Chapter 114
When Michelle woke up in the morning, one of the maids told her that Anastasia had woken up sometime during the night, but they didn’t want to disturb her at midnight. After both girls ate breakfast, Michelle took Anastasia back to the training grounds for further training.
The moment that Michelle summoned her chains, Anastasia put most of her focus into coating herself with her soul energy and rushed at Michelle before she could strike for the first time. Quickly, Michelle blocked with the chains, forming a net barrier in front of her and jumped to the side. Quickly, she got behind Anastasia and whipped a black chain at her.
But after recovering her soul energy, Anastasia was more proficient with it than before she fell asleep, so she didn’t have much trouble blocking the chain by throwing a few feathers at it. Though her aim was quite bad, she threw out more than one feather, and she could guide all of them, so she was able to stab the chain into the ground.
Still, she didn’t let her guard down as she knew Michelle, and one attack at a time wasn’t something Michelle would do. And indeed, she was right.
A split second after Anastasia stabbed the chain into the ground with her feathers, she realized that the chain net behind her was moving. And that was impossible to block. Well, dodging wasn’t really an option as the net was too big. The only way Anastasia could succeed in dodging would be if she were able to put all her soul energy into her legs to boost her speed, but she didn’t have enough proficiency with it yet.
Still, she wouldn’t just give up and forced her soul energy to surge through her legs as she ran to the side. To her surprise, her speed was a bit higher, but still not enough, so the chain net quickly caught up to her and pinned her to the ground, covering her like a blanket. But a heavy and cold one.
With a wave of her hand, Michelle let the chain net disappear, and Anastasia jumped back to her feet. The few moments she was on the ground let her think about what she did. She realized that when her soul energy seeped a bit out of her skin when she moved, she moved a bit faster, so, without letting Michelle attack her again, she coated her legs with a thin layer of soul energy and tried to run. And, as she guessed, she was way faster than before. It was still too slow to outrun Michelle’s chains, but it was a huge improvement.
For the whole day and two more days, Anastasia kept training with Michelle, sometimes just running around, sometimes trying to form a sphere around herself as a shield, sometimes attacking Michelle to increase her strength, so she could have at least some grasp over the basic possibilities with soul energy.
On the morning of the fourth day after Anastasia woke up, Michelle decided that Anastasia was prepared to come with her to the Heavenly Law barrier’s mountains, whose name Michelle didn’t even bother to remember, and when Anastasia agreed, Michelle told the Archduke about it, took her beasts, and had Snow take them there.