Things calmed down after the draconians left. They even evacuated their Brazilian base. The draconians were no longer on the South American continent.
Supay and Urcaguary went into seclusion to heal. Before going into healing, Urcaguary put Mallqui in charge. He is a wood elemental warrior golem.
Leo built a grave for Zero and Jira. They never found Jira's body, but they assumed the worse.
A week after the war, Leo decided to go back to the training room and finalize his breakthrough. Lucy and Shadow told him to take all the time he needed.
Shadow decided to head to Lankani City to bridge a treaty with them. A golem by the name Zara, the artifact spirit Apu Cavillaca, and Apu Sima traveled with her. Apu Cavillaca decided to pass her Moon Arts to Shadow and to meet this worlds strongest artifact spirit, Lankani.
Lucy decided to train after Pedro ended up begging her for days for a cultivation technique. After gauging his aptitude for elements, she found out, Pedro's best element was death and second was lightning. Lucy thought that Pedro and Xolotl might be tied together by the strings of fate.
Lucy passed on a cultivation technique of one of her past lives. The method is called Lucifer's Tomb. Its meant for a death and fire warrior, but she figured Pedro could make it work.
Seeing the young kid take to training so quickly many of the golems in town gave him items to help with tempering his body.
Mallqui, the new leader, gave him many herbs he had grown himself. The green mossy golem felt good helping the lad.
A young girl by the name of Isabella was twelve years old and the only other kid at Machu Pichu. Seeing Pedro getting all the attention she begged for a cultivation technique of her own. She was given Life of Grain cultivation technique. This meant she would train in the elements of life and wood.
Every morning the two would wake up and absorb mana. The two created a rivalry that really pushed the two to compete. Lucy thought it was cute.
Most of the city was repaired, and the shadow beasts and surrounded animals cleared the forest and all of the dead draconians.
Down underground, Leo decided to concentrate on himself and break through into the Core Building realm.
Sitting crossed legged on a floating boulder, Leo concentrated on the core inside him. He spent a long time making it his and storing mana in it.
Taking deep breaths, Leo reached out both metal arms to pull in metal and earth mana. Leo's core started to take on a gold and silver color inside of him.
Something didn't feel right to Leo. Sitting there, Leo soaked up mana at a fast-paced rate.
"That's right. I train in four energies." Leo started to draw in what yin and yang mana he could.
His core started to take on specs of red and blue. Nodding his head, Leo knew this felt right to him.
This is the tricky part for Leo. He has had two masters who taught him to shape his core into what is most important to him. Mahisha chose to form his into a buffalo. Urcaguary shaped his base into the shape of a gemstone.
All of a sudden something from Leo's soul erupted, and he let loose a loud roar. "That's right. I'm a lion." Leo chose the shape of his core.
His would be a lion.
The thing Leo didn't know was when beasts or even beastmen breakthrough to the Core Building phase, their body must do the same. Leo's blood started to boil and convulse in pain.
The rock Leo was floating on crashed to the ground, and Leo rolled off it like a sack of potatoes. Plopping to the floor, Leo cringed in pain.
"AhHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh....Ahhhhhhh..." Leo screamed.
The four mana's were baptizing his exterior. This would allow these four elements to fight with the body better. The same way jellyfish body amplifies electricity, now the same with Leo's body.
As the core reshaping into a Lion, the body was rejecting Leo's bionic arms. Leo reached over with his right hand and ripped off his left arm. Then sitting up he slammed himself into the ground to shatter the right but failed.
Using earth control, he lifted a rock and dropped it onto himself. The arm was crushed.
At this point, the pain kept Leo awake, and he almost wished he wasn't. Two new arms burst from his body. Then his body was covered in metal mana. The metallic hue made him shine. Then yin and yang took turns expanding the metal hue and compacting it. Lastly, a large thick layer of earth mana covered him.
These energies started to solidify, and Leo was encased in large earth-like shape. In the history of humankind on earth, Leo was the first to break through as human and beast to the Core Builder realm.
Slowly the large rock sphere cracked and felt to the ground. A naked man with tan skin floated there for a second and landed on the ground — his black hair in a mess and a black fur on his shoulders. His canine teeth looked more beastman like, and his muscular frame made him larger than normal humans. Looking up, Leo's eyes took on the shape of vertical slits. His transformation was done, for now.
Leo was now a Core Builder warrior.