Stepping through the portal and watg it close, Levi stayed silent for a long while before speaking, “It might sound weird but I think I will miss him.”

  Aologia also nodded his head with a sad expression, unlike Levi who lived two lives and had a lot of iions and bonds with people, Aologia only knew Levi and the parrots in his entire 8 years alive so it hit him a little bit harder than Levi, it also didn't help that he ate whatever came his way during that time but still.

  Feeling his emotions through their bond Levi patted his head, “It alright buddy I am still here and I will never leave you alright? o feel down.” said Levi smiling, hoping to cheer up his scaly friend.

  Getting an idea, Levi smiled mischievously and said to Aologia, “Now that we have the entire pce of our sleeves why don't we try ahe limits of our merge abilities.”

  Hearing him, Aologia immediately perked up, he too was obviously curious about Levi's strange ability and so he dove straight at Levi startling him, Levi didn’t expect him to do that so suddenly.

  The impact Levi was expeg didn’t e, instead, Aologia directly merged with Levi in an explosion of light.

  Levi could immediately feel the euphoric feeling cruising through his entire body again, he could feel the power and strength he lost previously e ba and it was intoxig, the only thing he could think of that felt better than this was when he used limit breaker, but he couldn't use it for long and he'll have to deal with repercussions ter, uhis.

  Deg to py it safe for now and not test his fire breath in case he burhis beautiful sery Levi stretched his bad two big bck beautiful dragon wings sprouted from there.

  ‘So how do I do this buddy.’ Asked Levi in his head to which Aologia replied with, ‘Just move them up and down then you'll fly.’ said Aologia, his tohat of an adult teag a child.

  ‘Really helpful buddy thanks.’ replied Levi sarcastically with an eyebrow twitg, although it seemed that Aologia couldn't read the mood as he was really happy at being helpful.

  Trying to move his wings Levi slowly got the hang of it, each fp of his wings displeased the air around him and moved it around, making him feel as if he was lighter, ‘So this is how air benders feel.’ That thought crossed Levi’s mind but he didn't dwell on it.

  Speeding up their movement a little, Levi's feet lifted off the ground startling him for a sed before he regained his calm a fpping his wings going higher and higher, “Holy crap, I am actually flying hahaha.” shouted Levi, his eyes sparkling as he kept going higher, the grouing further and further away from him.

  He had flown on top of Aologia before but flying yourself and being carried are two pletely different things, being carried couldn't pare at all.

  Seeing that he was a suffit distance off the grouried to fly forward now as he positioned his body in that dire, unfortunately for him, that was a big mistake as he pletely lost trol and dove face-first into the ground uo stop himself, every fp of his wings that he hoped would stop his fall only made him go faster.

  *CRASH*

  [-50HP]

  A loud crashing sound was heard followed by a notification from the system as Levi hit the ground, destroying all the pnt life around him and sg all the spirit animals away from him.

  “Agh.” groaned Levi in pain as he y sprawled, pnted face-first on the ground. Using all of his willpower to turn around Levi faced the sky as he spat dirt repeatedly from his mouth feeling disgusted by the taste of it.

  “Well that didn't go acc to pn.” remarked Levi mostly to himself sarcastically, he didn't even know why he thought he'd get it on the first try, apparently he was way more cocky thahought. He could feel Aologia inside of him shaking his head in disappoi making him want to hit the small dragon on the head.

  Levi could uand why he was ag that way though, for Aologia this was the same as moving your hands and legs, it came naturally to him, sadly Levi didn’t receive that racial trait when he had merged with Aologia and he will have to slowly learn it by himself.

  [Ding]

  [Paint tolerance Leveled up +1]

  Immediately Levi could feel the pain c throughout his body alleviate just a little or maybe it was just him being more resistant to it, anyhow it didn't matter, he was feeling less pain.

  Getting up and dusting himself up Levi stretched his wings again, there was only one grunted way that Levi knew of to learn and master anything and that ractice.

  No matter how many times he failed he would get back up and try again and again until he got it right and that was exactly what he did as he flew high up before plunging straight back down again, ruining another part of the beautiful meadow.

  *Crash*

  [-80HP]

  *Crash*

  [-60HP]

  *Crash*

  [-40HP]

  Again and again, Levi kept trying and failing but he was gettier aer at it with each try, Aologia was bored and had goo sleep a while ago inside of his body, which surprised Levi as it wasn't something he knew about.

  Dusting himself up and flying again Levi was surprised when he flew up seamlessly and stayed flying above the ground holding his bance perfectly, leaning a bit forward and fpping his wings. Levi felt the wind start moving against his skin and pying with his hair as he flew forward, bringing a bright smile to his face.

  ‘Finally’ he thought iement, and as if to t his achievement a system notification came in.

  [Ding]

  [Spiritual body leveled up +1]

  [Spiritual bond leveled up +1]

  [The user ow bond with another spirit]

  [The user ow ma more physical traits of the spirits he's bonded with on his body]

  [The user ow have a more instinctive uanding of the abilities of the spirits he's bonded with and will need less time to master them]

  Immediately after receiving those notifications Levi felt his trol and stability while flying increase even more, if he had to guess it had something to do with the st notification, and he wasn't pining, at least all of that pain had paid off.

  He was also happy that he could store another spirit in his body, there will never e a time when he will have enough, and the more power he could gather the better.

  ‘Although, I wonder what kind of spirit I should bond with .’ he thought, there were a lot of options that came to mind, but if he was being ho with himself in the end it would depend on the first suitable ohat he runs to. It wasn't a problem though he could just discard one spirit and free up the pce for another.

  Landing on the ground gracefully as if he had been flying his entire life, Levi focused oification that mentioned physical traits.

  Closing his eyes he tried to feel any new ges in his body and before loiced them, they were in his hands!

  Opening his eyes and looking at both his hands outstretched in front of him Levi trated and tried to ihe ge.

  Before long his fingernails stretched into sharp long cws and scales grew on the back of his hands and forearms. Looking at his transformed hands Levi couldn't help but grin.

  Flying high up Levi searched for something to test the new addition of his body on, before long he spotted a bunch of rocks some distance away from him, fpping his wings and flying as fast as he could Levi nded on the rocks with a punch putting all of his strength behind it.

  The rocks shattered and spread in every dire as if they were made of mud or snow, blowing a cloud of smoke up for a sed and obstrug his vision, but ohing was for sure, Levi didn’t feel any pain, not even a slight disfort.

  At any other time he may have been able to achieve the same result, but his hand would be injured and ireme pain, if it wasn't broken and shattered that is.

  Looking at his knuckles Levi couldn't see a single wound on the bck shiny scales on it, it was as if he hadn't just punched some rocks to smoke.

  Levi suddenly felt aion of smugness oozing out of Aologia, apparently he had woken up and had seen his little dispy just now.

  Smiling and ughing helplessly Levi spoke, “Haha, yes your scales are the best buddy, no you're the best.”

  Levi could literally imagine Aologia holding his head up high in pride at that statement making him ugh again, this time amused.

  Deg to mess with his scaly friend a little bit Levi spoke, “Sadly In front of me they're nothing.” said Levi as he summoned a small golden knife from divine armament and ran it gently on the bck scales on the back of his hand, slig through them like a hot khrough butter.

  ‘As I thought, my Divine armament remains superior.’ thought Levi in glee not letting Aologia read his thoughts.

  Seeing this se seemed to annoy the little dragon as he wao separate from Levi who granted him his wish.

  g the bond Aologia exited Levi’s body who sat cross-legged on a patch of grass a little further away from where he had brokeones, patting Aologia who was beside him in hopes of pg the grumpy little dragon.

  “Ha-ah, why so serious buddy, it was just a joke, I am sure your scales will be able to resist my ons in no time.” said Levi, sighing helplessly as he tio pat the grumpy dragon who seemed to be giving him the silent treatment, that was of course a lie, his Divine armament will keep leveling up aing stronger, maybe even faster than Aologia.

  Shaking his head helplessly at the antics of his friend Levi focused on something else he wao try. He got this idea while he was trying to learn how to fly but he didn't want to tackle two things at once, but now that he was det enough at flight, it was time to try it.

  He had thought of ways to train his water bending, even if he couldn't use it, and for a long time nothing came up.

  That was until he thought of a crazy idea, what if he tried bending his own blood? It was closer physically and spiritually to him and should be way easier to trht? Who khat getting smashed on the head repeatedly would result in some amazing ideas.

  ‘With how the system works, water bending and all its sub-abilities share the same level, so if I level up blood bending, water bending should also level up alongside it, and if it get strong enough it hopefully fight against the spirit world suppression.’ He thought with a hopeful look on his face, he really missed his bending powers, and even if he could fend for himself without them it still wasn't the same, it felt as if a part of him was missing and he couldn't get used to it no matter how calm and nont he acted.

  Taking a deep breath in and inhaling it out Levi activated his blood bending, it was time to see if his theory would work.

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