'What is this feeling?' Alex wondered, feeling sothing of incomparable softness beneath his head.
Slowly, his eyes fluttered open and what ca into his sight could only be called divine.
Just a few centiters from his face, he witnessed the beautiful and sleeping face of a woman. From her delicate nose to her soft, full lips, this woman's face was angelic and a pure delight to the eyes. Her skin was flawless, with a gentle, radiant glow, and her long, dark eyelashes rested peacefully against her cheeks.
Her high cheekbones frad her face perfectly, and her cascading hair, like spun silk, added to the ethereal beauty. Most captivating of all were her closed eyes, hinting at a serene and dreamlike state, promising an even more srizing gaze once they opened.
"Beautiful..." Alex mumbled with an absentminded expression. It wasn't the first ti he was seeing Alia's stunning face, but in this mont, Alex could once again feel how lucky he was to have such a charming woman as his wife.
A wide, goofy grin spread across his face, lighting up his tired features.
"Thanks for the complint," Alia suddenly spoke, her eyes still sealed shut.
"I'm only stating the truth," Alex replied, gently rubbing his head against Alia's pillowy lap.
Alia let out an exhausted chuckle at her brother's antics, "You should avoid moving too much. I might have healed your wounds, but your body is still severely exhausted."
"You don't seem to be doing much better," Alex remarked.
Although she was as beautiful as ever, Alex could see the dark bags under her eyes, hinting at how tired she was.
"Mmh," Alia nodded, her eyes still closed. "Since I wasn't certain how big I should make the orb of residual energy to harm a peak level 5, I made it as big as I could. But as you know, my residual blast ability consus my stamina instead of mana."
Alia sighed and opened her eyes, revealing her beautiful but tired gray eyes. "After that, I had to heal all your wounds, which were too many," she said with a gentle smile, lightly stroking Alex's face. "You should be more careful in your fights; it tears apart to see my husband being so wounded."
"That's because I know you'll always be there to heal that I don't mind it even when I'm being wounded," Alex paused before continuing in a loving tone. "But since I don't want to sadden my lovable wife, I promise to avoid being wounded as much as I can... but on one condition."
Alia raised a brow and inquired, "What condition?"
"I get to have a kiss whenever I want," Alex grinned.
A chuckle escaped Alia's lips, "I already belong to you and you can do whatever you want with , so there's no need for such a condition."
As if to prove her words, Alia bent her face and pressed her full, luscious lips against Alex's for several seconds before pulling back, leaving a warmth that lingered.
"I'm so going to make love to you the instant I recuperate," Alex said with a grin.
"I'll be waiting then, co at with everything you've got, big boy," Alia replied.
The two of them burst into laughter for a mont before a peaceful silence settled around them.
After a long while, Alex spoke once again, "Say, can you help increase my mana reserves?"
Alia tilted her head in confusion, "How am I supposed to do that?"
Alex then explained to Alia the idea he had when discussing his mana reserves problem with Lilia.
"So what you're asking is to use my cell master ability to make your heart act like... a monster's core?" Alia wondered.
"Yeah, sothing like that," Alex nodded, "Is it possible?"
Alia remained quiet for a while, a thoughtful expression on her face before hesitantly nodding, "It sounds like sothing that might be possible, but I'm not confident enough in my skills regarding cell control to pull it off."
Among all of her three abilities, Alia's cell master ability was actually the one she had the least familiarity with. The reason was that she spent a lot of ti training to control her residual blast ability.
As explained earlier, her residual blast ability consud her stamina each ti she used it, leaving her body too exhausted to do anything afterward. It would take her weeks or even months before she could continue her training, and since their father judged that the residual blast ability was too dangerous, he made Alia focus solely on mastering that ability. As a result, her other abilities stalled.
Once she finally got the hang of using her ability without risking harm to herself or others, Alia began focusing on her other abilities. However, the ability she trained the most after that was her plant control ability.
The result was that, although her cell master ability was a very precious and extraordinary ability, she was the least familiar with it. The only things she knew how to do were healing or killing a being by ordering its cells to either destroy, reproduce or transform themselves.
Oh, she also knew how to modify her plants to make them gain characteristics their natural form wouldn't allow them to have, such as the plant that birthed the luminous bulb they had been using to light up their path in the dungeon's upper floor.
However, it was obvious to Alia that she had yet to scratch the surface of her ability.
"Plus, if I want to commit to such a risky plan, I would need to have a very deep knowledge about the entire human body and the heart in particular," Alia explained.
What Alex was asking of her required very fine control of her ability coupled with dical knowledge, and right now, even if she could manage to finely control her ability, she simply did not possess the required dical knowledge.
"So if you were to obtain the necessary dical knowledge, you could do it?" Alex wondered.
"Not really," Alia shook her head, "Even if I were to obtain such knowledge, I would need to research and find how manipulating and transforming your cells would impact your heart in the way we want while not being dangerous. You probably guessed it, but even a small mistake on my part could cause your death."
"I'm certain that won't happen," Alex gave Alia a reassuring smile, "Have so faith in your skills. Oh, that actually reminds , what happened inside that circular room in the Night's base before we ca? Anna told about an individual that attacked you before leaving."
"Oh, you speak of that psycho?" Alia's tired eyes flashed with an annoyed expression, "That guy spoke nonsense, used his pressure on us before disappearing to gods know where."
"You don't sound as shaken as Anna had been," Alex remarked.
Although Alia was speaking in a harsh tone, her face portraying a slightly enraged expression, to Alex, she just looked cute right now. However, beneath that affection, he harbored a burning resolve. If he were to et that Rangyl, he would make the guy pay for what he did. How dare he harm his wives? No one threatened or hurt his loved ones without facing the consequences!
"From what Anna told , he said that you had so special power, right?" Alex wondered, his expression turning curious.
"Mm," Alia humd in agreent. "He didn't react when I used my plant manipulation ability, so I guess he was speaking about my cell master ability."
"It's true that your ability to control the cells is extraordinary," Alex said, admiration lacing his voice.
He never really stopped to think about it, but now that he did, the power to control cells was actually pretty overpowered. He always knew about this fact, but the more he thought, the more potential he could see in this ability. The implications of such control were vast and, in the right hands, incredibly powerful.
'Well, I have a way to identify its value... more or less,' Alex thought to himself.
By using the number of points it would cost him to copy Alia's cell master ability compared to how much it had cost him to copy the smoke elent, he could more or less deduce the ability's worth. If the point difference was significant, it would confirm just how powerful and valuable her ability truly was. The higher the cost, the greater the potential and versatility of her cell master ability.
Thus, he asked the system how much soul points he needed if he wanted to copy Alia's ability.
Thus, he asked the system how many soul points he would need to copy Alia's cell master ability.
A mont later, the system's response appeared before his eyes.
When he saw the price to copy the cell master ability, Alex's eyes constricted into pinholes, a sharp intake of breath the only sound he made.
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