Revelations

Daedalus couldn't have prepared for what he had to do. Andromeda had asked him to help her do this, but it ripped him up inside to see her body tensed in pain so hard her bones cracked. It was lucky that Daedalus had learned how to make it so that the procedure would be done in about an hour, but it was the most excruciating hour of his life.

When it as finally done Daedalus waited for Andromeda to wake up. When she did she immediately hugged him while saying "I thought you where exaggerating to scare me off! Why did you have to go through this!?"

As she finished speaking she seemed to realise that most of her bones had cracks in them so she quickly drank a bone mending potion. Once she had done that Daedalus spoke "I though I had spoke to little of the pain, but I didn't want to exaggerate. Then again you just experienced my refined technique."

Hearing this Andromeda grimaced and shouted "Why, why would you do this to yourself Daedalus!?"

Daedalus smiled and said "The Path of cultivation is great and terrible, painful and euphoric, there is nothing you can do to change these facts. Your father told me this when I was a child, I didn't believe him at the time because I had never felt the pain of a truly good technique."

Understanding, didn't dawn on Andromeda's face. It was at this time Daedalus realised, Andromeda had cultivated techniques he had given her since they where teens, and before that she had probably never been given the painful techniques. Sighing Daedalus said "I'm sorry, I gave you the worse techniques in the past."

Andromeda stood there for a moment just staring at him silently. Then with one quick movement slapped him in the face. Then she yelled "Not one of those techniques where bad, you only gave them to me when you had solved the painful part of them! This one shows me the pain you've been going through all this time! You should know what I mean by now, you're my husband let me share your burdens!"

Hearing this Daedalus looked down before looking back up and saying "Okay then we will share our burdens properly."

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That day the two of them truly did begin to share each others burdens. And slowly Andromeda would catch up to Daedalus in terms of strength where they could really share the difficulties of life and cultivation with eachother.

Until then though, Daedalus had a meeting with the elven kingdoms young elites. It was going to be one hell of a day when Daedalus got there.

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After explaining how he had cultivated the second stage of his technique Andromeda had laughed loudly before pulling out an enormous amount of elemental materials. Daedalus could only sigh in defeat, she wouldn't take long to catch up that was for certain.

But Daedalus had a place to be so he said goodbye for the night and headed to the teleportation formation. Just behind the formation was the statue of Hephaestus. A carving made out of many materials, it looked life-like to an inhuman degree. Daedalus had made it in the exact image of what the workshop of Hephaestus looked like them moment before he was reborn.