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240: The Aftermath of Boiling
Seconds turned into minutes.Minutes dragged into hours and somewhere between pain, sweat, and mild hallucinations, three full hours slipped by.Zora didn’t say a word the entire time, she just sat in a lotus position across from them, sipping tea like some immortal monk-turned-drill sergeant, watching the two of them boil like dumplings in spiritual soup.Kai had stopped screaming somewhere around the forty-minute mark. Not because the pain had dulled, hell no, it was because his body had entered this strange meditative state where pain became fuel. He’d followed Zora’s instructions to the letter, guiding the energy into his muscles, his skin, his veins, even his bones. It was brutal and insane, but somehow, he could feel something new being born deep inside.As for Abigail, she looked peaceful… on the outside.Inside her tub, however, the water had turned into something else entirely.Unlike Kai’s bath which was now crystal clear, save for the mushy leftovers of broken herbs floatin
239: The Boiling Begins
Kai froze like someone had just told him his system had been uninstalled.His eyes narrowed into slits as he stared at Zora, suspicion dripping off every inch of him but she was standing there casually, arms folded across her chest, with that ever-smug smirk that made his fists itch.Her voice was sharp and dry when she spoke again, like she was explaining something to a particularly dense rock. “Don’t flatter yourself, frog prince. I don’t want to see your body. The hell would I do with that? I need access to your skin...not your ego.”Kai blinked slowly, then raised a brow. “You want me to take off my clothes? In front of you? Just like that?”She shrugged, utterly unfazed. “It’s not that deep.”“Oh, it is,” Kai said, stepping back, one hand clutching his shirt like she’d just threatened to rob him of his last shred of dignity. “I'm not stripping in front of you like some underpaid stripper on a Friday night.”“Relax,” she snorted, crossing to a chair and dropping into it like a que
238: “Welcome to Hell”
After nearly five hours in the air, their private jet finally began its descent into another state within Calonia. The land beneath them stretched wild and vast, with mountain ridges hugging the horizon and a dense mist swallowing the base of the hills like the place was hiding secrets too old to name.The moment they landed, everything moved like clockwork. Atlas, in his usual overprepared fashion, had already arranged for a house. Not a rental or a hotel but a whole damn house.So they moved in, ate in silence like soldiers prepping for war, and then Zora stood from her meal like she was about to declare martial law.“You both should go to sleep,” she said, licking her fingers like a savage. “Might be the last peaceful sleep you’ll ever get in your entire miserable lives.”Kai blinked, fork halfway to his mouth. “Wow. Thank you, Satan.”Zora raised a brow. “You’re welcome, Crippled Cockroach.”Abigail choked on her water and burst out laughing, nearly falling off the couch.Kai lea
237: The Journey.
(A week later)After one long, dragging, oddly quiet week since Zora dropped the bomb about their training journey and now, finally, the trio was ready to leave.Zora stood at the center of the living room, arms crossed and an unreadable smirk playing at the edge of her lips. She was already dressed in travel gear, sleek boots, a reinforced belt, a light overcoat, and something blinking softly under her collar that looked very much like a miniature portal node.Kai adjusted his wristwatch, his usual black clothes replaced with something more fitted for movement. Abigail had ditched her usual girly outfits for something tougher, a reinforced jacket, body-hugging pants, and sleek combat boots that made her legs look even longer than usualElla stood at the doorway, watching them but she didn’t say anything for a while.After watching them, she stepped forward.“I want to come.”Zora didn’t even blink. “You’re not.”Ella’s jaw clenched. “I can help...”“You’re more useful here,” Zora cut
236: Prepare.
The air shifted again and even though no one had moved, it felt like something heavier than mere words had been dropped into the room.Abigail blinked slowly. “Wait… the Eye of Reincarnation and the Divine Staff?” Her voice came out quiet but laced with disbelief. “Why would such powerful cultivators, people from higher realms, care so much about something hidden here?”Atlas leaned forward, his hand slightly shaking as he touched the edge of the map with a kind of sacred reverence. “What even is the Divine Staff…?”Zora, still standing with arms folded, gave a low chuckle. “You really think something like this… something that even I had to decipher for months, something hidden across layers of dimensional barriers and encrypted in divine script… would be ordinary?”She glanced at each of them slowly, one brow raised. “That map was scattered across realms. torn apart by time and war and sealed by a god. A superior god.”Her words slammed into the room but Zora didn’t pause. “Even I di
235: Invasion Might Come.
Zora smiled faintly, resting her back against the edge of the table, one leg casually crossed over the other. “That could happen,” she said, tone a little too calm for the weight of her words. “Stronger worlds invading weaker ones… it’s not a myth. It has happened. Over and over again. Whole realms swallowed, civilizations wiped out like chalk from a board. Some do it for conquest. Others, for rare resources. Some… just for fun.”Her voice dropped slightly, and a tension hung in the air as the people in the room could not believe what she was saying. “But,” she added, just as the room tightened with unease, “Earth is not as vulnerable as you think. It may be at the bottom when it comes to power levels, but its bloodline… is special. This planet is littered with descendants, scattered remains of powerful beings who left behind their essence. Their children. Their codes. Even some who were banished here, or hid themselves here after being hunted in higher worlds.”She glanced at Atlas,
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