Gacha Sovereign

"Aaahhh!" The pain intensified almost immediately. It didn't do much earlier, but it jumped straight to be pierced by a nail from an ant's sting.

Alex said no more and focused on his task. It might be due to the experience of pain himself that he thought this level of pain was nothing extraordinary. If they couldn't even withstand this pain, they might die after feeling the pain from the Undying Fire Body's refining.

However, it seemed they were not a pushover. After experiencing the pain for several minutes, they gradually adjusted their breathing, so they could endure it better. Their screams died out to the point they only let out some groans during this process.

"Ho?" Alex smirked as he kept refining their organs according to the technique. Rena seemed to be the one adjusting better. 'She seems to have something more even though her talent is lower than Rio. Not that I care about them since I will probably leave this world before they can rise.'

Alex stayed quiet the whole time. The elders watched him even to the slightest movement, but they knew there wasn't anything to do in this process other than maintaining the energy. At this time, another question appeared in their mind. 'What if the other party can't withstand the pain and pass out?'

They would surely ask this question to Alex after this.

A few hours passed after the start of the organ refinements. Even Alex was covered with sweat. The consumption might not be that much, but it really took him full of concentration doing two people at the same time.

Jeanne increased her surveillance even further to keep these people in check. Just like how she knew Davi measured everything from benefits, she knew that Alex's worth was far higher than these two's worth.

Luckily, the moment the organ had completed, there wasn't a single suspicious movement coming from them. Alex then clapped his hand, raising the energy to a whole different level.

"This will be the last step. It will be far more painful than the previous one but last shorter. Prepare yourself," Alex warned them and inserted the Spiritual Energy inside their body.

The newly combined energy started doing their wonder. Because of the different types of energy, the moment they entered the blood, the latter started expelling them.

"Argh!" The two screamed again.

Alex took a deep breath and channeled his Spiritual Energy to suppress the blood with the help of the array. He looked left and right to see their conditions first before focusing on Rena, who seemed to have a problem with this situation.

He poured more Spiritual Energy and eventually his Pure Fire to suppress the blood. Because of this, their fused energy slowly entered their blood as if washing the blood to get used to the new environment.

Alex still didn't do anything special to stimulate their blood, creating confusion among the Array Masters. They were afraid that the moment all of the energy managed to enter, the process would be finished. They were wondering when the stimulating process would start.

Considering what Alex said, this process seemed to be the stimulating process, but they couldn't sense any power up in their strength. Luckily, no one spoke a single word for half an hour because Rio and Rena had been screaming this whole time.

Suddenly, Alex opened his eyes, feeling the change in their blood.

"Looking at your conditions, the energy almost fused with you. After this, I don't care what you are doing, but make sure you stay awake the whole time. If you don't, everything up to here will be for naught. After all, this step will determine how pure your energy will be." Alex shouted to the two.

Even though the two were still screaming, they understood Alex's words and did whatever they could to stay awake, including preparing their hearts.

After another few minutes, Alex clapped his hand as the array glowed brighter.

'This will be the final stretch.' Alex said to himself as he finished inserting all of their energy into their blood and let it out of his suppression.

Without Alex's warning, everyone in the room knew this would be it. The energy burst out of their body before a golden aura appeared and covered them. Not long after, a portion of it summoned a translucent golden dragon, soaring to the ceiling.

"Come back to me!" Alex clicked his tongue and released his Spiritual Energy to catch these dragons.

Noticing Alex's energy, the dragons turned hostile toward him, glaring at him as if they wanted to engulf him.

Rio and Rena peeled their eyes wide, glancing at Alex. He had been helping them from the start, so they tried to control the dragon so as to not attack him like an ungrateful bastard. However, they seemed to have little to none control over this dragon.

"Don't waste your time. These are not your dragons. These are simply a projection of the dragon blood in your body. Seeing the guy's dragon is soaring faster, he is indeed having a better talent, albeit not that different. Anyway, I will force the dragons inside your body. Be prepared!" Alex roared as he utilized the array.

Five chains suddenly appeared on a certain symbol within the array, clutching the dragon completely. Because he was helping two people at the same time, the number of the chains he needed to control was ten, along with the other process he needed to do at this moment, it started taking a toll on him.

"Just go back, you newborn lizard!" Alex screamed, annoyed by their resilience attitude. He had been trying to pull them back to the body for a few minutes, but the dragon still had half of their original distance.

Even so, there was nothing for him to do except continuing this action. He endured this process for another few minutes before the dragon began to lose its energy. It was at this time Alex's eyes flashed.

Another chain appeared from the symbol next to the previous symbol. However, this chain had a pointed tip, unlike the previous chance. And its purpose was obvious. The moment the dragon showed its weakness, Alex released it, impaling the dragon head with this thing.

As one would expect, the dragon was killed by the strike, and its Spiritual Energy slowly returned to the blood with the help of the chains.

Alex took another glimpse of their condition and realized that their breathing seemed to have slowed down. In other words, the process had been completed.

He turned off the array with a single wave of his hand, and the room became dark again.

Davi and the elders wanted to leap toward Rio and Rena, but they couldn't do it because of Jeanne. She would surely attack them before they could make a move. Besides, the two were still in their cultivation, and Alex hadn't declared it complete.

Not long after, Rio's started glowing, and when everyone saw it, it turned out to be his aura. His Spiritual Energy was leaking due to the lack of control. Even so, it didn't stop his excitement.

He rose from the ground and released his Spiritual Energy completely.

"Ah!" Rio shouted out loud before glaring at his father and the elders.

"This…" Davi was stupefied. Although it was dim, Rio just let out an aura similar to that of a dragon. It had a similarity with the dragon from before.

Rio, on the other hand, didn't notice this change. What he realized was the strength behind his current energy. Although his cultivation base regressed a little, he seemed to have powered up by a great amount. He was even more confident in challenging a 3-Star, if not 4-Star.

Out of curiosity, Rio raised his hand and waved it to the side, sending a ball of energy toward the wall.

When everyone saw it, they were surprised by the power behind it. They never heard Rio was this powerful.

Suddenly, a shadow flashed before the wall as it destroyed the attack with its barehand. Everyone thought it was Davi, but the real person didn't move even a single step, getting mesmerized by the power.

*Bam!*

"Can you stop doing that? We are in the Ancestors Room. If you are going to destroy this building, you might as well challenge the entire family." A female voice resounded across the room.

"I am sorry." Rio instinctively uttered his apology because of this voice. It naturally came from his sister, and he also knew that she was pissed by his action. At a time like this, he often apologized because it would solve the problem faster.

"Hmph!" She snorted and sighed before walking toward Alex. Rio realized what she wanted to do and came beside her, walking together.

Jeanne thought they wanted to attack Alex, so she went before them. Alex shook his head and patted Jeanne's shoulder to calm her down before throwing his uninterested gaze toward these two.

Davi and the elders didn't know what to do as they were planning to stop these two youngsters in case they did something rash.

However, the action of these two stunned them completely. Only Alex seemed to have realized their real intention.

Rio and Rena turned out to be bowing their head almost ninety degrees. They shouted in unison. "Thank you for your hard work."

"I am just fulfilling my job. Besides, you two must realize that you are topless, right?" Alex stopped them.

"!!!" Rena was the first one to act as she looked toward Rio and slapped him. "Kya!"

Now that they had finished their evolution, Rena had gained her embarrassment. Just before, she didn't care if Alex saw her topless because she was prepared to face death if they failed this process. And since everything went well, she lowered her guard only to realize something embarrassing.

It was a kind of natural reaction to slap someone that saw her, but Rio was the closest one to her, so she slapped him.

At the same time, she hadn't gotten accustomed to her new strength, resulting in her blowing Rio away more than she intended to.

*Bam!*

To think that slap blasted him to the wall, it was unthinkable. But Rio also had another complaint to her, as he said while falling down to the ground. "You said to not destroy anything, and now you are like this…"

Rena had no time to talk back and immediately wore a shirt to cover her body. She scratched her head and looked at her father, "This…"

Davi had a scary expression right now, but the result seemed to calm him down. "I will take care of it."

Knowing they were fine, one of the array masters approached Alex and asked. "What will happen if they can't endure the pain?"

"It's simple. Their potential will be limited due to how much energy is fused in their body. Now that I know that your ancestor is a dragon, I can see a trace of dragon aura in your body. I believe this technique is coming from the dragon, right?"

"Ye-yes."

Alex then shouted to Rena and Rio. "Hey, you two. Use one of your techniques. I know you have one or two techniques that you can't use properly."

Rio and Rena looked at each other and nodded before asking their father's permission. When the latter nodded, they raised their hands and shot out a dragon. "Dragon Soars to Heaven."

It didn't take too long before everyone noticed. Before, they could only summon a puny dragon, limiting their strength for quite a bit. Although the strength was pretty standard for Heaven Tier Art, the real strength of this Art was peak Heaven Tier.

And when they summoned it again, the dragon suddenly turned into a fifteen-meter long dragon, bursting out vitality. Although they felt it was somewhat lacking, they realized it was due to their control and the fact they were not familiar with the current energy.

"We…We can use this technique?!" Rio and Rena exclaimed in astonishment.

"That is the result. As long as they have familiarized themselves with this new energy, they would be able to use the technique to its fullest potential. As for those who are limited to the current situation, their strength will increase only a slight amount, depending on their result."

"I see. Thank you." The elder bowed to him before the other four also did the same.