“Garuvy, stop!” Lighel shouted as her eyebrows rose highly.

After hearing that, Garuvy stopped before she reached the mat.

“What is it?” Garuvy asked.

As soon as Garuvy turned to Lighel, her eyes widened and her eyebrows were highly raised. She took a step back as she saw blue auras around her hands.

She sees four floating hand-sized rocks covered with blue auras near her left hand go to her left side before they fall to the ground.

Three floating hand-sized rocks covered with blue auras near her right hand go to her right side before they fall to the ground.

“Stretch your hands forward!” Lighel shouted.

Garuvy stretched her hands forward before she moved to the right side to dodge the eight aura-covered, hand-sized rocks that floated and came towards her before falling to the ground.

Two floating hand-sized rocks near her left hand go to her northeast side.

Five floating hand-sized rocks near her right hand go straight forward.

“This is… my power?” Garuvy’s eyebrows are raised.

Three floating hand-sized rocks near her left hand go to her southwest side.

Seven hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

She moves to the left side to dodge the four hand-sized rocks near her left hand that come towards her.

Nine hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to the northeast. The blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappear.

“Is it done?” Garuvy asked.

“No! The blue auras will appear again at any time! But for now, just lower your hands,” Lighel replied.

“Oh, okay.” Garuvy lowers her hands.

“So, it’s the time, huh? I don’t have a watch on me, but anyway, happy birthday, Garuvy!” Lighel smiles.

Lighel claps her hands repeatedly. “Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you!”

Garuvy smiles.

As soon as Lighel stopped clapping and singing, blue auras appeared again around Garuvy’s hands.

Garuvy’s eyes are wide and her eyebrows are raised. Two hand-sized rocks near her left hand go upward.

Three hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

“Stretch your hands again!” Lighel said.

After Garuvy stretched her hands forward, ten hand-sized rocks near her left hand went straight.

Six hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Three hand-sized rocks near her left hand go to her northeast side.

Four hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side. The blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappear.

“I think this is terrible…” Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted.

“Yeah, and I don’t want to scare you, but this is just the beginning, Garuvy,” Lighel said.

Garuvy turns to Lighel with a crumpled face.

Lighel’s eyebrows are knitted. “Don’t worry, Garuvy! Remember what I said before! Please!”

After blue auras appeared around Garuvy’s hands, five hand-sized rocks near her left hand went to her northwest side.

Seven hand-sized rocks near her right hand go upward.

Garuvy’s eyes widened as she saw six head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

She moved to the right to dodge the six hand-sized rocks near her right hand that came towards her.

Seven hand-sized rocks and three head-sized rocks near her left hand go to her southwest side.

Two hand-sized rocks and four head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Five hand-sized rocks near her left hand go to her northeast side.

She moved to the left to dodge the ten head-sized rocks near her right hand that came towards her.

Nine head-sized rocks near her left hand go to her right side.

Three hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her left side and clash with two of the head-sized rocks before falling to the ground.

“It won’t stop!” Garuvy’s eyes are wide and her eyebrows are highly raised.

Seven head-sized rocks near her left hand go upward.

Three head-sized rocks near her right hand go straight.

While Garuvy was preoccupied with her uncontrollable power, Lighel’s eyes were wide as she saw five Bothwordsmen and six Bothoblins emerging from the other side of the barrier behind Garuvy.

After she faced the monsters from a distance, Lighel stretched her hands forward and released hand-sized blue light beams towards two Bothwordsmen. One of them dodges to the right. The other one dodges to the left.

She moves her beams to the right to reach a Bothwordsman and a Bothoblin. The beam from her left hand hit the Bothoblin. The Bothwordsman dodges to its right side.

While she walks to the right to stay away, Lighel directs her beams towards the Bothoblin that has been hit to kill it faster.

After that, Lighel moves her beams to the left. They hit two Bothwordsmen and kill them. Blood scattered around their corpses.

While she walks to the right, Lighel moves her beams to the right. Her enemies dodge her attacks.

She directs her beams to the left. They hit two Bothoblins and killed them.

After Lighel moved her beams to the right, the beam from her left hand killed a Bothoblin and a Bothwordsman in a row.

The beam from her right hand kills two Bothoblins in a row.

After Lighel moved her beams to the last two Bothwordsmen, one of them got hit by the beam from her left hand.

The other one dodged, so she moved the beam from her right hand to the Bothwordsman that had been hit to kill it faster.

After Lighel stopped walking and moved the beams towards the last enemy, the Bothwordsman jumped to dodge the beam from her right hand but still got hit by the beam from her left hand and died.

After she made the beams from her hands disappear, Lighel turned around and released the beams again until they hit and killed two of the five incoming Bothygers on the left side.

The other three Bothygers run towards Lighel in a line. After she walks away, she directs her left hand to the Bothyger on the left. She directs her right hand to the Bothyger on the right.

The left Bothyger dodges by jumping. The right Bothyger gets hit on the head until its face has a hole in it and dies. The middle Bothyger almost approached her, so Lighel stopped walking.

She moves her left hand to the right and moves her right hand to the left. The beams slice the Bothyger’s body in two. At that moment, the Bothyger was so close to Lighel that blood splattered onto her face.

After that, Lighel releases her beams towards the stomach of the last Bothyger. They create two holes in the Bothyger’s stomach.

At the same time, Garuvy watches the battle. She is no longer releasing blue auras around her hands.

After she hears a sound from behind, Garuvy turns around. Her eyebrows are raised as she sees the barrier edge cracked by the blue light balls released from the blue guns brought by seven Bothgunmen that are still far away.

Bothgunman is a Bothyghter that wields a blue gun in its right hand.

Lighel approaches the Bothgunmen from the left side. After she stretched her hands forward, Lighel released stomach-sized light blue circles from each of her palms that were floating near her palms and releasing stomach-sized blue light beams. They hit and kill two Bothgunmen on the right side.

She directs the big blue light beam from her right hand to the right so she can block the Bothgunmen’s blue light balls towards the barrier.

She moves the beam from her left hand to the left to hit and kill a Bothgunman.

After she moved it again to the left, a Bothgunman dodged to its left side. It still got killed after she moved it to the right.

Lighel directed her left hand to the left. The beam hits and kills two Bothgunmen at once in a row.

After she moved it again to the left and killed the last Bothgunman and a Bothunicorn at once in a row, Lighel moved her right hand to the left. It kills another Bothunicorn.

On the left side of the dead Bothunicorn, there are three Bothoxes that are still untouched. They are running towards the barrier and releasing six blue horn missiles.

Lighel quickly moves her hands to the right. The beams hit the three Bothoxes while still moving to the right. They also hit the six blue horn missiles and make them explode before reaching the barrier.

After she moved them again to the left, the beam from her left hand hit and killed two Bothoxes at once in a row. The beam from her right hand hit and killed the third Bothox.

When Lighel makes her beams disappear, Garuvy is watching her while stretching her hands forward and levitating some rocks randomly. Garuvy turns around suddenly because of hearing a sound from behind.

Garuvy’s eyes are wide as she sees the barrier edge cracked by the blue light balls released from the mouths of four Bothunicorns running towards the barrier in a line.

After Lighel approached the Bothunicorns from the right side, she released big blue light beams from her hands that went through four Bothunicorns in a row and killed them at once.

After she makes the beams disappear, Lighel sees the cracked barrier and the dead Bothytures lying around her. “Maybe I should call in reinforcements.”

Suddenly, eight Bothlowers emerge from the ground around the outside of the barrier. They shoot blue light beams and make more cracks.

Lighel approaches them quickly and releases a hand-sized blue light beam from her right hand that goes counter-clockwise around the outside of the barrier to kill the Bothlowers. Thereafter, she makes the beam disappear.

Inside the barrier, five head-sized rocks near Garuvy’s left hand go to her right side.

Three hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

Garuvy moves to her right side to dodge two hand-sized rocks and five head-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her.

Six hand-sized rocks and seven head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Three hand-sized rocks and nine head-sized rocks near her left hand go to her northwest side.

Four hand-sized rocks and two head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her southeast side.

Four hand-sized rocks and five head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

Before the blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappeared, she moved to her left side to dodge the six hand-sized rocks and seven head-sized rocks near her right hand that went towards her.

While she moved to her left side, one of the hand-sized rocks hit her right earlobe. The pain made her scream a bit and hold her right ear with her right hand.

Lighel watches Garuvy from the outside of the barrier. “What’s wrong? Does it hurt?”

“Kind of…” Garuvy’s mouth is downturned.

“C’mon, let me see it.” Lighel waves at Garuvy with her left palm facing down.

After Garuvy approached the barrier edge near the position where Lighel stood, Garuvy tucked her hair behind her right ear. She grabs her right earlobe with her right index finger and right thumb.

“Hm?” Lighel’s eyebrows are raised. “Okay, let me see your left earlobe too.” She smiles.

“Why?” Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted.

“Just do it!” Lighel smiles.

After releasing her right index finger and right thumb from her right earlobe, Garuvy tucked her hair behind her left ear and grabbed her left earlobe with her left index finger and left thumb.

“Looks like your earlobes are still intact.” Lighel smiled before she added. “Please pierce them so that I can give you pearl earrings like mine!” She grabs the pearl earrings in her earlobes.

Garuvy releases her fingers from her left earlobe. “No, thanks.” She shook her head before she continued. “I don’t like earrings.”

Lighel releases her fingers from her earlobes. “Why?” She smiled before she continued. “You’re my daughter, right? C’mon, it’s a good thing to wear pearl earrings like your mother! It’s cute!”

“No, please don’t force me.” Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted.

“I’ll give you the clip-on version, then,” Lighel asked.

“No.” Garuvy shook her head before she added. “I don’t want to wear them.”

“Oh, well…” Lighel looks down for a few seconds before she touches the barrier edge with her palms. “Okay, Garuvy, you’re sleepy now, right?”

“Yes, but…” Garuvy’s face is crumpled.

While keeping her palms facing down, Garuvy lifts her hands until they are quite close to her face.

“I’m afraid that my Bothyner will be active while I’m sleeping…” Garuvy continued.

“Relax.” Lighel smiled before she added. “You shouldn’t worry about anything and just sleep to preserve your light. I’ll come in if anything happens.”

Garuvy turns to Lighel and lowers her hands. “How do you come in if you can’t create a barrier hole?”

“I might break the barrier if I have to,” Lighel replied.

They both remain silent for a few seconds.

“I see…” Garuvy turns to her left side. Her mouth is downturned.

“C’mon, walk to the mat, dear,” Lighel ordered.

Garuvy turns back to Lighel. “Mrs. Lighel, why didn’t you use that curved beam earlier?”

“Oh, that’s because every time I used it, my hands hurt. If you have learned more about Bothyner, I could explain more to you,” Lighel explained.

“I see. Can you get rid of the dead Bothytures around here while I’m sleeping?” Garuvy asked.

“Oh, of course!” Lighel smiled before she released her palms from the barrier edge and continued. “There’re too many, and they’re too smelly! Just go to the mat now, my daughter!”

“Okay.” Garuvy nodded before she added. “But if you want to be my mother, you should get married to Mr. Andark.” She smiles.

After hearing that, Lighel’s eyebrows are raised and her mouth is slightly opened.

She turns to her left side for a few seconds before turning back to Garuvy. “I can’t do it, dear. I hate darkness…”

“But Mr. Andark is my father!” Garuvy smiles.

Lighel remains silent.

“How is it?” Garuvy asked.

“Well, I’ll think about it.” Lighel smiled before she continued. “Now do as your mother said!” She points at Garuvy with her right finger.

“Okay, Mom!” Garuvy smiled and nodded.

Garuvy turns around and walks to the red mat in the middle of the barrier area. She takes off her pink sandals and lies down on the mat.

Garuvy tilts her head to the left. She sees Lighel walking away from the barrier edge. Lighel approaches a dead Bothunicorn and obliterates it with the big blue light beams from her hands.

As she sees Lighel moving on to the next Bothyture corpse, Garuvy closes her eyes slowly.

To be continued.