Chapter 219: Ki Heart Expansion

Priscilla sat down and started the process of making Ki Hearts.

She smiled and looked back at Howard as he placed both of his arms on her left and right side. He had a simple job, and that was to make sure that the two types of Ki in her body equally went into each of the Ki Hearts she created.

This was for more than one reason, for one, if she created Ki Hearts that leaned to one specific type of Ki, she may never be able to develop her other type of Ki again. For this reason, many people in the past, who were like Priscilla, ended up losing pretty much losing their two Ki Type advantage in the future.

Reslan had spoken to Priscilla about this, and begged her to get Howard to make sure her energy was properly distributed. This required not only his hands to be on her back, but Priscilla to allow him to control the flow of her Ki. This was not something most people would allow someone else to do. With a simple mistake, her entire body could explode if Howard wasn't careful, yet she trusted him. She trusted that he'd be able to develop her Ki Hearts.

Boom!

A powerful flame surged around Priscilla on one side of her body while her other side got covered with the most frigid ice. The temperature in the room, no, the entire manor dropped by at least 5 degrees before her first ki heart started to surge into existence.

She immediately became overwhelmed by the feeling of her first Ki Heart as her Ice Ki seemed to completely dominate her Fire Ki, yet then something happened. Howard lightly touched her, and not only did her pain go away, but her Ki Heart became nearly perfectly balanced.

A tear fell down her eye from her gratitude. 

With Howard here, she felt like anything was possible. However, she had a bad feeling that would soon change.

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Waxel and Harkel waited outside the training chamber for Priscilla to finish training.

They expected she would be done fairly quickly, and at most have 20 Ki Hearts to complete, but it was beginning to turn from minutes to hours. They were somewhat shocked that a girl with two different types of Ki was able to last so long creating Ki Hearts. If things were going normally, by now she should have at least 30 Ki hearts. That was unbelievably impressive!

"I can feel Howards Ki almost as much as hers." Waxel said, looking somewhat shocked towards Harkel. "Is-is his Emperor's Ki supporting her? I-I didn't think it was possible for someone to help so much during a breakthrough."

"It's definitely a useful type of Ki." Harkel's black cape fluttered behind him while he looked down at his hands. "My strength is almost back to the middle stages of the SS rank, but even now I doubt I could beat Howard. I'm afraid because of how much he's improved that the people that will hunt him will only get more numerous. Have you already told him about going to the Jarkalon Abyss?"

"I have, and I can tell he doesn't want to go. He doesn't' want to leave his girls behind, but he's really going to have no choice." Waxel sighed and patted Harkel on the shoulder. "You know, we could try and protect him for a few months to see if he can breakthrough again. If he understands all 6 barriers, he can make it to the SS rank pretty easily right? What? Don't you think so?"

Harkel shook his head with a trace of doubt in his eyes. He noticed something about Howard that was really bothering him.

He noticed that Howard was using Emperor's Ki to pretty much learn every skill, but he didn't think it would work in certain situations. Like when he had to make his own domain, there was only so much you could copy. It wasn't like learning a language where every word you learned everyone would understand. He needed to contemplate things by himself, to understand them by himself, without completely looking to others.

Though pretty much every student he ever had, in some ways tried to copy him, Howard literally went way beyond that. Howard didn't try to copy Harkel, but literally succeeded in taking 100 percent of his domain and using it as his own. The normal goal after learning from someone else was to make your own domain with the knowledge, but Howard didn't do that. Though he sensed something unique about Howard's Emperor's Domain, it still wasn't completely his. He felt like he'd accidentally held Howard back, but how would he have beaten Armecolith without a domain?

"Harkel, I felt Howard's domain, and I think you're wrong. I think he realize that's his weakness and is working towards improving it." Waxel leaned into the door with his arm and took a deep breath before he smiled.

"I think we should both fight him once together, when your strength recovers a little bit more, before he leaves. I think if you do, you will find that Howard might be more surprising than you realize."

"Hmmm, I guess your right.How about this? If he can beat the two of us, his two best teachers in my opinion, he can leave," Harkel laughed madly before he felt a surge of energy in the doorway. "And there you go! She's inches away from her total Ki Heart Count. What do you think it will be."

"I-I'm guessing 53 Ki Hearts, and I'd say 20 at least because of Howard. This-what he's doing in there has to stay a secret. Do you sense any SSS ranked bastards nearby that might be watching? Though they normally don't act against anyone in the SS rank, if Howard's really boosting her breakthrough, they might."

"Hehe, I don't sense anyone malevolent nearby. In fact, I think Howard might have someone protecting him," Harkel sighed before a large explosion sounded in the room Howard was in. "But… Is it me, or something feels odd? What the hell is that feeling?"

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Priscilla nearly vomited blood out of her mouth from the sheer terror of what was happening inside her body.

Howard had done what she thought was impossible. He got her passed 50 Ki Hearts, and was even helping her make her 54th. Yet right now, it seemed like she wasn't the one driving anymore. It almost seemed like Howard was the one playing with her insides. She-she was in so much pain, but she wanted him to keep going! She wanted him to make one more Ki Heart before she passed out!

"I-I can't take it. I can't take it any longer!" Priscilla finally puked before Howard sent one last surge of Ki into her. "I-I'm going to explode Howard. 53 is enough!"

"One more or I won't marry you!" Howard said, gripping her left side harder as he pushed down against it. "Come on! I know you can do it! I've seen you do so many incredible things! I know you can breakthrough that final barrier and make it happen! I completely and totally believe in you! Do it for our future together, please!"

Priscilla looked back at Howard and saw his determined eyes and took three deep breaths. It almost sounded like she was in labor, she was huffing and puffing while she focused on the Ki Heart in her head.

The last 10 Ki Hearts were by far the hardest to make, but she was completely and totally going to do this for Howard. She began to cry, and screamed out in agony before a Ki Heart flourished inside of her, but the next moment she passed out with it only half complete.

"I'll take it from here," Howard sent a surge of Emperor's Ki into her body before the Ki Heart she was working on almost intently fully formed. 

Frankly, if any other nation saw what Howard just did, not only would they try to kill him immediately, but they might be willing to risk half their population to do it. There was something theorized a long time ago as Ki Heart Expansion, and that was the ability to turn Ki Hearts into something else, something more powerful than a normal Ki Heart.

Once someone reached the G rank, there was really no where else to go for anyone besides the Great Last King. There was no other area of the body that could be strengthened, nothing else that could be done with a domain, and no way of developing an intent like the Ancient Ones. The only thing there was to do was perhaps contemplate what you couldn't do, but Howard, right now, seemed to have do something unique. 

Priscilla's 54th Ki Heart didn't just seem like a normal Ki Heart. It seemed like it had expanded with the intent that Howard sent into it. 

'Hmmm, her scars are gone,' Howard hugged Priscilla while he gently wiped away the sweat from her beautiful countenance. "I wonder if when she wakes up she'll be sad or happy. I-I also hoped I did the right thing. That last Ki Heart seems kind of weird. It almost seems to have my intent in it. I wonder if I can do that to myself?"