Limitless Path

"Beth, are you alright?" Sera asking about her was the first thing she experienced when she came to, the Path removing its altering of space around her.

"I'm fine," Beth said with another laugh, hopping up.

Well, she tried to hop up, but even with her level set to one, the new power brought about by her Mana Physique was truly astonishing. She lifted off the ground and rocketed upward, slamming into the reinforced ceiling of the training room at an appreciable speed. Her head and shoulders smacked into the rock the room was made of, not leaving a dent, and even though she exclaimed "OW!", it was more from force of habit than anything else. Her newly increased defenses from her Mana Physique made such a hit less than nothing.

"What was that? Did you…?" Sera asked, catching Beth when she fell from her quick meeting with the ceiling.

"I certainly did," Beth said with a big laugh, kissing Sera firmly on the lips.

"It must be an impressive one," Blood commented from the side as the two made out. "Considering the mana I'm seeing around you."

"Your eyes can see mana flow at Gold?" Beth asked after breaking off the kiss.

"Yes. I can see rebirths and mana flows with my eyes now," Blood answered.

"Awesome," Beth said. "How did you two do?"

"I didn't even try," Blood said with a shrug.

"Lazy," Beth scolded lightly.

"Eh," Blood shrugged. "I wasn't confident enough to try yet. I just analyzed where I was at and what the Path provided, then moved on."

"What about you?" Beth asked Sera, jabbing her in the ribs lightly.

"Same, basically," Sera said with a slight shrug. "I've had some training from my family, and I have an idea of what I'm doing, but I didn't want to try yet."

"Even with the boost from the Path?" Beth asked with a raised brow.

"I'll get it again at rebirth nine, at worst," Sera said. "Otherwise, I could still do it without the boost at any time. Don't you have a friend that did that?"

"It's gotta kinda be a worse attempt, right?" Beth asked. "The Path's help does matter."

"Not that much," Sera said, shaking her head. "I bet you didn't really focus on the status readout from the Path once you started. I bet you also didn't really notice or need the changes to the mana around you to complete your Mana Physique build just fine."

"Well, now that you say that…" Beth said, trailing off as she tapped at her chin and stared off into the distance.

"People rely on stuff from the Path too much to get by," Sera said. "It's better that you did it without having to use all that assistance. It'll be beneficial much further down the line."

"Sweet," Beth said. "What did the two of you get, otherwise? Anything?"

"Better humanization," both said at the same time.

"Jinx," Beth said.

"You can't say jinx," said Blood. "You weren't one of the ones that said it."

"I can still jinx it," Beth said.

"I think she's right, my love," Sera said, still holding Beth and now carrying her out of the training room.

"Are you removing me from the room to stop the argument?" Beth asked slightly indignantly.

"I'm removing you from the room so we can make out somewhere more comfortable," Sera replied simply.

"Oh. I approve," Beth said, kissing Sera on the neck as the dragon carried her to the gate back into their suite.

"Did you guys succeed?" Neph asked happily, bouncing up on the couch.

"More than you know," Beth said with a laugh, closing the gate behind her after Blood had walked out.

"What's that mean?" Neph asked, happily leaping on Blood when she flopped on the couch.

"These two increased their humanization by at least a bit," Beth explained. "And I built my Mana Physique."

"Congratulations!" Neph bubbled happily, bouncing over on the couch and kissing Beth and Sera on the cheek along with giving them hugs before flopping back on Blood and kissing her cheeks and hugging her.

"How much was it?" Beth asked the other two.

"At least four or five points per level," Sera said. Blood grunted in agreement at that.

"That'll be over a thousand more points by the time we hit our new max," Beth said with a nod. "What are our stats at now?"

"You can just look," Sera said, having allowed Beth to see her stat sheet whenever she wanted.

"Right. Let me check," Beth said.