In the first part of his intensive training Daedalus had to deal with the constantly increasing gravity, not to mention that as it continued he had to get used to harder and harder exercises. Of course it was not very eventful but Daedalus was now easily capable of standing his ground in the face of a half god mage's aura. After a short week long break after working under such pressure for five months, Daedalus began the second part.
For the second part Daedalus only focused on repeating the basics of the sword and hand to hand combat to near perfection. In the begining it was doing several thousand repetitions under a mild gravitational pressure. However over time he had to do more and under heavier gravitational pressures, which caused him no end of pain. By the end he was doing in the hundreds of millions of repetitions in the basics under gravitational pressure equivalent to a god, as well as sparing with Danforth to learn from experience.
The third and final part, meditating on the sword and hand, at first Daedalus was confused so he had to ask questions. However after getting to many questions Danforth replied simply "Try thinking on what a sword means to you and the same for hands, as well as what you already know."
Of course because it was a form of meditation Daedalus did not need the pressure, so he decided that he would think more deeply later on while he was home. After a quick teleport Daedalus was back in his cultivation room that he had gone in for his secluded training. Daedalus quickly left the room where he was then greeted by a servant who said "Your highness, I will go tell the emporer and empress that you have returned!"
Daedalus was not very surprised and walked to the main family room which they had. When he entered Daedalus was jumped on by a small child. Daedalus of course already knew who it was and said "Hello Shaun, I am sorry I couldn't be around more."
Shaun smiled cutely and said "No worries big brother Daedalus, I know you were very busy with important stuff!"
Daedalus smiled and caught up with his family on a few things, like how it had actually been five years since he started his seclusion. Daedalus of course was not very shocked as his brother was now much bigger.
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The next morning Daedalus woke up early as he had made a promise to take his brother around the capital later that morning. After getting dressed and walking to the dining room Daedalus saw that he was actually the latest and apologised before sitting down to eat.
When they were all done eating Daedalus told his parents that he will be back with Shaun later that day. Daedalus proceeded to scoop up his giggling younger brother and sit Shaun on his shoulders.
Leaving the castle for the first time ever Shaun was of course looking at everything with interest. However as they walked around Daedalus realised that they were gathering a lot of attention, which he quickly realised was because though people knew about Shaun they had never seen him before and the fact that the crown prince had Shaun on his shoulders was quite cute.