TBATE - CHANGING FATE

Chapter 1 - The Discovery

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ARTHUR POV:

"It's over... it's finally over" I muttered while staring down at Agrona's lifeless, bloodied corpse. His arms and legs were torn off, with his mana core shattered and horns which previously stood tall and covered in priceless jewels now cut off, thrown away next to his throne during the battle.

After exhausting all my aether and using every single technique I could muster, I didn't have the energy to stand anymore and collapsed on the ground next to Agrona... or rather what was left of him anyways.

Sylvie slowly walked up to me and sat down, with her injuries still having barely healed. Even with an Asuran body and using vivum on the more severe wounds, it was easy to tell how much this battle wore her out.

"Arthur... what do we do now?" she asked without turning her gaze away from Agrona, looking as if she expected his corpse to come back to life.

"I say we display his corpse for the rest of Alacrya to see and become the ruler of this place. That way we can ask for as many beauties as we want" Regis replied, snickering while imagining himself surrounded by Alacryan women touching his large, obsidian-coloured horns.

"Not we, you want that" I said staring in disgust at Regis drooling over his thoughts.

I knew that after facing Agrona the Indrath clan would be my next target, or at the very least Kezess. I couldn't sit still knowing that once he learns about my victory over Agrona, I'll be deemed a threat and my life would be targeted. Or worse, what remained of my family and friends.

"As soon as we recover, let's split up and try to recover any information that Agrona left behind in this castle. He spent decades researching into aether and mana as well as preparing for the war, so if we don't split up it would take too long trying to find anything useful." I told Sylvie and Regis while beginning to fill my core with what little aether remained nearby.

"Oh sure, and while we're at it just call me Scooby Doo. Let's split up and look for clues gang" Regis chuckled until bursting out laughing at his own joke.

'Just shut up and enter my core, otherwise you're going to have to recover on your own' I transmitted to him, hoping that he'll will stop his tasteless jokes once he enters.

'Fine, but I know you thought that joke was funny' he grumbled while slipping inside and started gathering aether.

SYLVIE POV:

While sitting and collecting mana, I began to go through Arthur's memories during the time I was stuck inside my egg. I hatched shortly after Arthur acquired his final rune, so there wasn't much time for him to tell me what happened while I was dormant inside aside from the important details.

Starting from when I gave Arthur part of my body and pushed him through the portal, I watched as he awoke inside an unknown area and painstakingly formed his aether core. His journey of learning the basics of aether and fighting monsters which would easily rank as SS rank in Dicathen was nothing short of amazing.

He crawled out of the relictombs. He travelled in a foreign land relying on people who could betray him at any time. He mastered both aether and the godrunes. He defeated most of the scythes, sparing one, and became strong enough to fight against the pinnacle of the Vritras.

As I watched him accomplish many things which I was sure most... no, nobody could achieve I began to swell his pride knowing that this man, Arthur, was my papa.

Slowly, I opened my eyes realising roughly 3 hours had passed. I looked down at my now recovered body with only dry blood remaining on me and my body full of mana.