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  Jayr POV - Tortus, Frost Caverns of See - 2013

  A week passed since our first meeting with Vandre See, it was a quite peaceful week, we spent most of the time trying to fulfill Vandre's request to summon the souls of his members, if not to revive them, at least to properly say goodbye, unfortunately, too much time passes, and most of their souls dissipated or ehe cycle of reination.

  Only one soul was barely ging and holding on, thanks to its strong will and attat to Va this caused a lot of damage to the soul itself so much that, in fact, as soon as Eri summoned her soul, I had to quickly use a bination of Restoration Magid Spirit Magic to restore it as it was about to colpse and possibly be gone forever.

  Anyway, once fixed, the soul quickly accepted to be revived, especially when she learhat Vandre is once again alive and that she once more stand by his side.

  So we quickly start the lengthy and draining process of ref the body and binding the soul to it by rebuilding the e between the soul and the body.

  But, that isn't the only thing I did during this week, I also made sure to fully prepare for casting my cept Magic, studying and perfeg the pn from any angle, from the exact shape that my wish or desire has to take to work, to calcute the possible cost to cast it and use it, using the only cept Artifact I have, the pass of Eternal Paths, as the basis to also ditioning my will and mind to the perfect state so that my wish and desire is strong enough to cast the magic.

  And when I wasn't doing that, I spent time rexing with Tio and Eri, or watg over the still-growing unity of Nymphs, I have to admit, that I have grown quite fond of them, different from their previous monster self, these beings are very pure and lively, and more important, siheir evolution, I noticed that they brought an ued ge to the Soulbouory.

  At first, even if someone live in the Soulbouory, it wasn't a pleasant pce to do so, as the air felt stale and somewhat artificial, and even if pnts could be grown in this pothing in it felt natural, almost like a greenhouse without good airflow, it be pleasant for some time but then it bees unfortable, and you feel the o get out, but now the Nymphs' presence ged the whole enviro, everything feels more alive and natural, even the medial pnts I'm growing became more lively thanks to them.

  It seems that just like their namesake, these little beings are really spirits of nature, that nurture everything around them, and even Eri and Tio seem to be quite fond of them, as I have seen them pying with the Nymphs many times.

  Ahing I did during this week, was to train my new magic Advent of the Divine Dragon Letting used to the power it brings and the bigger and different body shape, while also adapting my body to this new form, and slowly making it a part of my own being, so to permaly gain the ability to transform into the Dragon Form and the ability that 't be named without the o cast the Metamorphosis Magic Spell, because no matter how ridiculous it is and sounds, it is still something that makes me stronger, and knowing what kind of bullshit are present in the Omniverse, I need all the strength possible to guarantee my and my dears survival.

  Not only that, but this training will also help me in developing the other transformation I have in mind, while it may seem redundant as I already have my Cloth as a form of prote it isn't, because the Cloth raises my defense and energy, it doesn't ge my body, meanwhile the transformation I have in mind will elevate my physical body to tremendous levels, bihem both together and I 't even imagine what kind of power I'll be able to unleash, moreover it is always good to have a back-up pn in case I'm forced in a fight with a Champion with the rule that prevents the use of external objects.

  And so after a week, we are standing in front of the Sanctuary at the end of the Frost Caverns of See, I, Tio, Eri, Vahe slime Batm, and the resurrected Margaretta See, who is dutifully standing behind Vandre.

  Margaretta is a woman with dark red skin and pointed ears, she has long red hair with bck streaks, a muscur build, and a sharp glint in her eyes, ready to defend Va any moment, she is very diligent and possesses a warrior's mentality, but despise that, I clearly see that care and affe she has for Vandre, something that he appears to reciprocate.

  (Image Here - Margaretta See)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Without wasting any more time, I open a gate leading to the Beastman try of Verbergen, then I turn to look at my panions, and with a smile on my face I say, "Let's move!" and step ihe gate, as the others quickly follow after me.

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Beastman try of Verbergen - 2013

  What greets my sight oher side, is a battlefield, screams of fury, magics flying around, and explosions all arouroying the enviro, seeing this, Margaretta, quickly moves in front of Vandre ready to protect him from any harm, even Batm is squirming in his arms ready to act, while his gaze also focus on the fight going on, and seems to pte if he as to act or not.

  Meanwhile, Eri and Tio beside me are calm, Tio seeing what is going on only let out an, "Oh my..." while Eri let out a sigh and put her hand over her face saying, "Those baka..."

  At the same time, I look at the fighters, unsure of what to do or how to act.

  Then a familiar voice yells, "Stand still, you Baka!! Die!" and I see a beautiful Rabbitman girl with blue eyes and light blue hair, chasing down a floatiiful petite girl with long blonde, almost golden, hair, and sky blue eyes with her huge hammer, while another beautiful girl with blond hair and crimson eyes, is silently shooting all kinds of magic to support the Rabbitman girl as she says, "Miledi, must die. There will be no mercy."

  Meanwhile, the attacked floating girl dodges and deflects all attacks while saying in a mog tone, "Why are you so angry with the awesome Miledi-~ It isn't like I specially trolled the Labyrinth so that you would take the brunt of most of the traps, creating many humiliating and embarrassing situation that I have then recorded~ Or made it more difficult aably mocked your every failure, by creating a special room with the picture of the fu moments~."

  Ihe people fighting are Miledi, Yue, and Shea, it seems that they are still angry about what they went through in Miledi's Labyrinth, especially Shea, as her face is clouded in rightful fury and is attag like a berserk bunny as she swings around her hammer aroys everything in her way, in fact, she is the one causing most of the damage.

  Then I look around and notice that Hajime and the others from the Hero party are simply looking at the se without any iion of intervening, well not really, Kouki and the others are too stuo move while it seems that Hajime is about to join Yue and Shea in attag, Miledi, meanwhile, I also notice Meiru, Lyutillis, and Freid, looking calmly at the se, while Oscar seems about to make a move too.

  While I was cheg my surrounding, I hear Vandre o me sigh as he says, "Aaah, Margaretta, Batm, calm down... This is just the usual... They are probably another one of Miledi's victims..."

  Hearing that, I notice, that both the woman and the slime immediately calm down, then Margaretta says, "I kinda missed this... It also seems that Lady Miledi is having plenty of fun... It has been so long since I saw her like that..." and Vandre beside her nods at that.

  Just as the fight is about to escate even more, as it looks like Oscar and Hajime are about to join in the fight, I move and appear between them all, at the same time, I cast a weak Omnipotens Dis (Almighty Push) just strong enough to push them bad hopefully wake them up, then I yell, "Calm down, everyone! Remember where you are! If you truly want to fight, do it where you 't harm and involve i people!!"

  It seems that it worked as the fight stop, then Miledi like nothing happens greets us, "Heya! Ja-, you are finally back~!" theices Vandre and Margaretta and with a wider smile she waves her hand and yells, "Van-! Ma-! It's great to see you guys again~!" but Vandre quickly yells back, "I told you before! Don't call me Van-!!"

  At the same time, Oscar, Meiru, and Lyutillis also notice their presence, and they have differeions.

  Meiru and Lyutillis seem happy to see him as they say, "Ah! Van-kun is also back!", "o see you again, Vandre, Margaretta..."

  Meanwhile, Oscar seems to be torween being happy and annoyed by his presence as he mutters, "Ugh... Muffler Boy is back... and his stupid muffler with him too..." but that is heard by Vahat rushes toward Oscar and yells, "Four Eyes! Poor fool, you don't even realize the aesthetic value of a muffler. I guess I shouldn't have expected aer from a sed-rate moron..."

  In response, res at Vandre and says, "It's you that don't know anything! I told you many times that true beauty lies in its simplicity... Your stupid mufflers are too fshy!" whigers Vahat yells back, "Don't insult my muffler. You just have no appreciation for art, you perverted four-eyes!"

  Looking at this se, I 't help but think, 'What the hell is going on here? I break one fight and another one quickly starts!?'

  At the same time, I notice that Margaretta is sweeping a tear from her eye with a finger as she says, "I missed seeing Vandre-sama so happy..." and I look back at Vandre and Oscar that seem ready to start killing each other in fusion, 'Happy...?'.

  After a while, the situation calm down, and I learn that Hajime and pany just came to the Beastman try of Verbergen, and also learn from Kouki what they had doil now.

  It seems that their journey back to Heiligh Kingdom was quite peaceful, especially since Hajime built a freaking airship to fly around Tortus, ohere, they quickly quered the Divine Mountain Labyrinth as Hajime, Yue, and Shea already fought agai's Apostle before and gaihe Age of Gods Spirit Magic.

  After that, Hajime and the others escort Queen Liliana S. B. Heiligh to the Hoelscher Empire in her diplomatic mission to resd the e with the prince, especially sihe Empire started to do some unusual and suspioves focused against the Beastman try of Verbergen after the Demons attack to their try where they used the mohat had bee locked up in the imperial coliseum to cause chaos through the city.

  The Demons then took advantage of the Monsters' rampage to assault the imperial pa an attempt to kill Emperahard, however, this assassination attempt had been thwarted due to the emperor's bat prowess and were killed instead, after which the emperor had personally led a charge into the city and annihited all the Monsters.

  In a desperate bid to quickly restore the capital after the attack, the empire decided to raid the Sea of Trees and capture mamen to be used as sve bor for their restru efforts.

  But of course, before this could happen, Hajime and the others went on a rampage until they mao vince Emperor to dissolve the e and the e of Beastmen in the empire.

  They also forced him and his entire family to wear cursed neckces that would kill them if he broke his vow or if they tried to remove them, of course, courtesy of Hajime, and after dealing with the Hoelscher Empire, they escorted the Queen back to the Heiligh Kingdom, then came here and of course met with Miledi and the others, and then the enraged Rabbitman started the whole thing.

  After listening to their tale, I tell everyone our adventure in the Frost Caverns of See, of course without telling them the precise details of the trials, only their nature, so as to not sabotage the eventual quest of Hajime's Party, then I tell them my pns.

  That sists of me trying to cast the cept Magid, if successful, to deal with Alva a ond for all.

  Then I ask Miledi, Oscar, Meiru, Lyutillis, Vandre, Hajime, Yue, Freid, Tio and Eri, and the others, to input all the magic power they in a Divinity Stoe, surprised by such a request Hajime asks, "Why do you need so much mana?"

  But before I could reply, a faster Oscar expins, "Because cept Magic burns a lot of magic power, moreover, the strohe cept Magie wants to cast, the more magic power it demands... But even so... To need also our power despise how big your mana pool is... Are you really going to do that?"

  Hearing Oscar's question, and seeing the curiosity on everyone's faces, I simply smile and say, "Yes, I'm sure that it be done..."

  Then I tio move toward the guest vil given assigo us by the Elders of Verbergen followed by the revived Liberators, Hajime's Party, and my lovers and Freid.

  Ohere, I wait for everyoo input their magic power into the Divinity Stoe, then I alone move to the basement with it and the Crateris Pandora Box, but not before telling them that they e to look after I start to cast the magic if they are curious, and prepare to cast the cept Magic.

  I open the Pandora Box and check the Crateris Cloth, then I sit cross-legged in front of it with the Divinity Stoe between my legs, and mutter, "If everything goes as pnned, you will truly turn into my best trump card..."

  At the same time, I touch the Cloth, still in its steltion Form, and y eyes, then I start to foy desire, going through all my most important memories and experiences, raising it with Spirit and Evolution Magic so that I turn it into a cept that be imposed oy.

  Eri POV - Tortus, Beastman try of Verbergen - 2013

  We all are waiting in the hall of the guest vil for Jayr to cast his cept Magic, I take a look at everyone's faces and see many differeions, some are genuinely curious, like Oscar, Hajime, and Freid, some apprehensive, like Suzu and Shizune, some are indifferent and casually chatting among them, other excited at the prospect of the defeat of their godly enemies like Miledi, Meiru, and Lyutillis, but still everyone is patiently waiting for something to happen.

  Meanwhile, I'm calm, I know that Jayr won't fail until know he always kept his promise, and more importantly, he never lied to me, he was always ho, so if he is sure that he defeat Alva a then he will be able to do so, then I move closer to Tio and made sure that everything is okay and that nothing harm her and more importantly, our child, 'Now, the most important thing is to protect my family... Even if I have to kill everything else to do so!'

  All of a sudden, I'm roused from my thoughts by Vandre as he asks, "By the way, how you guys be sure that he truly defeat Ehit and his Apostles as he said? Sure he is strong, after all, he was able to quer all the Labyrinths we built, and even revive us, but even so-"

  But before he could tinue, Miledi says, "Van-, we all trust that he will do what he said for one simple reason~ Even after fighting him, we still don't know the true limit of his power..."

  Hearing that a smile forms on my face, and I feel incredibly proud of my man.

  Then all of a sudden, an impact resembling a strong wind pressure runs through my body, its identities are waves of an enormous familiar magical power, that spreads through the wall of the vil and I notice that everyone's body responds to it in shock.

  "This is… Jayr-san! Incredible..." excims a surprised Hajime as his gaze is fixed on the floor, as if he is looking through the wall to che Jayr, at the same time, I hear Freid mutter, "As usual... What a monster..." while Oscar ents impressed, "His magic power alone is parable to Midi, Muffle Boy and I together...".

  Meanwhile, the waves of magitio pulse itently, making the magic power in our body stall a little with its overwhelming power but even so, it doesn't bring any harm to us, and uo hold our curiosity any longer, we start to move closer to the basement.

  The waves of magical power seem to increase iy the closer roach the basement, and once we arrive directly in front of the door of the room Jayr is currently in, it is as if a typhoon has hit us, then without hesitation, I open the door and walk inside.

  What greets ht, is the se of Jayr sitting in front of and toug his Cloth as a torrent of red magical power spirals upward, as the Cloth emits a pale light, at the same time, I hear Hajime ents in awe, "So that is his Cloth... Incredible, to think that I see something like that in person..."

  At the same time, Oscar mutters in wonder, "He is really doing it..."

  Meanwhile, I notice that Jayr is sweating heavily, and it is clear that he is fully focused on casting this magic, as he didn't even notice our entrance.

  I hear the worried voice of Shizuku as she says, "Maybe it is better to leave or at least step back a little…"

  Then a strangely serious Miledi adds, "Yeah, while there is no danger involved, it is better to not disturb him too much, let's step back a little..." I agree with them and slowly we all start to retreat.

  At that moment, Suzu excims, "What's this?" followed by Shea, "An image?" and Kouki adds, "An open-air... gym?"

  Indeed, various kind of images begins to appear before our eyes, like a fog projeg a picture instead of a s, magical light fragments bee a medium.

  In this strauation, we all fet to get out and all focus on the images appearing in front of us, as they show us the se, of some kind of gym where many small kids are gathered, their age varies from 5 to 12 years old maybe, moreover, everyone seems really focused oraining, and something about that training seems to surprise the most experienced fighters among us, as Ryutarou excims, "My god! Those kids are monsters! They are making a 150 kg sandbag fly with their kid punches!!"

  Shizuku nods and adds with admiration on her face, "Moreover, the ones sparring over there are also amazing... Their teiques, timing, and sense are extraordinary! I'm sure that the version of me before ing to this world would have surely lost if I fought against any of them..."

  Even Meiru is surprised by what we are seeing as she says, "Indeed, it's astonishing, for someone as young as these kids... all of them are already terrifying warriors..." and the other Liberators also nod in agreement.

  Meanwhile, the se tinues, and we see all the kids gathering together, as a tall imposing one-armed man with long green hair and eyes and a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose, and more important something about him seems very familiar.

  The man starts talking, and at the same time, he taps a rock with his finger and makes it crumble, with little to no effort, at the same time, through the image, I feel a stroement, longing, and happioward such power and also the affe directed toward the imposing man.

  At the same moment, I realize what we are seeing and speak my thoughts out loud, "These are Jayr's memories!!" Tio o me who realizes the same nods and adds, "Indeed. It is Husband's memory. The memory of a pce important to him... But who is that man? Through the image, This one clearly feel Husband's affe..."

  And at that moment, Hajime guessed, "His facial features are simir to Jayr... Especially the eyes, he could be a member of his family..." and hearing that, I remember what Jayr told me about his childhood, "Right! That is his grandpa!!"

  Hearing my excmation, Suzu yell in surprise, "Say what!? Such a young hunk is his grandpa!? How is it possible? He looks no older than 35 years old!!?" but I chuckle and say, "Well, from what I know, he is 92 years old at the moment, and still looks pretty young from what Jayr said... He calls it the perks of having a strong o..."

  Meanwhile, the se tinues, and we reach the point where Jayr ignites his o for the first time, and through the image, what he felt that moment, is transmitted from that magic that fills the room, the happiness, the power, the ambition, all the feeling that Jayr felt at the moment, the beginning of his path.

  Soon the se ge, but the one isn't so happy, in fact, the ses are basically a chilling training mohe se of a 6-year-old Jayr climbing a cliff with his bare hands with two massive rocks tied to his legs, moreover, once he finally was able to climb up, he was once again kicked down the cliff by his grandpa with a smile on his face, or the brutal sparring where each hit of his grandpa broke a bohe deadly training course, with traps that makes the ones in Miledi's Labyrinth seem tame, especially thinking that the ones fag this training course are young kids or even his almost torturous training in the dept of the sea.

  Through the magic, we felt everything, his every pain, the cuts, the bruises, the broken bohe pressure of the o, the chilling cold, even colder than Frost Caverns of See, or the seari, we felt everything, so much that the weakest among us, grew pale, some even started puking, or their whole body shaking, meanwhile, I feel tear falling from my eyes, ahat Tio his hugging her body and biting her lips with such strength that they start bleeding.

  But even so, what overwhelms all this, is Jayr's determination and persisteno matter how mu pain he was, how much agony he felt, he never gave up, he always strived to get better and stronger, overing all the odds, at the same time, we start to hear his desire and longing.

  -Burn!

  Then the se starts to ge, and we have a few moments to recover what we just went through, then I hear Freid ent, "Now, I uand why he is s... Going through that kind of training at such a young age..."

  And Kouki adds, "That is basically child abuse!! How could his own grandfather put him through such torture...?"

  But soon Hajime, probably the only ohat knows the most about Jayr's Universe among us, snorts and says, "His grandfather didn't force Jayr to gh such training, Jayr chose it! He chose to bee a Saint, a warrior of the Goddess Athena, who fight with their lives on the lio protect the world from evil... And did you notice that in every memory of his training, his grandfather was there watg over him?"

  But we didn't have the time to reflect further, as the se ged once again this time, it seems that Jayr is fag a handsome and scary young man with long light grey hair donning a geous gold armor, and seeing this man, Hajime excims, "Saga!!"

  The horror the fight between Jayr and this man, and for the first time, everyone is stunned by what they are seeing, their speed, the power of their attacks, so much so that the only voice that is heard, is that of Vahat says, "Damn it! Those two makes the Apostles look like kids...", at the same time, Jayr's voice echoes once more.

  -Burn!

  And in respohe magic filling the room pulses with even more power.

  Then the se ges once more, this time, Jayr is fag a tall, handsome young man with light blue hair and greenish blue eyes, donning a dark gold armor, and with a golden trident in his hand, but something about him is different from the previous oppo, in fact, even though the image, I still ses overwhelming porese almost feels like I'm an ant standing in front of the o, making me feel so small and powerless moreover I have the impression that the man is also looking at us in some way.

  And I notice that I'm not the only one, many others are going through the same, so much that I hear Shea stutter, "W-what is h-he?"

  And even Hajime has a grim expression on his face as he says, "He is a God..."

  Hearing that, I notice that the Liberatroup stiffens even more, then Hajime tinues, "He is the God of the Sea, Poseidon!" at the same time, the ses of Jayr and his rades' struggles are shown until they all join forces to fight back.

  And as the se start to ge once more, we once again hear Jayr's shout as the magic pulses more and more frantically, and I notice that his whole body is now covered in bright red light, at the same time, the magic power shoots up.

  -Burn my o!

  Soon a new se appears in front of us, this time, Jayr's feelings are more chaotid raw, he seems desperate as he faces a tall and thin handsome "man", with lo-bd some strands standing on end, turquoise eyes, and his skin is quite white with a shade of deathly pallor.

  He dons a jet bck armor, and he also gives the same kind of feeling as the previous man, a God, but he is different, something about him feels more malevolent and scary.

  But then we look at the se of Jayr unleashing his stro attack that is even able to wound God aroy his armor, and together with this se, Jayr's voice grows louder and stronger.

  -Explode my o!! Expand to the limit of the Universe and beyond!!!

  At the same time, the torrent of crimson magic power focuses and mixes with the golden energy radiating from the Crateris Cloth, and starts swirling and taking a shape that reminds me of the Milkyway Gaxy, then the magid the images gather into the Cloth, making it shine in a multiclow.

  Then I see Jayr open his eyes, and say, "Bring my o to any pce I want!", and a moment ter, a torrent of dazzling light like a fixed star blows up around Jayr, the point in is the Cloth that quickly dyes the room in blinding pure white light, at the same time, I feel my sciousness painted with white as well.

  Odyin