Lyris shivers and blows into his hands.
"Seraphina, what type of beasts?"
Seraphina looks at the sky and replies
"Anything imaginable, many of them are even stronger than Angels."
Lyris questioned
"Can you fight?"
Seraphina replied
"I was chosen to become Queen, and we aren't trained to be warriors."
Lyris rubbed his hands together
'If there are beasts, she won't survive if she can't fight. I'll teach her the basics
"Want to learn?"
Serhina blushed and smiled with eyes and mouth
"I was hoping you'd ask!"
Valia lifted her hand and blurted,
"Me too!"
Lyris smirked
"You'll regret it, but fine, I'll teach you both."
Lyris moved closer to Seraphina and asked her
"What is your preferred weapon?"
Seraphina replied
"I've watched humans for a long time; the finest blades were in the East, so if I could choose, it would be one of those swords; they're beautiful."
'Swords In the East, I've heard of them. Well, I could teach her how to use a sword, but I don't exactly have one, but I have something similar
He furrowed his brow and unsheathed his gunblade.
"My father was a blacksmith, so was I until"
He paused and added
"He made this blade for me; it's a gunblade, it's able to shoot projectiles and be used as a sword, it's a one-of-a-kind, and you need a weapon."
He paused
"I'll let you borrow this during our practice."
Seraphina replied
"No, I couldn't; it's special to you."
Lyris replied
"I said I'd teach you, and this is the only weapon."
He smiled and added
"that eastern blade you mentioned when your training is over, I'll make you one."
Seraphina tilted her head in confusion and asked
"You can do that?"
Lyris nods
"If you're a good student, yes."
Her face turned pinkish
"So when do we start?"
Lyris replied
"Tomorrow, we must rest now."
Seraphina nodded and questioned
"So, what weapon will you use?"
Lyris shows her his knife,
"My knife and grapple, but if we face a real threat, I want my gunblade back."
Valia blurted
"I've never heard of a gunblade. How could a weapon shoot projectiles and be used as a sword?
Lyris answered
"This is the only one, or only functional one; many are on the market, but none work."
Valia questioned
"Why are they for sale if they don't work?"
Lyris chuckles and replies
"Me, that's why! I made a name for myself in the underground scene of lusceras; my name and gunblade became indistinguishable, so many blacksmiths tried to make one, but they went awry; they still sold the failures though, and they rather hot on the market."
Valia leaned forward
"So you really are a criminal, a famous one too!"
Lyris smiled
"As you said, a low-life, a famous one."
Seraphina blurted
"You aren't a low-life; I'm sure you had your reasons."
Valia frowned
"I'm sorry I said that, lyris."
Lyris sighed, put his hands near the fire
"You two should rest; I'll be on the lookout."
Valia nods and lays on the snow, as close to the fire as possible,
Seraphina lays down and faces Lyris
"Remember the angelic guide?"
Lyris nods
Seraphina continues
"I said it's based on personality. Well, some abilities can be given."
She paused and added
"Essentially, want to learn how to fly?"
Lyris smiles
"Tomorrow, we rest first."
Seraphina shuts her eyes and hums a beautiful lullaby
Lyris stands and smiles
'What a wonderful song, but it doesn't matter.'
Lyris has decided to wait for the two to fall asleep and hunt alone.
After some time, Lyris makes sure the girls are asleep and walks into the forest.
'I'll make it quick
Lyris opens his angelic guide.
Level 2
Celestial acquired: 0/150
Class: Celestial breaker
Class rank: Divine
Class Description: You who have been touched and blessed by the divine
Angel Seraphina must fulfill her wish and break the Angels who harm humans.
Class skills: Animus Empowerment: Animus is yours to manipulate without restriction. unknown, unknown
Unique skill: freedom: Seraphina has given you freedom. You may now grow one wing.
Iri
Lyris eyes widen
'I'm level two? Possibly cause of the angels I killed, and what is animus empowerment?'
Lyris thought hard and lifted his hand
'I sense something in the air. What if I try to attract it within me?'
He succeeds but is met with excruciating pain in his hand as if it's about to burst
"Fuck!"
'Maybe I took in too much; let's stick to objects for now
Lyris continued walking through the snowy forest, looking back frequently to keep watch on the camp; he didn't stray too far
'This skill… it's fucking shit, all it did was hurt me, and Seraphina already enabled everyone to use Animus.'
He punched a tree. It cracked and tilted, falling and destroying other trees and waking up the girls.
Lyris looks at his hand and feels animus within it
'Maybe it isn't entirely worthless.'
He stared at the tree he destroyed
'that made a lot of noise; I'll check on the girls.'
He sprints back to the camp and finds Valia with her sword drawn and Seraphina behind her, yelling
"Lyris, where are you?"
He rubbed his nape and explained
'I was just walking around then, well I leveled up, punched a tree, now the tree is no more
Seraphina sprinted at lyris and grabbed his hand
"I've never seen this before, and you can imbue your body with animus?!"
Lyris nods
"That's my new skill, but that's not important; the tree made a lot of noise. Those beasts you speak of, they'll be here."
Seraphina tightens her lips and looks up to see a lion with wings descending
"My sister is here…"
Lyris grimaced
'Shit, I'm so stupid!'
He grabs her arm and runs into the snowy forest
"Valia, follow me!"
They navigate past the tall trees. A roar is heard behind him, followed by
"Get back here, sister!"
Lyris yelled
"Fuck off!"
Lyris, Seraphina, and Valia ran faster
'If I summoned that wing, we could get away, but I have no clue how to fly
He furrowed his brow,
"Grab Seraphina's hand Valia"
She grabs Seraphina's hand
Seraphina questioned
"What are you planning?"
Lyris tightened his grip on her arm
"A shortcut"
He looks up and sees an enormous lion flying high above him
'This better work'
He looks at seraphina
"I hope you can fly with one wing."
Valia shouts
"What are you planning, crazy bastard!?"
Lyris stares at a tree a couple of meters away from them
'It's crazy all right'
Lyris channels a little Animus to the arm not holding Seraphina and grabs a grapple
He launches the grapple towards the tree and imbues it with animus. The wire wraps around the tree, it bends and breaks,
they jump, and the tree flings them into the night sky
'Shit! It worked'
His legs go off the grapple with resentment on his face.
Now they're flying in the air, slowly falling
A wing appears on the right side of Lyris's back, and he tries to fly
Seraphina and Valia's jaw drops as they look at the forest below them.
Seraphina laughs and shouts
"Calm down, lyris. I'll help",
She flaps her wings, holding the two up
Valia glances at lyris and shouts, "You're crazy!"
"Clam down and try to flap them."
Lyris tries, but he is only able to make it move in an unnatural way
'Dammit, it's like growing a new arm, but I have no clue how to use it
Seraphina laughs
"That was fun lyris."
She looks behind her and sees her sister on the lion a couple of kilometers away
She furrowed her brow
"I'll get us out of here."