Toz stood up with a smile radiating pride at finally having caught up to the cats. Now that he was also at the sixth level, the cats wouldn't be able to boast about their level in front of him.
Toz walked over to Lucy and Mindle, ready to begin asking them how it felt to be caught up to by someone with six elements. However, his smile and stride faltered when he sensed the teasing and playfulness from the two cats and their grins.
He entirely stopped walking as he got a bad feeling, and as Lucy and Mindle's grins widened, Toz began backing away and turning around, but he was too late.
Toz couldn't stop his senses from perceiving it when Lucy and Mindle intentionally loosened their control over their mana.
More time had passed than Toz first thought, and while he had holed up on Taienra, Lucy and Mindle had already broken through to the seventh level, becoming high level spirit beasts. And if those two had broken through, it was very likely that the other three also had.
