Jayr POV - Tortus, Heiligh Kingdom Capital City - 2013

  I'm about to reply to Tio's question, when Freid suddenly asks, "Why would a member of the legendary Dragonman rae all the way here?", and Tio throws a gce at Freid and Uranus behind him, before she calmly replies, "My people sehe arrival of humanity's heroes... and this one "volunteered" to veo the outside world to determine how powerful they are, hoping that their presence could lead to the gods' deaths", then she again focuses her golden eyes on me and says, "Speak... How thou be so sure that thou be of help to this one?".

  I nod and say, "The reason I said that we could help each other, is simple, we found out the true nature of the Gods, and decided to fight to stop them from causing any more destru and suffering...", and as soon as she hears that Tio's eyes open wide in surprise, and she asks, "Thou found out the truth!? How?", to which I reply with "The Great Labyrinths... I and my panion quered 3 of them... And from them, we found out the true story of the Liberators a".

  Hearing that, Tiains her calm and says, "This one uands...", then she asks, "Then why are thou here?", and so I quickly expin to her, about the Great Labyrinth in the Divine Mountain, about helping the summoned hero in flee from this city as Ehit started to use his true Apostle to gain further extend his trol over of this Kingdom.

  After expining all that, I ask, "So what do you think? Do you want to work together and kick the Holy Church's ass?", Tio smiles and replies while her eyes gaze at the horizon, "Sihat day 550 years ago when the followers of the god Ehit betrayed us and began to wage war on the Dragonmen after being beled as enemies of god. I wanted nothing more tha my enemy, the Gods and have my revehat is why I trained immensely every day until I reached a point where I had surpassed even my grandfather in strength... Of course, This one will join thou! Maybe we will finally be able to return to the same state of the era where beings of all races could coexist in peace!".

  But then, her gaze focus bae, and with eyes full of fighting spirit she says, "But first thou have to show me that thou are able to deliver what thou said...", I let out a sigh and think, 'Of course, she wants to fight...', and reply, "Okay, but let's not fight here... We do not want to make our enemies aware of our presence...", then I raise my hand and t, "Porta! (Gate!)", and in front of me a spherical hole in the space appears where oher side, I clearly see my choseination, a brown world where the hot wind that is blowing stantly throws up the sand and dyes the air brown, yes I chose the Grue.

  Seeing this magic, Tio seems surprised and she asks, "So this is the Age of Gods Magic that thou talked about, the prao those who quer a Great Labyrinth... Amazing!", theh, step ihe gate, while I say, "Eri, Freid, wait for us here... It shouldn't take too much time...".

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Grue - 2013

  The instant find ourselves in the Grue, something that Tio quickly realizes as she looks around and asks, "This is the Grue, right? To think that thou cross such great distance so quickly...".

  After a few seds to get used to the sudden ge of temperature, I and Tio face each other, and seeing that she is still in her humanoid form, I say, "It is better that you use your Dragon Transformation, it might sound arrogant, but even at your full strength, you won't be able to beat me...", but Tio simply smiles bad replies "That is something that we have yet to see..." then she raises her arm and ts "Wind Bdes!", and summons a barrage of sharp wind bdes that quickly move toward me.

  But in response, I calmly raise my hand and t, "Ice Shield!", and create a shield made of ice to block the barrage of wind bdes, but this doesn't deter Tio as she quickly follows up with another spell, "Fme Bullet!", and she shoots small fme breath bullets rapidly, but again I easily ter "Sagitta Magica, Series Gcialis!", firing sharp icicle 'bdes' at the small fireballs ralizing them, but at the same time, raising a thick mist that blocks ht.

  I'm still standing in the same spot waiting for her move when I hear Tio yells, "Be careful!", and thearts to t, "Rise up, O furious gale, imbued with the crimson inferno of hell itself, Purgatory Bze!", and she summons a fme tornado dozens of meters in diameter, and I find myself in the eye of this tornado, as it slowly shrinks with the iion of turnio ashes, but again I have the perfect ter for it, so I spread my arms wide and t, "Omnipotens Dis!! (Almighty Push!!)".

  At the same time as the name rings out, I use my mana to create a repulsive force, which pushes away everything in the viity, blowing away and dispersing the fire tornado, and the mist, only to find myself face to face with big 7 meters long bck dragon.

  Looking at her dragon form now that she is my oppo, gives off a totally different feeling, her whole body is covered i-bck scales, there are five sharp cws on each of her long fs, and big wings grow from her back which are slightly shining as they are cd with magic power.

  Every time she fps her wings an unbelievable gust of wind appears that blows away the sand below her with such force that looks like a small sandstorm, however, her most impressive feature is her goldehat shine like the moon in the night sky.

  Her eyes, which close vertically like a reptile's ones, are dangerously narrowed as they release beautiful light, gring at me from the air, like a queen of the sky.

  Seeing that, I let out a smile and say, "Finally yoing all out, huh...", and Tio in her dragon form nods and replies, "Yes, thy art truly strong! But so is this one!", then she slowly lifts her head and trates her Mana ihe open jaws where sharp fangs are lined up, then she immediately releases a straight, bck, ser-like Breath, so hot the sand u starts to quickly turn into gss, that is her Dragoh.

  In respoo this, I use Limit Break to enhance my stats, then as my body is enveloped in a crimson red light, I quickly jump over the fire beam to dodge it, and once I'm close to Tio's head, I spin my body in mid-air and throw a strong heel kick hitting Tio's head, and making it crash on the dunes.

  At the moment of impact, the ground bursts and flies radially, apanied by a thundering sound, as it creates a crater that looks like the result of a bombing.

  But, the moment, I quickly notice that I was only able to stun her a little as she raises her head soon after and start to shake it, seeing that I think, 'Huh... Her scales are quite tough, even if I'm carefully trolling my strength so as to not hurt her too much, that blow should have at least knocked her down... That kind of defense is almost at the level of a Silver Cloth!'.

  While I was thinking that, Tio has already recovered from the previous blow, and once again she looks at me with clear determination in her eyes and opens her mouth, then she releases another bck ser-like Dragoh, that forces me to jump back to avoid being hit by it, but Tio turns her head, and at the same time, the Dragoh follows and starts to chase after me.

  Seeing that, I stop, and t, "Porta! (Gate!)" and in front of me a spherical hole in the space appears where oher side, I clearly see my choseination, oher side of the gate, I see the view from above of Tio as she fires her Dragoh, and indeed above her I see another spherical hole, and the instant, Tio's Dragoh jumps into the gates and e out from the other side, this all happens too fast for Tio to react, so, in the end, she is hit by her own attack, making her once again crash on the ground, while at the same time, interrupting her Dragoh.

  Taking advantage of this opening, I charge at her, but Tio gets up apanied with a roar that scatters the sands around her and fires a volley of fme bullets aiming at me, but with a zig-zag movement, I'm easily able to dodge all of them a close Tio, who doesn't loses her calm, and swipes at me with her sharp cws.

  But, at the same time, I ch my left fist to gather enough power, and oio's forelimb is close enough, so close that in fact, her cws are about to touch my body, with a side uppercut, I hit Tio's forelimb with such strength and power that blows it bad forces Tio to stand on her back limb, exposing her soft abdomen, as the sand under me is once more blown away as my feet sink into it, 'Damn it! This isn't the best location for a slugfest, this sand keeps flying everywhere, and is difficult to find a firm footing... And I was the ohat chose this pce!'.

  But the disadvantageous locatio stop me from starting my follow-up attack, I get out of the sand, and using the special magic I got from the Kick Rabbit, Aerodynamic, I create small barrier-like ptes of pressed air under my feet, to use as a firm foothold to move around in the air and rush toward Tio's exposed abdomen hitting her with a powerful spinning kick.

  A r sound from the impact is heard, and Tio's body folds as she lets out a scream, and her body raises from the ground uhe power of my kick, but knowing how tough her deferuly are, I create another foothold under me with Aereodynamid once again spinning my body to gather enough kiiergy, I mercilessly throw another kick aiming at the same spot.

  Along with the muffled sound, the scales on the abdomen are finally cracked, and finally, I break through her deferansmitting the impato her body, making Tio receive siderable damage from this attack, and as she raises a pained voice agai vomits a rge amount of blood from her mouth.

  As she uands that keepihis close will only make it more dangerous for her, she pours her magic power into her wings, and with a fp, she flies away from me, while at the same time, she raises a powerful sandstorm, iempt to gain further distance from me.

  And she is successful, as the powerful winds geed by her wings do blow me away a few meters while the sandstorm she raised did block my sight, but I still perfectly know where she is thanks to my other sense, and with a fident smile, I say, "Time to end this... Porta!", and with that t, I open anate behihat leads directly above Tio.

  And moving through it, I find myself falling toward the unaware Tio and knog her down with another heel kick this time, she isn't able t it off like before, as with the various exge, I learned just how much she is able to withstand, and how much power I use to hurt her without ht killing her.

  And so, I unleash a new Spatial Magic, this one is inspired by the trademark teique of the first trap character I have seen in an anime, "Speculum Labyrinthum! (Labyrinth of Mirrors!)", at the same time, as I t this spell, a myriad of gates opens all around Tio, and not givihe time to realize what is going on, I jump into one and find myself, in a spherical space of around 10 meters in diameter.

  All arouhere are gates that show images of Tio, but they are all from different positions and angles, and with a smile, I say, "From here, I attack her from anywhere, I just have to jump into the chosen image... Well, teically I also attack her with magic... the only downside is that the same is true for her... if she attacks one of the gates that attack will reach me here, but if I dodge it, it will again turn back to her...", then I rush ihe gate that shows me the image of Tio from behind.

  On the other side, I quickly move and hit Tio on the back of her head with a flying kick, before rebounding with even more speed inside anate, and without stopping, I move through anate, and hit the still-stuio once again on the abdomen, this time with a spinning elbow.

  Soon after that blow, I again rebound from that position, increasing my speed even more, aer anate and attack her from anle, and so I tio hit Tio at nasty pces such as the cws, gums, eyes, tail's base, butt, head, and fnk.

  "KURUu, GUWANN!", and in respoo this assault, Tio certainly begins to give out a weeping voice, as she ends up with her scales cracked all over the pce, a rge amount of blood dripping from her mouth, then finish with a cssic on Ball fighting teique, I cup my hands together and reel back, then sm my fists on Tio's head sending her smashing on the sands of the Grue on her back while her face, limbs, and chest fag the sky.

  I nd on Tio's chest and notice that even if her scales are all cracked, none of them are truly crushed, 'They are truly tough... Even uhat assault that would have pletely crushed a Silver Cloth, her scales still resist, but at the same time, I feel that her magic power pummeled each time I hit and cracked the scales... So probably these are as tough as her Mana allows it... This would be a quite broken ability if she has an unlimited amount of Mana at her disposal, hell even reag the durability of a Gold Cloth is possible if that is the case!'.

  Then I look at Tio and say, "This should be enough to prove my strength, right?", but Tio's golden eyes seem to be gzed as she says while panting, "Ahiii~!! A-amazing… To be treated without any mercy… This is the first time…", then her body bee enveloped in a co-like, jet-bck magic power, and as she transforms bato her human form I jump away from her while thinking, 'I think I heard something w, I hope I'm wrong...'.

  In the pce of the bck-colored magic power Tio in her human form appears, then she colpses on her feet, and while using one hand to support its body, the other hand is on her bountiful chest, and her cheeks are dyed bright red, as she breathes roughly, with gzed eyes as if she is in a trance.

  Every time she breaths, her pair of hills intensely shake and it looks like they would jump out at any moment from the clothes' colr that became disordered as it hangs ohen as she has a really dangerous expression on her face she says, "Haa haa, umuu, this oill alive… this one's whole body is hurting in all pces… … Haa haa… … for pain to be this sweet….", while I think, 'Okaay, that isn't my pervert imagination... Ha! Only now I remember the fact that she is an M...'.

  But soon she pulls herself together and she immediately straightens her sitting position and says, while still slightly panting from time to time, "This one admits her defeat... Thou for sure have enough strength to rebel against the Gods, It will be this one honor to join forces with thou!", I smile and offer her my hand while saying "Wele aboard!".

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Heiligh Kingdom Capital City - 2013

  Once again, I and a now calm Tio, walk through the Gate I opened with the Spatial Magic, Porta, and find only Eri sitting on the rock here while reading a book she brought in Brook Town during one of our dates, there is no trace of Freid and his familiars.

  Eri notices our presend says, "Wele back... It took slightly more time than I thought, is she that strong?", to which I reply with a wry smile, "Well, she is strong pared to the standard of this world, very strong, in fact, she is strohan Freid, even if he uses the Age of Gods Magic... Talking about Freid, where is he?".

  And Eri looking back at her book replies in a bored tone, "He didn't want to stay still waiting for you doing nothing, so as soon as you two went through the gate to fight, he went oher side of the Divine Mountain with his familiar to search the entrance of the Great Labyrinth...", hearing that, I nod and say, "Okay, the's wait for him to return, then we will discuss the new pn for the attack".

  Then I sit dowo Eri, and Tio who sits nearby, asks with a curious expression on her face, "So how did thou bee s? This one would like to know if you allow it...", and since we have to wait for Freid to e back, I decide to give Tio a brief summary about me, so I start with the fae ing from another Universe, about the Battle and the other Champions, I also told her about the fact that I khe "inal" story of this world while also telling her role in it without hiding any information, and that was why I knew about Ehit and his plot and how I easily reized her the first time I saw her.

  I have to admit that Tio took the information I gave her quite well, she didn't show any distress about learning that I knew about her from a book in my world, nor did she question her existence, something that even I still do from time to time, as sometimes I feel like my life is like one of those fanfis I have read in my previous life, and in fact, I'm nothing more than a character made for eain those readers, but then I remember that my life and that of the other Champions is a form of eai for those cepts, and is also thanks to that I fulfill all those pure childish dreams that I had in my youth, ao love and be loved by awesome women like my girlfriends, and so put aside my thoughts, and focus on enjoying the present.

  Curious about her ck of rea, I decide to frankly ask Tio about it, and she replies, "In this one long life, I have seen, heard, and read about many strahings, and while knowing about a possible future is certainly surprising, my and your presence here at this moment already proves the undeniable truth that the future isn't written but is always ging, the fate is in our hands, and that is ahat this one fiig...", hearing that I nod and think, 'As expected of a 500 years old dragon, she is calm and wise...'.

  Then we tinue chatting about various topics, from the most useless like what kind of food is cooked in our world, to the plex topiagic, where Eri and Tio ied the most, and I have to admit that sometimes I have some troubles following their exges, on one side there is Eri, a literal genius that was able to e up an inal neancy spell that is a degraded version of Age of Gods magic through personal research alone, oher, there is Tio, that thanks to her long lifespan, is aremely knowledgeable and intellectual individual with immense wisdom and aremely skilled and experienced veteran master of magic.

  We tialking until the sky turns dark, and would've tinued, but we stop because Freid finally es back, as he and his familiar found the hidderan the other side of the Divine Mountain.

  But just as I'm about to greet him, I hear the loud sound of an explosion ing from afar, and quickly turning my head toward the point in, I see a trail of smoke ing out from the Capital City, and before I could figure out what is going on, tens of explosion happens all over the city at apparently random locations.

  Then I feel a call ing from my unicator, so I pull out the small handheld mirror, and open it, only to see the worried face of Shizuku, as she quickly says, "Jayr-san, we are utack! Shimizu-kun isn't Shimizu-kun! Whoever he is, he is w with Holy Churd the Royal Knights and they are fog on catg us while he seems to use some strange magic to turn others into monsters! Aiko-sensei and some other cssmates are already caught! While Kouki and Ryutarou with the others are trying to protect the people turned into monst-", ", then the sound of someone banging on the door is heard together with a shout "Open the door! You are suspected of being in cahoot with the Demons! e with us peacefully or you will be deemed a Heretic!", then the unication is cut off.

  Then I look back at the Capital and notice that they have raised their Barriers, the Capital City is now surrounded by three yered spherical barriers, each successive yer is smaller, but also more powerful, 'It seems that they are expeg us... plus that thing about Shimizu not being Shimizu, and it is clear that he is someone w for Ehit and took his pce... That means that they have at least some information on Freid and Eri, at least on what they have shown in the Labyrinth, meanwhile, they have almost nothing on me, only that I'm strohan Freid aed him before...'.

  After thinking that, I get up and look at my panion and say, "ge of pns guys! Tio and I will focus on the Holy Churd see what is going on, and act acc to the situation, meanwhile, Eri and Freid will check the Capital City and rescue and help whoever they , we do not have the time to be stealthy about it... And maybe be a goainst the Gods, seeing a Demon helping and saving humans could open the eyes of many and maybe even a path to a sting peace...", then I look at Eri and say, "Eri please do not unleash that spell unless forced...", and in response, she nods, but then she frowns and asks, "Why are you going with her?".

  And I calmly reply, "Simple, the enemy has very little information about us, so it is likely that they will use most of their forces on us, in fact, I won't be surprised if I find some Apostle waiting for us...", and Tio nods and says, "Maste- Ehm! Jayr is right, information is a powerful on in the hands of those who know how to use them... Something that I'm sure the Gods excel at".

  And of course, Tio's slip didn't escape Eri as she quickly asks, "What did you call him?", but I cough to stop her and say, "We do not have time for that, now as we are talking people are getting hurt or even killed over there...", and right on cue another set of explosions happens all over the Capital City, Eri then looks at Tio and says, "It doesn't end here!", then I t "Porta! (Gate!)", and open a Gate that leads to the inside of the city and says, "That barrier could be good against attacks from the outside... But nothing stops me from opening a gate i to bypass it!".

  Odyin