The next day,
Orsted, who as usual skipped sleep after getting laid with Zarestia, moved towards Roswaal's presence. He had spent a portion of his time laying out a few barrier magic, early in the morning too.
Smelling a trace of magic flowing in the air, Orsted turned towards the door beside him.
'Must be Beatrice.... I don't see any merit in greeting her.' Orsted continued walking after a pause.
In reality, Orsted was no good with being like Beatrice, who never spoke of their true thoughts. Normally known as 'tsundere'. Subaru in the future can take care of her.
Reaching before the mansion lord's room, Orsted knocked without hesitation.
"Please come in." Roswaal opened the door and led Orsted in with a smile.
Unlike Roswaal, who appeared like a clown, his study room was pretty normal.
After taking a seat, Orsted watched Roswaal calmly.
'I'm supposed to be the second option according to his gospel, in case the first option with Subaru fails. With that in mind, I might be able to get some resurrection ability from gacha in the future.'
Truthfully, Orsted felt Echidna's death to be filled with mysteries. The original novel hadn't mentioned it much either.
Four hundred years ago, the Divine Dragon Volcanica sealed Echidna within her tomb in the Sanctuary, acting as a deterrent to the Witch of Envy, Satella. Then, Volcanica created and placed Clind to keep a watch on her sanctuary.
'Knowing Echidna's authority to look into the future, present and past. She should be aware of techniques like soul marriage curse from Vollachia. Which can allow a person to reincarnate with their memories intact infinitely, though I think it needs some karma as a catalyst.'
Orsted wondered why Echidna didn't use such a method to live easily. She didn't appear to be the type to sacrifice herself either.
More than anything, when Subara brought out Echidna's soul from the sanctuary, in the greed if route, Clind, the dragon-kin of Volcanica tried to kill Subaru without hesitation. Clind viewed her continued, fractured existence as an unnatural violation of the world's rules
'I can already imagine dozens of conspiracies, I wonder what's the real answer.' Orsted stopped his train of thought at this moment.
"How may I help you, Master Orsted? Please speak your mind without hesitation~" Roswaal spread his hands grandly as if Orsted could ask anything.
'....This clown seems strangely Happy since I joined hands with him too.'
After a pause, Orsted spoke of his need: "I want you to show me your six-fold magic and let me use a deeper portion of the Kemaldy forest for a while."
Since he might be spending an unknown amount of time stuck in the forest with Zarestia, Orsted wanted to teach her four-fold magic if possible.
"Say no more~" Roswaal raised both his hands, immediately three elements manifested on each of them. He maintained their existence with a smile on his face.
[Tear stigma] - Orsted's eyes instantly changed and red particles clustered around his body. He was able to copy Roswaal's technique in a moment.
'[Tear stigma] has grown stronger since my mana gate grew. I wonder if it can analyse [Divine protection] someday.' Orsted held a lot of expectations towards it.
"That's enough. If you want to ask anything, just state it."
Orsted's cold voice travelled to Roswaal's ears.
Roswaal continued in a jesting manner: "Nothing truly important~ I just plan on going to the sanctuary soon and I wondered if you are interested in visiting too~?"
Orsted's expression didn't change as he answered without hesitation: "Next time."
Orsted did plan on visiting the sanctuary in the future. Rather, he didn't even mind making a contract with Echidna either - with [Rewrite], she would be the only one to suffer from it.
After leaving Roswaal's work room, Orsted came across Ram, who bowed slightly towards him. Apparently, Frederica must have taught her recently.
"Good morning, Guest."
Orsted nodded his head at her and moved towards his room. He did think Ram possessed a lot of potential. And in the future, he could restore her horn with emperor-rank healing magic too. Just that, there was no benefit in helping her right now in his eyes.
Divine-rank healing magic could even allow Orsted to revive a recently dead person, If he cast it within five minutes of their death. He and Zarestia moved into the forest the very same day.
.....
First month,
Just training by himself with dragon slayer magic, the progress was not very optimistic. Therefore, he battled with Zarestia to push himself further. He used only dragon slayer magic the whole time.
They had to carry out aerial battles, so that the forest wouldn't get destroyed.
And his progress with teaching Zarestia four-fold magic? Not very good.
The [Dragon seed]'s development reached 48%. Half of his body was already transformed into a dragon.
....
Third month,
At the beginning, Frederica used to deliver food to Zarestia, but soon the job was taken up by Rem.
Roswaal personally made a safe track with barrier magic, so that Rem could deliver the food safely. The forest was infested with witchbeast after all.
After watching them fight, Rem requested Orsted to teach her the ways of fighting. Her determination to take over her Sister, Ram's responsibility flaring up.
Without any hesitation, Orsted pushed Zarestia towards Rem. Even if lacking in knowledge, Zarestia's experience in fighting was beyond something a normal human could hope to match.
Though resistant at first, Zarestia began teaching Rem by sparring soon. There was just nothing else to be done for passing time.
Orsted's [Dragon seed]'s progress reached 60% at last. His body began expanding rapidly to the size of a normal dragon. Reaching to the size of 12 meters tall - he appeared like a Behemoth in the middle of the forest.
Zarestia spent most of her time sleeping on his neck now. Only moving when witchbeast appeared nearby - even though a barrier covered their lair.
.....
Ninth month,
Orsted's [Dragon seed]'s blossomed completely. His height was already towering around 25 meters, his raven black dragon body would give rise to terror within any living being.