Chapter 68 - A Magic Creation
Jayr POV - Tortus, Orcus Abode - 2013
The day, I and a beaming Eri tinue our exploration of this pce, and after once again cheg the ground floor, we move on and check the outdain, there is a hole in this huge pce, and a sculpture of a lion was enshrined in deep water, o the sculpture there is a magiation, seeing that, I move closer to the statue and pito the formation, and soon warm water jumps out of the lion's open mouth,
Seeing that Eri excims, "A bath! This is good, how many weeks has it been since I had a warm bath? The showers ihena's Bidoof are just enough to oneself... They aren't as rexing as baths!", hearing that, my cheeks twitch a little and think, 'Japanese people and their addi with baths... Sure they be rexing on a while... But for day-to-day ing, I prefer a good old shower...'.
Looking at the bath Eri suddenly asks, "Eogether?", at the same time, she throws a seductive ghat hints at what would happe, but with some reluce, I shake my head and reply, "Later... Now let's tinue expl this pce...", that cause Eri to cutely pout before she nods and says, "Okay, but after we are done I also want a massage~", and so we move inside and start to search the sed floor and soon discover a study room and workshop on it, however, there seem to be some seals that prevent the opening of the doors in those rooms.
And so we tinue our sear the third floor, ahere is only one big room, opening the door what greets ht is an 8 meters wide exquisite and delicate magiation engraved on the floor in the ter of the room, the design is something we have never seen before, it is a rather splendid geometrical patterned formation and it looks like a work of art.
However, something else is more hy, oher side of the magiation there is a figure sitting in a regal chair, the figure is a corpse, quite an old one as it has already bee a skeleton just like Eri's Undead Puppets, and there is a stunning bck robe embroidered with gold on its body, moreover, despite the age, there isn't a siain on it, seeing that Eri ents "It seems to be an object from a haunted house...".
The corpse's head hangs low while leaning on the chair, It has decayed in that posture, and no signs of suffering could be seen on the figure that rested on the chair, it seems like the figure was waiting for someone, and after studying it, I say, "That is Oscar Orcus' corpse... One of the so-called Liberators who fought to free this world from Ehit's trol... And that is the magiation that will teach us the A Age of Gods Magic... I'll go first...", Eri nods and says "Okay... Be careful...".
I smile and step forward towards the magiation, the moment I stepped into the ter of the magiation, a snow-white light fshes suddenly and the room is dyed with the light and I y eyes, at the same time, something invades my head knowing what it is going to do, I simply let it be, and soon I gh the time I fell into the abyss and everything I did in the Labyrinth like a revolving ntern.
The light sooles and I open my eyes, and in front of me now there is a young man who has gentle feminiures and a long, slender build, he wears bck-rimmed gsses and has shoulder-length bck hair tied up in a ponytail, and of course, is donning the same attire as the skeleton, he is Oscar Orcus the creator of this Labyrinth.
(Image Here - Oscar Orcus)
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[colpse]Well, more precisely a rec of him who starts saying, "You have arrived here after overing the trials... My name is Oscar Orcus, the person who created this Labyrinth, if I said one of the Traitors, would you uand?", I calmly look at it while it tinues "Ah, please don't ask questions, this is just a rec, unfortunately, it wouldn't be able to answer your questions... For the person to reach this pce, I will impart the truth of the world and what we fought for... This is the leftover message, I took this shape, please I want you to listen... We are traitors but we are also not".
Then Orcus started his story, a story I already knew in general as I remember this part of the novel, it is a tale of the battle between the Mad God and his desdants.
During the first years after the Age of Gods, the world was filled with strife, Humans, Devils, and Demi-Humans were stantly at war with each other, and the reason for their wars varies.
Territorial expansiohnic values, greed, and many others, but the biggest reason was that they were "Enemy of God", during that time the races and tries were finely divided.
Each of the races, and tries, would worship their own god, for their god's oracle, they tio wage their war and after hundreds of years of tless battles, came people who wao end this endless war, the group was called "Liberators" during those days.
They all had a on e, all of them were direct desdants of the "gods" that were followed in the Age of Gods, the leader of the "Liberators" had, by ce, found out the real iions of the gods.
The gods had urged the wars with the iion of having the people be the pieces in their war game, when he found this out, the leader set out on a missiohered like-minded people who would not stand for the gods maniputing the people and driving them to war for their games.
They located the pce where the gods resided, the "World of God", there were 8 of them that had the strength of aral times in "Liberators", and with their powerful strength challehe gods.
However, the pn fails before the fighting began, the gods were the puppet masters of the people, and they had gotten people the "Liberators" as the enemy of god that wa destru to the world, and the people they wao save were made to be their enemies.
There were plications in the process, after all, they couldn't wield their painst the people they were trying to protect, and when the "Liberators" were defeated they were beled as "Traitors", the traitors whot the grace of god and wao destroy the world.
In the end, their group had dwio the 8 stro, they were now the world's enemies and they judged that they were not strong enough to strike down the gods.
Each of them scattered around the ti and created the 8 Great Labyrinths to hide in, the Labyrinth was a trial to find a worthy person to hand over their powers, and with it, their hope to aplish what they could not.
Orcus smiles gently after he fihat long story and says "I don't know who you are or what reason you arrived here for, I will not coerce you into killing God... However, I wanted you to know, what we stood for... To you, I grant my powers, you are free to use it as you will... Please do not use this power to satisfy the evil in your heart. Our versation is at an end. Thank you for listening. Now your free will won't be under supervision".
After he finished what he said, the recorded image of Orcus disappeared and something invades my mind at the same time, my mind aches with a throb, but I e quietly because it is imprinting knowledge of a certain magid soon, both the pain and magiatiole, and I slowly exhale "Huu... That is quite a lot of knowledge there...".
I quickly check the knowledge I just received and 't help but excim "Really this A Age of God Magic is seriously OP... Creation Magic grants the user trol over any object, or structure, be it physiagical, or mineral, allowing the user to shape or transform them in any way they wish. It is the only form of Magic that allows for the creation of an "Artifact". But the true power of this magic is the ability to interfere with any inanic material!".
After that, I hear Eri's worried voice as she asks "Jayr... Are you okay?", I nod a out of the magiation, then I say "Okay, now it is your turn...", hearing that, Eri smiles and move toward the ter of the magiation, which shines again as it searches Eri's memories and instills in her mind the knowledge of the A Magic, while at the same time, repys Oscar's message.
After that, Eri looks at me and asks "Now... what do we do?", I look at Oscar's skeleton and say "Well... we rest here for a few weeks... Then we move on and search for the Labyrinth... After all, I'd like to use Creation Magiake some artifacts for us to make our journey easier... I'd also like to try the rainihod I came up with, and when bored we also farm the Hydra to increase our levels what do you think?".
Eri snuggles closer and says with a smile "I love the idea! It means that I'll have you all for myself for more without w about keeping away the other hussies that will for sure hound you in one way or another..." then she moves her hand over my crotd slowly she starts to rub my little brother over the clothes as she says "Now, why don't we go and try out that bath outside... I feel the need of a real deep ing... And don't fet the massage~".
As my little brets harder under her gentle caress, I think 'Why is my willpower so weak under such circumstances... Ahh! Who cares!', then bringing out the ese Cultivator in me, I take her in a princess carry and yell, "C pleasure!", I rush out of the room while Eri screams "Kyaaa...!".
Jayr POV - Tortus, Orcus Abode - 2013
In these few weeks, I spent a good part of my time farming the Hydra and doing my Limit Break training in my S.T., which sists of simply using Limit Break to push my body over the limits, and Dark Resurre to heal all the damage it stantly does so as to forcibly increase my stats, and the result speaks for itself.
Name - Pucci Jayr
Age - 16 Years Old
Gender - Male
Level - ???
Css - Adventurer
Strength - 35000
Vitality - 37000
Resistance - 37000
Agility - 38000
Magic - 41000
Magic Resistance - 41000
Skills - Martial Arts Mastery, Cooking Arts Mastery, Drawing Arts Mastery, Healing Arts Mastery, Music Arts Mastery, Sce Mastery, Smithing Arts Mastery, on Arts Mastery, Language Mastery, Chemistry Mastery, Tail Mastery, Water Element Affinity, Ice Element Affinity, Dark Element Affinity, Spell Melding, Magiipution, +Mana Discharge, +Mana pression, +Mana Emission, +Remote Manipution, +Increased Efficy, +Ether Absorption, +Body Strengthening, Image position, +Increased Imagination, +Multiple Spell Image position, Iron Stomabsp; Lightning Cd,+Lightniance, Air Walk, +Aerodynamic, +Quick Step, +Steel Legs, Gale ight Vision, Farsight, Detect Magic, Sense Presence, Sense Heat, Hide Presence, Petrificatioance, Paralysis Resistance, Poisoance, Fear Resistance, Diamond Skin, Steel Arms, Intimidate, Telepathy, Trag, Increased Mana Recovery, Limit Break, Creation Magic, Blessing of Culture, +Improved Learning, +Improved Teag, +Improved Libido, +Affinity for the Arts...
As a result of eating monster meat, once I reached level 100, the level stopped ging but my stats kept going up, and finally, it dispyed those ??? for my level, just like with Hajime's case, my growth limit also increased, just like my stats increased, and Status Pte is no longer able to measure my limits, that is why the level became ???.
But that isn't the only thing I did, I used Oscar's ring to open his workshop and used Creation Magiake some artifacts useful for our journey.
And right now, I'm in my S.T. admiring my test work, a futuristic looking motorbike all grey, made of Azantium ore, and enhanced with all kinds of magiake it harder to destroy, and 't help but grin, 'Heh... While I don't have Hajime's God Crystal or his transmutation magic, I have enough stifiowledge to build it... I also made a magic power version engine using some principles of the o version used by the Steel Cloths and here we have it, a magic-powered vehicle! Making this, my on and the most useful tool for our adveook a lot of my time and creativity! Especially since I had to build every pie the old fashioned way, thankfully what Mu and Dr. Asamori taught me is still useful... Anyway, Creation Magic is truly more patible with Hajime and his Transmutation Magic than with someone like me...'.
(Image Here - Motorbike)
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[colpse]Then I look at the first artifact I made, it is something to find the position of the other Labyrinths, its appearance is of an old school pass, but in it, I imbued and fused together some of the Special Magics I gained from the monsters.
Those magics are:
-Farsight, which allows an increased range of vision by fog mana into the eyes.
-Sense Presence, which allows the user to gain a better uanding of the surroundings and sense life signs along with being able to sense beings who utilize basic camoufge abilities.
-Detect Magic, which allows the user to deted perceive the flow of mana and activation of hidden ed spells and magic.
-Sense Heat, which allows the user to trad detect heat emitted around.
-Fht, which allows the user to predid perceive the movements of the oppo.
-Telepathy, which allows the user to unicate with others by a transference of thoughts from their mind, this one has a limited ra is still useful for what I need.
-Trag, which allows the user to mark pces or beings using their own mana and track them, is helpful to maps et the general idea of a different region than the user's current location.
And by bining all these magics together, I was able to create a bootleg version of Jack Sparrow's pass, only different from that pass, it doesn't point at what you truly desire, and you have to know what you are searg for, and to use it you need a hell lot of magic power just to activate it I need a third of all my Mana, and to keep it active there is a stant drain of 1% of my Mana, maybe in future I'll be able to improve it, but even like this pass, that I call Mana pass, is still a hell lot useful, I tested it and was able to lead me to all the monster and ores hidden in this Labyrinth that I knew of, no matter their distand position, in fact, it was also able to poioward Kouki's position, but that took a lot more Mana because of the distance.
As for the on, I choose to make ohat I use for both close and le bat, and took inspiration from the Gundam franchise to make it, the Tactical Arms, multifunal equipment capable of funing as a flight pack or a ohe flight option is still off the table as I want to imbue Gravity Magito it that I still do not have to make it more effit, but the foundation for it is there, right now, it is ying on the ground in its Sword Form, it has the shape of a greatsword, with a mainly blue fuller.
The Tactical Arms has currently 4 forms if you exclude the still-out-of-picture Flight Form, the Sword Form, a 2-meter rge sword and 350 kg, which also fun as a shield due to its sheer size, the bde has an incredibly sharp edge and even if it isn't able to cut the enemy's armor, the impact due to its size a easily damage internal ans or may even directly crush it in pieces.
(Image Here - Tactical Arms Sword Form)
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[colpse]Then there is, the Gatling Form, a four-barrelled 30mm Gatling gun, in this form, the sword bdes are used to make a bang stand to stabilize the gun while firing, and also protect me from enemy fire as well as serves as heat sinks during prolonged shooting, it fire physical projectiles, but it also has a Magic Mode, where I use my Mana and spell to create magical projectiles and enhaheir power, and be fired from two barrels each, and a mix of both is also possible.
(Image Here - Tactical Arms Gatling Form)
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[colpse]Then there are the mile forms, Sword Arm and Gatling Arm forms, the bdes of the Tactical Arms detach from the Gatling gun and bee two separate swords, pared to Sword Mode, Sword Arm Mode is more ve and will be used against melee bat orientated enemy, meanwhile, Gatling Arm, is a smaller, handheld version of the Gatling Form, it does not have the bdes of the Tactical Arms, and this makes it easier for me to fire upon multiple targets but it has lower accuracy, overall, I'm quite proud of the on I built.
Ahing I did was to see if it is possible to use Creation Magic to enhance my Crateris Cloth, because using Saori's blood to make it evolve into a God Cloth isn't really practical, for a single simple reason, it is a temporary upgrade, ohe divine energy in the blood is activated to transform the Cloth, it will be quickly used up, and after some time, the Cloth will return to its inal state, and to transform it bato a God Cloth it o be again doused in God's blood again.
Now, I found out, that it is possible to enhahe Crateris Cloth with Creation Magic, but I want to wait to do so, because the result will be better if I also use the other A Magiake it even more powerful, after all right now, it is still strong enough, as it is really close to a Gold Cloth in power and endurahat means that to damage it, one almost needs enough power to create or destroy a universe.
For Eri instead, I kept it simple, I simply gave her one of Oscar's spare ste rings so that she put some of her numerous skeleton puppets in it so that she easily summohen a pair of sharp daggers made of Azantium ore, and imbued with Gale Cws and Dark Element Affinity so that she use it in pce of her staff if she needs it, and since I do not have the God Crystal to make some Mana ste, I went for the best option, I made a set of earring and neckce with all my resistances in it, and a ring that helps with Mana Recovery, by both speeding up her natural recovery than by allowio absorb the Mana from the atmosphere, and also with Telepathy, so that she tact me in case we are separated and in danger.
Of course, when I gave her the ring, she was so happy that she literally jumped on me and started to assault my lips while she forcefully undressed me, that day she broke her personal record and was able to endure 4 hours before entering into an asm induced a with an obse smile on her beautiful face that was ed from pleasure, with her mouth hanging open as she drooled.
Anyway, today is finally the day we leave this Labyrinth after we spent 1 and half a month in it, we are now standing on the magiation that gave us the knowledge to use Creation Magid that will also lead us outside of this pce, there is only a little problem.
To activate this formation, you o use Oscar's ring, but if we use it, then Hajime and Yue will be stuck here, the only solution I have for that is obviously to quickly activate the formation then iime it takes to charge the needed Mana, I throw the ring back to Oscar's corpse that is still ying there unmoving.
And so after making sure that we have everything, I leave a message for Hajime and i my Mana in the ring, and soon the magic circle starts to shine, and I quickly throw the ring, and I made it just in time, as a strong lightly blinds me, and I feel the effects of the magic as it s our bodies, 'Quite a rough use of teleportation... But well at least it is safe...'.
My view is still filled with the light from the magic circle, but the air definitely feels different, although nothing could still be seen, it is clearly different from the air at the depths of Labyrinth, and sensing a breeze, my cheeks begin to loosen, 'Ahh I really missed the open air... Being in an enclosed space for a month and a half was truly awful... Even my S.T. isn't that good to live in it... While the air is , and there is light, everything is still with, and the space avaible in there is only 1 km^2...'
After the light settles, the sight that came into view is that of a dark cave, and the moment, I hear Eri's fused voice, "Wait, what?", as she probably expected to already see the surface, so I quickly hold her hand and expin "It's a secret passage… it's not unon for it to be hidden", hearing that Eri nods and says "Ah, is that so? It certainly is. There is no way that the entrao Orcus' Abode wouldn't be hidden, right?", and after that, Eri and I advahrough the pitch-bck cave without any problems.
But, on the way, we enter many doors with seals and traps, and since we left the Orcus Ring behind, we are forced to slow down to deal with them, and after a while, an annoyed Eri releases her puppets to deal with it with brute force using the number advantage and the fact that in the period I spent training and creating the artifact, she didn't stay still but worked on improving her magiow her skeleton puppets not only retains the skill and magic they had in life, but as long as Eri has magic power, and they aren't totally destroyed, they alsee themselves by taking the bones from other skeletons, or enemies.
Anyway, our eventful advance tinues until we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, it is the sun, the real ohis time, we stop for a moment and look at each other with a smile on our faces then we simultaneously run towards the light, and as roach the light that is gradually growing rger, I clearly feel and breathe the air from the surface, 'It is really different from the stagnant air of the Labyrinth and that of the S.T., is cool and refreshing... Hell, sometimes I thought that the sulfuric air of the Underworld was better... '.
Feeling renewed and gratified, we both jump into the light and reach the long-awaited surface, and quickly I remember where this exit leads, to the humans who live in this world, this pce is hell on Tortus, aion ground.
An unknown number of powerful and brutal monsters lives here and as if that isn't enough, magic could hardly be used where we are standing, 'An average of 1-2 kilometers deep, 900 meters wide, while spanning 8 kilometers from the Grue Desert in the west to the Haltina Sea of Trees in the east, the great scar that divides the north and south of the ti, the people he Raise yon...'.
Eri and I are currently outside of the cave at the bottom of the Raisen Grand yon, and although we are at the bottom of the yon, bright, warm light pours down from above, and the fragrance of the earth mixes with the wind and tickles my nose, and using my hand to cover for the blinding light I say, "We are finally out...", and Eri hug me and simply says "Un...".
But soon our peaceful atmosphere is interrupted by the monster of this pce that starts to surround us, I look at them with a smile and say, "Leave them to me... You 't use magi this pce because the magic power used to formute magic will be dispersed by the yon... so just focus on defending yourself".
Then I pull out my Tactical Arms from my S.T., and with a grin, I say, "This is also a good occasion to fully test this baby...".
Odyin
