While Almond and Lily were absorbed in their Elemental Imprint, the other Grim Breakers were also training and only training so they could get stronger.
Elemental Imprint was everyone’s main focus, especially after seeing its options and knowing that it would stay with them until they properly used it up.
Almond had Legendary-rank Elemental Imprint while Lily and Marcus had SSS-rank Elemental Imprints, and these Imprints were going to stay with them until they reached the rank of elemental mastery based on the Imprints’ ranks.
Natalia and Maya had SS-rank Imprints, so they could master whatever element they chose in their imprint up to SS equivalent-rank.
Adrian, Julian, Amir, Jemma, and Brynjal had acquired S-rank imprints.
Kira, Talia, Noah, Eliara, Kayla, Mira, Xavier, Ron, Emma, Finn, and Anya had acquired A-rank imprints.
Most of them were using their Imprints to acquire mastery over a new Element first since they didn’t have much more than that aside from Advanced Skill Scrolls.
Julian, Emma, Anya, Mira, Adrian, Finn, Ron, and Jian only had one Advanced Skill Scroll, while the others had at least two, with Marcus, Maya, Natalia, and Lily having three and Almond having acquired four of them total.
Marcus, Maya, Natalia, and Lily had high-ranking skill scrolls as well from their earlier Heroic Floor Boss rewards, but since they were mostly S/SS-rank and were not suitable, they sold those scrolls, except for one they had learned instantly using the Instant-Learning skill slabs they had gotten once.
Marcus and Maya sold their scrolls in GAA, gaining tens of millions of Gold coins due to the rarity and value of those high-ranking scrolls, while Lily and Natalia had sold them in the League of Firefly guild.
Everyone also had one Insight Stone each, except for Almond, Lilly, and Natalia, who had two each, which they could use to get insight into a random but possibly desired phenomenon of magic for 24 hours.
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Almond and Lily woke up on 23rd December around seven in the morning with no result from their training.
But no result didn’t mean they didn’t progress. They were stoked after waking up because both of them could feel they were very close to awakening their bond with a new element.
They ate, showered, and went to sleep.
Natalia didn’t train in Elemental Imprint but used her second Advanced skill scroll to learn a skill called Angel Wings of Aurora.
It had been over twenty-four hours, but she hadn’t woken up yet.
Six hours later when Almond and Lily finished their sleeping, Natalia was still in the dimension produced by the scroll.
“It seems that this one is hard for her,” Almond wryly smiled.
“Well, she will succeed if she is determined,” Lily smiled.
“Yeah, let’s resume our training. Let’s see who awakens their mastery first,” Almond grinned.
“Sure, but this bout is mine to win, darling~”
“We’ll see, haha.”
Both of them sat down nearby in the open pavilion with mattresses made of unique leaves by Sylvia. There were also her flowers at the corners that enriched their psyche and produced a calming and peaceful atmosphere paired with the cool chilliness produced by the icy crystal structure.
Nyssara also had worked hard to create special ice imbued with Light elements’ positive properties for this structure, which was called Revelation Pavilion as named by Sylvia and Nyssara, and it was at the very top of the Castle of Bloomshard.
The castle was also on the verge of completion. Only a bit of internal decoration and design was left.
From the outside, it was perfectly complete—a majestic yet aesthetic and beautiful structure with seven floors, an exotic castle that combined the aesthetics of middle-aged and oriental design but used beautiful ice crystals and different woods as its foundation.
The tall round tower at its center, which reached 400 meters high, was the Garden of Meditation, with an array of the highest-quality flowers, trees, and plants Sylvia could grow and beautiful crystal structures for decoration made by Nyssara.
The Revelation Pavilion was there in this Garden of Meditation, where Natalia, Almond, and Lily were training. Their eyes were closed, and their minds were in different dimensions.
Five hours passed by since Almond and Lily resumed their Elemental Imprint training.
And for Natalia, 35 hours had passed by.
But her eyes twitched slightly, and they finally opened with a colorful radiance in them.
Her expression shifted from one deadpan to scrunchy as she leaned back and lay on the floor, “Goddamn, it took so long!”
*Grrr….*
“Fuck…my body is screaming for energy, and my mind feel like it’s getting pounded with a giant hammer,” Natalia felt like crying.
Training for that skill drained a lot of her mental power, and she wanted to sleep right away due to the sudden headache assaulting her after she opened her eyes, but she also wanted to eat first.
“Syl…please give me some fruit or anything,” Natalia tiredly called out.
She could now feel the effects of these flowers and pavilion even more clearly because they were helping her greatly in subduing the pain and keeping her calm.
Upon hearing Natalia’s call, Sylvia soon arrived in a sapling form resembling her appearance from vines that were produced from nearby flowers.
“I can grow special fruits that can recover one’s health and mind’s exhaustion and give a boost to one’s Focus after exploring my Quirk, but I only got one so far.”
“I will not give it to you, so I’ll call Alfred to cook something fast and bring it to you.”
“…Fine.”
Food soon arrived after ten minutes, and Natalia quickly ate it before sleeping right there and then.
Three hours later, when it was 4 p.m., Lily’s eyes opened before a misty crimson aura oozed out of her body.
“Yes!” Lily grinned upon seeing that Almond was still in meditation. “Hehe, I told you, darling. I’d win this bout.”
Lily stood up as dimly glinting blood emerged from her finger.
She could increase her Blood by consuming Mana, but the most exciting thing was that her Blood also got a boost from her physical body. The stronger her physical attributes, the more potential her Blood could get and the more vitality it could generate upon her Mana consumption.
‘I am only at D-rank mastery right now, but I will make this my focus now!’ Lily’s eyes turned fiery as she clenched her fist. ‘Blood element will significantly boost my power.’
‘I will fight alongside you,’ Lily resolved and vowed as she looked at Almond.’ It won’t be long, darling.’
‘I won’t let myself stay behind for long!’
The atmosphere around her formed from her magic vibrated with a fiery aura as if responding to her will while the floating blood glowed.
Lily blinked as she calmed herself down shortly and got up, stretching her arms and body.
“Looks like she finished training and slept here after eating,” Lily wryly smiled, seeing Natalia.
Thinking of something, Lily jumped off the Garden’s edge and landed on the ground as she muttered, “I should order some energetic food since Almond will also wake up soon for the second S-rank Dungeon raid that’s starting after two hours.”
*Beep*
Suddenly, her wristwatch beeped. It was a message from Mira.
Seeing the content, Lily’s brows furrowed closely, “What the hell?”
A flash of anger passed through her eyes as she fell into thought, ‘What should I do?’
‘Do I contact GAA? But will they intervene in this matter?’
‘Damn it! This is a tricky matter, but…something must be done,’ Lily’s eyes glinted. ‘Darling, wake up soon.’