Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue - 2013

  In these few days, we went back to the Reisen Ge and using it as some kind of exclusive highway, we quickly run through it, and in some cases flew over some obstacles to keep moving in a straight lio reach the other side of this ti, the Grue.

  And after many days of stantly moving through those rocky monster-ied roads, what now greets ht is a brown world.

  These are the words that describe this pce perfectly, the sand is brown, formed by millions of minuscule grains, the hot wind that is blowing stantly throws up the sand and dyes the air brown, and in a 360-degree radius, that is the only one color as far as my eyes reach.

  Moreover, there are numerous sand dunes, big and small, whose surfaces are always stirred by the wind, moment by moment, the surface pattern of the dune is stantly ging, as if it is some kind of living being.

  The bzing sun and its unreserved heat make the temperature of the sand on the ground shoot up quickly, it easily exceeds 40 degrees celsius, and coupled with the fluttering sand, it is one of the worst kinds of enviros to travel in.

  However, it is only so for ordinary travelers, currently, inside such a severe enviro, Eri and I are easily traveling on my Magic Powered Bike advang casually while raising a dust storm, but of course, I also raised the roof of the bike to protect us from the wind and sand, at the same time I use some elementary Ice Magic to refresh the interior.

  And though there is her a road nor a pathway, we won't get lost thanks to my Mana pass, but even with all these things, this isn't the most pleasant way of traveling, as Eri weakly pins, "I hought that I would ever feel seasiess in a bike...", and indeed as there isn't any kind of road, and so the journey is quite a bumpy one, and I simply let out a sigh and say, "Sorry... I would have liked to use the Flight Form of the Tactical Arms to simply fly to our destination, but using the Mana pass and the Motorbike already burns a lot of Mana, if I also add the cost of the Flight Form to fly, then it bees too mud we could find ourselves in a nasty situation...".

  I feel slowly Eri nod, then I ask, "Do you want to go into my dimension...? At least, this way you rest ihena's Bidoof's ...", she thinks about it then she simply says "Un...", and so I stop aer my S.T., then pce Eri on the bed in my befoing once again outside to tinue moving.

  After watg the sand battering the window and the brown-colored world in silence for a while, I muttered, "This is really depressing... I never realized how b and depressing being alone could really be... Until now, I always had someone apanying me... my family, my sisters, grandpa, Seika, Saori, my fellow Saints... I was ruly alone... Then I came to this world and the excitement and the other champion took my attention away from the fact that for the first time in my life, I was truly alone and away from everyohat cares for me...".

  Giving a quick che the Mana pass to see if I'm still moving in the right dire, I tihen before I realize what is truly going on, the act with Eri happens... And again, I'm not alone anymore... Eri feels that she isn't helping me enough... But her presence alone makes this adventure more fun... They say don't stick your di crazy... But a LEGENDARY figure's Hot/Crazy Scale expins that a person is allowed to be crazy, as long as they are equally hot...".

  Ideally, you want your date to be above the diagonal line, called Vicky Mendoza Diagonal, indig that they are hotter than they are crazy, and in Eri's case, I still sider her above the diagonal.

  While thinking that, I tio drive my bike forward until I discover something outside the window far in the distance.

  Fog my gaze on it, I see that in a big dune on my right, there are numerous worm-like monsters, sandworms to be precise, that are gathering together to hunt their prey, a small group sisting of some kind of scorpion mohat are as big as a car, their numerous heads be seen at the top of the dune, as they rip apart those scorpions.

  Those sandworms are huge, about 20 meters on average, rge-scale monsters while the rgest ones were around 100 meters ih.

  They lived in this Grue and would usually submerge themselves underground and attack prey in their viity by opening their big, fangs-filled mouths from below.

  They specialized in surprise attacks due to being hard to deted are feared by people who crossed this rge desert as the gods of death.

  Fortunately, the sandworms themselves aren't very perceptive, so as long as one isn't so unfortunate as to e hem by act, they would her notior aim at anyone who was far away.

  Sihere is no i life involved, I decide to ighis and not get involved in it, but the moment, I feel many movements uhe bike and so I immediately accelerate.

  And the instant, from behind the bike, starting with a small part of its body surfag, a gigantic figure with the same color as the desert jumps out with its mouth open, it is anantidworm, moreover, I tio steer the bike left and right as if to draw an S on the ground at high speed, dodging the attacks from a sed and third sandworm that jumped out trying to swallow me whole.

  But the attack of the sandworms doesn't end here, now that they are out of the sand, these three huge sandworms, quickly e crashing down from above aiming at me, but I simply accelerate a away from the zone of impact, then I stop the bike, and standing o sands of this desert I say, "Haa... Quoting a famous zy guy... What a drag...", then I pull out my on in its Gatling Arm Form and prepare for the wave of attacks.

  I feel one of the sandworms quickly rushing toward me from below, and before it could jump out of the sand, I use some simple Gravity Magic to lighten my weight and jump really high, soon after my jump, the huge head of sandworm rushes out with its mouth wide open swallowing the bike whole.

  I look down at the triple-yered circur maw of the worm and pointing the Gatling at it I say, "At least I finally try the Magic Mode of the Gatling on a live target...", then I input my mana in the on through the handle and t, once again shamelessly copying a magic spell from Negima Universe, "Sagitta Magica, Series Obscuri!", and pull the trigger.

  The Gatling roars and fires a shower of multiple bck projectiles of pure destructive magic, that quickly bst the sandworm apart in a shower of blood, seeing that I grin and say, "Yup... It works like a charm... Not only it enhahe power of the spell, but it also lowers the ption and needs less focus for it... But of course, the drawback is that it only withstand basic spells, like the Sagitta Magica".

  Meanwhile, uhe effect of Gravity Magic, I'm still floating in the air waiting for the other two sandworms to make their appearance, and I don't have to wait for too long, as soon as the bullet-ridden sandworm falls on the sand, the other two quickly jumps out of the sand from two different dires, so I aim at oh the Gatling and t, "Sagitta Magica, Series Gcialis", firing sharp icicle 'bdes' at the target cutting it and freezing it apart, then I raise my hand toward the other one and t my old bread and butter spell, "Rupture!", and in front of me a magic circle appears, and from it, water es out as a high-speed cleaver that slices in half the unfortunate sandworm.

  After dealing with these three sandworms, I tinue floating because I notice that the sandworms on the dune from before are moving due to perceiving the sounds and impacts from the fight, then I look down at the first sandworm I killed aween its remains, I see my bike, it is undamaged, but practically covered in wuts and blood, 'Shit, I fot to put the bike in the Soulbouory! That will need some serious ing... What a pain...'.

  Then I decide not to wait for them to e over here and directly attack, I raise my hand pointing at the sky, and start to t, "Malleus Aquilonis!", and gee a huge mass of spherical ice above my head then I direct it toward the approag sandworms, quickly killing them all and geing a dust storm upon impact.

  The sand n that was raised is just like aion of a volo, of course, a lot of sand is mixed with the crushed meat and red blood of the sandworms.

  After dealing with the worms, I stop using Gravity Magid nd on the sands he corpse of the first sandworm, then I walk close to the bike and almost gag from the awful smell, it is a mixture of rotten egg, rotten durian, and the worst smelling shit, plus all the blood and gore, so with tears in my eyes I excim, "Holy Athena's Tits! It is so bad that it be used as a chemical on... These things are more deadly dead than alive... No this 't tinue!".

  And uo ehis smell any longer, I press my acupoints and y sense of smell, then I start to work on ing the bike, of course after getting away from the chemical on of mass destru.

  First, using magic I envelop the bike in a big water ball, then I start to spier to wash away all the dirt and gore from it, then I pull out the bike from the now dirty reddish-bd brown water ball, and freeze the ball before using Gravity Magiake it float away from this p, 'It is better that no other i soul smell this thing... It is so bad that before I y sense of smell, I was starting to see some kind of halluation, any longer and maybe that smell would stiy soul... it is so bad that I really do not know what is worse this smell or Hades' Curse! Maybe I'll keep some to use against some nasty characters that o be taught a lesson...'.

  After getting rid of that nightmarish chemical on, I again envelop the bike in a water ball, but this time I pull out a tank of vinegar and mix it with the water, then I again spin the mixture, and after two hours I was finally able to get rid of that smell from the bike and just to be safe I also had a shower in vinegar, then I restart my jouroward the location of the Labyrinth, Grue Volo, that it is situated 800 kilometers towards the north of the Dukedom of Ankaji, it is a huge active volo five kilometers in diameter and 3,000 meters in altitude, that resides almost at the ter of the Grue.

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue Volo - 2013

  After many hours, we finally reach our target, it doesn't have a e-like appearance simir to those of normal active volos, but it has a dome-like, ft top made of va, and looking at it I think, 'It would be more appropriate to call it a gigantic hill than a mountain... However, the altitude and scale are just that much abnormal that calling it a mountain isn't wroher...'.

  Then I think ba what Miledi told me about this pce, 'The Grue Volo is only known as one of the Seve Labyrinth... However, unlike Orcus Great Labyrinth, it isn't visited much by adventurers. It is because of the danger inside and how troublesome it is. In addition, uhe Orcus Labyrinth monsters from whom the magic stones are gathered, these resources are scar this pce… those are the basic reasons, but the foremost is actually because only a few people are capable of even reag the entrance... And now I uand why...'.

  The reason is, that the Grue Volo is ed by a gigantic, swirling sandstorm, the storm's scale is so huge that it pletely hides the Grue Volo, and these tornados made of the sandstorm are just like a flowing wall.

  Moreover, a rge number of monsters, such as Sandworms, are lurking ihe sandstorm, and they would, for sure mercilessly make surprise attacks within such a pce that has a limited range of view.

  While I'm looking at the sandstorm surrounding the volo, I hear Eri behind me say, "I am gd we aren't walking there... And that you built this bike with a vertible roof...", ahat like me she has gaze fixed on the sandstorms in front of us.

  I turn my head and smiling, I say, "The's not wait any longer and go!", and turning the handle I make the bike dash forward, charging into the gigantidstorm, at the same time, I use Gravity Magi the bike to make it heavier to be sure that we aren't blown away by the strong wind.

  Ihe sandstorm is a fully brown-painted world, it is too hard to see ahead as the blowing sands block my sight, so I turn on the headlight made out of Green Light stone from Orcus Labyrinth, which cut through the dim pce where the sunlight ot read tinue our advance.

  Our speed is only 30 km/h, and cheg on the Mana pass I mutter, "If the informatio before was accurate, we would break through the sandstorm within five minutes...", but then I again sense some movement below us and say "Brace yourself...", and uedly Eri adds, "...Winter is ing", which makes me almost steer in the wrong dire, but I soon focus and start to make a zig-zag movement to dodge three sandworms with their big mouths open that jumped out from below.

  Evading the ambush, aing away without g about them I turn my head and look at Eri shocked by what she just did, but she that looks at me with a smile and simply says, "What? I also watch TV series... And I have seen all 3 seasons of Game of Thrones, I have to admit that I quite enjoy the series and my favorite character is Cersei... Now that I think about it... we go to the Game of Thrones Universe ? There are quite a few characters that I'd like to make disappears or teach a little lesson...".

  But before I could reply, two more sandworms jumps out to attack from both sides of the bike, their timing is very good, and if I don't do anything the bike will be hit for sure, but it would only be blown away and not damaged by such hit, even so, I prepare to accelerate to dodge them, but Eri says, "... leave it to me".

  Hearing her, I uatingly keep the handlebar straight, then, the gigantis dash out of the brown-colored world, however, the attacks ing from the sandworms from the left and right side couldn't even touch the bike, as Eri ts "Obsidian Vortex", which is a beginner level Gravity Magic that Eri uses to create a gravitational field around a nearby target, it alters gravity's hold oarget to make them lighter or heavier.

  And she used it on both the sandworms making them crash heavily on the sand, and even perish uheir own increased weight, meanwhile behind us, the three sandworms from before are still following.

  They have siderable speed as they advander the ground, but I tio ighem as they won't be able to reach us, so I turn toward Eri and say, "Good job... That was some excellent Gravity Magic, I see that you have worked hard on it", hearing my praise, Eri brightly smiles and says, "Un... But this is still the most I do with it... Back to the question, what do you say? You will go around ahose helpless people and I will just make some unsightly people disappear...", to which I simply decide to reply with, "I'll think about it...", while thinking, 'I'm not really ied in that Universe... Hell, at first the only reason I watched GOT was my ex-girlfriend... But maybe once I gather everything I o survive it could be o take a vacation there with everyone...'.

  Afterward, we were also attacked by brown-colored, gigantic spiders, and ant-like monsters, however, all of them were crushed by Eri's gravity magic without aplishing anything, not even halting our advance, and after a while, we finally broke through the gigantidstorm that had obstructed a lot of adventurers before and arrive at a rocky mountain several times bigger than Ayers Rock.

  It is a silent pce surrounded by the wall-like sandstorm where the blue sky could be seen up above, the eye of the storm, I look at it and say "The entrao Grue Volo is at the top", then we tio travel up on the slope using the bike.

  While riding up the slope I notice that the exposed rocky surface is reddish red in color, and steams gushes from here and there, a clear indication of the heat that is gathered in this pce.

  Before long, the angle of the slope bees too difficult for the bike to advance, so we get out to reach the top of the mountain on foot, but as soon as Eri puts her foot on the ground she simply grunts "Um… i-it's hot", meanwhile, I put the bike in my S.T. then simply nod and say "Indeed.. the heat is in a different scale pared to the heat of desert's dry weather… While I'll be fi would be better to quickly quer the Labyrinth...".

  So without losing any more time, we move towards the mountain top, climbing the rocky pce quickly, as a result, we are able to reach the top of the mountain ihan one hour.

  At the top there is a plex pce buried by rocks of various sizes and forms, there are rocks with pointed surfaces and also those with slippery, smooth surfaces, It is just like an exhibition of strange objects, but what catches my attention is an exceptionally huge rocky formation, a group of strange-shaped rocks, that form an arch-shaped structure with the length of teers.

  And without hesitation, I lead Eri toward it, and on front of the arch, my lips twitch a little while Eri snorts and says jokingly, "It seems that you once agai with your nemesis...", indeed, uhe arch, we find a huge staircase that tinues on into Grue Volo, I ignore her little jab at my hate for the most sadistic of humaion and decide to try let go this senseless grudge that I have with stairs, and say, "Let's do this!", and Eri besides me summons a few skeletons to scout ahead and says, "Un!", theogether move forward and being the quest of our 3rd Labyrinth.

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue Volo - 2013

  The inside of Grue Volo is even more ued than the Orcus Great Labyrinth and Reise Labyrinth, but rather than the difficulty, it is the interior's structure that is ued.

  First, magma is flowing mid-air like rivers, the streaming, scorg red magma in mid-air is just like huge, jumping dragons, which makes the challenger, in this case, us, be cautious not only about the magma on the ground but also above the magma above us.

  Moreover, "Ukya!", I quickly pull Eri over as she lets out a girly scream, while a jet of magma suddenly spouts from the ground redug in ash an Undead Puppet that was uo dodge in time, seeing that, Eri hugs me and says, "Thank you Jayr... It was impossible for me to perceive that… This pce sure is nasty...", exactly what happened a few seds ago, the magmas abruptly spouts from all around the walls.

  It is really abrupt and difficult to perceive any prin of it really simir to that of a booby trap, fortunately, I have my senses and the special magic Heat Perception, without it, our quering speed would've falleo the o be even more cautious of our surroundings.

  Ahing that made it truly difficult is the boili, this Labyrinth is naturally hot due to magma streaming all around the passage and broad space which makes us feel like being inside a sauna, or to be more accurate, above a heated frying pan, in fact as we tinue walking our bodies are now totally drenched i, feeling the clothes stig to my body I ent "The heat is the most troublesome thing about this pce...", which earn a nod from Eri.

  While sweating, we tio advance while evading the drops and the spouting of magma, and in a certain broad space, we find a pce that has a clear indication of being mined.

  The pce is worn down by cuts that seemed to e from something like a pickaxe, but there is a small, faint pink-colored crystal peeping from one part of the wall, but we decide to ig as even if it has some value the crystal is too small and we do not care for such things so we move ahead.

  While annoyed by the sta, we tinue our dest until we reach the 8th floor, but as soon as we step on the floor, I feel a strong hot wind and see a huge bzing fme that moves quickly toward us as it advances, it drairal on the e-colored wall.

  But I calmly move in front of Eri and t "Ice Shield!", creating a shield made of ice to block the bzing fme, and soon the bze and the shield csh against oher, raising a huge amount of steam as they nullify each other, seeing this I click my tongue and think, 'Okay using Ice Magi this pce isn't the brightest idea... it costs more and the spells are also weakened and the same probably applies to water spells... So for elements, it is better to stick with Darkness ravity...'.

  As the steams quickly disperse, we see the identity of our attacker, it is a bull that stands in the middle of the magma, and its whole body is also magma, it has two sharp curved horns on its head, and fmes are ing out of its mouth from time to time as it takes heavy breaths.

  Maybe because the Magma Bull is angry that its peculiar magic, the bzing fme attack, was easily nullified by Ice magic the loud sounds of its hoof paws on the ground be heard as it takes the usual charging stahen it attacks by firing a pressed fme from its mouth.

  The ser-like, pressed attack from the Magma Bull carries several times the power of a normal fme attack, but even so, I stand calm in front of su attack, I raise my hand and t in greek, "Spēion Mikron Bary Men!", and create a small bck swirling sphere, basically a small bck hole, that disperses the Magma Bull's atta an instant, then tioward the monster soundlessly obliterating the upper part of its body as soon as it came in tact with it.

  Looking at the effect of this magiod, this is another spell I came up with, Spēion Mikron Bary Men is an attack spell that created a small sphere that is the equivalent of a bck hole, upon tact with the target, it obliterates everything in a certain small radius, and sihe size is small it doesn't uch mana, well at least not for me, it is at the level of an intermediate spell, the only downside is that it is retively slow it is more effective as a close to mid-range surprise attack, I was lucky that the bull stood still there.

  Odyin