บท 354: Family

Another month had passed and only a few months remained until the tournament began. Daedalus had managed to advance the cultivation technique of metal somewhat, however it was a very complicated technique. In fact he had gotten farther on implementing the technique into his own.

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Back in space with Andromeda and the rest. Andromeda as usual was sat in the garden reading a book occasionally looking up to watch Rose and Richard sparring or laughing together. Nearby was a small tree house that Reginn had built for Shaun and Thalia.

Shaun could be seen in the kitchen trying out different cooking techniques while playing with the recipes to find new and unique ways of cooking. In the meantime Thalia was in the little garden below the tree holding a little girl of around two. It was as this was going on the little girl said "Mama!"

Back in the palace, that was much more of a mansion than a palace, where the parents or grandparents who where sat in the living room. They where chatting casually about nothing in particular while eating some of the small samples that Shaun had asked them to evaluate. Occasionally this would result in one of them having to cough up the putrid tasting failures.

Rose and Richard had gotten together long ago however they had recently gotten much more serious. Though Richard realised he would have to put in a lot of effort to make Daedalus agree, let alone Andromeda who was watching them constantly to make sure they didn't do anything, though it was more playful than anything.

Richard had taken up the longsword as he felt that the reach suited him best but he like the feeling of when he swung it. Rose had taken to the bow as she felt it was more graceful than being up close and personal with the enemy. Naturally Daedalus wasn't there to make there weapons, so Reginn had taken up the art of blacksmithing as well as several others like carpentry and tailoring, he hadn't worried about alchemy as rose was better at it.

Reginn also happened to be in a cave he had dug by hand using only his physical strength. There he had set up a forge as well as several other more advanced crafting setups. At that moment he happened to be working on the newest improvement for rose's bow, it also happened to be the reason she was using only her secondary weapon against Richard, a short-sword.

If Daedalus where here he would be feeling absolutely ecstatic. One of the reasons he had left was because he felt he was having them rely on him too much. He would be even more happy if they had told him about Thalia and Shaun's daughter though.

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Back to moments before after Thalia and Shaun's daughter had said "Mama" Thalia's face grew the brightest smile ever as she shouted up the stairs of the little tree house saying "Shaun, Alicia said her first words, also I won the bet!"

Shaun expectedly heard this shout and although sad at losing the bet had jumped out of the window with joy, only to remember that this pocket dimension made you as weak as a normal human. Thus he quickly corrected his form and came to a rolling landing not a foot from Thalia and Alicia.