TBATE - Not Bound By Fate

Part 13

Arthur

Almost two years have passed since I brought Sylvie back and we met Seele for the first time. It seems she kept both of her promises of not telling Kezess and the Asuras about us and bringing gifts when she came to visit again, while they were mostly for Sylvie she did bring me a few things. Seele gave us mostly clothing and accessories made by one of the minor clans of dragons that specialize in it and provide most of what the Indrath clan wears. The quality of the materials and the craftsmanship was what you would expect from something made by Asuras, nothing I could find in either continent was even close to this level.

Unfortunately one of the articles of clothing Seele gave me was a dress that she forced me to wear. When Regis told Tess and gramps about it I was once again forced to put on the dress causing Virion to laugh just as much if not more than Regis while Tess silently analyzed me. The look she had once she was done still scares me.

Sylvie's strength remained around the same as when we came back from Epheotus so there was little she could do in terms of training that wouldn't raise suspicion from Kezess. The biggest change in her was that her aether affinity is now for Aevum instead of Vivum. She could still use some healing arts but they weren't as powerful as before, but they were still much better than an emitter's healing. I've tried to help her develop some Aevum arts of her own by sharing my experience using the Aroa's Requiem keystone and completely opening up our bond when using the godrune and while that did help her gain some insight, it might be better to wait until Windsom takes us for training for her to learn more.

After deciding he had done enough training Regis tried to flirt with Alea and Aya multiple times only to be shot down immediately by them calling him a cute puppy.

Tess made steady progress with her mana core and was now halfway through the solid orange stage. She would've been on a higher stage if the purifying spellform didn't lose efficiency as the impurities were removed from one's core, which explains why they didn't have any effect on the Lances.

Other than training, Tess also spent as much time as she could with her parents and made sure I did as well, which made me get a lot closer with them. We didn't leave the castle as often but I still made sure to take her on a date at least once a week which she very much enjoyed. During one of our dates we caught Merial and Aya following us so they could get new material to tease us with.

I spent most of my time training with Sylvia's will. Thanks to already having a lot of experience using it, unlocking both phases only took a few days after finishing the assimilation process. Unlike last time the acquire phase wasn't Static Void, instead I gained the ability to cancel kinetic energy from my enemies attacks similar to the spellform one of the Djinns I met had. But the biggest change was while using Realmheart Physique, it resonated with its godrune counterpart forcing it's activation regardless of my intent, making the golden runes were now brighter and aether could be seen swirling inside it in a hypnotic way. Thanks to this resonance, I could finally use both of my cores at the same time but only for five minutes, because the mental strain from controlling both forces was too much for me at the moment.

Virion finally finished reading and organizing all the information from Agrona's journal that was relevant to the war and sent a copy to Cynthia and Varay for safekeeping. After he was finished with that, he wanted to contact elder Bhund to ask for his help in keeping an eye on Rahdeas but I told him it wasn't needed since the problem would take care of itself.

During this time I also told him about my past life and his reaction was the one that surprised me the most. Other than asking me if I already told Tess about it he simply laughed it off saying he finally understood how we got along so well. Unfortunately for me the day after I told him about it, gramps started dumping some of his work on me and asked Alduin to get my opinion whenever he couldn't decide on something. When I complained about it Virion just said it was so I wouldn't lose my edge for when I eventually become the King of Elenoir. Thankfully he didn't make me do anything that was too time consuming allowing me to focus on the two most important things I had to do, training and visiting the jewelry stores I had Regis look for when I arrived here in Zestier.