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You open your eyes. You're back in the main world, after being carried around in the Growth realm.
The experience have been soothing. In the Growth realm, there is no pressure of performance.
No limits to shatter in a stupidly close deadline. No new limits appearing to shatter again in the stupider deadline.
That, and the push on your friend worked. Was it predestination? Or mere luck? Surely this couldn't had backfired tremendously, burning to a crisp through you and your friend, with your future relationship irremediably strained by the inevitable failure.
You blink. Blink twice. As last time, you're not empty-handed.
You open your hands, clutched around a bead. Said bead seems to resonate with your <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault</span></span> - The Blood and Spiritual Art components, at least. It reminds you in a way of the small vial lended by the Marten Mistress last year.
The second reward is immaterial. Like with your Growth movement technique, you just know. And it's just your luck : a technique unusable as is.
The Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial. Using True Qi to generate Poison in your own body, and countering it, tempering both potency of poison and your ability to fight intruding techniques. But this will have to wait your breakthrough to second stage.
It smell like somthing burned. You finally snap out of the trance, as you see the ink used for the various formations evanescing in black volutes, leaving behind the charred remains of what was once high-quality (fourth realm?) paper.
Yi Norm holds a red jade staff circled in clear steel. Sin Din lookS half puzzled, half as if she has all the insight of the universe. Man Din is deep in thought.
The most beautiful thing : your breakthrough was really early in the week. Meaning there's around 26 days before the Tournament. Enough for efficient preparations.