Before the Tournament

Shortly after the distortion appeared it vanished allowing the water to return to its previous place. However having heard the sound made by the distortion Andromeda came out and yelled at him about the shockwave hurting the flowers.

Daedalus of course turned only to find that his barrier was still in place and said "I can't have possibly hurt the flowers though."

Andromeda only stared at Daedalus before grinning lightly and saying "Good thing you set up that barrier, otherwise you would have had to suffer."

After she said this Daedalus took a moment to think before saying "You want to know how to cultivate my cultivation method don't you?"

Andromeda nodded seriously before saying "I know that it's strong, and I get from what you're saying about it that it's painful, but even so if the potential is as good as Richard has revealed then I think you should teach it to us. Yes, I know it's your discovery but I have been watching Daedalus, you've been searching for a safer or less painful way to cultivate it haven't you?"

With her small rant finishing Andromeda turned away and began to walk back towards the cabin. Daedalus seeing her walk away couldn't help but imagine it as though she was walking away from him entirely. So he said "Wait, I will teach you how to cultivate it, okay?"

Andromeda swiveled around on the spot with a victorious smirk on her face. Daedalus immediately knew that he had been fooled, but he didn't mind, he wanted to share his creation anyway.

Walking up to her Daedalus said "You will first need to learn to sense immortal energy at the least, once you have done that we can start."

Andromeda chuckled before saying "I can already sense it. Even if it was only because I got an injection of the stuff."

Even if he tried not to Daedalus blushed at this resulting in Andromeda laughing as she ran inside. Daedalus could only sigh in defeat, she had completely outplayed him, not to mention he hadn't seen her in a while.

Not putting any mind to it Daedalus looked to the other side of the lake. His uncle, Artair was there tapping on his wrist while mouthing the words "The tournament starts in two days."

Daedalus of course knew that it would be starting in two days, however now he had to help Andromeda complete the first step. Even if it meant delaying the meeting of his team for an hour or two.

Making it clear that he would be a while Daedalus ushered him away while pointing at a small shrine like structure beside Artair. This was actually a shrine to Hephaestus but it was also a teleportation formation that Daedalus had connected between all of the important locations.

Artair of course could understand that Daedalus was busy with something important so he took his leave quickly, maybe he heard something he shouldn't have? Daedalus ignored that and headed into the house, he just hoped Andromeda would be ready.