The next day sitting around the table eating their breakfast when they see the old man appear on the other side soulless an expression like someone who has seen the worse horrors of the universe.

He sit on the other side and everyone continue to eat in silence. After they finish the breakfast he start to slowly recover and after they install in a more comfortable room the old man start to explain the schedule of the day :

“The time has come for the four of you to take your first step on the holder path.”

A box appear in front of each kid the old man sign them to open them the to open it. Lilly was the first to open it a small sphere was inside but the moment she touch it shatter into million of pieces she start to panic believing she broke something important.

But in front her the fragment fuse into a new form everyone was looking at what was happening the once sphere start to glow more and more blinding all of them.

When the light fade in place of a broken sphere was a strange sight in front of her was multicolour crystal cat hovering a few centimetre above ground.

That scene bring back memories to the old man he start to explain to everyone :

“It's your core now the next step is to connect with it you need to feel the energy inside the core and connect it to your head. Alicia your next.”

She open the packet and like Lilly the orb crumble into million of fragments before it recombine and when the light face in front of her was a big bee surrounded by smaller bees.

After her Nina open his own and when the light fade was a small turtle with a small tree on his shell.

The last was Gold he slowly open until he see the orb in front of him when he lay his hand on it shattered like the three other but some start to fuse again into a smaller sphere with the remaining shards spinning around it forming a ring around it.

Gold was a bit surprised by the final result he turn toward the old man to ask :

“Master why my core is so much different from the others ?”

The old man look at him before he answer back :

“You have the void body and one of its capacity is to tune the core to the world instead of tuning to you.”

Gold look at the core in front of him at the same time the old continue to talk :

“I leave the four of you here try to link to your core.”

After saying that the old man disappear like he usually do leave the four who started to try linking with their core.

Time pass a day and week and soon enough the months fly by…

One year after getting their core the first finally succeed to link to it the first one was Lilly.

She was sitting on her bed trying again and again she was frustrated all of them were a year without any progress they all started to feel the motivation leave them.

She don’t know why but she try one last before sleeping but this time when she reach for the energy inside instead of slipping out of her reach it flow toward her until it connect with her mind.

Suddenly she feel the core become a part of herself she could feel it like she feel her hands.

After her the three other quickly follow in her step after another month.

All four of them where sitting in front of the old man he seem to be in a good mood as he start to speak:

“Good I’m happy to see that have all reach this goal that quickly you need to know that most take a few years to reach this stage I have taken 5 years to reach your stage so don’t feel demotivated if making progress take longer and longer.”

He turn back toward the kids before he continue :

“You reach the beginning of the core genesis the goal of this realm is to link and to make it grow until it can hold it first elements.”

He sit on a cushion before he continue :

“To do that you need to reach the second step of the core genesis realm the unbreakable bond step you need strengthen the bond to your core until it’s not possible any more. For that you need to slowly expand the link until it break, link to it again and do it until you can’t break it any more the more cycles the better.”

He look at them he was proud of their progress he will not say it to them but their talent is really high the council will probably take them as disciples if they could and knowing the standard of this bunch of old man that impressive.

He finish talking :

“Good you can go #~!::/*-++”

“Hoops spill my coffee on it that sad I was hoping that it will become interesting soon.”

“Let’s make a deal you forget what you seen and will go fetch another story don’t worry I will make sure he don’t change the MC.”

“Bye ! Ho I forget subscribe to my [REDACTED] channel I will interesting thing on it !”

BYE!