Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"Geez, you really want to become as cool as papa, right Danny?" Rain while cleaning his son’s face. "You have to wait for a bit before you can exercise like me."

Annie was grinning again, but she tried to hide it when she saw Rain… she was quite smart, so Rain couldn’t help but worry about her future. A kid that much cunning probably will face some hardships if she thinks that she is smarter than others.

"This looks like a job for me," Rain said. "Maybe you two are too young for that, but learning a bit of magic will make you understand the power of hard work. Elemental magic might be too dangerous, but healing magic can be taught and it will help protect you all."

Rain was skipping several important steps… like the fact that his kids couldn’t even draw a sphere yet. Learning magic will take a while, but Rain was that kind of guy. Even though he dotted his sisters too, now he couldn’t help but do the same to his kids.

The healer’s path could only be unlocked at level seventy of the human path, but Rain knew some tricks to make his kids learn as much experience as possible and he decided to teach them all of those.

"All right, kids," Rain said. "You two didn’t learn how to write and read yet, but you will get a ton of experience by calculating pi until the one hundredth house, keep it up. After that, you will memorize the periodic table, and then I will teach you Meditation and then Meditation Mastery… in a few weeks, you should unlock the healer’s path."

Naturally, Danny and Annie had no idea what Rain was talking about, but it seemed interesting, so they didn’t run away from him. It was really refreshing how easily kids get absorbed by things they never saw or experienced before.

Rain never used Appraisal that much, but he began to use it to check the progress of his kids.

At first, as one would expect, they had a hard time doing multiplication, but Rain persisted when he saw them leveling up on the human path after selecting the right options.

Letting them do math at that age was difficult, so Rain had to cut some pieces of paper and make them understand that adding them over each other would mean the final result… Rain also got some experience in the teacher’s path… probably, he didn’t unlock that yet, but he leveled up an unknown skill while he was doing that.

Rain’s kids were getting into the lessons quite a bit, even more so when they realized that they were getting stronger. Danny was still trying to do his handstands, but he wasn’t sniffing anymore when he failed. His endurance and Vitality increased, after all.

Annie was also behaving more… and since they were using their heads a bit more than usual, they were sleeping early and causing less trouble for Terra.

"I was wondering what you were doing with them…" Terra said when she found the tools to help the kids do math and memorize all sorts of things. "Do you want them to become as smart and strong as you?"

"It will be interesting to see them surpassing me," Rain explained. "That way, I won’t have to worry about their future that much."

That goal kept Rain busy and satisfied, seeing his kids grow was something that he never experienced in his previous life… still, it seemed that those peaceful days would have to take a break. The next morning, Dana suddenly appeared at Rain’s home looking a bit tired, it seemed that something had happened overnight.

"Big bro, they are in the mountains…" Dana said while she was trying to catch her breath. "They appeared overnight and they are setting their camps there and preparing to invade."

"The beast people?" Rain frowned. "Why now?"

"I don’t know, we haven’t crossed their side in ages," Dana said.

Just when Rain had decided to forget about the situation with the people disappearing… was that a coincidence? There was no point in assuming anything until they found more information.

"Did you see the beast king?" Rain asked.

"Yes, but he was different from the one that you described," Dana replied. "The beast king that we saw was similar, but it was a tall red woman that had claws on her fists."

"Maybe they choose a new one, maybe the ten years period have already ended," Rain said while rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

"I will confirm if the period is over with Her Majesty and Branden, until later," Dana said and then left.

Rain began to scratch the back of his head… Seara will soon be informed of that since she was working and Terra was in the orphanage. Things could be different if the beast king was the same, they kept their word for three years, after all. Still, Rain had to go there and talk with them and if that wasn’t possible, he would have to use Plan B.

In the end, Rain went to talk with Terra and informed her of the situation. After thinking for a while, she realized that this time, Rain shouldn’t be left out of the loop.

"I will have two days off the day afterwards, so I will head there as well," Terra said. "You should take the kids with you since it has been a while since Father and Mother saw them."

"What if that will become a warzone," Rain asked.

"Isn’t it obvious? You are the fastest guy here, I am sure you can take our kids to safety," Terra said while frowning. "Just do the usual, and everything will be fine, and by the usual, I don’t mean getting hurt and all messed up."

Terra had a point, the kids will be the safest with him and he wouldn’t do anything stupid when he had to guard them. Still, it was weird… Rain didn’t feel as confident as before.