as the time passed faes and sky trained with shiva. while they both trained in their particular weapons, shiva had faes learn basics of all kind of weapons.
as sky wasn't much interested in fighting she only focused in increasing her twin short swords and archery. though only training with these weapons sky had not lacked behind faes, she was just two years old but can defeat anyone other than faes and shiva in a fight. aside from that sky had been training with agni most of the time, she even got acquainted with the master alchemist in the battalion and exchanged pointers with them.
noticing sky's lack of interest in his training shiva had not bothered sky only teaching her basic things that were important and that she should know at her age.
but it was different for faes. faes focused more on fighting than becoming a blacksmith. though she was interested in alchemy it wasn't to the point that she paid it more importance.
hence shiva had taught faes whole heartedly. after few days he had increased the weights faes wore during training and once faes had mastered all the advanced sword skills he had began her real training. faes had told him the problem she faced.
when faes was low leveled her mysterious father had trained her. at that time she didn't had any problems with her skills and spells. at that time she had created few sets of spells and skills for each element but now she felt that they only were increasing in quantity not quality.
shiva understood what faes wanted right away. faes had made lots of spells and different for each element. now that she was stronger she was not sure how to use those spells in a fight, which element, which spell should be used against which kind of opponent.
faes also told him about her heightened senses and her desire to train them furhter.
after hearing faes shiva had made a special training method for faes. for her magic he had told her to use it according to the situation not bothering to make the spells complex. as for the complex spells faes made he had discarded them directly. in a fight if the spell took too much time to cast or too much concentration and stamina then they were doomed to fail.
shiva had faes trained using her magic along with her weapons. simply using simple spells along with the attacks such as wind blades and others to increase the quality of attacks was what he had faes focus on rather than using lots of spells for different elements.
as faes trained in such a way she understood that the complex spells only made it difficult for melee fights. though shiva also had her prepare few complex spells for in case she had time to cast them. short distance fight had simple use of magic to strengthen her attacks and body, using elements against their opposite elements in a fight.
if fighting against lots of enemies, large area of effect defense and destruction spells, if along fighting a group, a short defensive spell or buffing spells and many more. shiva trained faes for all kind of situations.
continuing the training faes and sky both developed their own fighting style becoming masters. faes and sky both mastered archery while faes developed her own sword style using her longsowrds sky also developed her own style using her shortswords, though sky still used to use her fists when fighting mostly.
faes focused more on melee attacks and short ranged attacks while sky focused more on long distance attacks. but is the opposite condition happens neither falls short and still defeat the opponent.
after faes had developed her own style and mastered it, shiva had faes trained in other basic weapons too. though he only asked her to train them to get more knowledge about them to increase chances of wins in fighting.
faes didnt mind, excitedly training in other weapons. whether it was spear, greatsword, war axe, war hammer, club, mace, sythe, crossbow, knives, staff, daggers, or other weapons faes was trained in them until she had mastered all the basic skills for them. shiva also trained faes and sky in martial arts.
while training them for fight shiva also trained faes and sky in other subjects. he didn't master alchemy or anything but he had them trained in basic first aid without magic or pills, politics, economics, and other aspects. shiva wanted faes to become his heir after noticing the pace in which she learnt and grew.
in just a year faes had learnt all the things he had taught her. the two girls had won the soldiers hearts and respect after defeating them constantly at everything or anything. be it martial arts, weapons, knowledge, politics, or anything else the two girls were aces in everything everyone called them little prodigies. despite being good in everything both faes and sky remained easygoing.
in this one year faes had broken through vital refining stage 2 while sky had broken through elemental strengthening stage 5. with the pills help that the two girls provided shiva had broken through elemental strengthening stage 5 too. shiva had to accept that the pills faes and sky refined were truly wondrous. he had received a meridian strengthening pill of epic rank! he had stared at the pill for solid 5 minutes before faes made him snap out of it.
shiva was planning to return to the vietra the royal capital of altai. now that he had trained faes and sky they needed to make their debut, especially faes who was his heir! shiva had asked faes about it and faes had agreed on one condition that she was free to go around and do as she likes.
shiva had agreed to her request and hence taken faes as his heir. he was around fifty years old currently and does not have any children of his own. this was because he was not interested in getting married and only wanted to fight and improve himself.
he didn't have an heir. but now that he had faes he have to introduce her to others. normally the heir debut at their coming of age ceremony but faes had already been trained more than other heirs hence he wanted to introduce her to others. he wasn't afraid of nobles now as he was before, faes was more than enough to take care of them and their schemes.
shiva had contacted his butler at his mansion having him prepare for a party to introduce faes, in the party faes will meet many nobles for first time and even get challenged which she has to accept to prove herself but that was after passing his graduation test.
the party still had two months to prepare but first faes needs to pass her test. sky had already passed hers.
just as he was preparing paperwork while faes studied at her place in his study there was a knock on his door before one of his soldiers entered not waiting for his permission.
just glancing at the soldier's face shiva knew that something was wrong otherwise the soldier wont enter his study without his permission.
"we are under attack!"