My New Life in TBATE

Reuniting

I walked closer to the book and took in the weathered pages from many times of being opened and closed, the pages rumpled and crinkled to show the wear on them. Rubbing a hand across the book I feel it resonate with me and the lingering will of Yvette flows into me, and with it her knowledge on enchanting and artificing as well as seals.

Like the other Phoenix Asuras she was assassinated by the Vritra, but she was able to use her ability to bring her here where she left her Will in the book of her life's research. Also through the memories I found that she is the one who made the artifact that my birth father gave my birth mother, that allowed her to teleport away. All of her knowledge on enchanting brought a grin to my face as she was way ahead of even Gideon in this regard.

I willed the book into my ring, and then with wind magic pulled everything in the study into my ring to pour over at a later time. The reason is that looking at the books purely from her memory biases my view and I see it as she saw, interpreted it as she interpreted it. If I want to gain my own insight into things I need to read it myself while not under the influence of her memories. I turn back to find Ken standing there, just coming out of his daze while looking at me.

"What was all this stuff?" Deciding that he didn't really need to know about Asurans I 'acted'.

"Ah well it seems a really crazy old woman holed up down here after she got passed that River Croc from earlier. She wrote a lot of insane things that make absolutely no sense, so I'm going to take them and try to find someone who might be able to understand it." He just absentmindedly nodded, and a wry grin appeared under my mask. This guy just goes with the flow, didn't even doubt me for a second.

Looking around the room to make sure I don't miss anything and I spot a chest placed in the corner, and looking through her memories I know that it holds all artifacts that she had finished. Rings that deployed shields based off intent rather than needing mana from the wearer. Necklaces that increase passive mana intake, which will help Arthur tremendously. And many other nifty items that I immediately stored into my ring, for further plundering at a later time.

"Alright, Ken. Lets see if we can't find the rest of our party. Who knows what kind of trouble they've gotten into without me?" He just nods and follows close behind me as we leave the room of one, Yvette. The room was blocked by a large metal door with various enchantments to act as locks and traps should it be brute forced by someone. Pressing my finger to multiple symbols on the door while infusing my mana into it the door eventually lets off a creaking noise as it slowly swings open.

Ken looks at me in surprise, but I ignore him and walk through the door and into the huge chamber that awaits us. Multiple beast sized holes revealed to not just be beast sized, but also homes of mana beasts. Several Silvercoat Bears lumbered out of the holes when they picked up our sent and I could feel Ken get scared.

"No worries Ken, they aren't that strong." This was just to calm him down as these bears were approaching the AA rank when usually they are only A ranks. Their silver fur shines with light from my flame making it seem almost blue, and each individual hair is as strong as steel which is why they get their A ranks. Most weapons can't even cut them and then you got these bigger than horses sized bears with razor sharp claws and wind magic.

Taking out my Kukris I decide to test their sharpness a little bit. I tie a mana string to each of the handles and I run forward toward the closest Silvercoat. It stands up on its hind legs easily reaching 12 foot tall and I can sense the fierce wind mana swirling around its claws as it swipes at me even though I'm still a fair distance away. That's because it's a wind based attack that I defuse with my own wind, so that it doesn't hit Ken behind me.