Rebirth

POV Julian Kingscrown

I was in the middle of a dense fog walking on a black plane, I don't know how long I've been here, at first I remembered who I was and could move without problems

But I don't even remember that anymore and little by little I have felt that my body is heavier and harder to move

Why am I here? Why am I walking? Why does my body feel so heavy? Am I going to die without answering a single one of those questions?

At that moment I suddenly saw a light shine, in the middle of all the darkness, I ran towards the warmth that radiated, I knew this was my only chance to get answers

But my body was not listening to me, now it seemed completely petrified

Move, move, move, move, it may be your last chance to get answers, I made all the effort I could to reach the light and so my body began to crack in multicolored tones, and I was able to get out of the petrification and reach the light

When I reached the light I began to fall, and the world began to regain its colors, ahhh I finally remembered who I am

A few seconds later I opened my eyes to see an unfamiliar ceiling above me, it seems that the adaptation finally ended

"How do you feel boy?" I heard the grumpy voice of Elder Barbatos

"I don't know, my body is very stiff, how long have I been here?" I asked trying to know how much time had passed

"Three and a half years" said the remnant of Barbatos in a worried tone

"Didn't you say it was only three?" I said in a surprised tone, since I lost more time than I expected

Besides, that would make me a little over 8 and a half years old; Arthur must still be in Eleanor, I must return before he goes to Xyrus, I must hurry and recover as fast as possible

"I'm sorry, the reaction of your body was stronger than I expected, so it took more time to stabilize it and to be honest you almost lost the battle against the body of the Asura" said Barbatos in an apologetic tone

"I'm not going to blame you, we didn't expect that" I said trying to lighten the mood

Fortunately, I still have four and a half years to prepare, besides I need to check if anything has changed too much from the original

After standing up, with a lot of effort I approached the nearby mirror and saw my reformed body

It looked more athletic than before, plus I had a good height for an 8 year old, 130 centimeters, white hair like Silvia's scales, clean skin, without imperfections and some penetrating red eyes, plus the features of my face left their androgynous characteristics and now they were firmer giving a refined masculine impression

"First you need to adapt to your body, besides what you see is not everything, you have a semi-dragon form where you can extract more mana and manipulate the Ether on a larger scale" said Barbatos

"Okay, but Silvia's container where is it" I said looking for what was left of her after giving me her body

"It's in that box you see there, I wanted to take care of it as best as possible, since you seemed to appreciate it" said Barbatos in a somewhat dissatisfied tone

After seeing it was a beautiful clear multicolored egg, I had it for a few seconds in my hands and after reaffirming my resolution to release her again I said

"Then let's start, we don't have much time" urging him to start

So a month passed adjusting to my new body was faster and smoother than I expected, plus the goal was achieved, now I can withstand a greater pressure on the core and control the Ether without burning my life expectancy

As if that were not enough I had a breakthrough to Light Orange with cracks due to the influence of my body during the reconstruction

Two months after waking up the Djinn Barbatos had taught me the management of the three arts of Ether, but I still have a basic understanding and I must continue coming to Eden to practice them and gain mastery in them after I leave in a few days

The first two arts of Ether are from the Vivum branch, the first one in specific from the life branch is the crescendo of wieder that is the rune that allowed me to evolve the beasts and according to what I can understand it amplifies the purity and strength of the bloodlines making them rise to a new level, it can be tested with humans, elves or even dwarves, but I must be very careful

The next one is part of the creation branch and is quite special it is called Extinction and it allows you to cancel or invalidate effects leaving them in a null state, what it does is create an energy capable of adapting and canceling any type of magical, etheric or energy-based spell, but it does not work with physical forms of attack, since I cannot conceptualize the shape and it needs Acclorite to be able to handle it on a larger scale, for now my hand is the limit of extension and it leaves me several minutes with a stiff body, this could work as a countermeasure for the World Eater of Aldir

The last one is from the Aevum branch and is a remnant that combined with Silvia's abilities, it allows me to see a few seconds ahead, but when I tried to use it I almost lost my mind, since I don't know how to filter the information I want to see, the only part that was effective is to speed up my thinking ability to understand faster, let's say a book would normally take me two hours, with the acceleration of thought it allows me to do it in half, but that also has a limit and I can't use both abilities at the same time for now, but if I did I could see a few seconds ahead on a battlefield and analyze the different probabilities, we call it with Barbatos sovereignty of Laplace

As for my magical abilities they couldn't be better, thanks to Silvia's training I had a pretty high understanding of the deviants and now if we except Metal or illusions I would say I'm skilled in several places, the problem is my lack of experience and it's something I needed to solve urgently, that's why I quickly left Eden and headed to the Elshire forest where we were last time with Silvia

When I got to the Cave there were my old friends outside the cave waiting for me, but they had grown too much, they looked the size of Silvie in her first appearance in Xyrus, Rex and Ingram were bigger than Vanangard and Galia

Judging by their auras, the first two reached the peak of class A and the other two are at the peak of class B not to say they almost enter the A

"It's been a while, guys how have you been" I said as I jumped over some rocks to get on top of the cave damaged by Cadell

"We are very happy to see you Master" Several voices said in unison

It took me a few seconds to process what I had just seen and heard

"Wait, you just talked?" I said as I grabbed my forehead for this new headache

"Yes we learned to communicate after reaching a certain point, the master's grandmother helped us" Ingram said

I see this is a positive variable, annoying but positive after all

"Has anyone else seen you or talked to you?" I said hoping no one had noticed them

"Some human groups have seen us from very far away, but we always move to avoid them as you told us" this time Vanangard answered proudly

"They met strange people and beasts inside the dungeons" I started walking while checking the status of the four

"Yes, but we avoided them" said the little Galia in a euphoric tone

"And you Rex why are you so quiet" I said approaching him and checking his fur

"He just wants to look tough master"

"He doesn't want to admit that he was worried about you master"

Ingram and Vanangard said laughing at Rex

"Shut up I was just worried because it took longer than the master's grandmother told us" his intimidating voice echoed

"Not bad if I say so myself Rex" I said as I grabbed my chin

"I'm very happy that you're well and have grown so much" I said smiling at them

"Guys thanks to Silvia's body I can make a bond with you, without affecting who you choose in the future and you can bond with that person, do you want to do it?, we can communicate mentally and have an approximate idea of our location" I asked them

After they all agreed, we signed a kind of family contract where we can communicate and know our location, but it won't affect if they choose someone in the future as a bond, although I'll have to approve them first, not just anyone can take them, in fact I already have some people in mind, but I need to start evolving other mana beasts, as soon as possible

After riding on Ingram we flew out to Grandma Rinia's house, when I got there there were guards, they were surprised when they saw Ingram and Galia arrive, plus there was a very familiar carriage; to my surprise it was, the stainless grandfather Virion, princess Tessia and the protagonist of this tragic story Arthur

I used sound magic to tell the guards that I was an acquaintance, three years could do wonders with the acquaintances of people, plus Virion seemed to recognize me and was surprised by the size of Ingram, I guess they must have some way to become small, if they hadn't seen her in this form

After landing I got off Ingram and said "I'm home Grandma Rinia" while waving my hand and approaching them

I was surprised to see Tessia like a bullet hitting my stomach and giving me a hug afterwards

"Where were you fool, they told me you went to do some special training with some sage, but they wouldn't let me go look for you" she said with some tears dangerously forming in her eyes

"I'm sorry it was something very secret" I said freeing myself from her hug and taking my fingers to my mouth in a sign of silence

"Hey kid why does that bird look so big, when it came here two weeks ago it was, in a small size" Said Elder Virion

"Greet me first master Virion" I said sarcastically reminding him that I had just arrived

"I don't remember having a shameless disciple who disappears for three years without notice" said Elder Virion touching his beard and giving me a smile

"Sorry, sorry, it was something very necessary, besides I sent you a letter, didn't I?" I said to the elder

"Welcome back home Julian" said Grandma Rinia giving me a hug and a smile

"I'm home Grandma" I said returning the smile

Just at that moment I saw a little beast with horns come out from behind Arthur's feet and giving me a look of pure curiosity, then run out to me and jump into my arms and start sniffing me

He left Arthur and the others completely dumbfounded, because they didn't expect the little beast to do that

"That's a surprise, she was born just two months ago, but she's not attached to strangers" Arthur said with his eyes wide open

"I don't think we've been introduced, my name is Julian Kingscrown" I said extending my hand

"Arthur Leywin, a pleasure" he said as he returned the handshake

Just at that moment I used sound magic so that only he could hear, "What name did you give to Silvia's daughter"

Arthur opened his eyes wide and then said "So it was you, her name is Silvie"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't come until now, just like you I had my own problems and I couldn't come back sooner" I said to Arthur while looking back where they noticed we were very quiet while we still had our hands taken as a greeting

"We'll talk later, since I don't think you want anyone to find out yet, right?" I said to Arthur while he gave me a nod

At that moment, as I stroked Silvie I activated a partial form of the semi-dragon form where my eyes turned purple and some runes grew on top of my hand, I was using the art of Extinction to erase any spell engraved on Silvie by Agrona, and I found a control spell installed in her head

It's disgusting that a bastard put that on his daughter and tried to get his hands on Silvia's body, I was furious, I wanted to tear Agrona apart, but right now I'm nothing but a breeze in front of his forces

At first, when I came to this world, I was only looking to survive somehow with everyone until Arthur's arrival, but not now I have a way to fight back against Agrona and Kezess if he gets in the way, but for that I need to get stronger fast