Kamila's mana core had already gotten close to the bright yellow before giving birth and the training coupled with living over a powerful mana geyser sped up the process.
"Gods, help!" She cried in between puking and sweating a black tar-like substance that stank so bad that it almost made her faint.
Her abdomen felt like it was going to explode, the waves of bright yellow mana pushing the impurities out of her system from all of her orifices at the same time.
"What's hap- Seriously?" The Guardians said after coming and leaving in turns.
"I told you not to be so dramatic." Lith said while she puked her guts out. "It's just impurities and the breakthroughs between levels of the same color are the easiest. Wait to see what happens when you step to the next level."
Kamila had a clear idea of what her husband called "easy" and she had an incredible vocabulary of vulgar words at her disposal. She had learned them from the scum of the Kingdom during her job as a Constable and she was eager to use them to express her feelings.
Alas, her eloquence was lost amid retching sounds and the gurgle of bile.
"This… is the easy part?" She asked amid pants once the torture was over.
"Totally." Lith said while destroying the impurities with a pulse of darkness magic.
"You bet." Tista said while handing Kamila a change of clothes until the Voidfeather armor finished cleaning itself.
"This will be a happy memory when you start getting rid of the impurities stuck inside your organs and bones." Solus said while preparing her a hot bath.
"Being an Awakened sucks!" Kamila groaned, feeling so faint that her eyes started to droop.
"Stay awake." Tista gave her a few gentle slaps. "Either you take a bath or you sleep on the floor. If that shit touches your bed, you are never going to get rid of the smell."
"Awesome." Kamila nodded, feeling a bit better since the breakthrough had indeed been light and thanks to the power of the geyser she was already recovering. "How long will it take for the deep green?"
"Best case scenario, even with all the tricks we've learned over the years and the tower, months." Lith replied.
"Thank the gods!" Kamila looked up at the sky with eyes filled with gratitude.
"I thought you were adamant about learning Dimensional Magic as soon as possible and that takes a deep green core minimum." Solus said, confused by Kamila's change of heart.
"That's what I believed as well. I was wrong."
***
City of Lutia, a few days later.
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