Celestia heard Ryuu's first question and replied with a smirk, "Ryuu since you have been here as our student in Ayindril, we have been feeding you different pills having you take all those medicinal baths are not only to increase your constitution but to make sure you develop resistance against many things one of them is poison and it worked wonder for you did it not."
Ryuu was stunned on hearing that, well his teachers might have mentioned to him before but he was busy trying to get away from all those bitter yucky pills and those stinky baths.
Ryuu went to the next question in his list, "Mistress during my stay in those ruins sometimes when I got angry I felt incredibly stronger, my teammates mentioned I underwent some physical changes."
Celestia :"Well that was due to influence of your Divine body, we are going to teach you how to access it with you always waiting to get emotional in order to access it, but you have to remember you cannot become overly reliant on it, to keep as one of your trump-cards as if you use it too often it will become detrimental to your growth."
Ryuu: "Oh I almost forgot when I was near some of my teammates especially when my face was exposed or they were too close to my personal space they were acting weird and the look on their eyes were something I did not like it. Why did it happen?"
Celestia scowled at that, "Ryuu there many reasons for this some of them you are too young to understand but try to remember it carefully, your Divine Body was the cause of why and how it works well you are too young to understand, but remember to not too close to strangers or them might do bad things like kidnapping you and what not, but you do not have to worry about it much you will learn to control those effects once we start teaching you more about your divine body, although it seems your older sisters might have intentionally forgotten to give you a special amulet that might have negated its effects. "
Ryuu looked fearful at that as he spoke out his concern, "If it is so dangerous will it not affect everyone near me."
Celestia snorted at that, "Kid we including everyone present in Ayindril are very strong as well as their will is stronger as such you will not affect anyone, although it will increase with your growth but I know you will become responsible enough to misuse it."
Ryuu nodded at that before he expressed his concern to Celestia, "Mistress I find my combat capabilities in enclosed area as well as my ranged attacks quite lacking."
Celestia, "Are you referring to what happened in the tower?"
Ryuu slowly nodded at that.
Celestia replied with a frown, "You prefer using armed combat over unarmed as with sword you have better reach, not only you did you not use any of the skills on unarmed combat you learnt you also forgot your sword can adjust its length on top of that you forgot about the daggers you carry, I can understand because of your small stature you are at a disadvantage but if you had followed our instructions clearly but you forgot about them, as for ranged combat are thinking about picking archery?"
Ryuu blushed in embarrassment at what he heard the entire beat down he got was his fault, he might not have won but he would have done better much much better, but he pushed down his embarrassment as he answered truth fully to Celestia, "Yes Mistress I was hoping to learn about Archery, I found my knowledge about ranged attack lacking a lot."
Celestia :"Well you are in luck I am very good in archery hence I will teach you, just wait till tomorrow we will sort out your schedule to include archery lessons."
The entire day was spent with small talk with Celestia, and soon it was time for him to return home.
Ryuu went back home skipping and hopping, he entered his home and went straight towards his mother's room, and he entered the room with a big smile on his face as he went to greet his mother loudly "Mommy! I....", his greeting was stopped short as he was greeted by a horrifying sight, his mother was lying on the floor, as a thin line of blood trailing from her mouth with a startling scream he ran towards his mother, as he held her tightly her pulse was fluctuating greatly and her body was cold.
Ryuu was panicking he did not know what to do then he remembered those maids who worked at his mansion, "SAYLA, AKURO ANYONE PLEASE HELP!", he shouted out.
At his sound half a dozen maids came running, the one known as Sayla came in while asking, "Young master, is ...….", her words came to a grounding halt, at the sight in front of her Ryuu was crying while holding Xiao Xiao in his arms.
Sayla quickly took command of the situation, "Derha, quickly inform of this situation to her Holiness, others please lend me a hand we are taking her to the infirmary."
Ryuu went with them to the infirmary he was made to wait outside the room and soon his teachers along with his elder sisters arrived.
Maheswara went beside Ryuu as he tried to console a frightened and crying Ryuu, along with Antariskh and Sylvana whilst the others went inside to treat his mother.
Ryuu: "Master ~wah~ what happened ~wah~ to ~wah~ mama.", seeing the crying child caused Maheswara to wince.
Maheswara, "Ryuu child please calm down your mother is perfectly fine she is just sick, nothing has happened to her, she will be fine."
Ryuu, "No no ~hic~ she ~hic~ will not be ~hic~ fine, she was ~hic~ bleeding from her ~hic~ mouth.", he countered his soothing words in between his choked sobs.
Maheswara, "Do you have so small trust on your mother, she is strong and proud cultivator, she will be fine."
After a few hours the rest came out of Xiao Xiao's room, as they appeared Maheswara gave a sad knowing smile as he spoke to his wives, "So it has finally started showing the symptoms. "
Veena nodded sadly as she confirmed it, "Yeah I just hopped it will be much later."
Maheswara: "Is there any way to avoid the inevitable for a little while longer."
Veena simply shook her head negatively, "I have tried my best and used every scrap of knowledge I have but no it is best I could do."
Nuwa meanwhile had picked up sleeping Ryuu from Maheswara's lap, as she carried her like her own child.
Maheswara looked at Ryuu sadly, "Ryuu's Dao heart will be damaged greatly if he learns about it. His life as a cultivator might come to an abrupt halt."
Everyone looked sadly at the sleeping child on Nuwa's lap who was now cleaning the tear trails on his cheeks with a moist cloth, as she spoke out, "We know his mother is his life, everything he does and wants revolves around his mother's happiness and approval, we may not be his blood family, we may never replace his mother's place in his heart but we promise we will fill his heart with so much love and happiness that it will keep his Dao heart together without breaking it."
Everyone gave a happy nod showing their approval.
Maheswara: "Well I think one of us should stay with Ryuu until his mother is given clean bill of health, and I do not think it will be wise to let a kid as young as him to stay alone especially when his mother is in a hospital."
At that everyone agreed as Nuwa and Antariskh both volunteered for the night as they went to their respective places to rest, while Nuwa carried Ryu along with Antariskh to spend the night at his room, as they decided it will be wise for them to stay there so that it will bring some normalcy to Ryuu's troubled mind.