Death Won't Stop Me

Yes deputy!

During the three months that Jon began meditating, and with the added exercise and training, his body became well toned. The muscles in every part of his body were showing. His face's youthful look was gone. His chiseled face now looks way different from his slightly chubby one three months ago. His nose now looked more tall and refined. His thin, heart shaped cherry lips seemed that seemed to urge you to bite it seemed more bright because of the continuous nourishment from his seed.

As Ana was looking at his face, she felt like it was urging her to touch and feel if that manly face was real or not. She did not notice that her face was inching closer and closer to his relaxed, sleeping face.

"Ugh.." Ana was jolted from her reverie and jumped back a whole five meters away as her face flushed and her heart beat wildly. She was shocked that she was unable to control herself and got mesmerized by that guy.

After some hesitation, she walked back towards him till she was at most a meter away and just decided to not to look directly at his face. Unfortunately, the place that her eyes went was toward his rock hard abs. Due to that extreme fight Jon had earlier, all that was left of his upper garments were strips of fabric barely hanging on to him. And since Ana decided to go to a more secluded place to rest, she brought him with her which caused all the remaining fabrics to fall away as they moved. So, for a time, all that she could see was his pecks moving as he breathed in intervals. All of the worries in her mind flew away as her pupils started to shrink and grow, shrink and grow, seeming to follow the abs' movement. Her heartbeat raced as she saw his perfectly tanned skin slightly glistened with sweat.

At this time, she felt some saliva rolled down her chin from her slightly opened mouth. She subconsciously touched it and immediately, her cheeks brightened up like ripe tomatoes. She turned around and wiped her mouth. But due to the embarrassment that she felt, she suddenly sat down and buried her face between her knees and felt like crying so she let out a muffled scream.

"Ana?" Midway from her scream, she heard a male voice which made that scream stuck at her throat and almost made her choke. She shivered from her feet all the way to her head. She hurriedly wiped those forming tears from her eyes and breathed in to calm her rapidly beating heart as she slowly turned to look at him. She was stunned as she was greeted by two pairs of deep, cold looking eyes, staring at her.

***

"I don't remember meeting you in the spirit world. Which division are you from?" Ana asked Jon curiously, trying to avoid looking directly at him.

"Heh. I'm not from the spirit world. I haven't even died for your information." Jon replied, amused that Ana could not recognize him.

"Not from the spirit world?" She mumbled to herself, trying to recount all the faces she has come across in the mortal world. 

"What happened after we fell?" He suddenly asked while looking around. He was a little startled to see that they were currently on one of the rooftop in one of the city's tallest skyscrapers.

"I'm not quite sure either. A guy suddenly showed up and took the containment bottle." She automatically replied. Still feeling that the guy was not a mortal.

"So what happens now? I don't think you can go back to the spirit world without Eddie, right?" He replied to Ana.

"Yeah. That creep Eddie.. wait.. Eddie! You! Y-you're the guy he possessed!" It suddenly dawned on her that Jon was the only one other than her big brother who knew that her mission's target was Eddie.

"Jon, Jon Riley." Jon introduced himself again, smiling wryly. "She did not even deemed to remember my name." He sadly thought to himself.

"Right, sorry I forgot. I was so focused on catching that creep that I forgot about you." She suddenly felt that it was a little rude that she forgot his name, given that she was the only mortal that she told the truth.

"It's okay." Jon replied, smiling to ease her guilt.

"Wait, so how did you manage to get that strong? And how are you able to use spiritual energy?" She was bewildered thinking that a mortal could suddenly use spiritual energy, and almost on par with her own, a level four. 

"I didn't know that I can either, until the last second. I thought that I could only absorb the spiritual energies around to get stronger. It never occurred to me that I could use it too." He explained it to her as best he could. He also decided to tell her about the past few months on how he was suddenly able to absorb the energies around and how it affected his strength, speed and how fast he learns things.

"I see." Ana thought about it as she listened to Jon's story. Then added. "Maybe your power awakened when Eddie was released from you without him fully absorbing your seed. And maybe that was why your seed kept on absorbing the energies instead of releasing it to nourish your body."

"I need to go back to report what happened. I think that this is above my paygrade." She decided and said as she turned around. Then she stopped as she thought of something, so she turned back to Jon and threw a tin bottle towards him. "Try swallowing a mouthful, then refine the energy inside. Just a mouthful." She then stared intently towards him.

Jon looked at the bottle for a little bit the opened the lid and swallowed the liquid inside. He immediately felt a warm, but very forceful torrent of energy go inside his body from his throat. It felt comfortable on the first part, but it suddenly starts to feel painful as the liquid rapidly circulated throughout his body. He then urged his seed to absorb those energies as fast as he could. As the energy was sucked towards the vortex around his seed, it suddenly rotated very fast, about twice as fast as his seed was rotating. And as the vortex spun, large amounts of white colored energy were secreted out from it and was immediately absorbed by his seed. 

This went on for a few hours before the pain subsided. But before the last of the energies were sucked into his vortex, a snapping sound, similar to twig snapping in half sounded inside him. He saw his seed flashed and he felt that it grew a little bit. He felt that his pores' limits were changed again. He felt that he could absorb the spiritual energies around much faster than before.

"What is this?!" He snapped his eyes wide open as he elatedly asked Ana what the mysterious liquid that she gave to him was.

"Spiritual liquid. It's very valuable even in the spirit world. It helps you refine spiritual energies as much as you would in a month at most." Ana summarized it to Jon. Then she added. "Keep the bottle. Consider it my thanks for saving me back there." Then she turned around and vanished on the spot.

"Wait! How do I get down from here!" Jon suddenly shouted, remembering where he was.

"Hah.. Thank you for the drink, but please be considerate of where you leave someone next time." He sighed and mumbled to himself when he heard no reply as he looked at the spot where she vanished.

***

In a forest, a few kilometers from the city. There was a clearing somewhere in a secluded part of that forest. There were a few silhouettes standing in a circle waiting for someone.

"What's taking him so long?" An irritated, young female's voice said.

"Relax, he won't fail." A relaxed older voice sounded.

"I should have been the one to get that ghost! We would've been done with it by now if it was me." The same female voice said.

"Yeah, but the guide would be dead too. Turning the whole spirit world's attention towards us." Another male voice said in a mocking tone.

"Isn't that what we are doing anyways?" The female voice sounded irritated again.

"Yeah, but not the whole spirit world, one at a time. Remember the boss' plan." The mocking male replied.

"Hmph!" The female voice harrumphed but did not complain anymore.

"He's here." A very old male voice sounded.

In their middle a shadow suddenly landed from the direction of the city. When the moonlight gleamed at the shadow, it revealed the same hooded man that talked to Ana and took the bottle from her.

"What took you-"

"ENOUGH!" A very deep male voice sounded out and cut the young female's voice even before she finished what she was gonna say.

"Hmph.." The female harrumphed again.

"Do you have it?" The deep voice added.

"Yes sir." The hooded man replied respectfully as he took out the bottle containing Eddie.

"Return to base, the boss wants to meet him." The deep voice said.

"Yes deputy!" All the silhouettes and the hooded man replied together. Then all of them turned into shadows as they all jumped towards the same direction.