After around two hours, Gracie woke up but was unable to feel anything in her body. It felt as if she had no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no skin to feel anything. She tried to scream, but nothing came out of her mouth. Aiden, seeing this, removed whatever he had done to her.
Suddenly, her senses started coming back. She saw Liam, Blake, and Tyler standing around her.
"Where is Harry? Is he okay?" she asked, panicking.
"Calm down. He is safe," Aiden informed her.
"Then I shall take my leave," Aiden said and left the room with Elder.
"Thank God we arrived at the right time, and you saved him. We would have lost a Asset for human society." Aiden said, walking towards his office.
"There was something unusual. I only treated his outer injuries, but somehow, these kids succeeded in harmonizing his inner energy on their own," Elder explained.
"Even I wasn't sure if I could have saved him," Elder shook his head while thinking about it.
"Hmm... So you are saying they solved a problem that you aren't sure you could have solved? They really are an interesting group," Aiden sighed deeply.
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Seven days passed.
In the room, Harry was still sitting on the ground.
Suddenly, a smell reached Liam, Blake, Tyler, and Gracie. They instantly put their hands on their noses and stopped breathing.
It was unbearable scent. When they turned around, they saw black matter sticking out of Harry's body.
Harry had finally succeeded in achieving harmony and reached the elemental master level in body cultivation. The black matter was impurities expelled from his body, making it more pure. His Qi energy was also refined and had become purer.
Harry opened his eyes and covered his nose as soon as he smelled. His friends had already made a run out of the room.
While taking a bath, he noticed silver lines on his body. Seeing them, he grinned ear to ear.
Breaking and reconstructing his body had helped him master the iron body technique. Now, he had a more powerful and resilient body than any other elemental master level 1 cultivator. His raw power equaled that of an elemental master level 3 cultivator.
As he walked towards Blake's house, where he and his friends mostly stayed because it had more comfortable beds and more space due to Blake's high ranking,
Harry would also get a better room and could cultivate on the 3rd level of the cultivation tower.
But after today's incident, he knows it would be a waste of time to train his body cultivation. He could always use his Qi cultivation to push his body cultivation, and now he had a space barrier that could help control excessive Qi.
[Your body element has been integrated.]
He felt a weird sensation as if small needles were going inside his body.
"Why didn't I feel this while getting the space element?" He thought about it, at that time, the sensation was nothing compared to the unbearable pain in his body.
[You have acquired the 'Blood' element.]
[Skills
(1) Hemokinesis: level 1
Basic control over the user's own blood, simple movements.
Level up to level 2: Cost - 2 Stat points.]
[Unlock new skill: Cost - 10 Stat points.]
Seeing these notifications, he was completely perplexed because he had never heard of the blood element before.
He was happy that he had a very rare space element, but the blood element was something entirely new to him.
Thinking about it, he saw the information related to Hemokinesis but was disappointed. It was a very basic skill that gave him the ability to move his blood within his body freely. He tried using it but couldn't see any great benefits because the control was so vague that he couldn't even stop bleeding.
Now he checked his stat points.
[Stat points - 25]
Seeing them, he calculated that every level up in the foundation building realm gave 1 stat point, and in the elemental master realm, it gave 2 stat points.
Now he was planning the use of these stat points. He liked the space barrier skill, which provided physical defense. If he leveled it up, he was sure to get a boost. But reading about Hemokinesis, he realized that if he improved it to level 2, there was a high chance he would be able to control his blood more precisely, which could be crucial in stopping severe bleeding.
Thinking all this, he reached Blake's room and knocked. Blake opened the door. Inside, there was a king-sized bed with multiple comfy chairs lined up. All of his friends were sitting there.
"We've been waiting for you," Gracie said, looking him up and down.
One thing that had changed in Harry was his physique. He was no longer weak-looking but had become more handsome and muscular.
"Can you explain what that was all about? You were about to explode there," Tyler asked bluntly.
Although Blake, Gracie, and Liam wouldn't ask as blunt as Tyler, But they were also curious about Harry. Mysterious things always seemed to happen with Harry.
First, he had that mysterious sword, then they found out that he could cultivate both Qi and soul simultaneously. Now they couldn't explain how he leveled up while fighting with someone.
Harry knew they had helped him a lot. If Gracie hadn't been there, he was sure he would have died. Thinking of all this, he knew if he wants to solidify their trust, he has to reveal some of his secrets.
"See, I haven't told anybody about this until now, and I expect the same from you. I have a game installed in my mind, and it is based on a barter system. It gives me quests, and by completing them, it increases my Qi cultivation. That's how I can increase my level while fighting," Harry explained clearly.
Tyler, Liam, and Blake looked at him strangely, as if saying, "If you don't want to tell us, why make up such ridiculous stories?"
But Gracie believed him somewhat. She remembered when he told her about, how he could cultivate both Qi and soul at the same time.
she knew he wasn't the type to lie. Instead, he would refuse to tell his secrets directly.