Alex walked along the streets of the Tepes Capitol, dressed in only his combat attire as if the cold and snow held no effect on him. It had been several hours since his meeting with Rizevim, and he had been trying to decide with Lauren on what to do. He asked Lauren if what Rizevim mentioned was mere coincidence, since he mentioned someone entering the world within the last month,"Is it possible it was a fluke? I mean no other world travelers would be here already, right?" He heard Lauren sigh in his head, and she admitted,
"No it"s not a fluke, and yes there"s still a little less than two years before they start moving. The one he noticed was me, I traveled down there for a day for some business and returned. I didn"t bother too much to hide my presence because I didn"t know someone had the technology to detect other world visitors." When Alex heard her words his brain stalled for a moment, and after a few minutes he exclaimed,
"WAIT YOU CAN COME DOWN HERE?! Why didn"t you tell me, I didn"t even know you had a real body!" She sighed once more, and lied,
"I had business that can"t be discussed with you, so don"t question it. While we can visit our candidates in person most of us choose not to, and it"s safer for us to stay her in our domains." In truth she was actually too embarra.s.sed to meet Alex face to face now, especially since her image already came to his mind when they talked by coincidence. He put the matter out of his mind for the moment, and wen track to the previous topic.
"So what do I do? Should I eliminate him before he takes his research too far?" He felt the mental image of her shaking her head, and said,
"No, I sent a memo to my boss, the one who started this compet.i.tion to see what he says about this. While the travel between worlds isn"t prohibited, having malicious intentions while doing so is. Though Rizevim intended to do so in the first place, none of us would"ve figured that he"d get far enough to detect us entering or leaving the world, even though he used someone else"s work to do so. While you may be asked to take care of it, I want to see what he says first." Alex felt a sense of being overwhelmed at her words, first he found out she had a real body, and now the one who started all of this, one who could be said to rule all of these universes, was being contacted. However her next words made him carry a sense of disappointment towards such a person.
"This, I can"t believe this! He said that it"s not a problem and to "see what happens". I guess that means you have the green light, but I thought he would care more about this!" Alex didn"t understand what was going on, but took that to mean he had permission, and turned towards the castles throne room where he detected the two strongest auras, and charged.
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Crom Cruach stood in the throne room with the other two people, Euclid, and Rizevim, while they discussed what they were doing. Rizevim was using magic to suspend a ornate cup in mid air so it didn"t touch him, and held it out to Euclid.
"The red dragon most likely already onto us, so take this and go start our next stage, the idiot Marius still doesn"t realize I already took it from the girl. The red dragon will most likely kill me or attempt to do so, so use it to bring me back, oh I can"t hold back my excitement from the thought of coming back from the dead to surprise him." Euclid took the cup, but looked surprised as well,
"I thought we"ll take more time before the next stage?" Rizevim shook his head and said,
"That red dragon is special, judging from the way he and the rest of the Gremory"s reacted when I mentioned it earlier, I think he"s the visiter who"s from another world. In that case we don"t know what he might know about us, while he"s busy dealing with me and Crom Cruach here, get the ma.s.s produced dragons away and start the next phase at the same time. Don"t worry, the Devils most likely already know I"m here, and will turn their attention away from the underworld." Euclid looked conflicted with his lords orders, but nodded anyways, before he left through a magic circle.
As soon as the light from the circle vanished, the throne rooms doors were blasted open. In walked Alex with the form of a dragon, radiating an intense pressure. Crom Cruach stepped forward, and without any words of challenge, the two lunged at each other. When their fists collided a ma.s.sive shockwave spread through the throne room, fracturing the entire room.
Alex was stunned, as even though he wasn"t in super Saiyan, Crom Cruach"s strength was precisely equal to his own. Though not nearly as much as super Saiyan, his draconian form did increased his strength quite a bit. If he wasn"t intending to kill Rizevim, then he would"ve really enjoyed this fight. Alex activated super Saiyan, and attacked once more. Seeing the increase in his strength, Crom Cruach smiled and said,
"If things were different, then I would enjoy this fight a lot more." Alex smiled in response and replied,
"I was just thinking the exact same thing." Before grabbing Crom Cruach"s head faster than he could react and slamming his knee into his face. As the dragon fell to the ground, Alex turned to Rizevim, who practically squealed in excitement.
"Oohhhh, that look you"re giving me, I think I just creamed my pants. So it won"t be my grandson that kills me, but his rival, I think that"s the best part of all this!" The two faced each other, and as Rizevim prepared to attack, suddenly saw Alex disappear and felt something sink into his gut. As he started puking his own intestines, a claw gripped his face, and started squeezing.
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After he killed Rizevim and reduced the body to ashes, Alex left to find the others. He walked out of the throne room, to see an entire army of ma.s.s produced dragons disappear, and the Gremory group along with Azazel and Vali ran up to ask what was happening.