Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue Volo - 2013

  Soon after making the friendly bet with Eri, awo Magma Serpents are attag me from my sides, on the right, and on the left, but I withdraw at high speed using the thrusting power of the Tactical Arms Flight Form, then flipping in mid-air, I shoot at one and use a weak Omnipotens Dis to push away the other before shooting it with the Gatling.

  Then I hear Eri yell, "I'm going to win this!" thearts a long t, "Chaotic sorcery of the Wise Neancer, answer my call. Imbue your subject with your wrathful power. Lay waste of my enemy until nothing is left behind but a desote dead world. Hellfire Armaggeddon!!", as soon as her t ends, from under her a huge bck magic circle spreads until it covers almost all the surrounding space, then to my immense surprise all the Undead Puppets under Eri's and bee abze in dark bck fire a out a creepy silent roar, before rushing toward all the Magma Serpents in their viity.

  I look stupified as the bzing undead, quickly start to decimate the Magma Serpents, every ehat they touch is quickly ed by the bck fmes on their bodies but the sed the dead Magma Serpents raise again this time with bck fmes enveloping their bodies and start to attack the ma Serpents, not even the magma uhem is spared as I clearly see that the bck fire is slowly overp it turning it into a scary bck magma that corrupts all the Magma Serpent hiding in it.

  Seeing this I 't help but look stu this spectacle while thinking, 'What the...!! When did Eri e up with this kind of spell? I was already surprised that she was able to bihe Dark attribute with the Fire, one which she doesn't even have an affinity for, and create that crazy spell Hellfire, a spell that creates a truly overpowered fme, that reminds me el's one... But now she even merged the Hellfire into her Neancy, creating something so absurd and scary! It empowers her undead puppets, causes tremendous burn damage, moreover, it verts the fallen enemies into allies...'.

  But at the same time, I also notice the drawback of this spell, for o really cost a lot, as I see Eri breathing heavily showing clear signs of Mana Exhaustion, two it doesn't st long as the Hellfire is truly too powerful, even now I clearly see some of the undead burns to nothing as they fail to resist the bck fmes' might, this means that once you cast the spell all the puppets us effect will bee ash after some time, and third, even Eri isn't immuo the bck fmes she created, as I see that she quickly distanced herself while riding the only non-burning skeleton undead.

  Then I look at the crystals regurly buried oer circumference of the rock wall of the isnd ahat mostly emit light, o haven't, theing out a sigh I mutter, "It seems that Eri is the clear winner of this bet, oh well it isn't so bad... Anyway, it seems that if the cept: of a prolonged battle while having one's tration dowo a nasty enviro, is right, then the expectation of the creator of this trial could be said as pletely off the mark because Eri totally ow!".

  Eri's bzing undead puppets, rip apart anma Serpent leaving only six to kill, at the same time, even if I lost this friendly petition, I tio shoot with my on and deal with two more Magma Serpens leaving only four still alive.

  , awo Magma Serpents are trying to do a pitae, ambushing from below where the o of magma is hiding their presence, however, I t anravity spell, "Saecuria Viverra (Worldly Pull)!!", and with it, I manipute the attractive force to pull the hidden Magma Serpents that escaped from the corruption of Eri's spell towards me and quickly fire two other shoots, hitting them on the head and instantly killing them, then I say, "With this only two more left".

  Then I notice a Magma Serpent that is rapidly charging at Eri while scattering bullet-like masses of magma, however, Eri riding her Undead Puppet is swaying like a dang falling leaf and avoids the masses of magma.

  When she is about to be devoured by the Magma Serpent, she cast another Scatterdust, the mana-disturbing spell, temporarily stopping it in pce, giving time to her bzing uo assault the Magma Serpent and turn it into another bzing undead.

  Finally, the st Magma Serpent tries to surprise attack me from the o of magma below, but with the aerial superiority given to me by the Tactical Arms Flight Form, I'm easily able to dodge its attad shoot o Sagitta Magica towards the interior of the opened mouth of Magma Serpent ing from below.

  At the moment of impact, a bck shockwave scatters the magma and crushes the core killing the st Magma Serpent, and pleting the st challenge of the Grue Volo, then with a smile on my face, I say, "This is the end", at the same time, all the bzing undead under Eri's trol start to crumble into nothingness oer another, uo withstand the Hellfme's might.

  Then Eri es closer and says, "Finally we are almost doh this...", then with a smile, she adds, "... Aurn I expect a rexing massage from my charming lover as he promised", I nod and move closer to her and whisper in her ear, "Yup, you wo... After we are done here, I give you a really satisfying massage~", then holding her body close, I jump on the edge of the now unprotected isnd, as the magma dome we saw at the beginning above the isnd has already disappeared, and we see a jet-bck building in exge.

  Nearby the building there is a disk floating a few timeters above the ground, seeing that I mutter, "It might be the thing normally used to get out from the usual shortcut at the end of each byrinth...", then we tio approach the jet-bck building.

  At a g only looks like a tall building without any door, but a part of the wall has the same crests of the Seve Labyrinth carved in, so we move toward it, standing before that part of the wall, the wall soundlessly slides allowing us to ehe building.

  As we step inside, once again, the door closes soundlessly behind us, then I start to look around, but this is a quite bare pce, there is nothing in this ply the four bare walls.

  While I look around, I feel Eri tugging my arm to catch my attention, I look at her ahat she is pointing at a certain pce, "Jayr, over there... A magic circle", and ihe thing she is pointing at is a plex and exquisite magiation, the magic array fe of Gods Magic.

  We look at each other and nod then we walk into the formation, and just like the st times in both Orcus and Reisen Labyrinth, it activates with a bright light and our memories flow out without permission, trag how we quered the dungeon.

  Then, after firming that we quered the Labyrinth by subjugating all of the Magma Serpents, the Age of Gods magic is directly carved into our brains, a, I hear Eri mutter, "… I see, this is Spatial Magic... The seed for teleportation, pocked dimensions, and maybe even summoning... I feel quite patible with this one... At least more than Gravity and Creation magic...".

  At the same time, the light from the magiation dims and a part of the wall opens while shiniers begin to appear on the wall in front of us, "I sincerely wish for the free will of the people iure – Naiz Gruen Caliente", seeing this message Eri ents, "… How simple", after saying that, she walks to the wall with fist size opening and takes out the pendant from it, it is simir to the proofs of quering of other Labyrinths, but the circur pendant has different design engraved on it, it is a woman holding a mp only in pce of the mp there is a hole.

  Eri then quietly put it around my ned says, "… Now that we have obtained both the magid proof. is how we get out of here", I look at the pendant and say, "Probably like with Orcus Great Labyrinth, this will open the shortcut to the outside", hearing that she nods and says "The's go...", and so we both walk back to the sliding door that again opens itself soundlessly, and oside, I hold the pendant and start to point it at some random dire hoping that it does something, but nothing happens until I point the pendant towards the ceiling.

  Then, a cra the ceiling begins to open, and along with the circur hole on the ceiling, several doors above it also open, looking at it, I say, "That is clearly the way out of this pce, quite straightforward...", hearing that, Eri, while fanning herself with her hand, says, "Well, let's just get out of this pce... I have grown tired of the heat of this pce!", then she summons her flying undead puppet, and we jump on top of it.

  But just as we are about to lift off, I pick up something in the distand say, "Hold it! Something is ing!", and fog on it, I pick up the presence of several monsters flying down the shortcut I just opened, 'Their number are around 100 and one of them is quite big!', moreover, I sehat they also noticed our presend that all of them are gathering their mana to release an attack.

  I quickly yell "Eri, hide behihey are hostile!", and after my warning, at the same time, numerous fshes of light pour down.

  These are all small beams of trated mana simir to the one released by the Hydra, each light of death has the power to surely destroy one's body, but I remain calm in front of this attad gathering my Mana, I raise my hand and prepare to unleash my spell at the right time, meanwhile, then numerous beam quickly move toward us unleashing a huge waterfall-like pressure.

  Ohey are close enough I t, "Omnipotens Dis!! (Almighty Push!!)", direg all the repulsive force of the spell toward the ining beams above us, which easily disperse them all away at the same time, but then I feel another beam ing toward us, only this one is a lot stronger and bigger than the previous os power is almost ten times strohan one of the smaller beams from before.

  So I urge my Mana again and unleash my stro gravity spell ting, "Spēion Mikron Bary Men!", and create a small bck swirling sphere, basically a small bck hole, that swallows the beam whole, obliterating it out of existence.

  Then, a man's voice that is half-amazed and half-admiring be heard from the sky, "… A unknown force that ot be overlooked... Just like he said... You are all too dangerous to be left alive!", I look up towards the sky where the voice came from and see several colorful dragons and a pure white, gigantic dragon that couldn't be pared to the rest is flying, and riding on top of the gigantic white dragon back there is a red-haired, bck-skinned, slightly pointed eared man with golden eyes from Demon race, at the same time, I try to remember him, 'He looks familiar... Especially with that dragon... Is he one of the bad guys, right?'.

  (Image Here - Freid Bagwa)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Then I hear the Demon race man say as he gres at us with his dangerously narrowed golden eyes, "It is truly unbelievable for you to easily ter a barrage of 50 Ash Dragons. Moreover, the Breath of my white dragon is also incapable of killing you… You, just what are you? Just how many Age of Gods magics do you have?", I clearly see that he is now cautious of us almost intimidated by my previous dispy.

  Even so, I calmly step forward and with a smile I ask, "Before questioning, how about you introduce yourself first? Does the Demon race have no manners at all? Let me show you how it is done...", then with a grin I start my introduy name is Jayr Pucci. I'm 16 years old. My house is in another Universe where beings a lot strohan you reside, and I am not married. I work as an Adventurer in this world, and I get into my Catamaran to rest every day by 8 PM at the test. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get six hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a gss of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of intense exercise befoing to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until m. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the m. I tell you there were no issues at my st check-up. I'm trying to expin that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life with my girls. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone... Not even against your shitty God!".

  After my introdu, I hear Eri groan behi the same time, I see that the demon who still didn't introduce himself seems to be a little upset about something I said, as he ches his fist in fury even as he forces himself to be calm and say,s "… There's o introduce myself to those who will die soon", but then Eri walks o me and whisper, "Jayr, stop stalling for time, I have already recovered enough Mana, so we quickly deal with this idiot... I want to enjoy my prize...", theurns to the Demon race man and taunts him, "And you go bad do what you do best... Bend over a yod fuck you over while being grateful of all the shit he puts on you for his own amusement...".

  With his eyebrow twitg for an instant, the Demon race man replies with a tone somewhat lower than before, "I ge my mind. Bury this name of mio your flesh and bones. My name is Freid Bagwa. A God's Apostle who will give divine punishment to the heretics", I calmly look at him and say, "God's Apostle… I see. Were you allowed to introduce yourself as that because you obtaihe Age of Gods magic?".

  Freid seems really proud as he decres, "That's right. For Alva-sama, who had given to me God's powers, told to me directly, "My apostle". Therefore, all of my being is devoted to realizing my god's wish for he wishes only my people's best. Thus, I will use my all to deny you, whose existence will only be an obstacle", seeing him like that I realize that trying to vince him of Ehit and Alva true nature would be useless, 'Man... I clearly feel that his nature isn't bad... In fact, he isn't even an evil or cruel man... But he blindly trusts the God he worships... Well, not like I have any right to speak of that, I'm a Saint, a warrior of the Goddess Athena, but Athena a are totally different... At least my version of Athena, who is also my girlfriend, by the way...'.

  It seems that Eri also notices something as she moves closer to me and whispers, "Ugh... I feel like dealing with Kouki all ain... He wants to do good, but he is totally delusional and will twist facts to better match his own beliefs... I have now the sudden urge of killing him and use his corpse to screw Kouki...", I pat Eri's head and say, "Now, now... Let go of your rese... After all, you were able to meet me thanks to that...", she closes her eyes enjoying my toud simply says, "Un...", then I look at Freid and mutter, "Now what to do with him...?".

  But I do not have the time to think of a solution because Freid orders his moo attack, so I bring out my Tactical Arms Gatling Form aim it at the dragons, and pull the trigger, shooting an almost eorrent of bullets, however, several of the 3-4 meters long Ash Dragons move forward to intercept the attack trajectories, and immediately summon numerous piled up, triangur, reddish bck barriers to receive the attack.

  The barrier that received the full fory Gatling attack, doesn't even hold on for a few seds before it cracks, but soon more Ash Dragons e from behind and piled up another set of simir barriers, successfully blog my assault.

  When I look carefully, I notice that there are turtle-shaped monsters on the dragons' backs, their shells are shining in reddish bck, so these turtle-shaped monsters are most likely the ohat activated the barriers and think, 'So that is what those monsters do...', at the same time, Freid proudly says, "Did you think I only brought along these dragon-type monsters? You wouldn't be able to easily break through their defense, you know. This is the power that God granted me!", thearts a really long t, to unleash his spell, while at the same time, the dragon opens its mouth and start to trate and press extreme heat and magic power until the limit.

  But before he could tih his attack, Eri finishes her long t and cast her inal spell, "...Hellfire!", a, a huge amount of bck magic poears before Eri as she thrust her staff out, it press itself into a dark bck fme, that is then shoot out taking the shape of an enormous bck serpent-like fme, that quickly shoots forward melting through the barriers like they were made of snow and ing all the monster in its path, furthermore, she swings her staff direg the bck fme serpent that like a fsh it annihites the other monsters enrging the hole in the barrier formation.

  And the moment, using the Flight Form of my on I take advantage of that opening to quickly rush toward Freid, and once I'm close enough to him and his mount, I activate Body Reinfort magid Limit Break at the same time, and before they could react, I throunch hitting the dragon with such force that blows the dragon away, interrupting it from fog enough energy to release it dragoh.

  Blown away, Freid stops his t and instinctively gs to the white dragon, then he looks at me, the one who blew away the teers long white dragon, and opens his eyes wide in astonishment as he yells, "What the hell are you!? How someone have such monstrous strength!!? Are you even human?", at the same time, the white dragon recovers aaliate by firing numerous light bullets which are simir to the ohe Hydra used before, and soon the remaining ash dragon do the same and focus their fire on me.

  I focus on the ining light bullets and dodge them like a swaying fallen leaf, while at the same time, I use the Gatling Arm to assault Freid, but he has aurtle-shaped monster behind him, that quickly raises a barrier to protect him from the bullets.

  Covered by the barrier of the turtle-shaped monster, Freid is grinding his teeth as he looks at me in wohen, he once again begins to recite the t while the white dragon, flies at high speed to keep the distance as it again gathers and presses the fire and magic power in its mouth to release its dragoh, while the ash dragons buy some time for him.

  Then after charging for a few seds, the white dragon is just about to release its dragoh at me, but they all fot that I'm not alone, and the moment, Eri's voice is heard, "I won't let you! Hellfire!!", and she again releases her spell that takes the shape of a bck fming serpent, before moving like a fsh toward Freid and the white dragon about to swallow them whole.

  But the white dragon twists its body and fires its Breath Beam toward the ining spell, and the moment bd white fshes collide, scattering a violent shock wave, s that the o of magma right below, on the ter of the colliding point, is rampaging and geing gigantic tsunamis of magma.

  At first, Eri and the white dragon's attacks are equal, but soon Eri's spell begins to gradually push the white dragon's Breath, then I hear Freid say, "Kuh, for me to meet such strong oppos here… there's no other way. Although it is risky, I will use magic to enhance Ura-", but I take advantage of this moment to quickly rush behind him then I bihe Gatling Arm with the Flight Form before transf it all back to its Sword Form, and say, "Do you think I will let you do as you please?!", before attag him with it with a downward ssh while using some basic Gravity Magiake it even heavier and stronger.

  The turtle-shaped monster by Freid's side activates the barrier faster than Freid could react, but as my sword impacts it with such overwhelming force, that the barrier shining in reddish bck is easily smashed in pieces.

  Following that, I slip into the bosom of Freid who dispys his irritation and panid using once again Gravity Magiake my sword lighter, I quickly ge the dire of my previous ssh and attack him with an upward swing, "Guaah!?", by a hair's breadth, Freid escapes from being cut in two simply because I'm not aiming to kill him, however, my vertical ssh pletely cut off his right arm.

  And taking advantage of his stuate, I don't stop my attack, rotate my body using the momentum from ssh and back kick Freid, who barely guards using his remaini arm, "GAaAHH!!", but he could not kill the momentum behind my kick, and thus his left arm is crushed and his ans are damaged making him spit a mouthful of blood as he is horizontally blown away from the white dragon.

  Notig his master's disappearahe white dragon lost its tration and the bck spell quickly overwhelm its breath reag it in a dash.

  Seeing this, I jump off the white dragon, and the moment, Eri's spell grandly blows off the beam along with the white dragon who screams in pain as it is being blown away, "Roarrrr!!", but the csh against the breath weakehe power of Eri's spell by a lot, so the white dragon survives and somehow maain its bance mid-air even after its belly received the attack, then it immediately flies towards the ceiling.

  At the same time, Freid is saved by an ash dragon, that quickly moves toward the raising white dragon, and once close enough, Freid once again boards the white dragon with a jump, while all the remaining ash dragons gather around him.

  Meanwhile, I fly bad move o Eri, then I see Freid with both his arms gone one crushed the other cut off, while it gres at us then he says with a heavy breath, "… What a dreadful force. Two humans, a man with incredible martial might and magic powers, and that woman who is also not normal, such powerful magic that rivals that of the dragons. They are also possibly users of Age of Gods magid to have been able to beat me to this state even with the surprise attad the number advantage me, huh…".

  Squeezing those words, Freid stares me right in the eyes, and a frown marks his face, and looking back at him I say with a calm smile and an eveh, "So are you going to give up?", hearing my word his frown deepens as he asks, "Why are you going easy on me? I'm your enemy! You could have easily killed me before? So why spare me? I 't feel an ounce of killing i from you!".

  Seeing his state, I realize, 'He is fused... full of doubts about what is going on... Something must have happehat shook his belief, maybe it isn't impossible to make him see reason... Let's see if I pull off the stro, greatest, and most difficult teique of a certain yellow-haired ninja...'.

  Measuring carefully my words, I shake my head and reply to his question, "You aren't my enemy. I clearly feel that you aren't an evil man. You are clearly fighting to proteething... Only the one you believe in, yod, isn't what you truly think it is... He doesn't care about the demon rabsp; he and the od have been maniputing all the races for their own twisted game, everything you and your fellow demons had done and died for has been for nothing but the cruel amusement for them...", at the same time I think, 'Let's see if I pull off a Talk no Jutsu!'.

  Odyin