Ancient War - TBATE

Concerns

A/N: Published chapter early as a gift I suppose.
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As I sat on the grass watching my sister train I couldn't help but recall the meeting with Zedd, Where he asked me to kill Nico who was reincarnated into Elijah's Body.

Even during my fight with Uto, I was remembering the meeting with Zedd, He had the appearance of an 8-year-old when I first saw him, and now he has the appearance of a 10 to 12-year-old child he wasn't changing how his body looked.

Could he really be a child? no there's no way he's a child, the fear I felt when I met him, his ability to conjure an exact copy of dawn's ballad, he's been watching me since I was 8 there is no way a 12-year-old can remember something that happened almost 10 years ago.

Just what is-- I was suddenly snapped out of my thought by an arrow coming my way, catching the arrow with my hand I look up to see Ellie looking at me with a somewhat concerned impression.

"Brother, are you okay?" she asked with concern etched on her face.

"Well, I'm okay but I don't think I would've been okay if that arrow hit me," I stated looking deadpan at her.

"If you were too dazed off to notice my arrow then it would be more dangerous for you to train with me than to fight in the war." she shrugged.

"Alright, then how about you help me stretch a bit," I said conjuring a stone slab and sending it her way.

She instantly jumped and flipped around to shoot the slab, which was now gone replaced with another slab coming from a different direction, noticing the slab coming from a different direction she uses mana to leap back while still in the air.

Turning around she shoots two pure mana arrows, one hitting the stone slab and the other making its way towards me, catching the arrow with my right hand I look at Ellie who was smirking at me.

Looking at her deadpan she shrugs and gets ready when I called out to her that it's the end of the spar, she looked at me confused.

"Wait, What ? is it because I shot that arrow at you ?" she asked confused.

"No, it's because I have work to do," I said pulling out the elixir from my dimension ring, reminding myself to also use Uto's horns.

"Work? are you going back to almost die again ?" Asked Ellie with a concerned and yet serious expression that I'm going to- wait, what?

I Stared at her deadpan and smacked her on the back of the head for making that joke.

"I'm not going to almost die for a while, I have to absorb this elixir, and thank you very much for your concern, dearest sister," I stated conjuring a stone chair.

"Elixir? isn't your mana core way too developed for an elixir to help?" Asked my dear sister in a curious tone, exchanging glances with my bond in her fox form.

"The two of us will see just how effective this elixir is," I replied sitting in the lotus position on the chair.

Examining the elixir I found nothing noteworthy, it's like what the elixir seems to be just a normal marble but I knew that wasn't the case, the copy of dawn's ballad Zedd gave me was as strong if not stronger than when I first got Dawn's Ballad.

Imbuing my mana signature into the elixir it starts to shine in a magnificent purple light, I stopped imbuing my mana into the elixir and started to absorb the elixir, I could feel the mana around me dancing erratically like a pebble in a river, as my core forcibly activated realmheart I could see the fire mana being pulled from inside the planet, the water mana from the clouds, the ground mana causing the ground to quake as if a mountain is forming, the wind blowing apart the pebbles and even the molecules of the air around me.

All of that was happening at the same time with me in the center of it all, I could hear my sister's screams, Boo's grunts, and Sylvie flapping her pitch-black scaled dragon wings to shield my sister and Boo from the mana.

The mana stopped dancing around and started moving at breakneck speeds towards me, as my core absorbed all of the mana from the surrounding my sister and her bond started making their way towards me, as they believed it was all over when Sylvie pulled them back and put a wing in front of them.

Suddenly I could feel and see the aether around me behaving as if showing me its power, purple fire lit the grass, and skies evaporating even the water molecules, as the fire died down all the grass around me started growing back at a speed that even if cut again will grow back in an instant.

The space around me began to distort creating dozens of portals and cuts through space itself, all of the cuts through space, all of the portals that were made all started disappearing one by one, the tall grass which grew started turning back into the dirt and turned back into what it once was.

As the grass turned back into what it once was I felt my vision turn dark with a smile on my face I blacked out with the last thing I saw was my sister her bond, and Sylvie all running towards me.

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As I woke up I could see 5 figures sitting next to me with me laying on my bed, forcing my eyes to focus I could see Ellie Boo Virion Tess, and Sylvie in her fox form, attempting to force myself to sit up I fell back down, Tess seeing I'm awake runs over to me and helps me to sit up.

"Hey Everyone, I'm back from the dead. " I chuckled.

"Arthur!", "Brat" My sister Gramps, and Sylvie yelled out, Boo merely let out a grunt in acknowledgment. 

"How are you feeling brat?" Asked Grandpa Virion as he sat down next to me ignoring his sobbing granddaughter.

"I Feel like I should ask that to the three over there, hell I could remember seeing a few tears in space around me." I chuckled.

"We're fine, but what about you brother? You were in the middle of all of that you even fainted, you said you weren't going to almost die." Said Ellie looking at me skeptically brows furrowed.

Flicking her forehead I replied, "Well, I wasn't expecting my breakthrough to be like this either."

By this time Tess stopped crying, Hearing this Ellie immediately bolted up, as gramps did the same thing in his chair.

"Brat, are you saying you're a white core mage now ?" Asked gramps with a surprised expression.

I Merely shook my head and answered "Uh... I broke through to the stage beyond white core..."

As I said this everyone but Tess looked at me with evident shock, "Brat are you saying a single elixir, allowed you to skip through the white stage and immediately go to the stage beyond it? if there is even a stage beyond it?" I merely nodded as my answer.

"Why isn't Tessia surprised by this?" Asked Ellie her brows furrowed.

"Well, Tess was there when I got the elixir," I replied as Tess nodded.

"So, what color is your core now?" asked Sylvie in a curious tone.

Focusing my consciousness into my mana core, as soon as I made sure of the color I looked up to see everyone- except Boo looking at me with anticipation...

A/N : You think you're going to get the answer of the color and name in the FF this easily ? not gonna happen over my dead body.

Seriously though thank you all for the support on the series.