After 1 month of training harshly under Uncle Jian, there were signs of progress.
Dad had decided that he'll train us after we first reach the adept rank. So we kept training with uncle.
My body became much stronger, my muscles developed, my height increased for a few centimeters, the same for Athelstan .
The exercise we used to do back then became piece of cake which then later uncle increased to 7 kilometers, 200 push ups, sit ups and squats every single day.
And now was the day we would awaken.
Our cores, had gathered enough mana , therefore we could now awaken breakthrough to the channeler rank with Uncle Jian's guidance
I was so excited because I'll finally step in the awakeners world.
It was early in the morning as I walked with Athelstan towards the training grounds.
We found uncle Jian already standing in the middle with arms crossed with a smile on his face.
They greeted him and then he asked "are you guys ready for your awakening?"
"Yes, it was so boring doing physical exercises for a month" Athelstan said enthusiastically
"We're finally getting into the real deal" Vladislav agreed while nodding his head.
Uncle Jian nodded "now, get into meditation form "
They both sat down on the floor and crossed their legs while Jian sat behind them and placed his hands on their backs.
He spoke:
"Now pay attention, since you cannot move your mana on your in your core on your own I will guide you by injecting my man into your bodies. Close your eyes and concentrate"
I closed my eyes and felt his hands become warm as he injected his mana into us.
"Don't panic, just relax your body and let the mana flow" he said
I relaxed my body and let it flow.
"Good , now I'm going to move my mana around the different parts of your body, to your fingers, legs, head and other parts. You might feel a ticklish and warm sensation"
At his words, I started feeling a weird ticklish sensation in different parts of my body. It was like someone was tickling my insides and then I felt the uncle's warm mana in each one of my fingers, legs and arms.
"Memorize the sensation, the feeling and how the mana moves inside your mana pathways"
I tried my best to memorize the ticklish sensation and how the mana flows. Well that was easy.
After a few more minutes, Uncle Jian retracted his mana but his hands were still on our backs.
"Now here it comes the risky and hard part. Breaking your dormant core to form your awakened core"
"I'm going to inject a bit of my mana in your core causing it to break since your cores won't be able to contain all the mana, it's going to be painful so brace yourselves"
Vladislav and Athelstan gulped and nodded.
Jian then inserted his mana in their cores.
For the first couple of seconds nothing happened but then—
Crack!—
The cores cracked.
A lot of mana came out of them.
Immense pain spread all over their bodies. They felt like thousands of knives were stabbing them deep in their flesh.
They groaned in pain.
It was too much to handle.
"Focus and circulate the mana throughout your mana pathways so it can unblock your blocked meridians like I taught you!" Jian said.
"If you fail to do that you'll be crippled" he warned
Vladislav gritted his teeth.
He focused on the immense amount of mana and started guiding it around the different parts of his body like Jian taught them.
The mana moved through the meridians. It felt like hot and icy needles scrapping the inside of his veins and bones.
A wave of intense heat heat followed his mana pathways, as if warm honey was being poured into his limbs, melting away the stiffness and cold.
"Good. Now that you have purified all your pathways, the convergence part comes in. Now direct the gathered mana towards the center of your being" Jian said
"Focus it in one single point like a sphere, let all the mana go in and compress it it with your will to form your core"
Vladislav moved the gathered energy and moved it towards his stomach and focused it there.
Compressing into a single form, a sphere.
An intense pressure was building in his abdomen.
For a second he wanted to give up but he kept pushing.
They were both sweating while gritting their teeth.
The compression reached it's critical threshold. The spheres could no longer hold any more energy—therefore it ignited.
BOOM!—
it was not an explosion, but an implosion followed by a silent, internal expansion.
The implosion became a split-second feeling of their entire being being sucked into a single, silent point. All sound and sensation vanished.
Then—a wave of pure, ecstatic warmth erupted in their cores, flooding every molecule of their bodies.
They felt good.
It was like the first breath after drowning, multiplied a thousand times.
The sphere transformed from a passive vessel into an active, spinning generator.
It became a perpetual engine that now both stores self-generated mana and attracts ambient mana automatically.
A permanent, faint and comforting hum of power is now felt at the core, a quiet reminder of the engine running within.
Vladislav opened his eyes. Every sense was heightened; colors became Brighter, sounds were more clear, the air—it felt alive.
He clenched his hands that now brimmed with more power than before.
So this is how it feels to awaken huh.
"We did it!" Athelstan screamed in happiness
"I feel stronger, hehe, I wonder what elements will I a—" he stopped mid sentence and looked at Vladislav on horror and closed his nose with his fingers.
"You reek, Vlad, get away from me."
"Huh, what—" I then look at my body covered in black mucus that stained my clothes and the bad smell entered my nose making me wanna puke.
I quickly covered my nose and said "tsk, you are also covered by this disgusting thing" I retorted
"Those are the impurities that came out of your body, you'll keep releasing them whenever you break through a major rank" Uncle Jian spoke with a funny voice because he had put a peg on his nose to avoid inhaling the smell making me laugh.
"Nauw go take a dumn shower, you both stink and congratulations on your awakening"
"How rude uncle, don't you want to hug your favourite nephew " Athelstan spoke mischievously.
"Tsk, are you gay or what?" Uncle Jian replied
He stood up and stepped closer towards Uncle Jian who took a step back.
He then sprinted towards Uncle Jian .
"H-hey!" Uncle Jian blurted out as he started running away from Athelstan.
"Don't run away uncle!" He giggled as he chased him
I laughed at the troubled face of Uncle Jian as he ran away from Athelstan.
This was a huge step. they finally stepped into the awakened world.
Whether it was a good thing or not they didn't know.
"Fuck, I smell so bad, not even mom who likes to hug me a lot would probably hug me"
I clicked my tongue and smiled as I moved out of the training grounds.
As I walked back to the mansion the servants couldn't help but choke because of the smell coming out of my body. They just bowed and moved far away from me.
Tsk. It's not like I wanted to smell like this.
I then saw Asa's back from afar, and an idea formed in my head.
I approached her quietly from behind, and then I jumped at her, hugging her back.
"Hey! What are you doing? You stink!" she screamed.
"Get off me!!"
"How can you say that to your little brother? I just wanted to hug you," I said while having the brightest smile on my face.
She struggles to push me off. My grip was firm; it seems awakening had also increased my strength.
Asa couldn't resist the smell anymore and fell down, foam coming out of her mouth while her body was twitching on the floor.
I laughed and left quickly before she woke up.
A/N: Is the story a bit slow-paced or not? Please comment on your opinion.