On the back of Alex's hand glowed slightly, a symbol that looked like a delicate, undulating spiral crowned with regality, embodying mastery and sovereignty over the element of smoke.
'It looks really cool' thought Alex.
As he looked on, the symbol slowly stopped glowing and took a black color, now it looked just like a tattoo.
As he was admiring the symbol, Lilia quickly approached him, crouched and placed her hands around his cheeks.
"Are you hurt anywhere? What was that that just happened?" Asked Lilia, a little worried.
Although she could see that he was fine, she still needed to hear him say so.
Alex took her hands in his own and replied with a smile on his face "that's okay, I'm fine, but what are you talking about, what happened"
Seeing that he really had no clue of what happened, Lilia proceeded to fill him on what happened just before he fully awakened.
However, since Lilia didn't know what happened, she couldn't know that what she just told him wasn't nearly as shocking as the things that really occurred.
"Hmm, I see, Berra had warned me that there might be a ruckus at my ascension to sovereignty, I guess that's what he meant.
When their souls connected, before Alex could awaken, the smoke spirit had explained some things to him, he also learned the name of the smoke spirit: Berra.
"Who is Berra ?" Questioned Lilia.
"It's the spirit of the smoke element" replied Alex casually.
"Smoke spirit ?"
"Let me tell you what happened from the beginning," said Alex, proceeding to explain everything that occurred to him from the moment he entered the state of meditation.
After he finished, Lilia's eyes were wide open with surprise.
"So, you are a sovereign, not just a false but a real true sovereign, and you became a true sovereign by linking your soul to the one of Berra, the smoke spirit, correct ?" Asked Lilia.
"Yup, isn't your husband amazing ?" Boasted Alex.
Lilia nodded absentmindedly, making boast even more.
"What got you thinking so much ?" Asked Alex after he finished boasting.
"You becoming a sovereign is a good thing, but what is worrying me is that promise you made with the smoke spirit," conveyed Lilia.
Alex wrapped his hand around her waist, pulled her toward him, and gave her a peck on her lips.
"You don't have to worry about that, like I said to Berra, I'm going to become so strong that I'm sure that I would fulfill my end of the bargain without even breaking a sweat" said Alex with a confident smile.
Lilia was still worried, but all her worries disappeared as Alex continued kissing her, before long, he started to fondle her ass.
"What do you say we go to our room and continue?" proposed Alex.
"Yeah - No!" Exclaimed Lilia as she quickly pulled herself from his grasp.
"We need to continue your training, we barely have one day remaining, we should make better use of this time"
"Well, we can't say that what we will be doing In our room is not a good use of our time, right ?" Asked Alex with a teasing smile.
He quickly got up and wrapped his hand around Lilia's waist.
"We won't be long, I promise!"
"Nope, I know you if we do that we will surely go at it the whole day" said Lilia, squinting her eyes at him.
"Cough, that's not false"
"I also want to, but you need to train. You might have become a sovereign of smoke, but even then, if you don't train, your sovereignty won't matter very much."
"Okay, okay, you win" said Alex with a disappointed face.
Seeing him like that made Lilia feel guilty, but she knew her husband. If they started making love right now, he would never train again.
"Let's make a bet," Alex suddenly proposed. "If I win all my battles in less than ten minutes, you will let me take you however I want and for as many times as I want", as he said this, Alex squeezed tightly her soft ass.
"Deal ?"
Lilia looked at him seriously and chastised "you shouldn't underestimate your opponents, they have been training since young ages and some of them are really talented, don't take them lightly"
"Are you on or not ?" Stressed Alex.
"Okay, if you win all your battles in less than ten minutes, you can have me however you want. It's not really a problem; I'm all yours already. You can have me anytime you want anyway."shrugged Lilia.
"That's true, however I have never been in your ass, but if I win the bet then..."
*Slap*
Alex slapped Lilia ass and continued
"... I bury will bury my dick balls deep in your cute asshole"
Lilia moaned softly, then with a sultry voice she uttered:
"That's if you win the bet"
"Oh, believe me I will win, nothing will stop me to claiming that ass" replied Alex with a grin.
"Hmm, why are you so sure of yourself ?" Asked Lilia curiously.
"You will see later, since as of right now I'm going to train alone"
"Are you sure ?"
"Yes, I have something that I need to try, and it might take me a long time to succeed, so there is no reason for you to remain here, go spend time with the other's"
"Okay, but you should take time to rest, if you spend all your time training, you risk being tired the day of the competition, and it won't be a good thing"
"Don't worry about that, I know what I'm doing" reassured Alex.
Lilia didn't know why, but each time that Alex said that he knew what he was doing, she always felt worried, because : he rarely knew what he was doing!
But all she could do was to have confidence in him, so she left him in the training grounds to train.
"Now that Lilia is gone, let's start!"