'This is all I can do to help you the rest is up to you guys'
After reaching where Paul and the others were standing Matt looked at his watch, 'It's already been 3 minutes since they ate the meat and for every level up they stay in that state for 5 minutes, if Dad can keep supporting them for 1 minute than the last one minute will be easy for them to deal with as they will have a full spirit to deal with the last minute' thinking up till here Matt signals his father.
Seeing the signal Jonathan releases a white glow around him, it wasn't blinding or anything the light was just like what a tube light gives but it only reached up to 10 meters around him and not more. Mike and Ethan who were right beside Jonathan received the full benefit of it and had their spirits recovered. The evolution of their abilities that was continuously feeding on their spirits was able to continue evolving if not for Jonathan helping the two of them the evolution would have stopped after half a minute more and they would have lost their chance of a breakthrough.
Jacob was worried about his son, hence he was sweating nonstop even though Matt had already told him that there was nothing to worry about as a father he couldn't help but get worried about him.
Jonathan kept on supplying his energy to Mike and Ethan keeping their spirit full even after continuous usage of it but he himself wasn't in good shape. After continuous use of his ability for almost a minute Jonathan was sweating hard, Matt looked at his father's condition and new that he was going to collapse any second and he was right. Just as the continuous usage of his ability reached 1 whole minute he collapsed but Matt didn't let his father hit the ground as he teleports beside him and caught him the moment before he crashed on the ground.
"You did a great job dad! Sorry for asking something like this from you" Matt stated as he gently laid his dad on the ground.
"Hahaha... it's fine...huff..huff... I am glad that my ability was helpful at all." Jonathan stated while taking deep breaths.
"No, Dad your ability is going to be really helpful in the future," Matt said with a smile.
Jacob, Paul, and Wade came running towards them after seeing Matt catching his father like that. The surprise was evident on their faces as they blinked once and Matt who was standing beside them was helping his father catch a breath.
"Matt is father Okay?" asked Paul
"Yes he is fine just exhausted that's all," Matt said taking out a large chunk of meat and passed it to his father, "Here dad eat it, your spirit will recover," Matt said as he thought 'Who knows you may as well start your breakthrough after getting exhausted just now!'
Jonathan nodded his head and took the large chunk of a piece of meat from his son and started to gobble it down. Even though raw it was still better than food cooked in a 5-star restaurant so Jonathan had no problem eating it all.
"Matt what about my son will he be okay?" asked Jacob after he made sure that Jonathan was fine.
"Yes, he is still breaking through hence he hasn't woken up yet, give it a minute more I think they are close to their breakthrough," replied Matt
Jacob nodded his head and stood at a side waiting for his son to wake up. Wade had nothing else to speak off hence he also stood in a corner only Matt and Paul were sitting right next to Jonathan who after eating the meat though didn't achieve the breakthrough but still regained his spirit and energy.
After a minute Mike and Ethan opened their eyes with a smile on their faces.
"Mike! You are finally awake." Jacob stated as he rushed and hugged him tightly.
"Dad! What happened to you?" asked Mike in surprise as according to him he just ate the meat Matt gave to him and felt the energy inside his body and mind churning up and he closes his eyes to feel that energy and understand it and to him, it only took him a minute at most, so seeing such a reaction from his father was really an exaggeration to Mike.
Ethan was surprised as well from the reaction of Jacob as he went through the same process as Matt.
"The two of you were non-responsive for 5 minutes so your father was worried about you that's all," Matt explained after seeing the expression on Mike and Ethan's face he knew that they weren't able to understand the situation.
""What?!"" exclaimed Mike ad, Ethan, at once.
"Yes, I think it's because you were going through a breakthrough of your ability that's why you didn't know how much time has passed" Matt stated.
"Yeah, that's right!" Mike said while Ethan also nodded his head.
"So how is it? Do you understand how much your ability has evolved or will you have to experiment with it?" asked Matt with his arms folded around his chest.
"There is no need for it, I can use my ability 10 times now and I am sure that control will most likely be better as well," Mike replied.
"Then wouldn't it be better if you use once to check for yourself, Idiot!" Matt stated
"Ugh! Yeah you are right about that!" stated Mike bowing his head down.
"What about you Ethan?" asked Matt
"The time for my transformation has increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes that's all" Ethan stated.
"Whoa! I can use my ability 10 times but it was already 5 times before so my ability increased by 2 times, on the other hand, you're increased by 5 times! Why is that?" asked Mike
"You can't measure it like that maybe the distance from which you can control stones has increased, moreover stones are every around us so if the two of you are some distance away from each other before Ethan reaches you! You may be able to defeat him with your explicit control of stones by using it only 10 times though you need to have perfect control for it." Matt stated.
"Then let's check how good my control is now!"