Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"Being careful is good, but you should know the limits of your skills," Rain said. "If you think that you can only make lines this long, just do that and restart from the end. If you insist, you will lose focus and get tired faster. Remember, we can't mess up here since this is the lifeline of the village."

In the end, Dana began to pout; she was highly competitive and impatient. Rather than doing things the right way and improving little by little, she wanted to do the same things as her brother. She saw him sparring with their father, and she found that cool. She wanted to mimic him, but Rain told her that it was too soon for her. She had to train her body more.

Thanks to it, Dana, who was a bit on the chubby side, began to run around the house and do the same exercises that Rain did as much as she could. So, she got a bit thinner in the last few weeks.

"I am older than you, so it is only obvious that I can do a few things better than you," Rain said while patting Dana's head. "Unless you think that I am pathetic and you are much better than me."

"It isn't like that!" Dana protested.

"In that case, work hard and focus on improving your earth magic, and you might become better than me since I am trying to learn a bunch of other things," Rain said.

Rain was a bit worried that teaching his sister magic like that would make her chase trouble in the future, but it couldn't be helped. It was also a tool to protect her if necessary.

Level 1: Health Bonus - Gains the ability to increase your health by ten points per level.

Level 5: Precision Strike: Execute precise and calculated strikes to target vulnerable points on your opponent's body, inflicting critical damage.

Level 10: Shield Bash: Utilize your shield as a weapon, delivering a powerful bash that stuns the enemy momentarily.

Level 15: Agile Footwork: Improve your agility and footwork, allowing for quick evasive maneuvers to avoid incoming attacks.

Level 20: Counterstrike: Perfect your timing and defensive instincts, enabling you to counterattack swiftly after successfully blocking or dodging an enemy strike.

In the end, it took two weeks for the book to arrive, and during that time, Rain's battle master path leveled up several times since he sparred with his father every single day. At the same time, he was starting to see the difference and the results of his daily training routine.

On the morning that the book arrived, Rain changed his strategy against his father a bit. Instead of covering his whole hands and forearms with earth magic, he just covered the above. He immediately felt the difference in speed, his arms felt a lot lighter, and then he was able to punch more than before. While his punches lost some weight, Roan had a hard time blocking all of them.

He began to take some steps backward. Then he tried to counterattack by hitting Rain's shoulders with the side of his sword, but Rain waved to the side and avoided the hit. That made his father show an opening, and Rain stepped in and punched his father's stomach, but Roan blocked with his hand.

"Ow, my fingers…" Roan while groaning a little. "It seems that I have nothing left to teach you… just kidding, can you heal my fingers, Rain?"

"No problem," Rain said while smiling.

"It seems that you already maxed the human path, and you are improving the Battle Master path, huh?" Roan asked. "That would explain your quick growth… I am proud. I didn't get that kind of strength until I was fifteen."

"Well, I didn't have to waste time learning etiquette and Politics," Rain said while healing his father's hand.

"You got it, I still can get stronger, but I guess all that held me back… well, there is no point in thinking about that since I received a lot by learning those things," Roan said. "I also met your Mom because I had become a knight. By the way, Rain…"

"Is it time for you to tell me about your love history?" Rain asked. "My teen romantic history can't be this cute."

"What are you talking about?" Roan furrowed his eyebrows. "I was just going to ask if you are fine living like this without interacting with other kids that much. Having good friends from an early age is a good thing. I met your mother when I was thirteen, and I am more than fine with that, but finding the love of your life at a younger age can be pretty good, you know?"

Rain felt like sighing. What his father said would make sense if he didn't have twenty-five more years of life experience in his mind. Interacting with kids because of that was boring. His little sisters were another matter because they were family. He will have to wait several more years before finding a woman because of that and she has to be older as well.

No one will judge him since they don't know his past, but his conscience would judge him more than anyone. Just while Rain was lost in touch, he realized his father was looking at the horizon and showing a complicated expression. When Rain looked in the same direction, he saw a fancy carriage approaching the village.

"Let's go back home, Rain," Roan said. "I have a bad feeling about this."

Rain believed that trying to hide was useless. His grandfather kept an eye on the movements in the middle of the country, but it was impossible for him and his friends to catch everything. Still, Rain and his father dashed toward home and observed the carriage from afar after they told Leiah and the girls to hide.

However, the carriage still stopped right in front of the building where Meiro and Luana worked most of the time.