Ana suddenly ripped out a loud sneeze on her way back to the imperial city. She then rubbed her nose and murmured to herself,‘

After rushing for a while, she finally reached the gates of the Palace City, where she saw Jerry sitting on the carriage and smoking his pipe. It seemed that he had been waiting for Ana for quite a long time.

‘ Ana made up an excuse as she gasped for air.

‘ Jerry smiled kindly and took back his pipe. He then grabbed the brindle and was ready to set off.

Ana nodded at Jerry and climbed the carriage. Once they arrived at the dragon field. Jerry and Ana began taking all the food they bought in the bazaar into the storehouse of the kitchen. By the time they were done with the task, it was already noon.

‘ Jerry said as he handed Ana an apron.

Although Ana didn't want to wear it at all but she didn't want to refuse Jerry's kindness. So Ana put the apron on despite her initial hesitation. Ana then took a big pot of prepared food into the yard.

At the same time, the young candidates who just finished thier training walked into the yard. When they saw Ana dressed in a apron and was holding a ladle, they murmured among themselves to make fun of her.

‘ Hey! What the hell are you all murmuring about!? Do you want to have your lunch or not? Huh? You better watch yourselves! Otherwise, I will put laxatives in your food! Don't forget that I have to work in the kitchen for three whole days. Do you want to have diarrhea for three days? I think not’, Ana yelled at them threateningly as she waved the ladle in her hand.

When they heard Ana, they were reminded of what happened the day before. Ana defeated the two trainees, one being at the second grade of mortal stage. That trainee was out cold and was still unable to leave thier bed. With that in mind, they all turned quiet at once. After all, none of them wanted to experience that.

‘ Ana sneered when she saw them keep thier mouth shut. It seemed that what happened the day before actually showed two sides of the same coin. Although she was punished, she was also able to prove herself. Now they didn't dare provoke or bully her like they did before.

All of a sudden, Ana was greeted by a cold glare from Bear.

‘ Ana sneered at Bear as he scornfully looked at her.

‘ Bear yelled at Ana with rage boiling in his chest.

Ana rolled her eyes at Bear and went on with her work. Bear's face was twisted in anger when he saw Ana ignoring him. Although he wanted to tear Ana apart right then and there, he didn't want to get himself into more troubles. So he just clenched his fists and turned away.

The moment Ana was done with her job, she prepared lunch for herself and Ananta. Now that she was working in the kitchen, it was more convenient for her to prepare enough food and she no longer needed to finish her meals in a hurry. When the young candidates were done with thier lunch, they all immediately went back to thier rooms. They needed a good rest to regain thier strength for thier afternoon training.

Meanwhile, Ana went to chop firewood after she had her lunch. After that, she had no other tasks left. Since she had some free time, she stared at her left arm and continued to study her dragon spiritual power. She discovered that there was something special about her dragon spiritual power yesterday so she wondered what exactly could it be.

But after an entire night of studying, she still wasn't able to figure it out. Now she was thinking about the similarities between the two experiences she had in exerting her dragon spiritual power. She noticed that the dragon spiritual power had the capacity to absorb others spiritual power. But she could not prove that by herself. She needed someone's help.

‘ What are you doing here?’ all of a sudden, a cold voice came from behind her.

Ana turned her back and saw Fiona walking towards her with the Cloud tiger. The Cloud tiger, Fiona's war beast, looked a lot better now.

‘ Is it better now?’ Ana asked as she pointed at the Cloud tiger.

‘ It can eat better now. I think your method worked ’, Fiona nodded.

‘ Ofcourse it worked. Oh! I was wondering if you could do me a favor ’, Ana asked as she squinted her eyes at Fiona.

‘ Yes, no problem ’, Fiona answered as cool as a cucumber.

‘ Use your dragon spiritual power to hit me’, Ana said.

‘ Wait, what? Why would I do that?’ Fiona was caught off guard by Ana's request.

‘ Come on, just hit me with it!’ Ana said as she looked at Fiona with determination.

Fiona left her Cloud tiger where it was and walked closer to Ana. She frowned and asked,‘ Are you sure about this?’

‘ Try the first grade of the mortal stage for starters’, Ana said as she nodded at Fiona.

Fiona concentrated and began activating her Dragon Spirit Mark. In a split second, her dragon spiritual power was channeled to her palms and emitted an icy aura. She then aimed it at Ana without hesitation. Ana also summoned her dragon spirit mark the same time Fiona did. She channeled her dragon spiritual power to her arms in an attempt to withstand the attack from Fiona.

At that very moment, Ana could clearly feel her dragon spiritual power absorbing Fiona's spiritual power as soon as the two forces clashed. She could tell because she could feel the faint and weak spiritual power from Fiona.

Fiona was stunned as she saw her spiritual power disappearing into thin air. She froze and looked at Ana.

Ana just confirmed that her dragon spiritual power could absorb the spiritual power from others. But it wasn't much. It seemed that she could only absorb small amounts.

‘ Ana said.

Fiona channeled more dragon spiritual power to her palm and this time, a freezing fog began to arise around her palm. She then threw the attack at Ana.

Ana summoned her dragon spiritual power to defend the upcoming attack one more time. Although she succeeded in absorbing Fiona's spiritual power again, this time was not as easy as the first time.

‘ Ana told her.

A/n: hello kiddos! Thanks for waiting.

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