I Shall Evolve Everything

It had been minutes since their escape from the cave and still there were more spirits coming out of the cave.

Sure it had taken the spirits minutes to pierce the caves rocks but after that it was easy for the weaker ones to just follow the footsteps of the stronger ones and escape by their tunnel.

The only good news was that they weren't chasing us.

"We should head back to report to our Lords" I comment to Delta beside me.

"Yes" Delta replies

…

It was a short trip, even shorter if I would have been able to match Delta's max speed but I wasn't and so Delta had to slow down so we would not be separated.

After we were back to the territory we headed straight to the Lord's home.

"I assume the explosion was your doing, Delta" Aoif accuses the moment we arrive into the living room.

"Yes"

"Elaborate" Aoif orders

I take this chance to explain the circumstances of the explosion.

"When we got to the cave or the sealed cave would be more accurate,"

Cutting in Darwin interrupts "Sealed cave?"

"Yes My Lord, sealed, the cave was sealing in hundreds of thousands of spirits. When we got there there were no traps, just an ominous aura."

"No traps?" Aoif asks "why?"

"It didn't need any, the aura was enough to kill any lesser being that stumbled upon it."

"After we had got to the end of the cave we found a book."

Mentioning the book I pull it out from my pocket and hand it to My Lord.

He inspects the book then gestures for me to continue.

"Not long after we took the book the seal was broken and countless spirits were let loose. However they weren't able to immediately escape and while they were breaking out we set down explosives then left and blew the cave up."

…

The report from Tama was helpful.

It almost fully explains the system's announcement.

"While there is nothing we can do about the spirits right now the good thing is that the spirits have gone to a sub realm so there is no reason for us to seek them now."

"On that note after upgrading the territory to tier 8 I have felt a tiny flow of power."

"Power, that must be aether!" Tama exclaims.

"Yes that's what me and Aoif think too"

"Delta is a technological tier 3 so we can't learn much from her but you are a biological tier 4 so you must be able to teach us how to grow, how to train?" Aoif asks Tama in my stead.

"I could teach you how to control your aether but any techniques would be beyond me, kitsune techniques are not compatible with other species"

"Just that is enough, Thank you Tama" I respond

"You learned a technique from me evolving you, yes"

"Yes…" Tama scepticly asks before realizing

"You are going to evolve yourself, you know just how I evolved! Are you absolutely sure!?"

"Am I missing something here" Aoif asks

"I can trust you, Aoif, right…?"

"I hope so," Aoif smiles at me with a hopeful look on her face.

"Give me more time… no matter how much I know how loyal you are to me it's just too soon"

"That's fine… anyway Tama can you explain how we would train our Aether reserves?"

"It's pretty simple your aether at the moment is not flowing anywhere, and to get it to flow through your pathways you need someone experienced to find and send aether through them." Tama explains.

…

I sat down on the chair then Tama came over to me taking my hand.

Closing my eyes I focused on feeling the pathways that Tama was sending her energy through.

The aether she sent through first climbed my arm following along a straight line up to my shoulder then branched off into my head, under my eyes, and back.

The energy that went to the head and under my eyes then went back down my head to my back and other arm.

The energy on the back tapered off around the lower back.

"That's surprising," Tama whispers.

"What's surprising?"

"The pathways in the arms and head are all completely open with part of your back being open too."

"Is that good, bad?"

"It's not just good, it's great." Tama explains "most when awakening their pathways only have part of a limb unblocked but you have three and a half unlocked."

"That's good…" I trail off feeling sleepy

"Sleep, My Lord, awakenings are always exhausting"

"Mmkay" I yawn out

…

Now that the Lord is all tucked in I go over to Aoif

"Would you like me to unlock your pathways too"

"Yes, I would, thank you" Aoif replies.

I go about unlocking Aoifs pathways.

While she doesn't have as many pathways as Darwin, the amount is still considerably large.

With both her arms pathways being unlocked she still is more talented than me who only had one unlocked when I started.

'The amount of talent Darwin and Aoif have are both astonishing, they might even break the barrier' I think to myself.

…

I woke up exhausted.

Next to me was an equally exhausted Aoif.

Remembering that my pathways were opened I mentally felt over my body and found that the upper back, head, and both arms had energy sitting soundly in it.

"Good morning" Aoif says

"It's night, look outside" I say pointing to the dark sky in the window.

"Really? It's still night" Aoif questions

"Yeah, turns out we were only knocked out for a little while, speaking of which check your pathways were they unlocked?"

While checking her pathways Aoif absentmindedly mumbles

"I wonder how those new summons of yours are doing though"

"They are acclimating fine, there were already other Cernian hinds so they most likely just were sent to the pack."

"Hmm" Aoif hums in response.

"I have pathways in both my arms though the aether in there is just idling"

"Mine too I was wondering if we should push it across the pathways now or if we should wait for advice from Tama"

"Probably wait, we don't know what blindly doing that would do, it could be harmless or it could cripple us"

"Ok let's try and sleep the rest of the night and ask in the morning then."

Saying that I pull Aoif closer like a teddy bear then snuggle back into the bed closing my eyes to sleep