Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"People must have been getting too lax since rumors about battles aren’t spreading around," Terra said when she heard that some people began to use more potions in other areas to increase the reach of their barriers. "We should have kept some warriors in those places to use the potions instead…"

"In the end, they are making those, so it is up to them how they are used," Seara said. "If something happens thanks to that, they will learn their lesson and they won’t be able to complain to us."

Rain couldn’t help but think that they should expand the limits of the crystals and see if it was feasible to keep using the potions to protect the whole country from the dust. While he didn’t want to let the enemies know that they could do that now, if it was possible, Rain would be able to get on the next phase of his plans and skip that bump for a while…

While Rain was thinking about that, Geo arrived and gave his report with a dejected expression. Thanks to the dust storm, he can’t work for long even while he moves around with protection… while he confirmed that the beast people are using the barriers and well, he couldn’t do anything else.

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"Don’t mind it, Artisia and her group aren’t learning anything new lately either," Rain said. "Besides, while it isn’t well known, we signed a truce with them."

"Yes, commander," Geo said while he looked like he was about to sigh.

Rain took the initiative to inform the magic people collaborating with them about the truce which was proposed. Despite anticipating potential resistance or dissatisfaction from them due to the change in plans, he noticed an unexpected reaction – an apparent lack of concern or significant reaction from their side.

Surprisingly, the magic people seemed indifferent or unaffected by the news of the truce. Their response, or rather lack thereof, caught Rain off guard. He had expected a more pronounced reaction, considering the alteration in their working dynamics and the potential implications of the truce on their collaboration.

After checking things around the country for a day in search of inspiration, Rain returned home while feeling like sighing, but his mood soon changed when he arrived at home.

"Go get beat up." Terra said. @@novelbin@@

"That is one weird way to say welcome back," Rain frowned when he raised his head.

Terra didn’t hear Rain since she walked to the door of the house while her face was completely red due to the anger and then she slammed the door… When Rain looked around, he saw Danny in the middle of the garden sniffing… that was weird. Terra was a lot more patient than that and Danny wasn’t the time to make Terra pissed at anything… Annie was, though. They sure looked alike.

"What happened?" Rain asked when he saw Danny cleaning his eyes from the tears.

"Papa… it was nothing," Danny said and then sobbed.

"I can’t help but worry if you are sobbing for no reason," Rain said. "Let’s talk man to man… or man to boy."

Rain laughed a bit, but the joke didn’t lift Danny’s spirit… Rain recalled a bald warrior that almost decided to give a weird name to his son: it was a boy. He rarely used his name, so some people started to think that his name was truly a boy. In any case, that was a story for another time.

"Well, I guess I can give you some tips first before we can talk about what happened," Rain said. "Women are a fucking enigma, and yet Women are simple they don’t like when you lie they don’t like when you are honest. They like when you talk too much and they don’t like when you don’t talk. They don’t like when you hide your emotions, but they don’t like when you are too emotional.

Also they don’t like when you breathe too much, but don’t stop breathing. In Sicily, women are more dangerous than a shotgun."

Rain wanted to make his son laugh and smile a bit, but he failed miserably… in the end, he sighed and waited for Danny to stop sobbing.

"... I am going to my room," Danny said.

"No, we are going to talk, man to man," Rain said and Danny opened his eyes in surprise since he never heard his father talk like that. "What is troubling you? Before anything, you should know that your mother isn’t really angry at you, something you did made her feel angry, that is all. However, we can only get angry and scold those we care about.

If she didn’t care about you, she wouldn’t get angry at all. Now, tell me. What happened?"

"... I have been only losing lately when sparring with Annie and mama got angry when he called me to talk about it," Danny explained. "I just said that she was better than me at fighting and that couldn’t be helped."

"She said a few more things, right?" Rain asked. "Mama can’t be that short fused."

"Yes, she tried to convince me that there is no talent thing and when I said that even though I trained more than Annie and I never got closer to beating her, she got mad," Danny said after nodding.

"I get it," Rain said while nodding as well. "The thing is, Danny. You can’t say things like that… I won’t deny that your sister has a better attitude when it comes to fighting, but it is only because you think too much about stuff while you spar with her.

Women don’t like when you show your weak side all the time, your papa will always be here to listen to your problems, but you can’t shot that kind of attitude to your mother all the time and hope that she won’t get angry."

Although Rain said that, he recalled that he didn’t train his kids at all since the dust took over the country… so his words were a bit swallow.