A few days later, Mithra was kneeling on four while vomiting. They had gone too fast for the past few days, making her sick. As for the pressure coming from their speed, Mithra had grown accustod to it, so she was able to endure it in the last two days. Still, the juggling and wobbling that Alex created while running made her sick… Of course, it was intentional since Alex could simply fly.
The purpose of this was to help Mithra adjust the change of center of gravity every ti Alex stepped on the ground. Since he didn't really have much ti to do this, he decided to use this kind of unconventional thod.
For Mithra, it was a challenge and torture.
"Sir Alex… Although I am not in a place where I can say this, I want you to know that it was really hell…"
"Don't worry. Unlike the ti you got tricked, this training wouldn't cost your life." Alex brushed it off.
"Fair enough." She struggled to get up and sohow rose while staggering. Suddenly, she lost her balance and fell down, but she instinctively took another step on the right to prevent her from falling. At the sa ti, she realized that the step was solid to the point she managed to stand back up with that one step alone. "I…"
"Well, it's just training. The effect is just a fluke, so you need to train a little bit more to get a good balance. At the sa ti, it's ti for to teach you about footwork. I never trained my footwork, but I created one after fighting so many tis. However, you can't do this because you don't have enough experience to do so."
"That's why you want to learn footwork?"
"Yes. Most strong people actually create their own footwork to prevent their enemies from noticing what kind of footwork they are using. After all, if they learn your footwork, they can move one step ahead and destroy your entire movent."
"I understand."
Alex nodded and looked at the mountain. "This mountain will be perfect for to teach you. You need to constantly move your feet according to the footwork while climbing this mountain. Of course, I don't an to give you sothing hard and unpredictable since this is just simple footwork. You can refine it later when you have gotten enough experience."
"Yes, Sir."
"Still… To think you have Darkness as your elent…" Alex let out a sigh. "I don't know what kind of ability your elent has though."
"Eh?!" Mithra opened her mouth in surprise before everything turned into confusion. "I have an elent? That is impossible. I tested it once in the past, and it turned out I didn't have a single elent in my body. That's why I can't beco a Mage."
"I have looked at everyone I t in this world, and all of them have elents. It's just they have yet to awaken them like you. I can help you awaken your sword, but that will depend on your decision. There are people who attain the peak of the sword without using their elent, while there are so who create a harmonization with the elents. Nevertheless, they are strong. I am the latter though, because I am utilizing my elent not only for my sword but for other things as well." Alex glanced at Mithra, waiting for her decision.
"I… I want to have my elent." Mithra hesitated for a second but wanted to follow in Alex's footsteps. Since the one teaching her was the latter, she wanted to be the sa as him.
Alex then nodded. "I will awaken your elent when you have reached the Qi Gathering Stage."
"Yes."
After confirming her desire, Alex then showed her basic footwork. It consisted of ten basic steps to refine her movent even more.
It was simple enough for Mithra to rember it after a few tries. She then replicated it while trying to reach a bit farther and succeeded after a few more minutes.
Since then, they started climbing the mountain. There was a path they could use to reach the top. According to Mithra, this path seed to be used by the adventurers who wanted to have the Phoenix Spring. And yet, not a single one of them was able to get it because the phoenixes that protected this one were one of the strongest beings in the world.
Alex asked if Mithra was scared to do this, but the latter only shook her head. After knowing Alex for a while, she learned many things. Just like how she didn't want Alex to get into trouble with the kingdom because of her, she realized it was her looking down on him. He was far mightier than them, so if he said it was fine, Mithra imdiately agreed.
They climbed the mountain steadily. If Mithra didn't practice her footstep, they might already reach the top within a few hours, and yet, they only managed to reach halfway in a day.
When they beco closer to the peak, they should feel cold due to its altitude. But it was different for this Phoenix Nest. The closer they are, the hotter it is.
Alex activated his Spirit Eyes and found a few signs of energy at the top.
"There are at least five phoenixes on top of this mountain. What do you think?" Alex asked Mithra.
"Sir is not scared of them, so there is no reason for to be scared."
"I might just be overconfident you know." Alex smirked.
"If that were the case, I have accepted everything, including my death. I have steeled my heart to follow you, Sir, so I won't regret it even if I die during this journey." Mithra smiled from ear to ear, showing she wasn't afraid of death.
"Haha…" Alex patted her head a few tis. "Decision is hard to make, but once you make it, you should see it through even if it ans your doom."
"I will rember your words." Mithra nodded with a serious expression.
The two continued to the top and finally felt the scorching heat coming from the top of the mountain.
"This…" Mithra watched the top of the mountain in amazent. There was grass everywhere and a huge bird nest. There were five red birds that seed to be a family washing their body in the water pond.
However, Alex noticed this was not a phoenix. Not only was their body not made by fire, but they also had a different intensity of fla in their body.
"This is not a Phoenix… They are Luan Birds."
"Luan Birds?"
"Yeah. From my world, they are considered a mythical bird related to the phoenix. For this reason, it's also called a Phoenix at tis. However, there seems to be a unique one among them."
"Do you an the blue one?" She asked. Out of the red birds, one of them actually had blue skin, making it look eye-catching.
"Yeah. Still, let's go to check them." Alex nodded and walked toward the birds while glancing at the spring.
The Luan Birds found this disturbing as they suddenly flew toward Alex with a nacing glare. They even summoned their fire and cried as if asking Alex to leave.
"Hmm… They don't want to attack us." Alex nodded and decided to converse with them. "Excuse . I know that you are disturbed by , but I am searching for sothing here… Do you think you can make way for ?"
*Cry!*
They looked even angrier, but Alex had dealt with Sherry and Kyle in the past, so he could sohow understand their cries. He then summoned his Pure Fire, creating an overbearing pressure on them.
"Wu?!" Shocked by this Fire as they wanted to kneel in front of him, the birds panicked and looked at each other, wondering what to do.
"Don't worry. I just want to check sothing. If I find the thing I am searching for, I can exchange it with you." Alex assured them he ca not to steal but to exchange. "You can even try to absorb a bit of my fla to enhance your fla… How is it?"
"Ga?!" The birds were shocked. They realized how powerful Alex's Fire is. The mont they absorbed even a little portion of it, they would evolve to a greater being. That was why they hesitated and exchanged looks at each other.
"Ga Wu!" One of them stepped forward as he shook his head. It wasn't to reject Alex's offer. Instead, he looked at his son while flapping his wing a few tis.
The son was none other than Blue Luan. It might have understood the weirdness of it and thought it was a disease. The father Luan wanted Alex to cure him instead.
"Sir Alex…" Mithra seed to understand it and called Alex's na with an unsure tone. She hesitated because she didn't want to get tricked again, but she could sense it this ti that these birds were sincere in their request, making her pity them.
"Ironic, isn't it? Sotis, monsters that are acting with their instinct most of the ti are gentler and more trustworthy than a human… Our own kin," said Alex with a sad expression.
Mithra couldn't say a single thing as she understood that well because of the experience a few days ago.
"Your son is not sick but special. It might be due to his ancestor, but he has an ice elent that is countering his fire elent. That's why he looks like this. And I feel the energy has yet to fuse, so it sotis creates a clash within his body, causing him imnse pain. Isn't that right?"
Father Luan nodded repeatedly. He then pointed to everything on his side while trying to say, "You can take everything here as long as you cure my son. I don't want him to be in pain anymore."
Their expressions filled with sadness. Even Father Luan let out tears in the corner of his eyes.
"The curing process is not hard, but it takes ti because your son needs to fuse the two elents in his body, harmonizing the two elents. I have a practice for that… I think…" Alex thought, trying to ram all the knowledge he got from the Lightning Tribulation. It was a kind of Martial Art called Elent Harmonization.
When there are two elents with the sa rank in one's body, they are bound to have so friction between them. There are two ways to solve this. One is to eliminate one of the elents while the other one is to harmonize them.
Alex never had this problem because the Pure Fire took control of the Space Elent. And the fact that his Space Elent was born because of the system, the Pure Fire felt it was his brother instead.
On the other hand, the blue Luan was a bit special. Alex could burn one of the elents, but he had a way to give him a benefit, and he planned to do that.
"How about this… Since you want to cure your son, he will need to follow while I am in this world. I don't have a mount to fly around the world anyway. The reason as I said earlier. If you trust with your son's life, not only I can solve his problem, but I can increase his strength. To prove that, I can lessen the pain first." Alex smiled and walked toward the blue Luan.
The blue Luan looked at his father for a second before lowering his head. His father had begged Alex to save him, so he shouldn't waver at this point.
Alex channeled his Pure Fire inside his body, suppressing the two elents for a period of ti. The weak blue Luan that had troubled even to stand suddenly stood on his two feet before flapping his wings and flying to the sky.
"Ga Wu!"
The Luans spread their wings in unison and shouted, feeling happy to see him flying in the sky. However, the blue Luan suddenly fell.
"Ga!" The other four started panicking, but Alex imdiately waved his hand, controlling the Spiritual Energy to gently land him on the ground.
"I said it earlier, it's only for a period of ti…" Alex shook his head before asking the Luans. "So, how is it?"
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