Solomon spent a little over 100,000 years training his new son, Muerte. Sometimes one of Solomon's other children would come by same with his parents. Muerte was similar to Solomon in that he had amazing talent with his physical prowess, in return though he was pretty bad with magic and other intelligence based arts. So he wasn't good at magic, formations, even engineering, he was great at studying martial and weapon arts though.
Solomon didn't think his newly created race would actually be so bad when it came to things that required intelligence. He just assumed that his son took to much after Solomon since Solomon did put a decent bit of his own blood when he was creating Muerte.
During the 100,000 year long training session Solomon did his best to teach Muerte his weapon arts as well as train his body. Thanks to Solomon putting so much effort into training his son Muerte, Muerte was super close to reaching the peak of his body. It would take another few tens of thousands of years. The main way Solomon was able to help his son so much was because he had access to better formations. Such as Gravity Formations, better Battle Formations, and a formation that helped tap into someone's potential. The Gravity Formation could increase of lower gravity providing obvious benefits to body training. The Battle Formation simulated battle to a near perfect degree allowing the body to train the muscles specifically used for battle. And the Potential Formation explained itself.
Right now Solomon and Muerte are boxing.
Muerte threw a quick jab right at Solomon's face which was a cover up, in Muerte side stepped to the right and threw a hook in Solomon's direction. Solomon who had his stats suppressed to equal his son's saw thirty moves ahead and moved his body into the inside of his son's arm. Once Solomon was in close he grabbed his son and started performing some illegal boxing moves. Of course that's only by earth standards. In Solomon's new world boxing was more mixed martial arts than punching, blocking, and footwork.
Solomon first grabbed his some and then tripped him making both of them go tho the ground. After that Solomon went on the offensive with Muerte blocking as many hits as he could. Eventually Muerte tapped out.
" Damn dad, how are you always able to beat me? "
" I've practiced a whole lot longer, I also have more battle experience. Give it a few years and you'll be able to rival me as long as our stats are equal, that's without magic of course. "
" Yeah yeah yeah, always going on about me being bad at magic and formations and blah blah blah. "
" You're over a hundred thousand years old, start acting like it. "
At that moment Loretta popped up.
" That's rich coming from you Solo considering you act like a horny teenager whenever we're alone and most of the time when we're not. "
" Who told you to be so sexy. "
" See. "
At that point Solomon and Loretta were close and both went in for a kiss. It was just a quick kiss but it showed that the love between the married couple. Truly it was rare for a couple to almost constantly be together for a million years and still love each other unconditionally. Even many couples who were married for countless years longer than Solomon and Loretta, most of those couples spend longer times apart than Loretta and Solomon had been married. And when they were together they were often trying to procreate or were training. Few could be like Solomon's and Loretta's parents.
" So what brings you by babe? "
" I had a break and wanted to see if you had a bit of time to spar. "
" Yeah Muerte and I just finished boxing so now is the perfect. Muerte your mom and I are going to spar a little so how about you go play with your siblings. "
" Ya'll don't have to act like I'm a kid anymore, I know ya'll want to have sex. "
Loretta was about to try and cover it up when Solomon decided on something else.
" Then why are you still here go on get out of here. "
Muerte just shook his head and took off to the forest of giants to play with the gangs other kids, Skyddsud, Skyddsande, Fear, Rean, Nathair, Boireann, Fuil, and Wahine. All of the parents acted like parents not just for their kids but also for the others kids. Thanks to that all of the kids acted like they were actually siblings. So they would often play together, the boys especially enjoyed playing with Muerte by taking out him out to beat up other youngsters.
Solomon and Loretta spent three days " sparring ", they tried a bunch of abnormal stuff out. Most of which would have been impossible for Solomon to try in his old life, not only trying to convince a woman to try it, but also physically impossible.
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After that the were sitting there talking.
" So how's the training going? "
" Honestly I'm going at a snails pace. I think I am going to start going full throtle on some new formations to let me start really getting going. "
" OOO, what are they? Come on hurry up and tell me already. "
" I am going to increase the time dilation to try and rival the one master has. The other I'm calling Firmaments Weight, it is a formation similar to the gravity formation. The biggest differences are one I can adjust the weight as much or as little as I want, the weight is physical, and the last big difference will be that it is constant. I am going to do something special. "
" Why do you keep stopping right as you're about to reveal something you douche. Hurry up and tell me or no sex for a year. "
When Solomon heard that he couldn't have talked faster.
" I'MGOINGTOTATTOOTHEFORMATIONTOMYBODY. " ( It's surprising how much I wanted to tap space when making that part. )
" Alright you didn't have to be so quick man, slow down a little so I can understand you better. "
" I am going to tattoo the formation onto my body. "
" Then wouldn't that just be a tattoo. "
" No, there is a difference. Formations are powered by the ambient Mana and usually they provide more magical affects like, pressure, teleportation, creation, destruction, and many more. Formations rarely affect provide physical effects to a body. Tattoos rarely provide magical effects, instead they help physical bodies. The formation I am making is one that only affects the physical body, it would be useless unless I am standing in it. Hence why I am tattooing it onto myself, that way I am always " standing in it. "
" Damn, that's pretty good then. OOO, do you think you could tattoo a teleportation formation on a body to allow instant teleportation. "
Solomon's eye's widened when his beautiful beautiful wife say that. Afterwards he jumped up got dressed and ran to a portal he had connected to his parents house.
" DAD, DAD, Loretta just had an amazing idea. "
Han came out of the house wearing his usual wooden and bronze battle armour.
" Well come out with it then. "
Solomon first told him about his idea, then he told him about Loretta's idea. When Han heard it he also had his eye's widen in a manner similar to his son's, obviously they were father and son. After that they both got to work inside of Aopara's mini universe. Despite having to spend the full million years there it was well worth it, especially since they would probably spend the full million years there anyway.
It took around 134,000 years to complete the Firmament's Weight Formation. After that they used some creatures that they brought along to experiment with the tattoos, to see if Solomon's theory actually worked.
It did.
Since it worked Solomon went ahead and tattooed his father since the formation could help even him workout. After that he tattooed himself with the Firmament Weight formation. Once they confirmed that it worked perfectly Solomon and Han got to working on a teleportation formation. In reality Han had a pretty decent teleportation formation, but it wasn't amazing. And well tattoo's are permanent.
The two couldn't instantly start working on the formation, instead Solomon had to start learning how teleportation worked. Teleportation wasn't the same as going extremely fast, instead it was literally instantaneous. It doesn't matter how fast you go it will never be teleportation. This meant Solomon would have to learn some of the intricacies of space in relation to teleportation. Luckily he had some experience since he had once created a technique that shortens space. Using that technique as the base Solomon got to work making his own teleportation formation. While Han made his own, the figured that since they had plenty of time they might as well make a challenge out of it.
The first thing Solomon did was to refine his technique and really and truly understand how it worked. Which didn't mean know that it shrunk a set amount of distance and all the other goody goody stuff that came with learning the technique. No, he needed to learn how space shrinking worked as well as how to manipulate as best he could.
So he went in and started working from the ground up on his skill.
( I wanted to write a more detailed method on how he progressed with his formation, but honestly I just couldn't think of anything sooooo time skip, yay. )
It took Solomon 30,000 or so years, but Solomon eventually made it to where there was no physical limit on his distance. He could also make it where he could go through objects. Originally his skill would stop when it reached an object despite having plenty of distance on it. Now however the skill could shrink all space. Even an object could no longer stop him. As long as he had enough Mana he could theoretically anywhere, thing is, it isn't teleportation. Nope Solomon had to step to activate the skill meaning it didn't matter how far he could go, though it was a perfect first step. All Solomon had to do was find a way to make the movement instantaneous and the make it all into a little formation that he can tattoo himself with.
Since he completed the first part Solomon decided to share everything with his father who had nearly completed his entire teleportation formation. When Han saw everything his son had done he was surprised. He was surprised because Solomon's method travel was better than his own. So Han proposed an idea.
" Son how about we combine our technique's. Honestly what you came up with is better than everything I came up with. "
" Sure. "
Solomon of course had no reason to say no, despite the challenge it was much more important to get a good formation together. It would actually take quite a while to make a formation out of their findings, so it would be a good idea to get to work A.S.A.P.
It took three hundred thousand years to put it together.
And to get themselves tattooed up.
From all of the testing they did everything worked fine, but they only had so much space they could test with. Since Aopara's universe was sealed they couldn't leave to test it, but from everything they tried in Solomon and Loretta's universe they didn't have a limit on the distance.
Once they had everything completed they spent a few thousand years refining and practicing, that way they could use the technique without a moments thought. Like muscle memory.
Solomon, once he had practiced to a sufficient level once again started body building using his newly created Firmament Weight formation. It was like that that Solomon spent remaining 464,003 years.