TBATE - Not Bound By Fate

Part 52

Seris Vritra

"... and this concludes the weekly report." Sevren finished, a small glint of pride in his eyes.

"That is good to hear. I'm sure Agrona will believe the delay on the manufacturing of the ships to be nothing but a minor setback. The only problem that could arise from this is Nico growing impatient, he has been pestering the High Sovereign to be sent to Dicathen for a while now." I voiced my thoughts out loud.

"How exactly is Scythe Nico a problem in this case?" Sevren asked, not even trying to hide his confusion.

"Nico is unstable, and he only cares about his lover Cecilia. When Arthur pretended to be the Legacy when he fought against Uto, Nico immediately wanted to verify if it was true. Agrona saw right through Arthur's plan of course, but I doubt he was the one supposed to be fooled." I explained.

"And you believe Dicathen is not ready to handle a Scythe as of right now, even if it is the weakest." Sevren concluded.

"Precisely, they must focus their efforts on the beast glades and diminish Alacryan presence in the region as much as possible before the ships arrives on the shores of Sapin. Having to deal with an anger filled Scythe who cares little for will get involved in his rampage would be disastrous at this point in time."

"Then assuming the worst case scenario, Nico gets sent to Dicathen to look for this Cecilia, would the Lances be able to take him out?" Sevren asked, probably to try and see if he would need to create a distraction to delay Nico.

"Two of them could." I began. "Lance Phantasm is quite proficient when it comes to illusion magic, something that is quite potent against an opponent who is never thinking straight, if she plays her cards right she will come out on top. The other would be Lance Zero, but only because the limiter in her man core placed by the Asuras was removed. She should have grown enough to deal with someone of Nico's level. Combine that with her experience in battle, and she should be able to defeat him." In fact, Varay might be able to even give Dragoth some trouble if her growth is as expected.

Sevren contemplated my words before nodding to himself. "I see, despite being unfavorable, it isn't as dire as I imagined."

"That's right, but let's move on from this topic. How is little Caera faring after returning from Dicathen? It has been over a year, and she hasn't visited me once." I faked being hurt.

Sevren giggled before answering. "She has been incredibly busy having to catch up with all the classes she missed because of the mission you sent her in, and whatever free time she gets, Lenora tries to make it into mother-daughter bonding. It's not like she doesn't want to come, quite the opposite in fact, she almost ran away from home in the middle of the night the other day."

"It seems I will have to pay her a visit sometime soon then." I commented.

"That would be great." Sevren said with a smile.

We talked a little more about Caera before moving on to other topics, such as how to move forward with the rebellion or other methods to sabotage Agrona's war efforts. After a few hours Sevren left my estate and returned home while I got ready to end the day, unfortunately it seemed Agrona had other plans for me as one of his messengers arrived at my doorstep. Thankfully, it wasn't anything urgent and just a notice that a meeting regarding the war was to take place tomorrow.

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What a headache, to think Agrona would begin sending in the retainers to Dicathen, it seems he is not even going to try to give the chance for surrender. At least the retainers will only be assisting in corrupting and mutating powerful mana beast for now, much to Uto's displeasure. Hopefully the base responsible for this task will be found and dealt with before Jagrette and Mawar arrive.

Unfortunately all I could do was send word to Virion and hope he would be able to do something about the situation. Maybe if I sent Cylrit in secret to help... no, that wouldn't work. The tempus warps connected to Dicathen are monitored by personnel from Taegrin Caelum, they would notify Agrona of a retainer using them and put me under suspicion.

What a troublesome situation you created for me Agrona, and you don't even know it.

A/N: Sorry for the two short chapters in a row, but university is kicking my ass right now, and I have very little time to write. So to avoid this happening again I'm going to take a two-week break from uploading, that way I can get more than one chapter finished and have some headroom in case I get drowned in assignments again.

See you on March 27th, peace.