Resolving

Leo went back to training. He took a pill and started training his aura while Marcus rested for the night. The next morning, Marcus left directly for the forest. 

Leo quickly ran through three more pills before reaching a bottleneck. He could no longer gather any more aura, which meant that he was now very close to making his 2nd Circle.

Instead of immediately trying to do that, he started consolidating his aura. He didn't take any pills and only circulated the aura in his body for 2 hours. After that, he got very accustomed to the new aura that had gotten into his body.

He stretched a little and thought about what he was going to do. Was he supposed to start breaking through, or was he supposed to wait and get more pills or elixirs that could increase his success?

Just one pill was enough the last time he broke through, but he wasn't sure it would be the same this time. Last time he had a very tame amount of aura, but now it was different.