Sera''s gym was full of people training. The most notable was the circle in the middle, which everyone left alone.


    There, Sera trained alone with Damien. They weren''t using powers, only physical strength, so obviously Sera got her ass handed to her repeatedly.


    She dodged his training sword, then moved her glaive in a low sweep. He back flipped over it and delivered a kick in mid air.


    It hit Sera on her jaw, stunning her momentarily. Damien then doubled down with a clean stab, that Sera managed to push away just as it was about to hit her midsection.


    She moved as fast as she could. While turning in a pirouette, she took a step back and attacked Damien with a vertical strike.


    He didn''t even place extra strength or speed into his sword, but still parried her glaive with ease. Even in his minor blow, there was enough force for Sera''s glaive to fly a few meters away.


    She didn''t let the move unbalance her though. Her golden eyes turned angry and annoyed.


    When Damien''s move finished, his expression became surprised, as he saw Sera standing in front of him.


    With her hands bowled into fists. One connected with Damien''s stomach, and the other with his chin. She got a few good punches in, but then Damien retaliated with a quick jab using the butt of his sword.


    It hit Sera square in one eye, sending her crumpling to the ground. She growled in anger and was about to push herself up when Damien placed his feet on her back, preventing her from doing so.


    "I think we should take a break, don''t you?"


    Before she could say anything, he was already moving away towards the rest area. He tossed his sword to a random Angelic Order member standing nearby.


    He walked straight to Bea, Bran, and Melinda. The three of them spent the past few hours watching Sera train herself past exhaustion.


    In the past two weeks after waking up, she barely left the gym. She either trains with other Order members, or she goes into virtual reality to fight in specific scenarios.


    Bran had checked out the scenarios, and the new ones left him worried about Sera''s state.


    In most of them, she fought against Scarred Sera in her strongest form. The VR was mostly useless in simulating anything at Transcended or higher level, but Sera still made multiple scenarios.


    Everyone feared Sera''s mental state. She spent two days passed out, then one day in bed, but awake.


    After she could walk and fight again, she had spent more time in the gym than anywhere else.


    By Lilith''s account, Sera''s dreams are full of Scarred Sera. Those few minutes while she held back her other half''s flames left her mind with deep scars.


    But that wasn''t the main issue. When her energy ran out and she could only watch as Scarred Sera tried to come through the Gate, to kill them all, did even more damage to her psyche.


    It left her with a deep feeling of inadequacy, which in turn, caused her to train a lot more, even though training would never close the distance between her and Scarred Sera.


    Hearing this story brought smiles to all of their faces... It seemed memories weren''t the only core part of one''s personality.


    Just because Sera had no knowledge about any of this, she still acted exactly like when she was younger.


    They continued to watch as Sera fell to the ground again and again, losing to the four women constantly.


    Out of curiosity, Bran timed how long she lasted each time, and the answer wasn''t surprising to any of them. After each loss, she lasted longer. It was only a few second difference, but the increase was linear and ever present.


    At first she barely lasted a minute, but after fighting for close to two hours, she lasted well over three minutes.


    It wasn''t only her stamina and defense that improved. At first, she couldn''t even land a single hit, but as time passed, she got more and more hits in, and at some point, she managed to take Lucy out.


    Then at another time, Faith fell, or Kim, and even Astrid, the best out of the four, had fallen once.


    The speed with which Sera improved was nothing to scoff at, and they were certain that given enough time, she would''ve been able to beat all four at once.


    Sadly, unlike her, most people only spent a few hours training, so after two hours, all the four women went away, leaving Sera alone once more.


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    She looked around the gym, which was mostly emptied by now, and upon seeing no potential opponent, she took a break too.


    This didn''t mean Sera would stop training, but instead of doing it physically, she does it mentally.


    She placed down her training glaive, then sat on the mat cross-legged. She then closed her eyes and revisited all her mistakes in her previous fights.


    This way she not only realized what she had done wrong, but she mentally corrected the mistakes and thought of solutions to the problems.


    Bea and the others weren''t certain it has any effect on her fighting, but they took every moment she spent without getting beaten up as a small blessing.


    They wanted to give Sera as much time as she needed to get her head straight, but with the news coming from Rome, their time had run out.


    Adam had already returned there, since a bit of insurgency popped up in the city. But that wasn''t the biggest issue.


    The Federal Alliance began testing the strength of the Aegis System by sending a large force against Rome.


    The news only arrived in the morning, but they still hadn''t informed Sera, but they were running out of time.


    They just wanted her to have as much free time as possible, before leadership would inevitably suck her back in.


    When she finished with meditating and she was about to search for opponents, Bea, Bran and Melinda approached her with the news.