Edmund Ashford POV
Swords pierced through my body I am dead again it's so familiar to me now that I barely even flinch. The Victim Aspect of my domain activates as I return back to the beginning of the checkpoint that I set.
A few minutes before Mordred can kill Artoria.
I move to go stop them "Mordred stop!" I shouted in desperation but it was all in vain as she nor Artoria could hear me.
A warp in space tells me that another of Alaya's dogs has arrived "Humanity has deemed that Artoria Pendragon is to die here, sorry about this," came the familiar voice of the Counter Guardian that had killed me over thirty times.
The air is ripped apart as a familiar spiraling arrow shot towards me tearing the space around it apart and like always I die.
That makes this loop thirty-one.
I am back at the start again, I go to stop the duo once more when the air twisted and a pale arm grabbed me yanking me into the portal.
"That's enough my student I cannot bare to see you dying so many times repeatedly you cannot change Artoria's fate. ALAYA is an entity beyond you and will keep sending agent after agent after you," said the voice of Vivan my mentor and lady of the lake.
I grit my teeth feeling the weight of my own helplessness crush me.
The tears comes unbidden, hot, and bitter I'm so tired, tired of fighting, tired of dying, tired of the never ending cycle.
"I really can't do it can I," my voice cracks barely more than a whisper.
"I can't… I can't save her. Not this time. Not any time…"
My knees buckle beneath me and I collapse the sharp sting of my countless wounds burning through my body but it's the pain in my heart that's far worse. The one I can't escape, no matter how many times I die my vision of her was always so close yet out of reach she has to survive.
Yet every time I step in, I fail, every time I try to stop Mordred, or push back against or fight the forces Alaya sends after me…I die.
I die and die.
I try to pick myself up again and again only to meet the same fate.
"Why…" I choke out my words barely audible "why does it hurt so much teacher? After all this time… after all this dying…why does it still feel like I'm losing everything?"
I curl into myself my hands clutching at the ground the desperation clawing at my throat I can feel the tears hot against my skin now, my body trembling from the weight of it all.
The soft calming presence of my mentor wraps around me pulling me out of the suffocating darkness. She kneels beside me her hand gentle as it rests on my shoulde her voice, full of empathy and understanding breaks through my spiraling thoughts.
"Child… it is not wrong to feel lost you have carried this burden for far too long no one can endure that many deaths and not feel broken."
I can't look at her I can't bear it not now.
All the walls I've built all the shields I've forged around my heart shatter in that instant I finally let myself break and the sobs come violently tearing at my chest.
"I… I couldn't even save her once Vivan every time I reach for her… she dies I can't do it. I can't do anything…I am failure as a knight and friend..I hate myself because of my own weaknesses…I hate…I-I h-hate" the words are desperate, raw, and broken as I let loose on how I felt.
Vivan's arms surround me pulling me into a warm embrace holding me like I'm fragile, like I'm something precious "there, there it is alright Edmund it is alright to rest now you've fought long and hard longer than anyone should it is time to let it all go and let yourself rest," she whispered with a hint of sadness.
I shake my head, gasping for air, my body wracked with pain "n-no I can't rest yet I can't just… let her die there must be something I can do," the words feel empty, pathetic but they're all I have.
Her voice is steady and soft "you will find peace in Avalon my precious student Artoria's fate may be beyond you at the current moment but that doesn't mean her story will end here for she will also join us in Avalon one day and when that day comes, you will be there to welcome her," she reassured as she opened a portal the ever distant utopia.
I hesitated but in the end my legs finally moved after her despite wanting to go back and keep fighting.
No matter how many times I die it I will never be able to change her FATE.
The idea of a happy ever after is an impossible dream this I know now.
But still... as I step through the portal into Avalon my heart aches with a pain deeper than any wound I've suffered.
The armor and cloak I wore vanished in motes of blue.
The sword I carried slowly vanished as well.
A simple brown shirt, and pair of baggy brown pants replace my battle garments.
I sit by the crystalline waters of Avalon's lake watching the surface ripple, I could see my memories flashing of all the times we spent together, laughed together, smiled together, and fought together.
"I'm sorry…" I whispered to the water, but it offers no response only the reflection of a failure.
"Come now Edmund I did not bring you here to despair, there is someone that I think you would like to see," Vivan said with a certain gleam in her eyes.
"There's no one I would like to possibly see right now," I muttered in a broken voice.
"Not even if it's a certain perverted wizard who knew everything and kept it a secret from you?" Vivian asked.
At the mention of that I turned to her "he's here?"
"I trapped him in a tower not to far from here," she said with a smile.
My sword materializes back into my grip "let's go pay that bastard a visit."
-end of prologue-
So, I finished watched season 3 of ReZero and this came to be.
It's Aldebaran's Authority along with some other ones that our MC has.
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Potential Classes: Saber, Avenger, Caster, and BerserkerTrue Name: Edmund AshfordRegion: Britain
Parameters
STR: B
END: A
AGI: B+
MGI (Mana): B
LCK: E
Magic Resistance (A)Nullifies A-rank or lower magic completely a mark of his knightly heritage and tutelage under Vivan, the Lady of the Lake.
Magecraft (C+)As the apprentice of the Lady of the Lake, Edmund has learned a great deal of swordsmanship and magecraft from her but not enough to keep up with Casters like Merlin.
Independent Action (EX)Can continue to exist and act for a long time without a Master. Born from dying more than a million times over.
Noble Phantasm: Authorities of the Seven Sins
Edmund possess several abilities that are based on the seven sins of the world Pride, Sloth, Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, and Envy.
(NOTE THAT EACH POWER MANIFEST DIFFERENLT FOR THE RESPECTIVE USERS)