Breakthrough

In his meditate state, Einar was circulating his energy through his body. The energy could circulate without obstructions through his muscles and viscera's and he had a great control over his strength. However, his bones were still mortal as they were white. He had been accumulating energy in his body in order to reach a breakthrough but is seemed to take long time for it. This means he had already completed the Viscera tempering and was close to start the Bone endurance.

After some time, he started to visualize the fight he had with his father in an attempt to gain some points from it. He was able to discover some flawless in his fight like attacking first without analyzing his opponent, his movements were simple, slow and at the end he had shown a terrible opening on his back when he threw himself to his father after seeing his sister state.

[Yes, I´m too weak. I need to improve but I can´t have my foundations been weak and shallow] he thought.

When there was nothing more to gain in his opinion, he opened his eyes and saw Nilsa still meditating. Suddenly, he felt something was not right and he immersed back on the memories of the fight.

[That is!!! I didn´t paid attention to it!!! I even told Zia I was fine because I covered my spine with energy!!! How an idiot I´m!! I was able to breakthrough into the first layer of Bone endurance. As for why I didn´t feel is probably due to the pain of the moment. Hahaha. I can now continue with the endurance of my body. I should start with my hand first]

He started to circulate the accumulated energy through his left hand. First, he gathered all the energy around the index finger, then infused the bones with it for some time. At the beginning there was no reaction but after some time he could feel pain in his finger, it was like a hammer crushing the bone. He was overjoyed as this was a sign that his bone was starting to change.

He started to pour more energy in his finger, the pain increased as more energy was entering the bone. He knew that if he wanted to reach the Blood transformation stage, he needed to temper his bones or his body wouldn´t be able to withstand the new blood in the future.

His bone started to change, from white to silver, the thickness increased by a small margin and Einar felt it was a stronger than the other fingers. As he continued to cultivate in this stage, the energy he had accumulated for over a year decreased at rapid speed and by the time he had tempered his entire hand, it was complete empty. Never in his wildest dreams, he would expected to exhaust his energy by tempering only his left hand.

[It seems I´ll require a lot of energy and time to temper all my bones. Well, I just need to continue forward. I can't stop now that I have decided to protect Zia. For now, lets check how strong I have become] he thought.

Einar got up and went to the edge of the woods behind the training space of the house. First, he threw a normal punch to a tree and it broke.

"….." "I didn´t expect that my strength will soar this much, lets try with the rock father brought last year"

His father brought a giant rock last year in order to motivate him to cultivate. He told Einar that the day he was able to shatter the rock, he would take him hunting. From that day, he started to train more diligently in order to go hunting with his father. Hearing the adventures of Gerd, he had wanted to go but since his strength was low, he wasn't able to.

On the other hand, his sister despite been able to shatter her own rock, decided to wait for him in order to go together.

*Punch*

The rock didn´t shatter but it got some deep marks on it.

"Mmmm… let´s try this time with the energy on my fist"

*Boom*

There was a loud noise as the rock shattered in different pieces.

"Hahaha, I did it!!! Now I can go hunting and beat the guys that bullies us. Zia won´t have to protect me anymore!!" he said while laughing happy.

"Congratulations Big Brother for reaching the Bone tempering stage!!" said a voice at his back.

"Thank you, Zia. Now I´m stronger than you hahaha"

"Big Brother, you seemed to forget that I have been in this stage for a longer time than you. How many bones do you think I´ve already tempered?"

"Mmmm, 40?"

"No"

"70"

"Nope"

"130"

"More"

"Aghh!! I give up. How many have you tempered already?"

"I´ve just tempered the 234th of 247"

"...." "That´s too fast!!! You only tempered your first one six months ago!!"

"Hahaha, once you have tempered the most important ones, the rest are easy"

"Not fair!! You are still stronger than me!!"

"I don´t think so. You just have entered this stage and you were able to shatter the rock. I only achieved it when I had tempered the 40th bone"

"…. Now that you mention you are right. Let's fight and compare"

"We can´t. Remember that father is waiting for us"

"...ok..."

Suddenly, she gave a kiss on his lips before turning around and said coquettishly

"This is your reward. I´ll wait for the day that you surpass me, Big Brother"

"…."

Not wanting to let her go, Einar grabbed her waist and turned around while hugging her.

"Don´t worry, I´ll be stronger than you and everybody here. There will be a day that nobody will be able to separate us" he said with determination and then he kissed her.

"Mmm" she nodded enjoying his kiss and his embrace.

Then both left towards the lake where their father was waiting.

Unknown to them, a pair of eyes were looking to what have happened since the rock shattered. After they had left a faint voice muttered

"All until now has been fulfilled as his words had prophesied. Seems that the time for it is coming up. I hope that all goes well"