Marcus had no idea that while he was marveling at his own progress, Anya and Chloe were even more stunned by what they had just witnessed.
Anya's Phoenix Cry had reached the stage known as Phoenix Rebirth, Initial Awakening, causing her power to skyrocket. In fact, she had already surpassed Chloe and was rapidly closing the gap with her own father, the head of the Lynn family. There was no exaggeration in that assessment. The Lynn family had wagered thirty years on Anya mastering the notoriously difficult Phoenix Cry, so if reaching this stage did not bring such a dramatic increase in power, all those years of effort would have meant very little.
