Itekan was shown to his room, the moment he got in, the massive fatigue that hit him, left him sprawled atop his bed, within minutes he was asleep.
When next he woke, he realized it had been two days since his last exams, 42 hours!! Until he woke he had not realized how heavy the toll on his spiritual sea had been through, his entire body ached, and the backlash of exhausting his spiritual reserves had hit with the full of force of nearly fifty ton.
Itekan brought out the golden egg from his spartial ring, he had not fed it for the past three days, so it's golden hue had dimmed heavily, it was now a pale yellow.
Itekan immediately sat in the lotus position, and started channeling his spiritual energy into the egg.
Itekan poured his energy into the egg, suddenly he felt a jolt in the egg, Itekan was surprised but kept pouring spiritual energy into the egg.
It shook again.
Itekan suddenly felt his spiritual energy reserves bottom out, as it did, his flesh seemed to be drawn in, his flesh cut and blood dropped on the surface of the egg.
Itekan felt his conciousness slip, he realized he was in his minds eye, the minds eye is the manifestation of the spiritual sea, and.
Itekan alone in this dark purple vast sea felt a longing as if someone or rather something was looking for him, calling out his name. Even though no body else was here, niither did anyone speak.
Itekan walked onwards slowly following the feeling, soon he got to a barrier, he couldn't properly see what was beyond, so he assumed that this barrier was the end of his spiritual sea.
He could not have been more wrong.
Itekan felt a massive slam, that shook the entirety of his minds eye.
Thud!!
The same was heard again, then again, it was then Itekan realized that it was the barrier that being smashed in.
He stepped back, it was then he noticed that the barrier was not as he had thought. It was actually oval in shape.
It was incredibly massive, it dawned on him then that what he was staring at was actually the golden egg.
The egg shook violently, the ensuing vibrations seemed to want to rip the very foundations of his spiritual sea.
Crack!
Itekan heard the noise from the crack and looking up, he saw a massive crack on the surface of the egg. It widened, more cracks forming.
Suddenly an influx of spiritual energy unlike none Itekan had ever felt before, gathered in front of him in-between he and the egg. The spiritual energy entered the massive egg, it took form.
Itekan suddenly felt another conciousness in his minds eye.
" Are you awake ?" Itekan asked, stepping forward, he placed his hand on the crack on the egg.
"..."
Itekan could hear a mumbling, it sounded like a baby trying to speak, trying to use words much complex for its age.
" Ba-bab, hug-anl-lhey, verr hug-anl-lhey " a voice said, this voice was as that of a baby, it slurlled, the words uttered were nearly incomprehensible, but Itekan understood them.
" You're hungry!? I just fed you my entire spiritual reserves, I have nothing else to feed u with!"
"..."
It's silence made Itekan feel guilty for his outburst.
" Alright, I'll go search for some sprit stones" Itekan said, there was a faint buzz in the air as the being in the egg rejoiced.
***
Knock, knock!
Itekan opened his door to see Binturu standing outside his door.
" You!"
" Yes! It is I" Binturu said as Itekan opened the door for him.
" What are you doing here? How did you find my room?"
" It's written outside " Binturu said like it was the most obvious thing.
A soft oh sound left Itekan's mouth.
" Come let us, check out the school grounds" Binturu said, Itekan quickly got ready and a few minutes later they were out of the dorms.
On their way out, Itekan met Itoyea who was looking for the training hall. They all decided to check it out, so they headed that way.
' he's really diligent' Itekan thought to himself as they left the the dorms.
" Do you think you will pass the exams? Binturu sama" Itoyea asked.
" Of course, I'm from the nobel clan of the Binturu, it's not a matter of whether I will pass or not, it's rather whether I will pass exceedingly" Binturu said with a pride all over his face.
" You're so full of yourself" Itekan said, laughing as they walked.
"So you must be really strong" Itoyea stated.
" Naturally! If it weren't for the seals of Tergamorto restricting and holding back my latent abilities, I bet I could even take on the instructors here" Binturu said
" Wow I knew you were crazy, but this is something else" Itekan said, his laughter now nearly uncontrollably and treating to make him fall over.
" Really" Itoyea said surprised, " what's the seal of Tergamorto" he asked.
Binturu froze, he looked at Itoyea like he had said something he wasn't supposed to, he looked around, searching to make sure nobody was listening in, they were already outdoors and only a few candidates roamed around here, most importantly there were none in their immediate vicinty. After seeing this , only then did he calm down.
" The seals of Tergamorto, are a fraction of the laws of divine equilibrium that govern the mortal universes.
" My clan uses this seals, as a form of rite of coming of age, when a Binturu turns 7000, they pass through this rite. We break through this seals when we finally ascend past the mortal realms, and during this time our amased power for the entirety of our lives are sealed and so we have to cultivate again."
" Double the work" Itoyea muttered under his breath as he took in this new information.
" Wait so if you have the seal that means you're ghh!!" Itekan gasped in shock as he realized, " you're over 7000 years" his voice turned hoarse at the revelation.