Freid POV - Tortus, Grue Volo - 2013

  I look down at the unbelievable pair that alone overwhelmed my force of over 100 monsters, now reduced to a little less than half, my gaze moves to the young woman, she has short bck hair that is kept in a tiny bob and brown eyes be seen behind her gsses, she is riding a skeleton wyvern, and is calmly studying the situation, 'She is a dreadful master of magic the likes I have never heard and seen before, that spell was able to beat Uranos' Dragoh, my stro familiar a monster enhanced with the Age of Gods magic that turned him into one of the stro monster race, a Dragon... Even so, that bck fire was able to overwhelm the Dragoh and even injure Uranos!'.

  Then my gaze move to the young man who is flying with that straifact, he is tall, with messy dark blue hair and almost shining crimson eyes an air of absolute fidence emanates from his whole being, and his st words still resound in my mind, and the pain of the wounds I received in that brief frontation I had with him is still clear in my memory, like the fact, that he had more than once spared my life when he could have easily killed me, 'This is ridiculous! How could Alva-sama work with that despicable Ehit the god of the human race!! He is the god of the demons always ready to lend us his aid when we he most! It's thanks to him and his guide that the demons have survived until now! If it wasn't for the fact that Ehit summohose "heroes" we would have already won this war and we would finally be safe from the treacherous humans! Showing everyohat the Demon Race is truly the superior one!'.

  While all this goes through my head, I hear that Jayr guy speak again, "I know that you won't simply believe my words... But think of everything you have gohrough, all the lives that had been lost, all the sacrifices the demons have made, and about this war with the humans, isn't strahat even after all this time, this war never ended?... Don't you think that is strange? Every time this war is about to end and peace is finally in sight, something happens from one of the sides, and you go back to fighting in full force!".

  These words once again resound in my mind, stunning me on the spot, thehing I have gohrough in my life surfaces in my mind, one se after another.

  How I was born into a military family in the demon nation of Garnd, how, at some point, my entire family had been killed during the demons' ongoing war with the humans.

  Afterward, I ted by the grand general of the demons' army, that raised me like his own son, and I eventually enlisted into the army, as a way to repay my adopted father for having raised me.

  However, my foster father had fallen gravely ill, and desperate to save him, I traveled to the Frost Caverns of See after learning from the demon lord Dienleed Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl-sama, the voice of Alva-sama whurly give him guidahat I would be granted a form of A Magic upon successfully quering it.

  How despite the hardships during the journey, whiearly resulted in my death multiple times, I ultimately succeeded in clearing the byrinth, but unfortunately, the A Magic I had acquired could not help me in g my foster father, as it only has the power to turn monsters into my familiars, and magically empower them or at least that is what I'm able to do with it, as ter I learhat Maoshi is able to do a lot more with it.

  To make matters worse, I learhat my foster father had died from his illness while I was on his journey, and was simply handed a will upon my return home.

  Then, utterly distraught by these ret events, I once agai my home and traveled south in order to be alone.

  While during my travels, I came across an injured white wyvern, whose flock had been utack by a swarm of giant monster spiders, I was intrigued by the wyvern's uniquely colored scales and sought to have it bey familiar.

  The wyvern could sense how strong I was and knew immediately that it was no mate, but still chose to stand its ground against me, and as it charged towards me, I mao restrain the wyvern with s made of light magic.

  As I repared to alter the wyvern, I ceased after questioning the point of even doing so and released it from my magic s, but a moment ter we heard a loud scream that came from another wyvern that was fighting the giant spiders.

  This pelled the white wyvern to rescue its rade, despite the injuries it had sustained, and after the wyvern's failed attempt to protect the rest of its flock, the spiders were prepared to kill them but stopped in fear when I suddenly showed up beside the wyvern.

  I was impressed at the wyvern's determination to protect its brethren, in spite of the overwhelming odds against him, so I pced my hand over the wyvern's forehead, to which it did not resist my gesture, and we mentally bonded where we saw each other's memories.

  Suddenly, the two of us were entrapped by webbing from the leader of the spiders, however, we were uned with it and I instead proceeded to turn the wyvern into my familiar, which it eagerly accepted.

  I then used Metamorphosis Magid enveloped the wyvern in a pilr of light and transformed it into a white dragon, and together, we mao defeat the swarm of spiders.

  Afterward, I transformed the other surviving wyverns into familiars as well, then the now white dragon held a burial ceremony for its brother that had been killed by the spiders, I decided to name my new partner "Uranos", which meant 'protector of the skies'.

  Then I decided to return home from my travels and used my magic to tip the scales of the demons' war against humanity in their our by trolling more monsters and having them serve us, and at some point, I had also been appointed as the supreme ander of the demons' army.

  Following that, things started to ge, the heroes from another world were summoned by Ehit to fight the demons, and at the same time, that strange being named Maoshi came and offered his aid in exge for our support, he told us that he also came from another world, a world different from the one of the heroes summoned by Ehit, he came here on his own power simply because he has reached the limit of power that he gain in his own world, and hope that here he find a way to break through this limit and grow even stronger.

  I felt that something was off with that guy, but the demon lord Dienleed-sama accepted his offer and told Maoshi about the 7 Great Labyrinths and the Age of Gods magic that they tain, and soon after he also went on my same jouro the Frost Caverns of See, aoo was able to quer it, and once he came back, the first thing he did was beat Mikhail so much that he almost died because he gave him some wrong information, then he was also about to force himself on Cattleya, but luckily I was there in time to stop him, but I was too te for Mikhail, all his limbs were irreparably broken.

  Seeing him in that state enraged me, and I started to fight that monster, and he simply enjoyed every moment of it, not g about any colteral damage he simply unleased one big move after the hing hard, as he brought death, destru, and suffering to the capital and its citizen, moreover, no matter how I fought, I wasn't able to deal any kind of damage, he shrugged off most of my and Uranus' attad magic like it was nothing simply using his own body.

  After a few minutes, Alva-sama desded and forcefully stopped the fight with his Divine Powers, I thought he was going to punish Maoshi for what he did, but no, he simply said that what Maoshi did was a trial to prove who among the demoruly worthy of following his gudiace, and even if a little upset I reclutantely accepted, then back to the pace Maoshi told us that he has a pn to deal with the human heroes, and without g about the demon lord he went away with Alva-sama's permission.

  Meanwhile, that fight showed me that my strength still isn't enough to protect the demon race, so I decided to travel toward the Grue Volo so that I quer it and gain ane of Gods magic, but as soon as I came I found the top of the enormous hill that is the Grue Volely open, and so I took advantage of that opening to quickly desd, and there I saw these two humans here.

  Without hesitation, I attacked them thinking that they were some of the summoned heroes, but their strength is way to pared to the one our spies reported, especially the man he gives me the same hopeless feeling as Maoshi, and ter wheroduced himself he also said that he is from another Universe.

  A frown grows more pronouny face as I gre at them and think back to everything that happened, 'The war... My family... My foster father... the Labyrinth... the Age of Gods magic... The 7 betrayers... The summoned heroes... These "invaders" from other worlds... Could they all really be somewhat ected back to Alva-sama a? Sure thinking back at everything, the timing of some events is for sure suspicious... But that could simply be a ce...'.

  Just when my mind is chaotically thinking of every little detail searg for proof that what this young man is telling me is all a hoax to make me betray my people and God, I again hear his voice, "Look, I uand that for you is difficult to believe in what I said... Hell, if I was in your pce I would also be suspicious of some strahat tells me that everything I believe until now is a lie without any crete proof... So I have a proposal for you...".

  I decide to listen and nod, but I gre at him as I'm still suspicious of his motive, about why he is going through all this trouble to vince me, 'Could all of this be a trap... But why?', but he ignores my clear distrust and says, "I simply ask you this... e with us and see for yourself what is truly happening in this world... Do not trust my words, or take the words of yod franted, just trust in what you see and make a decision yourself about what you want to do, and what is best for the Demon race... In exge, I will help you in quering the other Labyrinths and promise you that I will not hurt any i member of the Demon Race. What do you say?", and as these words left his mouth he offer me his hand.

  This seems almost an offer too good to be true, but even so, before I fully decide to it to this gamble, I ask the question that keeps appearing in my mind, "Why? Why are you doing all this when you could simply kill me?", then a smile forms on his face as he says, "Because you reminds me of my friends and rades... You do not know this, but in my world, I'm a Saint, a warrior following the Goddess Athena, who took as her duty to protect the world from the greed and ambition of ods, we fight against the evil forces of these Gods for peace, love, and justice together with oddess at our side! You have the same spark and will inside you and I want to see where will you go and what will you attain if I nudge you toward the right path... Basically, this is simply a whim of mine, Believe it!".

  Looking at his outstretched hand, I'm still struggling with what choice to take, 'On one side I feel that is preposterous that Alva-sama is truly w with the diabolical human God Ehit to manipute all of us for some kind of twisted game just to keep themselves eained, but, really thinking ba what I went through in my life and the more ret events, I have to admit that some of Alva-sama as are quite strange and sometimes quite terproductive if all he seeks is the well being of the demon race as he said...'.

  As the seds pass by, I tio carefully look at the young man, studying his every a and expression, trying to find a hint of falsehood or deceit, but I find none, 'Oher hand, this young man in front of me appears to be quite upfront and ho, moreover, as strong as he is, he doesn't o fool me to gain something he wants, very few people be a threat for him and that is only with the strength he showed here... The only reason to try to manipute me would be some kind of twisted game like the ones he decres the Gods do for their own enjoyment, plus there is something about him that makes me hard to hate him...'.

  Then I think back to the faces, my family's faces, my foster father, my rades of the army, my soldiers, of all the residents of my nations Garnd as they escape from the destru brought by Maoshi, Maoshi's own gleeful face as if drunk of the power aru he unleash, and the demon lord Dienleed-sama's ung face as the myriad of demons dies before his very own eyes.

  At this point, I decide to trust what my instind heart tell me and decide to see for myself what is truly happening in the world, and if what this young man said is true, then I'll do what I swore to do many years ago, I'll fight to protect my people, even from their God.

  Thinking that, I steel my resolve, and urge Uranus to move closer to the young man, then I shake his hand and say, "I want to see the truth! But if I find out that you are foolihen I'll do everything possible to destroy you and everything you hold dear!", in respoo this, Jayr smile grows wider as he says, "Pleasure to have you on board!".

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue Volo - 2013

  A feassed since I was able to successfully use the Talk no Jutsu to vince Freid to join us in our journey so that he see the true face of the God he worships, 'It was hard, and I even had to throw in a "Believe it!" trusting its brainwashing capacity, and luckily I was successful!'.

  The first thing I did after he accepted my offer, was to pull him into my S.T. so that I could use my o to heal him of all the injuries he received during ht, and after that, I did the same for all of his familiar, then I told him about the Grue Volo's yout and the dahat y within plus the shortcut and the price to pay for using them plus the oints of the Magma Serpents so that he also quer this Labyrinth, helping him just like I promised.

  Needless to say, with all that information, Freid and his familiar will only take a few days to quer the Labyrinth and e out with the proof of quest and a new Age of Gods magi his arsenal.

  At the same time, while Fried was going through the trial of the Grue Volo, I was fulfilling another promise I made, well, more than a promise, I aying for the loss in the friendly game between me and Eri, and so I decided to use all my medical knowledge and mastery over o, to give Eri the best massage she received in all her life.

  And so, after Freid went into the Grue Great Volo, I open the portal that lead to my S.T and step ih Eri and lead her to the ihena's Bidoof, and onside I tell her to undress and y on the bed, then I stare at the beautiful figure of Eri as she undresses and then ys naked on my bed for a few moments before I position myself behind her body.

  I clearly feel that her excitement tio climb with eae of my moves and when I got over her body at the height of her thighs, she doesn't say anything and just buries her fato the pillow shivering in anticipation, and with a smile, I pce my palms on her lower bad begin moving the o energy into my palms and slowly begin making my her back as I begin massaging her body, in such way that I rex her muscles, while at the same time, I also raise her arousal.

  While her tension and pleasure are stantly increasing I keep her body in a paradoxical state of rexation and tension, and so Eri was stu a cycle between incredible pleasure and absolute rexation, as all her muscles tio stantly twitch as her body is uo move because of the rexed state of her muscles.

  It wasn't long before I feel the insides of her pandora box begin to cmp as a powerful climax begin to rack her body all the way from her tailboo her brain, giving her a kind of stant pleasure that takes her on a trip to greater and greater heights, as her body tio stantly twitd shiver in an ever-increasing pleasure.

  After a few minutes of my massaging, she calms down and is now just ying limp on the bed with a subtly happy expression while her body twitched about uhe stant care of my hands.

  Since she wanted a happy ending, I tio massage her body for a little more than half an hour careful to not overload her with pleasure until she rexes and releases all the tension and arousal of her body in an incredibly strong climax to the point where she falls asleep soon after.

  When I remove my hands, I notice that she is sweating quite a bit, and I smell her aroma ing from my palms, and since I don't wao get sick, I take a towel and wipe down her body before c her with a b, but when I move her body I clearly see a dark stain shaped like Eri on the bed, including an incredibly rge stain around where her waist had beeing.

  After the massage, Eri tio sleep for the whole day and when she woke up the day she was uo steadily stand on her feet, even so, we still practice the new Age of Gods magic that we received from the Grue Volo, Spatial Magic while waiting for Freid to clude his quest.

  I admit, that I wasn't too muterested in using Spatial Magic, but even so, I practiced at least one useful spell for it, which I like to call Porta (Gate or Door), a simple portal that allows me to quickly travel to a pce I have been before, basically, I created a quick travel spell in case I o backtrack, meanwhile, Eri simply merge it with her Dark Attribute to create a portable space ected to her shadow where she store all her Undead Puppets, I admit that seeing that, I almost wao say that she just wao copy a certain neancer from a famous Korean novel, but then chose to keep it for myself.

  But seeing her application of Spatial Magic made me remember something, 'Now that I think about it... If I mix Creation Magic, Spatial Magid Regeion Magic... I could create something like the Hyperbolic Time Chamber fron Ball or Evangeline's Diorama from Negima!... maybe I'll o use some ics but it is still possible... But do I eve? Well, maybe... It is better to have and not need...'.

  After training our new magic, I and a still unsteady but tent Eri, get out of my S.T just in time to see Freid and his flock of familiars get out of the Grue Volo, I notice that they are a little singed but overall still fine, and as soon as he and the white dragon, whose name if I remember well is Uranus, nds, I notice the proud smirk on his fad as I greet him I say, "Wele back! From that smirk, I'm sure that you were successful...".

  Freid looks at me and nods, jumps down Uranus, then says, "Yes... Everything was exactly as you said... But I have to say that the message that the betrayer left behind is quite ckluster... It says nothing about the true face of the Gods, just something about the free will of the people...", I let out a sigh and say, "Yeah... it seems that Naiz Gruen Caliente was a man of few words... But those few still imply something, isn't it?", but Freid shakes his head and says, "Not enough to vince me that Alva-sama is only pying with us... He could simply refer to that hideous Ehit...".

  But before we could tinue, Eri interrupts us and asks, "Anyway! Where are we goi?", hearing her question I stop talking and start to think, 'Logically our destination is the closest Great Labyrinth which should be Sunken Ruins of Melusine... From what Miledi said to gain access to this Labyrinth you have to first quer Grue Volo and gain its proof, then a person must hold the pendant in front of a full moon and allow the light to pass through the slot where the mp is supposed to be, that will cause the Labyrinth to rise up from the sea floor... The only problem... The full moon of this month happened yesterday... So we have to wait one month for it...'.

  Realizing this, I start to think about our other options, 'If I exclude that, the remaining Great Labyrinth left are, the Divine Mountain, that is more or less easy... We just have to ehe most sacred pce of this world Rambo-style and kick every Ehit servant's ass until it opens the way for the secret chamber, Frost Caverns of See which is located in the demoory and is quite far from here, and Haltina Labyrinth... that is inaccessible until you have quered 4 other Labyrinths and have someone who has the Age of Gods magic that only be gained in the Sunken Ruins of Melusine... So in fact the only ohat we choose are the Divine Mountain and the Frost Caverns of See...'

  Reag this point of my reasoning I look at Eri and tinue my train of thought, 'Aweewo the one I'm leaning on is the Divine Mountain for one simple reason... if Spirit Magic is as patible with her as I think it is then it give Eri quite a power boost... In fact, I'm equally scared and curious about what she do with it seeing what she was able to do until now with sheer wit and talent... At the same time, I lead Freid to Orcus Great Labyrinth and see if Oscar's words further vince him si is nearby...'.

  Reag this point, I rey to them the options, and after listening to my reasons they both decide to move toward Heiligh Kingdom, more precisely Horaud Town, where we will first go to go again in the Orcus Great Labyrinth, and so after having decided that, I focus and build a clear image of Horaud Town in my mind before raising my hand and ting the new Spatial Magic I created, "Porta! (Gate!)", and in front of me a spherical hole in the space appears, where oher side, I clearly see the familiar shadow of the first town I visited in this world, then I turn my head looking at the stunned face of Freid and say, "e on! I 't keep this open for a long time...", and after I said this, we all step into the portal that I ope the same time, finally leaving behind this awfully hion.

  Odyin