The Hourglass 48 Anti-Climax Ending

When they reach Aria, they saw her doing some weird stretches naked, Michael watched while rubbing his chin and Melinda asked curiously at Aria who clearly saw them but kept doing that exercise.

"What are you doing Aria?" Melinda asked.

"I am doing an exercise to adapt to my upgraded body so I can control it" Aria said while still focusing on moving slowly.

"How do you know that exercise?" Michael asked.

"Seriously you two, how could the two of you be so ignorant, Michael aside, you Melinda, you should have been exposed to cultivation world long time ago but how come you are so ignorant, you even from a huge clan" Aria finally stopped and lectured us.

"Well… I am busy with the work and since childhood I wasn't allowed to go outside since there is a possibility that I will be kidnaped or fall in love or beaten by others who is not my clan and activated the curse besides I was told to just cultivate every day and learn spells with some scientific knowledge but they didn't tell me anything else, anything I just learned about the cultivation world when I was out for mission with my brother" Melinda told why she is so ignorant.

Aria then jumped to her while saying sorry to Melinda, she shoot toward Melinda just like a cannonball and they both launched at the hill behind them leaving human shaped depression on it, it seem Aria haven't fully controlled her strength yet. Michael think as he looked at this scene.

Aria then stood up along with Melinda who had her clothes shredded. Aria then begin to teaches both Melinda and Michael that exercise.

"you know Anira will be here soon if we don't escape you know" Melinda said while faithfully doing the exercise.

"don't worry about it" Michael said confidently.

"she got a copy power similar to yours that why she want to develop others power so she can copy them, but unlike yours her copy didn't weaken and if the target have lower stages than her that power will be strengthen according to her stages but as far as I know she have around four power that I knew: clones, parallel thought, regeneration, s.p.a.ce pocket, and two more that I don't know but one of them is related to how she could fly" Melinda gave all she knew about Dr. Anira.

"Don't worry about it you know the hidden stages book that Aria had, I finished that and all of my nodes is at Later Solid Stage" Michael said nonchalantly.

"" REALLY!"" Both of them shouted and continued ""HOW!""

"Jezz, I will tell you calmed down okay" Michael then proceed to tell them how when he activated his other nodes for the first time his power improved and the stairs he reached.

"So that's how I could adapt to the gravity easily" Aria said and continued with "By the way what's the thing behind you, I have been curious for a while"

"it's level up pill bottles" Michael said.

"Not shocked anymore" Melinda responded dully.

"anyway both of you hurry up and activated your first nodes and see if there is improvement in you power" Michael ordered while handing a pill bottles to each Melinda and Aria.

Michael then guided them to spilt the Heart Qi to the throat and then consumed the level up pill, levelling up the node on the throat to Liquid Stage.

This repeat until all of 24 nodes activated in the girls body but aside from the heart where the main cultivation nodes was located, the other nodes still remain in gas stages. Even thought it was only splitting up a little it consumed a whole pill bottle which contain 50 pills each, considering this place is not in Gravity Stair where the qi is concentrated it is fortunate it only consumes 50 pills.

Just when the girls want to consume more pills, Michael said "I think it's not good to consume more pills right now since all of your nodes have their foundation based on the pills so you should stabilized it for a while since you didn't have the help of the Gravity Stair like I do"

The girls think it make sense and continued to exercise along with Michael. After around an hour, something fall from the sky into the place just ten meters from them.

BOOM!

And the snow and dirt fly around, as the snow and dirt settled back a cheerful voice sound out from.

"h.e.l.lo, everyone! Have you been well, now I have come to get you" Along with that voice several more BOOM sounded out and more snow and dirt fly around.

After the snow and dirt settled down revealing around ten craters have been made with people inside of it and one of them certainly contain Dr. Anira.

"I will handle the last boss you handle the grunts okay" Michael who is still doing that exercise transformed to cheetah.

""alright""

Suddenly Michael vanished and reappeared in front of Dr. Anira who didn't have time to react. This is the improvement in Melinda's power now she no longer needs to charge her speed and could use the extreme speed of hers that could rival teleportation as long as the user body can handle it.

As for Melinda her improvement is the range where she can manifest illusion, the size of her illusion is actually limited by this range too, previously she can only manifest a giant around only five meter is this, if her range is 100 meter then she can made a dragon or Giant around 100 meter too no matter how much it can travel outside the initial range, it's power and size is determined by the range that Aria had.

So, Michael without any other word plunged his knife hand both inside Dr. Anira's head and chest who could be said a beauty too, he grabbed her heart and brain before crushing both to mush.

Dr. Anira then silently fall back with a hole on her face and chest, in one of Michael's hand is a red mush while the other hold a white mush.