Legacy

After the hour passed the door to the room opened back up, this time she walked in with an item in her hand, this item was wrapped in a cloth so Ireya couldn't see exactly what it was.

"What is that Mummy?"

"This? This is a present from your Daddy, he left this behind for you. I can't help you with anything anymore until you take control of your energy completely, from here on out you have to practice until you control all of them okay?"

"Got it."

Fanelle placed the item down onto the floor, gave Ireya one last look, and left the room for good this time.

Ireya got up from the mat and stretched to relax her stiff muscles, "What is this? Daddy left it for me so it must be good."

Her fingers slowly unwrapped the cloth.

Screech!

A whining noise exploded outwards as a glittering blade was revealed beneath the cloth, the light overshadowing the darkness within the room.

"So bright!", Ireya was momentarily blinded by the blade.

"But it's so beautiful!", she felt some sort of attraction towards the blade. Its beauty was on the level of her Mummy, it may be even more beautiful than her Mummy. It was weird to say but this blade was too magnificent.

As Ireya continued unfolding the cloth the hilt hit her sight, the flowery pattern alongside the gold outlines was simply exquisite.

"This is a sword!", the sword in front of Ireya seemed to glow pinkish white but the entire blade, if looked at properly, was purely white and gold. The yellow, red, pink and blue on the flowers were just an illusion.

"Hey there!", a voice suddenly appeared within the room.

"Huh? Who's talking?"

"If you're listening to me right now then something must have happened which required you to take my legacy. Remember, from this point onwards anything I teach you and tell you must be kept secret from everybody, including your mother. Got it?"

"Huh? Okay, but who are you?", Ireya was less worried about the promise and all the small talk but was more curious about the fact that a voice was speaking to her through a sword.

"Ah! My heart! How could my daughter not remember her father!"

Silence.

"Ahem. Anyways remember to train hard okay?"

"So you're my Daddy?"

"Yes, don't forget to train!"

The voice then cut off and the light which was shimmering off of the sword began concentrating onto a singular point, this light then flew directly into Ireya's chest before she could react.

"Ow...! What was all of that for?", while saying this she picked up the sword on the ground.

She was strong enough to swing it around without any worries, although it was just as big as her body so it was a bit hard to control. "This is so much fun!", she swung the sword around without any worries, but while she was doing this the light embedded within her chest slowly released waves of energy that pulsed towards her brain.

"Like this!", her swings slowly grew sharper.

After half an hour of swinging her form was very slowly improving without her realizing it and her swings were also becoming sharper, at this point sweat was dripping down her forehead and her closed were drenched with it.

The energy training had already drained her and swinging the sword for the first time was extremely tiring on her untrained body.

"Fuaaaa...", the sword fell out of her hand and onto the ground and her breathing grew heavy.

"Let me lie down for a wh- huh?", the light released another pulse of energy, "Why do I want to do pushups now, and run too?"

She didn't think much of it and followed her instincts, she completed one push up after another.

"I feel so much better now!"

Unbeknownst to her physical training after energy training relieved the body and rejuvenated it instead of breaking down muscles and fat, this meant that she could continue training with the sword without any worries. Plus energy training also improved your body's physical state and so it also improved her flexibility and ability to wield the sword, this would create an endless cycle of training and improvement.

After picking up the sword and training with the sword even more she plopped back down to do more physical training but found that there weren't any improvements and slowly fell asleep.

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"Look at our daughter Seven, she's working so hard..."

Fanelle looked at her daughter he was currently curled up in a ball of sweat sleeping as if the world had nothing to do with her.

'She might even reach the Ablution realm before the 3-year prediction.', thinking of this her mood improved and she walked into the kitchen to cook up some food for her starving daughter.

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After waking up she found herself lying down near a pile of food, next to it a note saying, 'Don't forget to do your energy training.'

"Mummy is so silly, how could I forget after a short sleep."

She then treated herself to the food, taking a look at the sword she felt a deep sense of longing for something, she didn't know what this feeling was but it made her pick up the sword once again and continue training.

But just as she started her training her sword began vibrating, it came in short waves and gradually grew in strength, but none of the vibrations caused discomfort for Ireya. Instead, they soothed her soul and improved her mental state, she continued training as her sword vibrated and each of her movements gradually began moving faster.

It wasn't noticeable but in the long run, it would make a huge difference. After training with the sword she lay down on the slightly wet ground and began her energy training.

This time she woke up another 100 'ants'.

This routine then continued for another year. There were many moments where she grew bored and tired of her repetitive actions but her mother urged her to continue, not only that the sword within her hand would sometimes shine with a small light as if to encourage her onward.

She had now awoken a total of ninety million ants.

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"Mummy, how many ants do I have to wake up to start cultivating?", Ireya sat in front of her mother in the living room.

"It all depends on how much energy granules are inside of you, the average person would awaken around 20-30 million. It's separated into 10 different tiers, each tier is 10 million energy granule. The more you unlock while you're younger the greater your potential, your father, for example, he woke up ninety million, just a bit short of 100 million."

Ireya gave her mummy a weird look, 'No I'm the weird one here...'

She didn't dare to tell her mummy, to tell her that she had only woken up a little less than a tenth of the total energy granules in her body.

"Of course I'll be proud of you even if you only woke up 70 million, not everyone is like your father."

"Okay mummy, I'll make you proud."

Just as Ireya got up to leave to her room once again she remembered one question that had lingered in her mind, "Oh yeah mummy, why don't I have to go to school?"

"Hahaha! Because I'm the best teacher out there, why should you go to school!"

"Mummy is awesome!"

Fanelle puffed up her chest with pride as she listened to her daughter's words.

"More awesome than daddy right?"

"Of course!"

Her chest puffed up even further with pride.

"Anyways go off now and train some more."

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And just like that, another 2 years passed.

Ireya was now 8 years old and much taller than before, her hair had grown longer and her skin more luscious than ever. Even after all that physical training the way her body looked remained the same, even her mummy was jealous of her.

But there was a problem, her mummy expected her to have finished by now, but contrary to her expectations Ireya had only awakened 270 million energy granules now. At this rate, she would only be finished by the age of 16.

Raya had already finished her training a month earlier than expected and left her house to show off her new powers to Ireya, she had begun training in the Ablution Realm now. Ireya, on the other hand, was left far behind.

Just as she was feeling down the door to her room opened up, it was her mummy.

"How close are you to being finished now Ireya?"

"Mummy..."

Fanelle looked at her daughter's facial expression, her eyes were drooping and seemed hesitant.

Fanelle sighed and bent down to face her daughter, "It's fine Ireya, you can tell me."

"I'm still nowhere near done yet..."

Fanelle had expected that this was a possibility, 99% of the population remained mortals for a reason. To control the energy granules required not only sheer will and patience but also talent, she had predicted around 3 years as that was the average time for someone to awaken, any longer than that and there was little to no hope.

In history, only one person had awakened after taking longer than 4 years. But even then they had remained in the Ablution realm for the rest of their life and ended up dying early on in life.

"It's fine Ireya, you can still live like a normal person and have fun with mummy okay?", this was her effort to console her daughter, it wasn't much but it was something.

"Ah mummy no!", Ireya began giggling as she watched her mummy tried to console her.

Fanelle was quite confused, "What do you mean no?"

This time it was Ireya's turn to puff up her chest, "I'll only tell you if you promise to tell no one but my daddy!"

Fanelle giggled at her, "Okay then tell me."

Ireya pushed her pinky forward, "Pinky promise?"

"Pinky Promise!"

"I've woken up 270 million Energy Granules so far!"

Fanelle watched her daughter's proud face, her face, on the other hand, remained frozen in time.