46 Off to the battlefield

'What do you reckon is the amount of time we have until the first battle?'

"If we disregard the first few skirmishes I'd guess we have a month at worst, two at best. It also depends where we set up our first line of defense. Knowing the Aesir they will march straight to our capital and we'll have to block their way."

'That should be enough time for the wyrms to join the battle.'

"Wyrms! Since when do you have wyrms?!!"

'Sven managed to hunt one only recently. They should be done growing within a week or so.'

"This is great! If we send in the wyrms before we engage, the enemy will sustain casualties before we even meet. I need to go inform his Majesty. Could I trouble you to also provide us with some arrows made of heavenly steel?"

'Sure sure. Run along now and inform the king.'

I honestly wanted to squeeze some more out of the humans but something had come up. I could feel rat's consciousness stir. It felt like I could wake him up with just a simple nudge.

I didn't know why but somehow I could just tell that this time my evolution would take longer than usual. Thus, I decided to make the necessary preparations for war before beginning my advancement.

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I called Sven over and told him to assist Völsung. In one week's time or more he should come to gather the verdant serpent and the three wyrms and take them to the battlefield. I also gave him all the heavenly arrows I made and let him have control over the normal beasts as a minor combat force.

Then I used the root system to contact Nerida and told her I was preparing to evolve. She should stay here and make sure that no one insignificant bothered me.

With all that out of my way, I sent a wake-up call down the mental bridge between me and Ratatoskr. He jolted awake, nearly falling off my branches.

And at that second I felt it. Like before with the queen kimbera, a formless connection was established between the two of us. I didn't even need to ask if it wanted to be my guardian beast.

The minute Ratatoskr woke up it immediately claimed ownership of me, initiating the bond from his side. I could only assume that this was how beasts usually became a guardian beast.

By now the bond between us had fully formed and became permanent. You could call it a shackle between our respective souls. The other connection I had, because I had grown him, was simply devoured and ceased to exist.

Then a restriction hidden within my soul came undone. I hadn't even known it existed but at that moment it was released and brought forth a magical change within me.

The magic within was refined bit by bit and became incredibly pure. The process reminded me of breaking through in my former world, just that here I went from zero to a hundred.

Priorly, I myself had refined my magic three times but failed to complete the fourth refinement. The thing that was accumulating in my body now felt like the result if that fourth refinement. Magic essence! The thing I had before was comparable to the weakest stage in my former world. Mana!

It would seem like plants did most of the refinement in one go as opposed to the mages who split up the process. I wondered how the magi of this world did it.

Now, the entirety of my body was filled with the newly refined magic essence.

That was it? I felt like barely any time had passed! Well, all the batter. If I could now form a spiritual body I might be able to join the fight against the Aesir or personally go kill a certain clan!

I was now equivalent to a grand duke magus and could move much more freely. Figuratively speaking. My real body still couldn't move.

So I formed my spiritual body. I chose to give myself androgynous features and a well-trained body clad in a green sage robe.

Sadly this spiritual body could only interact with the physical world through magic and it could only exert a fraction of my strength.

Still, I'd have to boast in front of Völsung.

Thinking that I shifted my attention back to the world around me.

'Hmm. Where did all my beasts go? Did Sven take them to the battlefield early?'

I looked around and discovered that, to my great horror, the growing wyrms were gone. There was no way I wouldn't have noticed them be removed forcefully. The only explanation for this was that my sense of time hadn't functioned correctly during my evolution.

I quickly located Nerida.

'Nerida! How much time has passed since I began advancing and how's the war?'

"Eldar? Oh, you're finally back. It's been a month since you were gone! Sven came back twice but you didn't respond. From what I heard things are dire. The Aesir sent three legions instead of one and their commander is well known for being undefeated. Sven left with all the beast three days ago, I don't know how the situation has changed since then."

Right, the beasts! They were connected to me and I could roughly tell where they were.

I sensed for those connections but I really didn't like the results. I couldn't feel any beast! Only the premature verdant serpent was still alive.

'It would seem I have to make a trip.'