Yes, the rate at which the Father-Daughter pair was growing was absurd. The Tempest Sanctum was proving to be much more useful than Kael previously thought.
And it wasn’t just the Tempest Sanctum alone.
Training with Veylara was helping him grow in his own way.
He had learned how to navigate in the forest, avoid strong beasts, and skilfully choose his prey. In these past few days, he had learned almost all the basics and was preparing to enter the intermediate level, a level where he was finally allowed to use artifacts to make the hunt easier.
The number of Star Beasts and Corrupted Beasts he was killing with each hunting session became higher and higher. Adding with how he was learning at least 1 spell a day and all its variations, he was levelling up at a stable rate.
It wasn’t just the hunting and learning spells either. Veylara was also teaching him skills warriors and hunters needed, skills that reduce his presence as he walked, marksmanship, setting different traps, tracking, terrain reading, navigation, camp building, weapon maintenance, ambush setting, counter ambush skills, first aid, jungle medicine, even navigating at night.
In addition to all this, the woman was still teaching him Sword Aura.
Yes, he was spending around 14 hours of his day with Veylara and the number of things he was learning during this time was absurd. Even though he wasn’t levelling up as fast as he initially expected, his growth was… very satisfactory.
Even Veylara seemed surprised.
Kael still remembered her expression when she saw his progress, it was something that made him chuckle.
Of course, he still didn’t let that get into his head.
Actually, he couldn’t.
He had 3 beings to humble him the instant he thought about anything.
Yes, his children.
Kael wasn’t the only one who had grown, his children had grown quite smoothly as well.
No, the word smoothly was a weak description. His children’s growth was… nothing short of ridiculous.
Since he was learning more and more skills and levelling up stably, they were levelling up with him, well,
Everyone other than Igni.
[Name: Igni]
[Race: Primordial Fire Dragon]
[Rank: Eternal]
[Age: 26 Days]
[Level: 30 -> 31]
[Strength: 181 -> 187]
[Agility: 163 -> 169]
[Speed: 168 -> 175]
[Stamina: 215 -> 223]
[Defense: 185 -> 191]
[Mana: 250 -> 259]
[Intelligence: 225 -> 233]
[Charisma: 285 -> 296]
[Strengths: Physical Power, Dragon Magic, Resilience, Flight, Fire Immunity]
[Weaknesses: Energy Dependency]
…
Yes, the Primordial Fire Dragon’s Level had only gone up by one. It seemed like he was no longer sharing CE with Kael since he was a level above and was growing on his own.
Other than Igni, however, the rest were…
[Name: Cirri]
[Race: Primordial Sky Dragon]
[Rank: Eternal]
[Age: 9 Days]
[Level: 7 -> 19]
[Strength: 41 -> 95]
[Agility: 56 -> 112]
[Speed: 60 -> 119]
[Stamina: 47 -> 104]
[Defense: 36 -> 88]
[Mana: 81 -> 155]
[Intelligence: 45 -> 132]
[Charisma: 51 -> 168]
[Strengths: Intangible Form, High Mobility, Density Control, Strong Senses, Difficult to Kill]
[Weaknesses: Fragile in Solid Form, Energy Dependency]
…
Yes, little Cirri had turned into a little monster capable of defeating many strong foes, and it wasn’t just her.
[Name: Vitaria]
[Race: Celestial Fox]
[Rank: Eternal]
[Age: 5 Days]
[Level: 1 -> 12]
[Strength: 6 -> 64]
[Agility: 21 -> 92]
[Speed: 25 -> 104]
[Stamina: 16 -> 83]
[Defense: 7 -> 68]
[Mana: 38 -> 127]
[Intelligence: 33 -> 117]
[Charisma: 25 -> 108]
[Strengths: Agile, Rapid Mana Recovery, High Mana Reserves]
[Weaknesses: Inexperience, Weak Defense, Energy Dependency]
…
[Name: Imperia]
[Race: Mother of All Ants]
[Rank: Eternal]
[Age: 5 Days]
[Level: 1 -> 12]
[Strength: 18 -> 87]
[Agility: 9 -> 72]
[Speed: 10 -> 74]
[Stamina: 13 -> 80]
[Defense: 12 -> 78]
[Mana: 22 -> 105]
[Intelligence: 40 -> 168]
[Charisma: 50 -> 181]
[Strengths: Intelligent, Charismatic.]
[Weaknesses: Inexperience, Slow.]
…
Both Vitaria and Imperia had grown to Level 12 and were almost as strong as an Epic Ranked Level 25ish Beasts.
Yes, the two girls were still inexperienced since they didn’t have any fighting experience. It was a problem Kael did bring up and Veylara acknowledged.
But because she wanted Kael to learn the basics of hunting quickly, she decided not to have any distractions. The plan was to teach Kael everything she could this week, and from the next week, he would be spending 5 hours to train together with his Bonds.
If the Bonds performed well, they would also be allowed to join Kael in the hunt. By then, Kael would learn the use of different artifacts during the hunt and after he learns hunting and navigating in the forest together with his Bonds, he will be prepared to move to the Advanced Level.
It was a plan Kael agreed with.
Unlike Cirri, who can train inside the Sanctum where she wouldn’t die no matter what, he was still worried about Vitaria and Imperia. They could get hurt and Kael didn’t want that.
Yes, he knew he needed to outgrow this feeling and let his children grow but…
He was a weak father.
‘Ahhh~ If only I could keep them safe with me ALL the time.’
Kael groaned in his head as he stared at his children sleeping around him. His eyes returned to normal as he finally stared at his own status.
[Name: Kael Carter]
[Race: Human]
[Age: 22]
[Level: 22 -> 29]
[CE: 8912/9600]
[Talent: Genesis of the Ancients]
[Talent Rank: EX Rank]
[Strength: 94 -> 122]
[Agility: 96 -> 128]
[Speed: 93 -> 126]
[Stamina: 100 -> 134]
[Defense: 103 -> 138]
[Mana: 114 -> 148]
[Intelligence: 78 -> 101]
[Charisma: 77 -> 109]
…
Yes, he had levelled up to Level 29.
What’s even better?
He was about to level up again, learning one Third Circle Spell usually gives him about 1000 CE, and he was about to learn one just now.
Inferno Cyclone, a spell that summons a swirling tornado of fire that moves slowly in a direction the mage chooses.
Since it was a Third Circle Spell, learning it was much more difficult since the number of Runes he needed to draw was much higher than compared to normal First Circle Spells. Kael had to spend quite a bit of time learning this,
Flicker
He only managed to cast it on his fifteenth try.
And as he did,
[Ding!]
[Inferno Cyclone]
[Mastery: Very Low]
[CE: +1026]