TBATE - Not Bound By Fate

Part 11

It has been almost a year since the meeting with Varay. In that time Aya and Alea were able to learn and master mana rotation to the point where it was usable in battle and were proficient enough with Mirage Walk while moving to enter the deeper parts of the beast glades. Because of this our map of the dungeons has made significant progress and would probably be done by the time of the attack on Xyrus Academy.

Virion has been working on defensive strategies based on Agrona's journal and compiling information on Alacryan combat style and military structure. He has also been coordinating with Cythia to create a training regime for soldiers that will be put into place once the war starts and discussing a few things about the academy that he refuses to tell me. During the year he received a few reports from Varay about the nobles and Blaine but so far things were quiet. It seems the Vritra aren't going to make a move other than sending spies to Sapin until the council is formed.

Tess has been training even harder than before and was about at the bottleneck of light red. I've been using the memory cube to help her close quarter combat by showing the duels during my time as king and my training with Kordri and Wren, making her progress much faster. I can say with confidence that in technique alone she wouldn't lose to a Scythe in three to four years, maybe sooner. An interesting thing I noticed is that not only is her mana pool comparable to a solid orange conjurer, her control was almost as good as when she was at the initial silver stage. I wonder if that is just because of her experience as a mage or if this is the result of sharing a body with the Legacy. But regardless of the reason it is a benefit so I'm not complaining.

Thanks to training in the creation aspect of Vivum, Regis has gained much better control of Destruction and due to us sharing the rune my control has somewhat improved, making it a more reliable weapon when using it in combination with Conditional Domain. As for Creation itself, he is able to make anything if he understands either how they function or how they are made as long as it's not organic which is weird since Vivum is suppose to encompass life and existence, but maybe that's just his lack of insight in the area since he was made from a rock. Regis can also use the flames of his mane to generate and launch objects instead of having to put down a flame and pull them out. The day Regis learned to do that he said that Agrona should prepare to feel the unbridled wrath of the hero known as Shirou fucking Emiya, whatever that means.

My own training has been going smoothly with my assimilation being almost complete, giving me almost two years to study Sylvia's will before going back to my family and relaxing for a few months.

Right now I was going to the cave Regis used for training Destruction to finally bring Sylvie back as I haven't felt the Asura that was patrolling Elenoir in a while.

"Are you sure about this Arthur?"

"Yes Regis, if I don't do this now there won't be another chance and we will end up with two Sylvies. There's no telling what may happen in that case."

"What if the Asura is just too far away to detect but still close enough to observe? What if they have their own stalker orb?" He asked with concern clear in his voice and leaking through our bond.

"They don't, if they did we would have been found way earlier. And if whichever dragon was tasked with patrolling the continent shows up, we'll deal with it then."

"Alright, it's your call. I'll be hiding nearby just in case."

"Thanks."

With the conversion over, I found myself at the entrance of the cave. Making my way inside I pulled out the two eggs containing my bond from my storage rune and started preparing to perform the art.

This is it Arthur, after three failed attempts you'll finally be able to bring her back. You can't afford to screw up now.

Putting the eggs on the floor next to each other I sat in front of them in a meditative position and closed my eyes. Focusing on my aether I willed it to flow out of my body and to envelope the eggs to establish a connection between them with me acting as the anchor point. Once that was done came the hard part, making it so that the body of the younger Sylvie would be used to finish reconstructing the body of the older one without replacing the consciousness and soul.