96 Drastic Changes.

"No! No! Papa, Mama is cheating! She is forcing me to dodge her attacks while being in this circle! This is impossible! She is clearly bullying me!!"

After failing umpteenth time, Gracie complained with teary eyes. However, to her disbelief, this time, Ace just stood there without saying anything and before she could cry more, Maeve questioned.

"Oh? Are you implying that dodging while remaining inside is impossible?"

"Of course it is! I have tried too many times but failed again and again! Of course, it is impossible! You are a bully! I hate you! Blehhh!" Gracie replied in fury as she stuck her little tongue out while her tears threatened to flow out of her adorable golden eyes.

"Then how about you attack me with all your might and I dodge your attacks in a circle smaller than this? That should be fair, right?"

"Hehe~ Just see how I beat you!" Gracie replied with newfound confidence. Ace then quickly formed an ice circle of 1-meter diameter around Maeve who smiled at Gracie provocatively.

Gracie, of course, accepted the challenge and dashed towards her mother in hopes of hitting her once and prove to her papa that she was not lying and her mother was cheating. She will then stop this physical training and directly jump onto magic attacks and become super strong.

But, of course, her hopes were bound to be thrashed, and even after trying her hardest, Maeve didn't move a single step outside the circle.

"Haah… Haa… w-why… how are you so good? Haa… Why can't I hit you…?" Gracie questioned as she gasped for air.

Maeve smiled as she replied.

"This is a major fault amongst many youngsters. They just don't know how to use space. Notice that it is a circle that acts as your boundary, not a line. So to create distance, you don't always have to step behind, sometimes, you can move to the side, dodging the upcoming attack and also creating some opportunities to unleash your own attack.

While dodging, it is preferred to move in a circle to maximize the use of the space provided rather than just stepping behind carelessly and becoming easy to predict.

Of course, in a real battle, you can't focus on your steps being in or outside of the circle so you have to practice so hard that you won't even need to remember anything and let your body do the dodging while your brain focusing on attacking.

Now, I will show you a specific movement pattern and we will repeat that in slow motion for the whole day, okay?"

Gracie's eyes shown with enlightenment, indeed, she noticed how sometimes, she managed to push her mother to the boundary and was sure of her victory only for her mother to rather than stepping behind, step aside and destroy all her plans.

…

The training continued for the whole morning before Gracie lied on the floor, her clothes covered in dirt while her face bruised. Of course, not because of Maeve's attack but due to her falling on the ground repeatedly while trying to dodge the attacks.

But these bruises were the least of Gracie's worries, right now, she was exhausted. So exhausted that she didn't even have the power to concentrate and summon Qi to rejuvenate her body and recover her stamina.

This time, Ace stepped forwards and carried her into his embrace.

"Well done, I am proud of you" He stated in a voice calm, love-filled voice as he patted her head.

Under the comfort of her father's embrace, Gracie quickly rushed into the dreamland. Ace shook his head and walked into the bedroom and placed the tired and sleeping Gracie on the bed carefully before removing her shoes.

"Shouldn't we at least remove her clothes, she is practically drenched in sweat" Maeve questioned.

"Just let her sleep, she must be tired. Besides, I have something important to talk to you" Ace replied in a serious tone.

Maeve's expression turned solemn as soon as she heard those words and she nodded. She obviously knew what he wanted to talk about.

The two then walked into another room and sat on the bed, with a solemn look, Ace commented.

"This world is weird."

Maeve nodded to show her approval.

Though the two had some concerns when they arrived here, they didn't think too much about it, but now, this has turned into something they can no longer overlook.

As soon as they arrived into this world, Maeve and Ace noticed that due to some unknown phenomena, the Qi density in this world is rising, though slow, but rising.

At first, the two decided to ignore the fact, reasoning that this has to do something with this world being a weaker world and it accumulates more Qi in time and strengthens itself across millions and millions of years.

They calculated that at the rate at which the Qi is rising, it will take more than 10,000 years before the Qi here can match the Qi in Herferd and thus ignored the nigh traceable change in Qi density.

But now, a so-called advanced mage has appeared.

Of course, an appearance of a measly 3 step mage is nothing in the eyes of Ace and Maeve, but the problem is that according to their calculations, a 3rd step mage should not have appeared before 50 years but yet…

This showed and proved that the rate of increase of Qi density of this world has increased, and it has increased drastically!

And the most concerning thing of all is that this change occurred right after…

Maeve's breakthrough.