Jayr POV - Tortus, Sunken Ruins of Melusine - 2013

  While everyone is still adjusting to the new set of knowledge that impriself into our minds, a smile forms on my face as I think, 'With this, I have collected 5 of the 7 Age of Gods Magily Evolution aamorphosis Magic remain, and I finally deal with Ehit aurn home... Even if only 6 months passed since I have left, I still miss them, Mom, Dad, my grandparents, my sisters, and of course, Saori and Seika... Hell, I have even missed Seika's birthday, I have to work hard to make up for that!'.

  While I was thinking that, all of a sudden, as the magiation's light is slowly fading, a parallelepiped es out from the floor and approaches us.

  It looks like a small altar, and soon it starts to shine faintly, and in the moment, the light takes the shape of a human form, this is for sure another message left behind by the creator of this Labyrinth just like the others we e across so far.

  The human form clearly ges into an outline gradually, and it finally takes the shape of a single woman.

  The girl who sits oar is wearing something like a white one-piece dress that bees loose at the end, she is a beautiful woman in her early 20s with wavy emerald-green hair and narrow jade-red eyes, with a slender body along with very voluptuous breasts, and due toage, she has fin-shaped ears, like Myu and her mother Reima.

  (Image Here - Meiru Melusine)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]She, the same as Oscar, starts to tell us the truth about the Liberators after she introduced herself, she seems to be a gentlewoman, wearing a kind atmosphere even while carrying grief, but while she is talking, I quickly send a signal to Eri to start using her Spirit Magic to see if she summon her soul from here, to which she nods and starts to work her magic.

  After a while, Meiru's message is about to end, "... Please, don't g to the gods. Don't rely on them. Don't grow aced to what's given to you. Struggle on, and grasp what you desire with your own two hands. Decide your own path in life, and walk down it with your own two feet. Remember, no matter how bleak things look, you'll be able to find the answers inside of you. Only you have those answers. Don't be deceived by the gods' honeyed words. Only when you live by your own free will be able you find true happiness. I pray the path you walk will be forever showered in fortune", at the same time, Eri gives me an okay sign, and moving closer she whispers, "I was able to summon her soul and talk to her... She agreed, she 't wait to meet with Miledi again. Now I'm using my magic to keep her soul stable in my shadow dimension".

  Hearing that, I nod and look as Meiru Melusine's image vanishes as bees faint light once again, and immediately after, a small magiation shines oar where she sat a few moments ago, and as the light settles down, in her pce there is a small where the crest of Melusine is etched.

  As Hajime picks up the proof of quest, Shea moves closer and says, "The number of proofs is four, Hajime-san. With this, we are surely able to challehe Sea of Trees Labyrinth too. I wonder how Father and the others are doing~?", and as she says this, I see that she too is missing her family as her eyes are full of longing, meanwhile, Hajime takes the and put it into his Treasure Box.

  And, just as the proof ut away, the temple begin to rumble, and then, the o water of the surroundings suddenly begin to rise, and Hajime already familiar with this says, "Uo!? Tch, forced expulsion, huh? Everyone, hold on!", to which Yue, Kaori, and Shea starts to pin, "...Nn", "Wahwah, it's too unreasonable!", "It's like Raise Labyrinth, no mooore~".

  While the Hero Party is stunned by the sudden ge, and blindly follows Hajime's instrus, and start to grab each other clothes and take out, and equip the pressed oxygen der, but I have grown bored of getting stantly wet, and before the water reaches us all, I say, "Everyone, quickly rush over here!", then t, "Porta! (Gate!)", and in front of me, a spherical hole in the space appears where oher side, it be clearly seen the familiar shadow of a city floating on the o, Erisen.

  As the seawater rushes toward us with terrifying force, Hajime's group and the Hero Party do not hesitate and charge ihe Gate I have opened, followed by Eri, Tio, and Freid, and after everyone passed through, I run into the gate without hesitation, as the raging water rush toward me, and once I'm safe oher side, I cut off the magic p the Spatial Magic closing the gate behind me just in time as I sehat the temple is about to be pletely flooded as the ceiling opened and made even more water flood the area with eveer force.

  Once safe, I let out a sigh and mutter, "And with this, the number of uer temples colpsing on me raises to 2... I'm starting to see some kind of pattern there...", at the same time, Hajime and the others are grateful for my quick a, then realizing where we are, Hajime and the Hero party decide to go back to Reima's house to rest and recover and ask us if we want to join them, but I shake my head and say that we have another important thing to do and that we will meet directly in front of Reima's house tomorrow.

  After Hajime's group and the Hero Party went their way, I open the portal to my Soulbouory and invite everyoo walk inside, of course, Eri is already quite familiar with this space, while Freid only came in here once when I used my o to heal his injuries after ht, but for Tio, this is the first time that she came here, and she 't help but look around in surprise as she says, "Ohhh! What is this strange space? It doesn't look like something made by magic... In fact, it almost feels like this one is in a totally different world...".

  Then she closes her eyes to feel her surroundings even more clearly and mutters, "Uhm... This one clearly still feel the presenana in the air, but I also feel another kind of strange energy... It enpasses everything... It feels powerful and mythical but also somewhat natural like it is meant to always be there... How peculiar...", and then, I start to expin to Tio about my Soulbouory, and I also tell her some info about the energy she felt, o, and the fact that this is the energy I'm most aced to siraio use it since I was a child.

  Hearing that Tio, with shod surprise on her face, Tio asks, "Waait! That means that if Master uses this o, he bees even more powerful!?", and to her question, I simply smile and decide to flex a little, so I start to burn my o, which causes Tio to excims, "Master!? Your eyes!!?", and as a bright blue aura envelopes my body, I expin while putting pressure on her and Freid as I notice that he is also curious to know the ao that question, "This is the basic mastery that a Saint have over o. At this level, we are strohan a normal human, and easily destroy a boulder more than twice our size with our bare hands and move at the speed of sound".

  And indeed, a pressure of this level is negligible for Frei and Tio that be said are at the top of the current world, then I burn my o even more, and as the aura grows in iy I expin, "This is what happens when a Saint master his 6th Sense, our o burns more fiercely and gives us even more power and trol, allowing us to easily destroy a small ti or even the whole world if so we desire, of course, that depends on the power of the Saint iion, it also allow us to move a supersonic speed, this is generally the level of a Silver Saint...", and I already notice that Tio and Freid are already feeling a little strain uhis pressure.

  Even I tap into my 7th Sense and allow my o to explode once more with strength that is untold times more powerful than before, at the same time, the aura that surrounds my body turns golden, and Tio and Freid start to buckle uhe pressure I'm releasing, and tinue my demonstration, "This is the power of a Saint who awakened and mastered his 7th Se this level, a Saint destroy a gaxy and is also able to move and attack at the speed of light...", I also notice that Freid started to use Limit Break, and Tio transformed into her Dragon form, to fight off my pressure, but even so they are quickly uo withstand it and crash on the ground.

  Seeing this I stop putting pressure on them, but I tinue my expnation, "And after mastering the 7th Sense, if a Saint finds himself or herself really close to death, he or she also awakeh Sense, giving them the power to fight the rules imposed by the Gods or even the Universe itself... And of course, a Saint who has awakened his 8th Sense has the power to destroy aire Universe, as his every blow have the same amount of power as the Big Bang, the explosion that give birth to a Universe...".

  I finish my expnation and stop burning my o, and as my aura fades away, I notice that the Crateris Cloth, is now standio me, and with a smile, I put my hand on it and say, "Don't worry partner, soon we'll fight together again, I have almost everything ready for it...", to which the Cloth answer by shaking a little, clearly excited about the news I just gave it.

  Then I notice, that while Freid, recovered and got up, Tio is still sitting on the ground while heavily panting with her head lowered, but the moment, she raise her head, and I notice a deep blush on her face as she says, "Aaah... M-Master~ Aaaah... Amazing~ Feeling your immense power caused this oo get w-", but soon Eri hits Tio on her head again with her staff yelling, "Eron this isn't the time for that!!", then she points her staff at me and adds, "And Jayr, we have someoo resurrect, and we don't have much time left, my Mana isn't as immense as yours yet, so do not spend so much time flexing! I know that you are awesome, it is one of the reasons I love you".

  Scratg my cheek in embarrassment, I say, "You are right... Sorry...", then I decide to finally start with the main reason why we are here and add, "Now please bring out Meiru's Soul, so that I use Dark Resurre to reform her body", Eri nods and from her shadow, she summon Meiru Melusine's soul, I easily see that it is in some kind of stasis-like state, as she is floating pletely still with her eyes closed, and I also sense Eri's magic power surrounding the soul as it keeps it stable.

  Without hesitation, I start to once again burn my o, and put my hand on the soul's shoulder, then I quickly start to use the Dark Resurre teique to reform her body using her soul's memories as the base.

  The effect of the teique is instantaneous, but very gross to look at, as right now, I see her body quickly f, starting with the main internal ans, the first to be formed is the heart, then from it the circutory system, then, all the an ected to it, after that, the brain and the nervous system start to form, followed by the skeleton, and after the skeleton, the muscles and the sedary ans, while it takes a while to describe, the whole process didn't take more than a few seds to do all this.

  Soon, standing in front of me is Meiru's pletely naked body, and without hesitation, and take a b I prepared before and cover the body with it thely y it on the ground, and start to che it, and feeling the slow steady pulse of her heart I nod with a smile, then I turn to Eri and say, "Eri, now it is your turn! Bind Meiru's soul to her body, it shouldn't be difficult as there won't be any kind of reje, as this is indeed her own body...".

  Eri nods and starts to use her Spirit Magipletely bind the soul with the body, and soon the body starts shining in a dark light for a few seds, at the same time, I notice that Eri is heavily sweating and panting hard, and sense her magic power level drastically fall, a clear sign that such operation isn't as easy as I thought, 'I should have realized this... We are basically reviving someohat died thousands of years ago basically going against one of the basic rules of the Universe, even if the preparation for it is perfect, and we are using her own body, the cost for it isn't something that an average person withstand... If this goes on, even Eri with her more than above capacity, and various skills she gained from her puppet to increase her recovery speed and capacity, will still be draio death!'.

  So I walk o her and put my hand on her back, and without hesitation, I i my magic power into Eri, and so with my support, the process is able to tinue, and the light surrounding Meiru's body is shining more and more brightly, until it bees sht that I'm forced to y eyes, at the same time, I feel my magic power sharply fall until I'm left with only 5% of it, but luckily I feel that the magic is now plete, and successful, as the light enveloping her body is slowly fading.

  Then I feel Eri's body leaning powerlessly on mine, pletely exhausted by what she has just done, but from her light breath and what I feel from her body toug mine, she is fine, she is only asleep and she just needs some rest, so I take her in a princess carry, and kissing her forehead, I say, "Thank you for your hard work...", and see a smile f unsciously on her face, as she responds to my touch even in her sleep.

  After that, I move close to Meiru, followed by Freid and Tio, who curiously asks while looking at the body of one of the Liberator ying on the ground as her bountiful chest slowly rise and fall along with her breath, "Did it work?", but I do not have to say anything, as the ao her question quickly reveals itself.

  Soon, Meiru's eyes start to flutter, a clear sign that she is about to wake up, and the moment, her eyes suddenly open wide, and she sits ups making the b c her body fall, once again exposing her huge chest, but she ighat, and she looks at her hands in amazement as she moves them, theouches her body and mutters, "Amazing, this feels exactly how I remember, this is indeed my body...", theurns her head and looks at us with her jade red eyes that remind me a little those of Yue, probable because she is a Dagon-Vampire hybrid.

  She gets up, again ign the b on her body, but this time, I use my telekinesis to her body in it c that inviting sight, she notices what just happened but doesn't seems to care too much, she just holds the b with her hand and lightly bowing her head, she says, "Thank you for reviving me and givihe ce to once agaie with my friends and fight against the mad god".

  Then she raises her head and introduces herself, "Now, let me introduce myself properly. My name is Meiru Melusine, one of the Liberators, an Age of God Magic User, and a Pirate Captain, o meet you", to which I simply do the same, "Pleasure to meet you. My name is Jayr Pucci, someone from a different Universe that came to this oo learn about magid help as many people as possible", then Tio does the same and says, "This one name is Tio Kus, a Dragonman seeking to destroy the god Ehit", followed by Freid, "And I'm Freid Bragwa, Supreme ander of the Demon Army of Garnd, who realized the truth behind the war and my race suffering and decided to fight against the God I once worshipped to protect my race... and the many ihat suffered from their py".

  Hearing that Meiru nods with a smile on her face, then she looks at Eri in my arms and asks with slight worry ione, "And she is the ohat summoned my soul... Eri, is that right? Is she fine?", to which I nod and reply, "Yeah, she is only exhausted, a night of rest and she will be as good as new", then she looks around and asks, "So where are we now? This pce doesn't feel like anything from Tortus...", and so I quickly expin to her about my Soulbouory, and after that, she looks at Tio and says, "You slightly reminds me of a friend of mine somehow... Anyway, you tell me what has happened since I died...".

  After saying that, Meiru pulled Tio away to find a pce to chat undisturbed, and soon after that, Freid, that doesn't have anything else to do, asks to go outside so that he take care of Uranos and his other familiars.

  Once Freid is gone, I go ihe Athena's Bidoof aly y Eri on the bed of my to let her rest and recover, looking at her state I mutter, "For sure we have to be careful when we revive someone, even with my help the strain on Eri is greater than expected...", then I once again che Eri and make sure that everything is alright, and after a very throughout iion, I realize with relief that she is truly fine, and is only mentally and physically exhausted, something that I easily fix, with a little of o, a massage and some rest.

  So I turn her body around and start to massage her while slowly infusing my o into her body, I start by lightly kneading the shoulders, then after a few minutes, I move my hand down to her back, fog on the zone around her spio make sure that the o I infuse is distributed evenly throughout her body, and after that, I take care of her limbs o time.

  After I'm doh the massage, I leave a peacefully sleeping Eri on the bed and decide to do some of the things that are in my mind for a while now, so first I move toward the Treant Orchard, the area I and Eri build to pnt the Treants from the Orcus Great Labyrinth, to che them, as I noticed some curious ges in them.

  Standing in front of the Treant Orchard, I quickly notice the first ge, first of all, there are many more Treant than before, at first there were only around 20 of them, but now they are well over 50 of course most of them are still saplings, but that isn't only ge, they aren't as aggressive as when we first phem here, at that time we o use Eri's puppet to trol them, and whe close to them they always attacked us, but now I'm standing right in the middle of them, and they don't have any iion of attag me, in fact, they are weling me, presenting their fruits, while the younger ones lightly sway their branches.

  But that isn't the only ge, and as I put my hand orunk of the biggest one, I firm my suspi and mutter, "As I thought, they have o!", indeed, every sireant in the orchard is imbued of o like every living being in my home Universe, and not only that, but they also retain their magic power, and more surprisingly, I now clearly feel that they are truly part of my Soulboory, moreover, I'm not even sure if I categorize them as monsters anymore, as even their soul ged, and I clearly feel that they gained a sembnce of sentience.

  Feeling all this, I tio mutter, "It is like... They are evolving from a Monster Race to bee a new se race belonging to my Soulboory... the ge is slow, but it is clearly there... in fact, what jumpstarted this ge was the increase in the level of my Blessing, before dealing with Maoshi, the Treants were still the same number as before, it is after that event that erged with their being and their numbers started to increase as well...".

  Realizing all this, I caress the trunk of this Treant and say, "I don't know if you already uand me, but all I say is wele into this world, I truly hope that you will have happy and fulfilling lives...", in respoo my words, the branches of this Treants start to slightly and slowly move, with the rustling leaves produg a calming sound, and soon after, all the other Treants in the orchard follows, creating a charming and natural symphony.

  Doh cheg on the evolving Treants, I move toward the Unigate, to check the st thing on my list, the Seed of Culture, that I gained, I easily reize it, but I admit that the shape surprise me quite a bit, it is a floating glowing dis fact, it reminds me of a game or anime dis it there is Hajime's image as he points his gun with the title Arifureta, 'Really this is the Seed of Culture... A game/anime disc? Has this anything to do with my surname? A Jojo reference even here!?'.

  While holding the disk, a sigh that threatens to e out of my mouth, I move closer to Seed of Culture, and put my hand on it to further study it, and immediately a new set of information appears in my mind, 'Ooh! Just as Culture said, with this I go to the Arifureta Universe whenever I want, and also "install" the Arifureta Universe into my Soulbouory when it grows to a size that aodate it, and also alert me of the invasion of other Champions... but not only this, I summon to my Soulbouory any person I want, of course, they have to agree to the summon, but this means that no matter what Universe I find myself in, I summon all my allies of the Arifureta Universe if I ...'.

  Looking at the Dis my hand I tio think, 'I have to admit that the advahat the Seed of Culture gives me are really astonishing, only the fact that I summon helpers from other Universes gives me an advantage against the others Champions, especially if they do not expect this, but even so I ot uimate them, if Culture's Blessing gives me so many advahen the Blessing of the other champions do the same...'.

  Doh that, I decide to che Tio and Meiru, only to find Tio looking at a sleeping Meiru with a stunned and worried expression, so I move closer and quietly ask, "Tio, is everything alright?", she looks at me, and replies, "Master, while this one was telling miss Melusihe history of our world, all of the sudden, she fell asleep... Is she okay? Did something g with resurre?", hearing that, I grow worried and move closer to che her, but just as I'm about to touch her body to check her dition she wakes up and says, "So did that b story finally end?".

  Seeing our fused faces, Meiru realizes what is going on and calmly expins with a ugh, "Hahaha! Do not worry, I easily sleep on and, as well as wake up whenever something I find b is over...", and hearing that, I think, 'She sleeps when something is b even if you are talking to her, she is a pirate, now she only o be obsessed with meat and I have a female version of Luffy here...'.

  Odyin