A few days passed at which time Ning finished reaching the Essence Manifestation realm in all of his cores but 2.
The Lightning and Sound cores made the most progress of all, and the other 4 only entered the Essence manifestation realm. As for the last 2, he never got to get to them.
Before he could begin doing anything for them, Emma sent him a message that she wanted to come back. Once she was out, he would have to do what he wanted some other time.
Emma looked around the room and quickly turned to her father. "How many days has it been?" she asked. "It's only been a few minutes inside."
"7 days," Ning said. "It's been an entire week."
"Woah!" Emma couldn't help but say. "Time really does move so fascinatingly fast outside. No wonder you spent months out here and only a few hours had passed inside."
She excitedly looked around. "What time is it? Lory and Lyra must've missed me," she said.
