Meditation was one of the basic foundations for all magus. It was necessary for attracting elemental Qi and improving a mages spiritual energy.

Ava had been receiving Cense assistance so far as he has been directing the Astral Qi towards her body whilst she circulated it following his instruction.

Therefore this would be the first time she would be entering a meditative state for cultivation and would also be the most difficult.

Luckily she had Cense instruction, although he was no Mage himself, he had been around plenty of Magus and had been able to read instruction manuals depicting meditation so was able to point Ava in the right direction.

After a while she was finally able to enter a meditative state for the first time.

‘Now whilst you’re in this state, it would be a good time to try and sense the elemental Qi in your surroundings’ Cense asked.

The elemental Qi density in the surrounding area wasn’t too high so he was not expecting Ava to instantly have success.

However Ava who was currently in a meditative state felt full of life and energy at the moment.

She saw specks different colours around her. She saw colours of green, brown, red. The most dominant colours were the blue coloured specs.

‘I can sense it, so many of them!’ Ava voiced out in amazement, eyes wide as she stared at all the beautiful specs of light.

Cense on the other hand was amazed.

‘Although I can’t test for your affinities accurately, based on what you are describing, you seem to have a high sensitivty in at least 3 different Qi types.’ Cense said with joy.

Ava continued to be lost in staring at the specs of different elemental Qi for a while before coming back to reality.

After leaving meditation she still felt full of energy and was eager for more.

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Cense who seemed equally pleased said, ‘Now we can work on meditating and improving your spiritual energy through meditation. Although it is a good thing your affinities seem to be impressive, you still need to go a long way to improve your spiritual energy, otherwise you won’t even be able to become an apprentice mage at the first tier.’

Starting from that day her routine became even more intense. She still would do her daily habit of saturating her body with Astral Qi, yet now she will also enter a period of meditation working on improving her spiritual energy ready for practicing magic in the near future.

Cense admitted it would be a good idea to search out for a suitable teacher for magic theory, since his knowledge was based on Mages advanced in the later stages of cultivation and it would be useful to build her foundation here.

Like that another year past quickly. Within this year Ava managed to get control over her body, and was able to walk around on steady legs, however she still paid extra attention to make herself fumble around a bit more than necessary since saturating her body with Qi has made her quite a bit stronger than ordinary infants her age.

She did not want to make herself appear more unusual than she already had, so she made sure to play up her act as an obedient infant to reinforce her darling image around the tribe.

During this year she have also managed to finally gain some control over her speech.

She found it previously tiring when she was only able to make gurgling sounds with her underdeveloped vocal cords.

Her mother seemed amused when she heard the funny noises she would make when she sometimes heard her attempting to practice her speech.

Eventually she was able to say her first words. And already made sure Loriel heard her call her ‘mama’ forever making sure she’d be a mothers girl.

Her fathers disappointed face made her almost cry with laughter when he came to see her after hearing about her speaking for the first time.

She ended up being mischievous in the end letting him try for hours to encourage her to say the words ‘Dadda’, she ended up giving in to him eventually as she ended up feeling sorry for him seeing the despondent look on his face.

The look of ecstasy on his face afterwards was a sight to behold, especially when her mother joined along in celebration beside him creating a heartwarming scene.

Nonetheless she had to conceal any further of her new linguistic skills, ensuring to show similar development to other infants her age.

She was already confident she had completely mastered the spoken language of the elves already and was able to now understand everything the elves were saying.

Time continues to fly by and already it was the third year since she had arrived in this world.

And that was when her peaceful routine was finally shattered as a troubling development has happened within the tribe.