19 Return

I can see the academy in sight, and I know my sisters will be a little peeved, I said two months at the most yet it has been a little over three, The dragon took most of my time and truly sucked to hunt. Yet, the power it gave in return is really awesome, after one million years old, it no longer required to be shot from the mouth.

At least during the time I was gone, I managed to gain some insights to sculpting and push it to another level, Any mental related abilities I have can be infused into a sculpture. For example, I can make a doorway out of stone and then infuse the ability I got from the nymph skull to make it so no one looks at it. (Think TARDIS)

Or I can make a rules plaque and everyone will have to at least look at it once. I can also use charm to subtly affect peoples thoughts by adding the intent to the sculpture, or even make directly attacking sculptures using mind shock.

Another interesting thing I found, is that by using certain types of gems, Sapphires, Rubies, and Emeralds. I can charge them up with spirit energy as a sort of ongoing battery, there is no way to turn it on or off yet and it is always active, So it will eventually run out.

Since our birthdays are coming up I had to make presents for the girls, and man do I think I out did myself this time. For Liu Ning, I made her, through a lot of effort, a special set of clothes. It looks like a heavy armor battle dress. At this point I wonder whether I can still call my sculpting skill sculpting, because I am bending the rules so much.

It has several 'Smaller sculptures' Integrated it into a link that have abilities anywhere from stealth, to increase in power, defense, and many other things. It is completely Red metal with gold colored cloth accentuating, With a larger star shaped ruby in the center breast area as a power source that she can charge, allowing her to charge into battle without much worry. (Think Iron man suit.)

For Liu Ping, I decided to make her a tiara, I put a spirit ring from a 1,000,000 year old frostbite spider that I found in my ascension platform, It allows her to add frostbite poison to all of her attacks, and even makers her blood poisonous, It has many smaller sapphires on it for power. I also imbued, true sight, mental shock, foresight, and presence in it, which will make her a much more deadly sniper.

I really do hope they enjoy their gifts. I also prepared various protection sculptures, in the shape of small coins with small gemstones in the middle, when filled with spirit energy it can protect anything against attacks from rank 95 or lower for at least two to three days. The only thing is that they have to be charged first and are stationary, until I can find out how to make an 'On/Off' switch.

On a side note, the plants and wines have been doing very well, especially the dream heart lilies, they are ready to be picked and I will also use those on their birthday. Hopefully it will upgrade their spirits to a whole new level, and they won't feel as pressured as they are with me.

I land a short distance outside of the academy gates and walk in. The old man guarding didn't recognize me at first and was very wary until I proved it with my academy badge. He was very surprised and gave me a few odd glances. I head towards my house to look for the girls, but they are not home so they must be training.

I go towards the training area and find them. I wave to them and say, "Hey girls, I'm back." They turn to me and the same situation that happened with the gate guard repeats itself, but I know the difference is that they are teasing me because they recognized me on first look, they are just annoyed that I was gone for so long.

They managed to reach to almost rank 45 while I was gone, and both of them got new spirit rings with the help of the teachers, surprising me. Liu Ping now has the ability to slow down the blood in someone else's body, making it harder for them to move, but it is less effective towards people with sturdy bodies.

Liu Ning got a simpler ability that lets her cover herself in a cloak of fire, for a good defense and offense. They told me they did not do much besides training and shopping, spending more than half the gold I left them... Girls are scary when it comes to spending money. I'll have to sell some sculptures and various herbs to make more money.

After we are done talking they do not hesitate to drag me back to the house to 'make it up' to them for how long I was gone...