TBATE - Not Bound By Fate

Part 10

Tess, Virion, Regis and I were in a carriage with Alea driving it making our way to the meeting point with Varay. We took a teleportation gate to one of the cities close to the beast glades and went from there to save time, making the trip to only last throughout the morning. A morning that was spent by having gramps tease Tess and me about our dates and Regis talking about our time in the Relictombs. To say Tess wasn't happy about the amount of time I spent alone with Caera would be an understatement. She made me promise I would sleep in her room from now on through our rings to make up for it, a promise I was more than happy to oblige.

After making a quick stop to eat and stretch our legs we soon felt Varay's mana signature and picked up our pace to meet her. Arriving at the spot we saw her wearing a cloak over her gear, which consisted of a black shirt with white leather like armor on top, black leggings and knee high boots made from the same material as the top. She had a short sword strapped to her waist and a dagger on the back. As usual she had her inexpressive face making it hard to read her emotions.

"It has been a while Arthur, Commander Virion." She said as she approached us. "It's good to see you again Princess Tessia."

In the letter gramps sent back to confirm the date of the meeting he explained the situation so far and how we were looking for other regressors, that way she wouldn't be surprised by Tess accompanying us.

"It's good to see you as well, Varay." Tessia replied with a smile while they shared a hug. I didn't know they had gotten that close.

"Just Virion is fine. I'm glad to see you in good health again, let's make sure we keep it that way this time."

"Hey Varay, sorry for the headache but in my defense this time it was Tess's fault." I said only to receive a mana reinforced pinch to my sides before hugging Varay.

"If it isn't my favorite icy kuudere. How's the arm doing?"

"Regis, can't say it's pleasure to see you again. And what is a kuudere?" Asked Varay with a raised brow.

"Don't worry about it, just Regis nonsense." I said with a sigh. "So, what do you want to discuss?"

"I want to know what you and Commander Virion are planning on doing for now in regards to the Vritra and what I should be doing." Varay said in a more serious tone than usual.

"Well, for now, not much really. We have Alea and Aya scouting the glades to make a better map with all the dungeons and collecting information on them, such as the expected number of beasts and whether there are Alacryan camps or signs that they've been there. If we move too early we risk losing our advantage and making Agrona even more cautious than he already is."

"As for you Varay, it would be nice if you could help on that front or keep an eye out for Blaine and the nobles who turned traitor later on. I made a copy of the map we currently have and of the list of the people Agrona plans to get on his side with all the evidence you need to arrest them. I'm sure it'll be of use to you." Virion continued for me.

"Understood. I won't be able to do much here in the glades but monitoring nobles should be easy." She said while taking the papers gramps handed her and stored in her dimensional ring.

"Perfect. And one more thing." I pulled out the memory cube from my storage rune. "Imbue some mana into this and you'll see how my frost fire works. Should be useful for you." I said while handing her the cube.

Varay grabbed the artifact and did as instructed. After a few seconds she opened her eyes and returned it to me.

"That was quite the experience. Being able to see your thought process at such a young age was interesting to say the least."