Rhydian watched Mira leave, a little shocked that she didn't punish her. Normally, Mira would have at least smacked her across the head, but this ti she didn't do anything!
'What's going on? Is the world about to end tomorrow?' Rhydian thought before shaking her head.
'No, no, no. Master is just busy. I'm sure she'll put through all sorts of torturous training once she's done!' Rhydian shivered at the thought but soon cald down.
'Luckily, Master is busy, so she won't be able to focus on for now.' She thought, then sighed and looked at the corpses of all the Rank 8 beasts around her. She licked her lips as hunger began to arise in her stomach, 'I'll just enjoy life until my leisure days are over.'
Getting rid of all the depressing thoughts of the future, Rhydian grouped up the corpses of the Rank 8 beasts and began eating them, absorbing their vitality, Qi, and affinities!
'Soon, I'll have to go into hibernation to digest everything and break through, but before that, I need to wait until Master finishes her business.'
While Rhydian was eating, the Star-Horned wolves realized the battle was over and began to walk toward the mountain. Seeing the mass destruction that the beasts caused made them tremble a bit, but they were happy that the being they took in as their lord was so strong!
In fact, knowing that she dominated multiple Rank 8 beasts at the sa ti while only being Rank 7 affird her position in their hearts.
'Our new Leader is so strong!' The wolves thought as they stared at Rhydian with shining eyes full of reverence.
Rhydian sensed them approaching but didn't spare them anything more than a glance. She was too busy munching down her al.
***
While Rhydian was eating and getting stronger, Mira was doing the sa. It took her a few minutes to return to the Lightning Spirit Stone Mine, and she was relieved when she saw that it was still intact.
'That fight with the Earth Titan Bear gave a few insights on how I can use my affinities more efficiently. Especially for my Wind and Yin Lightning affinities.' Mira thought as she grabbed a handful of Lightning Spirit Stones and began ditating.
She doesn't use those two affinities much, so just activating them was enough to give her a few insights. She could also improve upon those insights thanks to the massive punching bag she could practice on.
'Hopefully, I can bring my Yin Lightning to the required Grade in a few days so that I can spend the rest of my ti on my Wind Affinity. I have a feeling that's the elent I'm going to struggle the most with.' Mira thought, and she wasn't wrong.
There's a reason why humans generally call Elents "affinities". It's because those elents are often tied to specific human characteristics or emotions.
For example, fire's main characteristic is its ability to burn and destroy. So, humans that have this elent as an affinity are generally hot-blooded and short-tempered. While there is more to it, and that's an overgeneralization, most humans understand affinities that way.
For this reason, soone capable of using seven different elents like Mira is incredibly rare. According to human logic, unless she had a unique physique or so other external factor, it would be impossible for her nature to encapsulate the characteristics of almost every elent.
…Though, she does have a unique physique that allows her to do just that.
However, because Mira knew that each elent represented a certain characteristic, she figured that the Wind Elent would be exceptionally hard for her. With all the other elents, she can align with them in so way.
But wind… that was more like a dream.
People often see the Wind Elent as the embodint of freedom. It can be as peaceful as a lake or as fierce as a tornado. It cos and goes as it pleases, with nothing able to stop it. It is refreshing on hot sumr days but brutal on cold winter nights.
While its intensity is always in a constant state of change, it remains neutral. Even when the fiercest of storms are uprooting trees and hos, nobody blas it.
Nobody says, "How dare the wind do this to ?! It almost killed !" Instead, they bla mother nature or understand that this is just the elent doing its job.
That neutrality, that calmness, that freedom… Those are all things Mira has wished and strived for. She wanted nothing more than to be free! Almost all of her life, she's been shackled by sothing!
Even in death, she can't find peace as the only thing that's accompanied her through life is pain, betrayal, and hell!
This has resulted in her becoming a cold, calloused person, capable of and willing to commit atrocities even the worst of beings would condemn.
Morals were nothing in her eyes, just the squabble of ants trying to justify their actions.
Life and death didn't exist for her, as she always felt like she was in limbo. She did not fear death, nor did she enjoy the pleasures of life.
She lived because she couldn't die, and she trained to earn her freedom.
To many, she was an evil abomination who didn't deserve to walk the Earth, while to others, she was nothing more than entertainnt to fill their dull lives.
Even Maria didn't regard her as a good person, nor did she claim or want to be. Life was much simpler if she cared for nothing other than herself.
How can a selfish woman like her, who doesn't give two shits about the world or its inhabitants, relate to the Wind Elent's neutrality? How can a woman like her, who is constantly shackled, suppressed, and chased by powerful beings, be free and unfettered?
Everything she has done has either been planned and structured beforehand or was a reaction to soone else's whims. The number of tis she just traveled from place to place, experiencing different things and doing whatever she wanted could be counted on one hand.
In fact, Mira doubted there were that many tis she felt truly free. Even before the god found an interest in her, she was always a structured and disciplined person.
When those thoughts entered Mira's mind, she didn't despair or get frustrated. At most, she was annoyed that she only had a week to bring her Wind affinity up to such a high Grade, but that was it.
'Hmph! Even if I have to force it to the Middle-Stage Heaven Grade, I'll get my wind affinity there. I refuse to lose both my Yin Lightning and Wind elents because of a shitty trial!' Mira snorted and returned her attention back to the Lightning Spirit Stones.
The Guardian, who had read her mind, shook his head at her stupidity. He was going to keep quiet as he felt he had already done enough by helping her with the Darkness Elent, but at this rate, he thought she would really fail this trial!
"Are you stupid?? You know that the Wind Elent is all about freedom, yet here you are talking about brute force?? Do you not see the irony in your words?" He said.
Mira stopped what she was doing for a second after hearing his voice but returned to improving her Lightning Affinity a second later.
'I know. That's the reason I said it. I don't believe I can raise my wind affinity naturally, so I can only resort to brute force!' Mira said, making the Guardian sigh. He couldn't believe what he was hearing!
"I guess you really don't have an affinity for wind…." The Guardian took a deep breath, then his eyes shined with resolve, "Not to worry! I'll help you out in this departnt!"
This ti, Mira really stopped what she was doing. However, no emotional fluctuation other than a raised eyebrow appeared on her face. Clearly, she didn't believe he would be of much help.
"Hmph! While darkness is my specialty, that doesn't an I don't know anything about the other elents. I am still a god-like being, you know?" He tried to convince her, but the more he talked, the less Mira was to believe him.
Still, what he said wasn't wrong, so she decided to ask, 'Then, are you going to help like how you did with the Darkness elent?'
"..."
He remained silent, causing Mira's lips to twitch.
'You… You were just brag-'
"AHEM! I have sensed a few locations not far from you that will help increase your Wind comprehension. There's no need to go through a few annoying lessons."
Mira's lips twitched again, and she returned her attention back to the Lightning Spirit Stones. She didn't want to deal with this annoying old man any longer, even if what he said was true.
***
Two days later, Mira used every single Spirit Stone in the mine and walked out from under the mountain.
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