Leslie goes forward to throw a series of punches with her newly cleared mind and energized body. Caelan on the other hand stares at their ruined sword which was already dull from scraping against that monster. Alloy seems unaffected while deflecting Leslie's attacks with merely her hand's palms. Leslie's face shows a bit of frustration as sounds of hard crystals and metal clash.
"Your crystals have better structure with more flow but you're just burning energy, I give your current strength D grade tier 9." Alloy throws a shift strike into Leslie's torso that knocks her backwards before She turns to look at Caelan. The android moves faster than expected as a kick hits Caelan's side. "Don't slack off this soon, you're strong as Graham but share the same issue."
"Ugh... What? I share the same issue." Caelan feels the pain shoot throughout their body. That kick knocked them off balance and the wind out. It's not something that Caelan could even avoid or brace the attack because of the sheer speed.
"You struggle with weapon reinforcement but he knows weapon formation techniques." Alloy suddenly steps to the side from Leslie trying a back attack on the AI. She avoids it before palm striking Leslie's jaw in an upwards motion. "Reinforcement uses your flow to empower weapons while formation uses your natural power to create a weapon."
Leslie stumbles a bit backwards from Alloy's attack. She couldn't even react to that strike at all... Is the gap between a D and B grades that big? She's feeling the pain from her jaw and it's much worse than usual. There's a moment where she's holding her jaw. "Shit, That hurts."
"Weapon formation? That's just the skill that I need." Caelan's determined look for any edge against the upcoming fights with these monsters will be important. They toss aside their ruined sword and is completely ready for any harsh training ahead.
"Wait, was that sword for his training!? Graham... You idiot." It just clicks in her head about why Graham used that sword because of his reinforcement training. Leslie is pretty annoyed that he brought it when he wasn't good at that skill yet.
"Uh... Yeah, Sorry about that... He didn't know those monsters would appear." Alloy didn't think those things would've been that strong. It's pretty embarrassing looking back at his mistake but that's the past now. She returns to serious mode and suddenly does a spinning kick into Leslie's head. "Don't let your flow slip during battle, Remember how it flowed when I caused it to rush."
"That's his-" Leslie was interrupted by Alloy's kick which knocked her off balance and onto her back. It leaves her dizzy like last time. Something feels a bit funky inside her torso as her flow slowly slips back into a stable state.
"Anyway, You know how to control your power but weapon formation requires molding it into a solid form." Alloy says before looking at Leslie with some worry and goes to help her up after that pretty mean kick. "Sorry! Training super strong bodies requires harsh conditions, I'm trying not to be too brutal on the first lesson."
"Ugh... You really need to improve on that, Alloy" Leslie gives Alloy a slightly dirty look from doing that in the middle of whatever she was saying. The flow within her body is different but more stable than that rushing state, Maybe it's like getting your blood pumping? "That flow thing feels better than before?"
"Training without me? That's a bit rude." Graham walks forward with his arms crossed. He had a nice meal and is mostly healed from his injuries from that crash. He's slightly upset at being left out of this training session. "It's good you're helping them but leaving me out of training does hurt my heart."
Caelan ignores Graham while in their serious focus on this concept of weapon formation. It seems impossible since electricity isn't a solid element, Maybe the people with geokinesis or hydrokinesis since those have some matter. The idea about flow is pretty different from how people in the villages thought about their powers.
"Oh! I thought you were going to be resting for much longer, Sorry Graham." Alloy feels some shame about not informing Graham about this lesson. She didn't want to get him involved with any harsh training while recovering.
"Ugh, You should care more about your health." Leslie sounds pretty annoyed with Graham's lack of awareness when his condition is concerned. She has learned his recovery speed is fast but not perfect, His body is much more worn down than it looks.
"We need harsh conditions for getting stronger and I'm recovered enough to train" Graham gives Leslie a thumbs up to her annoyance before he sighs. He does realize his body has limits but really wants to break through them even if it's unhealthy. "One teacher isn't good enough for how little time that we actually have."
"You should be careful even being true, You cannot ignore your physical health while recovering." Alloy gets where he's coming from but also cares for his health. Super humans are crazy strong and durable but they're not invincible. "Let's take it easy and help these two learn somethings- What!?"
The ground starts to rumble more harshly than before. It's the same as when those ants appeared but nothing comes from the already existing crack but from the distance a giant black tower breaks free of this planet's surface. The sheer height makes it visible to them. Caelan's eyes widened in a horrible realization of something.
"That's... That's a tower of our great spirit, Oh no..." Caelan is frozen in shock at seeing this but that's soon interrupted by the tower unleashing a shock wave that echoes throughout the forest. It pushes the three of them back and Alloy is stunned by some interference. Roars of countless primeval beasts respond to this tower.
"That tower belongs to this great spirit you've mentioned!? It's starting to seem like a real thing!" Leslie was about to say something towards Graham until this crazy tower shot up from the ground in the far off distance. She's a bit shaken from that huge shock wave, her limbs still feel that vibration.
"It's time to fight, Some of those beasts are appearing!" Graham points in a direction where many glowing eyes are coming from, All have a golden yellow light. Something isn't normal about them and a few more appear from the back. That tower seems to have changed these beasts in some weird way.