The fervor and the competition had died down somewhat after a month, but the gossip and myths about the one named Ashborn did not die down; it only increased to a frightening degree in the outside world. But with that increased fame, so did Axel's paranoia.
Things have been going quite well for him recently, but that was the point, the problem that things were going too well. Maybe something bad would happen soon enough. So, he created a bunch of top-notch safety artifacts for his little brother and made sure that the librarian would always keep an eye on him if he was not able to. The librarian agreed with some hesitation.
So, Akon was basically armed with an almost insane amount of safety defense artifacts, which even the boy himself did not know about, apparently. Axel, in the meantime, prioritized studying the supreme meditation technique and the 'Domination Sword Art' given by the berserker sect's vice leader from time to time.
