Jayr POV - Tortus, Holy Prects - 2013

  After massag the isnd's monsters one-sidedly, I leap into the stoatue at the ter of the forest to trao the zone and find myself in another kind of sea, a sea of clouds where several gigantids are floating.

  There are isnds with a diameter of only a few dozeers, but there are also isnds with a scale of a few kilometers, river water tio flow down from the edge of the floating isnds without ending with some kind of mysterious logic.

  Because of the height, the water bees mist after some distance of falling like a waterfall, making the fantastical sery of white mist drift at the surrounding.

  Above all, the floating isnds are overflowing with greenery, there are pins and also forests, and there isn't a single floating isnd that is merely a floating rock.

  The sea of clouds is spreading below, as the clouds li the height of my gaze, drifting on the sky like cotton dy, even now it feels like the clouds are giving off a sweet aroma.

  Even though there is no sun, brilliant light is still p down, as light pilrs weave through the gaps of the clouds.

  There are white clouds overflowing with great numbers of floating isnds, and then there are also beams of light p down.

  It is truly a solemnly mystical sery, if someone who didn't know anything was told that this pce was heavehey would unditionally believe it, 'For once, Ehit did pull off something good... Well, at least at first gnce, I'm sure that this idyllic sery still hides some kind of deadly trap...'

  Then without wasting any more time, I check the pass of Eternal Paths, and after that, I move toward the floating isnd that looks spicuously rge even among all the many floating isnds.

  Of course, I'm using Gravity Magic to fly toward it, as this is the only way one travel in this kind of pce, and so, I close the distan the blink of an eye, but at the same time, I sense many strong presences in the huge floating isnd in front of me.

  Soon I hear a beautiful but emotionless and monotonic voice that says, "Your imperti advand here... Irregur!" and with a silver fsh another beautiful Apostle appears in front of me, it is a woman with long silver hair and blue eyes with a monotonic expression on her immacute face, she wears a bat outfit which sists of a white sleeveless dress which has metal ptes c both sides of her waist as well as a winged helmet on her head, gaus on her arms and graves over her legs.

  (Image Here - Hearst)

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  [colpse]At the same time, all around me, more than 400 Apostles appear oer another surrounding me, probably these are Ehit's remaining forces, but while all the other Apostles are exactly on the same level as all the others I have met until now, the ohat spoke to me, is on another whole level, she feels twice as strong as the others, really if you ignore me, and Hajime, in term of pure stats, she is the stro being in this world.

  Then ign the threat from all the Apostles around me, I focus my gaze on the first one and say, "How you be so sure that you will be able to stop me? Until now your creator was uo stop me, no matter how much he tried..."

  And the Apostle calmly reply in her monotone voice, "It is iable, because you are now fag me, his first and stro creatio, and all the remaining Apostles, and even in the improbable event that we fail, you will still lose everything... Because as soon as you started your invasion in his realm, he started his on Tortus!"

  After saying that, Hearst, brings out her swords, then pointing at me with one of them she ands, "Everyotack!!"

  Following her and, all the Apostles start to fire their silver beams at me, more than 400 beams of disiion magie rushing at me from all dires, not leaving even a little spae so that I move my body and dodge using my lightspeed movements, and the sheer number of attacks is too much even for the current Crateris Cloth, that would be uo e out of this onsught unscratched.

  Even so, I'm still calm and posed in front of this omnidireal assault and the fact that Ehit started his atta the people living in Tortus early for one simple fact, Eri, Tio, Hajime, the Hero Party, and the Liberators, are there, and nothing that Ehit throw at them will be able to overe their forces.

  Meanwhile, just as the beams are about to reach me, I focus my senses, and by burning some of my stantly replenishing energies, I teleport outside of the Apostles' encirclement.

  As soon as I shift position, I fi in front of me swinging her sword Disiion Magic aiming to cut my head off in one swift swing, but my frightening reflexes that eve to the lightspeed attay fellow Saint and keep up with the Gods FTL (faster than light) speed, I easily duder her sword, and at the same time, I gather my energy on my right fist that is quickly enveloped in a clear blue water-like orb, then with a pung motion, I shot the orb toward Hearst and yell, "Tidal unch!!"

  Hearst is able to rea time and use the other sword as a shield to protect herself and is even barely able to withstand the power behind my attack without being pushed back, at least until I mutter with a smile, "Boom..." and thousands of deyed impacts e out of the water-like orb, orohan the previous one, blowi away as cracks quickly form on the sword, before it breaks into many little pieces while, at the same time, sending her crashing through several floating isnds that soon after start to plummet into the sea of clouds.

  While all this happens, the beams assault of all the other Apostles csh in the middle point, my previous position, with a blinding fsh of light, then after a few seds, the light fades away, and I see a tear in the space appearing in my previous pd think, 'Damn... Sometimes quantity bees a quality on its own, they were basically able to disie the very space of this zone... That is some crazy power...'

  But sooear in space starts to mend by itself, and the Apostles finally notice my presence.

  But before they could release their attace again, I quickly move ba the middle of their encirclement, I ignite my mixed energy, which gathers around my body and transforms into a water-like aura that envelopes my body, then while yelling, "P Rain!!"

  I quickly spread my arm wide, and release a massive amount of clear blue energy droplets in every dire at ohat, almost like heavy rain, hits and knocks out all the Apostles around me.

  Then before they fall into the sea of clouds below a swallowed and erased by it like some of the monsters I killed before, I use my Telekinesis to pick up their bodies and after quickly sealing their 6th sense and movements, I throw them into the swirling bck portal leading to my Soulbouory, like I did with the other Apostles I met before.

  Right at that moment, I hear Hearst's monotone voice behind me, "In the end... We were only able to buy a little bit of time... You truly are an Irregur until the very end... But even with such power outside of what is normally possible in this world, you still aren't a match for Ehit-sama... And I'll fight until the very end..."

  Turning my head, I take a look at her ahat she is barely alive and struggling to fly.

  Her armor was broken in many pieces and blood flowing from the tless wounds on her body, and of course, the many broken bones as a result of taking on a quite powerful Tidal unch, if fact, it was way strohan the one I used to raze that a modern town to the ground, the fact that she is still alive is a clear testament of her overwhelming stats pared to the rest of the people of this world.

  Looking at her, as she slowly raises her remaining sword, I calmly say, "Sorry to burst your bubble, but I have fought enemies way stroha, the only ce you had to kill me was when I just came to this world where I was at my weakest, uo use my o and don my Cloth, only able to use the strength of my traio the limit normal human body and basically uo defend against even the weakest kind of magic... But now... Now I'm even strohan I was before I came into this Universe, and you have no ce to defeat me now."

  After saying that, I urge my energy and move faster than the speed of light, reag Hearst's bad with a few hits, I quickly seal her movement ah sense making her u any kind of harm to the Nymphs living in my Soulbouory, 'Not that they are pletely defenseless, in fact, they are a quite strong race with a few tricks uheir sleeves, but they are also quite the peaceful ones and refuse t harm to someone unless absolutely necessary...'

  Then, as I pick up her body, she weakly asks, "So... What are you gonna do with us...?" and opening once more the portal, I reply, "Now, I'll save you all from being erased after this dimension colpse... For my other pns, you talk with Zweit..." then I carelessly throw her body into the portal before closing it and moving toward the main floating isnd of this zone searg for the portal that leads me out of it.

  I soon find it and, at the same time, I feel my eyebrows twitch a little, it is the ebay nemesis, a long endless staircase of clouds that stretch from heaven to earth, ohat slightly reminds me of the representation of Jacob's Ladder that I have seen in a painting in my Uncle Enrico's home, the dder or staircase that is symbolic of the e between Heaven ah, that represents progress, assion, and spiritual passage through the levels of initiation.

  In the Bible, Jacob's dder establishes tact between man and God, and there are seven rungs on the dder of virtue, in my home Universe, it is literally something that Jesus, God, or the Argels summons to reach the Biblical Heaven, or to dest to Earth when their intervention is needed, you know like some demons wanting to start the Apocalypse or some Gods of other Pantheons starting some other shit, you know cssical Monday in my Universe, after all, Athena and her Saint 't deal with all the Godly misdeeds by ourselves, we also need some time to recover from one Holy War to another.

  Anyway, with a sigh, I resign myself and start to climb up the cloudy staircase while muttering, "Gods and their fug staircase... Why are they so obsessed with them? I swear, my Universe will be ohout Gods, maybe that way I avoid climbing an untable number of stairs..."

  And as I tio climb up, soon I'm briefly blinded by a ptinum fsh of light, and I feel the usual sensation of my surrounding ging as I'm being transferred to another zone.

  Jayr POV - Tortus, Holy Prects - 2013

  As the ptinum light fades away, I quickly look around ahat I'm standing atop a huge round chalk-white pilr and that the space surrounding me feels very simir to the richly colored space where I arrived at.

  Right after entering Holy Prects, however, the surrounding wasn't richly colored like the first space but closed in a darkhat was like an abyss

  Then I notice that there is a chalk-white path that stretches straight deeper ih the pilr where I'm standing as the starting point.

  The chalk-white path that is stretg in a straight line looks extremely visible, and at the end of that chalk-white path, it is ected with a stair that leads above, 'Another set of stairs... Why am I not surprised?'

  Then without hesitation, I begin to walk calmly in the quiet space that is way too silent, as the surrounding darkness seems to absorb every kind of sound leaving none behind, my footsteps, the g sounds of my Cloth, even my owhing, nothing be heard.

  In this world without sound, I stare straight ahead while advang, and while I walk, my mind is free from any disturbing thoughts, my only focus is on my uping fight with Ehit, and soon I reach the staircase.

  My legs approach the stair, and looking up from below I see the top of the stair being enveloped by faint light, and without pause, I uatingly throw my body into the light.

  My field of vision is dyed white, as the area where I e out is basically the opposite of the previous one.

  All around me is white, white everywhere, whether above or below, or everything in the surrounding, as far as my eyes see there is only pure white which made me uo grasp any sense of distah my eyes.

  Despite the certaiion that I feel by stepping on the ground, and when my gaze lower there it bees difficult to be aware of the ground's existe feels like I would fall below without any end in sight.

  As I'm looking around, I hear a strange genderless voice that says, "Wele to my domain, and its deepest area." suddenly, the space ahead of me starts swaying.

  It is as though the curtain of the stage is raised, the swaying space is cleared and behind it, there is a tiered ptform with a height that is nearly teers.

  And then, there is a being made of light in a humanoid shape, just like a soul, sitting ohrone installed at its peak, in fact, it looks almost like a white shadow.

  The light being has no clear distinctive features it looks almost like a shining sti, in fact, it has no face or eyes, only a wide mouth with a deranged creepy grin on it, he is without doubt, Ehit, the God of this world.

  (Image Here - Ehit)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Without waiting for a reply, he speaks again, "Well... Unfortunately, I only show myself in su as I still wasn't able to recover a body strong enough to host my powerful soul and immense power. The summoned Hero was a good didate, but unfortunately, he is disappointingly weak, as he is now, his body will quickly break apart as soon as I gain trol of it. And the perfect body I found 300 years ago is still fiercely resisting together with that other Irregur... Then I found that invader... His body was quite magnifit and with limitless potential too, but it is a shame as it was not patible with me... Oh well, at least this will make the game more fun for me, you know sometimes if something is too easy it quickly grows b!"

  I look at Ehit and with a calm tone I reply, "If you want to py a hard game so much, I ame you a few, like Dark Soul, Ninja Gaiden 2, Cuphead, or Super Meat Boy. There is o make i people suffer for your amusement..."

  But with the still same creepy grin on his face, Ehit replies, "Why 't I? Everything they have is thanks to me, so I do whatever I want with them, in fact right now their only use is to produough energy so that I leave behind this world, and bee the God of the one!"

  At the same time, I notice from his tohat he is clearly enjoying this, aing out a sigh, I think, 'He is toone... Well, I already khat... I will enjoy wiping out that creepy grin from his face!' then I take my stand say, "Let's stop with the useless chatter and move on to the main dish."

  And then, with a smiling face that is obviously a mask no matter who saw it, he opens his mouth softly and says, "I and in the name of Ehitruje. 'Prostrate'!".

  The Divi oken with aremely natural to is the maion of god's will that makes anyone obey without question.

  But, in respoo that, I simply look at him and tilt my head trying to show fusion on my face while using my energy to easily ward off the invasion of magic, then I ask, "Did you do something? Sorry to say that, but the only person I will kneel and worship is my girlfriend, who is a real Goddess with the capital 'G'... And by the way, your real name is Ehitruje? Way too hard to pronounce so I'll keep calling you Ehit..."

  Ehit looks back at me and still with that creepy grin he asks, "…Divi has no effect at all?" grinning back, I reply "hat petty trick that trie to imitate the divine wills of Gods and pathetically fails at it won't work on me... By the way, I noticed something funny... I you ge the 'E' in your h an 'S', your name bee Shit! Quite fitting, isn't it? I think I'll call you that from now on..."

  I feel Ehit's gaze loe, but, his posure doesn't crumble by any means, instead he holds out his hand that isn't supp his cheek and makes a strange gesture.

  And Immediately the space around every piey Cloth starts ing like jelly, and in an instant, I uand what he is trying to do, 'So he is trying to teleport my Cloth away... Ha! The Cloth only be removed if the Saint donning it, the Goddess Athena or the Cloth itself choose to do so...'

  At the same time, I urge my energy, and using Spatial Magic, I ter Ehit's spell.

  And so, the spaces immediately return to their inal shape with a snapping sound as though there is something that got repelled away, and then Shit ents, "…I see. So you came here with termeasures prepared"

  But I shrug my shoulder and reply, "No really... It is just that your tricks are so awful that I deal with them without eveing serious..."

  Still calm, Ehit ents, "Don't get cocky, Irregur young boy. You really show too much arrogance just because you were able to defend against Divi and Heaveence." in response, I say, "I would say the same to you, Shit. Don't be so sure of your victory only because until now you never had your ass kicked... Sure, you are powerful, but there are many powerful beings in the Omniverse, some of which I 't even prehend or imagiheir full might. But... You are not one of them!"

  My word echoes powerfully and with dignity in this white space, a's faceless expressioo evilly as if to show that he will enjoy trampling on my determination and fidence.

  At the same time, his crossed leg goes down, and he lifted his resting cheek, before standing up suddenly, and then while looking down at me from above with the throne behind him, immense pressure begins to leak out, and a ptinum magic pushes out of his 'body' painting the white spa its colors, then he says, "Very well. This will be the st eai in this world. Let's py for a little bit then."

  His 'body' starts to gently float up, then he lightly spreads his hands, and at the same time, the ptinum magic pht verges rapidly with Ehit at the ter and it forms a shape on his back.

  pears o's back while shining brilliantly is three yers halo one bigger thaher, with the floati as the ter the first halo has a diameter of around two meters while the third halo has a diameter of more than teers.

  Then, tless light spheres are slowly being created from those halos, the number of those spheres really should be expressed as the number of the stars in the sky.

  But, in trast with their splendor, the pressure emitted by those spheres is absurd, every single one is obviously hiding a power that could easily destroy a human and could possibly ge even the geography.

  The figure of Ehit with gigantic halos behind him, served by tless stars, and ptinum light, truly gives him a somewhat godly appearance.

  And in response, I let out a fident smile and say, "Okay, no holding back... I'm going all out too! Time to activate my God Mode!"

  And so I reach deep within me and awaken the Sehat I kept locked until now, my 8th Sense, and in an instant, the mixed energy within me explodes and expands once more with even more power and gravity.

  Soon, from my body a dark golden aura burst up, that keeps expanding aing stronger until my Cloth starts glittering with tiny dark golden sparks, that soon bee a bzing dark goldehat covers my whole body, and I feel the Cloth c my body ging.

  And ohe transformation is done, I feel something within me clid with an energy pulse I disperse the fmes c my body and finally feel truly plete as I now don the Crateris God Cloth.

  I give it a quice at my body and instantly notice the ges my Cloth has gohrough, like all the God Cloth, now it covers my whole body leaving very few pces exposed, and none of them are vitals, but still retains the color scheme of its previous form, Silver, Blue, and with gold or.

  The headpiece became slimmer and in fact reminds me a little of the one from the Aquarius Cloth, the double-yered shoulder pads became thicker and sharper, and the chest pieow covers my whole upper body and is ected to the waist piece that retains a simir shape only now protect even more, the legs pieces retains the same general shape, but now they are more refined and with more details and or pared to its Silver Cloth form, while the arms pieow cover the whole limb.

  But the gaus are the ohat went through the greatest ge as the tear-shaped shields that made up the foot of the Cup in its steltion Form are now gone from them, and instead, they became much rger and moved to my back taking the fun of the wings that all the God Cloth have as they slowly rotate like some kind of yin yang symbol, and even if they aren't attached to my Cloth, I feel, I have the total trol over them, as I move them however I desire.

  (Image Here - Crateris God Cloth)

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  [colpse] [AN: Have some mercy, I'm in no way good at drawing this is the best I could do to give you an idea of the image in my mind]

  Then with a thought, I start to float and rise up to the same height as Ehit, and looking at him with his featureless face, I notice that for the first time since our first meeting, he doesn't have that creepy grin on his face.

  We look at each other for a few moments as the pressure geed by my dark gold energy cshes against the one geed by his ptinum magic power, and as the space between us seems about to crader our powers, Ehit asks, "W-what is this? There is no way this is the power of a mortal!!"

  And g my fist and feeling the unlimited power c through my whole being, I reply, "This is my stro state, and what I'm wearing is my most trusted parthe Crateris God Cloth... Together they grahe power to kill the Gods!" and as I say this, the pressure geed by my energy grows even stronger and start to slowly overwhelm Ehit's one.

  Odyin