Alice felt her energy rising, focusing her concentration to carefully guide it. Sensing her strength gradually increasing, she could feel herself edging closer to the next level of power.
Simultaneously, the room grew colder as her ice element expanded, the elemental seed within her body growing more profound and emitting an intense elemental power. She was on the brink of attaining the next stage of her ice element mastery.
However, she soon reached the limits imposed by her shackles—the restrictive barriers of mortal potential. Unable to grow any stronger without breaking these shackles, Alice recognized that her only path to further strength lay in shattering these limitations.
Ohm!
Gathering her energy within her abdomen, she focused on sensing the great shackle—a formidable barrier far more challenging to overcome than a standard shackle. Indeed, some experts struggled to break it at all, remaining trapped in the third shackle for years on end.
