C115: Father
Overall Word count = 1470 on 7/18/2024.
For Axel, the next few days were very interesting. First Freya had moved over all the items she had prepared for Sabrina's baby room. Then gave a public announcement, declaring that she was abolishing her familia and how she was going to be a housewife from now on. This caused quite a commotion throughout the city.
Freya then began to properly teach Axel how to nurse Sabrina, feed her and everything else. Luckily they had already collected quite a bit of spare milk from Aisha because Syr can't breastfeed at all.
When nobody needs to touch Sabrina, he lefts her freely devour whatever she can. Yet he has growing concerns as he hears that monsters are gradually spawning lower and lower on the floors. The previous 50th floor that Axel's group had gotten to before is now the 30th floor. The guild has begun to draw the various floors to create concrete maps up to the new 17th and 18th floor where the Goliath should be spawning but it doesnt. The new 18th floor is also not a safe zone. No one has seen any monster rexs this past while.
"Are you destroying the dungeon? You little glutton you. I haven't had a chance to explore it yet" Axel plays with Sabrina who giggles. Other than her laughter, she hasn't really offered any sort of response. She doesnt even cry except the first time when she was just born.
On one hand, he is proud that he is meticulous enough in his care for her but on the other hand, he is worried that there might be a bigger problem at hand but he doesnt have the medical knowledge to know what that may be. It could just be that she grows smarter much faster than other children and thus can understand higher level concepts but she can't talk yet except her regular gugu-gaga talk.
Whenever he isn't taking care of Sabrina, he focuses on the mind training exercises that Gorgon had given him. Of course he doesnt neglect his other magic training as the regular spells don't require the enhanced mental ability he would gain from the training. If anything it would just be more precise so he wouldn't miss or waste power. As such, he has learned and mastered 3 new spells. These are Lunar Shadow, Solar Flare, and Angel's Song.
Lunar Shadow is a special multi elemental spell where the caster creates a standard rock and coats it in darkness/shadow. The shadow aspect enables the rock to absorb light from the surroundings. Then after a while, the shadow energy would merge with the surroundings to provide hindrance type help while the rock which has merged with the absorbed light turns into a false moon that buffs all people the caster designates within the light. It also weakens a set number of targets with the light and those same targets would be harassed by the shadows. Creating a double debuff since the targets would be distracted and magically weakened.
The second spell, Solar Flare is a fire and light based elemental spell that can be considered in the top 5 of his strongest spells with his homemade 'dimensional cut' spell being number one. His other handmade spell Firestorm was another top 5. While it pains him to say that, Solar Flare is likely stronger than Firestorm while also targeting a much wider area.
The spell creates a small ball of fire, a miniature replica of the sun which then begins to rapidly release solar flares that gradually increase in size. This means if the spell is done at close range then it can attack multiple times with the first flare being 5 ft long (1.5m) while the last and longest would be 300 ft long (91 m for my European relatives).
There is only one minor issue, it's a long spell and not a wide spell which means that the spell is like a spear, it's good for penetration ... .or stabbing as the common folk call it. This somewhat makes the spell situational but currently there are many ways that the spell can be used even for non combative reasons. Like when he was digging a bunch of holes in the nearby mountains when he wanted to craft his previous ring.
'Sigh' Axel mentally sighed when thinking about the ring as he still is undecided on how he wants to make it and fears that he will forever be stuck with an incomplete ring the rest of his life.
As for his last learned spell, Angel's Song, it's a special sound based spell that can serve three functions. The first is an angelic chant that can weaken all those that listen to it. The second function is that the caster can designate which of those who have listened to it to fall under an illusion. The illusion is the type where the victim falls under where they envision a life of luxury that makes them not wish to ever leave.
The third is the most important aspect of this spell. The first two functions are just a distraction really. The true form of this spell is an angel summon spell. that the spell can actually summon a proper angel which according to Gorgon is called an Angelic Commandant. This is a type of angel general who can summon lesser born angels and command them.
It's essentially a spell that both distracts an enemy whilst giving himself an army…or at least an army summoning creature which is pretty much the same thing. Also with it being a general type summon, it's intelligent enough to not require much feedback from Axel, it also has it's own mana supply. The only problem would be that Axel cannot commit anything that might be considered a 'vile act' with the summons. If they witness such an act, they could turn against him, the summoner.
This is not that much of a problem since Axel isn't really an evil or even cruel person. The real problem is that the summon is on a very short time limit and can only be extended by the summoner's faith in the Angel. Now Axel is not much of a believer as he has nearly become a god in his own right, so it's not sound for him to believe in the Angel or its faith.
Which means the Angel won't ever be summoned for more than 10 minutes and only ever at its base power. This is fairly disappointing to Axel as he heard tales from Gorgon about how a Commandant summoned a group of angel lieutenants who possess a variety of skills and how they had massacred an army of monsters long ago. The most impressive amongst those lieutenants was the Faith Bearer. It's a semi-non combative angel whose purpose is to keep all the other summons topped off with energy. If this angel appears then there is a chance that the timer and power is extended even further.
It's truly a crazy spell with tons of potential. Perhaps Axel would have a student in the future as he settles down who he can teach this spell to and would be more of a believer than him.
Axel looks at Sabrina next to him, sleeping, with a smile and then returns to his desk to write up his thoughts on how he should proceed.
He writes on the top of the paper,
(A/N: all things in the next parenthesis are written down by Axel)
PATH TO POWER
1: Expand Magic abilities with Gorgon (gradual)
1A: Expand the number and power of personal spells.(possible)
1B. Find way to develop Gravity magic further (possible)
1C: Learn Spatial magic and potentially merge it with gravity magic. (difficult. Not on the level where I can learn spatial magic yet)
2: Learn more martial arts and sword techniques
2A: Merge more magic and skills into new techniques to expand skills. (immediate)
2B: properly learn swordsmanship without utilizing any magic that supernatural feats would be possible with it. (Slow but possible. Have enough teachers for it)
3: Reach level 10 with the falna (possible but death might occur if level 10 is the end. Can at least reach end of 9 and stop)
3A: Concern 1- The dungeon is pushed further down but all the monsters are properly scaled with their original floor and whatever is the current first floor. (minimal concern)
3B: Concern 2- I can't leave Sabrina behind. I would have to create some sort of carrier to hold her in place when I am moving around, especially if I have to at all move faster.
3C: Concern 2.2- the dungeon might try to do something if it detects Sabrina inside it.
Axel decides to.