《Rise of the Empress of Stars》Training with Mom and Dad - 2
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“Let’s go and have lunch now, I am starving.” Said Zale as his stomach made a growling noise as if proving his word.
“Let’s go now kids, you look tired as well. Continue whatever you are doing after lunch. Zera, you come with us after lunch, we need to discuss something.” Chuckling at her husband Sylvia led the kids back to the front yard tidying up her dress of the grass stuck from sitting on hours end.
The aunt who is distributing today is quite shocked at the amount of food on our plates, as I had an adult portion while my parents got three persons worth of food at a time.
“That, don’t worry miss, the food won’t be wasted. We have been training since morning and are famished.” Explained dad awkwardly.
Sending her friends back for a nap, Zera went back to her room just to find Sylvia and Zale writing down some names and striking off some on a piece of paper.
“What are these names for mom?” Asked Zera curiously.
“We are selecting out whom we can trust now darling so that they can join us here with our training.” Said Sylvia without looking up from the list.
“Oh. Mom, do you know Inora, Ren, and Lancer's parents? They aren’t in the monastery and a caretaker is looking after them right now.” Asked Zera.
“About that, I almost forgot to tell them. Their parents are in the mercenary group that your father leads and they are going to reach here in the evening along with more relief food on the helicopter. Might as well not tell them and give them a surprise I guess.” Said Sylvia, patting the back of her head in annoyance for forgetting such a thing.
“I have already added their parents to the list as they are all trustworthy and are you guys sure about not informing back home about the marriage, Zera, or this information?” Zale explained and asked, looking at both Zera and Sylvia.
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“Yes, dad. I am pretty sure your old man is already quite pissed off by you becoming a mercenary, while my mother’s parents….” Zera trailed off without completely looking at the awkward face of the runaway bride.
“Well, they are gonna be furious as hell and might come here the next day to beat you up for making their daughter run away from a grand wedding.” Said Zera looking quite smug imagining that happening.
“Hahaha…..That might really happen, dear. Are you sure you wanna face that now instead of trying to fly in the air to play your quidditch with the mercenaries?” Said Sylvia, kidding Zeras' cheek and smiling at Zale.
“Okay, okay, whatever you say.” Said Zale waving them off and continued to write in the paper.
“Most of your father's mercenary members will be joining us from tomorrow Zera. We need a more detailed training plan. Do you know how many years it can take to reach the Earth Evolutionary stage?” asked Sylvia.
“Hmm….It depends on the intensity of training, aura density, and the potential of the body. It is more beneficial to evolve the cells as much as possible before integrating them with aura in the Earth stage. So most people spend around 13-20 years before evolving to the Earth stage. Some people will reach the peak of Human stage and keep on reconstructing their cells for a few months to a year continuously to make their foundations more solid.” Explained Zera.
“During the Human stage, it is more beneficial to combine training with medicated baths which will help tremendously with the evolution of cells and also with their mental power as they are going to be quite painful.”
“You must have already discovered new types of plants mom. The herbs required for these medicated baths, I will paint them for you along with their natural environment and you can try to find them.”
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“I can help with that, I will send those back to the head of my research laboratory and they will find them for us.” Said Sylvia making a note on her mobile.
“Since we are going to face Evolved beasts in the future, I will also train both of you in close combat and firearms from now on.” Added Zale from the side watching that their conversation has finished.
“Dad, we need a stable base for our future activities and also need our own satellite as the planet's magnetic field will undergo tremendous changes during its transformation and the satellites that are currently available will become useless by then.”Said Zera.
“The satellite can also help with locating a place with abundant aura and safety during the transformation process as natural disasters will increase quite significantly as the planet expands on a whole adding new continents and some extreme environments.”
“Hmm...If what you said happens, the loss of human life will be quite significant. We will have to inform the government about this when the time is right without affecting ourselves.” Said Zale as went into some serious thought.
“Dear, do you remember any technological principles or manufacturing methods from your past?” Asked Zale after a few minutes, looking at Zera.
“I do remember all the textbooks but I don't understand most of it except for some hacking and mechanical stuff about vehicle repairs. I wasn’t quite that interested in that as I was busy strengthening myself at that time. I can type those textbooks out according to the division of classes later but most of them must be in conflict with current known theories, so they will need to be proven again ” Said Zera, shrugging her shoulders.
“That’s not that big of an issue, if you can get that information to those research madmen they will take care of it as long as it is something new.” Said Zale chuckling.
“What is so funny dear? Do please let me know so that I can also join you.” Said Sylvia, with a sweet voice that caused goosebumps.
Rubbing the goosebumps on his arm, Zale looked at his wife’s sweet smile and immediately regretted calling research madmen remembering she is also one of them.
Slapping himself on the cheek,” Nothing dear, I was just joking. Uhm...can you please try not to leave any marks on my face that will last till tomorrow, please dear.” Surrendered Zale, realizing his reality as Zera laughed.
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