Chapter 6

Sam stuttered as his eyes avoided mine.

“Y-you don’t have to glare at me… I only state the truth.”

“If you don’t want to taste my fist, don’t chip.”

“Uhhh...”

“Since you have woke up, practice your power. Hurry and advance to a rank and we will move soon.”

“Soon?”

His mouth didn't stop speaking even when he yieldingly did as I told him and formed an electric spark at the tip of his forefingers.

“It would be two days more and I will find two bikes for us. Mom will ride behind me while you rode the other one and the stuff behind you.”

“Why not take a car? Plus, you don’t have experience riding a bike, do you?”

“Idiot. The road would be full of dead cars by now and you want to ride one? Want to die?”

At my remark, he muttered in to complain as he looked away. Though he whispered, my ears were keen to hear his every word.

“I only ask and was scolded. Truly unfair.”

“Idiot.”

“... You have become devilish by days, Cerys.”

*Thud*

He got a hit to his head for calling my name without the honorific. I was particularly sensitive about it and he got one as if he asked for it. He wriggled on the floor as he held the part where he got hit.

“You asked for it.”

“I. Did. Not.”

His teeth clenched as he spoke each word one by one.

A while later, mom woke up and we ate again. Afterward, I taught mom the water skills that I knew by observing someone.

“As you put your hand mid air, the energy should flow straight. Water should go out from here.”

I pointed toward her palm as I told her what to do. I told her to hold the water that was out of her palm and it started forming into a round shape of water ball.

“With this, you should be able to manipulate it however you want. Mom should do it as your feeling told you.”

“I will try...”

Unlike Sam, mom was hard-working to practice her ability. Unfortunately, water element that I knew was weak even in the past. It could drown the aberrant and make them slow down but it could never kill it in one hit, unlike ice element. Since water user did not kill enough aberrant, their element could not evolve into a new rank.

My first element was just the power to control tree. As I killed more and more aberrant, it evolved into the Life Tree that I had now.

The requirement for the element to evolve was killing thousands of aberrants or kill seven tier-7 aberrants. It did not specifically say to use the element to kill thus I only relied on my combat skills. But, not everyone has a nimble and a courageous heart to fight close-combat with the aberrant. Most water users were timid and soft-hearted, just like mom.

Thus, they died earlier than the other user did. If I did not evolve my element, I would die earlier too just like the other flora elemental users.

The only elements that was powerful from the start to the end was... Fire.