TWO TREASURED HEIRLOOMS FROM THE OTHER FATHER

With those words alike to giving away a bride Azaziel flounced into the kitchen as she called out. "I'll make you some goodies for the road! Jared dear come in here and help this overworked mother make some dishes. I'd like to see your skills!" As Azaziel announced her intent the three men who lived in the house froze solid for a second before Robert rushed into the kitchen behind his wife and Jared, who had obediently, albeit reluctantly, let go of the little human that sat so perfectly into his arms no matter how he held him. Then followed Azaziel into the kitchen.

Robert came out a moment later gently and very respectfully guiding Azaziel out of the kitchen with muttered encouragements of not needing to trouble herself, he was more then capable, and didn't you have something to talk about with Azaire honey?

Azaziel who had seemed reluctant to let go at first acquiesced after this last point as in the excitement of their surprise guest she had nearly forgotten the important matter she needed to discuss with her son. After committing herself to pass the task to her amazing doting husband she leaned forward pulling the bulky blacksmith down to her level and whispered in his ear,

"Dear this is important you must judge Jared's cooking skills carefully. A man who is good in the kitchen is a priceless commodity! Much like yourself! If his skills are not at least at the expert level give him as many pointers as you can while preparing their food for the road, and then let him borrow your cooking journal. After all we must make sure this valuable person has the necessary skills for the future."

Azaziel even decided to throw in a compliment for her husband as encouragement to do a thorough job. Although Robert was still clueless about what his beloved wife was up to as the dutiful and doting husband that he was he would absolutely ensure to do his best and thoroughly educate the prince of giants.

Besides if he didn't seem eager enough and his wife stepped into the kitchen wouldn't it be an epic disaster. No matter how much she made for the road she would surely and "thoughtfully" make food for him too and eating that might mean his early grave, but refusing to eat or telling the truth was just as dangerous a path. His wife was lovely and brilliant but the food she made could only be described as poison of the finest grade!

"Don't worry dear," Robert consoled. "I'll be sure he comes out that kitchen as a master chef!" With that ambitious statement thrown out Robert rushed into the kitchen after Jared immediately, shutting the door behind him and even locking it for good measure. Azaire and Roran breathed a sigh of relief that they had held, when their mother abruptly turned around.

"Roran dear could you be a darling and check the computer upstairs for me? The magiweb has been malfunctioning again!" Roran understanding a polite dismissal when he saw one nodded with a grunt and disappeared upstairs to "fix" the MIFI.

After Roran was clear out of sight Azaire turned to his mother curiously. Azaire didn't think his mother was the type to keep secrets from her family for the most part but he did admit she was a careful woman. Azaire waited expectantly as his mother turned to him and her face turned solemn, flashing with a familiar pained expression that, after growing up and learning more about life, Azaire had realized eventually was a look of grief.

This expression told Azaire one thing for certain. Mom was thinking about his father. And not the one cooking away happily in the kitchen but his other father the one who actually shared his blood. Azaire had always known something horrible had happened to his father but his mother would never talk about it or tell him how he died no matter how much Azaire asked her. And seeing how painful it was for his mother every time he was brought up, Azaire had stopped asking.

Azaire also had an idea about what this was about and after looking more carefully he spotted them. Those two items, his greatest treasure's and the only two heirlooms, no the only two remembrances of his blood father left behind for him. His mother had passed them down to him on his tenth birthday because "you look so much like him now" she said.

Right. Azaire had happened to see a picture of him a few times that his mother carried, so he guessed that they weren't the only two remnants of his dad technically, and he had to say although they had similar facial features and height that's where any strong resemblance ended and besides the green eye's and soft lips he'd inherited from his mother everything else was a mixture of both his parents blended into his own unique looks. And his hair color was different from both parents as well. As his father's hair was ashy gray like a worn out funeral pyre, and his mother's was a silky and shinning silver like his sister's. The first item was a pair of perfectly spherical magical stones enclosed into a clear cube clearly made of magic. These stones were as big as watermelons so it's a wonder he hadn't noticed they were downstairs till now.

One was midnight blue sprinkled with silver specs like a starry night sky and in the center around the stone circumference was the different phases of the moon. And the other stone like a counterpart was Azure blue as a clear morning sky with little white wisps here and there, like clouds in the sky, and around it's circumference was the sun in different states as if moving from sunrise to sunset.

Azaire had no clue what the purpose of these stones were are what they did and whenever he asked his mom she'd always say things like "you'll know when the time's right!" but she had taught him how to nurture and care for the stones, and besides the affinity he shared with them being one of the only connections to the father he'd never known, he also had a strong affinity to the stones themselves as they felt like old friends he'd always known.

So he was very happy to receive them and nurture them. In fact he normally tended to them every morning, noon, and night. Only he had forgotten to this morning due to his excitement about his big day today.

Moving to the next item this heirloom, unlike the mysterious stones, was quite worthy of the title heirloom. At least when speaking of monetary value. It was an item that could tempt even the emperor himself to seize it! What is an item that can be coveted by an emperor!?!?

That's because the item in question was a very special item that could not easily be obtained with simple money. This item was a spatial ring which was not very precious on it's own but the type of spatial ring was what made it truly valuable!

This spatial ring was a Life-Aligned Class/Spatial World Classed spatial ring. Life-aligned? Spatial World? Either of these two alone would already be priceless but this combination was just too godly! This was simply a blessed tool that could not be resisted!

The Life-Aligned spatial ring is the only one that allows you to store living and breathing animals, people, etc. This was one of the major weaknesses of other spatial rings but this ring overcame that having it's own air and atmosphere and life energy inside along with the necessary spell script throughout that allowed the wearer to be able to choose the things he wanted in perfect stasis and the things he wanted to regulate manually.

What made these rings so special was that they could only be made by life and nature cultivators who reached the realm where full immortality is finally achieved, a ridiculously high realm that only three of the known human race has reached but not a single person knows where they reside. This is a realm surpassing even the current emperor who is known to be the most prodigious talent the human country has had in millennium.

As for spatial world while it was not as precious as Life aligned rings they were still very sought after with their own major perks. Like it's name, these rings create a world inside that users can astral project themselves into and you did not need to know how to Astral project or even have to be a cultivator as the spell script did the work for you.

Spatial World rings were a very good tool for cultivators who liked total control of their training in a variety of conditions. They would be able to adjust their world inside to their hearts content although they'd be spending a tidy sum of energy to do so each time.

Life-Aligned and Spatial World apart were already terrifying but putting them together was just tyrannical! Wouldn't you then have your own pocket world you could bring others too? Ah. Truly worthy of the title heirloom.