balcony.
— Greetings, father, mother and young princess.
Everyone returned the greeting, Catarina approached and gave John a hug and stroked his hair, John blushed with embarrassment and pulled away from the hug.
— Mom — John murmured.
— What's wrong? My boy is too old to need hugs from his mommy.
Victoria, the young princess, watched this scene with a smile on her face. Fernando approached John and patted him on the shoulder and congratulated him.
— Very well, it looks like you made good use of this week in isolation.
Catarina and the young princess checked John's level of evolution and also congratulated him.
— be Primary level 1 of the peak, very good
— your core is balanced, this means you have advanced both as a mage and a warrior.
John looked at his father and asked confusedly.
— Dad, how come I haven't leveled up yet? I've already mastered the basics as both a mage and a warrior, shouldn't I already level up to a level 2 primary being?
Fernando led John to sit down, he then spoke.
— Don't worry, now that you've reached the peak of Primary Being Level 1 you'll level up at any time, but you still haven't met the third requirement to level up.
— What requirements are missing? — John asked.
— For a primary being to level up, there are three basic but important requirements.
- first train your body or mind. Practicing your magical art or warrior art in battle.
— second, collect enough spiritual energy in your core to support the level up.
— Third and last, you need to have elementary theoretical knowledge, in your case the elements water and earth.
— when you meet these three requirements within you, you will naturally level up, but you have to keep something in mind, of the three, the theoretical knowledge in the first three levels is the most important, you will be able to level up even without meeting the first two.
Fernando looked at John to see if he was understanding, when he saw that he was paying attention. He said.
—If you do not train your arts by preparing your body and mind, as well as gathering enough spiritual energy to support evolution, your foundation will be unstable and in the future you will reach a huge bottleneck in climbing the realm of evolution.
— you must fulfill a sequence of requirements, train your body and mind, absorb spiritual energy and finally obtain the necessary knowledge.
Fernando smiled and said.
— that's why the institute is very important, you will get the right training to level up and kingdom while maintaining a shaky foundation, the missions will be dangerous, but they will temper you in countless battles.
Fernando enthusiastically finished his passionate speech.
— Dad, I understand.
Expectantly, John looked at the victory and asked.
— Young princess, are the components for Iza's evolution ready?
Victoria nodded slightly and said yes, John's smile widened and his eyes shone with happiness, he even felt like hugging the young princess, but he held back.
— When can we perform the ritual? — John asked.
Fernando looked at John with a smile and said.
— Tell your friend and her family that we will be performing the ritual in two hours.
— ok — John replied enthusiastically.
— So, I'm going, I'm going to prepare Iza for the ritual.
John left these words behind and left in a hurry, Fernando shook his head, Catarina smiled.
***
John arrived at the residential area of the employees of Venhorst Castle, it was not the first time he came here, he always came with Iza or Alex,
— Greetings Aunt Francisca and Sister Judith.
John left as soon as he saw Francisca, Iza's mother, and Judith, her aunt. In private, John decided to treat Iza's family as his own family. Of course, Iza's mother was against it, but John was very insistent. He claimed it was an order.
— Greetings, young lord — Francisca and Judith replied, they bowed slightly
— Aunt Francisca, you don't need to bow down when it's just us
John said with a slight smile on his face, he looked everywhere but didn't see Iza.
— Auntie, where's Iza?
Francisca looked at Judith and said.
— Judith, go get Izabela
Judith went off in search of Isa, leaving just the two of them, they were outdoors at the back of the castle.
— Young lord, Izabela said you would come and get us for something, what would it be?
John smiled slightly, he took a sheet of parchment and passed it to Francisca, she read the parchment which was written in the Babona language, this parchment was the parchment that Felicia gave to John, where the druid's path was listed.
—What does this mean, young man?
Francisca asked confused.
— I'm taking Iza to go through the evolution ritual on the Druid path.
With these words spoken, an unprecedented joy passed through Francisca's heart, but then she read the parchment again, as she read the pure components her joy faded, it was then that Judith returned with Iza.
Iza was beautiful and tidy, she was wearing children's leather clothes with small boots and a white blouse with a blue line, blue eyes, her beautiful silver blue hair was loose revealing a childlike beauty.
— John, you came — Iza said timidly
John nodded approvingly.
— Young lord, we can't accept this, the components are too expensive and we already owe a lot to your family — said Francisca.
— Aunt, please reconsider — said John
— Mom, you don't..
— Izabela, you don't understand — Francisca said to Iza.
— Aunt, Iza is very important to me and I have already promised this to you and to her before.
Iza was happy when she heard what John said about her.
—What does my daughter mean to you? Francisca asked.
— Iza is like a sister to me, I will do everything that is best for her — said John
Iza's joy turned into indignation, Francisca sighed and said.
— Okay, then I'll accept.
***
In the catacombs of Venhorst Castle, there were Francisca, Judith, Catarina, Iza and John, all watching Fernando drawing a magic circle of evolution.
Fernando had a mulatto stone in his hand, with it, he drew the outer circle symbolizing the world and the inner circle of the individual, after establishing the connection between man and the nature of the world.
Fernando drew a diagram on the post, then the optacoguinal hexagram, on the intersecting lines. Fernando located the essence of the animals, then came the components.
For John's evolution, Albert used 250 magic components to establish the magic circle, Fernando used 300 components to build the Druid's magic circle.
When Fernando added the last component, a glow gathered around the entire magic circle.
— You can come now — said Fernando
Iza looked at her mother and aunt and then looked at John too, accepting everyone's approval, she walked inside the magic circle.
— sitting in the lotus position
Iza did exactly what Fernando said, Fernando chose a high quality and dynamic silver core in the dantian region, in the direction of Iza's navel.
Without resistance, the core entered her dantian, a stream of magical energy rushed towards Iza's body, the newly released core absorbed the spiritual energy, like a desert thirsting for water.
Slowly, energy channels were created in Iza's body, and she began to feel pain running through every corner of her body.
A sticky liquid flowed out from his pores and formed a butterfly cocoon, large amounts of spiritual energy fueled the cocoon.
From the cocoon of animal children, various types of animals from the animal kingdom could be heard roaring inside the cocoon.
The path of the druid, or rather the druid class as John prefers to call it, is deeply linked to animal nature, it is a very special class that combines the battle prowess and diverse abilities of various animals.
One hour
Two hours
Three hours
After four hours, a cracking sound was heard, suddenly the cocoon splits like glass revealing Iza's figure.
— congratulations, the ritual was successful — Fernando congratulated
Francisca and Judith were in tears of happiness, this was a very important moment that would dictate the future of their family and their entire werewolf race.
— congratulations — they said John, Francisca, Judith and Catarina.
Suddenly a headache attacked Iza, just as Albert did with John, Fernando helped Iza to control her sonar, explaining the basic principle of activation.
***
Everyone left the castle catacombs, Iza went with her mother and aunt, João left with Fernando and Catarina.
The time for John, Alex, Iza, Beatriz and Bárbara Bo to join the evolution institute was coming to an end.
Continued...