Preparations

The days went by slowly and seemed to stretch. Not much happened other than the occasional teasing of Shaun and Thalia by everyone. Selda also teased Andromeda and Daedalus however the effect quickly disappeared much to her dismay.

For the most part Daedalus spent his time getting used to being around everyone again as he had been in isolation for a large amount of time. Daedalus and Andromeda tended to sit around the fireplace reading books and talking about the future. All this made them almost inseparable and they somehow became even closer.

Gram and Danel could often be seen out playing a recently invented game known as golf. The two where like brothers in how they did everything, often resulting in them being scolded by selda who watched them play golf from one of the outdoor sofas that Daedalus had made.

Finally Thalia and Shaun could often be seen trying to hide away from everyone together. This of course resulted in a large amount of teasing and 'scolding' from Daedalus. Daedalus was actually quite happy that the two where hanging out together.

The one thing that did not fit with what everyone was doing was when Daedalus would go into his craft room at night and work on some mysterious project. What he was doing was actually however doing a large amount of testing on the orb he had found in the Sword God Realm. It turned out that the orb was capable of duplicating all non living matter, however the speed of duplication was slow the rarer the material was and the density of mana in the surroundings.

Daedalus was also working on an even bigger project that he put his very heart and soul in to making. A ring. Or more specifically the ring that he was planning to give Andromeda. Yes he was planning to propose to Andromeda.

The ring was designed rather simplistically however there was a small dragon and phoenix engraved on it that took the shape of a heart. The dragon was based off of Daedalus' form while the phoenix was based on the bloodline Andromeda had unlocked at the Bloodline strengthening stage. Her bloodline was that of the original phoenix which had shocked her master.

Other than the meaningful but simple design however Daedalus was also building formations and runes into the ring. The ring itself was also made out of living metal so that she could use it forever. Because of this Daedalus had made it so that the formations could be made permanently stronger based off of the rings cultivation. Having the ring cultivate however was impossible without a soul so Daedalus was going to give Andromeda the method later on.

Andromeda was obviously curious at what Daedalus was doing and had on multiple occasions snuck in to try and take a peak. Daedalus had of course set up a few formations for the specific purpose of stopping Andromeda from peeking, so on multiple occasions Daedalus came back from the toilet to find a frozen Andromeda yelling at him to let her out.