chapter 1924: her new power

by holding onto her soul and her spiritual energies, i rapidly crystalized the biggest spirit core ever within yuki's soul, perhaps ten times as big as my own, which was insane to think about. the potential she had was too big to pass, so i had to do this with all my might and attention.
"t-this feels so weird...!"
yuki was still processing what had happened, glancing at her own hands as several rivers of rainbow-colored energies flowed through them, this energy was spiritual energy.
"just how much of this energy did i had inside of me?"
as she asked that question, she began stretching her arms and legs, feeling the energy reach every inch of her body made her feel relaxed and even stronger.
"perhaps way too much, ten times as much as a normal divine spirit, you know? i calculated it." i said, as i noticed her aura growing.
"w-what?!" she gasped. "r-really that much drake?!"
"yeah," i nodded. "i also sensed your divine spirits there; they helped me forge the spirit core and infused themselves inside of it."
"inside of it?!" yuki wondered.
"i mean, not completely, they still live within your soul, but they had also infused a part of their existence in the spirit core, so this should allow them to grow stronger and unlock more powers," i explained to her more clearly. "this core is not a physical object that can be reached easily though, it is within your soul, which sometimes is like a pocket dimension of its own, an ethereal world of its own. so even if you get your chest blown away it won't break."
"o-oh... okay thanks for the clarification," she muttered. "so what can i do with this?2
"well, first of all, it unlocked a new stat in your status, do you see it?" i asked. "hmm..."
she opened her status and i glanced at it with her.
and indeed, there it was.
"yeah i got mystic spirit stat! it's... one hundred million?!"
"o-oh, it's higher than mine when i started, i guess that's your talent for sure."
"a-ah, yes," i nodded. "i gave her a spirit core."
"a spirit core?!" she gasped. "t-that's something i figured out for myself thousands of years after i became a venerable! w-wha... how did you even got it so quickly?!"
"uh, long story short..."
i ended explaining her a couple of things, it seemed she was sleeping while i turned my doppelgnager into a divine spirit.
i even showed him to her, she was amazed, and she even bit her lips while watching him, her eyes going up and down.
yuki did almost the same too, biting her lips and... her tail was wagging around a lot.
"wow, what a looker, and this is your new spirit? and your doppelganger, huh?" she giggled. "oh my, you don't mind if i bring him to my palace every now and then. i'll make sure to give it back to you the next morning~"
"no thanks... also my soul and consciousness is right inside of it too, so it's technically still me!" i said.
"o-ohhh..." yuki seemed amazed.
"anyway, that's what happened," i said. "so i brought you here because i gave her a spirit core and... can you see her aura right now? those things... they're spirits, right?"
"..." the fox venerable silently analyzed yuki, walking around her for a while and then nodded. "this is just... inconceivable... but i guess if she's truly the reincarnation of a soul fragment of amaterasu-sama... hmm."
"hey! will you stop staring at me all the time and tell me what's going on with me?" yuki wondered, crossing her arms grumpily.
"sorry, my bad, i know what's going on now," the venerable nodded. "you were kind of right, drake, but not completely."
"how so?" i asked.
"her sheer amount of spirit energy and soul aether are immense, and both are combined together almost seamlessly," she explained. "this is why she has so much spirit power, and why her aura is immense... and shaped like that. to sum things up, her soul isn't creating the spirits you and me can make through spirit creation, no. yuki's soul has awakened a trait that amaterasu-sama possessed, it was one of the things that made her so almighty, and also why she was the protector and patron of us shrine maidens. those little things coming from her
aura are shikigami."
"shikigami?"