Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"I have no favorites, and I love you two equally. I can give you a massage and perhaps something else to convince you of that now," Rain said.

"Hah, you won't sweet talk me with easily," Terra laughed.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"I bet that I can do that in less than five minutes… but first, what are the changes with the dungeons?" Rain asked.

While the others were training the warriors, Terra told Rain what had changed… while he had expected that a boss monster would appear by now, that didn't happen. What did happen was the fact that the dungeons got deeper... all of them now had a tunnel that would lead to another underground level that was expanding every day.

"We didn't slack off on cleaning the dungeon every day, but it seems that the expansion won't stop no matter what we do," Terra said. "And now the enemies are making their move again."

Rain nodded while looking upward and seeing the cloudy sky and holding his chin… at that point in time, he couldn't help but think that the enemies realized that they were planning to take control of the battle and attack the enemies whatever they were and that is why they are making their move now.

Detecting people and creatures with magic was easy, but detecting most spells wasn't… even more so when they probably were highly advanced spells that could be used for surveillance.

"We don't have much of a choice here. We will have to move to the southern coast and fight the enemies there if they want to," Rain finally said. "I guess I can count on more help from the sea folk after all that nonsense."

When the time for lunch arrived, Rain talked with his family and the squad leaders while they were having lunch together. They heard what had happened during the mission, and they also told him that some people were showing signs of Limit Breaker being used already.

"It is happening faster than expected because you already made them learn the basics with the breathing technique," Roan said.

"I suppose that makes sense… dividing difficult tasks into small stages is the best way to get them done as efficiently as possible," Rain said while nodding.

Everyone already had the Teacher's path, but Rain still had the highest skills and also the Scholar path, so he was the best option to make the warriors learn that technique. In the end, he decided to help those who had shown promise, and they would teach the members of their squads as much as possible. It was a win-win situation.

When night came, Rain's sisters and Seara joined the group, and they looked glad to see Rain completely fine. They also wanted to see the sea dragon that had been captured, but that had to wait since the creature was tired and hurt.

They will probably have to use it in the war as well, so they have to make it recover… The sea Dragon was definitely a force to be reckoned with, after all. The mood of the group improved thanks to all that… despite the moves of the enemies on both sides, things were looking a bit better… until the next morning arrived, and Geo appeared with bad news.

"Commander… they disappeared," Geo suddenly said while he was trying to catch his breath.

"... Who disappeared? The beast people?" Rain frowned while studying Geo with a serious expression.

"When they reached the coast of their territory… it suddenly began to rain a lot, and my golem began to fall apart," Geo realized that Rain was suspicious of him. "My golem isn't very durable, and the rain made it fall apart. I moved away to make a new one, but in less than fifteen minutes, an army of ten thousand had disappeared."

Everyone looked around dumbfounded… fifteen minutes wasn't enough to make an army of ten thousand disappear, even with magic. Still, if they were on the southern sea, maybe they had some help with that.

"For how long the rain lasted, and what was its range?" Rain asked.

"It was around ten kilometers in radius… and it lasted one hour. The clouds didn't even move," Geo explained. "I am no expert in water magic, but it was definitely a spell that caused it."

"There is a spell on the water mage's path that can do that, right?" Roan asked. "A controlled heavy rain on a single area?"

Level 45: Torrential Tempest Unleash a tempest of water to damage and disrupt enemies in an area of twenty meters. It costs one thousand mana points and lasts for one minute. The range increases according to the level of the skill, and so does the cost of mana.

"Yes, it does… but the amount of mana to keep such a spell active in such a large area for one hour would be astronomical…" Rain said while rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "Even with my relics and using all my might, I wouldn't be able to do the same for more than one minute."

Rain was probably the best water mage; only Seadrei was stronger than him with that kind of magic, and that was only natural. Seadrei definitely could pull that off, but that only meant that the enemy was as good at water magic as him… at the very least.

"We need to check things with the magic people as well. They will have an even easier time vanishing in the ocean," Rain said. "The sea dragon will only be able to move properly in a few days since I pushed the creature a bit too hard, making it carry the corpses."

The enemy also had a powerful water mage… Rain didn't forget that other earth mage. Considering what everyone saw and knew, they imagined that those guys could be many times stronger than Joanis special soldiers, and they also seemed as specialized as them… dealing with them would be a massive pain in the ass since they were stronger than historical figures of that world.

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