Chapter 88
"Are you okay?" Lucifugus asks me and I finally come to my senses, I was just standing still for almost 5 minutes waiting for something to go wrong.....
"Yes, I have no problem, sorry for the inconvenience, I was just checking that... everything went well." They both look at me a little unsure if what they think is correct but decide not to continue asking and only look at me.
'We fall into silence again, it's strange that I feel so calm in... what the hell happened in this place!?' Everything around me changed, now there are islands some flying in the sky, the gears on the horizon changed to full clocks, the sky is covered by different lights and shapes, I can even see some 'blur creatures' that I can't identify walking around.
There are several plants and green areas that from what I see are increasing little by little, water is beginning to rise from the ground... and now that I see well, some of those creatures seem to be cats... I turn to see Zaphkiel and Lucifugus and I am surprised for another thing.
'Did their chest increase 2 centimeters? Wait... they are increasing in size by absorbing my power...? How can I even understand that?' I always blame DxD for this but... I think I'm really a degenerate too...
"Master? Are you sure you are okay?" Zaphkiel comes up to me and touches my forehead...
"Sigh... Don't worry Zaph, everything is fine, I'm just... a little tired, I had to concentrate a lot on this, not to mention that I've been in one fight after another for the last few hours." It's strange how I can feel so much trust towards her... I never really thought of letting my guard down in front of anyone.
"It would be best if you rest, don't worry about anything here, Kurumi is safe thanks to you, we as well, you can just rest a little, catch your breath ." Lucifugus approaches me too telling me where I can rest, but I don't think there's anything I can really do that here.
"You're right, well Luci, Zaph... Lich... I'm leaving... Lich... that name reminds me of someone... don't do evil things, understood? Take care of Kurumi and yourselves, see you!" With nothing else to do I try to disappear from the place... how the hell do I do it!? "Riilif~" without finishing speaking I finally disappear from the place...
The place fell silent, and the women simply looked towards the place where Leonhard was standing before, feeling somewhat disappointed that he didn't stay longer. But they both know that he is a very busy person. They just wish they were stronger to help him.
Behind both of them a new body appears, this person is exactly the same as both of them, being half of each of them, her pupils shaped like a clock one gold and the other blue, the clothing she is wearing is a Kurumi dress, but this one can be seen through it and it has several blue decorations.
"Dad finally left? It's a shame that I can't talk to him without causing problems...." Lichtzetk appears next to Lucifugus and Zaphkiel, looking towards the place where Leonhard was standing.
"We are still weak enough to protect him, we have to help Kurumi understand her powers first." Lucifugus says. "Although I really don't know if we can do it, Kurumi can understand time and space, but combining them will be difficult..."
"We have the advantage of having such a smart girl... plus she won't have to worry about Mio's plan anymore." Zaphkiel speaks normally until she says Mio's name where she clearly shows great hatred...
"Don't talk about her like that, we were born from her power, we really had no choice before..." Lucifugus speaks, although like Zaphkiel she clearly feels the discomfort and anger of even thinking about being related to that woman.
"Don't worry, that woman no longer has anything to do with us, dad created us. He gave us to Kurumi to protect her, nothing more and nothing less." Lichtzetk speaks calmly, without really showing any emotion. "We are only the spirits of the crystal created by Dad, we even share his blood, at most we can be related to Akatosh-sama and Lorkhan-sama, not that woman, at least not anymore."
"I would like to let her win, get our crystal and when she uses it, realize that it is of no use to her and sees how her whole plan falls apart in front or her very eyes..." Zaphkiel continues speaking, smiling at such a thought.
"If that really happens, Kurumi would die, Master tried everything to save her, we cannot allow her to disappear. " Lucifugus gives her opinion, but turns to look at Zaphkiel carefully. "Although I'm starting to think something... I'm supposed to be the Demon King, how come you think about those things?"
"Remember that I am the most direct representation of Kurumi and after everything that happened to her, I am surprised that she is still moving forward... Master gave us a gift to help her but will it be enough?" Zaphkiel turns to see the girl lying next to them, with their crystal floating over her chest.
"Fufufu, do you really think dad is going to let mom die?" Lichtzetk puts her hands on her hips and laughs a little, surprising the other two.
""MOM!?"" Zaphkiel and Lucifugus exclaim at the same time and then start blushing...
"Do you really think that Kurumi and Master are going to... you know." Lucifugus begins to look away and joins her hands nervously.
"Are you really more innocent than me? I think our roles were really reversed somewhere... but well that will depend on Kurumi, with what Master did here, I really don't see it difficult for it to happen." Zaphkiel says while pointing out the surroundings, now several clones are walking around and observing the place, even the ones wearing swimsuits are playing in one of the streams that have been created.
"Fufufufu... remember that I know dad more than you, dad stared at both of your chests carefully, he is clearly attracted to our host's body, it's just a matter of time..." Lichtzetk again uses her arms to emphasize her chest and laughs a little, seeing that they both blush.
They all continue to see the changes that occur in the world, as what seems to be buildings even begin to appear, it is incredible for them how the world is being modified with Leonhard's vitality. As what was once a beautiful soul.
A beautiful soul that was destroyed by the lies and malice of their former creator, a soul that decided to continue destroying herself in order to fulfill her goals.... now is reborn thanks to the efforts of one person, the only thing left to do is save its bearer.
"What do you think about what you are seeing Lucifugus? You can finally see the world with your own eyes... you will never again have to lose your sight to not see the light." Zaphkiel asks as Lucifugus continues to look around.
"It's beautiful... I wonder if the outside world is as beautiful as here?" Both women watch as Lucifugus observes everything she can, feeling happy for her. "It's a shame that Master isn't here to see it with us...."
"Heh.... although I wonder... who was the one who pointed her gun and sword at dad? And she was threatening him on several occasions huh?" Lichtzetk speaks as she stands behind Lucifugus hugging her.
"I-I.... ahem* Leaving that aside..." Lucifugus with a red face quickly changes the subject, none of them really understanding why Lucifugus seems to have trouble expressing herself. "Do you know what happened to Master's eyes?" After that question Zaphkiel also gets serious, it's really something that bothered her from the beginning.
"What are you talking about? Dad's eyes are perfect, we don't have to worry about that." Lichtzetk answers sincerely.
"You didn't see it since you didn't exist yet Lichtzetk, when Master arrived his eyes shone gold, like a pair of holy flames, then when he looked at us carefully they changed and shone green, a metallic green analyzing every part of us.... those eyes that could see through our essence, eyes that simply serve to shape metal to his will....
But after a little bit when he started to concentrate to forge us.... they became like a rainbow with a blue glow... it's a shame that I couldn't see them well since he began to forge us... but I'm sure I saw a kind of magic circle in them... and I could feel how he looked at everything about me without being able to hide anything." Both of them remained silent, they know well that the strongest of them must have the answer.
"Those were the eyes of god." Lichtzetk simply stated, as if it were the most normal thing in the world. "Remember this very well, our dad, our creator is God, he simply cannot interact with the world in a normal way, so he can only manifest a small part of his will." Lichtzetk quickly explains to both spirits, you can see them to have a look of realization and a little doubt at what she said, Zaphkiel for her part wasn't so convinced about that so she asked...
"Master, our creator is god...? I know what he did was practically a miracle but... " It was the last doubt that both had before the strongest of them began its intensive brainwas-... explanation about why their creator is God.
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*Outside of Kurumi Soul*
"I AM ALIVE!!" I speak as I get up from the ground, observing my surroundings, with everyone present watching at me....
And as if the faucet was turned on, Kuroka, Pyrrha, Valerica and Serana began to talk to me at the same time, asking or blaming me about many things without really letting me understand what they were saying. The dragons, for their part, turned to look at Kurumi and sniffed her a little. To tell the truth, I can follow the conversations thanks to the subtitles but it's a pain to do that... let's activate my new skills....
[Thanks to a special action the user has gained the skill [Blacksmith lvl: 1/100], [Alchemy Lvl: 1/100] and [Enchanting Lvl: 1/100]! These new skills will work with mastery points, so the user will have to practice said skill to increase their level.]
'Let's wait a few seconds... okay nothing happened again! This must be a record of my system!' Now I'm worried about what might happen latter... well that is a problem for future Leonhard, with nothing more to do I continue waiting for them to finish speaking as I look at my new titles.
'As I thought, Grandmaster is something that really isn't of much help, although when I manage to get the max levels I will have 10 extra levels that will be very helpful, besides it would be interesting to be able to create weapons with Ego... although I still lack the knowledge to do so... well when I analyze Auriel, I will surely be able to complete t--!?!?'
Out of nowhere I felt a huge headache... and I can practically feel like my head is being hit multiple times by information and I even start to feel like my brain is burning.... wait I can literally see red smoke coming out of my nose-!!
Without further ado my brain black out and I simply fall facefirst to the ground, without even being able to understand that I only see the brown color of a stone, wait.... what is color? My mind does not stop receiving information on a large scale, information that I am being forced and unable to understand it immediately. Luckily for me it's finally stopping...
'I knew very well that the system was going to screw me up in some way...damn I thought I was going to die...what the hell happened?' I'm starting to look at my system... looking for what happened...
'It was nothing dangerous I think.... just very suddenly OH GUCK!' I can feel an enormous amount of information entering my head again... although this time I was more prepared as I lowered my pain receptors before it started.... it was lucky that I managed it because if I slid the control to the other side the pain would increase... It still doesn't change the fact that I almost fell headfirst to the ground again, thanks hands....? What is a finjer... or a vone?
At the momet I finally manage to 'zee' the informaton that enters my head thanks to the fact that Im not wallowing in pain, it easiy more than all the memories I can remmber about my 'past... past comething'.... even with my overwheming INT I have trouble concentraing on the informaion about alchemy....although it didn't last long only about some time, the same time that the first one? I kuickly try to prepare fur the next attack, my vrain easily shuts down when I'm like this... even now I can't think normally and I'm completely sure that I'm only alive thanks to [Gamer's Body],
'I can literally feel myself being cooked inside... wait it seems that I am literally being cooked alive... I don't really know how I'm still conscious...but I have to hurry.' Once I can calm down a little and can think somehow more clearly I lower my pain receptors to a minimum, and quickly use [Tension Relax] sitting on the floor, since in my status I see that I have hemorrhage, cooked or liquefied organs, I can see everyone around me with a worried face, although I cannot continue since I am once again assaulted by an enormous amount of information...
Thanks to not having pain I can see my condition a little and it is really bad, the amount of information that enters my brain easily exceeds my cognitive capacity.... basically melting my brain... I don't know if that shit can be called a brain anymore... there are only some parts left functioning, causing the brain to stop working... which prevents me from even breathing during the short period of time... although after another 30 seconds it finally ends....
'Now I understand, the part that keeps me conscious, the fact that I am alive is because of my soul, my soul was not damaged in any way, which allowed me to remain conscious...'It's strange to see myself from the 3rd person or even internal view, but little by little my brain reforms, and once it's halfway there, the rest of my organs begin to rebuild...
Now inside my head, I have basic knowledge of blacksmithing, alchemy and enchanting... as I thought, my system really wants to screw me since it gave me the complete information of 10 levels of the skills at once, but it's not just that, the knowledge I have is overwhelming, I may be a level 10 blacksmith but I have as much basic knowledge as a level 200 master blacksmith.
It may be contradictory and strange indeed, but a normal blacksmith can be level 200 and know how to make spears, swords, armor, etc... in my case I know how to create every single thing... absolutely everything, every damn thing that can be forged I know how do it, how to hit metals in different ways, how much force to use to make millimeter changes to various things, temperature changes on a decimal scale... of course I may not forge something good, I only know the most basic of the basics.
'I'm sure--- I would have died if it weren't for my INT, [Gamer's Body] and [Tension Relax] my brain has just literally melted, but really this is bullshit... I already knew a lot of that information of these skills, and yet the system overloaded my mind with the same information...' I open my eyes again and see how everyone is shouting things around me...
'Great, I ended up deaf too! Oh god... I feel very heavy, I'm really having a hard time thinking straight.... really anyone else would have died. Even now I still have brain damage, it's lucky I didn't end up retarded...' I try to move my hand only to end up moving my leg, so without really being able to do anything I just stay still at least I don't feel any pain.
Suddenly I feel a warm energy enter my body, helping me recover, quickly decreasing the waiting time to heal on my own, in just 10 seconds I went from [High] brain damage to [Medium], my organs are being rejuvenated too and if it continues like this in 90 seconds it will go to [Low].
Now with greater mental capacity I open my eyes again and see how a naked Kuroka is hugging me from behind with both hands on my shoulders but I don't have any sense of touch. I can see her talking something I can't hear yet... oh I can smell again... I smell like roasted meat..... the good thing is that there are subtitles! I don't even need to hear what they say to be able to read them!
"The damage he has is too much... I really can't help him, I'm not strong enough to heal him naturally..." Kuroka is explaining and I start to feel like I'm receiving multiple [Heal] which doesn't really help me much since I not lose any HP.... that can be a problem if I need to heal somebody again..... no wait... it's only the penalty of [Gamer's Body]!! Fuck you system!
"Let me help you, if we can unlock his Aura it will help him heal on his own..." I see Pyrrha who stands in front of me and puts her hands on my chest, closing her eyes.
"Are you sure you can do it? Not to belittle you but he is at least 100 times stronger than you and we still don't know if that is all of his power or not." I hear Serana speak really not getting close to where we are with the large amount of healing spells I'm receiving.
"It's not like I have to give him my strength... Aura is the manifestation of our soul. It bears our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt you were being watched without knowing that someone was there?" Pyrrha speaks, although for me what she says is more to convince herself than to explain what she will do.
"Let me help you, the only thing I was able to study during all my years locked up were souls... you really have a very interesting ability, how did it occur to you to manifest your soul like that?" Valerica stands behind Pyrrha putting her hands on her shoulders.
"I really don't know, in my world it is something normal... although listening to the stories all of you tell in addition to the knowledge of Yoruichi, I realize that the people in my world really did something surprisinglyy ridiculous." Pyrrha speaks as she appears to be getting ready.
"Power does not exist just for the sake of it, there must be a great secret for them to have reached that answer, a great danger or simply the desire to fight against your destiny." Kuroka says as she continues to help me, Valerica puts one hand on my shoulder, frowning when she notices something.
"What the hell is wrong with his body? All the damage he has... how the hell he is so hurt with all the power it contains, is incredible but it doesn't look like a human body... even its soul seems to be protected by something..." Valerica speaks while analyzing my body, I really don't want to let her do it and I still have 10 seconds before I can move? At least I've recovered my sense of touch...
"I wonder the same thing... it's like I'm next to a world, it has enough vitality to confuse it with one... I can use Bouchujutsu in him if you want? It is one of the greatest healing techniques of my people, it is completely secret so it would be better if we put it in the cabin." Kuroka doesn't finish speaking when I finally manage to hear something, surprising me a little although it is a message that comes from the system.
"Stop that cat in heat! That literally means Bedroom Method, which entails a woman having sex with a man." I hear Yoruichi's voice screaming, to tell the truth it wouldn't bother me... so I stay still for a bit to see what they will do, actually I can move a little now but I am not going to refuse to be healed like that.
"I really don't think Leonhard is in condition for that type of treatment... we all saw him, he was practically being cooked in front of us..." Don't continue Serana! I'm actually okay... no, I'm very hurt! Yes, and if I need to be cured by the power of segs, who am I to prevent it?