Primordial Soul's Rebirth

[Alex, wait!!]

Sophia shouted to warn Alex, but it was already too late.

"Cough!"

Alex coughed and for the first time in this life, Alex spilled blood.

The concentration broke and all the work he had done till now got destroyed as the mana particles went back to the way they were, unorderly and random.

"Wha…." Alex dumbfoundedly looked at the blood that left his mouth.

'Is that my blood…...?' Alex stared at the blood on the floor as he questioned himself.

It was not uncalled for, after all, he had never seen golden blood.

Yes, his blood was golden, not red like a normal being.

[You must not try to hasten the process....]

Sophia completed her words, but her voice turned low in the end as it had already happened.

"What happened just now?" Alex asked out loud as he touched the blood on the ground.

"And what is this? Is it really just blood?" Alex asked question after question.

[What happened just now was you forcing your mana to move faster, which made your progression to the next rank faster than it is supposed to be, resulting in your bloodline almost breaking the restrictions placed upon it.

A progression that fast is only possible if your bloodline is completely unlocked, but it is possible for you because you have instant mana regeneration.

But if you had pushed yourself even after coughing out blood, then the bloodline would have broken the restrictions, and you, whose body is still not strong enough to bear the bloodline would've died from your body breaking from the inside.

However, I'm not really sure, since you also have instant regeneration for the body as well. Still, I would not advise you to try that again as we don't know what would happen.]

Sophia answered Alex's first question causing Alex's face to turn serious.

'You mean to say that I almost died just now?' Alex asked as he raised his brows.

[...yes.]

{I failed to stop you again...}

Sophia replied to Alex as she also muttered to herself.

{Just how many times am I going to fail you...?}

Sophia clenched her fists as she decided to use something never wanted to use the next time a situation like this arrived.

She knew Alex would not like it, but it was for the better.

Alex was after all unpredictable for her.

She can't read his mind until he wants her to, and Alex won't like it if she forcefully tries to read his mind if she could even do that in the first place.

"Sigh…." Alex sighed as he threw his hands in the air and stretched his body.

"Guess I need to be more careful next time, don't want to because of something stupid, after all."

[As for what that is, it is your blood.

You have the Supreme Human and Celestial Incubus bloodline unlocked, your blood turned golden because of that.

Before you ask me why it turned golden, it is just how it is, I don't know the answer to that either.

Just think of it as a way to differentiate normal blood and higher blood.]

Sophia replied to Alex's next question, as she didn't comment on his last words.

{I won't let a situation like this come to pass again….}

That's what she thought.

"Normal blood and higher blood..." Alex muttered before he nodded his head and clapped his hands.

"All right! Time to get to work again."

He didn't enquire more about the higher blood thing as he knew it just from the mention of higher that it would be something that he is not supposed to know right now.

Alex sat cross-legged again and focused again on making the mana particles flow in the right direction.

Slowly but surely, he was getting the process done.

He breathed in and out calmly, maintaining the breathing at a steady pace as it could affect the flow of his movements and make him lose focus.

With all of his focus on one place, he was able to do it much better and faster than before, though he still took it slow and steady.

Just like that, with him breathing in and out calmly, half an hour had passed and Alex opened his eyes for the first time.

"The first phase is done…." He spoke out loud.

[Now comes the main part.

For someone else, it would've been more taxing but for you, it would be more boring, but you still need to do it if you want to level up.

Do remember, no matter how boring you find it, don't try to force it or increase the speed of the process.

Also, the pain you will feel might not be light, but try to bear with it as it is the one thing that makes many people lose focus, which results in them having to restart the process altogether.]

'I know, don't worry.'

Alex replied to Sophia's words.

He was not stupid enough to try something that could possibly kill him, or was he?

Alex just smiled as he closed his eyes, steadied his breathing, and focused back on his inner workings of mana flow.

Right now, he could see multicolored particles moving together in the form of a liquid.

The flow seemed steady and ordered as they flowed systematically.

Alex smiled again as he saw this.

'Took me half an hour to get them moving perfectly….' He sighed before he willed, and his mana burned before he started the main part of this level-up.

The mana particles that were flowing like water started closing into each other as Alex burned mana to make them do that.

Alex was focusing on his right arm as he decided to complete the mana veins for the right arm first.

Slowly the particles gathered together making them look like a stream of water flowing together.

As Alex kept burning the mana, the stream of mana particles kept contracting more and more until finally, it had turned into a single string of mana.

Alex sighed as he wiped the imaginary sweat from his head.

"That single string contains almost 50% of my whole mana...." Alex mutters in amazement.

[Of course they would, it takes 50% of an EX-ranker's mana to make a single vein of mana, that's why they are so strong and that's why they bring so much benefit.

Not to mention your mana pool, it would increase who knows how many folds after you are done with the process.]

Sophia commented as she heard Alex's mutter.

'I can feel the increase in my mana pool already….' Alex spoke as he could feel his body sucking more mana from nature to fill the empty space in his mana pool.

[Just imagine how much increase in mana you would feel when you have that mana vein in your whole body just like your blood veins, pumping mana in and out in your heart, skin, bones, brain, and every living or non-living part of your body.]

'Oh, I would love that,' Alex just smiled and Sophia who heard his words also smiled.

[Then you should focus on the task at hand before you lose focus and start the process all over again.]

'I'll take this advice of yours, don't want a do-over, after all.'

Alex smiled as he focused back on the task at hand.

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