Paul went back to Edias immediately. Since he had gotten stronger while toiling with Revival’s members, I knew he would do just fine.

After sending him off, I went down to the training room. As expected, Father and Sumire were sparring. I waited until their session ended to reveal myself.

Sumire stabbed her spear into the ground and leaned against it to catch her breath. When she saw me, she jumped up in surprise. “S-Shin-nim! You were here!?”

I grinned. “Yeah. You sure are improving fast. I’m happy to see you’re trying hard.”

“Hehehe.”

While embarrassed, Sumire couldn’t hide her happiness. Father was standing next to her, and he clicked his tongue. “That’s no way to woo a woman. Instead of exchanging your spears, you should take her out for tea or something.”

“Sumire’s my disciple…” I retorted back at his nonsense as I immediately went up to spar with Father. We fought purely with our physical strength and spear technique and didn’t use any mana or skills. As Father was also high up in the dungeon, his physical strength...